February Wrap Up

It seems more fitting than ever to write about my first month back writing about books, topics related to books, and how books have influenced my outlook on life. I have met my goal this month and, well, it feels pretty damned good. The truth of the matter is last month I totally slacked –…

2018 Site Update

A new year means a new look. I felt that it was time for a fresh look that can complement what I want to achieve for the blog outside of making more time to write about one of the things I like to do most; reading. In order to do that it called for something…

A New Year of Books

As always a new year of books to read and a new challenge to meet makes for what could be a dull year of mostly work far more interesting. For the year of 2018 the goal is to read at least sixty books. For me that feels ambitious, but doable even having to work six…

A Long Time Coming

Since the last post made here work has sort of taken over everything in sight. Even with weekly shift changes I have actually managed to fit some reading time into these six-day work week. The trouble was more of having time to sit down and write. For those of you that have typed out papers…

General Update

This past month has been a little crazy. I’ve been working a lot particularly the past two weeks leaving little time to read. Getting extra hours is both a blessing and curse. It is hard to say no if I need a little extra to offset unintended expenses like this month. The down side was it…

January Bites the Dust

It’s almost hard to believe that we come to the end of the first month. One that just seemed to fly by at a break-neck pace. Going into this month my book challenge for 2017 seemed far to large with some ambitious goals of mine coupled with it. I look back at the 70 books…

May Wrap-up

May was a good reading month and I enjoyed quite a few books. My original set goal was 25 books which was set to match what I had last year. Not long after I started out on my challenge to meet and surpass last years totals it was clear that it was going to happen….