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    The Reading Report, Vol. 26: Spring Reading Refresh

    April 2, 2025 - By 

    Welcome to the April edition of The Reading Report! Although the weather has cooled off significantly from just one week ago when we were having an early taste of 70 degree weather, it is still officially spring. (If nothing else, my allergies are confirming this fact!) I am in denial about the fact that snow is currently in our forecast for this weekend, and choosing to focus on a little spring refresh needed in my reading life! Over the past couple month or so I fell out of the solid reading routine I had going, and I can’t quite say…

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    Reading Report, Vol. 25: February Wrap-Up and March Current Reads

    March 5, 2025 - By 

    You wouldn’t really think that February being routinely two days shorter than the other months would make that much of a difference, and yet, every year I find myself surprised that it is March already! But since March brings us longer days with more light and just a hint of spring to come, I certainly won’t complain about it getting a bit ahead of me! I will try and keep this month’s reading report short and snappy, in part because I have other things to do today besides sit and write and also because I have a lot of books…

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    Reading Report, Vol. 24: January Progress and February Goals

    February 5, 2025 - By 

    It has been an unseasonably warm few days here in our little part of Colorado, sunny and balmy and quite spring-like! The kids and I have been taking our school books outside by mid-morning so that we can enjoy the fresh air and sunshine before more snow and cold returns. This mid-winter thaw finds me in a transition not just between months, but also between books. I finished up a couple of things at the end of January and have yet to fill their places in my reading rotation. Perhaps as I write this post, it will help me decide…

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    Reading Report, Vol. 23: My Literary Goals for 2025

    January 8, 2025 - By 

    As I promised in my first post of this new year, I am back this week with an update on my reading life. With all the stress of renovating, selling our house, packing up and moving across the country, and just normal daily life “stuff”, reading became very difficult for me in 2024. I would start books, only to drop them a chapter or two in. I would turn on an audio book only to mentally tune it out while my mind filled with distracted thoughts and to-do lists. In the evenings when I would normally have picked up a…

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    The Reading Report, Vol. 21: 2020 Year in Review

    December 15, 2020 - By 

    My, oh my, how time does fly! Moving to a new state and getting all settled, home renovations, homeschooling, Revelation Wellness Instructor Training, and podcast jobs have all kept me on my toes this fall! They have also taken so much of my physical and mental energy that blogging has taken a sad hit this year. But I have some time today, and I wanted to sit down and look back on this year in my reading life. Maybe sometime I will get around to a more general “life update” type of post before the end of 2020. For now,…