Tag: reading
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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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My 2025 Reading Goals
The fact that I’m publishing this in late February probably doesn’t bode well…does it? January 2025 saw the end of my Caldecott reading year, and as I am not yet committed to another reading thing for 2025, I decided to treat myself to some generalized book goals and resolutions. These were inspired by my goal…
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My 2023 Reading Resolutions
I write this staring down the last two weeks of 2023, knowing that I did SO MUCH reading this year, and yet not enough of what I wanted to read. I didn’t set MANY reading resolutions in 2022, for a few reasons. At the end of 2021, I was wrapping up my time on the…
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3 Tips For Reading More When You Don’t Think You Have The Time
Every time I tell someone what I do for a living (I’m a librarian) or how many books I read on average (hundreds a year…) they always tell me, “Oh, I want to read more, but I don’t have the time.”
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3 Ways to Read More–Even When You’re “Too Busy”
“Oh, I want to read more, but I don’t have the time.”
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October Reading Recap
I KNOW that November is going to be rough, so let’s take a look at how good I did in October!
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May Reading Recap
In May I graduated from college, moved back home to Kentucky, studied for the GRE, and read a ton of books. Here’s a recap.
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April Reading Recap
April is over, and it’s time to look back on how much I read before I dive into my May TBR pile
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Author Spotlight: Rainbow Rowell
One of the most talked about YA authors in recent years has been Rainbow Rowell, best known for Eleanor & Park and Fangirl. he’s a lot more prolific of an author than the YA community gives her credit for.
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Books with Colors in Their Title
Another popular “reading challenge” prompt, along with “fruits and vegetables” is a book with a certain color in the title. I think the PopSugar prompt for this year is “A book with your favorite color in the title.”
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