I’m very pleased with how this year is progressing. I’m voracious with audiobooks because of my training time and I’ve had decent progress with print books as well. It may be early to say this, but it looks like 2019 will be a great reading year! You can look at my progress at any time on my challenge page.
Books finished in February:
Will Grayson, Will Grayson // John Green and David Levithan (4/5)
Kiss Carlo // Adriana Trigiani (3/5)
Hunger // Roxane Gay (4/5)
The Valley of Amazement // Amy Tan (3/5)
Minutes Before Sunset // Shannon A. Thompson (3/5)
You Are An Ironman // Jacques Steinberg (4/5)
A very good month! And a lot of them are late finishes. I owe you a few reviews in the next few weeks be rest easy, they are coming!
4/12
Still going well! That’s another two this month with Kiss Carlo and The Valley of Amazement knocking down the list. I’m not sure when I’ll get to another one to take it down further, but it’s a bit early to start planning so I’ll rest easy for now and just keep reading what I want before I pick and choose.
9/52
I’m just ahead! Just a little. I’ll enjoy it while it lasts. I guess the month wasn’t quite as successful as I thought. Whatever, I still had fun with the books I chose!
Book of the Month
Partially because it was a fun book and partially because it was a quick Spanish read, I have to pick Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan as my book of the month. I’m thinking of reading most of my YA in Spanish now after such a good experience with this.
Added to my TBR
Still knocking down Mt. TBR! I only added one this month!
- Stories of Elders by Veronica Kirin. I went to an event where Kirin spoke (she’s a friend’s sister) and, of course, bought the book. You can read more about it here.
Personal Challenge
I’m gearing up again to track personal goals here. I love connecting with some of you over non-book related things. I posted about my goals last week but in case you missed it, here’s a summary and status.
- Finish 70.3 Half Ironman: Four weeks into it! So far, so good. I hope I can keep it up. I’m tired a lot and having to squeeze everything in around longer and longer amounts of time on the bike and treadmill. I hope this gets easier when it warms up.
- Attend six weddings: Well, the one I was on the fence about finally pushed me to commit and I did. I booked the hotel room and requested the time off. On track so far!
- Finish a weather blanket: I’ve got all the yarn now, but haven’t started knitting yet. I haven’t spent a lot of time on the couch, my normal knitting time so it might be a bit of a delay this time around.
- Write: Great so far! My husband leaves the apartment when I put ‘Write’ on the calendar. One week I counted my writers’ group time, but I’ve gotten a few solid hour blocks of editing done and I’m feeling great about it.
- See my friends more: Going reasonably well here. I’m seeing them more, but not as much as I’d like. I blame the training. I wish more of them were endurance cyclist so we could ride together!
How are your challenges going so far? I hope you’re off to a good start If you love historical fiction, give some thought to my challenge for 2019, it’s fun!
Until next time, write on.
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Currently reading: I finally feel like I’m getting close to finishing 
Recently finished: I wrapped up 
Reading Next: Oh boy, freedom to choose an audiobook! Next on my TBR is a very appropriate title, 
Currently reading: 
Reading Next: I still hope to grab 
Recently finished: I finished 
Currently reading: I’m at about 1/3 of the way done with 
Recently finished: I was able to wrap up 
Recently finished: I’m sad to have finished 
Recently finished: I pushed through and finished 
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