Sunny Flowers

I got a bit caught up in planning how to redecorate our apt the last week (I've been spending most of my mornings scouring the internet for inspiration, which I've mostly gathered here), as well as avoiding posting anything here because I have been shamefully bad at keeping up with my intended daily word count. However, I have made a small change which has brought about increased wordage these past few days, so perhaps I will be on here more. Because I have so much to natter on about, that's for sure.

Like, I have a post half written about vegetarianism, inspired by GOOD's 30-day Vegetarian Challenge. And another inspired by GOOD's post which sent me to their site and through it, about the inanity of saying a word is not a word. And one about paint colors, and fancy dinners, and friends, and weddings, and books. Oh, and why the hell I never noticed the word axe is spelled without an 'e' in American English. Okay, maybe that's all I had to say about that.

But I hadn't been writing, so I wasn't letting myself. Perhaps we shall have an influx of posts in the next week, then.

In the meantime, I decided to go with books for this round. I read 24 books last year and after tallying them all up in December, decided I should have read more. So this year I'm aiming for 40, which is more because that's a perfectly hittable goal than because that's a lot. There are just so many wonderful, delicious, alluring books out there and I'd love to get up to reading 50 or 75 a year. But not just for the sake of reading that many - I also want to appreciate them, learn from them. Not skim through them to say I'd read it (like I kind of just did for one, but it was so terrible it had it coming). I've never understood speed-reading when it comes to fiction, at least when you're reading to enjoy reading. Which is why NaNoReadMo is only four books, not five or ten or twenty or what-have-you.

Anyway. I've also been itching to write a little review about each book I've read, but my enforced silence has made those intended reviews pile up. So I'm going to try something different. Every month or so, I'll do a round-up of the books I've read and just write a one or two sentence review. That way I can keep track of what I'm reading, remember what I thought about it, and push good books on other people. Sound good? Good.

This first list will be long, since it's every book I've read so far this year.

( I'll even put it behind a cut for you. See how nice I am? )

What I'd really like is if you've read any of these books to chime in in the comments and let me know what you thought. I'd love you for this. :)

Now, where I'm at in WZAA, which is what I'm absolutely sure you're really here for, a story about gods and zombie assassins and stuff, now with bonus! madmen in cellars with axes:

36,663 / 110,000