I usually wait until mid to late January before posting my reading plans or goals. Mainly because I'm very optimistic about my superhuman capabilities during the start of a new year but much of that enthusiasm fades over the next couple of weeks. I tend to believe I can read more than ever but reality is usually closer to how much I averaged in previous years. So, to allow myself the opportunity to dream big and then plan well, I take the ambitious goals for a road test during the first couple of weeks of the year. If they still look achievable, great! If not, I will part ways with those that are a stretch. The numbers I have an arbitrary number set in Goodreads for this year but it's not a number I will quote as I tend to change it often and it is intended to factor in the many picture books I read with my kids. But that said, there are three numbers I would like to improve this year (last year's stats in parentheses) - total number of pages read (approx. 11k), average n
Wherever did this month disappear off to?
I feel this Sunday came too soon. It's been a really crazy hectic week, and I'm surprised that I still managed to blog every day of this week. I'm really behind on my reviews, so I did want to put out as many reviews as possible. It doesn't help that I've been reading a lot of graphic novels. They finish too soon and are still so well-done as any other full-length novel that when you start reviewing them, you give them a full-length post.
I feel this Sunday came too soon. It's been a really crazy hectic week, and I'm surprised that I still managed to blog every day of this week. I'm really behind on my reviews, so I did want to put out as many reviews as possible. It doesn't help that I've been reading a lot of graphic novels. They finish too soon and are still so well-done as any other full-length novel that when you start reviewing them, you give them a full-length post.
Still, it's been a good week, even with the busy days. I've been reading more - in boring lines, at work when I need a brief perk-up, and even while watching some movie or TV show. I never used to read like that earlier, because I always did get a dedicated block of time to read, but now that's not so easily available. There's always something or the other to do at home.
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Oh yeah, something or the other for sure. Let's say, taxes? ::groan:: I still haven't done that. I'm pretty notorious for starting them when the deadline looms too close. But I'm hoping to break free of that tradition and get it done today. What a boring chore! I know I could just ask any of those free tax-preparers to do them for me, but the last person who did that for me cheated me and a friend out of some 200 bucks due to her laziness to peruse our W2 forms. So, I had to learn a nasty lesson the nasty way. I did get all that money back eventually, but that's not the point, is it? The point is, I had to do all that sordid stuff all on my own in the end, which was precisely what I was hoping to avoid. I have to do my brother's too, and he doesn't have a worry in the world about it because he knows I'll do that nasty stuff for him too! Ugh! So much for being a sister.
On the plus side, I love times when the whole family reads. I've always relished that I grew up reading most of the time, and that even my mother and brother would do the same. My brother lost that habit at some point, when he went to TV and games, but I cured him within a week of his landing here. Yay, *pat on my back*.
On the plus side, I love times when the whole family reads. I've always relished that I grew up reading most of the time, and that even my mother and brother would do the same. My brother lost that habit at some point, when he went to TV and games, but I cured him within a week of his landing here. Yay, *pat on my back*.
So while I yawn my way through taxes, what's everyone else doing?
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Thank goodness Mr. Whimsy does them for us.
Good luck. Happy week.
Have a great week Aths.