Quick Lit + February 2024

This edition of monthly book reviews contains a little of everything—memoir, parenting, cooking, feel-good stories, mystery, historical fiction, and more. There are lots of books here, so lets get right to the ...

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28 Books On My TBR (That I Already Own!)

If December was a time for looking back (gotta love all the Best Books lists!), January is when we start to look ahead. For many readers this involves making reading goals and ...

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Quick Lit + January 2024

Today’s book reviews lean heavily into Christmas. I realize that January is not an ideal time to be sharing Christmas reads, but these reviews follow my reading life in real time (with ...

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Lately || December 2023

Today is Luke’s and my fifteenth wedding anniversary. These fifteen years have encompassed all of my adult life, and I can hardly remember a time before Luke, yet these years have flown. ...

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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: Small Novels With Big Impact

In recent years I’ve started seeing a trend of reading Novellas for November, and I think it’s brilliant! November is a busy month for most of us, resulting in shortened attention spans ...

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Quick Lit || October 2023

I’m back from my blogging hiatus and eager to share some books with you! My month is weighted more heavily than usual toward Middle Grade fiction. We have some adult fiction, too, ...

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Bookish Considerations: Choosing What to Read Next

Deciding what to read can be as simple as picking up the most convenient book on the shelf. But for the bookish souls among us, it often becomes a much more complicated ...

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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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