Rebecca Reads

I’m giving away a copy of How to Read and Why to someone joining my personal challenge. Read my discussion of the preface for more information.
This is a very long post; I’m breaking my own rules of length because I spent a long time reading and pondering Bloom’s prologue, and I have a lot of [...]

Weekly Geeks this week is about Challenges.
I have been hesitant to sign up for challenges because I’m a perfectionist. While I know there are no “challenge police” coming to check that I’ve finished my reading, I can’t bring myself to say “I’ll read these books” if I don’t think I’m going to have time. (And [...]

I like to read. I’ve decided it’s time I learn how to read.
I don’t know when I first figured out how to read the written word, but I’ve always been a reader. When I was young, I’d ride my bicycle to the library and return home with my backpack full of books. I’d devour each [...]

When I heard the term “graphic novel” for the first time a few months ago in the blogosphere, my first thoughts were that it was a novel that was “graphic”:
graphic, adjective: vividly or plainly shown or described <a graphic sex scene> (definition courtesy Merriam-Webster)

Why would anyone want to read a “graphic” novel, I thought? Sounds [...]

Joy is hosting the Nonfiction Five Challenge. I told myself I wouldn’t join any challenges because I don’t want “pressure” to finish books in a certain time period, but this is one I’ll be doing anyway: read five nonfiction books between May and September. One of the five has to be a different subgenre (i.e., [...]