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What to Read, Vol. 1

For the first time ever, thanks to this blog, I have a complete record of all the books I’ve read over the past 12 months, from June 2014 – May 2015. In that time, I read 35 — just one short of the...

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June – July Reading Round-Up

I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve written one of these. Funny how two months can go by so fast and at the same time, the end of May seems like forever ago, right? Walt Disney: The Triumph of the...

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August Reading Round-Up

Reading was pretty damn good this month. I split my beach reading time between a couple books and some magazines and I’ve reached the point where I literally can’t calm my mind enough to fall asleep if...

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September Reading Round-Up

This month’s reading was not nearly as prolific as I was expecting. It was good though! And it means I can be more long-winded than usual when talking about the one book I read. Bwahaha. All the Light...

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October Reading Round-Up

I read two books very quickly at the beginning of October…before finally, as I’ve been meaning to, diving back into Harry Potter. I keep half-heartedly telling myself to get some nonfiction back in...

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Your Mind Needs Marathons (Or, Why I’m Voluntarily Reading Moby Dick)

In college, I took a course called Existentialism in Literature. I mostly loved it, except when we had to read Nietzsche. I hated that. Actually, hate isn’t strong enough a word to describe this...

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Winter-ish Reading Round-Up

It’s been awhile, huh? Between not wanting to throw up a post on Thanksgiving and then taking three weeks off from blogging over Christmas/New Year’s…well, luckily for you, I’ve still been carefully...

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Reading Round-Up

I wasn’t going to write one of these reading round-ups until I finished Moby Dick, which I thought would have happened by now. I hit the renewal limit with about 300 pages to go, and had to return it...

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What I Read (April 2016)

April was a little slow on the reading front. I got Moby Dick back from the library, though, so I’m trying to finally finish that up now (yay…) and then I’m hoping things will pick up. The Martian...

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Recent-ish Book Report

Let’s catch up on the book front. Around the end of 2016 and this year, I’ve been making even more of an effort to make time for reading every day. I moved the apps on my phone around so the Kindle app...

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