I've seen this come up on other book blogs, so it seems to be a pretty popular resolution. I decided last summer, when I got my books out of storage and arranged them on my new shelves, that this would be my next challenge. Each month, I'll choose a book from a shelf with at least one unread book on it. I've chosen a history of London from my nonfiction shelf to start. I've had it since 2005- the year I studied abroad in grad school. (I'm old!) I bought it when I was in

When I first thought about this post, I drew a blank. Was it possible that I'd gone a whole year without reading anything that I really loved? Impossible! So I went over my reading tracker, and just realized that it's this pandemic time confusion. The books that I read last January feel like something from ten years ago. My idea of best of 2021 is what I enjoyed reading most that year, not what I liked best out of what was published in the year. With the reading challeng

Harmon, Claire- Jane's Fame Worley, Jeff (ed.)- What Comes Down to Us: 25 Contemporary Kentucky Poets Zinsser, William- Writing Places Collis, Clark- You've Got Red on You I wrote about Tales of Kentucky Ghosts by William Lynwood Montell in October. I've really enjoyed the non-fiction reading challenge that I set myself. I have never read enough non-fiction in the past, but I really think that I'm going to keep up this habit. I was going to set myself another challenge to re

Yeah, I know it's a bit out of order. Vuong, Ocean- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Xiao Bai- French Concession Yu, Charles- Interior Chinatown Zinna, Diane- The All-night Sun I had to stop reading On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. I really tried. I made myself read to about halfway through. I was interested in the book pretty well at the beginning, but it was so sad. Then the main character was getting into his teenage years and it just kept on being so sad, and it was wr