Check out my wall of books! These are the 334 books (minus one that I finished after I took this picture) that I read in 2023. I’ve seen a few bookstagrammers do this and I started planning at the beginning of December to get the books from the library that I needed (which was a lot!). You see there were loads of picture books, which came from homeschooling for half a year and from being a panelist for the Cybils Awards.

But, now we’ve turned the page to a new year with new goals and intentions. I’m not an organized person. I tend to get everything done either right away or at the very last minute and most everything else gets lost in the middle. So, I’ve got a list of daily goals, weekly goals, and monthly goals. It’s a lot, but I’m hoping to teach myself some of the skills that I always seem to struggle with. So far I’m 100% on my 9 daily goals and I’m over half done with my 11 monthly goals. I also have a weekly goal of blogging 3 times a week and that has clearly not gone as well. I’ll get there eventually.

Bookish Events

I went with a friend to my first Silent Book Club! This meet up was downtown at the Cleveland Public Library. It was fun, but not exactly silent, lol. The idea is that you take your book to a public place where other bookish people will do the same and you all sit together and read your books. Sort of a social, but not really, book club without the homework. There were 19 of us. It was intriguing enough to try again when they meet at a Barnes & Noble.

Have you heard of this? Have you tried one?

Currently reading

Books I finished this week

I’m off to a very slow start.

Women’s Health: Your Body, Your Hormones, Your Choices by Holly Thacker (a Cleveland Clinic Guide)

As a woman of a certain age, this was a quick book explaining what happens during perimenopause/menopause and some of the things you can do to keep yourself as healthy as possible. It’s an older book and didn’t go into great detail, but it was a nice overview.

Travel to Israel by Matt Doeden.

A very quick introduction for elementary school kids at only 32 pages. Lots of nice photos and just enough information to get started with a study of Israel and what’s going on there now.

Movies

Jason and I actually made it to the theater! We both really liked The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, 2022. I haven’t read any of the Hunger Games books, but love the movies. This is the story of Coriolanus Snow way before we meet Katniss meets him. How does he become the man we know in the trilogy? I thought it was great although I had a question or two in spots. Have you seen it? What did you think?

Plans for the Weekend

When I get my to do list done today I’m hoping to visit you all! I miss checking in with you all. Do you have plans for the day?

Linking up with The Sunday Salon.