Spring Break Read-A-Thon Wrap-up

If you missed my last week's post, I announced a seven day read-a-thon over my spring break this past week from Saturday to Friday. My main goal was to read seven books, and my secondary hope was to read 7 books I already owned. I almost succeeded in one of those. I ended up not …

Book Challenges Wrap-Up 2019

This year I tried to do something new with my reading, and do a few year-long book challenges. I also attempted to set some of my own personal reading goals, some of which I succeeded and others I sadly failed. If you've been reading my wrap-ups for the last few months, you'll probably know what …

The Book Blogger Memory Challenge

A couple weeks ago, I came across this challenge on the web. I found it here, but when I tried to find the original creator, the link didn't work. I've probably never mentioned this one my blog, but I have an absolutely horrible memory. I have a great short-term memory, but if you ask me …

Reading Challenges I’m Competing in 2019

I know, today's post was supposed to be about foreign films, but I wasn't quite sure where to put this post, so it's going up today. As one of my reading goals for 2019, I said I was hoping to compete in more Reading Challenges. My problem is that I'm incredibly bad at reading challenges, …

5 Weeks, 5 Tomes: Week 5 Update

So, here I am, finally done with this challenge. On one hand, I'm glad to be done because my life has been so busy the last few weeks (both with the holidays and with selling my house). On the other hand, I did really enjoy the three books I managed to finish. The final book …

5 Weeks, 5 Tomes: Week 4

So here I am again (you thought I gave up, but never!). Though I do return in mostly failure. This week I did finish an entire book. I decided to reread North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (as you probably already saw from my review of it earlier today). I read the entire book this …

5 Weeks, 5 Tomes: Week 3

So...this week didn't go so well with this challenge. I didn't finish any more books, and I ended up DNFing two I was going to read. Terrier by Tamora Pierce goes straight into my DNF pile. I got about fifty pages in and I realized I could not stand Beka, the protagonist. I used to …

5 Weeks, 5 Tomes: Week 2

We (and as in we, I mean me) are two weeks into this challenge! And I'm still ridiculously behind schedule. I should have finished my second book last night, but I'm only a fifth of the way into the second book. However, I did get a bunch of reading done, which is nice. I finished …

5 Weeks, 5 Tomes: Week 1 Update

So, it's been one week since I started this challenge (one I created myself on impulse). And things have been...rocky. I blame Thanksgiving and sickness.  I started Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky first, probably because I thought it would be the most challenging. And I'm currently only 170 pages out of 521. That's pretty …

Harry Potter 30 Question Challenge (Part 1)

I discovered this 30 Day challenge on Pinterest a while ago, and since it's Halloween and the Harry Potter world is definitely a great series for this time of year, I thought it would be fun to do for Spooktober. Originally, I was thinking of doing daily posts to it like I did last month …