We are thick into spooky season, especially with Halloween right around the corner, and I rounded up 15 of the best mysteries and thrillers I’ve read. All of these were four or five star favorites for me, meaning I either really liked them, or totally loved them. (The five star reads are the first five listed!)
Read MoreThe first half of this month was full of a lot of books (although not many winners…) and then I basically stopped reading entirely? Thanks, depression…
Read MorePhew, it was a SOLID month of reading! It helps that I traveled and had time to read on flights (PRAISE), and that I had some housesitting time that involved days spent by the pool, and that I did I spent the last weekend of the month doing a readathon that resulted in 4 books being read over 2 days!
Read MoreI continue to hardly read during the weeks and then read ALL THE THINGS on the weekends (thank you, Sabbath!) and my Goodreads challenge continues to stress me out with its reminders of how behind schedule I am… but whatever! Here’s to reading for FUN when we want to and not getting stressed about it!
Read MoreI’m always surprised that I read at ALL during birthday month, when there are so many festivities to be had! But this month stepped things up as I tried to catch up on the Goodreads goal that was seriously slacking… but overall, not a ton of great reads this month.
Read MoreI’m slowing down on my reading progress and it’s starting to bum me out… but then I remember I still read 13 books this month and several of them were real favorites... so I want to celebrate that! Slow and steady is the name of the game right now, and I’m giving myself grace that it’s okay to not be flying through books all the time.
Read MoreHad some amazing reads this month, and some duds, but that’s life. It was a female-heavy month, but I didn’t read as diversely as I ideally would like, so I’m focusing more on that in April!
Read MoreA solid (even thought it felt slow) month of reading! Started strong focusing on Black authors, trailed off as I got preorders in the mail and Netflix distracted me with Firefly Lane.
Read MoreIt’s been a minute, but I’m back to posting my book reviews here on the blog for easy searching. It’s nice to be able to search for books and reviews here, and hopefully it’s helpful for you all too.
Read MoreIt takes some serious motivation for me to pick up a 500+ pager, as I usually like the speed and satisfaction of shorter, faster reads. Sometimes, though, the big books call to me! I love this category of the 2021 RAD Reading Challenge, as I think it will stretch a lot of us to read beyond our comfort zone.
Read MoreOne of the categories for A RAD Reading Challenge this year is “a one word title” and I wanted to help you find one to read! I scrolled through my Goodreads of all the books I’ve read in the last few years and rounded up a bunch of books from all different genres to help give you inspiration.
Read MoreI’m both really excited and also not at all surprised by how many books I read this year… a pandemic and a lot of quarantining and living alone and needing to escape the mess of a world means you choose books a LOT. (If you’re me, anyway.)
Read MoreI read far too much and enjoy far too many books to pick ONE favorite. I can’t even pick one favorite from this year alone! So, I picked 12. (This was hard enough! I gave 33 books five stars, after all!)
Read MoreOut of the 220+ books I read in 2020, only 33 earned a five-star review from me! That might seem high (or low) to you, but it feels just right to me— five-star reads are the truly AMAZING ones to me, and I stand by each one of these books deserving that rating.
Read MoreA RAD Reading Challenge is a fun, motivating, inspiring, and easy way to branch out and read more, get out of reading ruts, and discover books I never would have read otherwise. I hope you’ll join me in 2021!
Read MoreNow that the year is more than halfway through (praise Jesus), I wanted to look back at my reads so far and recap my favorites!
Read MoreI am on a renewed mission to read more and more books by Black authors (of all kinds!) and wanted to share what’s on my TBR shelf.
Read MoreColleen Hoover was one of my favorite discoveries of 2019. For some reason, I had never heard of her, and when I first saw the cover of November 9, I thought it was a thriller (???) so I just was totally off base with her and her work!
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