“The page is your mirror. What happens inside you is reflected back. You come face-to-face with your own resistance, lack of balance, self-loathing, and insatiable ego—and also with your singular vision, guts, and fortitude. No matter what you've achieved the day before, you begin each day at the bottom of the mountain.”
“We are all unsure of ourselves. Every one of us walking the planet wonders, secretly, if we are getting it wrong. We stumble along. We love and we lose. At times, we find unexpected strength, and at other times, we succumb to our fears. We are impatient. We want to know what's around the corner, and the writing life won't offer us this. It forces us into the here and now. There is only this moment, when we put pen to page.”
I‘ve been neglecting my library books so I‘m tackling those as well 😅
November #MonthlyNonfiction2025 reads @julieclair
#NonfictionNovember was a busy one ☺️
Updated schedule for #SheSaid!
We had 1 book with 5 votes (Wild Swans) and 4 with 4 votes. I added them all to our schedule for 2026 along with our 2 fiction reads. I did bump Wild Swans back to March, so we could read it and the follow-up book by the author after (and hopefully 🤞 when the hold lines at the library are not so long for a new release 😬). Then there were about 12 books tied after that…so new vote this summer.
Time for our last #MonthlyNonfiction2025 selection of the year! What will everyone be reading? My choice is Rick Steves‘ European Christmas.
We will be continuing for 2026. Please comment below if you‘d like to be added to, or removed from, the tag list.
Everyone is welcome! The challenge is simple: read one nonfiction book each month.
Tagging all who participated this year. It has been fun exploring nonfiction together!
Sarahreadstoomuch, rockpools, kspenmoll, mhillis, Gissy, Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick, ferskner, Lauredhel, TEArificbooks, MonicaLoves2Read, Rissreadswithcats, TheBookgeekFrau, TheAromaofBooks, peanutnine, willaful
Library haul! My hold for ACOTAR finally came in. I‘m finally jumping on the bandwagon cause several people have recommended it, but since I‘ve seen so many mixed reviews I decided to borrow instead of buy for now. Then I grabbed these other two from the library‘s writing display.
My publisher sent me the best book mail! "Specters & Spells," my new collection of flash fiction, arrived yesterday. Still happy dancing in my study., #excited #bookmail #newcollection
Hello #SheSaid!
Voting is up now for 2026! And with this many choice, maybe part of 2027 too 😂
https://forms.gle/en54WgSVAzp1nkoZ6
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