Top Blog Posts and Purchases of 2025
My Top Blog Posts visited in 2025 and my top purchases through my links in 2025. Thanks for being here and for reading and sharing my posts.
Read More Fourteen Years of Blogging
Thanks for joining me in the space in the last fourteen years of blogging.
Read More Books that Came My Way in July 2020
A roundup of all the books that were added to my shelves in July 2020 including fiction, nonfiction, and children's books.
Read More Sorry for the Messiness – Thank Goodness it’s Fixed
UPDATE: Thankfully I have friends in high places and my new BFF Aric got me all taken care of. It must be something with Photobucket because I noticed several blogs had issues. I’m so thankful that it is fixed and my blog looks cleaner. This has only pushed me to move to WordPress, so that…
Read More 9 Years of Blogging – Some of My Favorite Posts
I can’t believe I have been blogging for NINE YEARS. It’s like having a child…watching it grow over the years. There have been lots of changes and boy, can I see lots of growth in my writing over the years. My blog didn’t start out as a book blog, but one where I would share…
Read More An Aha! Moment for My Reading Life
After my post a few weeks ago where I was being real about my reading life (see HERE), I received emails from some of you offering support and nods of agreement. I even received some advice about how to plan out time to read and make it a priority which I really appreciated. Then yesterday…
Read More My Reading Life – Being Real
I have been blogging for nearly nine years now. I didn’t intend for my blog to focus mostly on reading, but that is how it has turned out. I’m glad that is the direction it has gone because it has lead me to meet people that I would have never met otherwise. It has directed…
Read More A Day in My Life
Today I’m linking up with Trish at Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity for her A Day in the Life 2nd Annual Blogger Event. Numerous bloggers will all be sharing a Day in Our Lives on March 23, 2016. I think it will be a lot of fun to see how everyone spends their…
Read More Catching You Up on Life Around Here
Even though I haven’t been posting much on here, I have been keeping busy. I finished this book last week: I haven’t told you about it yet, because I read it for the Cedar Rapids Gazette. The author is an Iowan, near where I grew up. So, I am doing a feature on her and…
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