Let’s chat about our 2016 best or worst lists. What books were your favorite? Which were… not so much?  Julie: Thanks to Audible, I have read over 60 books this year! These are the books that are on my top reads list for 2016. [easyazon_image align=”none” height=”160″ identifier=”1250078202″ locale=”US” src=”http://www.fabworkingmomlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/51HzV7pksOL.SL160.jpg” tag=”chapbrea05-20″ width=”98″] I love the whole […]

 Special Snowflakes – we see this trope a lot in books. Let’s give them a chat day.  Julie: From Wiktionary: The conviction that one is, in some way, special and should therefore be treated differently than others. Usually I’m not a fan of special snowflakes, because why? Why does that one specific person have to be […]

 There are books we may have read, but wish we hadn’t. What books do you want to forget?  Julie: I DNF very few books. I tend to power through and try to enjoy everything I read, at least somewhat. But there are some books that are a complete waste of my time, whether I powered through […]

 So let’s chat about bookish gifts. What do you like to gift people that is bookish, but not an actual book?  Julie: It is fun to gift items that are based on books. I used to do gift exchanges as part of book clubs, and it is so awesome to see all the bookish trinkets […]

 What are some books that stay with us forever. These are books we just cannot forget.  Julie: Some books hold a special place in my heart just based on the time they found me. The [easyazon_link identifier=”B0087OUJCA” locale=”US” tag=”chapbrea05-20″]Twilight[/easyazon_link] books got me back into reading after a long, long break. They will always be books […]

Do you read outside your comfort zone?  Julie: To be honest, I rarely do. I read for fun. I read to enjoy my time. Usually, my time driving as that is the only time I get to read. So I read what I like, I read what makes me happy. I read what makes the […]

 There are books that it seems like everyone else has read, but you haven’t for whatever reason. What are they?  Julie: My reading has slowed down so much in the last couple of years so it feels like everyone has read everything but me! I mean, I was the one super late to the Harry […]

 Give up your shoulds – what should we be doing instead of reading?  Julie: Things I should be doing (and usually am doing) instead of reading: Sleeping – what’s that again? Working – this takes up so much of my life Caring for my kid – this takes up the rest of my life, not that […]

 So let’s just chat about those scruffy dudes with beards, shall we?  Julie: Goodreads likes lists. And I like to search lists. Goodreads has these cool lists about bearded dudes: Gotta Love a Man with a Beard Best Bearded Heroes I do not appear to have read any of them. Which sounds like I’m missing […]

 Do you read magazines? Which ones?  Julie: When I was a teenager I read all the magazines. You know, Teen, YM, Seventeen. For a while I read Cosmo. I more recently used some expiring airline miles to get the smart magazines, like Time, and Parents. But dude, who has time to read magazines? If I […]