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If you've got an elementary schooler, you know that "March is reading month!" and apparently I took that to heart with audiobooks - I think I listened to as many last month as I did all of last y...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2024/04/reading-lately-march-roundup.html

I'm reading plenty but it feels like a very slow start to my reading year in finding books that I'm ready to gush about - only one 5-star read so far this year, and while there are some 4 stars ...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2024/03/reading-lately-february-roundup.html

Coming off my year-end best current / backlist books posts, it felt like a rocky transition to 2024, especially as my last book of 2023 and then my first book of 2024 were DUDS and I went on a ...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2024/02/reading-lately-january-roundup.html

And one more from 2023 - a random assortment of purchases for home & life that I have loved and that are still proving their worth in usefulness and/or enjoyment in 2024!   1 | 2 | 3 | 4...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2024/01/2023-best-buys-home-life.html

I had more ideas than available free time at the end of the year, but who says we can't recap some 2023 favorites in 2024? I did this "best buys" series  at the end of 2022 and was inspired agai...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2024/01/2023-best-buys-style-beauty.html

Whew, with the whirlwind of the holidays I did manage to keep with some reading (partly thanks to some quickies to end the year on), but not writing reviews. So here's a belated December roundup....

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2024/01/reading-lately-december-roundup.html

And now for my favorite books of 2023 that were published this year! Like with the backlist list , these aren't in complete rank ordering (you know for a book lover picking a favorite is like pic...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/12/best-of-2023-current-reads.html

In some year-end "best of" book lists/podcast episodes you'll see a distinction for books published in that particular year vs. earlier - and as I read enough books per year, and frequently get s...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/12/best-of-2023-backlist-books.html

Okay, one more holiday tradition we love around here: stockings. It was always my favorite thing in my family's Christmas Day traditions when I was growing up, and after getting married, I ordere...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/12/buying-lately-stocking-stuffers.html

November was a bit of a weird reading month, it seems, when I look at my lineup here - somehow I ended up with pretty much all genre books, partly because of library holds that came in and partly...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/12/reading-lately-november-roundup.html

Another personal Christmas tradition I have loved is making my "gift grid" gift guides . They're just so much fun, but they also take a while and in my current days of little time for blog posts ...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/11/gift-grid-team-hoekman-recommendations.html

One of our favorite household holiday traditions is back! I keep thinking Hendrik is too old for the book-a-day advent calendar, but he loves it so much, so I've found ways to incorporate some no...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/11/2023-book-day-advent-calendar.html

I'm not usually a season-specific reader, and I'm definitely not a "spooky season" person in general, but I had several books on my stack that seemed like they'd be just right for the gray that O...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/11/reading-lately-october-roundup.html

  COORDINATING: Halloween costumes for the boys because after last year's Ash + Pikachu cuteness, how could I resist a new pairing, especially while Hendrik is still into the idea. He's also f...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/10/currently-tricks-treats-edition.html

After I listened to an entire audiobook on a solo drive to visit my sweet new baby niece in August, I thought I should give audiobooks another shot in general. My life setup doesn't give me tons ...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/10/reading-lately-audiobook-roundup.html

September reading roundup time already! I've got a a bit of a variety to recap - starting with the 5-star read that closed out my summer reading season, three different types of mystery reads, an...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/10/reading-lately-september-roundup.html

Every year at my big work conference people ask me "oh, didn't you bring your family?" and I always think that sounds kind of terrible - I'm busy with meetings or attending conference receptions/...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/09/nashville-packing-list.html

You know when you have those moments of realizing you thought one thing was totally normal, and then you find out that the rest of the world thinks a different thing is normal? That was me at som...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/09/a-chocolate-chip-cookie-tasting-60th.html

After being kind of disappointed with the Book of the Month selections this year and thinking it might be time to be done with that subscription, the August picks came out and I wanted all.the.b...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/09/reading-lately-august-roundup.html

Hendrik starts school this week - 5th grade! This is seeming really old to me because this summer we kept reflecting on how we moved into this house a few months before Hendrik turned 2, and then...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/08/back-to-school-style.html

Freddie turned two last week (!) and just like with his first birthday , we had a theme ready-made around food... thanks to his love of The Very Hungry Caterpillar (and his own well-known love o...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/08/freddies-very-hungry-birthday-party.html

July was an interesting reading month - it had a bit more variety perhaps (there's a non-fiction category in this post!), and it also had quite a bit of volume thanks to a couple of periods (flig...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/08/reading-lately-july-roundup.html

While he's much harder to actually understand than his big brother at this age, Freddie is in that adorable toddler language usage stage that makes me want to write down almost everything he says...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/07/currently-kill-em-with-cuteness-edition.html

It's that time of year again for me - no, not packing for the beach for 4th of July travel, but packing for a work trip instead. A bit bummed to miss the holiday with my family again, but at leas...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/07/wearing-lately-summer-work-trip-capsule.html

Sooo, despite my already existing pile of books to read, I ended up with a second physical TBR shelf as I discovered Book Outlet in June... It's like the "remainders" section at a bookstore wher...

http://www.anneinresidence.com/2023/07/reading-lately-june-roundup.html