Welcome to my 12th annual ‘Wrapping Up, Looking Forward’ post. In this post, I take a general look back at how I did with my goals in 2021, and set some new goals for 2022. Posting and Reading Overview I posted 24 times in 2021. That’s 63 posts less than 2020. Haha. My goal for 2021 was “3 posts/week when I have the capacity for it”. Turns out I never […]
All about the Cybils 2021 Happy New Year! Today the 2021 Cybils (Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards) finalists are announced. It’s been a little while since I blogged about the Cybils, so here’s a quick recap of how the awards work: Anyone can nominate one book per category Round 1 judges create a shortlist of 5-7 titles per category Round 2 judges select a winner Judges comes from […]
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). Since I read fewer books than usual this year, I have removed some questions for which I didn’t have an answer. So, be […]
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Why we chose Becky Chamber’s A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet [I want this post OUT OF MY DRAFTS before the end of the year, so here it is in a rough state. We discussed this book back in March.] Ash suggested this book because she thought it would be easy to get ahold of – lol it took us almost four months. It was on her TBR […]
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2021 Releases | Middle Grade | Owned Books Welcome to my final post for Unread November. Find the details here. tl;dr on Sundays in November I’m posting about books I didn’t read this year. Today’s post reviews TBR lists from 2020 all the way back to 2015. I’ve formatted this list differently from the past three. Each section looks at a TBR post I wrote previously on the blog, starting with […]