Kate Spofford, author

Tag: reading

  • December 2018 reading round-up

    December 2018 reading round-up

    Kingdom of Ash, more five-star reviews, and year-end totals.

  • 5 reasons to DNF* a book

    5 reasons to DNF* a book

    Five good reasons to stop reading that book right now.

  • reading while traveling

    Apparently this is a thing I like to do: read a book set in the place I’m traveling to. Right now, I’m heading off to a weekend in Acadia, Maine, and I’m reading The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel, about a man who lived as a hermit in the backwoods of Maine for nearly…

  • March reading round-up

    # of books read: 14 audiobooks listened to: 3 ebooks read: 3 books from the Throne of Glass series: 2 graphic novels: 3 total page count: 3,998 year total page count: 12,251 Well, I still haven’t beat that crazy reading streak I had in January.  It does seem that I’m reading roughly 4,000 pages a month,…

  • 3 on a theme: books within books

    3 on a theme: books within books

    I am often reading between 3 and 5 books at the same time, and occasionally there’s a theme that might not be remarkable in one book… but when I see it in three books, I take notice. Well, I started this blog post with three recent titles, then I kept finding more.  I’ll try to…

  • February reading round-up

    # of books read: 17 audiobooks listened to: 3 ebooks read: 6 ARCs read: 2 books from the Throne of Glass series: 2 graphic novels: 4 total page count: 3,877 year total page count: 8,253 Well, not so many books read as last month, but a lot of that has to do with February being 3 days shorter…

  • January reading round-up

    # of books read: 20 audiobooks listened to: 5 ebooks read: 6 nonfiction read: 2 ARCs read: 1 books from the Experiment in Terror series: 4 books from the White Cat series: 3 vintage YA: 3 total page count: 4,376 I did a ton of reading this month. In newer releases, I finished up Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at…

  • 3 on a theme: brotherly (and sisterly) love

    3 on a theme: brotherly (and sisterly) love

    I am often reading between 3 and 5 books at the same time, and occasionally there’s a theme that might not be remarkable in one book… but when I see it in three books, I take notice. I’ve become accustomed to YA books that heavily rely on romance.  So YA books that do not have…

  • stealing time to read

    I read a lot.  Every year for the last ten years I have read over 100 books. During two of those years, I read over 170 books.  As you can see from the little Goodreads widget on my blog, I’m usually in the middle of reading 3-5 books. When people say they don’t have time…

  • reading list April 2016

    This is about a week late, but I’m going to try to make this a monthly column, where I give a brief review of everything I’ve read that month – so here’s April! Series Fiction There are only a handful of series that I’m really into.  The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs is one…