I am a beauty product hobbyist. I am not an expert. I cannot answer questions about skin types or what order one should do a 10-step regimen. I have no idea how to find your perfect shade of anything. But! I love to try things and so I try lots of things and definitely have opinions about favorites (and what is worth your money).
Read MoreI wish that I had started sharing this from the very beginning, but here we are. I turned in the first big draft of my manuscript to the editor a week and a half ago, and by the time I pressed SEND on that email I wasn’t even sure if the thing made sense anymore. It was like when you stare at a word for too long and then you start to wonder if it’s spelled wrong or if it’s even a word at all. My brain had gotten a bit lost in the delirium of writing 60,000+ words (mostly) ABOUT MYSELF.
Read MoreMy To Read right now is absolutely toppling over. I can’t remember the last time I had so many books to read. Mostly this can be attributed to my book buying habit, of which there is no cure. But also it’s gotten so out of hand because I’ve been reading less in 2020 than usual. I’ve been working on the podcast and my book so much (all good things!) plus some travel and general family life, and my brain has been just fried. Books aren’t holding my attention, so I’ve been focusing on quite a bit of nonfiction (where I can’t get lost in a plot, and can put it down for days or weeks at a time and it doesn’t matter).
I’m posting my full To Read list here as a way to stay accountable to reading most of these books over the coming months, and also in case you’re looking for inspiration on something to read.
I decided to break down the list into categories. **affiliate links are used in this post
I’m doing it! I should say, I’m FINALLY doing it, as writing has been my ultimate goal since I moved to Los Angeles in 2001.
And I have been writing for many of these years, it just didn’t look like what I imagined. When I started a mommy blog in 2010, writing on the internet was meant to be temporary, a way to learn how to write for an audience, a stepping stone to “real” writing. But I just kept doing it. And it just kept working (mostly). The opportunities that came up in those early years came through my blog posts and blog audience, and traditional publishing felt like a dinosaur.
Read MoreNormally this list comes to me very easily, even if I have to narrow it down and eliminate books I liked in favor of books I loved. But I’ve put off making this one because my reading year in 2019 was a little wonky. Very uneven, in pace and quality and content. I read far less stellar fiction than usual (these books are generally a fight for the tops spots for me), which wasn’t because it was a bad fiction year (at least I don’t think), but I did notice that I didn’t pick up very many of those that ended up on the year-end lists, and of those that I did read that are making the awards circuits, I didn’t care for much.
So all in all, my creative brain was distracted in 2019 and I took so much more from the nonfiction I read this year.
(You can hear more book talk on the podcast. Looking for how to read more and how to choose what to read? Listen to When do you read? You can also listen to the Best Books of the Summer with Alyssa Hertzig and recently we recorded Ep #46 Book Club 2019: The Best, Worst, and Buzziest Books of the year.)
In total, in 2019, I read:
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