Somehow another three months have gone by! I didn’t have as much time to read as I did in the first and second quarter of the year, so I only managed 8 books. But there were a couple of really great ones in there, so let’s take a look! July Ask
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Somehow another three months have gone by! I didn’t have as much time to read as I did in the first and second quarter of the year, so I only managed 8 books. But there were a couple of really great ones in there, so let’s take a look! July Ask
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Well, another month has come and gone! Here in Canada that means the weather is getting chilly and Christmas is, well, pretty much everywhere. I’m a fan of Christmas, though, so no complaints here! I haven’t been reading my usual variety of books lately, but I have gotten through a fair number of cozy
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It’s been quite the month! In addition to my computer giving up the ghost (don’t even get me started, I’m very depressed), I wrapped up the month with a trip to sunny California, where I got to enjoy some beautiful weather and lots of amazing bookshops in both San Francisco and Oakland. Here are
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Can you believe it’s June already? I certainly can’t! Whether I feel like it’s summer or not, the weather certainly seems to be warming up – right now I’m eating ice cream and sitting in front of a fully cranked fan. Phew, it’s warm! Which is surprising considering that I’m on the west coast
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I had another good reading month in March – lots of books finished, and quite a range of selections. Some books amused me, others inspired me, and still others (*ahem* A Little Life *ahem*) utterly destroyed me. I also started school again (I’m doing classes in editing), began planting my patio garden and ended
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March was a pretty busy month for me on the blog – I managed to post nearly every day! Not only that, but I made it through 11 books, which is probably some kind of record. I’ve also been doing more buddy reads with other bloggers (and friends of mine) which have made reading
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I missed last month’s wrap-up on account of being on vacation, so this one’s a two-fer! Some exciting things have happened in the past two months, both in terms of books and… not. First of all, I started off the year with a couple of truly fantastic reads – my favourite so far being If
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This month had its highs and lows reading-wise – but I have to say that Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven was outstanding. I tore through it while simultaneously needing to know what happens RIGHT THE HELL NOW, and never, ever wanting it to end. I think it’s one of those rare books pretty much
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On the face of it, this has not been an impressive reading month for me. I only checked off three completed books: But WAIT. Don’t judge quite yet. I also started and did not finish more books than usual last month. Some I got quite far in. So it’s not like I wasn’t reading. Honest.
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I always think that when I go on vacation I’ll get all this reading done. I’ll read book after book sitting in a quirky coffee shop or a friendly park, and next thing you know, I’ll have caught up on my TBR list as if by magic. But in reality, I only get through the
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Perhaps because of the uncharacteristically hot weather we’ve been having in Vancouver over the past month, I’ve actually gotten through a respectable 6 new (to me) books in the past month – even some that had been on my TBR for quite some time! Though it’s hard to pick favourites, I think Cold Comfort Farm
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I got through five books in the past month – one of which was a review copy and a couple of which had been on my TBR list for longer than I care to admit! Though I enjoyed all of these, I’d have to say that my favourite, hands-down, was The Opposite of Loneliness. I
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I only read four books this month. Not quite sure how that happened, but yeah. (And one of them was a kid’s book.) I’m part way into about 5 other books, but I have had trouble settling into them. So there you go, that was my month. I was quite busy on my blog, though.
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I seem to have picked up the pace this month! Which, quite frankly, is a relief. Last Saturday was Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon, so that certainly helped me plow through a few books – a couple of shorter ones, but hey, they count! I’d say the real high point for me this month was The
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I thought last month was a slow reading month at 6 books…. but what I didn’t realize until just now is that March was even slower. Just three books this month! Eep! In my defence I had quite a busy month at work. And had a bit of a reading slump post-Grasshopper Jungle. If you
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Well, it was a slower month for me, reading wise. Work is ramping up, and I haven’t been reading quite as voraciously! This month’s reads were quite varied. I’d say my top pics were probably the Razorland books and Being Henry David – possibly Thirteen Reasons Why. Razorland surprised me – I didn’t expect
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I haven’t done a monthly wrap-up before, but it sounded like fun, so here goes! I’ve had a pretty good start to the year, reading-wise. I not only managed to read a fair amount of books this month, but there were a couple that I really enjoyed and that will be hard to top! Here’s