One of my favorite posts of the year is sharing top reads from the year before. While I feel like I learn something about myself or the world from almost every book I read- be it novel, poetry collection, or text book, I tried to make my Goodreads post this year an even split between fiction and non-fiction- to really lean into the “learning” theme. 2024 was a very strange year for me with a lot of grief, worlds of wonder, and tons of rediscovering myself as I began adventuring with a whole new group of people as well as some long time very dear friends. I think my favorite reading experiences reflect all that. (PS: honorable mention goes to Emotional Labor which I’ve already recommended several times throughout last year so I didn’t think I needed to get into it again here…) OK, let’s get into it… Continue reading
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Nostalgia: Reliving Childhood with my Kids
One of my favorite things about becoming a parent is that I have a built in reason to indulge in some good old fashioned nostalgia. There are milestones I’ve been dreaming about since getting pregnant that revolve around sharing some of my favorite things with my kids. I’ve hit some of those and I’m still waiting on others, but it is such a cool experience to revisit some of my favorite childhood memories again but this time through a different lens. Continue reading
My Favorite Books I Read in 2023
I love always learning more. The knowledge I gain from both fiction and nonfiction selections is a core piece of me. And while one of my goals last year was to read LESS that was in service of absorbing more and also of using reading for the pleasure and tool I want it to be instead of the escapism it had become my last pregnancy and the subsequent pandemic… still, I managed to read almost 75 books last year and These are my top 10 (and a few honorable mentions) in no particular order Continue reading
10 Books I read in 2022 that brought me JOY
Once again, I read over 100 books last year… (I promise I’m TRYING to find a better balance of my life activities but reading is just SO good and SO comforting!) Some years, I read a lot but find myself in a bit of a slump for enjoying what I’m reading. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case in 2022- I read a lot of great books last year. These are my top 10 books that brought me joy… (not necessarily my highest rated or objectively the best books, though there is definitely some cross over) Continue reading
How Goodreads Helped me with Diversity…
As was probably apparent in my post about How I Read so Many Books, I LOVE to get lost in a good book. However, it wasn’t until I started really tracking what I read through Goodreads that I started to Continue reading
How I Read Over 100 Books in a Year
This would usually be the time of year when I share my favorite books from the year before, but since I already did that as my final post of 2020, I thought I would do my first HOW post on how I read so much… Continue reading
GOOD READS- My Top 20 Books for 2020
2020- the year dominated by COVID 19 and social distancing… all that quarantining meant cancelling a lot of really lovely, emotional things: Family holidays, out of state trips, birthday parties, school events… heck even in person school and my son’s kindergarten graduation. I didn’t get to do SO many things I wanted to…. but at least I got a ton of reading done. Continue reading
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I can’t believe we are almost through February already! I obviously got a little distracted with the addition of our new family member mid-month, but more on that to come next month… Before we get too far into the year, I wanted to share a good thing- several actually, because today I’m recapping some of the best books I read in 2019… Continue reading
My FAVORITE books from 2018!
One piece of personal progress I made last year was that I started to read quite a bit more. I have always loved reading, but I just felt really burned out after graduate school and had lost the habit of reading as much as I had in the past. Last year, that changed. It especially changed after I quit facebook and suddenly found more time to spend on a chapter here and there- and a chapter here and there really adds up! So without further ado, here are my top 12 books from 2018. Continue reading
Cultivate Kindness
I don’t know about you, but 2016 has been rough for us. Exhausting, discouraging, full of hard work and lots of blessings too, but mostly we are looking towards 2017 and praying things feel a little less difficult. Or at least difficult in different, meaningful ways given that we have a newborn on the way… Continue reading
Alphabet Resolutions 