2/28/2020
Never Enough Bookshelves: ROSE DAUGHTER or An Old Favorite in a New Format
It surprised me to realize that I haven't talked about Robin McKinley's ROSE DAUGHTER on my blog before, and somehow haven't reviewed it anywhere either (or hadn’t until earlier this week). It ma...
1/1/2020
I doubt I’m alone when I say that if 2018 was the year of a sullen “meh,” 2019 was a year of “Fuck my life.” There are very few folks I know that had a great or even a decent 2019, and I’m definitely not one of the exceptions. It’s been rough, y’all. And I can only hop...
12/23/2019
So this challenge last year was… well it was mostly a bust. Not because I didn’t read a ton of books – I more than met my goal of 52 – I just was absolutely TERRIBLE at tracking which of my “official” goal books I read, and completely forgot to track any of them over a...
12/9/2019
Keeping the Enthusiasm Going: Lessons from NaNoWriMo
So, many of us are crawling out of the void that was National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo. We did or did not manage the full 50k words but we wrote more than we might have without the challenge, and that absolut...
11/26/2019
December “Winter” Themed Self Readathon
Well my dears, we are nearing the end of the year! I’ve managed (or will by the end of December after scheduled posts go live) to meet my goal of 12 blog posts for the year. Granted they didn’t exactly hit the “1 blog a month” r...
11/4/2019
“The End” and Other Improbable Words
I’ll admit it feels strange to be writing this particular blog post at the BEGINNING of NaNoWriMo instead of at the end like normal, but well, I was rebelling on November 1st and had something utterly extraordinary happen.
The WIP I w...
10/21/2019
The Trouble with TBR Lists
Or More Accurately – My Trouble STICKING to said TBR Lists
So this year has been an interesting experiment in attempting to keep track of what books I’m planning to read next. My goal was to try to knock out some of my physical TBR pile which h...
9/3/2019
Welp folks, after the (relative as I only completed 4 books out of the 11 that ended up on my TBR) success of last month’s #ARCAugust, I am, as the kids say, back on my bullshit with yet another readathon/book bingo challenge, this time with the #LatinxBookBingo hosted...
7/29/2019
So some of you may know that I’m a fan of reading challenges if only because they help encourage me to make more headway on my monster To-Be-Read pile that is easily a mountain now (though the reading gods knows I got super derailed on my #BeatTheBacklist challenge thi...
7/15/2019
I have to admit, I feel a little hypocritical writing this post. For years and years, I prided myself on being able to type faster than the average person, to churn out a thousand words easily in an hour-long writing session, sometimes even in only a half hour. I was f...