Happy New Year! 2025 marks the 7th year since I started tracking my reading, and the first year that I found the admin of that tracking onerous. Somewhere around the 200-per-year mark it got more burdensome and less enjoyable to track trends, notice patterns, discover a diversity of authors. This
Do you have any consistently difficult months for reading? November seems to be mine. I can't explain it, but I just never want to read, and my list shows a bunch of old favorites together with some work-related reads I really had to push myself to finish. Did
Happy Hallowtide! What'd y'all dress up for Halloween? How's your All Saints' Day so far? October was a pretty crappy month for me, and that's reflected in my reading. What did you read? 1. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A
1. Royal Gambit by Daniel O’Malley – O’Malley’s great tragedy is that in his first novel he created Myfanwy Thomas, one of the greatest characters ever written. He keeps writing sequels, set in the same world, featuring Strong Female Leads, who are fine but they aren’t Myfanwy
Happy Labour Day! Solidarity forever! I can't believe I'm almost done with the Discworld series. Not sure what I will listen to next ..... 1. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett (re-read) – I think this one and Night Watch are the Discworld’s best 2. Flying Too
Surprise! Sorry friends, but I was on vacation in the mountains and while I got a ton of reading done, I did not get a ton of reviews done. Also I read a lot of Palestinian authors this July, so I made some choices about posting after I was back
Some good stuff this month - fingers crossed the reading slump is over 1. Famous Last Words by Gillian McAlister – thrilling and page-turning, a book I actually really looked forward to reading, which was a gift despite the slightly disappointing ending. But that’s Gillian McAllister to me – an incredible
Hi everybody - I hope your summer's are all going well. Thanks for subscribing to my Jordan Reads Books newsletter. I'm going to be late putting out my "Books I Read in June" post, because next week I'll be at the General
Well, I'm in a reading slump. Don't get me wrong - I read this month. But I just didn't enjoy the experience of reading the way I usually do. I tried all the tricks I tell y'all when you tell me you&
Hi friends! What I loved so much about my book posts was the interaction. Y'all would have read the same books and would tell me your thoughts about them, or you'd say, "if you liked X, you'll LOVE Y," or "have
1. Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis by Carolyn Whitzman – I did not understand most of the technical jargon but I took away that our housing crisis is fixable and has been fixed in the past and present in many contexts that can show us the way. All we
