Ten Months, Fifteen Novels in Translation
Back in January, I made my short, impromptu list of reading goals for the year: read at least thirty titles, read more about Medieval England, more Jewish Literature, and more Disability Visibility (the last of which, to be honest, I’ve made no progress toward). Novels in translation wasn’t a category that made the list, but…
Graduate Journal Reprint: The Library and LGBTQ+ Literature, Reader Representation and Recognition
(Note: This is one of a few blog posts I’ve decided to republish here, from a course journal blog I put together as part of my MLIS graduate program. I’m thinking I’d like to do more posts like these in the future, and so I’m reposting these as a sort of inspiration/reminder for myself! Original…
Reading Recap: January 2022
So far this year, I’ve managed to read a book a week – we’ll see if this keeps up! – and even better, all four titles were ones I enjoyed. One of them especially so; you can imagine my surprise when, two weeks into January, I found myself sure I’d just read one of my…
What I’d Like to Read in 2022
Hey, look, it’s another booklist (and, later on, some musings about Book Riot’s 2022 Read Harder Challenge)! Instead of doing my usual charade of writing up a list of specific titles I’d like to read this upcoming year – just for me to ignore it in favor of whatever books catch my eye in the…
Three of My Favorite Novels…with a 700+ Page Count
I’ll start with a disclaimer: I really don’t read super long books all that often. I have read a few with 600+ page counts – of course there’s she-who-must-not-be-named’s The Deathly Hallows, and then Koushun Takami’s Battle Royale (one of my favorite books to reread), as well as Harriette Simpson Arnow’s The Dollmaker, which I…
TBR: Recently Released Nonfiction
Just a quick booklist of some newly released nonfiction titles I’ve found in the stacks at my local library that I’ve since added to my TBR. True Crime True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina / Cathy Pickens Goodreads Summary: “Eastern North Carolina is a land of contrasts, and its crime stories bear this out.…
Library Book Sale Haul: August 2021
This past August, I was lucky enough to get to work a handful of shifts at my local library’s annual autumn book sale. I’ve frequented the sale for many years, but this was my first time there as a librarian (rather than a patron), and my first time behind one of the registers! It was…
On Book Blogging and Reading Slumps
Alright, first post! It’s been awhile since I’ve started up a blog with book blogging in mind. Eight years, in fact – that was when I started my own ‘booklr’, as such blogs were (are?) called on Tumblr in 2012 (the same year I started my Goodreads account, in fact). I’d already been on Tumblr…
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