Just Me

  December was certainly a month where I did A LOT of reading! It was also the month where I started and stopped reading many books, mainly because they just weren’t working for me. (I still have them, though. I plan to pick them up to read again at some point. Maybe I will be interested in them then!)   I ended up reading a lot of books this month mainly because of my book reviewing gig. I challenged myself to read 3 books in a week for every week of December but, unfortunately, I was not always able to meet that challenge. Alas! Two books to read in a week is easier for me to manage than three, especially since I have a lot of things going on!   I wanted to read a Christmas book this month, but the only one I read was a children’s book. I still enjoyed it, though, because I love cats and the pictures were cute. I have some Christmas-themed cozy mysteries in my TBR, but I’m not really interested in reading cozy mysteries at this time.   With this being...

  It’s that time again! Time to list all of the books I have read this year. Just like last year, this year, I wrote down all the books I read this year in a spiral notebook. That ended up presenting a problem when I typed up the list this evening; in some cases, I couldn’t read my own handwriting! I had to look up book titles and author names to get them right.   At the beginning of the year, my reading goal was to read one book published by a certain publishing company each month, along with a new book. That reading goal was shot down after that publishing company closed its doors. So I just decided to wing it and just read whatever books this year. But as the year drew to a close, I noticed I was almost at 150 books read this year! So in December, my new reading goal for 2024 was to read 150 books. And I was able to meet that goal! Yay!   But, as it happens every year that I do this list, I discovered there were two books which I forgot to include on this lis...