Books for Breakfast

So... I've been slacking on my blog posts. May was a bummer month for me in terms of reading and so I chose to not do a wrap-up. As always, I keep a running list of what I read so if you are curious as to what titles I completed during May, feel free to check out the page at the top of my blog.  Instead of doing individual reviews for the books I've read since I last blogged, I thought I would do a kind of conglomerate post summing them up and any thoughts I had.  Matilda by Roald Dahl was my last read in May. This was a re-read for me; Goodreads says I've read it twice, but I know I read it over and over again as a child. Dahl is one of my favorite children's authors; the way he incorporates measures of fantasy and whimsy into his stories is uncanny. He has such a special place in my heart that I wrote a lesson plan around his novel, The BFG , for my summer course.  Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot was my first read of June. I purchased this book for myself nearl...

And I thought February was hard... This month has been difficult and I pretty much lost all interest in reading about halfway through. So I'd say it's a feat that I managed to read 5 books. I've got my reading mojo back now; I'm still deep in Gone With The Wind and need to get back to regularly reading it. I also started reading Pride and Prejudice again as a comfort read and I'm enjoying it so much. Here's to hoping May is a good month for reading goals! There's not much to say except to list the stats for this month. Since I didn't read that much, I don't have many strong feelings about any of the titles I did read. (Except for In The Woods ; check out my review for it if you want to read some intense feelings...). April Stats 5 total books 4 total authors 2,184 pages read Longest Book: HP and The Goblet of Fire (734 pages) Shortest Book: The Penderwicks (262 pages) Favorite Read: The Penderwicks Least Favorite Read: Mr...

March has been crazy, scary, and confusing; let's be honest! The whole month has been fraught with uncertainty and I'm kinda glad it's over, but reading-wise, it ended up being a banner month for me. I felt like I was transported back when I was a homeschool kid with nothing better to do after finishing her lessons than to curl up on the couch and read for a few hours. On a tangent, my mom used to do this reading program with my sister and I during our summers. It kind of cracks me up now to think about it because in no way did my sister and I need any encouragement to read more than we already did, but I imagine it was a way to keep us focused on more academic things, and away from the T.V. all of the time, even when we were on break. The goal was to read at least a certain number of books between the months of June and August... I want to say it was 60 books but I honestly can't remember. We kept track much like I do right now... a running list of the title, autho...

February kind of stunk... even with the extra day this year it felt so short and just flew by. There was also some other stuff going on in my life and all that combined meant I only read 6 books this month. I'm still struggling with the distraction; I want to read, but I often get side-tracked by other things and it gets left for last. So my priority this month is to really spend those free minutes reading instead of vegging on something else. Here are my wrap up stats for the month of February. Here's to hoping March is more full! 6 total books 6 total authors 1,244 pages read Longest Book: Caraval @ 407 pages Shortest Book: Bear Has a Story to Tell @ 30 pages Favorite Book: If Least Favorite Book: The Awakening of Miss Prim

I thought I'd take a departure from my reviews and do a quick write-up of the ways I am tracking my reading. One of my favorite things to see from other readers is their reading habits. (At the end of this post I will include some titles that inspired me to live my best reader life, if you will). Now, my current way of doing things may seem excessive; who knows, halfway through the year I might get lax and not put as much effort into it as I am now. I think the reason I am doing things this way is because I have learned from experience. Over the years, I have forgotten what books I've read, or how many I read in a particular month, or which books I have read and DNFed, simply because I did not keep track. Five years ago, it didn't bother me, but it does now. Plus, I'm a type-A girl; I like to see information organized and laid out neatly. Someday I will look back at this blog and appreciate that I kept such detailed reviews, or I might flip through the pages of my rea...