My name is Lydia, and I’m a human houseplant. Or at least that’s what it feels like at this time of the year. You see, I get the winter blues. While other people are outside revelling in the snow, ice, and cold weather, I’m inside quietly counting down the days until spring. If winter in… Read More
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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: My Celebrity Crushes
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Hosted by Long and Short Reviews. Click here to read everyone else’s replies to this week’s question and here to see the full list of topics for the year. What a fun topic as we move closer to Valentine’s Day! My celebrity crushes include: Julia Stiles. I’ve thought she was cute ever since I saw… Read More
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: New Hobby I’m Trying
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Hosted by Long and Short Reviews. Click here to read everyone else’s replies to this week’s question and here to see the full list of topics for the year. Photography is my newest hobby. I picked it up last spring and have been dabbling in it ever since. January isn’t the best month for spending… Read More
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: My Goals for 2020
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Hosted by Long and Short Reviews. Click here to read everyone else’s replies to this week’s question and here to see the full list of topics for the year. My goals for 2020 are simple. Visit More Museums. It’s been too long since I stepped foot into a museum. That needs to change. Try New… Read More
What I Read in 2019
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In January of 2013, I began blogging once a year about everything I’d read that previous year. This tradition began when my dad asked me how many books I’ve read in my entire lifetime. I couldn’t begin to give him an answer to that question, but it did make me decide to start keeping track… Read More
Search Engine Questions from 2019
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Every year I take the last two week of December off from serious blogging, so here’s a lighthearted topic for today that I’ve been slowly compiling since last winter. The phrases and sentences in bold are the funniest, most interesting queries that have sent new readers to this site over the last year. My responses… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Changes in My Reading Life
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl While I was coming up with this list, I tried to make everything fit the same sentence structure. It bothered me just a little bit that I had to break that pattern for one of my answers. There are five genres I read less of these days and five… Read More
5 Ways to Fit More Reading Time In
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When I was growing up, I either already knew where the books were or quickly figured it out after visiting a new place for the first time. Sometimes this involved me grabbing a book from my grandparents’ personal library and hiding out underneath the piano to read and nibble on a few crackers while the… Read More
My Best Halloween Memories
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Occasionally, I wander away from the usual topics on this site to share personal stories from my life. Today is one of those days. For about the first decade of my life, my family attended harvest festivals at local churches at the end of October and observed half-price candy day on November 1. (This a… Read More
Why I Prefer E-Books Over Physical Books
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It’s been years since I bought a hardback or paperback novel. Almost one hundred percent of the books I read are in e-book form for the following reasons. I thought this topic would make for an interesting post and possible jumping off point for a group discussion. Allergies It’s pretty difficult to keep physical books… Read More
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