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30 something year old writer, reader and member of the Travel Industry. I used to read more than I do, so it’s all about getting that enthusiasm back.

Category: Reading Challenges

  • Beat the Backlist Challenge

    My goal: Read 30 books from my TBR pile that have been sitting on my shelf for awhile. I’ve listed the first fifteen I plan on reading first. Once one book is finished I will add another on the end as I have literally hundreds of TBRs. The books are as follows: Seraphina by Rachel…

  • Reading Project January-February Kelley Armstrong

    I love Kelley Armstrong. I met her before I loved her writing, before I’d read a single word and she was a warm, friendly person. I wish I could meet her now to tell her that I’ve tried to read every word she’s written and it’s still an ongoing project for me, and that the…

  • Review: The Storied Life of A.J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

    Pardon my French. But this book, this fucking book. It’s beautiful. Just one word. Beauty. The writing wove itself around me, bringing back memories of childhood spent in the stacks of my old library, of an old bookstore run by an older woman who genuinely cared about what people were reading and the impression it…

  • Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    When I was eighteen or nineteen do you know what I was doing? Not crafting a masterpiece of literature while spending time with my soulmate. I believe I was actually freaking out over college applications coming in. Mary Shelley was fast working on something that would leave her a master of a genre, perhaps one…

  • Reading Challenges 2015

    I have decided to participate in a few reading challenges this year. The first being the Banned Books Challenge at the level of Trouble-Maker, reading 3-5 banned books. The second challenge will be the Women Challenge at level 2 reading 6-15 books by a female author. The third challenge is the Diversity Challenge, in which…