Let’s Start the New Year with an Update

These are usually bi-weekly, but the last one was end october.

Here’s my TBR of physical books that I probably should get through in 2019, so I’ve halfways committed to it:

New book posts:

• Review: The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
• Review: Spinning silver by Naomi Novik
• Review: Dread nation
• Review: The poet X
• Mini-review and a DNF: Glass moon &
  What if it’s us
• Top ten tuesday: Backlist books I want to read
• Top ten tuesday: Bookish items on by wishlist
• Exciting book releases 2019 (part 1)
• My favourite books of 2018
• Reading goals of 2018 (november update)
• Do I want to watch fantastic beasts 2?
• Exciting book releases 2019 (part 1)

Other books I’ve been reading:

• La belle sauvage by Philip Pullman, 4/5 stars
• Six easy pieces by Richard Feynman (currently)
• At blackwater pond by Mary Oliver (currently)
• The grand design by Stephen Hawking (currently)

DNF:

What if it’s us by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli – I like fluffy, but this felt like a romance just describing everyday things. I wanted to like it so much, but it wasn’t for me and after the karaoke bar I was out

Added to my TBR:

• The five stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson (queer ya)
• The apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by
  Shaun David Hutchinson (queer ya)
• Skyward by Brandon Sanderson (sci-fi)
• Ender’s game by Orson Scott Card (sci-fi)
• Emergency contact by Mary Choi (ya)
• Circe by Madeline Miller (fantasy)
• How the immune system works by Lauren M Sompayrac (science)
• Immuno-biology by Charles Janeway (science)
• By grand central station I sat down and wept by Elizabeth Smart (poetry)
• The falconer by Elizabeth May (ya fantasy)
• The armored saint by Myke Cole (fantasy)
• No matter by Jana Prikryl (poetry)
• The year of femme by Cassie Donish (poetry)

Recent book buys:

• Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
• These shallow graves by Jennifer Donnelly
• The grand design by Stephen Hawkings
• Netgalley: Monument by Natasha Trethewey
• Netgalley: Lord of the butterflies by Andrea Gibson

Three things on my mind:

• 2019 is the year of Change for me, where change will come whether I like it or not and I don’t yet know if it’s going to be net-positive or net-negative. Last year had it extreme bad times and also very-good times. So I’ve decided to embrace it, to throw myself into the ocean of change and see what happens.
• Coffee is my new love. I got a moka pot and it’s been my savior for the end of december and the beginning of january so far.
• Nearly every toilet visit ended with blood for the last week, and I’m not on my period. TMI I know, but that’s life with crohn’s. I need that change – whatever it is – to come soon, I think. I feel like in a good space right now, but also like I’m watching a house burn around me and not feeling the heat of the flames yet. In other words – hell is surely coming. I’ll read in the meantime. Cheers.