Books Beyond the Favorites: Superlatives From My 2024 Reading

We may be a few weeks into 2025, but it’s not too late for a little end-of-year reflection. Last month I shared all of my favorite reads and bookish insights from my ...

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2024 Reading Wrap-Up and My Favorite Books of the Year

One of my favorite things about December—besides the whole Christmas part, because that’s pretty great too—is the opportunity it provides for some recapping and reflection. And there are few things I find ...

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Bookish Consideration: What Does “Summer Reading” Mean to You?

When I was growing up, the library Reading Program was always a highlight of the summer. Our family frequented three local libraries, and I remember participating in each library’s program at some ...

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Bookish Considerations: Thoughts on Reading Challenges

Our local library is doing a Winter Bingo Reading challenge, and as I picked up our family’s Bingo cards last month, I couldn’t help but chuckle at the concept: only in our ...

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2023 Reading Wrap-Up and My Favorite Books of the Year

If there’s anything I love as much as (if not more than) reading, it’s tracking and documenting my books. Which is why my annual reading recap is one of my favorite posts ...

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Quotable || Reading & Friendship

“Reading well adds to our life—not in the way a tool from the hardware store adds to our life, for a tool does us no good once lost or broken, but in ...

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Best of the Backlist: Summery Reads for Seasonal Reading

Are you a seasonal reader? I would certainly never claim to be a seasonal reading purist, but there is something special about reading a book whose setting matches my own current season. ...

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“A worldwide summer reading multi-blogger extravaganza!”

Friends, I have something fun to share with you all today! My blogging pal Carol, from the book review blog Reading Ladies, has posted her fifth annual roundup of Great Summer Reads ...

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28 Definitions I’ve Learned Through Kindle Reading This Year

Digital reading may never measure up to the experience of holding a paper book, but it certainly has its perks. With my Kindle, I can download nearly any book ever published and ...

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Bookish Superlatives from My Reading Life in 2022

As much as I enjoy compiling a list of my favorite books at the end of each year, it’s consistently a challenge to narrow that list down to a reasonable number of ...

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