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Updates And Restarting For A New Month

February and March felt like they’ve gone on forever! We are okay, and are staying at home, only leaving for essentials, and I’ve gotten a lot done already: new garden beds set up and planted, cleaned out closets, my husband took care of the storage shed, I got our kitchen about 75% organized, and I have a list of things to do while at home.

I restarted my What I Read Today posts, but they are now on my Tumblr @ tlinwright.tumblr.com. My newest post is already up!

Plans for here: I have a lot of fantasy, science fiction, romance, and classics that I already own and I’m going to read those and write up each book as I complete it in addition to my Classics Club Challenge, Well-Educated Mind List, and especially focusing on the list I already made: my 2020 Plans which included selections from my Classics Club and Well-Educated Mind lists. I’m going to start the read my shelves series with the Belgariad by David Eddings.

My Stay At Home Plans

  • Restart my Harvard Classics Readings (Already did with the April 1 reading, and I will loop around to catch up the ones I missed in February and March)
  • Restart my Bradbury Challenge (Links posted on my Tumblr post, all those updates will be over there)
  • Catch up on my saved to watch later Youtube videos and subscriptions
  • Catch up on my RSS feeds and read blogs. (I hope there’s a resurgence in using RSS to keep up to date on blogs, I have a huge list of things that don’t always update daily)
  • Restart my reading lists already posted
  • Read the writing, blogging & business books I’ve bought and take notes for use.
  • Restart Duolingo. I think the owl is Disappointed in me.
  • Start Reading My Shelves. I have 3k e-books on my e-reader (an Asus tablet) and a lot of physical books. I’m also planning on doing reviews/writeups on each book as I finish it, posted here. The first series will be The Belgariad by David Eddings.
  • I also have plans for dusting off my crochet, sewing, and baking skills, and learning how to can and knit.

What I’ve Read – January 02, 2020

What I've Read Today:Bradbury trio + Harvard Classics
What I read today for my various challenges and projects

Essay: “Western Civilization” means Classics…and White Supremacy

Poem: “I Am Offering this Poem” by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Short Story: “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf

Harvard Classics in 15 Minutes: School-Day Poems by John Milton. Read: MILTON’S POEMS Vol. 4, pp. 7-18

Simple Abundance: “Loving The Questions”

Today was a bit harder due to real life, but day 2 has been taken care of! Including my Latin.

Reading Slumps and Getting Behind on The #TBR | TL Wright | A Bookish Life

Reading Slumps and Getting Behind on the #TBR

Reading Slumps and Getting Behind on The #TBR | TL Wright | A Bookish Life

Reading Slumps, or my Travails Therein

I’ve had a lovely reading slump, as in I have barely opened any books, despite what my Goodreads account says.

Lots of life has happened. My daughter graduated from high school. My insomnia got weird (chronic & under treatment) which meant I didn’t have the energy to read & analyze books, which was my intention with doing reviews. Then I remembered I hated doing book reviews in school and that’s transferred to now. I legit sat down and tried to re-read Widows of Malabar Hill to write a review and I did everything but read the book (which I already read and enjoyed). Executive dysfunction is awesome! Especially if you have a blog you are trying to get going. So, that has also been a Thing.

Getting Behind on the #TBR

Which leads me to the whole getting behind on the list. I have a goal set in Goodreads to read 75 books this year, which I thought was doable since last year I did ~100 books and per Goodreads, I am “behind” by 34 books.

It’s not a race to read books, and I’ll catch up. I read fairly fast (~100 pages an hour) and I have a bunch of great books queued up on my e-reader and my Kindle app.

Other Updates

I recently posted a new book list: 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life Changing List. I wanted a pretty, easy to use list of the books listed, so I transcribed the titles and authors of the books mentioned from my own copy of the book. I’m making a binder and an Evernote notebook of various lists I’ve collected just so I can remember my book list when I hit up bookstores.

I have some posts planned for August and September: making a reading plan (which I really should do); some genre primers on my fave book genres; and discussing books that talk about books and reading, one of my book collecting focus areas.

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