My Favorite Nonfiction of 2019
Sophisticated Dorkiness
by Kim
4y ago
The first week of February isn’t too late for putting up a favorites of 2019 book list, right? Maybe don’t answer that one! In any case, I couldn’t really start getting into my 2020 reading without following up my favorite fiction of 2019 with my favorite nonfiction. I read a ton of great true stories this year, so it was really hard trying to narrow it down to just 10 (which I really didn’t, there’s technically 11 on this list). I’m really excited to share all of these with you! Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen Dave Cullen is a meticulous, empathetic journalist, so I was eager to ..read more
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My Favorite Fiction of 2019
Sophisticated Dorkiness
by Kim
4y ago
Hey, look, it’s a blog post! I don’t want to call this a comeback to blogging because, honestly, I’m not sure what this year is going to bring. But it felt like a bummer not to get to the end of the year and do a couple of recaps of my favorite books! In 2019, I finished 81 books, but I feel like I actually read a lot more than that. I previewed a lot of books to talk about on the nonfiction podcast I co-host for Book Riot, but didn’t end up completing many of them. So while 81 books feels like a relatively low number, I don’t think it quite captures all of my reading. That all said, this year ..read more
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Battling Burnout: Blog on Hiatus
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by Kim
5y ago
A couple weeks ago, while I was mindlessly scrolling Twitter, I saw a tweet listing the symptoms of burnout. Seeing it was so weird, like reading a list of everything I’ve been struggling with that I couldn’t seem to connect together. I don’t think of my life as particularly stressful, so the idea of experiencing even mild burnout seems really odd to me. But all the symptoms are there, which means I need to take some action to make things better. After some thought, I’ve decided the best thing to put aside right now is the blog. I had big goals for this space this year, but work and life circu ..read more
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Readathon Reads: ‘Tell Me How It Ends’ and ‘My Own Devices’
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by Kim
5y ago
Last weekend was Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon, one of my favorite book nerd activities. I was only able to participate casually, but I still managed to finish two print books from Mount TBR and squeeze in almost six hours of reading. I also didn’t post much, other than some highlights from the day in my Instagram stories, which felt right for the amount of time I was able to put in. This year I read for almost six hours, a mix of actually reading and listening to audiobooks while I baked these delicious savory ham and cheese scones. In that time I managed to start and finish two print books — Tel ..read more
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First Quarter 2019 Reading Wrap Up
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by Kim
5y ago
Just like that, the first quarter of 2019 is over. And I gotta be honest, it’s been sort of a rough one for me. Work is busy, the weather has been generally awful, and I’m just feeling a little bit worn out by all of it. On the plus side, my reading so far this year has been pretty good! I’ve finished 22 books, exactly half fiction and half nonfiction. Only five of them are from Mount TBR (my goal is to read 40), but I’m hoping I can bounce back on that one. Now, on to the books! January Reading Transcription by Kate Atkinson (review) Awakening Your Ikigai by Ken Mogi Duped by Abby Elin (revi ..read more
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