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How we Rate
Don’t let our RBF expressions fool you. We rate nicer than we look, or do we? We’ve been meaning to work on explaining how we rate for a while. We came up with the following simple, rating scale. This is…
Alyssa’s September Stats
There is something about the end of summer/start of fall that always has me forgetting about my well-laid plans. And not just my reading goals and challenges. Sometime in November I’ll go crazy planning for the next year… only to…
Top Ten Tuesday – Hyped Read/Avoided
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl with a new prompt each week. This week’s prompt is Books I Read/Avoided Because of the Hype (and did you make the right choice?) What hyped books do you regret reading…
Mariana Zapata Book Order
Apparently when I read one Mariana Zapata book, I must read MANY Mariana Zapata books. According to my StoryGraph stats, I did it last fall and I’m just finishing up another, more thorough, binge reading this year as I hinted…
Top Ten Tuesday – Fall TBR List
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl with a new prompt each week. This week’s prompt is Books on My Fall 2024 To-Read List. For this prompt, we each selected 5 books we have on our fall TBR…
Favorite Reading Accessories
Half of reading as a hobby is collecting books, book and reading accessories, and other things that make reading more enjoyable. We’d also consider whatever makes reading more organized as enjoyable because we’re Type A and love charts, lists, spreadsheets,…
Favorite Memoirs
I am a huge fan of memoirs. I don’t rate them how we rate our other books, but I wanted to share some of my favorite memoirs. Memoirs are really the only non-fiction I consume, and usually the only time…
Top Ten Tuesday Escape
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl with a new prompt each week. This week’s prompt is Books That Provide a Much-Needed Escape (bonus points if you tell us why!) For this prompt, we each included 5 books…
Alyssa’s August Stats
Ok, August was my Kindle-Unlimited-Romance-Binge-Reading spree that happens every year. Every. Year. I did start a book that would go towards my 2024 reading goals and challenges. But I did not finish it. You can only read about the effects…
Book Haul – August
Surprisingly, I haven’t had a book haul since May. Not that I need an excuse, but August is my birthday month and all I wanted was the freedom to buy whatever books I desired – it was the best gift.…
Summer Vacation Recap
I was very strategic with my vacation TBR list this year and it totally paid off. I managed to finish 5 books on our week away and they were the perfect backdrop for a warm, sunny vacation. Honestly, they were…
