Seasonal Vibe: Summer
Travel Location: South Carolina, Massachusetts, France
Historical Time: 2019, flashbacks to 1800’s and 1900’s
Genres: Literary, Contemporary, Historical, Multiple Timelines
Read: May 19-20, 2025
Format: Switched between Book of the Month hardcover and Audiobook
352 pages • Short Chapters • 🎧 Great Audiobook
Today I finished reading Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. It was my first Terry Pratchett book.
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I listened to the audiobook for all of The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi, and it’s a fun sci-fi that’s a contrast to most of my other books. It’s just weird and imaginative, and there’s no romance at all.
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Seasonal Vibe: Summer
Travel Location: Seaside island in Georgia
Historical Time: Contemporary, with flashbacks
Read: April 24-26, 2025
Format: Switched between Barnes & Noble special edition hardcover and Audiobook
418 pages | 🎧 Great audiobook
Now presenting, Make Your Own Website
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My 13-year-old daughter started reading Wings of Starlight immediately and waited anxiously for me to finish it. A romantic YA book prequel to Secret of the Wings? We both loved it.
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Time: Future (2460)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Genres: Dystopian, Romance, YA, Sci-Fi
346 pages | 🎧 Good audiobook
In 2024, I read 89 books! That’s more books than I’ve read in a year since before I had kids. That count does include re-reads which I didn’t always track in the past.
[Read More]We got a new NAS! It’s a Synology DiskStation DS1522+ to replace the DiskStation DS1511+ we’ve been running for over 13 years(solidly and beautifully).
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Visiting Peltzer Pines Christmas tree farm to pick out our tree for this year.
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Here’s a photo of my three kids at the Blizzard Halloween party this year in the traditional photo spot in front of the orc statue. I shot this photo at 1/15s on my Fujifilm X-T5 handheld and I’m really impressed with how it turned out. There’s some motion blur where my son is flapping his Ender Dragon “wings”, but besides that it’s quite sharp. The lens used was the Sigma 18-50mm 2.8 if you’re interested in that sort of thing.
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Read: September 6-9, 2024
Seasonal Vibe: Summer
Travel Location: the Caribbean
Historical Time: 1719
Genres: YA, Historical, Fantasy, Funny, Romance
422 pages • 🎧 Great audiobook
by Sarah Beth Durst
Travel Location: A cozy seaside town on a magical island
Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Cozy, Cottagecore
376 pages
Books that I might want to read this fall. This is not a reading plan or a goal, but just some of the books I’m considering for this season’s reading.
Read: July 7-14, 2024
Seasonal Vibe: Summer
Travel Location: England, Paris
Historical Time: Victorian Era (but fantasy)
Spice: Open door with more euphemistic language (mainly one scene)
This weekend was the dance recital for my daughter, Guinevere. Guinevere is now thirteen and has been dancing since she was three. Guinevere has been en pointe in ballet for almost two years, and this recital was her first performance en pointe.
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