Reading Envy

September was a great month for books I actually spent real money on, buying first editions of books just as they were released.  Actually T...

I haven't done a round of speed-dating my books since November 2013 .  I decided it was time.  Instead of picking books from my online t...

What would you do if it had been ten years since you had been "home?" And you are headed there for three weeks? And "home...

Here are the books that have followed me home in the past thirty days (and I promise this is the last picture I'll take with the creepy ...

They followed me home!  It's a good thing I have a Room of Requirement. These are the books that came into my house in the month o...

This pile of books makes me wonder if I am getting too caught up in the Reading Shoulds again.  What are the Shoulds?  Any time you are do...

In true meta-librarian fashion, one of the books on this list inspired this list.  Nick Hornby (the author I first knew from High Fideli...

It is just past midnight on December 1, so that means my National Novel Reading Month is over! I have 44 books listed on my NaNoReadMo shel...

I came up with the idea of speed dating my books when my GoodReads "To-Read" Shelf passed six hundred items.  I remembered Nancy P...

As promised, my report on the second speed-dating project of 2013 has arrived!  The books I tested include everything from that original pi...

Back in April, I made a pile of most of the first page of my to-read list, and worked through until I had tasted each one . From there I d...

Last Sunday, I took a picture of all the books I had on hand from the first/earliest page of my GoodReads To-Read list.  I pledged to speed...

I have a confession to make.  I have somehow become a book hoarder.  I didn't set out to add this to my list of qualities, but I have ...

"Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry...." - Mark Strand, Ea...