First Rodeo

First Rodeo

Everything I read in September. (And some you should too!)

My biggest reading month yet.

Azora Zoe Paknad
Oct 02, 2024
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I went hard this month— I was either living on a beach or on vacation at the beach for most of September, and with no phone service in Portugal, I was pretty locked in to doing nothing but reading. We’d abandon our books only for dinners, enjoying breakfast or lunch or afternoon espressos in the town square with our books front and center.

It was heaven!

My Kindle has experienced some of the world's finest tourism.

I made the decision to up my Goodreads 2024 yearly reading goal to 100 books, inspired by

Grace Atwood
, who I believe wrote about doing the same. I had already hit the goal I set for myself in January, so I was excited to reignite some challenge. This will far and away be the biggest reading year of my adult life, and I’m not sure how or what changed since last year. I won’t question it though— I love reading more!

Excited to share my September reads with you and can’t wait to see which of you read some of the same!

Speaking of reading, I’d really love if you’d start with this piece by

Danya Issawi
— she put words to what’s weighing heavily on me better than I ca…

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