#FridayReads is a relic of early Twitter when posts ended with gigantic clumps of highlighted hashtags. I find it a useful reminder to stop once a week and mark what I’m reading. I read several books at a time for different reasons and at different paces. Sometimes I’ll finish a book in a day; other times I’ll work through it over several months. I’ve also begun to read comic books and graphic novels again, after having stepped away from the format for several years.
Here are the books I’m in the middle of this Friday, and where they fit in my reading biome. From top to bottom:
Daily Prompts: The Daily Artist’s Way: 365 Meditations for Creative Living by Julia Cameron
Poetry: You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World edited by Ada Limon
In Person Book Group w Friends: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Online Book Group about Women Artists: Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade
Creative Practice: Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Quest to Understand the Sacrifices and Glories of a Creative Life by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Bedside Book: Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel
Each day as part of my morning routine, I read a few pages of a creative practice book, a poem or more, and a daily creative prompt. During the day I’ll read for fun from books for book groups. At night, I’ll try to read a few pages from a longer book that I might be reluctant to read all at once. I’ve found that a varied book diet reading alone and in community keeps me from falling into a book rut. I’m always learning. Which is how I hope to be till the end.
Do you read one book at a time, or multiples? What are you reading now? Anything you particularly love or hate?
K.J. Boldon 
Always multiple books going. I just finished an ARC of Valerie Perrin’s latest, Tata, which I loved. I’m doing the APS read-along of Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf, which I’m enjoying. And I’m on the most recent Louise Penny book, trying to stretch it out since it’s going to be months before the next one is published.
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The problem with a beloved series is if you come to an end or stopping point! I hope you find a good distraction in the meantime!
I decided not to read that Beowulf again. Too much else to read, plus I discovered that so far in 2026 I’ve only read books by women, so I’m going to keep that going as long as I can!
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The risk of a beloved series is if it ends or there’s a lag! Good luck finding a distraction to wait out the interval.
I decided not to re-read Heaney’s Beowulf. Too much else going on, and I’m trying to focus on women authors.
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