Welcome to my weekly update for December 8, 2024! My husband and I picked up lingering colds the week of Thanksgiving so we’ve been taking it easy for a couple of weeks. We’re planning to start exploring again this weekend. There’s so much to see around Arizona! One of our first excursions when we arrived Continue Reading…
2025 Books in Translation Reading Challenge
Welcome to the 2025 Books in Translation Reading Challenge! It’s pretty self-explanatory, right? Nevertheless, here are the rules, details, and linkies. You can read a book that’s been translated from any language into the language of your choosing. The challenge is not limited to translations to or […]
2025 Southern Literature Reading Challenge
Welcome to the 2025 Southern Literature Reading Challenge! We’ll focus on books and authors from the southeastern region of the United States. Read books by Southern authors set largely in the South You can read any genre, including fiction or nonfiction, classics, or contemporary works You can read […]
Weekly Update for December 1, 2024
Welcome to my weekly update for December 1, 2024! I hope that all of you who celebrate had a happy Thanksgiving! Since my last update on September 15, my husband and I wrapped up his work assignment in Schenectady, NY; went on vacation to the Azores (Islands practically in the middle of the […]
Ten Characters Who Redeemed Themselves
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share ten characters who redeemed themselves this week (Topic suggested by Deanna at A Novel Glimpse). I am an absolute sucker for a good redemption story but I may find this to be a difficult topic because my memory for book details is not that great […]
Weekly Update for September 15, 2024
Welcome to my weekly update for September 15, 2024! After two busy weekends back-to-back, we spent last weekend mostly relaxing at home. We did go to Indian Ladder Farms on Sunday, where we bought two different kinds of apples that we’d never heard of before (Sansas and Zestars), had pizza from our favorite local pizza Continue Reading…
Weekly Update for September 8, 2024
Welcome to my weekly update for September 8, 2024! My husband has a lot of long weekends on his schedule suddenly so we took the opportunity last weekend to visit Connecticut and Rhode Island, two states we haven’t visited before. We only count a state as “visited” once we’ve actually done […]
August 2024 In Review
I started tracking my reading on The StoryGraph in addition to GoodReads this year. There are things I like and things I think could improve on both platforms. One of the things I’m excited to see on The StoryGraph are the monthly and yearly graphs. Nicole at BookWyrm Knits always has beautiful […]
Ten Fictional Story Collections
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share ten books involving food (that are not cookbooks). I started writing that list and realized that I was recreating a past Top Ten Tuesday, Books That Make Me Hungry. So I’m going to write about ten fictional story collections that I liked […]
Weekly Update for September 1, 2024
Welcome to my weekly update for September 1, 2024! I didn’t have anything to report on the personal front as I wrote last week’s post but that weekend we visited New York City. For all intents and purposes, this was my first visit. I’ve never been drawn to large cities because I’m not a fan of […]
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper: Book Review
3 Stars. The book was a little bit of a slog but that’s partly on me. I can only remember one scene from the movie and it’s a sad one. I don’t particularly like sad books so I kept avoiding it. The writing is also an odd mix of a lot of action buried under very dense sentence structure. I had to take my time […]