Tag: nonfiction
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books with Hands on the Cover
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. I actually have two TBRs. I have the one that I keep on my phone through Story Graph and the stack of books I own. When I buy a book off of my digital TBR, I take it off the list. This is the easiest […]
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Reading Challenge #30: A Book with Pictures
Title: Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air Author: Richard Holmes How it fulfills the challenge: Besides the normal strategic inserts of color photographs, the text of the book is studded with black and white pictures of hot air balloons, portraits of the balloonists who flew them, and various documents and drawings. Genre: Nonfiction Quick Description: A […]
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Reading Challenge #20: A Book with Career Advice
Title: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” Author: Lena Dunham How it fulfills the challenge: This book doesn’t actually give all that much advice in the traditional sense, but the essays are written in such a way that you discover the career lessons for yourself. Namely, listening to your […]
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 2016 Releases I’m Really Excited About
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is all about what 2016 releases we really meant to get to, but weren’t able to read for whatever reason. My reading is almost always at least a year (if not a century) behind, so I actually like waiting […]
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Top Ten Tuesday: Best of 2016
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. I took the week off of blogging for the holidays, but I couldn’t resist commenting on my favorite books last year (especially since this week’s topic is all about 2017 new releases and we all know that I won’t be getting […]
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My Holiday Book Haul
I’m so lucky to have such a wonderful family. Even though the holidays were really hard this year because of my Papa’s health, it was still wonderful to take the week with my fiance to see all my family and so many friends back in Portland. I miss them already. For Christmas, my family does […]
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books that Have Been on my TBR Since I First Set Up a Goodreads Account
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. In college I took a required class that I hated–a library studies class that taught you how to use the databases. Useful, but mind numbingly boring. The best thing to come out of that class was the discovery of […]