Welcome to my 14th annual ‘Wrapping Up, Looking Forward’ post. In this post, I take a general look back at how I did with my goals in 2023, and set some new goals for 2024. Posting and Reading Overview I posted 36 times in 2023. 58% of those posts occurred in January and December. Why do I ever set a goal of three posts/week, hahaha. The most posts I’ve ever […]
Life Updates I’m happy to report this December has been much more peaceful that last December! Lack of snow aside, I have been enjoying the season. In fact, I think the lack of snow has helped me excel at reading and blogging this month. Instead of going outside to enjoy winter activities, I’m staying inside to read read read and type type type 😛 I have scheduled posts several weeks […]
Hosted by Jamie @ Perpetual Page Turner, I like how this survey delves into the specifics of books read and gives me a chance to review all I read and wrote this year. I have completed this survey every year since I started book blogging full time (2014). I removed some questions for which I didn’t have an answer. So, be sure to visit the original post if you’d like to […]
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Why we chose Diane Setterfield’s Once Upon a River Mom and I have been struggling to choose a book for Family Reads for half of 2023. Mom would select a book, start reading it, and then decide it wasn’t a good fit. I would select a book, search the library catalogues for it, and find it was unavailable. Finally, December 1 came around. I decided to make an executive decision. […]
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For Top Ten Tuesday, here are the books I gifted and the books I received this Christmas.