This is the kind of mantra I need right now. I wasn’t familiar with Marie Forleo before listening to her book Everything Is Figureoutable (tagline: […]
168 Books: 2019 Year in Review
I ended 2019 logging 168 books on Goodreads. 88 were physical books; 80 were audiobooks. The split between fiction and non-fiction was roughly the same, […]
Texas Book Festival & Rainbow Rowell
My author events have increased exponentially this month from my normal null to the Texas Teen Book Festival and Leigh Bardugo in the last couple […]
The Miracle Morning
I read The Miracle Morning back in the Fall of 2015 in the midst of a hard time and lapped up the formulaic routine the […]
Leigh Bardugo
In a packed church on 8th & Brazos, I — and a couple hundred more readers — braved the evening storm to see Leigh Bardugo, […]
Texas Teen Book Festival
Besides running a booth for my internship at the Boston Book Festival, I have never actually attended a book festival. That almost feels like a […]
Book Recommendation: The F*ck It Diet
I started following Caroline Dooner, author of The F*ck It Diet, on Instagram a few months ago after a friend shared one of her posts. […]
Against All Odds
“It was such a throwaway sound now, that laugh. An easy one that said it could be spent so easily because there were more where that one came from. The wound was healing against all odds; the victim would make it after all.”
That Book Advice Again
I wrote earlier this year about Gretchen Rubin’s advice: stop reading bad books. When a book doesn’t capture you, it slows all your reading down. […]
Not Giving a F*ck
I listened to the audiobook of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson this week. The introduction alone, rife with my […]