Author: borkali

Lots of 7’s up there! Well, I finished The Hidden Life of Trees. That is all I included in my page total (200 for the week). Though, I am tempted to include the Writer’s Salon I am participating in on Tuesday evenings where attendees get to read 5 pages of writing– I listened to 25 pages last

Well, at least I made some progress during my 12 hour journey from New Jersey back to California. I am hoping to keep up the momentum as my husband and brother drive across the USA (they are in Kentucky now, so I think I have some time!). I read a number of texts, so this

Guess what? I didn’t read anything in the last week. In fact, I failed to post about the Bad Feminist essay we are reading as a group in my last post, and figured I’d wrap it into this one– well, that’s the only update I have. I read Why I am a Bad Feminist by Roxanne

Hey out there! Where are you at with your reading? This is our halfway point, which is shocking and I’m quite behind myself– if you are, too, you are certainly not alone. 🙂 Hope you all are doing well and looking forward to learning about your progress. Lots of love, /A

I must admit I am loving the idea of pages versus the total number of books. I feel so much more flexible and less fixed on “getting through” books and really focused on content. First up was Zadie Smith’s short story “Crazy They Call Me” from the most recent New Yorker. This is the first

This week was really fun for reading! I read a number of different things, so let me get started. For starters, I read this wonderful NYT Essay about rudeness and how pervasive it is right now. The author’s stance was a little–British, but all in all, I thought it was a very timely read. She presents

Well, 14.5% makes me feel less ‘behind’ than I might really be– talk about massaging the data, ha! Ah, fake news– alternate facts– yes, indeed. I am at 293 pages since I finished reading the silly book I mentioned last week Pop Goes the Murder by Kristi Abbott, which was just stupid enough to keep me

Friends, I picked up a ridiculous five dollar read called Pop Goes the Murder since I don’t get around to many mystery books, especially those with silly titles and funny covers– I grabbed this in an attempt to humor myself into distraction but it’s not working. I am so overwhelmed by the political climate in the

A new activity we are embracing during the Winter Reading Wonderland is reading a piece together as a group. For this inaugural group read we will be checking out Roxane Gay’s “Why I am a Bad Feminist,” which is the first essay in her book Bad Feminist.  I am looking forward to hearing what fellow readers

Greetings! We hope you enjoy our blog. We are just a gaggle of readers returning seasonally to read together. It’s pretty awesome. In our previous gatherings, we’ve generally read a certain number of books over ten weeks. But this time we are switching it up– 2,017 pages in 10 weeks. Start a book — don’t