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Reading Highlights from 2025
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Reading Highlights from 2025

Posted on: January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

Initially, I thought 2025 was a dud year when it came to reading, but I think it was a recency bias issue. I had a DNF in December […]

A weekend of reading
Books

A weekend of reading

Posted on: November 26, 2025November 28, 2025

Hooray, time for a long weekend! I just finished Heartwood by Amity Gaige, which was quite good. It was billed as a thriller, but I think of it […]

Book club
Books

Book club

Posted on: November 12, 2025November 13, 2025

I have always loved to read. I learned when I was four over the Summer when my Dad read my brother and me 100 books as part of […]

How to Run a Book Club
Books / NaBloPoMo

How to Run a Book Club

Posted on: November 10, 2024

I just finished Intermezzo for my book club meeting this Wednesday. Phew! Cutting it a little close! When I started, I was worried about finishing in time since […]

Read: Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker
Books

Read: Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker

Posted on: June 29, 2024June 29, 2024

I finished Get the Picture. I feel like a woman on a mission (see the world!) and slightly unsettled by the book. Let me explain… The book ended […]

What I Read: January
Books / Months

What I Read: January

Posted on: February 6, 2024February 26, 2024

January was an excellent reading month! Technically, I think I finished the two Fourth Wing books at the very beginning of the month but they’ve already been covered […]

5 Star Reads from 2023
Books

5 Star Reads from 2023

Posted on: February 1, 2024February 26, 2024

2023 was a very good reading year. I read 52 books, which was my goal! My fiction:non-fiction ratio still wildly skewed towards fiction. I have a lot of […]

Books / Friends / Menlo Park

February- First Half

Posted on: February 16, 2023February 27, 2023

I am lucky that I am here to write about this month. Did you think I died? Well, this little bird almost gave me a heart attack. I […]

Books

2020 in Books: A Review

Posted on: January 3, 2021

In 2020, I read 67 books. 21 were non-fiction, 46 were fiction. Oooo, already I am pretty happy with myself since I did not think I had read […]

Best of / Books / Likes and Loves / Resolutions

Best Books of 2015: My picks

Posted on: December 27, 2015May 28, 2021

2015 was a pretty good year for books.  My total number came in at 33, which isn’t terrible but I thought I had read more.  I guess that’s […]

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