The week two event of Nonfiction November is to pair a fiction book with a nonfiction one on a similar subject. Kind of fun for those of us who use our reading as a springboard to learn more about people or events that catch our eye. For me, it is almost always a great novel that makes me want to learn more about its subject. I'm switching it up a bit with books and ... Read More...
Nonfiction November 2017: My Nonfiction Year So Far
It’s November and these intrepid bloggers: Sarah (Sarah's Book Shelves), Katie (Doing Dewey), Julie (JulzReads), Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness), and Lori (Emerald City Book Review) are back with Nonfiction November2017! And I’m back again to try and participate by reading some nonfiction. Last year, I failed miserably so this year I’m going to set the bar a bit lower—the whole ... Read More...
October Reading Wrap-Up
Goodbye, October! This was another one of those months where, when I looked up it was the 20th and I had no idea where the days went. Is that an age thing? Because I never used to notice it so much. Anyway, I didn’t read as many books in October, for two reasons. One, I’m continuing to pay less attention to new releases (which is kind of working, in part because I’m only ... Read More...
Ten Books as Unusual as Their Titles
Another week, another top ten list! I’ve not done a lot of these in the past, but I’m at the point in my 2017 reading that I’d rather come up with fun book options for my readers than write a review of another book that left me uninspired. I don’t know about other bloggers, but there are two kinds of reviews that come naturally to me: those for books I’m evangelical ... Read More...
Top 10 Books That Made Me Say Yum!
As fall settles in, my need for all things sugar-y, creamy, warm, salty, and comforting goes through the roof, keeping me focused on food—even in my reading. So, it’s perfect timing to join The Broke and the Bookish for their Top Ten this week: Books with yummy food in them. Even better is that while each of these books has many occurrences of yummy food throughout, it is only ... Read More...
September Reading Wrap-Up
Goodbye summer! What an odd one it was—mostly chilly, but dry with only three days got that anywhere near hot. The worst of it was in with the fires in the Columbia Gorge when, even though we live up in Seattle, we had ash settling on our deck, trapping the heat and smoke for almost a week of hot, sticky, smelly weather. My reading was odd as well—four DNFs in June and mostly ... Read More...
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