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My New Planner

If you've ever read my blog at the beginning of the year, then you know that a New Year also means a New Planner.
Last year I went with this awesome Alice in Wonderland design:

And this year I picked this one... 

Back to Peanuts it is. 😁
This particular Moleskine is my favourite format. It has One Page for a week with Opposite Blank Page on the other side. I love being able to keep a record of everything I do daily on the left (calendar side), and then add more detailed notes on the right (lined pag...

Tracking Words & Pages

 

Hey! How are you today? It's time for me to post another New Year tradition on my blog.
I've posted a screenshot of my previous year's Word Count Tracking Sheets for a while now. 
So, here are my 2021 stats:  
 Total words written: 159,431.  Total pages revised 6,109. 
Although 2021 was another shitty year full of ups and downs because Covid-19 continued to screw things up, I still managed to stay focused on a new writing plan of getting through as many Revision Projects as I could without turning ...

Some Kind of Goals

 

Welcome to my 2022 Goals post. 😁
I don't like making resolutions, but goals are a different story. And I like to post my yearly goals list here so I can see how I did at the end of the year.
These are the things I'd like to achieve/continue to do this year:Go for two daily walksKeep doing yoga workouts two/three times a weekWrite between 100-200k wordsRead 100 booksRevise/finalise the rest of the (5) novel first drafts sitting on my hard driveWrite a novelWrite a novellaKeep writing short stories...

Reading 2022

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
A new year means a new Goodreads Reading Challenge:

Last year I changed my usual 100-book reading target to 50 because I was going to concentrate on longer books (and didn't), but still reached 100. 
So, this year I'm going back to my annual goal of 100 books.  😁
And these are my mini-challenges: 
Concentrate on the many fantastic books I have on my bookshelves and Paperwhite. (While I managed to do this last year, I want to keep it up.)Stop putting off highly-anticipated books and r...

Happy New Year!

Well, here we are again! I hope you're all staying safe and having a great day. 😊 
It's a shame that 2021 turned out to be a carbon copy of the nightmarish 2020. In some ways, it was actually worse because after everything we learned, the world still allowed Covid to run riot. 
  I want to be positive and welcome 2022 with open arms and happy vibes, plus a good attitude, but it's kinda hard because the world is in a bad way at the moment. Still, I hope we're able to find our way out of this eventu...

Books Read in 2021

THE WIRED CITY(Weird. Wonderful. Other Worlds 2):Yolanda Sfetsos
HARROW LAKE:Kat Ellis
RULES FOR VANISHING:Kate Alice Marshall
MERIDIAN:Amber Kizer
DEAD SILENCE(The Body Finder #4):Kimberly Derting
YOU MUST NOT MISS:Katrina Leno
TWO CAN KEEP A SECRET:Karen M McManus
IRONSIDE(Modern Faeries Tales #3):Holly Black
NONE SHALL SLEEP:Ellie Marney
CRUEL SUMMER:Juno Dawson
BEAUTIFUL DECAY:Sylvia Lewis
THE SAD GHOST CLUB:Lize Meddings
A DOWRY OF BLOOD:ST Gibson
LORE:Alexandra Bracken
OUTLAWED:Anna North
THE WOMAN IN BL...

2021 Goals

 

So, it turns out that after the hellish year that was 2020, we were kidding ourselves when we expected 2021 to be any better. 😒
We're still in the middle of an awful pandemic. Actually, I would dare to say that even though so many of us are now vaccinated (and even boosted), we're in a much worse position than we were this time last year. Several Covid variants have already spread all over the world and new ones keep popping up. And our hopeless governments have pretty much given up keeping us s...

THE ART OF GOOSEBUMPS by Sarah Rogriguez & Tim Jacobus

 

Beware: The Art of Goosebumps by Sarah Rodriguez
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I really like Goosebumps books. Not just because I used to read them to my daughter, but because I'd actually checked them out before she was born. They're cool and creepy, funny and sad. Always freaky and even silly. Some are totally awesome and others are quite ridiculous, but I enjoy checking them out.

So, when hubby ordered this book—because he's the best—and insisted this was something I had to add to my collection, I wa...

THE BONE SPINDLE by Leslie Vedder

 

Filore, a treasure hunter with a knack for riddles, is busy running from her own deadly curse, when she pricks her finger on a spindle. Bound to the sleeping prince Briar Rose with the spindle's magic - and chosen as the only person who can wake him - Fi is stuck with the prince's ghost until she can break his ancient curse and save his kingdom.She's going to need a partner. A warrior huntswoman with an axe to grind (literally), Shane couldn't care less about curses and ancient texts. But inste...

THE MONARCHS by Kass Morgan & Danielle Paige

 

The ultra-exclusive Kappa Rho Nu - the Ravens - are determined to restore balance to the world. After destroying an ancient talisman and barely saving their sorority in the process, they'll go to any lengths to keep their secret as Westerly's most powerful coven of witches.Scarlett Winter, a legacy Raven, has finally gotten what she's always wanted: Scarlett is Kappa Rho Nu's newest president. Unlike her mother or older sister before her, Scarlett has a vision for a more unified Kappa, one wher...