I have a distinct memory from a time when I was about four, and I made a giant pile in the middle of our living room of what had to be every book I owned and told my mom I wanted to read them all. As in, “Drop what you’re doing, this is how we’re spending the rest of the day.”

I was pretty lucky to have parents who encouraged me to read, and even read to me for years. When I was young, I had a book series going with each of my parents: My mom read me Boxcar Children, my dad read me Little House on the Prairie. And I read plenty else besides.

In the summer of 2013, I came across a Buzzfeed list entitled, “The 65 Books You Need to Read in Your 20s.” Miraculously lacking a book I was in the middle of at the time, I decided to embark on the list. And then I thought, What if I blogged about reading through the list as I went? And then I thought, How much more fun would that be to do with someone? So I enlisted a good friend of mine and off we went.

As it tends to do, life got busy with other commitments, and the Bird and Bee Book Review, always a casual side project in our eyes, fell a bit by the wayside in early 2015. Still, we read and talked about some great books in our time maintaining the blog.

You can find the full backlog of the Bird and Bee Book Review here: birdandbeebookreview.com