Happy New Year, friends! This is going to be short and sweet because I have another post coming a little later that outlines my plans for 2013. I can’t WAIT for you to see it. Essjay and I are doing SOMETHING SPECIAL with our reading in 2013. If you just can’t wait for my post […]

It’s the last month of the year! Time sure flies, doesn’t it? I still haven’t felt like sitting in front of a computer screen to blog, but the computer screen just got more interesting at our house… I don’t remember how long ago it was (I would say six months, at least), but Eric’s computer […]

I read SO MANY good books in October. So many. I participated in this really great reading project hosted by Adam of Roof Beam Reader–The Literary Others (#OthersLitLGBT)–in honor of LGBT History Month, and I was introduced to some wonderful authors that I hadn’t read before. Everything I read for the project was fantastic, so […]

Yes, I’m just now writing this and it’s already October 17th. Some cold weather settled in here, and with it came my first bit of seasonal depression. I’m not ready to be cold, and I’m certainly not ready for snow. Unfortunately, this means that all I’ve really felt like doing for the last couple of […]

IT’S SEPTEMBER! Do you know what is special about September? (No, no, it’s not that children go back to school and give us some time to ourselves, although that is equally marvelous.) MY BIRTHDAY is the most special thing about September! In fact, my birthday is so special, that people all over the country are […]

Well, July certainly seemed to fly by, didn’t it? It was a good month, though–Eric had a week’s vacation, during which we did nothing but relax. It was wonderful. Then last weekend I took on a huge book-related project that turned up something rather exciting… For some time now I have wanted to start keeping […]

Hello, June! Goodbye, June! It’s hot. That’s all I have to say about June. I had to adjust the number of pages I’ve read for the Insatiable Booksluts’ End of the World Challenge; I have a huge slight case of OCD, so I was physically counting the pages I’ve read (as opposed to going by […]

Time for another Mount TBR Challenge check-in! Are you ready to hear how many books from my TBR pile I read over the last three months?! One. Yep, in three months, I read ONE book from my TBR pile. That brings my total to eleven for the year, with twenty-nine TBR books left to read […]

We’re halfway through the year already–can you believe it? I am loving the warmer weather, and I’m looking forward to the kids being done with school so I can sleep in every day. Oh bed, how I love thee. I got a ton of reading done in May, although not so much of it counted […]

Um…where did April go? It really feels like it has only been a couple of weeks since I typed up the reading wrap-up for March. But I did some exciting things in April! Eric and I built a new bookcase, and I changed the look of the blog; I am super happy with both. I […]

This month’s discussion for the November’s Autumn Classics Challenge is all about book covers: What are your first impressions as you look at the cover? Does the book cover have an aspect that reflects the character, setting, or plot of the novel? If you could have designed the book cover what would you have chosen? […]

March was a bad month for me in terms of mood, reading books, and blogging. I have been very distracted for reasons that aren’t appropriate for me to write about here, and it has been more important for me to spend my time listening/talking to my friends and trying to spread some goodness into a […]

It’s time for the first Mount TBR Challenge check-in, and I must report that I haven’t read as many books from my TBR pile as I would have liked. This always happens–I vow that I’m going to put a big dent in the huge pile of books I already own, then new books keep coming […]

Expanding on the idea of Jillian’s Classics Club, Michelle of the True Book Addict has decided to start a non-fiction reading club, aptly named A Non-Fiction Adventure. Similar to the Classics Club, the idea is to choose a number of non-fiction books and a date in the future by which to have the books read. I already have a […]