Woohooo. CBR gift exchaaaange. Every year I ask if I should, I mean, do I need more books? But the excitement of something fun in the mail AND the chance to gift someone else always wins out and here I am. Big thank you to debcapsfan for giving me to books in my to read pile that I am very excited about and had sort of forgotten were there, making them the perfect gifts. Will be jumping into one of them as soon as a wrap […]
“Thanks to their neural plasticity, their ability to shift and change their connections with other cells, you and I walk the earth with the ability to be flexible in our thinking, adaptable to our environment, and capable of choosing who and how we want to be in the world. Fortunately, how we choose to be today is not predetermined by how we were yesterday.”
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
Y’ALL. I DID IT. MY 52ND BOOK! MY CANNONBALL IS COMPLEEEEEEEETE. Hip hooray! Fist bumps! High fiving angels!! Last year I didn’t quite make it, and the year before I think I squeaked across the finish line or just missed the CBR deadline but this year I’m in with weeks to spare. WOOOOOOOOOO! (Soft violins begin) Wait! Before I get off the stage, I would like to give some thank yous. Big hugs to everyone participating in CBR for serving as an inspiration to read […]
“Faith is about what you do. It’s about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It’s about making sacrifices for the good of others– even when there’s not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”
Changes by Jim Butcher
As this is my 51st book of the year (and thus I am only one book away from my goal of 52) I’m glad to have some more of The Dresden Files as I make my way to the finish line. I just checked to be sure and I read my first of the series in February of 2021, so on average I’ve done one of these a month and it’s been a non-stop smirk-filled romp with the delightful James Marsters (aka Spike from Buffy) […]
“What we need right now is more women who have detoxed themselves so completely from the world’s expectations that they are full of nothing but themselves. What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done. She lets the rest burn.”
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
This is a book that I am talking about often, will not forget reading, and will continue talking about and recommending it loudly (though I note that I’m a little late to the game, as it came out in March 2020. Upon reflection, it’s a wonder it did so well because had I tried to read this raw emotional novel in 2020 I think I might have gone off the deep end, or ran into the woods never to return). As I was saying, I’m […]
“She looked in the mirror and gasped. Melissa gasped back at her. For a long time, she stood there, just blinking. George smiled, and Melissa smiled too.”
Melissa's Story by Alex Gino
In one word: Charming Cannonball Read Bingo: They She He In one word: Charming Cannonball Read Bingo: They She He I don’t read any children’s literature, aside from an occasional revisit of a childhood fave or a few failed attempts to do a tandem read-a-long with my kiddo. I picked up George for him to read, having seen it at the library and hearing about it years ago from my favorite podcast, Literary Disco. They did an episode where they read George and Lumberjanes, and […]
“When we’re anxious, we’re not really living. We’re surviving. We’re holding on, waiting for the anxiety to pass, losing out on minutes, hours, and days of our lives.”
The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life by Lauren Martin
In one word: Helpful Cannonball Read Bingo: Self Care Lauren Martin was a woman with a problem. Or a lot of problems, really, but at the crux of them all was the understanding that she was letting her bad moods, the ugliest versions of herself, run her life and ruin her relationships. She began a quest to understand better where these moods came from, how to confront them, and how she could change. This started with “Words of Women,” a blog and online community she […]
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