new year, new books!

anyone else think every month is a crazy one?

December ; 

witchshadow 

heart of the deal (arc) 

feather and flame (arc) 

snapshots

in every generation (arc) 

curse so dark and lonely trilogy 

taking sides 

once upon a broken heart

Narnia: magicians nephew

narnia: lion, witch and wardrobe 

 

leaving me with 150 for the year (literally. i finished LWW at 11:56pm on NYE) 

January ; 

keeper of the lost cities 

hard to love 

Keepers: Exile 

keepers: everblaze

defy the night 

Narnia: the horse and his boy 

keepers: neverseen 

arisotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe 

narnia: prince caspian 

Will (bio) 

the inheritance games

keepers: lodestar 

keepers: nightfall 

narnia: voyage of the dawn treader 

no goal this year, again (though i am hoping for 150)

but 14 books is setting a decent start 

i am trying to keep a more open ended/mood TBR but ... we'll see... 

finish the last 3 keepers books (#9 releases later this year!) 

start an Eragon series reread

crescent city 1 & 2 

echoes and empires

kingdom of the wicked

crown of gilded bones (though i dont remember what happened anymore...)

maybe a library book or two *shrugs* 

beginning of December, manfriend went back on paternity leave (as self employed, i dont get any time so he was able to take all of mine split up) so we've had some nice family time in the last 2 months.  christmas was chaos - but as it was baby's first, i expected that. and now we're settling into a new routine since i have a new work schedule... but that'll change end of february when he goes back to work (sigh. i like having him home all the time) 

otherwise life is pretty boring. i wana do allllll the things... and can't. so trying to figure out my priorities. and goals for this year, because i'm noticing some things have to change but with the way the world is right now, i'm unsure where to start. should make for an interesting few months *fingers crossed* 

stay safe everyone 

- A 

2017 was a whirl wind

Welp. 
this was a year for the books. 
ha, get it? 

my goal for the year was 200 and my actual was *drumroll* 201! 


so let's start with my december review; 


I read 17 books which included 

- when dimple met rishi 
- party games 
- language of stars 
- all the crooked saints 
- Orange is the new black (the last half) 
- the rest of us just live here 
- love garage by L. crowe
- King by t.m frazier 
- Landon by S.M Shade 
- if you were mine by M. Harlow
- after we fall by M. Harlow 
- alex, approximately 
- autoboyography 
- cruel beauty 
- Kade - j. anthony 
- tiger lily by J.L Anderson
- charmed by the bartender  by Piper Rayne 

which was a great month if i do say so myself. 
so yay for making my goal !!


Work was busy and we got hit with lots of snow so I was grumpy. 

Christmas was lousy like usual. I don't like IRL people and when my mother tries to get me to hang with her fam, it just doesn't go over well. It was nice just to hang for a few days and be lazy in front of the fireplace though. 





So! 2017 was an insane year for books: 

here's the full list in a photo 

i know its hard to see because it's in pencil 
i'm super behind in my reviews... but i will get to them! 
because I like to write down each book I read (except I just keep a tally of the ones I read for my sister site vs the titles since some of those ones are awful) and goodreads doesn't sync with my brain this seems to be the best system for me. 

I have another goal of 200 for 2018 though I'm going to try and beat it and do 210! Hubby said my goal should be 365 but I told him if he got a job where I didn't have to work, I'd make that goal. He had no come back, the dork. 

but my TBR is such a huge list this year and my bookshelves are insanely full. Why can I not read 67 books all at the same time? Seriously, where is the osmosis for this. 

I ordered 29 books from BookOutlet on boxing day. and then went to chapters and bought 4 more. 
and then again and got another 2. 
i have no control. 
i also got 11 books in the month of December before boxing day. I'm trying to smuggle a bookshelf out of the basement and into my library but I can't lift it up 2 flights of my stairs by myself and the doggy is no help with furniture moving. 


ALSO 

there are so many anticipated reads coming out this year! (though i'm still behind on 2017's list) 

- Immortal Reign by Morgan Rhodes (FINAL for falling kingdoms) 
- From Twinkle with Love 
- Emergency Contact 
- You'll miss me when i'm gone 
- Queen of Air and Darkness (though I still haven't got around to LM/LOS. ugh but HAVE YOU SEEN THAT COVER!? swooooon) 
- Legendary 
- Wires and Nerves Vol 2
- A girl like that 
- Starry eyes
- Finding yvonne 

and the paperback version of The Raven King comes out in a couple of weeks so i can FINALLY finish this series because the spoilers are getting hard to avoid. 

This semester will be busier than last and while yay for work, boo for no free time 
so I will have to be better with my time management.
this is why i give myself monthly TBRs. Aiming for 20 in January since I have 2 weeks off essentially ... that college-staff strike we had back in the fall is nobody's friend. 


I also need to get back to my writing because editing. 
and i have 2 other stories in my head 
that I have yet to get on to paper  

I could wait for NaNo again because the only way to get me to do things sometimes is to give me a due date ... 
but that's a whole year away and i'm impatient. 



Hope everyone's 2017 was fantastic and 2018 is even more so - no matter what your goals are, go make the most of them. 

Happy reading everyone :)