Currently Reading: 09 January to 22 January 2022

 Currently Reading

- Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski (34%)

- The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (24%) 

- Legacy of Ash by Matthew Ward (56%)

- Critical Failures by Robert Bevan (47%)

- The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K.S. Villoso (26%) 

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Yearly Book Goal

1/100

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Yearly Page Goal

930/25,000

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I am definitely falling behind on goals, but it's been a busy first few weeks of January apparently. Eh, I'll catch up eventually. I plan to spend as much time as I can now reading. I have to stick to it to at least get some of my books finished? Yeah, that sounds like an excellent idea. 

I finally got the next two books in the Witcher series, so that's exciting. I've already abandoned one of my TBR books in favor of The Time of Contempt (Witcher book #2) because I'm dying to know what happens and because, as my friend puts it, that's the obsession of the month.

I've gotten some inspiration for a series of silly oneshots within the Witcher universe that involve a bunch of horses. This is an entertaining project I can work on when I have nothing else really to do with myself and cannot muster the energy necessary to read. Just sit and let my imagination wander.

I have acquired a dozen books so far this year. Seems like right now my resolution to make fewer acquisitions is going...well. I am proud of what I got. Most of them are books that I wanted to read that I hadn't had and that I hadn't had the opportunity to get to the library to get. Though, I'm thinking I may request a trip out to the library next week just to look. 

Nothing else really all that interesting has happened in my reading world these last two weeks. I will close for now. See you all next week~

Currently Reading: 02 January to 08 January 2022

Currently Reading

- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (20%)

- The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (24%) 

- Legacy of Ash by Matthew Ward (43%)

- Critical Failures by Robert Bevan (39%)

- The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K.S. Villoso (26%) 

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Yearly Book Goal

1/100

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Yearly Page Goal

689/25,000

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So far so good. I'm a book behind for the year and the first book I read wasn't even on my planned TBR. Absolutely brilliant. I'm thinking about buying books when I haven't even managed to read the ones I own yet (as per usual) and I'm looking at bookish merch. I've literally only been paid ONCE so far this year. I do not need to be buying things. 2022 is off to a great start. 

I'm still thinking about what I plan to do for saving money. I think I've settled on leaving it in my savings and letting it grow. It's money I have earned twice. First by working, then by reading. If I could name the accounts, I'd even call it "Twice Earned" just to be that way. 

What has happened so far in my literary world in the first week of January. I joined two reading challenges on StoryGraph. One is just to submit page/percentage updates every single day. I'm 7/7 right now. Haven't updated today yet, but as long as I do 1 page/1% before midnight, it will count. Then I joined another A-Z Challenge. Hopefully I do better this year than I did last year. 

Obviously, my goal is 100 books and 25,000 pages. The funny thing is, they don't have to correlate to each other at all. Like, I can finish books or read huge books and it would count toward both. I'm doing well. Behind on book but ahead on page. Hopefully in the upcoming week, with my slightly smaller reads, I can catch up to where I am supposed to be. I have a few YAs and shorter adult novels that might spur me up to where I need to be. Then there are the two huge tomes. Which I may work on those today...yes. Sounds like a good plan. I will work on them today. 

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this in the previous post, but I'm going to split the boys up in February and March's TBRs. For the Orilium readathon, you need to complete three prompts for your character's backstory. I have two characters, thus 6 books. I'm going to do Aurin's books in February, and Irwyn's books in March. That way they can (hopefully) be completed before the April deadline. 

For Aurin we have: 

1) The Wood by Chelsea Bobulski
2) A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
3) The Hummingbird Dagger by Cindy Antsy

For Irwyn: 

1) If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

2) The Magicians by Lev Grossman

3) The Bird and the Blade by Megan Bannen

I am going to end for now, I will see you all again next week~ 

Currently Reading: 26 December 2021 to 01 January 2022

 Currently Reading

- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (0%)

- Legacy of Ash by Matthew Ward (31%)

- The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (24%)

- Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee (0%)

- Critical Failures by Robert Bevan (2%)

- The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K.S. Villoso (26%)

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Yearly Reading Goal (2021)

92/100

Yearly Reading Goal (2022)

0/100

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This is the only time where you will even see it written up like that. At the changing of the year. I've decided that I'm going to just stick to 100 books a month. I'll give myself a short TBR, then allow for mood reading the rest of the month. I tend to do both anyway. It's easier for me that way. 

Been thinking about how I want to do my various posts. If I can stick to them instead of forgetting, like I usually do, I want to put different posts for hauls, wrap-ups, and TBRs. I already have January's started and ready to go. It will be interesting to see if I can actually do things the way I want. I can totally do it if I put my mind to it, though. I think...yeah. 

I figured I wasn't going to reach 100 books this year, but I am proud of the 92 I did manage. Here is hoping I can get to 100 next year. I'm already off to a great start as far as the chosen books go:

Not all of them are in the January 2022 TBR list, but that's fine. Kingdom of the Cursed and Blood of Elves are just bonus books for the month. Ones I'd like to get to, but it isn't necessarily important to read them all.