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Reading adventures: Mysteries in the Tahoe snowFebruary 11, 2025
It is truly Winter here in the Bay – the skies are grey, the streets are drenched. Which means, of course, that it’s the right time of year for a trip to Lake Tahoe. I love Lake Tahoe, even though I find Winter Tahoe to be strictly worse than its summer sibling. I’ve been up to Tahoe with friends almost… Read more: Reading adventures: Mysteries in the Tahoe snow
January 2025 Roundup: Falling further in love with readingJanuary 27, 2025
I committed this year to monthly updates on my 52 Book Club Challenge, with short blurbs on anything I hadn’t written about yet. I am pleased to share that this approach seems to be working! I’ve already tackled 16 books from the challenge in January, and many are books I may not have touched if I expected to write an… Read more: January 2025 Roundup: Falling further in love with reading
Reading adventures, redux: Molten Death in MauiJanuary 21, 2025
It is early in the year to be traveling – but I’m lucky enough to have a trip already under my belt this year. We took one look at the grey skies and early sunsets of the Bay and decided it was time to head for more tropical climes. And thus, we set out for Maui – and I decided… Read more: Reading adventures, redux: Molten Death in Maui
The rise of cozy reading: mystery, fantasy, and moreJanuary 13, 2025
The idea of “cozy” fiction seems to have spiked in the last few years. Cozy mysteries, cozy fantasies – shelves are overflowing with authors insistent of making you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. (Google Trends seems to agree with me on this. Searches for cozy mystery, cozy reading, and cozy fantasy grew 2-10x since 2022). I can imagine why… Read more: The rise of cozy reading: mystery, fantasy, and more
The gift of reading: Scenes of the Crime and Once Upon a Book ClubJanuary 6, 2025
Welcome, friends to 2025! I hope your first week of this mathematically fun year has been treating you well. I usually spend this week trying to recover from the intensity of the holiday season. This year, that means reading everything I can get my hands on and indulging in some cozy games as well. And I’ve allowed myself a special… Read more: The gift of reading: Scenes of the Crime and Once Upon a Book Club
Considerations – and charts! – on the challenges of 2024December 31, 2024
As we prepare to send 2024 out with a bang, I wanted to reflect on my reading journey this year. Personally, 2024 has been a year of immense growth and intense change. I hit a milestone birthday, and a major educational moment. I got a big promotion. And I did a big International trip (and several small ones). Somewhere in… Read more: Considerations – and charts! – on the challenges of 2024
Mystery, music, and everything in between: My Top 5 Epistolary Reads of 2024December 31, 2024
We’ve made it through mystery and fantasy to arrive at my favorite epistolary reads of 2024. I’ll be honest – this was not a great year for epistolary releases… but that doesn’t mean I didn’t get to read new material. Instead, I got to dig through some extant epistolaries to blend with the newer stuff. The result was a set… Read more: Mystery, music, and everything in between: My Top 5 Epistolary Reads of 2024
Tales of Magic, Mystery, and Other Marvels: My Top 5 Fantasy Reads of 2024December 30, 2024
Yesterday was mystery, and today we’re moving to my favorite fantasy reads of the year… It was an interesting year for my fantasy TBR. I started the year expecting to read a hefty list of new releases… And while I read some on that list, I found a lot of joy in books published earlier, discovered almost accidentally. A good… Read more: Tales of Magic, Mystery, and Other Marvels: My Top 5 Fantasy Reads of 2024

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