Hello! Happy February! I don’t know about you guys, but January went both super fast and super slow for me. It was a weird dichotomy, man.
This year, I’m going to change my wrap ups a little bit. They’re going to be more goal-oriented, looking at how I’m doing on my new year’s resolutions. They’ll still talk about the books I read, but they’re going to do more than just list them and be done with it now. I’ll have the sections divided out so it should be easy for you to skip the sections that don’t interest you!
Books
We are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
This was a rather entertaining read – my first purchase and my first read of 2018. It was the first book I bought after my ban was lifted. I was in Connecticut visit a friend right after Christmas and we went to this little bookshop – I decided I wanted a souvenir book that was a bit different than what I normally read, and this was it! I ended up rather enjoying it.
This is a nonfiction memoir type book, and the author is rather amusing. The way she writes and thinks about things had me going back and forth between feeling like I’d get along perfectly with her and not get along with her at all. It was great, reading a new perspective. š I wrote a full spoiler-free blabber on it, in case you’re interested.
3.5 stars
The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks
This was my favorite read of the month, and it was my longest – I’ve been reading this baby for almost a year now. I also wrote a full spoilery blabber on it detailing my full thoughts, but man, I loooooooved this book.
This is the third book in the lightbringer series, a fantasy series full of neat characters, humor, action, and a cool magic system. I’m just going to link the goodreads page to the first book, if you’d like to look into it. This has quickly become one of my favorite series, ever. It’s so great
5 stars
Descender vol 1: Tin Stars by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
This is a reread for me, in preparation for reading volume two, which I purchased recently. I loved it just as much this time as I did last time.
It follows a young boy robot who wakes up years after giant harvester robots have attacked the galaxy, and we follow him as he tries to find his human companion family amidst a world that is now hostile towards any form of AI. It’s really good, the art is beautiful, and I absolutely love it.
5 stars
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Blog Activity
TFW: 2018 Reading Resolutions | Books I didn’t get to in ’17 | Forgettable books | Hidden gems
2018 related posts: Beat the Backlist 2018 | 10 in 2018 | Anticipated releases Jan-Jun
Tags: Me in book characters
Blabbers: We are never meeting in real life | The Broken Eye
Total: 10 posts
Neat Things
This section will be other things I did this month that I want to mention. It might be empty some months if I’ve been particularly boring.
I had two different health scares this month, both of which took the better part of the month to deal with, but they both turned out to be nothing! š I’m healthy! I mention this because the stress from these kinda lends to the smaller than normal, for me, amount of books I read this month. I just couldn’t concentrate, man. But I’m healthy!
I went to see The Shape of Water with a friend, and so far it’s my favorite movie of the year. I mean, it’s only January, but hey, I loved that movie. If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend it.
My mom turned 60. Which is a weird thing to think about. Buh, she needs to knock that off. No more aging, bad!
Reading Goals
- Complete my Goodreads Challenge of 40 books:Ā 3/40
- Complete my 10 in 2018 list of books:Ā 0/10
- Keep book buying low (6-8 books/season):
- January-March purchases: 2
- April-June purchases:
- July-September purchases:
- October-December purchases:
- Get my physical TBR down to 270 books:Ā 302
- Finish the r/Fantasy Book Bingo Challenge by Mar 31, 2018
- Participate in the Beat the Backlist Challenge
Series I want to read this year | Cover love | Book and bookmark | First backlist read of 2018
Blog Goals
- Post seasonal (not monthly) book hauls
Two books purchased so far, so I’m good here. š
- Maintain a S-W-S posting schedule (with the occasional extra post if Iāve got neat things goinā on)
I did this pretty well for most of the month, but I dropped out for about a week or so as my health issues took over my attention. -_- I’m hoping not to miss a single day this coming month, though.
- Keep my To Do list of pending tags under five items at any one time
Currently itās at zero! Caught up!
Done!
- Write blabbers for at least 1/3 of the books I read
2 out of the 3 books I’ve read so far have gotten blabbers!
Personal Goals
- Exercise two times per week
I was good with this one for a while, but with my health issues going on, it kinda fell off. Basically, my heart was acting up – palpitations, murmurs, etc. I didn’t want to stress it out more with exercise. But, as of Tuesday I’ve been deemed decent! So I want February’s wrap up to say ‘Yes I did this one!’ for this section.
- Log all meals in MyFitnessPal
I hit my 800 day streak this week! I’ve been missing meals for the last couple days, but I can retroactively go back and log them, so I’m good here too when I do that.
- Make a wedding/honeymoon scrapbook
Haven’t even started, homes.
- Make a budget
See above!
- Start saving for a house
See above!
- Take care of my health as issues arise
This one I am on top of! š Been to Dr’s for two issues and both were wrapped up within a few weeks.
- Learn Python and R
Not yet!
- Maintain a Duolingo streak
Currently at a 77 day streak!
And that’s it! I really like how this wrap up turned out – I like sharing a bit more than ‘I thought this book was great’ and I hope you found bits and pieces of it entertaining as well.
Happy reading!
Embuhleeliest 
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