Welcome to the 2026 Books in Translation Reading Challenge! It's pretty self-explanatory, right? Nevertheless, here are the rules, details, and linkies. You can read a book that’s been translated from any language into the language of your choosing. The challenge is not limited to translations to or [...]
Welcome to the 2026 Southern Literature Reading Challenge! We'll focus on books and authors from the southeastern region of the United States. Read books by Southern authors set largely in the South You can read any genre, including fiction or nonfiction, classics, or contemporary works You can read [...]
Welcome to (re)Viewing Last Month: September 2025, my monthly recap of the movies and television series my husband and I have been watching! We were relocating from Colorado to Georgia for a couple of weeks in September, which means we didn’t spend much time in front of the TV. We did get to take [...]
Welcome to my weekly update for September 28, 2025! Thanks for all the well wishes on my last post on September 7! I’m mostly over that cold but I still have an intermittent, lingering cough. I’m so tired of it! Anyway, since I last posted, my husband finished up his work contract in Glenwood [...]
Welcome to my weekly update for September 7, 2025! I’ve been fighting a cold all week. Yuck. I tested for covid twice and I was negative both times but I just can’t quite kick this thing to the curb. I don’t tolerate any cold or sinus meds well so I just have to suffer through every sniffle, cough [...]
What an absolute delight! I just texted my sister to recommend Greenteeth to her. I wrote, “It’s an old school fantasy/fairy tale. It felt a little retro in a time when fantasies are either urban fantasies or sprawling epics with 50,000 characters and entire magic/religion/political systems [...]
Hello! I’m trying something a little different this month. I always like to see what my fellow book lovers are watching. If I like your book recommendations, it stands to reason that I would like your screen recommendations too. I occasionally share what my husband and I are watching but I include [...]
Welcome to my weekly update for August 28, 2025! My husband is on call to respond for emergencies at the hospital where he works this weekend (just a normal part of his role), so we can’t get out and celebrate the holiday weekend. You would think that means some good reading time for me but as luck [...]
Welcome to my weekly update for August 10, 2025! Why, hello there! I have disappeared for five months, as seems to be my habit in the summer. We get busy exploring wherever we are and other things, including my blog, fall by the wayside. When I last posted on March 23, we were near San Diego [...]
4 Stars. John Wesley Powell caught my attention when my husband and I visited the Grand Canyon in 2013. I would periodically think that I should read a book about him and then I would forget about it. When we visited Lake Powell and Horseshoe Canyon in Page, AZ a few months ago, I decided that it [...]