Of Books and Belief

12,861 Days Alive

110 Days Left in 2020

95 Books Left to Read-Maybe

54 Non-Golden Trio Reading Challenge Books to Read

16 Books Read So Far

I believe I’m going to have to amend my reading goal. JK Rowling has come out of the woodwork as an absolute TERF and I’m phenomenally disappointed in her for her inhumanity.

I’m genuinely disappointed in how she is acting and the stance she is taking. It makes me want to get rid of all the merchandise I have and no longer support her endeavors and distance myself from that particular fandom.

Her shenanigans aside, I have managed to read a couple of books so far this year, despite the depression beast that’s taken up residence in my brain the last few months.

Here’s what I’ve read so far:

1. Soulbound By: Bethany Adams
2. Little Women By: Louisa May Alcott
3. First Frost: A Novel By: Sarah Addison Allen
4. Lost Lake: A Novel By: Sarah Addison Allen
5. The Housewife Assassin’s Handbook By: Josie Brown
6. Burying the Honeysuckle Girls By: Emily Carpenter
7. The Rules of Magic: A Novel By: Alice Hoffman
8. Fortune’s Fool By: Mercedes Lackey
9. One Good Knight By: Mercedes Lackey
10. The Fairy Godmother By: Mercedes Lackey
11. The Snow Queen By: Mercedes Lackey
12. Mr. Darcy’s Passion By: Harriet Lark
13. The Secrets of Ghosts By: Sarah Painter
14. A Berry Deadly Welcome (Book 1) By: A.R. Winters
15. I Am Malala By: Malala Yousafzai
16. A Study in Charlotte By: Brittany Cavallaro

Were I to completely disregard the Golden Trio Reading Challenge, this is what I would have left to read:

First	Last	Book Title
Sarah Addison	Allen	The Peach Keeper: A Novel
Sarah Addison	Allen	Waking Kate
Racheal	Anderson	Prejudice Meets Pride
J.A.	Armitage	Kingdom of Salt and Sirens
Lisa	Blackwood	Sorceress Awakening
Josie	Brown	The Housewife Assassin’s Killer Christmas Tips
Collette	Cameron	The Earl and the Spinster: A Regency Romance Novel
Melanie	Cellier	An Inconvenient Princess
Melanie	Cellier	The Princess Companion
Deanna	Chase	Haunted on Bourbon Street
Elizabeth	Cole	A Winter’s Knight: A Regency Romance
Naima	Coster	Hasley Street
Anna	Elliott	Georgiana Darcy’s Diary
A.W.	Exley	Neferititi’s Heart
Angie	Fox	Southern Spirits
Kym	Grosso	Immortals of New Orleans: Logan’s Acadian Wolves
Pualine	Gruber	The Girl and the Raven
Alice	Hoffman	Blackbird House: A Novel
Alice	Hoffman	Green Witch
Alice	Hoffman	Illumination Night
Alice	Hoffman	Seventh Heaven
Alice	Hoffman	The Ice Queen: A Novel
Jennifer	Joy Lincoln	Darcy’s Ultimatum
Mercedes	Lackey	A Tangled Web
Lois	Lavrisa	Dying for Dinner Rolls (Georgia Coast Cozy Mysteries)
Grace	Lemon	Maple Syrup Murder
Amelia	Littlewood	Sherlock Holmes & Elizabeth Bennet Vol 1
Amelia	Littlewood	Sherlock Holmes & Elizabeth Bennet Vol 2
Amelia	Morgan	The Witches of Enchanted Bay
Sarah	Painter	In the Light of What We See
Sarah	Painter	The Language of Spells
Sarah	Painter	The Secrets of Ghosts
Sarah	Painter	The Silver Mark (Crow Investigations Book 2)
Rose	Pressey	These Haunts are Made for Walking
SM	Reine	Caged Wolf
SM	Reine	Forbidden Witches
SM	Reine	Hotter Than Helltown
SM	Reine	Silver Bullet
SM	Reine	Summer Court
SM	Reine	Winter Court
Morgan	Rice	A Throne for Sisters
Morgan	Rice	The Magic Factory
Julie	Smith	Crescent City Connection
Rosalie	Stanton	A Higher Education: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice
Ava	Stone	One Haunted Evening
Ava	Stone	Prelude to a Haunted Evening
Lucy	Tempest	Thief of Cahraman
Tish	Thawer	The Witches of BlackBrook
Olivia	Wildenstein	Rose Petal Graves
A.R.	Winters	A Berry Clever Corpse (Book 3)
A.R.	Winters	A Berry Murderous Kitten (Book 2)
Anya	Wylde	Penelope
Anya	Wylde	The Fairweather Sisters Books 1-3
Anya	Wylde	The Wicked Wager

It’s fifty-four books in all.

While I originally wanted to accomplish 111 books in 2020, I wasn’t anticipating getting beaten down by depression and losing almost two months of productivity to it.

Nor, honestly, was I expecting the effect that COVID-19 would have on my life. It has made work and play severely limited and with my Kindle Fire endlessly on the fritz, it makes it hard to read as often as I should. While Miss A is temporarily back in the office, it’s not likely to last and I will be alone in the office again in a month or two for the foreseeable future. In our last major meeting, he said it was unlikely for anyone to come back to the office until after the new year. It’s amazing how difficult this damned virus has made life. And it highlights how terribly our current president, whom I loathe, handles any sort of crisis.

I can’t believe it’s already September. Soon, October and its dual moons will be rolling around. I’ve got a doctor’s appointment this coming Friday and I have to get an updated blood test done. I’m hoping my results aren’t too bad. I need to eat a little better. Too much cereal lately. And NaNoWriMo is coming up as well! As ever, I’m hoping to get a finished novel out of the thirty day journey. I’m hoping that I’m more successful this year than as in past.

Anyway, I’m going to go work on Sparrow’s Seaside Blanket some more. I’m only eight rows from done, counting the nifty border I have planned. As I think I’ve mentioned before, since it’s Seaside themed, I’m doing a crocheted wave stitch for the border in the dark blue.

What are you working on now? What projects do you have planned?

Don’t forget to take your meds, folks!