I’m going through these a bit more slowly than I did last year. I limit myself to about two hours of work time a day, so that I’m not working while my kids are awake, which means that most of that time needs to go to actual writing and more concrete business matters. But these reviews and this blog are…
Because I’m only one person, and one person with quite a lot of things to do, blogging is taking a bit of a back seat lately. Certainly I’m taking a break from blogging regularly just for the sake of blogging, but I still intend to post either when I have a specific reason or have an idea for a post.…
New year, new reviews! Here I am to review the first five books I read last year. My total book count last year was 101 books, so it’s going to take quite awhile to get through them all, but it was a great year for reading and I’m excited to start sharing them with you! Without further ado, here are…
The particular period in which I read these five books was the early postpartum days with my third baby. I say this so that you can keep it in mind as you begin to notice a theme in these reviews — a lack of much retention! Between sleep deprivation (I read a few of these mostly in the middle of…
Well, you may notice that I did not return the next week for the last installment of my short reviews. Nor the next month. It is now more than eight months later! Shortly after the last post, I was busy with a family crisis, then “snowvid” hit — record low temperatures here in Texas — which caused a pipe to…
Photo by Gisele Jaquenod from FreeImages My next five 2020 reads are, as usual, quite a mixed bag! Have you read any of these? Or are any of them on your to-read list? The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben My mom enjoys Harlan Coben books and lent me this one thinking I might enjoy it. And to a…
Photo by Deborah Krusemark from FreeImages Here are the next five books that I read last year, along with my mini-reviews! I hope you enjoy reading them and that my thoughts are helpful to you! 29 Days of Fantasy, 2012 by Thomas A. Knight This was another one that had been on my Kindle app for years, though this time…
Photo by Jenny Rollo from FreeImages Happy New Year, all! Yes, I neglected my blog sadly last year. I realize I haven’t posted since March. Between having a small baby and having a toddler and struggling with massive depression related to the lockdowns, etc., I didn’t have a lot of energy to write posts. But I have been writing some,…