On Twitter, where brevity reigns supreme, I sum myself up as: Writer, educator, yogi, runner, general nerd & wearer of many metaphorical hats. While that’s great place to start, a list of labels only gets you so far in learning about someone. In addition to the above, I… Work a…

Our weekly space to check in on books and reading — Happy Wednesday, book friends! This one snuck up on me, since my workplace was closed on Monday for the July 4th holiday and my work wee just started yesterday. I mostly spent the long weekend resting and trying to get my energy back up after my weeklong pain flare, but…

A review of Kasie West’s “Places We’ve Never Been” — If you’ve read even a handful of my other book reviews, you probably know that friends-to-lovers romances are my genre kryptonite. I can’t resist the longterm friendship, mutual pining, and the slow shift from friends to something more. …

Of the 3 books I read this month, these are the best — We have somehow arrived at July, which means it’s time to fully admit that I didn’t get very much reading done in the month of June. My worklife has been busy and I’ve spent the last two weeks in a chronic pain flare haze. Not to mention being reminded that…

No one asked for this, but I’m giving it to you anyway — Over the last month or so, I have watched with interest as Paul Combs, Simon Dillon, and Eric Pierce rounded up their favorite films for each year they’ve been alive. Paul set the original challenge and hopefully no one minds if I go ahead and join in! …

Our weekly space to check in on books and reading — It is Wednesday, my dudes. And what a week it has been in the Oaks-Christman household. On top of all the heaviness in our world and in the U.S., we had a stressful incident in our personal sphere of a life. Azula had a bit of a scare, as she…

Reviewing the current picks for corporate book clubs from Target to Costco — I’ve written before and I’m sure I’ll write again about how everybody and their mother seems to have a “book club” these days. From local libraries to Reese Witherspoon to Target, the actual book clubbishness of these so-called clubs varies, but the basic model stays the same — someone picks…

Our weekly space to check in on books and reading — Hello from the midst of my quarterly chronic pain flare, book friends! Today’s check in will likely be brief, as I am battling the joy that is a chronic pain and PMS collab. Yesterday was Litha, or the summer solstice as she is more commonly known. I got to spend…

I set some reading goals for 2022. Let’s take a look at how they’re going — Somehow, some way, we’re already nearly halfway through 2022, which means it’s a good time to look back on the reading goals I set way back in January and see how we’re doing! I started the year trying to use Storygraph so I’d have fun charts and graphs, but alas…