’tis the season for book giving! I love to comb through my Goodreads Challenge in December to figure out which books I’m going to buy for the loved ones on my gift list. The silver lining of going nowhere and doing nothing this year is that my husband and I finally have the time toContinue reading “Reading in 2020”
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Quarantine Diaries
I’ve revised a manuscript, baked (several recipes from this delicious book), experimented with homemade pasta, rearranged furniture, joined digital cocktail hours, attended lifestream exercise classes, planted a tiny vegetable garden, combed through 10,000 dog adoption websites, washed 100,000 dishes, DIYed, binge-watched the entirety of Brooklyn 99, read a couple books, and now I’ve even overhauled thisContinue reading “Quarantine Diaries”
You HAVE to Read This One!
I’ll tell you a secret… There is not an author in the world who can make a living selling books. Authors make a living by having other people sell their books. So you need to get into a position where you’re good enough, you know your craft well enough, you tell good enough stories withContinue reading “You HAVE to Read This One!”
April/May’s Too-Few Reviews
For a variety of reasons, I’ve become interested in starting a little blog series where at the end of every month I give a few little book reviews of any books I read that are under reviewed. In this series I want to focus on books that, for whatever reason, haven’t gotten the media attentionContinue reading “April/May’s Too-Few Reviews”
Binge-Worthy Stories
Like a bear, I tend to hibernate in the winter. I curl up inside under blanks and in many layers of clothes. I pull the dog up onto the couch with me to increase the snuggling and warmth factor and allow myself to binge on a lot of things I wouldn’t normally allow when theContinue reading “Binge-Worthy Stories”
March’s Too Few Book Reviews
As I mentioned recently, and for a variety of reasons, I’ve become interested in starting a little blog series where at the end of every month I give a few little book reviews of any books I read that are under reviewed. In this series I want to focus on books that, for whatever reason, haven’tContinue reading “March’s Too Few Book Reviews”
How the Writing is Going
A thing that I’ve heard many writers say many times before is that every book you write teaches you something. I like that idea. It’s a concept that’s always appealed to me. For a long time, though, I was having trouble figuring out what, exactly, each of my failed manuscripts was trying to teach me. ThereContinue reading “How the Writing is Going”
Who Won? 2014 Edition: Audiobooks vs. eBooks vs. “Real” Books
As I do every year around this time (reflect back to 2013 stats and 2012 stats, respectively, if you so chose) I examine not just what I read, but how I read it. In 2012, of the 64 books I had read in the calendar year, 28 were physical books, 22 were eBooks, and 14 were audiobooks. Rounding up thoseContinue reading “Who Won? 2014 Edition: Audiobooks vs. eBooks vs. “Real” Books”
Too Few Book Reviews: November/December
As I mentioned recently, and for a variety of reasons, I’ve become interested in starting a little blog series where at the end of every month I give a few little book reviews of any books I read that that are under reviewed. In this series I want to focus on books that, for whatever reason,Continue reading “Too Few Book Reviews: November/December”
48 Hour Reading Challenge Finish Line
Start Time: 9:30 am, Friday, June 6th Finish Time: 9:30 am, Sunday, June 9th Hour Breakdown: Friday: 9:30-10:30 am: (1 hour); 1:15-2:15 pm: (1 hour) Saturday: 12:45-1:15 am: (1/2 hour); 12:15-1:15 pm: (1 hour); 1:30-4:30 pm: (3 hours); 5:50-10:10 pm (4 hours, 20 minutes) Sunday: 7:30-9:30 am: (2 hours) Total Hours: 12 hours, 50 minutes Total Books Read: 2.5 Total PagesContinue reading “48 Hour Reading Challenge Finish Line”
Hannah Karena Jones 