Hey all, Sam here. Well, I suppose I underestimated how much the schedule shift at work was going to throw my home life into chaos. I had fully expected to have this written and posted on the 2nd or 3rd, and obviously that did not happen. Those two days off were spent trying to readjust… Continue reading December Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here. Several years ago, when I started getting to the point of reading 150 or so books a year, I realized it was absolutely awful for me to try and narrow that number of books down into a top ten list for the year. It was then that I decided to split… Continue reading My Top Ten Reads of 2025 (January-June Edition)
Hey all, Sam here. Today is Pick Your Path Day for PaWriCo! This will be my second year participating in this new writing challenge, and honestly I love the freedom, the camaraderie, the flexibility, the creativity, and the fun that exudes from this organization. While it started as a way to fill in for the… Continue reading Pathfinders Writing Collective (PaWriCo2025)
Hey all, Sam here. Wow. Honestly I can't believe that we're already here to talk about October releases already. This year has absolutely been flying by, but there are times where it legitimately feels like everything has been crawling by at the slowest pace possible...and I truly think that is because so much absolute insanity… Continue reading What I’m Looking Forward to Reading (Hopefully) in October
Hey all, Sam here. So, I had originally planned to have this released on September 2nd. You know, close to the beginning of the month like I do with pretty much all of my wrap-ups. The only thing I had left to do was this little intro section. But work was exhausting on Aug 31… Continue reading August Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here. Sometimes you just have to rearrange your reading plans because you get approved for a book that sounds really interesting and you really want to read it. That is what had to happen when a copy of today's book landed on my Kindle. Honestly, I tried to hold off on reading… Continue reading NetGalley Review: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
Hey all, Sam here. Honestly, August feels like a slower month for book releases, but it's also my birthday month, so I'm just always excited for it to come around again. Reaching my birthday each year makes me daydream about all the books I might get to read over the next year of my life....while… Continue reading Books I’m Looking Forward to in August
Hey all, Sam here. All right, well December ended up being a halfway decent month for reading...even though I didn't read at all for like three weeks. I'm truly hopeful that I'm leaving this terrible reading slump period behind in 2024 where it belongs. Although, I will say that in 2024 the first couple months… Continue reading December Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here. Well, I was not as successful at reading in November as I had originally hoped, especially since I had planned to read a bunch of novellas and some short novels. I was also hoping to get a decent amount written for PaWriCo, so I'll have my November writing check-in tomorrow or… Continue reading November Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here. I want to start getting my overdue book reviews up on the page, and I will (hopefully sooner than later), but things in the US are....well, not good, honestly. So I'm trying to be gentle to myself when it comes to forced productivity. Anyway, on Wednesday, my husband took me on… Continue reading Recent Book Haul
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