If the timing of this post signifies anything, it's that 2020 is gonna be rough... [cackles] Anyway! I have a mish-mash of goals: Books & Blogging read 45 books → check my progress hereget to 80% on NetGalley → currently at 65%post ~two times per weekaverage 500 views per month → currently at 250hit 100 … Continue reading 2020 Blogging & Reading Goals
My Year in Reading: 2019 Recap
Hello, hello, hello! I've been in another hella reading slump, so what better time to look back on a pretty great year in lieu of posting reviews? Goals BooksRead 39 books ✔️ → see Goodreads ChallengeReach an 80% approval rating on NetGalley ❌→ I started the year at 48%, but only made it to 68%BloggingPost … Continue reading My Year in Reading: 2019 Recap
Top Five: Ways My Reading Has Changed
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was a thankful freebie, so I decided to list ways my reading life has changed for the better. I read more and more diversely! Having a blog gives me the incentive I need to prioritize reading as well as … Continue reading Top Five: Ways My Reading Has Changed
Thoughts On: Backlist vs. Frontlist
back·list /ˈbakˌlist/ nouna publisher's list of older books still in print, as opposed to titles newly available (known as the frontlist) When I first started blogging, I almost exclusively read and reviewed backlist books (even if I didn't know that's what I was doing). I'm a very conservative book buyer, so everything I read had … Continue reading Thoughts On: Backlist vs. Frontlist
2019 Blogging Goals
Aloha, 2019! I love when other bloggers post their goals because I find it fun to see what they choose to prioritize (and whether I should prioritize that stuff, too!). I have tried to make yearly goals before, but I either dictate my reading life too formally (have y'all seen how I kind of fail … Continue reading 2019 Blogging Goals
Month in Review: October 2018
Favorite Media I knew The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory was going to be a fun, contemporary romance but boy did I NOT expect Guillory's ability to write. Her characters are fully-fleshed, the plot flies, and everyone just happens to be non-white and non-hetero. (Woot.) Here's to hoping I love The Wedding Date just as much! Y'ALL. … Continue reading Month in Review: October 2018
Top Ten: Goals for 2015
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme was book & blogging goals for 2015. My goals: Participate in and finish the BookRiot #ReadHarder campaignRead Deborah Harkness' All Souls trilogyRead Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and Andy Weir's The MartianRead George Eliot's Middlemarch in order … Continue reading Top Ten: Goals for 2015
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