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2024 reading wrap-up

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New year, new book goals! This is only my third year setting myself an actual reading goal, and my first year adding in some little side quests, so I'm really excited. I've got a separate page set up to record my progress on each of these goals, which I'm hoping will help keep me on track. The goals 45 books I know I smashed my goals last year I still wanted something realistic for myself (because I know me, and the lulls can be very real!!) So, 45 seemed a fair jump up from 20. It's still less than 1 book per week, so when life gets busy I have some wiggle-room there. But it's not so few that I'll be able to slack off. Of those 45 books, I have some sub-goals as well, just to keep things interesting! 10 work book club reads My work started up a book club last year, which I obviously immediately signed up for. However, I only managed to read 2 of the books out of the 6 that happened. So this year I'd like to do a much better job of being involved ...

2024 reading wrap-up

My first ever yearly reading wrap-up! In 2023 I was determined to get back into the habit of reading and set myself a goal of a book a month, which I met. So this year I stepped things up a bit and almost doubled it to 20. And, well... I completely smashed it! 75 freakin' books!! Even I can't believe it. I know compared to many others it's a drop in the ocean, but for me it's a huge achievement. I finally feel like I'm getting back to being myself with my nose/ears in a book. Looking through It's really interesting to see just how much my work impacts my personal time - you can see the point at which a big project started and the books dropped off to one a month, and then when it went full steam ahead once the project was done. I have a bunch of reading goals in mind for 2025 (which I'll post about later) but my main goal for the year is balance, and to not let work take over my personal time! This is also my first year using The Story Graph, and...

a(nother) new blog

I've lost count of how many 'first posts' I've written over the years, and whether they were for online blogs or my personal journals, they've always been awkward to write. This blog has been started as a carry-over from my previous Cinder Says website, but just starting all over again. I've made the move from Wordpress thanks to a pretty ugly situation. In short, I hadn't been using my website for a long time so decided to let my upgraded Wordpress plan expire, taking me back to the free version. In doing so, I lost the ability to have it connected to my cindersays.com domain name (which, thankfully, I own independently of Wordpress). I don't understand the ins and outs of it, but essentially once my premium plan expired and my domain name was removed, somehow it all got pointed to hardcore porn websites. My domain provider was great, and spent awhile trying to sort it out for me, but said it was on Wordpress's end and there was nothing he could do...