Living Life Bookishly

True confession: I’m a recovering book snob.  The situation peaked during undergrad, when half the people in my English classes wore gauzy scarves and prattled insufferably about reading Dante in their leisure time.  I played along with Jane Austen movie adaptations, post-modernism, and poetry collections …

Happy hump day, friends! Here are my finds this week. 10 Literary Lessons from Gretchen Rubin This is a guest blog post by Sarah Moore from New Leaf Book Nook on thebookwheelblog.com.  I read this post this morning while I …

I just out-nerded myself by spending an exorbitant amount of time explaining to my fiance, whilst watching the extended director’s cut of The Fellowship of the Ring, which Lord of the Ring’s characters would go into each Hogwarts house. I …

Ah, Wednesday, how I love you. The Midweek Mix is a fun break! I’m sitting here (it’s Tuesday night) watching Chopped on Netflix while I type up this Mix. Is anyone else obsessed with this show? It’s just so gosh …

Say whaaaaat? Midweek again? My, how time flies when you hold yourself to doing a Wednesday blog post 😂 What’s on my mind this week? In the words of Mario, Let’s a-go! Current Read: The Girls by Emma Cline I’m getting …

Some people have constant, reliable reading habits. Their “currently reading” status rotates on a steady and regular basis, they complete books from start to finish, never abandoning a book midway through, and they never have to go into a panic …

Hi! Me again, here with another Midweek Mix post. What interesting things have you found around the web lately? Emma Watson’s Book Club Did you know Emma Watson has a book club on Goodreads?? I didn’t! It’s called Our Shared …

It’s kind of hard to believe that it has been 400 years since Shakespeare passed away, leaving behind the most iconic tales of the modern age, which have shaped storytelling for centuries afterward. 400 years, and we still use his …

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that …

Wednesday already? When I have these Midweek Mix posts keeping me honest, the middle of the week seems to come faster! Maybe that’s a good thing? Hooray for hump day ya’ll! Yes, Minnesotans can use ya’ll. But we sound pretty …