Happy New Year, everyone! It is off to a cold, dreary start here, but it is cozy by my little lamplit nighttable. I have cleared it off and restocked it. I have three carryovers from last year, and I still need to choose a January prompt book, but it feels so very new I almost don't know where to start.
I only have a few very loose plans for the new year and I want to keep things simple with blogging as well. I have my list of prompts (below) and I have decided to join in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge. The list of 24 tasks is on my menu bar above, which I will fill in as I go. I think some will be easy and I will be able to just naturally fill in as the year unfolds. There are a few that I will have to be more thoughtful about.
I'm going to read Gladys Taber's Stillmeadow Calendar: A Countrywoman's Journal over the course of the year, once chapter each month. The book is laid out perfectly for a serial read, which I have also done in the past. The book is broken into monthly chapters. It seems a perfect book to read at leisure in small bites and reflect on the months and seasons.
So that just leaves my list of new prompts for 2019!
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January: Crime and Punishment
February: Something Old
March: Upstairs Downstairs
April: Rain or Shine
May: Something New
June: I Could Have Danced All Night
July: A Day at the Beach
August: Something Borrowed
September: Swinging Sixties
October: Call of the Wild
November: Something Blue
December: Art and Music
Last year was not a good blogging year for me. Once I fell behind in writing about books I never managed to catch up. I think I might approach things differently this year. I am going to try and keep a paper journals again and was thinking that might work here as well. Daily (or several times a week) posts about what I am reading or new books I come across, links, quotes and if the mood takes a book review. In any case I want to try and write about each book I read in some way or other, but no pressure to write a long post about it.
Now just one more thing to do for my January reading--time to pull some books for my new prompt.