Archive - #AmReading

I Hate-Read a Book, and some good stuff

Everything I bought, read and finished in February

Mar 6 •

February 2025

3 Things I Finally Realized about Reading "Hard" Books

What does it mean to enjoy a book?

Feb 27 •

Austen fans, a (not modern) book for you!!

It's not one of those modern takes, but an almost contemporaneous title I'd missed

Feb 20 •

Why did I finish this lousy book and set aside this good one?

In which I shame myself into finishing a more difficult read

Feb 13 •

Why you should never recommend a book until you finish it

Books I Bought, Read and Finished in January

Feb 6 •

January 2025

that guilt trip? the world can go without me

my fave guilt-rejection read and a few cheering out-in-paperbacks you maybe missed

Jan 30 •

life is full of scolds, don't listen

especially not to the ones in your head! Also, Death of an Author and new Jen Weiner

Jan 23 •

everything can change in an instant, happy endings and trying to hold on loosely

a little life lesson and what I told a bff about some books that's maybe too honest

Jan 16 •

you're sitting on the couch with a book and your phone. Which do you pick up first?

Books I Bought, Read and Finished in December

Jan 9 •

December 2024

November 2024

That amorphous literary ambiguity thing killed this for me. You?

Every book I bought, read and finished in October--

Nov 21, 2024 •

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