As we head into summer vacation season, I regularly get asked for audiobook recommendations, entertaining books to listen to on long drives. Last summer I shared audio books the whole family will love (click here to see a very long list of books people of all ages will enjoy.) I somehow failed to mention the Wrinkle…
I’m reading 9-10 books a month these days, well on my way to reaching 100 books in 2018 (want to read more? Try these tips!) With so many books to cover, I decided to make these reviews shorter, or only review the real winners each month. I’ll have to start next month, because May was…
The reading challenge I set for myself in April was a TOTAL FAIL. Sigh. I did read a lot of great books, but my plan to go back and finish books I’d tried to read and quit was….maybe not that great a plan? Two readerly goodies that I’m excited about and that may be relevant…
Well, I hit an all-time high in March. Thanks to great audio books and the 8 hour drive to and from my sister’s new home in Illinois, plus several books I COULD NOT PUT DOWN, I read eleven books this month. YAY! I loved all of the non-fiction I read this month for very different…
In 2017 I tried to read 100 books (only made it to the 60s). This year I set the goal at 100 again, but really I’m just trying to read more than I did last year: 2 books a week is probably an unreasonable goal for me anyway. I have several reasons for aiming high with…
Every month I do quick reviews of the books I’ve read: Because I love to share good things and because the only thing I like better than reading books is TALKING about books. This was a GREAT reading month, partially because of good books, and partially because my poor kids had influenza, so I was…
Every month I do quick reviews of the books I’ve read. I LOVE to read, but have very specific tastes and am a highly sensitive reader, so for years I just read non-fiction and middle-grade novels (with Hunger Games and the like, large portions of YA entered territory too stressful or graphic for me.) I…
“If we look at the make up of the word disaster, dis-aster, we see dis, which means separation, and aster, which means stars. So dis-aster is separation from the stars. Such separation is disaster indeed. When we are separated from the stars, the sea, each other, we are in danger of being separated from God.…
It was a GREAT year for reading! I didn’t make my goal (100 books in 2017), but I did read 23 more books than I read last year. And I might make it to 72 books read by the actual end of the year, if I finish everything I’m reading right now. Goodreads makes a…
I am in the middle of about 6 books right now. Seriously, I need to stick with one at a time. But I’m usually listening to one, and reading a fiction and a non-fiction. At the moment I had so many non-fiction books I want to read I started a bunch and read whatever I…
Renee Davis Meyer 