Category: Discussions

Book Buddy = Organization Obsession!

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on February 27, 2020 | 1 Comment

I’ve always half-assed organized my books with a combo of an Excel spreadsheet (which I admittedly haven’t updated in months), and Goodreads. Not a great system, honestly. But recently I saw someone in the Epic Reads group on Facebook mention Book Buddy, an app for organizing the books they own, so I downloaded the free demo. An hour later, I’d bought the full version! It’s amazing!! The demo only allows you to upload 50 books. The full version is $4.99, […]

2019 End of Year Book Survey + Reading Stats

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on January 4, 2020 | 0 Comments

The end of year survey was created by Jamie @ The Perpetual Page-Turner Past surveys 2011 end of year survey 2012 end of year survey 2013 end of year survey 2014 end of year survey 2015 end of year survey 2016 end of year survey 2017 end of year survey 2018 end of year survey (Wow, I didn’t realize I’d been doing it every year for my whole blogging career!) 2019 Reading stats Number of books read: 69 Number of re-reads: […]

2020 Goals & Resolutions

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on January 2, 2020 | 1 Comment

I typically hate making New Year’s resolutions because it’s my belief that you should do so throughout the whole year, but I do still love them because it’s good motivation and something to look back on to see if I’ve accomplished my goals! READING RESOLUTIONS Read more than last year. I really wanted to get to 100 books in 2019, but I didn’t even make it to 75. I’d love to get back to reading 100 books a year – I used […]

5 Star Books of 2019

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on December 28, 2019 | 0 Comments

Last year I saw Cristina @ Girl in the Pages post about her 5 star reading drought (which was originally inspired by Lauren @ Bookmark Lit’s post here), and I thought it was such a great post, so I did one of my own! It was really interesting to see what me 5 star reads looked like for last year, and I definitely want to start doing it every year! 5 star books of 2019 This number is usually low since […]

My Most Anticipated Releases for 2020

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on December 19, 2019 | 0 Comments

Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff – First of all, there’s no Jay book I would never NOT want desperately to get my hands on. Second, I’m not normally a fan of vamp books so I am DYING to see what Jay does with it! Change my mind, mister Kristoff! TRUEL1F3 by Jay Kristoff – The ending of DEV1AT3 was KILLER! I need to know what happens! Aurora Burning by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman – Um, Aurora Rising […]

Books That Made Me Ugly Cry (I May Be a Closet Masochist?)

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on December 12, 2019 | 0 Comments

I have a whole shelf on Goodreads dedicated to books that made me cry, but I also count ones that only made me shed a tear or two in addition to the ones that made me feel like my soul was being ripped from my body. Those are the ones I want to highlight in this post – the books that made me ugly cry. You know, the sobbing, snotting, can’t-breathe-feeling-of-despair crying. That doesn’t happen very often for me, and I may […]