Tag: books
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August 2026 Reading Recap
It’s amazing what you can do, read, and accomplish when you have absolutely nothing else to do. At the beginning of August, I moved across the country and without the structures of a job, major event commitments, or even like…packing, I got SO MUCH READING DONE! This month also featured a 14 hour train ride,…
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What My Book Clubs Are Reading This Fall
Now that I have settled in San Antonio, and the DAR year hasn’t quite gotten into full swing, I am in only two book clubs! What a treat to indulge but not feel so frantic trying to finish the books and keep up. Let’s go over the reading lists for the two book clubs I’m…
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July 2026 Reading Recap
July—what a month! The first start of the second half of the year, my last full month in D.C., and a month that despite me protecting from Prof Devo trips and classes filled up VERY quickly. I traveled for almost three weeks in July, and had two days where I got in from one trip,…
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June 2026 Reading Recap
It says something about how life, and reading, is going when my recap of what I’m reading is like a month late, doesn’t it? June…happened. These summer months have been a DEAD SPRINT and June was crazy—the end of the school year, a huge national conference I did the daily newspaper for, and preparing for…
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May 2026 Reading Recap
Already have way through June, and I’m only just making the time to write my May reading recap. Doesn’t bode well, does it? In May 2026, I read 26 books, which was pretty good and nearly my goal for the month, and I DNF’d one that I was really looking forward to, but simply coudn’t…
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April 2026 Reading Recap
We are 33% of the way through the year, and am I 33% of the way through my reading goals? I am not, but I’m a lot happier with how much reading I was doing this month, and I’m almost done with a long book I was looking forward to reading. Let’s recap my reading…
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March 2026 Reading Recap
Have I been good about writing on this blog? I have not. Is it because I’ve been so busy reading? Only slightly… March 2026 is over, we are a quarter of the way through 2026, and according to Goodreads, I am approximately 25% of the way through my goal of reading 250 books this year.…
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February 2026 Reading Recap
Can you believe we’re already three months into the year? It’s been a crazy two months, and I feel like I’ve hardly read anything at all, but then I look at my Goodreads account, and it says I’ve read 37 books this year! That’s a great start towards my goal of 250 books this year…but…
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The “Big Ole Books” Mini Challenge
I love a challenge–a little goal that gives me structure and guidelines within a hobby, like reading, that can seem endless and boundless. At the end of 2025, I finally read Fourth Wing, flying through it pretty quickly. As I looked at my Storygraph statistics for the end of the year, I also noted that…
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My 10 2026 Reading Goals
It’s timeeeeeeeeee. Time to make my 2026 reading goals, having reflected on the success and failures of my 2025 goals, having gotten any committee assignments, and having looked around my bookshelves too many times. This year, I made 10 reading goals. Some of them are big, overarching year-long goals. Some are one book goals. And…
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Reflections on My “Failed” 2025 Reading Goals
It’s that time of year again–time to be brutally honest with myself about how I did on my 2025 reading goals and resolutions, and hopefully learn from them in 2026. You can read about my 2025 goals and WHY I chose them, according to January me, here. While writing this, I went back and read…
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Reading a 1775 Cinderella Story
It’s a small book, just a smidge larger than my palm, and more rectangular. The cover was once maybe green, maybe brown, but has faded and molted in a way that looks almost mossy. It is bound together with twine woven up and down the spine. I’m at the Smathers Library on the University of…
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