Category: life update
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August and September 2026 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, and What I’m Loving
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m in a very slow reading season. Life has been super chaotic lately, and I’m lucky to get in ten pages a day most of the time. That said, while my reading slowed way down, that didn’t mean the quality of my reads also went off a cliff.…
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How To Make Time For Reading When You Have No Time For Reading
I wish I could open this post by saying I’d found the magic one-step solution to never having enough time. I wish I could say I’d finally figured it out and that I’m here today to share my perfect solution for reading endlessly when you seemingly have no available hours, but the reality is that…
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July 2026 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, What I’m Loving Right Now
I am happy to report that we are having a perfect Atlantic Canadian summer. The weather has been gorgeous, full of sunshine and clear skies, we’ve had ample time off to take little adventures, and baby girl is absolutely thriving with all the time that we have outside. In the deep recesses of a Canadian…
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June 2026 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR lists, What I’m Loving
We are now officially in deep summer in Atlantic Canada and I could not be happier about it. Days spent outside in the sun, letting baby girl run around through the grass until her heart’s content, and barbecuing every single meal is my idea of a good time. What was extra thrilling about this month,…
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April and May 2026 Reading Wrap Ups: Books Read, TBR Lists, What I’m Loving
The fact that I have not managed a single blog post since my March reading wrap-up speaks to the chaotic nature of what life has been like the past couple of months. Baby girl is now squarely in her toddler era and busier than ever, work for both my husband and I has been nearly…
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March 2026 Monthly Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR List, and What I’m Loving Right Now
Another month has come and gone and still we find ourselves in deep winter. Despite a few Spring false starts, I started writing this update from the depths of a freezing rainstorm. I could not be more over the cold if I tried.
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February 2026 Reading Wrap-Up
In the blink of an eye, February has come and gone. Sometimes it feels like time is passing and I barely have a second to catch my breath, but this month, I felt acutely present in a way that I don’t often feel I get to. It was a month full of almost exclusively highlights,…
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January 2026 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, and What I’m Loving
January was a supremely tough month in my house. My family went through multiple illnesses and viruses that knocked us all out, work has never been busier, and our senior pup was repeatedly as sick as we were. For most of the month, it felt like we were only just keeping our heads above water,…
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December 2025 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR lists, What I’m Loving
I considered whether to even write a December wrap-up given that I’ve already posted my Best Books Read in 2025 list, but since December was such an epic month I figured why not? The holidays are easily my favourite time of year. I love all the Christmas lights, the family traditions, the excuses to see…
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2026 Bookish Goals and Intentions
Happy new year! As I mentioned in my Best Books Read in 2025 post, last year was fairly transformative for me. I had to refocus a lot of my attention and priorities as my life evolved, and with that came some major shifts in my reading habits. For the most part, I slowed way down…
