Hello Readers! Happy New Year! Before we say goodbye to 2022, it’s nice to look back on our reading year and see what worked and what didn’t, what goals we met, what new bookish things we discovered, and what maybe we decided to let go. Sometimes it’s only while working on my year-end wrap-ups that …
Hello Readers! While I had a great reading month in May, I still didn’t make it to two of the backlist books I’d placed on My May TBR—thanks to Emily Henry’s latest book (which I can’t believe I forgot to include on my TBR) and a last minute ARC I needed to get to. I’ve …
Hello Readers! December was very different from normal for us here in Texas. It felt like Covid-19 was closing in swiftly as we watched some of our extended family and friends come down with it. While we’ve been social distancing and isolating all year, many here have not—which, sadly, has caused some tension in our …
In 2019, my husband gifted me a subscription to The Strand’s The Book HookUp. We’d visited New York City for the first time the previous Christmas in 2018, stopping in at The Strand bookstore, of course, so it was the perfect gift. What I love about this subscription is that it’s quarterly, so not a …
