I toyed with the idea of doing this challenge last year, but then opted not to sign up for any at all, so it stayed in the back of my mind.  I already did a post on my 2012 challenges and decided not to sign up for this one because it seemed too challenging, but [...]

Today is the opening day of the Utah State Legislature and for the first time in 10 years, I’m not going to be there for the session.  I thought I might be a tiny bit morose, but actually I’d completely forgotten about it until a friend asked me last night at a choir rehearsal if [...]

I read a lot of books last year and it was hard to narrow down to just a few favorites, so this is going to be long.  That’s a fair warning so brace yourselves and find something good to read! This is a re-telling of the Norwegian tale East of the Sun and West of [...]

I keep a book journal and here are my statistics for 2011: Books read: 132 Pages read: 39,641 Of the books read: * Non-fiction: 15 * New-to-me novelists: 42 * Continuing series books: 54 * Re-reads: 12 * Audio-books: 33 * Challenges completed: 0 of 0 * Ongoing tally of Newbery winners: 59 of 90 [...]

I didn’t sign up for any challenges in 2011, so it’s time to go crazy again!  Here are my goals for the year-wish me luck!   Between January 1 and December 31, 2012, read one book in each of the following categories: A book with a topographical feature (land formation) in the title A book [...]

So I’ve recently become an unofficial reading mentor to some girls in my neighborhood and it has been fun and satisfying.  I posted earlier about my involvement with the Utah Women and Education Project, and one of the research outcomes showed that a young woman with a caring adult who is also a female college [...]

I keep a book journal and here are my statistics for 2010: Books read: 152 Pages read: 46,899 Of the books read: * Non-fiction: 3 * New-to-me novelists: 37 * Continuing series: 25 * Re-reads:    19 * Audio-books: 28 * Challenges completed: 5 of 5 * Ongoing tally of Newbery winners: 50 of 89 2009: [...]

Instead of joining online reading challenges in 2011, my book club girls decided to something different this year, inspired by a blog idea discovered by alisonwonderland. We’re doing our own list swap reading challenge!  The idea is for each of us to generate a book list of five books for each member of the club [...]