Book Blogger Appreciation Week: A Bookish Introduction

It's Book Blogger Appreciation Week! Hosted by Ana, Jenny, Heather, and Andi, the week is designed to "celebrate the hard work, dedication, and love we all put into this adventure we call book blogging." Check back throughout the week for posts on the joys of blogging, discovering other bloggers, and more!

Today's prompt asks BBAW participants to introduce themselves... using five books. In no particular order, here are five books I think could introduce me:

Week in Reading: February 15, 2015

It's Monday! (Again). It's snowing! (Again.) I've had a crappy week of reading! (Again.)

That crappy week of reading is the result of two things: a wonderfully full week of work and social events and a sadly disappointing slate of books picked up recently:

A Mile Every Day: What a Running Streak Taught Me about Habits

I ran every day between Thanksgiving and New Years.  

For some runners, this is nothing to write home about (or, in this case, write blogs about). But it was a big commitment for me, moving from my usual 3-4 runs a week to 7 runs a week.

The idea came from the Runner's World Run Streak: run at least 1 mile, every day, from Thanksgiving to New Years. (The RWRunStreak includes a plan for varying mileage that I did not follow--I just stuck with the basic parameters.)

While the run streak was an interesting experiment in running (I didn't crave a rest day, for example, nearly as much as I'd expected to), what was most interesting about it was the lessons it taught me about habit-forming:

Book Review: Fallen Land, by Taylor Brown

This review originally ran in Shelf Awareness for Readers. 

Taylor Brown's stunning debut sweeps readers back to the final, harsh year of the Civil War.

Looking Ahead: New Books Coming in February

First of all, how is it February? Second of all, how are we expected to read this many great books in the shortest month of the year??

Looking Back: January Recap

January was a great reading month for me in a lot of ways -- not least because of Andi's call to Read Our Own Damn Books. Of the twelve books I picked up last month, five were for assignments and six were books I already own. Not too damn shabby, if I do say so myself. Now if only I could get into the discipline of actually writing about those books of mine I've finally read... but perhaps that's a task for February.

Week in Reading: February 1

I'm a day late and a dollar short in getting this week's reading up, but c'est la vie. The reading stack is still promising for the week, though I'm not sure how much time I'll actually be able to set aside for some of these chunksters....