#200 book goal for 2024
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January 13, 6/200 - Wicked Villians: Desperate Measures (Series #1/?)
January 18, 7/200 - The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah (Series #6/7)
January 20, 8/200 - The Aurora Cycle: Aurora's End (Series #3/3) - reread
you bet I've started a new one before I've finished the previous ones... excluding ones I've started before this month, I'm in the middle of 5 audiobooks rn :)))))
#read with me#listen#audiobook#audiobooks count as reading#reading#aurora's end#aurora cycle#200 book goal for 2024#reread#the dark tower#song of susannah#wicked villians#spicy book#bowties are cool unlike tags
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Reading Goals Update
Hello readers! It’s time to do a bit of an update on my reading goals. You guys know I haven’t been reading much at all, so my reading goals have been on the back burner.
But, I know you guys really enjoy my updates, so I’m going to do one anyhow.
CLICK HERE to see my 2024 Reading Goals posts.
Goal 1: Goodreads Goal
So, I thought 2024 was going to be my best reading year. And, because of…
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January 2024 Reads
The Gentlemen's Gambit - Evie Dunmore
A Lady Guide's to Mischief and Mayhem - Manda Collins
The Ladies Rewrite the Rules - Suzanne Allain
One Night in Hartswood - Emma Denny
The Breakup Tour - Emily Wibberley
Places We've Never Been - Kasie West
Most Ardently - Gabe Cole Novoa
Okay, Cupid - Mason Deaver
Love, Me - Jessica Saunders
Dungeons and Drama - Kristy Boyce
Seven Percent of Ro Devereux - Ellen O'Clover
Eight Dates and Nights - Betsy Aldredge
Rules for Being a Girl - Candace Bushnell, Katie Cotungo
The Christmas Wish - Lindsey Kelk
After the Forest - Kell Woods
All the Hidden Paths - For Meadows
Shady Hollow - Juneau Black
Strong Poison - Dorothy L. Sayers
The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis
The Chalice of the Gods - Rick Riordan
The Marvelous Magic of Miss Mabel - Natasha Lowe
Elf Dog and Owl Head - M.T. Anderson
Winter - Kelsey E. Gross
The Bookstore Cat - Cylin Busby
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
Brain on Fire - Susannah Cahalan
A Book of Days - Patti Smith
Karma - Boy George
I Hate Everyone, Except You - Clinton Kelly
The Life Brief - Bonnie Wan
The Stress Prescription - Elissa Epel
Infectious Generosity - Chris J. Anderson
Break the Cycle - Mariel Buque
Eve - Cat Bohannon
House Love - Patric Richardson
Pests - Bethany Brookshire
Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek - Thea Glassman
But Have You Read the Book? - Kristen Lopez
The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie - Tanya Lee Stone
Normal is Just a Setting on the Dryer - Adair Lara
Men to Avoid in Art and Life - Nicole Tersigni
Friends to Keep in Art and Life - Nicole Tersigni
Parenting Advice to Ignore in Art and Life - Nicole Tersigni
Bold = Highly Recommend
Italics = Worth It
Crossed out = Nope
Thoughts:
Messy memoirs, healing from generational trauma, and recovery from burnout - these are a few of my favorite things.
Goodreads Goal: 43/200
2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads |
2022 Reads | 2023 Reads | 2024 Reads
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Memento Mori - A Roleplaying Game of Dreams and Corruption
Actual photo of the first edition of Memento Mori
Memento Mori is a folk-horror roleplaying game set in Europe in 1347.
The Black Death is exacting its toll on Europe, and it will quickly exterminate a third of the population. The characters are a group of Drifters, infected people who come in contact with dark creatures from folklore due to their condition. With every new horror they experience, the characters will become ever less human and increasingly similar to the creatures they are fighting.
Only the Dream burning within them can keep them alive. What will they sacrifice for it?
Actual photos from the Italian edition of Memento Mori
Memento Mori has an original game system created to highlight the process of corruption and transformation undergone by the characters.
The system uses two pools of six-sided dice distinguished by color. White dice represent the human skills of Drifters, while black dice represent the supernatural powers and monstrous features that they develop.
The Drifter Sheet
When rolling dice, the Players’ objective is to roll as many 5 and 6 as possible in order to overcome the difficulty set by the Narrator. The powers developed during the Drifters’ adventure come at a steep price, because the Players are forced to choose a part of their character to sacrifice whenever the corruption grants them a new ability.
Every element on the character sheet is subject to change in order to achieve their Dream and unlock new powers.
We will produce 3 books for Memento Mori, plus a book-shaped box containing official dice and tarots. You will only need the Memento Mori corebook to start playing.
MEMENTO MORI: [Corebook] 200+ pages in black and white, hard cover, A5 format. The corebook contains everything you need to play, the setting, and a short introductory adventure complete with four Drifters ready to play. All neatly binded, with a canvas-style hardcover with gold lettering, and a ribbon bookmark.
CODEX GIGAS: 200+ pages in black and white, hard cover, A5 format. This expansion is composed of Addendum (setting), Bestiarium (creatures), Herbarium (plants), and Lapidarium (minerals). Thanks to the supernatural myths, descriptions, treasures, and ingredients in this book, the Narrator can lead the group of Drifters beyond the boundaries of the known world.
EX VELUM: 150+ pages in black and white, hard cover, A5 format. In this compendium of esoteric knowledge from Beyond the Veil you will find everything that was previously kept secret from Drifters because too dangerous and too powerful. Rules to use Tarot cards, and menacing revelations, a Lost Bestiarium (secret creatures), Legends from the Ephemeral Land (prominent individuals), and a Grimorium (rituals and magical items).
ARCA FATI: Box shaped like an A5 hardcover book. This box holds the most precious materials from this edition of Memento Mori. The Tarot deck and the custom-made dice, as well as many other surprises that we may unlock as stretch goals during our campaign. NOTE: You will need the Ex Velum supplement to use Tarots in Memento Mori.
DEATHLESS EDITION: Slipcase with a detachable magnetic 3-panel Narrator Screen. This slipcase holds the 3 Memento Mori books, and the Arca Fati box. The front is a detachable 3-panel Narrator Screen that features summary tables for all the main game rules.
Backerkit campaign ends: Feb 8, 2024 at 10:59pm GMT.
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Book Review - The Shining by Stephen King
This is the first Stephen King novel I’ve read, and fittingly, I read it during the largest snowstorm I’ve seen in a few years—though not nearly as severe as the blizzards that entrap the Torrance family in the Overlook. It was an excellent introduction to his body of work. Since I write gothic horror, reading The Shining has helped me to learn more about the broader canon of the subgenre, especially since my experience thus far has primarily been the foundational stories of the nineteenth century, such as Carmilla and the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The Shining, written and set in 1977, enhanced my horror experience as I had a closer cultural connection to the fears explored in the story. Small details down to the sad song Seasons in the Sun on the radio made the threats feel close to home. I believe this is why it had such mass appeal, as a reinvigorated take on a classic subgenre. Divorce, generational trauma, economic depression, and the undercurrent of racial relations are easy for the contemporary reader to connect with, and this is still true almost fifty years later in 2024.
Regardless of the year of setting, The Shining contains the hallmark elements of gothic horror: an isolated location, missed opportunities for escape, loss of sanity, and haunting. The characters not only physically trapped in the Overlook, but emotionally trapped with each other, and it’s the latter that makes the story captivating. Jack fears becoming his father, Wendy fears becoming her mother, and both fear upsetting their son with a divorce, which keep them entangled in their failing marriage. Through the narrative, their resentment for each other is as palpable as the steam building up in the boiler, a ticking time bomb. This is what I consider to be the most masterful element of the novel and the reason it remains so popular: a sense of subtle, creeping dread and psychological tension.
The first 250 pages were difficult for me to remain interested in, if I’ll be honest, but I kept reading because of the little hints. I could not put the book down for the last 200 pages. My own gothic novel has a slower pace, and something I had been recently struggling with was feeling like I needed more glamour and action to convey dread, but The Shining is titillatingly creepy with a thousand little threads that weave together in a web to ensnare the reader’s curiosity. The introduction of the story teases a climax that is paid off in full at the end. In addition to the main suspense around “redrum,” the recurring symbol of the wasps stood out to me. The first major supernatural occurrence at the Overlook was the resurrection of the hive, Jack connects the wasp nest with his abusive father and the cycle of trauma, and the entity dying at the end is compared to a swarm. The novel is neatly bookended, starting with Wendy and Danny together in a normal day, and ending with Wendy and Danny together in a new type of normal. I do personally prefer horror stories with hope at the end.
After gaining experience with formulaic mysteries and thrillers—which I do enjoy, don’t get me wrong—I love a suspenseful novel that is not predictable. Despite knowing nothing was going to allow the family to leave the Overlook, there were times I had hope Jack would snap out of it, and I really thought it wouldn’t be possible—but then he did at the very end to complete his goal of saving his family. I could not predict if Dick was going to make it to Colorado and survive to the end of the novel, and that perilous journey up the Rockies in a blizzard may be one of the most harrowing things I’ve ever read—and he fought not only the winter, but racial profiling. Another touch of realism to bring the fear home. I was convinced Wendy and Jack were going to kill each other, but Jack was the only one not to escape the Overlook. The novel kept me guessing and I felt real fear and disgust, especially when the dead woman in the tub was first revealed and when Jack was hunting Wendy in the scene made famous by the movie. A successful horror story indeed. My hope for my own writing is to make a reader feel such raw emotion and concern for a character.
As for criticism, I’m unsure how I felt about the third person omniscient point of view. I believe we needed all the viewpoints offered to get a full picture of the story told, but at times, the perspective seemed to shift midsentence and the style wasn’t the most readable. From a gender lens, something I could’ve gone without was how the novel paused to mention what every woman’s chest felt or looked like. It’s not unexpected for a male author in the seventies but it did take me out of the narrative. If I had a shot every time the word “nipple” appeared, I probably would have about five shots, which is, in my humble opinion, too many for a story without a romantic focus.
If The Shining was written by an unknown author in 2024, I feel like it wouldn’t have been allowed to have such a slow start or have a length of 500 pages. The market has changed since 1977 for an audience with a much shorter attention span. The first page is Jack’s dislike for his new boss. It doesn’t have the hook demanded by modern readers. Yet the first chapter foreshadows the rest of the novel, and right away, we know Jack will try to kill his family like the former caretaker. The narrative may meander at times like a mountain road, but it delivers. King keeps his promises to the audience in The Shining, which is what makes the book and him as an author so successful.
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i don't usually do resolutions; i feel like it puts an unnecessary pressure on yourself that leads to feelings of guilt if/when you fail, BUT... i feel like i have been really unhappy for the past year and just vaguely disappointed with myself for...a while. SO. this is the year of feeding my soul!!!
RESOLUTIONS 2024!!
travel more (need to work out specifics, this is too vague...go somewhere new once a month? stay in state? go out of state once a season? idk!)
read at least one book a month (i didn't reach my reading goal this year!!)
watch a movie in a theater once a week (might tweak this every two weeks? idk what the movie scene will be like in 2024)
watch at least one movie a month that is NOT in english!!
save 200 every pay check (spending too much...need to review that in general)
spend time outside/go on a walk once a week
make something twice a month (little crafty kit thing, a bracelet, repurposed shirts or something, idk! just something)
don't stay at work past 5:30 more than once a week (and preferably don't even stay until 5:30!)
don't wait for other people to do stuff with you. they won't.
might add more who can say!! but i think that's about all i can handle rn lmao. i'm also getting one of those big ass calendars so i can visualize the whole year better. and on that note, also might do a vision board idk
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2023 Challenge Wrap Up
it's the last day of the year which means it's time for me to look back on my 2023 reading challenges and decide which goals I'm gonna pursue in 2024
In 2023, I set out to:
Buy fewer books than I did in 2022.
Achieved! I bought about half the number of books this year as I did in 2022. I'm so glad I'm finally getting a handle on my book buying, even if it does mean getting to visit my bookshops less frequently
Each month, attempt 1 series.
Achieved - but not as much as I wanted to. I started the year with 56 series on my TBR and I'm ending it with 37. But I'm going to work on cutting it down more next year
Each month, attempt 2 books by authors I’ve read before.
Achieved! but again, not as much as I'd like. I don't think this goal will be a focus next year but it will be something I'm keeping in mind
End the year with roughly 250 books on my TBR (+/-10% will be considered successful).
Achieved! I finally did it! I finally succeeded in cutting down my TBR! I started the year with 291 books on it and am ending it with only 214! When I updated my 2023 goals in June, I adjusted this goal because I didn't think I could get my TBR down to +/-10% of 200 but look at me now! I'm very happy about this 🥰
Read 75 books over the course of the year.
Achieved! I read 130 books this year 😊 love when it's a nice round number lol
Which brings us to my 2024 goals. I've gone with 3 very simple (for me) goals because life is getting busier and I don't want to be stressing myself out with too many book goals each month. So in 2024, I will be trying to:
Read 100 books (almost half my starting TBR).
Read each of the books on my Backlog Books list.
Read 1 series each month.
looks pretty good to me 😊 here's to a restful, relaxing, read-alicious 2024!
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do you have any overarching goals for your writing going into the next year ? yes i know i am a month early for new years resolutions but they are ON my mind !
Ok so my goal is to publish Runaways for October 31st 2025 because the story is set over Halloween/All Saints/All Souls and I desperately want to release it at the right time for all the "dark fantasy spooky season vibes" marketing, so the timeline looks somewhat like this over the course of the next 2 years.
Finish current draft by Tuesday of this week before my family comes for Thanksgiving and let it sit through the end of the month.
With the rest of NaNoWriMo, start writing companion stories for the anthology.
December: Do a second pass edit for this draft to make sure all the new scenes flow well together and the pacing isn't bad. Start asking for beta readers around the holidays
January 2nd, holidays done, send out beta drafts
February 1st, check in on betas, hopefully some of them are done??????
March 1st: check in on betas hopefully some of them are done?????
Through February and March finish the anthology project and edit the other prewritten stories
March 31st: break into betas houses and get my draft comments like the Duolingo Owl. Start editing.
April-June: Edit Draft 4 of the book? I have NO IDEA how much I'm going to have to fix. Depending on feedback this could be a complete rewrite that takes the rest of the summer or it could be as simple as a line edit. Hoping praying begging that it's on the less intense side. Recruit betas for the anthology.
End of summer idk: Shop for an editor, send book to editor. Pray. Edit the anthology myself
Fall 2024: Make the edits my editor gives me. Send the editor the anthology.
Winter 2024: do all the final editing and proofreading steps ASSUMING I don't need multiple more rounds of betas or major changes or an extra proofreading
Starting January 2025 I have a polished manuscript and start hiring artists for cover design and illustration and get it formatted.
(start writing the next thing)
Springtime 2025 the books are formatted and I research publishing process and upload them to sites to get the process rolling
Summer 2025: publication date announced, maybe run a Kickstarter or a preorder? Get proof copies, do all the final checks, source merch and goodies, start calling bookstores idk
Fall 2025: Ramp up all my marketing campaigns on Instagram and everything
Release date on October 31st
Do not stop do not pass go do not collect $200
Profit sell three books
Sleep for a million billion years.
(rinse and repeat)
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Completed books 1-2, 5-8... so I've read 6 of 200 for this year (1 book, 5 audiobooks)
3/200 - Chapterhouse Dune (Dune #6/6) Started Jan6, 1/4 done
4/200 - A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic #3/3) Started Jan9, 1/2 done
9/200 - The Dark Tower (#7 of 7) Started Feb3, 3/4 done
10/200 - Barrow of Winter - Started Feb6, 1/2 done
11/200 - The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower: #4.5 of 7) - Started Feb8, done
"In the proper hand, any object can be magic" -The Wind Through the Keyhole
#the wind through the keyhole#stephen king#barrow of winter#hm long#bowties are cool unlike tags#200 book goal for 2024#the dark tower#shades of magic#dune#chapterhouse: dune#audiobooks count as reading#audiobook#reading#books and reading#books#books books books
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March 2024 Reads
The Mystery Guest - Nita Prose
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde - Tia Williams
This is How You Fall in Love - Anika Hussain
The Getaway List - Emma Lord
Cancelled - Farrah Penn
Friends Don't Fall in Love - Erin Hahn
The Someday Daughter - Ellen O'Clover
We Got the Beat - Jenna Miller
This Day Changes Everything - Edward Underhill
A Tale of Two Princes - Eric Geron
Once a Queen - Sarah Arthur
The Magicians of Caprona - Dianna Wynne Jones
The Wicker King - K. Antrum
The Eyes and the Impossible - Dave Eggers
A First Time for Everything - Dan Santat
60 Songs That Explain the 90s - Rob Harvilla
Welcome to the O.C. - Alan Sepinwall
Mother Hunger - Kelly McDaniel
All in Her Head - Elizabeth Come
How to Be the Love You Seek - Nicole LaPera
Your Pocket Therapist - Annie Zimmerman
And How Does That Make You Feel? - Joshua Fletcher
How to ADHD - Jessica McCabe
This Book May Save Your Life - Karan Rajan
Women Food and Hormones - Sara Gottfried
Practical Optimism - Sue Varma
Languishing - Corey Keyes
Private Equity - Carrie Sun
The World Deserves My Children - Natasha Leggero
Big Bites - Kat Ashmore
Bold = Highly Recommend
Italics = Worth It
Crossed out = Nope
Thoughts:
The Eyes and the Impossible was, by far, the standout of the month. Told from the point of view of Johannes, a free dog living in an urban park (a thinly veiled Golden Gate Park in San Fransisco), who keeps the other animals in the park updated on the ongoings in the park. Featuring birds, and woodland creatures, and bison, and goats, and humans who change everything.
Dave Eggers wrote one of my all-time favorite books, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and I have avoided reading any of his subsequent works for fear that they would be disappointing. I took a chance on this one since it's middle grade and quite a departure from his other works, and I'm so glad I did.
Goodreads Goal: 108/200
2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads |
2022 Reads | 2023 Reads | 2024 Reads
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2024 Reading List
Goal: 52 books
Goal progress: 17/52
My Body- Emily Ratajkowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Somebody’s Daughter- Ashley C. Ford⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Invisible sex- J.M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer, Jake Page⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Catboy- Benji Nate ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Project Hail Mary- Andy Weir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Exorcist- William Peter Blatty ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Martian- Andy Weir ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Carrie- Stephen King ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Food Medic: The Female Factor- Hazel Wallace⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution- Cat Bohannon⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hangsaman- Shirley Jackson ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Annihilation- Jeff Vandermeer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My Best Friend’s Exorcism- Grady Hendrix ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My Heart is a Chainsaw- Stephen Graham Jones ⭐️⭐️⭐️
We Have Always Lived in the Castle- Shirley Jackson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
And Then I Woke Up- Malcolm Devlin ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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UC San Diego Library Receives Grant to Digitize Archive for New Poetry Collection
Mellon Foundation awards Library $250,000 to preserve audiovisual items in heavily-used research collection
Audiovisual items within the UC San Diego Library’s Archive for New Poetry (ANP) collection will be digitized and preserved thanks to a $250,000 grant awarded to the organization by the Mellon Foundation.
Through this project, the team plans to digitize approximately 2,500 sound recordings and 200 films and videos in the ANP. Digitized materials will be added to the Library's Digital Asset Management System for discovery and long-term preservation via its Digital Collections website and online catalog, UC Library Search.
“We are incredibly grateful the Mellon Foundation encouraged us to apply for this grant and ultimately awarded us the funds to get this project underway,” said Erik Mitchell, Audrey Geisel University Librarian at UC San Diego. “This will enhance our ability to provide researchers with the information they need to gain a greater understanding of the world of modern poetry.”
In addition to the digitization effort, the Library plans to launch "Future Files," a curriculum-based initiative that will provide contemporary poets and creators with instructions on how to build and sustain their born-digital material and physical manuscript collections to ensure their work can be accessible to future generations of literature enthusiasts and scholars.
This culturally- and academically-significant collection, housed within the Library’s Special Collections & Archives (SC&A), was established in 1968 and is currently one of the largest and most active poetry collections in the United States. It is a comprehensive research collection of post-1945 American poetry with an emphasis on experimental and avant-garde poetics.
The collection includes more than 35,000 volumes, 1,800 serial titles, 700 broadsides, little magazines, ephemeral printings, artists' books along with extensive holdings of literary manuscripts, correspondence and original sound and video recordings.
The goals for this project are twofold: (1) to preserve and enhance accessibility for audiovisual content in the ANP; and (2) to teach and provide tools for working poets and creators today to practice mindful preservation of their records. Coincidentally, the grant period coincides with the 50th anniversary of the New Writing Series, a reading series run by the UC San Diego Department of Literature and supported, digitized and archived by the Library.
“The Archive for New Poetry is one of our earliest collections of emphasis and highly used,” said Lynda Claassen, longtime director of Special Collections & Archives at UC San Diego. “We take great pride in our ability to provide our community with a comprehensive collection of poetry-related materials and are pleased we’re able to make these items even more accessible through this grant-funded project.”
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, SC&A staff fielded approximately 2,000 ANP reference requests annually. During the pandemic, when the Library did not permit on-site use, SC&A filled research requests for ANP materials by providing more than 21,000 digital scans from the collection.
“This collection documents not only the published output of poets and writers, but also the records of their creative processes, collaborations, lived experiences and relationships with other poets and artists,” said Archive for New Poetry Curator Nina Mamikunian. “I am excited to get this project underway, with the assistance of my colleagues in Special Collections & Archives, and be able to readily share the digitized materials with both our campus community and the public.”
The newly digitized ANP materials will be accessible online in late 2024. The “Future Files” curriculum will be rolled out in tandem. For additional information on the ANP, visit http://lib.ucsd.edu/anp.
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What Did I Write This Year?
As a sort of companion to the "What Did I Read This Year?" post, I also wanted to celebrate what I wrote this year. It's not as much as previous years, and it's in a VERY different genre, but there's some stuff in there I am very proud of. So without further ado, here's what I wrote this year!
Sooooo...I think strictly speaking this first fic was the end of 2022, but I am counting it for this year because this is my tumblr and I want to. Check out my take on everyone finding out that Penelope is Lady Whistledown and watch Colin come to terms with his best friend and love being...a little more than he had imagined her to be. Find "I Could Have Told You 'Bout the Long Nights" here.
Sometimes I decide I want a challenge, and literally the genesis for this story was "Hey, can I write a mystery novel?" So I decided to give it a shot in my Polin Fic 'Verse, and had a ton of fun playing in this genre and generally torturing my characters. I also kind of love married and established relationship Pen and Colin, and this also carries on the challenges Pen faces after being outed as Lady Whistledown. Find Of Fire and Featheringtons here.
I was left with more questions than answers in the ongoing Queen Charlotte vs Lady Whistledown grudge match of the century at the end of the previous fic, so naturally we had to write a third fic to wrap it up, and this is really the end of the grudge match. I was pretty happy with how it all got wrapped up, and I hope you enjoy the final part of this little trilogy. Find Lady Whistledown Returns here.
The final piece of writing I "finished" (and yeah, we're cheating a little bit on the word finished here, but again, my tumblr, my rules) this year was a little fic in a totally different universe. Imagine, if you will, an Eliot Spencer second-chance romance with some Casablanca quotes. Find "Leverage Drabble" here.
So that's what I wrote this year, and there are definitely plans for next year. I have a Polin Shifter Romance in the works because I wanted to see if I could write a shifter romance (literally guys, the Dragon Prince of Alaska books are still living rent-free in my head, and I need to get this out of my system. Wish me luck). The goal is to get that finished and posting before Bridgerton season 3 drops in May, but I make no promises about that deadline getting hit.
There's also 200-odd words of a Polin/Hamlet crossover, but I'm not sure I'm feeling that one and there is no goal deadline.
Finally, there's a larger Leverage fic that I'm fighting the limits of my talent on to get it finished, but I have no goal deadline for that one either, since I've been very, VERY stuck at 16,000 words for like three months.
I am so, so proud of the Polin fics, and I look forward to writing more and adding new projects in 2024.
#polin fic#polin fanfic#polin fanfiction#bridgerton#romancing mr. bridgerton#romancing mister bridgerton#leverage#eliot spencer#leverage fic#leverage fanfic#my writing#creative writing#writblr#writer#writers on tumblr#my wrtitng#my wips#wip
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I failed to start my 1 book per week goal on January. I got delayed by almost 5 months and yet, instead of 52, I've finished a total of 130 books this year. Could've been more if I didn't reread a handful of them but they were all worth it.😚🤌
Honestly, I was doing fine on my own but then I got sucked in the Booktok universe which derailed me from my planned TBR list in the most entertaining way so it all worked out fine. I didn't only exceed my goal but now, without any conscious effort, my Tiktok FYP feed consists of Booktok recommendations, ice hockey, American football, F1, Taylor Swift and New Heights podcast.😂
Due to this, I've decided to up the ante... for 2024, can I finish 200??😏
#2023 goals#books#booktok#ice hockey#nhl#nfl#american football#football#f1#taylor swift#new heights podcast#travis kelce#jason kelce#tiktok
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Reassessing my 2023 Goals
so, at the start of this year I decided to pursue my most ambitious set of reading goals yet. I set it up so that I would have to attempt at least 6 books a month, which didn’t seem like much for me. I regularly read 10, 12, 15 books a month. but in 2023, reading has been a bit of a struggle
so I am going to reassess my reading goals and adjust them to be a bit more achievable so that I can let reading be fun rather than having it feel like a chore
The Original Goals:
Buy fewer books than I did in 2022.
This goal is actually going okay. I’m not buying many books because there just haven’t been many coming out that interest me. and with Book Depository going under, I’m having to pick and choose what I buy a bit more carefully because books have gotten so expensive. So I’m happy to leave this goal as it is.
Each month, attempt 2 series.
as much as I don’t want to lower this goal, I’m gonna have to. because when I like a series and want to continue it, it just makes all the other reading stressful. so I’m going to attempt just 1 each month.
Each month, attempt 2 books by authors I’ve read before.
I’m going to leave this goal as is, too, because I have about 70 books in this category on my spreadsheet and I just really want that number to get smaller. and I like revisiting authors I’ve liked in the past, it’s always interesting to see how they change and develop
Each month, attempt 2 backlog books (books published 2021 or earlier).
I’m going to drop this goal all together, because I kinda fumbled how I was handling it. on my spreadsheet, the books that counted were ones I bought before 2021 but on my wrap ups, I was counting any book that was published before then. I’ve only got a dozen books in this category left and most of them would fit into goal 2 or 3 so I’m just going to try to focus on getting them read that way.
End the year with roughly 200 books on my TBR (+/-10% will be considered successful).
Another goal I’m not doing very well with. and I’m not sure why because I’m not buying that many books, I’m DNF-ing plenty, and I’m reading steadily if not as much as I usually do. So I’m going to up the number to 250 and we’ll just see how it goes. I’ll try not to worry too much about this one this year but in 2024, my TBR’s size is definitely something I want to get under control.
The Updated Goals
Buy fewer books than I did in 2022.
Each month, attempt 1 series.
Each month, attempt 2 books by authors I’ve read before.
End the year with roughly 250 books on my TBR (+/-10% will be considered successful).
so, we’ll see how this goes. I’ve managed to pull ahead from behind on goals before - that’s how this blog got started after all - so hopefully I can get a handle on this and end the year with a bang 😊
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said on Wednesday that “education is under assault,” criticizing the banning of books across the country, efforts to suppress speech and “the othering of our students, teachers, parents.”
“I do believe education is under assault in ways that I’ve never experienced in my lifetime. I really believe that. I thought it was bad back in the day when folks were debating the merits or demerits around vouchers,” Newsom said while giving remarks at the National Forum on Education Policy after receiving the Frank Newman Award for State Innovation from the Education Commission of the States.
“You know, back in the good old days, in the ’90s, the black and white movie days, and people have different opinions about something called ‘charter schools,’” he mused. “But what’s happening now? Banning books, suppressing speech, the othering of our students, teachers, parents? It’s alarming.”
He slammed Florida, for example, after its Department of Education in April rejected dozens of math books, citing alleged references to or the inclusion of critical race theory (CRT) and social emotional learning (SEL) in them.
CRT, which is generally taught in institutions of higher education, is a decades-old theory that asserts that racism is woven into U.S. laws, institutions and history.
SEL programming aims to help students manage their emotions, develop and manage health identities and relationships and make responsible decisions, among other goals.
Newsom also slammed Texas for cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in mental health funding after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) earlier this year redirected more than $200 million from the state’s Health and Human Services Commission, which oversees Texas’s mental health services, toward his border security initiative.
“But what about the whole person? What about the wellness of our kids? Everybody’s talking a good game now about mental health,” Newsom said.
“There’s one large state, Texas, where they cut mental health funding by $211 million. You know why I’m up here? Because we just expanded mental health by $4.7 billion in our public education system in the state of California.”
Newsom has been considered a possible 2024 Democratic presidential contender, though the California governor said in an interview last year that a presidential bid has “literally 100 percent never been on my radar.”
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