After finally feeling the urge to actually get moving and do something, I realised that what I need are a few nudges here and there to start the momentum and if left to my own devices I can happily just eat cheese and binge watch Netflix. So in order for this not to happen (erm continue happening) I felt it was about time to find myself some new challenges or goals .. easy ones to begin of course.
One of the oddest things about last year is that I didn’t really seem to find the want to read, which is a strange place for me since I love reading and always have done, even as a child I would rather sit and read a book than play kerby (yes that exciting game of hitting a ball off a kerb and waiting for cars to pass) or tag with the other kids. Yet for some reason 2016 just was not a reading year..at all. In fact I can’t think of one single book I read over those 365 days which is not only sad it seems alien to me. Now I think it is time to put something in writing so this doesn’t happen to me again. How can anyone expect to write if they don’t also read? .. ridiculous!
So today I took a look around at some blog challenges and decided to register with Goodreads in order to nudge me to get at least 12 books read this year, also I found The Herd Presents blogspot that encouraged me to actually read outside my usual material. So this year I shall be trying a different genre or three.
Now I just have to find something to read … runs off to window shop
P.S Any recommendations are welcomed.
Gwendlyn D 
Mmmmmm cheese.
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Another reading challenge has on it a book recommended by a librarian…since I am one, I just recommended
A Madness So Discreet http://amzn.to/2ifJmJR by Mindy McGinnis–historical mystery set in an insane asylum in Boston and then Ohio in the 1890s. A mental patient becomes an assistant to a doctor who is pioneering criminal profiling and other techniques. What makes it so very good though was everything else. The mystery was almost beside the point.
Caraval http://amzn.to/2jv3Z5U by Stephanie Gerber–this lush debut fantasy is set in a world that has been created for the sole purpose of inviting participants to an elaborate real life game. But when Scarlett and her sister finally get their invitation to the game, it turns out that they are playing for very high stakes, nothing is quite what it seems and the rules are hard to figure out.
Illuminae http://amzn.to/2iFB6nr by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristof–I think I recommended this science fiction title more than any other book last year. I highly recommend the audio version–it feels like listening to a radio play–but I understand the physical and e-book versions are also stunning in how they lay everything out.
That leaves two long time favorites:
I am the Messenger http://amzn.to/2j7pMEk by Markus Zusak–Everyone ELSE loves The Book Thief, but I much prefer this earlier title. There is something about the main character that speaks so strongly to me. This is a book I wish I could read again for the first time.
Peace Like a River http://amzn.to/2icWTqk by Leif Enger–I just love this book. I really need to re-read it. I have a hard time coming up with a favorite book when asked, but this has really stayed with me.
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oh wow thanks for the recommendations, I shall look into those and the other challenge, maybe I can overlap 🙂
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Cool! Very inventive response to the “invitation” to blog on the word “invitation”!
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hehe why thank you for the interest 🙂
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I’m so happy you’re blogging again! I love the rabbit picture, haha. xD I nominated you for the Sunshine Blogger Award – there’s no pressure, but it’s always fun to accept recognition for your blog and writing. 🙂 ❤ Here are the rules: https://mjcobra.com/2017/01/18/avocados-and-the-sunshine-blogger-award/
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