Hi, I'm Elle. I'm based in Auckland, New Zealand. I'm the mother of two young adults, the wife of an entrepreneurial gamer and the Queen of Unfinished Projects. This blog will contain poems, short stories, possibly photos and book reviews if you're lucky, and my thoughts on a variety of topics. Hope you enjoy it.
Thanks for the update and best wishes on the new phase you're heading for.
Just in case, one thing to note when your membership drops to the free membership: WDC will leave 10 items in your port viewable, and only ten. The others are not deleted, but no one can see those, just the ten. Also, those are generally just the ten oldest items. You don't get to pick. If you have ten you'd really like for folks to see (and remember you by), you would have to delete all but those ten. (At least this is what I remember that happens.)
Gosh when you update, you really update! Now I have added bullet journaling to check out. Your could easily reach 200 books by the end of the year. Fabulous!
I have heard so much about you! I totally understand the staying away and the ADHD. It is wonderful I was able to read this update. Perhaps a monthly update, just a brief few words, will keep you marginally connected. Ambitious reading list. Take care.
Always let the compliments spill forth... they have a way of making others smile and, as in this case, starts their day off with a heartsmile (which I really needed!) And to be mentioned alongside of a poet I revere in Kåre เลียม Enga - WOW!
Sorry Brian, I just realised one of my sentences has a typo that makes it tricky to understand. It should have said:
While most of them are undiagnosed, one of my husband's cousins is diagnosed.
Okay, so, I've read 107 books this year, which puts me on track to read 120 books in total. That's about normal for me. Some years I fall slightly short, some years I go slightly over... My point is, I read a LOT. From nearly 600 books I've rated since I started using Goodreads, my average rating is 3.5 stars.
I insist that the books I read have a happy ending. For that reason, I mainly read books that fall into the romance genre. I've come to discover over the years that it's a forrm of self-medicating for me. With as much as I read, I couldn't cope with reading negative stuff every day. For instance, I have read a portion (approx 3 books) of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series, but I started getting depressed and had to stop. Every time something good happens, something bad comes along and undoes everything. It's so fucking depressing. I don't mind my characters going through some disaster or even torture if I know that everything is going to work out okay in the end. In a way, that's actually better. Because it teaches the reader (me) that even though everything is shit right now, it'll get better and things will work out. But that Sword of Truth series is epic, and maybe it ends well, but you'd be reading death, doom and disaster for months before you ever got there. Eventually I had to just stop and move on to something else.
Thanks to Goodreads, it's easy to look back and remember what books I loved. I've tried to break them down into subgenres and tropes for you so you can choose to explore some of the ones that interest you... These are in no particular order.
I've got even more four star reads that were nearly as good in most of those categories, so if you want more recommendations, just sing out.
If you've read any of these books, let me know what you thought about them (even or perhaps especially if you disagreed with my rating!). And by all means, let me know your recommendations for me!
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