I spent the past two days trying and failing to write a 2021 retrospective blog, and frankly at this point, I think I’m going to let it go and try instead to write one for what I’m hoping for next year. I won’t lie: it feels a little bit like tempting fate to even list things I hope for, but I refuse to let the past year’s grief kill what little optimism I have left. The ones I loved and lost would want me to keep hold of optimism, I think, so I’m going to cling to it as best

Welp, last year’s reading goal was uh… less than met shall we say? It still was a lot better than the previous year (at least as far as reading books on my #BeattheBacklist planned list though the overall numbers according to Goodreads was quite a bit lower over all LOL), but I managed barely 20% of my overall goal of 100 reads of my physical TBR. Considering that, I’m dropping the number back down to 52 instead. Most of the titles below are going to be from the previous year

… Or Already Having a Suspicion I Will Fail This Terribly LOL So, I’ve been falling behind on my #BeattheBacklist2021 Challenge (not that I’m terribly surprised though I’m doing MUCH better than 2020’s list) and even a bit on my Goodreads challenge though I’m closer to that at least. And thus I thought what the hell, I will be brave and attempt the Thirty Books in Thirty Days Challenge (#30booksin30days) starting June 1st. It… will be a challenge to say the least especially a

Or, why wouldn’t I keep doing this to myself? I mean, it’s officially 2021, and in the spirit of beginning as I mean to go on, I figured I might as well dive into another round of #BeatTheBacklist! I mean, yes, I read less than I expected to of last year’s list (though I did read far more in number than the 52 I planned to – just… very few of the SPECIFIC 52 I planned to, and not nearly enough of my physical TBR), but having a list did at least remind me of what I hoped to ac

Or Oof 2020 is Almost Over; 2021, Please Be Kind So, I always try to glance back at my previous year end journal before I start the current one, but last year’s started out “2019 was a year of ‘Fuck my life’” and I had to stop and laugh and laugh and sob in 2020 like you would not believe. Well, y’all probably would believe considering 2020, but still, it was a surreal moment to say the least. In all honesty, 2019 was rough considering infertility and back to back toxic jobs,

So this challenge last year was… well it was mostly a bust. Not because I didn’t read a ton of books – I more than met my goal of 52 – I just was absolutely TERRIBLE at tracking which of my “official” goal books I read, and completely forgot to track any of them over at the official #Beatthebacklist blog page for points. So, this may be more of a challenge than I even expected, but I’m OK with that. Just like last year, my goal is to primarily read physical books that I alrea