Tag: Joan Didion

• The best books I read in 2020

  I thought making this list would be easy. Yet this year has gone by so quickly in hindsight (and so, so slowly in the moment) that somehow I forgot just how many fantastic books I read this year. In the midst of everything that became 2020, I managed to read 70 books, several of which […]

  holly

  December 31, 2020

  Books

  2020, Ann Patchett, bookish, books, Joan Didion, Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here, Play It As It Lays, Sourdough, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Dutch House, The Falconer, Writers & Lovers

• Reading Rush 2020 TBR

  Get excited!! It’s that time of year again–the Reading Rush is here!! The Reading Rush is a weeklong readathon hosted by Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay. This year the Reading Rush is taking place from July 20 to July 26. Check out their website for more information. I’ve been participating in the Reading Rush (formerly […]

  holly

  July 19, 2020

  Bookish, Read-A-Thons

  Ariel Bissett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Joan Didion, Readathon, Reading Rush, Truman Capote, Zadie Smith

• Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag | 2019

  *looks at calendar* *backs away slowly* How is it already July?!?! HALF WAY through 2019?!?! Every summer when the Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag rolls around I find it hard to believe that the mid-way point is already here… time is a sneaky one! Anyways, enough of my existential ramblings. I was luckily nominated for […]

  holly

  July 19, 2019

  Tags

  2019, Book Tag, Good Omens, Joan Didion, July, Nadette Rae Rodgers, Sarah Manguso, Summer, Sweet Dreams, The Year of Magical Thinking, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, typewriter

• THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion | Reflection

  In my Postmodern American Fiction class this past semester, we were assigned to write a page reflection each week on the book that we read. I actually really enjoyed writing these reflections because they were a chance to choose a specific aspect of the book and discuss it in depth without needed to come to […]

  holly

  June 20, 2019

  Books

  books, Joan Didion, Postmodern American Fiction, Reflection, The Year of Magical Thinking

• Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I’ve (Shamelessly & Proudly) Written In

  Happy Tuesday! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us to share our unpopular bookish opinions. However, I thought I would hone in on one unpopular bookish opinion and share ten examples of it instead. Perhaps one of my most controversial book habits is that I often annotate and […]

  holly

  June 11, 2019

  Top Ten Tuesday

  Annotating, Beloved, Emily Bronte, Frederick Douglass, Great Expectations, Jane Austen, Joan Didion, Mrs. Dalloway, My Antonia, Paper Towns, Persuasion, The Great Gatsby, The Year of Magical Thinking, To the Lighthouse, Top Ten Tuesday, Wuthering Heights

• 5 Books that Influenced Me as a College Senior

  Seeing as I graduate from undergrad a week from tomorrow (eek!) I thought I would share 5 books that influenced me as a college senior. These are books that I’ve read throughout this academic year–assigned or otherwise–that have made me think about myself and world a bit differently. In no particular order: Without a Name by Yvonne […]

  holly

  May 10, 2019

  Bookish

  bookish, College, Discussion, Joan Didion, Senior, Student, The Year of Magical Thinking