Currently Reading: 15 to 28 November 2020

Currently Reading

- In Plain Sight by Dan Willis (33%)

- A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara (03%)

- The Girl with the Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson (01%)

- A Hero Born by Jin Yong (40%)

- Transformative Witchcraft by Jason Mankey (05%)

- The Ravens by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige (17%)

- Wicked Fox by Kat Cho (17%)

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Yearly Goal

94/100

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NaNoWriMo Count

53,145/50,000

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I know, I'm a few days behind. I didn't forget, I just got busy because it's that time of year at work. Everything's a toss up because flu and cold season. Hopefully I can keep up better in the following week. (Not likely with the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday). 

So! This week I read two? Three? books? I don't remember exactly. I went from 6 on my Currently Reading on my shelf on Goodreads to 3, back up to 7. So I don't know off hand. There were many. I may have also just ditched a few. I'm so excited though that I am within 10 books of finishing my goal of reading 100 books despite it being NaNoWriMo season. I may even get within 5 books of the end?! Who knows. 

I am thinking more about next year's reading goals. This is the list I have presently come up with: 

(1) Stick to my monthly TBR.

(2) Book Buying Restriction (1:3, I mean it this time!).

(3) Use my Kindle more.

(4) Put away $5 for every book finished.

(5) Do not force reviews, write them only if I have something to say

(6) Start reading blog anew (check?)

(7) Try to keep a good ratio of ebooks, physical books, and audiobooks.

(8) Finish Les Miserables by Victor Hugo in 2021.

So there we go. Naturally, this is not remotely set in stone. It can change at any moment. I think this is good though. I'm debating actually taking the money for the reading out of my account for each month. Not that I really want to be withdrawing money....perhaps I won't. Either way money will be attained!

I'm still struggling with the fact that I am almost through my goal. I know, we're circling back around again but seriously. I've never read this many books in a single year before. The most before this was like 84-86. I am amazed by how many there are! 

I am thinking more about how I want to structure next year's TBRs. Do I want to set a specific number only and just hit that number? Do I want to actually chose titles? I don't know what it is I want to do with myself. If I keep the general idea from what I decided before, my reading goal will be anywhere from 72 to 108 books. I think I will set 2021's goal to 108? 

Came home from work on the 24th to a package on my kitchen table from HMH and was fairly confused as to how HMH got my address. Then I remembered. If you preordered The Ravens by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige, they would send you an enamel pin. I'm not as dumb as I thought. I'm reading it now and it's pretty good so far. I can definitely see why people like it. 

Came home on the 27th to another package on my table. This was one was from Little Brown....another publisher. In it I found some custom tarot cards, a signed book plate, and a neat pin for Kerri Maniscalco's Kingdom of the Wicked. I had entirely forgotten that I had messaged Ms. Maniscalco and signed up to the pre-order thing. I need to start actually writing down things like that that would be important, so I'm not confused when publishers send me book merch...

I supposed that will be all fo this week. :) (Look at me go remembering to actually post on Saturday). See you all next week my ducks~

Currently Reading: 08 November to 14 November 2020

 Currently Reading

- Transformative Witchcraft by Jason Mankey (02%)

- The Ravens by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige (01%)

- Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler (51%)

- Wicked Fox by Kat Cho (01%)

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Yearly Goal

90/100

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NaNoWriMo Count

28,423/50,000

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I know. I am quite sorry about it. I fell off the train and got caught up doing everything else. Plus it's November, which means NaNoWriMo is in full swing. These last few weeks just got away from me. I hated it. I plan to actually make time every day, or at least every Saturday, to write something and keep you all (what few of you there are) abreast of my reading and writing for that week. Maybe I'll start working on my bookish tags again. Who knows what will happen? 

So, I gave up on the two big books for the year. I lost interest in them. I may read them again in the future, but I just didn't care any more. I have a new big book planned for 2021 that a friend is going to buddy read with me. I managed to get a book that splits evenly. Each quarter I have to hit 227 pages exactly. I don't know how I did it, but I did. 

If you're wondering, the book is Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I hated the old mass market edition that I had, so I splurged and bought myself the absolutely gorgeous Barnes & Noble classics edition. It is so pretty and so big. 908 pages. Holy crap, man. The font (typesetting? I don't know) is so tiny. It will be a priority each month. 

Speaking of monthly reads. I have had a brilliant idea. I got back into listening to audiobooks not that long ago and have decided that I want to have a set TBR of 6 books every month. 2 from each category of type: 2 print, 2 ebooks, and 2 audiobooks. Which means, only 1 of the books each month will be new. Since I have to read 227 pages of Les Mis every quarter. That equates to 75-76 pages of that per month just to stay on track. That's only if I include on the set TBR. Which I may not do. 

I am sure you have noticed my goal no longer says /50 on it. I passed 50 a long time ago and have upped it to 100. I may leave it like that from now on. 50 became too easy to hit with how much I read these days. This should be a lot of fun for next year. I've done away with some goals, though. I won't force myself to review everything. That's just dumb. Granted, I still do short reviews/thoughts for my wrap-up posts. 

NaNoWriMo is in full swing. I'm almost half done and the month isn't half over yet. We have a 'word war' with another region over the weekend. I may win early for a change. Though I am sort of cheating and keeping my notes, outline, and actual novel all in one document together. I haven't decided what special thing to allow myself for each 10,000 words. And I get two already since I passed 20,000 on the 11th. 

I suppose I will end this now, before it gets out of hand~ We will see you in the next blog post! Happy reading, my friends.