Until this big, brooding, gold alien commander destroyed my ship. All that matters is my crew and our mission to take down an empire. I’m a soldier, the leader of a rebellion. If this seems like too few books: I know! There are so many books and I can’t read fast enough ahaha.Crash landing on an aphrodisiac planet with my worst enemy? Not on my to-do list. (Not that they will actually read or support or listen, but this has stopped some of the talking over us and that’s progress.) I also deal with a local literary scene where people like to say they don’t read romance and speak over romance authors anyway–it gets hard for them to do that when I say I read 80 new books a year at least. (If I wanted people to choose us first I have to be mindful about the reading choices I also make.) I enjoy this, I do. I consider this part of my work, and not in a bad way, especially if a reader’s decision to diversify their reading benefits me. If this seems like too many books, please know that: I don’t watch a lot of TV or movies anymore. I can give quick thoughts or opinions though if anyone needs it.

What also changed (did it really) was I did not write reviews promptly, so now there are very few reviews posted of these reads. Well, if I were in the mood for it and it also fit some guidelines I’d set for myself (more indie, more AOC, try another genre sometimes). This means people tweeting sales and links to their new or backlist books helped because it reminded me of something I could be in the mood for, and I would just read it. Meaning I freed myself from that list of “read this soon” books and decided I would read a book whenever I felt like it. I started this year by getting rid of my TBR! I truly did. I’m still reading mostly romance, but with one big difference. Months where less books were read match months when I’m doing work on my own books (or book projects), and that really does drain me a bit so my leisure time goes to other things.Īt 45 titles from January to June, I think this is on track to be…an average reading year haha. And whoa, I’m really seeing which months I had the energy to read.

Even though I’ve been sharing my reading year for several years now, I think this is the first time that I looked at it in terms of months.

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