Books:
Archive:
Favorite Reviews:
I have reviewed many books over the years, and some reviews have been more interesting or fun to write than others. The below list were my favorites to write.
• Ada, or Ardor
• Choose Your Own Autobiography
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• If Not, Winter
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• The Kid Table
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Lolita
• The Monk
• The Night Circus
• Oathbringer
• Return of the Native
• Rhythm of War
• S
• Things Fall Apart
• The Unit
• The Woods Are Always WatchingCategories:
Tags:
- abandoned
- Africa
- Asia
- atmospheric
- audio
- BBAW
- body image
- callback
- circus horror
- classics
- collection
- comfort
- Cosmere
- cruise
- divinity
- dream-invader
- education
- end of year
- fanfiction
- favorite
- fitness
- food
- gender studies
- goals
- good omens
- Harry Potter
- health
- historical
- house
- humor
- I made a thing.
- joint review
- KonMari
- Latin America
- LGBTQIA
- lists
- memorable
- Middle East
- mini-review
- multi-read
- nonfiction
- photography
- place-character
- POC
- portentous
- psychology
- quarantine
- race report
- readathon
- reread
- revisiting
- RIP-worthy
- running
- shredded me
- speculative
- Sunday Coffee
- tarot
- tattoo
- the ferals
- translation
- travel
- Wellness Wednesday
- WTF moments
- Yarn Art
-
Tag Archives: Sunday Coffee
Sunday Coffee – On Nonfiction
This year is peculiar for me in terms of reading habits. Since I began to track my books in 2008, my nonfiction reading rate has averaged 10% per year. This year, I’m steady at almost 30%. That is a huge … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – Why I Review Books
…er, tea this morning. Hot herbal tea with lots of lemon for this awful throat illness that blew in with the latest cold front…boo… Back when I was in Dallas, perusing shelves at Half Price Books, my eye landed on a … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – When All the Best Comes at Once
October was one of those months. One of those months when every single you book you read is great. More than that: it was one of those months when you manage to find books that were phenomenal, not just great. … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – Book Blogger Bash
When I heard, a few months back, that Amanda from Fig and Thistle was heading to Dallas for a conference in November, I knew there was vacation time in my future! I booked a hotel from this past Monday to … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – NaNoWriMo
November 1st. The beginning of a season. A 30-day spring to 50,000 words. National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo. I’ve been participating in NaNoWriMo since 2009. In years past, I’ve gone to great lengths to defend the event from cranky naysayers, … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – Fifteen
Trigger warning: Skip to the paragraph after the first photo below if you don’t like words like “contractions” and “episiotomy.” I won’t get graphic here, but this WILL be about having a kid. Fifteen years ago, I was recuperating in a hospital … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – Sometimes, I just want spoilers.
Recently, I skimmed through a book. I can’t say I read it, even though I looked over every page and pretty much followed the plot. Reading it would have been excruciating. The writing, characterization, and plot “twists” were…um…awful. And no, … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – September Slump
I just realized that I haven’t done a monthly wrap-up since May. Oops. Well, the run-down is easy. June mostly consisted of the non-bookish (ie moving across the country). July and August both involved a lot of moving in, arranging … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – Comment Issues
After an extremely rough week emotionally and a few nights of very little/poor sleep, I don’t have much to bring to the table for this morning’s Sunday Coffee. I thought I’d take a quick moment, then, to address a WordPress … Continue reading
The Zen Leaf 