The unabridged list of books I read in June, Updated

The big excitement of books read this month: my return to reading paper books, at least partly. I’m still trying to work through Mount TBR, e-books edition.

The big excitement of books read this month: my return to reading paper books, at least partly. I’m still trying to work through Mount TBR, e-books edition.Books read this week, meet books read this month: Today’s WWW Wednesday, which I discovered through Taking on a World of Words and Coffee and Cats, includes my monthly reading roundup as well. The books with the fuller write-ups are, of course, the ones I read and have been reading over the last week.

The big excitement of this month is my return to reading paper books, at least in part. I’m still trying to work through Mount TBR, e-books edition.

Books I read: Continue reading “The unabridged list of books I read in June, Updated”

Reading Pet Peeve #3: Doomsday Prophesies

With so much out of our control, how can we shift attention from doomsday prophesies to what we can control and to beauty, hope, and joy at being alive?Doomsday prophesies aren’t just a bookish pet peeve. As a general rule, I’m frustrated by fear mongering – promoting the idea that we’re traveling down a slippery slope of ultimate human suffering and destruction from which we can never recover. *Cue ominous music*

Suffering and destruction are realities of human existence. No doubt about that. But humans are also extraordinarily resilient creatures. We’ve survived centuries, millennia, of wars, plague, and life before the Internet. Lingering in anger and resentment, obsessing about the past and what we want but can’t have – these hold us back and prevent us from dealing with reality as it is, like it or not.  Continue reading “Reading Pet Peeve #3: Doomsday Prophesies”

Wednesday reading roundup: June 22

It's time for another Wednesday reading roundup! I have been enjoying this week's reading adventures with A Man Called Ove, Beowulf, and more...

It's time for another Wednesday reading roundup! I have been enjoying this week's reading adventures with A Man Called Ove, Beowulf, and more...It’s Wednesday reading roundup time, and I’ve been enjoying this week’s reading adventures, in a big way. Before I jump right to it, I can’t forget to send a shout-out to Taking on a World of Words and Coffee and Cats for WWW Wednesday!

What are you currently reading?

I have three books going. The big surprise is that, while all three were purchased at Barnes and Noble, only one is a Nook book. Continue reading “Wednesday reading roundup: June 22”

Wednesday Reading Roundup: June 15

This week's reading achievement was finishing a book I began a month ago and beginning a book that fulfills two of my 2016 reading challenges.It has been another slow week of reading for me, though for different reasons than last week. On the *plus* side, I’m excited to have finally finished reading a book that was languishing on my “currently reading” list for the last month.

All credit to Taking on a World of Words and Coffee and Cats for WWW Wednesday and inspiring me to continue writing about what I’m reading every week.

What are you currently reading? Continue reading “Wednesday Reading Roundup: June 15”

Hallelujah! I finally discovered audiobooks I love!

A God in Ruins

If I seem unduly excited about audiobooks, it’s been a long road: I’ve been trying to get into them for three years. This is because reading is my favorite pastime, but I also need to exercise. Or so they tell me.

Ergo: Listen to audiobooks while exercising. A match made in heaven! Except …

I like to go at my own pace. I hear something I want to pause and think on, but the narrator keeps yammering on. Plot points are missed. Confusion abounds. Crankiness ensues.

But I was determined! Because cardiovascular health. Continue reading “Hallelujah! I finally discovered audiobooks I love!”