One of my blogging goals this year is to feature more guest posts, and to invite my friends and family to have a voice on my blog. In that spirit I’m very happy to present a guest recommendations post from my lovely Mom, Ruth. My mom is a voracious audiobook consumer. She loves knitting, and… Continue reading Guest Post: Audiobook Recommendations From My Mom
Category: bookish things
2016 Reading & Blogging Resolutions
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is 2016 Resolutions. I love writing goals & resolutions every year, and I especially love reading other people’s, so this topic is a fun one for me. Here are my reading and blogging goals for the coming year. Reading Resolutions: Read my own damn books. Andi picked up on something… Continue reading 2016 Reading & Blogging Resolutions
Top Ten Non-Fiction Reads of 2015
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, asks for “Top Ten Best Books I Read In 2015.” I decided to focus this list on the excellent non-fiction books published in 2015 that I loved reading this year. Here’s my list, with very oversimplified descriptions of when I’d recommend reading them. IF YOU WANT… Continue reading Top Ten Non-Fiction Reads of 2015
Shop Local: Independent Bookstore Bookmarks (& giveaway!)
It’s the time of year when giant box stores try to get us to leave our cozy, family filled homes and stand in line to buy things sold to us by the employees they’ve made leave their families to go work so that we can shop on a national holiday. It’s heartening to see some stores… Continue reading Shop Local: Independent Bookstore Bookmarks (& giveaway!)
Ten Quotes I Love From Books I’ve Read This Year
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, asks for “Top Ten Quotes I Loved From Books I Read In The Past Year Or So.” I’ve assembled a somewhat random smattering of quotes that I loved from books I’ve read so far in 2015. I jot down quotes and passages in… Continue reading Ten Quotes I Love From Books I’ve Read This Year
10 bookish things I have quit
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the Broke and the Bookish, asks what bookish things we’ve quit. Once I got going, I had no trouble thinking of 10 things. Here’s my ten: 1. Collections of letters. I used to be an absolute sucker for collections of letters. There was something irresistible about them for… Continue reading 10 bookish things I have quit
Top 10 Authors I Need to Read
It’s Freebie week for Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, so I decided to use it as an opportunity to write about something that’s been on my mind lately: authors whose work I’ve never read, but want/need to. Iconic authors who are glaring omissions in my “I’ve read that” lists. Toni Morrison… Continue reading Top 10 Authors I Need to Read
Autumn Book Excitement
My Inorganic Chemistry teacher in high school had a very dry, quiet sense of humor. He would spend a few minutes explaining the solution to a long equation and at the end he’d sometimes say, without changing tones, “Now doesn’t that make your socks go up and down?” I suppose that for some, Inorganic Chemistry… Continue reading Autumn Book Excitement
The 10 best books I’ve read in 2015… so far
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme, since it’s the halfway point of 2015, is the Top Ten Books I’ve Read So Far In 2015. I always find it interesting to look back over the books I’ve read over a certain period of time and think… Continue reading The 10 best books I’ve read in 2015… so far
Top Ten Books on My Summer Reading List
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is: Top Ten Books On My TBR For Summer 2015. I’m tremendously bad at setting a list of books to read over a certain time period and then sticking to it, so I was a bit hesitant to even… Continue reading Top Ten Books on My Summer Reading List
Listening to the Classics on audiobook
There’s a great conversation taking place on the Socratic Salon this week about the way audiobooks impact our reading experience. Readers interact with audiobooks in so many different ways, and it’s been interesting to read everyone’s thoughts, the challenges they have, and their favorite audiobooks. I decided to expand on the thoughts I shared there… Continue reading Listening to the Classics on audiobook
Book Expo America / BEA 2015 Recap
(For those who may not be familiar with BEA (Book Expo America): it’s a 3 day industry conference held annually for publishers, booksellers, librarians, press (including Book Bloggers) and other people connected with the industry to network and receive information about new authors and upcoming releases.) I think this was my 4th BEA, and it was… Continue reading Book Expo America / BEA 2015 Recap