April is National Poetry Month. The annual celebration has taken place every April since 1996, but I’ve never participated in or even acknowledged the event myself. Until this year, when this month’s ...
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2018 Reading Challenge: A classic I’ve been meaning to read.
We’ve all seen the lists of books that “you must read before you die” or that “you should have read in high school.” I’m personally not a believer in placing too many ...
2018 Reading Challenge: A book I can read in a day.
It’s been said that there are two categories of people in the world: those who like to categorize people into groups, and those who don’t. I’m an unapologetic categorizer. I like to ...
2018 Reading Challenge: A book that relates to my Word for 2018.
One of the best aspects of choosing a new word each year is that it gives me a fresh lens through which to view the world for the next twelve months. In ...
Book Goals: My 2018 Reading Challenge
A new year calls for some new reading goals! You’ve probably figured out by now that reading is my very favorite pastime. I need zero prompting to pick up a book, or ...
2017 Reading Challenge: A book written since the year 2000.
We did it! We made it through our journey through literary history! At the start of the year I set out to read one book from each decade of the twentieth century, ...
2017 Reading Challenge: A book written during the 1990s.
I’m approaching the end of my reading journey through the twentieth century, and this month I landed in the 1990s. The ’90s are a decade very near and dear to my readerly heart ...
2017 Reading Challenge: A book written during the 1980s.
I’ve had a lot of fun with my personal Reading Challenge this year, and the literary snapshots of decades past have given me a better understanding of the the world as it ...
2017 Reading Challenge: A book written during the 1970s.
My literary journey through history is inching ever closer to the 21st century, and this month I visited (through books) the 1970s. Though this decade is closer than all the previous ones ...
2017 Reading Challenge: A book written during the 1960s.
As hard as it is to believe, we are down to the final third of 2017, which means that my 2017 Reading Challenge journey through literary history is inching closer to the ...