My Favorite Book v. 2015 (#MyReadingYear)

Back in 2012 I wrote an article called “My Favorite Book … This Year.” I do track what I read, and I know my reading tastes well enough that I generally end up with a year’s worth of excellent books. They should all be favorites—but there are always some standouts....

My Favorite Book v. 2014

If you’ve ever held one of my business cards in your hand, you’ve seen it, scrawled across the bottom in 24-point type: I love books! And I do. I love talking (er, writing) about reading them, about editing them, about authors and writing. Honestly, if there were...

Short Saturday: And What About the Fiction?

We were just discussing My Year of Reading Nonfiction, which was fun … but, hey, I did read twenty-eight fiction titles too. What were they? How did they stand up to the nonfiction? I have a list of them too. I’ve been keeping an annual Books-I’ve-Read list for a few...

My Year of Reading Nonfiction

There is a photo of me in my mid-twenties sitting at the kitchen table reading a book. There are two other books on the table, one open, and my arms are positioned in such a way that I am touching all three books. This would not be untypical for me. In those days, I...

My Favorite Book v. 2013

I read thirty-three* books for pleasure in 2012—and at the end of the year I boiled it all down to One Favorite Book, difficult though that was. I read fifty-four in 2013, and most of them were titles I’d happily recommend, for one reason or another. I blogged about...