"So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. If you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is and just do what they would do."- Neil Gaiman

Saturday, January 6, 2018

Updates in General

It's been a lot of radio silence lately. I've had a lot of things going on in my personal life that have made staying active more difficult than I would've liked. Things might be settling down a bit now. Few matters I wanted to update here:

New books:
I have been working on the new series. The first book in the new series is tentatively named Rage. It follows Vanessa and James. They own a Private Investigator firm in a new world I've created. The writing is coming along, but is a bit behind where I had planned it would be. I'd like to give a hopeful completion date, but I'm just not sure enough at the moment.

Harnessing the Flame:
Harley is still on my mind a lot. I haven' forgotten about her or her story. I'm still just a little stuck with her right now. Her story will get finished though, that I'm sure of.

Reviews:
I've read a lot of books since the last review I posted. While there is plenty I could say about those books, I just didn't have it in me to sit down and write out cohesive reviews. I did decide on some changes to how I post them though.

For starters, there wont be a detailed review for every book. I tried to nail down some rules, but it's all relative. From now on it will be on a series by series, book by book basis. Some books are contained enough within the series it's easy to break them down. Others are too intertwined with the rest of the series that everything I say feels a bit redundant. That isn't fun to write, and I'm sure it's not fun to read. If there is an in depth review it will have a link to the page. If there is no link then I decided against a more detailed break down. The reason for this choice may or may not be included.

Secondly, I am still working out all the tags I want to use. Some of them only occur to me after reading a book, and tags aren't always easy to retroactively apply. At some point I will get it figured out... Hopefully.

Reading Lists:
I updated the sidebar with new reading lists. 2017 is no longer available from there, but 2018 is. I have created another page which will link to any past years reading list as well as a master list that will contain a list of everything I have read since the beginning of 2017. That list will get massive fast, so it might be better to look at the break down of the years.

Reading Challenge: 
A new year brings a new Goodreads reading challenge! I put it in the side bar. 150 books this year, same as last year. I also completed last years challenge successfully, logging 154 books for the year! I'm hoping to make this year just as successful. Next year I would like to aim for 200 books, but that might be a bit lofty even for me.