💬📚📝 “…we no longer need Chicken Little to tell us the sky is falling, because it already has. The issue now is how to take care of one another.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

💬📚📝 “…a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

💬📚📝 “The core, ethical concepts in which you most passionately believe are the language in which you are writing.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Finished reading: Dark Lover by J.R. Ward 📚

Listened to the audiobook. This one is very much of its time (2005).

Finished reading: How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days by Kerrelyn Sparks 📚

The pacing in this is wild, and by wild I mean slow. But it was interesting enough to keep me reading.

Finished reading: Captive Prince by C. S. Pacat 📚

This book is well-written and compelling. It’s also intense and full of potentially triggering moments. I recommend perusing the full Does the Dog Die? page for it before reading.

Finished reading: The Serpent and the Wolf by Rebecca Robinson 📚

I loved this! A woman who has to learn to let love in, a man who is patient enough to wait for her to do so, a coven of friends, political machinations, and magic. Chef kiss! 🔥🔥🔥

💬📚 “A new notebook is not about starting over—it’s about leveling up.” - Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method

FEBRUARY

• 4 A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera

MARCH

• 4 Shadow’s Heart by Kresley Cole, Oathbound by Tracy Deonn

APRIL

• 15 Love in 280 Characters or Less by Ravynn K. Stringfield

• 29 Once Upon You & Me by Timothy Janovsky

MAY

• 13 A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen

JULY

• 8 These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean

• 15 A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

SEPTEMBER

• 2 By the Horns by Ruby Dixon

• 30 A Mannequin for Christmas by Timothy Janovsky

In anticipation of my reading this year, I want to articulate one main goal and a few stretch goals.

My main reading goal is to read one more book than I already have. This means the total for the year is a moving target

Here are some stretch goals, meaning I want to remember to do them but I want them to be low pressure:

• Read one nonfiction book a month.
• Stop requesting books from NetGalley that I don’t know anything about except what is on NetGalley.
• Stop requesting books from NetGalley based on marketing emails they send me.
• Keep up with new releases from authors I love.
• Any time I’m in a city with a romance-only bookstore, visit it.