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Reading Plans & Goals: April 3rd, 2023

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Weekly Goals:

  1. Maintain routine.
  2. Put a dent in reading list
  3. Start making book notes again.
  4. Make out schedule for the month
  5. Don’t give up.

My Reading List:

  1. Ander And Santi Were Here
  2. Divine Rivals
  3. The Middle Daughter
  4. Plot to Save South Africa
  5. Lioness of Leiden
  6. Someone is Always Watching
  7. Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
  8. Heir of Uncertain Magic
  9. Revelle
  10. Royal Rebel
  11. Pieces of Me
  12. The Windsors At War

I have a couple of books to read for a review group, and a couple of books to review for that group too. I’m behind, but every day I make great strides to catch up. I just need to be more mindful with how much I’m taking on from here forward.

What are your reading plans this week?

Reading Plans & Goals: March 27th, 2023

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Weekly Goals:

  1. Put a dent into reading list.
  2. Keep better track of schedule.
  3. Write reviews
  4. Sign up for blog tours again.
  5. Don’t give up.

My Reading List:

  1. You Wouldn’t Dare
  2. Ander And Santi Were Here
  3. Divine Rivals
  4. The Middle Daughter
  5. Plot to Save South Africa
  6. Lioness of Leiden
  7. Someone is Always Watching
  8. Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
  9. Heir of Uncertain Magic

I also have to read a couple of books for blog tours that happen later this week. I’ve done a lot better getting everything organized. While I’m not quite caught up yet, I’ve been making great strides to get there. I shall continue making great strides.

Reading Plans & Goals: March 20th

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Goals:

  1. Make a dent in my reading list
  2. Keep to schedule
  3. Read at least 2 hours a day
  4. Keep up with book club books
  5. Reviews to write

On my reading List:

  1. You Wouldn’t Dare
  2. Ander And Santi Were Here
  3. Divine Rivals
  4. The Middle Daughter
  5. Plot to Save South Africa
  6. Lioness of Leiden
  7. Someone is Always Watching

Reading Plans & Goals: March 13th

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Last week was a very productive week for me. In more ways than one. I’m finally starting to get somewhere where a routine is concerned. I’m not where I want to be yet, but I am getting there. That’s important to me. Here’s to another great week!

Plan to Start:

  1. Divine Rivals
  2. You Wouldn’t Dare
  3. Ander And Santi Were Here
  4. The Middle Daughter
  5. Nature’s Strike
  6. Escape from the Asylum

This may be a stretch. It may not. Two of the titles aren’t in my schedule. I just really want to read them. I’ve been waiting forever! Hopefully I will have time to at least start them. This week is a readathon week so we shall see!

Books I Hope to Make Progress On:

  1. Where Darkness Blooms
  2. Dioramas
  3. The Witch and the Vampire
  4. Not That Kind of Ever After
  5. The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway
  6. Hitler’s Aristocrats

Goals for the Week:

  1. Keep at daily goals and log-ins.
  2. Get and keep a job.
  3. Reach out to authors for Author Spotlight.
  4. Drink more water

Weekly Reading List: September 4th

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I’m in for a full week. My training shift has changed. I go in an hour earlier. I was already having issues going in at the time I go in. I’m not exactly a morning person. I will make it through. I just have three more weeks of training! My reading schedule is pretty full too. I will be making progress on many books and hopefully finishing quite a few as well. Ideally, I’d like to finish a book a day. However, knowing that I work full time, I know that is not possible. I will still continue to try. Maybe if I keep at the pace I’ve been on lately, I’ll catch up on my reading!

Books on my reading list this week:

I’d love to see what’s on your reading list for the week! What books have you been loving lately?

Weekly Wrap Up: 6/12/21

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On Monday, I lost my job. For the most part, the decision was mine. It’s not a decision I wanted to make in all honesty. I wanted to be able to reach a compromise that worked for both myself and the company. Sadly, they were unwilling to budge in their decision. It’s okay though. I will move on. I will find another job. Right now, looking for a job is not in my best interest. I’ll be leaving for Texas in about two weeks. I’ll be there until the beginning of August. In August, I’ll be in Savannah for a week and then I’ll be home. I had told my job about this before I officially go the job offer and was told it wasn’t a problem. But I digress. I’m not intending to bash the company. I’m just very disappointed with how things turned out. I know my attendance wasn’t the best, but neither was my health. Things turn out as they should.

Since I lost my job, I have managed to finished nine books. I am on track to finish a lot more. I went from feeling overwhelmed and agitated when I tried to read to getting multiple books read in the span of a few days. It hit me very quickly that the reasons I have been unable to read is that I was facing burn out and stress. This is why I feel like everything is working out as it should.

Other than that, I haven’t really had many things going on in my life this week. Not that that’s a really bad thing. I’m hoping something that works out between now and when I get home. Ideally, I’d like to freelance or be my own boss in something big. Right now, I don’t see that happening. At least not at a full time scale capacity. We will see. Hope everybody has had a fantastic week. Despite how the week started, it’s been an amazing week for me. I’m blessed to have so much support in my life.

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Weekly Wrap Up: 6/5/21

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This week has been really uneventful in all honesty. I watched some Bull. I got caught up on my buddy read with my mother. I even finally got to listen to some audiobooks that I need to listen to. I had a busy week with work, but nothing majorly eventful in all honesty.

I’ve been struggling with some work related things and some anxieties surrounding it. I don’t see myself holding my job too much longer. I’m struggling with going ahead and looking for a new job or keep fighting and doing everything in my power to keep the job.

I did finally obtain my logo though! It’s so beautiful and I love it very much! I’ve been working on this in the background for a few weeks. It has been well worth the wait in my opinion. Next step is to try to get some business cards printed out. I feel like everything is more official to me now!

I did pick up a new television show. Well new to me. It’s been around for over a decade. It’s based on a book series I love. It only aired for one season. It’s a great show from what I can see so far. As long as I separate it from the book series that is. They are nothing alike. I find that I shouldn’t be surprised. I mean look how far off Along Came a Spider was. Both are by the same author.

Hoping that next week will be more productive than this week. At least I have put the vaccination behind me now. I may be able to go out without a mask now, but I don’t think I will. I think I’ll still go out with a mask. I have a weak immune system. It’s for the best. With or without the pandemic.

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Weekly Wrap Up: 5/22/21

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Welcome to Weekly Wrap Up. I will discuss how my week has gone. I will include any pictures I’ve taken for the week and my progress in reading. It won’t be all about books. Just my week in general. I’ll also briefly highlight some books I’ve read during the week.

This was my week of nesting. And another week of not really reading as much as I should. I’m the type of person that really thrives on structure and routine. When curve balls happen, it takes me a bit to get back into my normal routine. I’m really ashamed to admit that, but maybe admitting it will help me overcome it and try my best to learn to go with the flow?

The positive note is that I’m finally catching up and getting back into routine! I still have a lot of writing to do and some writing prompts to post, but they will get there. I am feeling more confident and empowered every day. I’ve also found a to do list pad that helps me stay really organized every day. I’ve been pasting the pages to a notebook and writing some sentences to go with it to turn it into a journal. It’s been amazing!

That’s all I can think to talk about for now. Next week, I go back to my normal routine. I also have a follow up appointment for the emergency surgery I had a few weeks ago and I have an eye doctor appointment on Thursday. That’s been a long time coming if I’m being honest with myself.

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Weekly Wrap Up: 5/15/21

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Welcome to Weekly Wrap Up. I will discuss how my week has gone. I will include any pictures I’ve taken for the week and my progress in reading. It won’t be all about books. Just my week in general. I’ll also briefly highlight some books I’ve read during the week.

This week has been a very productive and unproductive week for me. It’s been very productive because I have been very busy with training for a new department at work. I haven’t really read much. I started the week out strong with reading, but I kind of flopped. I’ve just been really nervous about not doing well on the final. Especially being as the training was only a week.

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Weekly Wrap Up: 5/8/21

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Welcome to Weekly Wrap Up. I will discuss how my week has gone. I will include any pictures I’ve taken for the week and my progress in reading. It won’t be all about books. Just my week in general. I’ll also briefly highlight some books I’ve read during the week.

So it’s been about two weeks since I posted one of these certain blogs. The week before last, I had an emergency minor surgery. It was nothing major but it definitely put me off the radar for a little bit. I’m feeling way better now. I also decided to go ahead and begin my Covid vaccine. I will get the second round on June 2nd. I’m a little nervous about that one if I’m being completely honest.

I’ve finished three books this month. In the span of two days. I’m a little worried that reading 21 books last month may have taken a toll on me. We shall see. There is a readathon going on next week. So that might help me so much. The theme is to read all books by one author. I’m choosing to read half of the House of Night series. Or going to try to read half of the series anyway. That way I can read the other half of the series next month for their re-read themes.

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