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.
Good luck in your endeavours!! I'm a big fan of your page and i discovered a lot of books and authors throught it.
ReplyDeleteRecently 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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