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TBR: January 2024

  Recently, I was thinking about a few of the roadblocks that readers encounter.  One of the barriers I hear talked about most often is the annoyance of weeding through millions of book titles to find one that you actually want to read.  And most of us have experienced something like this: standing at the library stacks or bookstore, reading the inside jacket of dozens of books.  After standing there for a while, you feel irritation and anxiety starting to creep up.  The trip ends by getting frustrated and leaving empty-handed OR you ultimately grab some random new book based on its cover.  I rarely have found good books this way.  This problem of decision making has often stopped me from reading. Once I realized that's all the was in my way, though, I was motivated to seek out trusted sources for finding reliable book recommendations. Figuring out how to easily find the books I know I'll love has saved me a lot of headache over the past five years. On...

My 2023 Reading Review

The last week of December is here! A time of year that has always been my favorite. Having created a fresh custom calendar for our family and cleared out all of last year's loose papers and other various litter, I am ready to look ahead to the new year. Incidentally, after several years of the same color palette, my eyes were getting tired of looking at the calendar. This year I asked Megan to make a new one and am loving what she chose! #bf8aa2 #c9d0bd #e6e1db #c9d5cf #7a9ea6 #5b787f Anyway, at this time of year I'm asking myself questions like: "What kind of daily routine do I want in the new year?" "What trips should we take?" "What celebrations can we have?" "What house projects are we hoping to accomplish?" I'm having little pow-wows with family members and making tentative plans, giddy with the excitement of the hoped-for experience, but also the joys of planning ahead of us. ((Side note:  I feel like I should apologize for...