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Reading | 2024 Review and 2025 Goals
There’s not much to my 2024 reading review. In fact, I barely read anything last year. Thanks to Instagram, I can recall reading A Cafecito Story (El Cuento del Cafecito) by Julia Alvarez and Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart; and I know I started reading quite a few books (I did get 500 pages into Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings and had good intentions to continue N.K. Jemisin’s The Dreamblood series with The Shadowed Sun).
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2020 Reading Challenge
Now that I have talked about my 2019 Reading and 2020 Reading Goals, it’s time to lay out more details for what I hope will be my favorite and most successful Reading Challenge (and year) yet. Find my monthly TBR lists and discussion posts directly below this paragraph, and keep scrolling for all the specifics.
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2017 Reading Challenge
*Scroll to the bottom of this page if you would like to read the conclusion of my 2017 Reading Challenge. Thank you for dropping by, and see how I’ll be challenging myself in 2018 here. Now that I’ve officially ended my December Reading Challenge and have had time to think about my reading and general goals for 2017, I’m excited to share my ideas for this year’s Reading Challenge. I’ve been trying to come up with ways to make this part of my blog more exciting for myself and for those of you who visit since talking about books is the purpose of this blog, and because of various failed…
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Day 1/365
Happy New Year! I hope you were able to celebrate last night with friends, family, a loved one, a great movie, favorite book, or at least one co-worker you like. I indulged in an ice cream sundae, drank champagne, read Vinegar Girl, and reigned supreme in two Skip-Bo games. Nick & I welcomed 2017 with a kiss and shots, and now, 12 hours in, I have work on my mind and procrastination to pay for. So far, nothing has really changed! Not that I’m complaining. I looked back at my first post of 2016, which was short, but full of optimism, hope, and a horrendous/wonderful “that was so last year” joke.…
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Summer Reading Challenge 2016: The Home Stretch
Well it’s that time of year again when readers across the land scramble to finish their summer reading lists, prepare for new fall reads and holiday book hauls, and maybe get caught up with real-life people. I have done quite a bit of the latter, am not even thinking about the second, but am a strong participant in the first. My Summer Reading Challenge ends not with August, but with the autumnal equinox on September 22nd. With that in mind, here’s a recap of what I have completed, and the titles that still reside on my To Be Read list.
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Summer Reading Challenge 2016: An Introduction
Is summer my favorite season for reading? No. But it is one of four of my favorite seasons for reading; like the fall is for school, summer is for books. It calls for cleaning out To Be Read (TBR) lists, looking for what’s new on the shelves of bookstores (and in publishers’ calendars), and seeking out new and old favorite spots to spend time [reading]. There’s just something about the summer that makes me want to do all of these things, more so than in other seasons. Last year, I tried tackling the Penguin 80 Years of Bestsellers Reading Challenge, and came up quite short, even though I had already read…
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