E. Menozzi's Blog

But I’m back. I think.

I stopped blogging at the end of last year because I was studying for my private pilot check-ride. Good news: I passed! Bad news (at least as far as the writing and reading stuff goes): I immediately jumped into instrument training. Then I passed that check-ride as well… and now I’m working on my commercial certificate.

Because of all that focus on flight training, I’ve really only been reading extremely dry books written by the FAA about how airplanes work and the ...

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I read three books in September. I think that puts me at 34 books read so far this year (plus 2 DNFs), which is 5 books behind schedule (according to Goodreads) to hit my annual goal of 52 books read.

Five books isn’t that bad, I suppose. It means I need to average about 5 books a month for the last three months of this year, though. And I sincerely doubt I’m going to finish 5 books in October. So, this may be the first year since 2014 that I haven’t read at least 52 books! Shocking...

It’s that time of year again! Everyone in the planner community is eyeing the 2025 planners and making their decisions about what is going to give them “planner peace” in the new year.

As for me, I think “planner peace” is like the Easter Bunny or Santa. Doesn’t exist. And that phrase is beginning to make my ass twitch.

Why am I so grumpy about planners, you ask?

If you have been reading this blog for a while, you can probably guess. You might remember my previous posts on my various mi...

We’re about halfway through the month, and I’ve only finished one book on my Orilium Fall Equinox TBR.

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I finished Bride by Ali Hazelwood and enjoyed it. I’ve heard that her adult contemporary romance books are really good if you enjoy the “big guy with small girl” and “broody alpha male” tropes. Those aren’t at the the top of my favorite tropes list, which is why I haven’t picked up any of her books before. However, I think those particular tropes work pretty well in the context ...

For some reason I was sure I only finished one book in August. Then I checked Goodreads, and what do you know? I actually read THREE whole books last month! Shocking!

Seriously. I have been so busy with “secret summer project” that I really haven’t had much time for reading aside from just before falling asleep. When I’m in that mode, I average about a chapter a day, and I really don’t make much progress on anything. (Side-note: I promise I will reveal “secret summer project” at some point, b...

This was a hard one to put together! But the readathon starts tomorrow, so here we go….

If you remember back to my April wrap-up post (aka the last update I posted before disappearing for several months), I finished seven books, but only four subjects. That I knew of. I never bothered figuring out if any of the other books I read counted for any of the other subject prompts.

Instead of doing that now, I poked around at some of the other “callings” that sounded interesting and then tried to...

It’s been a while since I posted something here. I’ve been pre-occupied with a new hobby this summer. Maybe I’ll do a post about that at some point, but it’s not reading or writing related, so maybe not. We’ll see.

Regardless, my new obsession left me with a lot less time for reading, and it shows. Between the start of May and the end of July, I only finished six books.

Here’s what I read this summer:

Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson — This was a really good companion book t...

April turned out to be a BIG reading month. I finished SEVEN books and (temporarily?) DNFed one!

Orilium Spring Equinox Reading

Here’s a recap of everything I read in April:

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey — I really enjoyed this cute rom com set in the Pacific Northwest. The Homecoming War by Addie Woolridge — If you need a book for an ambitious bookworm tween or teen in your life, get them this one. It’s so adorable that I wanted to hug the book when I was done. The Taint...

April isn’t quite over. I am still working on finishing the last book in my Orilium TBR. But (of course) I’m already thinking about what I want to read in May…

May 2024 TBR

These are the three books I have at the top of my TBR for May:

Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson — I loved The Space Between Worlds , and I have been eagerly anticipating this second stand-alone set in the same world. Luckily, so have my Camp Book Club friends. So we decided to buddy read it in May. Generati...

To give you a sense of how my reading is going this month, here are some numbers:

Books carried over from previous months = 3Books started this month = 3Books finished this month = 2Current number of books in progress = 4

Do I have more in-progress books now than I did at the start of this month? Yes.

Have I finished reading everything on my Orilium TBR? No.

Status of my Orilium Spring Equinox TBR

In fact, I haven’t even started the Psionics & Divination read (A Fate ...