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margarksSo, I turned 50 this week. Not sure I feel any different than before. I did go and get my Shingles vaccine because I figured why not get that over with. I spent last week in San Diego going on a few hikes with my doggo and just relaxing and catching up on reading.
I used to never go anywhere without a book when I was younger and I read all the time. Over the last few years I stopped reading and I'm not sure why. Just didn't have the energy for it. So I decided a few months back that I was going to read again.
I 'signed up' for some reading challenges by some youtuber. There are two challenges, one that she gives words/themes and one that she gives book covers to do. I'm treating them more like bingo cards and just marking them off as I read them instead of doing them the months that they were set for in the challenge. If anyone is interested I'm on goodreads and storygraph (where I am marking the challenges off) both as margarks I believe. Possibly my display name on goodreads is margie g, but I think margarks is my actual profile name. If you can't find me, and want to friend me there, let me know.
I'm also just reading books I want to read on top of the challenges. Books I finished in January:
Sign Here by Claudia Lux
2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
Truth by Robert Reed
Horrostor by Grady Hendrix
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursual K Leguin
Books I've finished so far in February:
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation - translated by Ken Liu
the Golden Gate by Amy Chua
I'm currently reading Authority (the sequel to Annihilation) and Arsenic and Adobo (the first book I know of that I have read from a filipino author).
I'd rec pretty much all the books so far I've read this year. Some I liked more than others, but there haven't been any that I regret reading. I am mixing it up format wise. Some I've read as epubs, some I've listened to audiobooks, and some I've read the actual paper versions. I've got copies of Jane Eyre and an HG Wells book with both the Time Machine and the Invislbe Man waiting in the wings for the rest of this month too. I'm also looking for a copy of Broken Stars, another chinese scifi anthology Ken Liu translated, but it's not at my library so I haven't gotten it yet.
Anyway, if anyone has any books they want to rec, feel free to comment! The youtuber with the challenges read 270 books last year! I am not getting anywhere close to that, but I think I'm still doing pretty good so far. This is the link that talks about the challenges if anyone is interested:
books and lala challenges
Hope everyone is doing well!
I used to never go anywhere without a book when I was younger and I read all the time. Over the last few years I stopped reading and I'm not sure why. Just didn't have the energy for it. So I decided a few months back that I was going to read again.
I 'signed up' for some reading challenges by some youtuber. There are two challenges, one that she gives words/themes and one that she gives book covers to do. I'm treating them more like bingo cards and just marking them off as I read them instead of doing them the months that they were set for in the challenge. If anyone is interested I'm on goodreads and storygraph (where I am marking the challenges off) both as margarks I believe. Possibly my display name on goodreads is margie g, but I think margarks is my actual profile name. If you can't find me, and want to friend me there, let me know.
I'm also just reading books I want to read on top of the challenges. Books I finished in January:
Sign Here by Claudia Lux
2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
Truth by Robert Reed
Horrostor by Grady Hendrix
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursual K Leguin
Books I've finished so far in February:
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation - translated by Ken Liu
the Golden Gate by Amy Chua
I'm currently reading Authority (the sequel to Annihilation) and Arsenic and Adobo (the first book I know of that I have read from a filipino author).
I'd rec pretty much all the books so far I've read this year. Some I liked more than others, but there haven't been any that I regret reading. I am mixing it up format wise. Some I've read as epubs, some I've listened to audiobooks, and some I've read the actual paper versions. I've got copies of Jane Eyre and an HG Wells book with both the Time Machine and the Invislbe Man waiting in the wings for the rest of this month too. I'm also looking for a copy of Broken Stars, another chinese scifi anthology Ken Liu translated, but it's not at my library so I haven't gotten it yet.
Anyway, if anyone has any books they want to rec, feel free to comment! The youtuber with the challenges read 270 books last year! I am not getting anywhere close to that, but I think I'm still doing pretty good so far. This is the link that talks about the challenges if anyone is interested:
books and lala challenges
Hope everyone is doing well!
