The Crow’s Nest’s reading roundup for January 2025 and a sneak peek of February’s tentative TBR. Reading goal progress updates and thoughts.
Category Archives: Entertainment
Resources to Make Reading Easier
A list of some of my go-to reading resources that make reading and finding deals on new (to me) titles so much easier.
Currently Reading
Introduction Well, it’s been a bit, hasn’t it? We’re now well into 2024 and, while my reading has slowed a bit with my new job and other life commitments, I’m still working hard to make sure I at least read before bed. This helps me to stay off my phone and reduce my blue light …
Currently Reading
Wrapping Up Endurance: Shackelton’s Incredible Voyage A Quick Summary As mentioned in my previous reading post, one of my carry-over books from late 2023 was Endurance a telling of Ernest Shackelton’s attempted trans-Antarctic voyage spanning from 1914-1916. Written by Alfred Lansing from the first-hand accounts of the voyagers from their logs and diaries, this story …
Currently Reading
Introduction One of my primary goals carrying over from 2023 into 2024 is to read more. As I mentioned in my 2024 goals and habits introduction post, I’ve always been a good reader, but I’ve struggled with both motivation and maintaining engagement. As a result of my previous struggles, I started to pay closer attention …
Wands Up
Honoring Sir Michael Gambon’s Lasting Legacy on the Wizarding World Introduction For those of you who are newer to the Wizarding World, I’ll offer a bit of background on the tradition of “Wands Up” when a character passes away. The “wands up” gesture – depicted in the film “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” – …
What We’re Streaming
As a brief intro, my husband cut the cord with cable years ago. When we started dating and I ended up moving in so, by extension, did I. This day in age, I don’t really feel like I’m missing anything. As homebodies, we spend a good bit of time trying to find the perfect thing …
Celebrating Back to School – Hogwarts Style
The guy and I are huge Harry Potter nerds so, naturally, September 1st is a fun day for us because it’s Hogwarts back to school. When we first started dating I still hadn’t read all of the books the whole way through and had only seen the later four movies maybe a few times through …
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