So I've been a little quiet here the past few months. Much of that is due to a positive change in my personal life, as I took a teaching position at a local residential treatment center for teens with neurological/emotional/behavior disorders. It is a challenging profession and I am still in the midst of establishing my routines with them. I am also working on a PRN basis at my old job working with teens with autism, so there are several weekends where I have little to no time to relax at home, much less read or blog about what I have read.
I do hope to change this somewhat in the next few weeks. I purchased a new 9.7" iPad Pro today and it is much faster and more powerful than my ancient laptop, so I should be more inclined to type now that I don't have to worry so much about the screen freezing up (helps that I have paired a wireless Apple keyboard to it so I can type at my regular speed). I do have a small backlog of 2016 reads to blog about, including posting the list of 46 books that I read last year. I'll do that sometime tomorrow ow, as I am about to go to bed.
But before I do go to sleep, I just wanted to post a few reading goals that I have for 2017. The first is that I hope to read at least 50 books this year, after failing to do so the past two years (my trained Serbian reading squirrels have enjoyed a long and well-deserved vacation after a decade of reading hundreds of books a year). The second is to read and review at least a dozen Library of America editions (I own nearly 180 volumes and many haven't yet been read). A third is to review at least twelve times this year, even if very few people these days visit my blog compared to its 2007-2012 heyday. I think these are achievable goals and hopefully when the year ends, there will be more output here than was the case in 2015 or 2016.
I do hope to change this somewhat in the next few weeks. I purchased a new 9.7" iPad Pro today and it is much faster and more powerful than my ancient laptop, so I should be more inclined to type now that I don't have to worry so much about the screen freezing up (helps that I have paired a wireless Apple keyboard to it so I can type at my regular speed). I do have a small backlog of 2016 reads to blog about, including posting the list of 46 books that I read last year. I'll do that sometime tomorrow ow, as I am about to go to bed.
But before I do go to sleep, I just wanted to post a few reading goals that I have for 2017. The first is that I hope to read at least 50 books this year, after failing to do so the past two years (my trained Serbian reading squirrels have enjoyed a long and well-deserved vacation after a decade of reading hundreds of books a year). The second is to read and review at least a dozen Library of America editions (I own nearly 180 volumes and many haven't yet been read). A third is to review at least twelve times this year, even if very few people these days visit my blog compared to its 2007-2012 heyday. I think these are achievable goals and hopefully when the year ends, there will be more output here than was the case in 2015 or 2016.
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Good luck in your endeavours!! I'm a big fan of your page and i discovered a lot of books and authors throught it.
Recently i lost this bookmark and found it again by googling "squirrel literary blog", i thought that was awesome.
Thanks! And yes, that is a very awesome way of (re)discovering this blog! :D Now if only my squirrel overlor...err, readers would find a way for me to be motivated again to read, much less review regularly. Maybe after I rest a bit this spring after half-marathon training...
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