My hands-down favorite productivity book is Getting Things Done by David Allen. It really helped me get organized with projects and next steps. I don’t do everything he suggests, but a lot of it. It made a difference for me. Other favorites are from Laura Vanderkam: 168 Hours as well as Off the Clock. I read her books this year and they’ve been so helpful in reorganizing my weeks, not just my days. Hope you find some you enjoy, Katie!

I haven’t heard about Literature for Justice but I will definitely look it up now! Thanks, Rachel. I read The New Jim Crow and found it to be very enlightening; hope you do the same. glad we’ve found each other. 🙂

Thanks for sharing those titles, Liz. They both sounds interesting! I definitely enjoy people who share the accomplishments instead of thinking they alone accomplished great things, so A Woman’s Work would be good to me, too.

We have our own horrendous political situation here in the U.S. now too so I feel your pain, even though our respective situations are different in the details.

And “Lovers and Strangers” by Clair Wills, a history of immigration in the UK post-war in people’s own words, is likely to make my top ten of the year.

I just love that we can make requests from our libraries so easily these days! I’m currently reading the ebook version of Washington Black, but I have the audiobook on hold (might take a week or so) and also the hardcopy book (available now). The ease encourages me to do it. 🙂

It really is a different experience once your kids start leaving the nest. (And it often happens so much more quickly than we expect!) I found the book to be helpful even though my kids have been out of the house for a few years now. I’ll stop by to check out your post!

Thanks! Enlightenment Now is so interesting, if you’re interested in that kind of data. I find it fascinating!