This week I'm going to be enjoying:
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That's the one that I think I'll finish this week but I have 2 more that I'm going to have on the menu as well:
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We shall see what all gets done but I am excited about this reading streak!
What are you going to be reading?
I'll do a few lil updates during the weekend to update on my progress. I am hoping to finish up The Drawing of The Three by Stephen King.
So first up:
Starting on page: 110
Join in the fun if you want!
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UPDATE:
I finished The Drawing of the Three. I didn't read for 24 hours but I did manage to hit 17 hours total read so I count that as a win!
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I hope you all have a lovely Christmas! I hope you get all the books on your wishlist and all the goodies that you deserve!
I'm having a chill one. I work tomorrow night but until then I'm going to read, relax, and enjoy!
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I don't know if it's the flu or some other bug. My symptoms are all over the place, but I'm doing my best to kick it.
Today I have my usual Saturday work load and my usual chores ( I tend to plan chores light on Saturday). So I will try to read around my shifts and stuff.
Still reading The Drawing of The Three, Mistborn and the Borgias.
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I also set a very basic schedule for myself for today (test run day) and as of now it's worked! I have been such a lazy ass..not moving much except when I needed to, eating too much, and just being a blob. So I decided that enough was enough and I need to stick with a schedule as best as I can! I've already hit the treadmill, did some stretches and have done my morning chores!
So now I am going to relax with some coffee and read a bit.
My goals for today reading wise:
TDoTT : 50 pages
Mistborn: 20 minutes reading (i don't know how to calculate pages with an ebook)
The Borgias: 25 pages (it's a history so that always goes slow)
I do have to work later and I will have to do some things for the Lady today, but I am going to push through and get all the gettin' done!
I am also going to focus on eating good food that's healthy and filling. Drinking more water and logging my foods into my app. Not exactly cutting out anything in particular but definitely focusing on actual food instead of junk. I am ashamed at how many honeybuns I ate yesterday! (I mean not really cuz they are delicious but it was far too many in one day!)
So how about you? What are you doing to wrap up the year?
So I didn't post yesterday, but I did get a good bit of reading done. I was just really really tired so I did the bare bare minimum.
Today I have lots of extra hours at work, but I should be able to squeeze some more reading in. I think I am on track to finish up The Gunslinger by Wednesday! I'm thinking once that one is done then I'll slide into the 2nd book in the series.
The other two books have kinda fallen to the wayside, the Gunslinger is a disjointed mess but for some reason I'm intrigued and pulled in. We shall see if the next book continues like that or not.
How's the weather there where you are? It's freezing here but supposedly it'll warm up just a little bit. We shall see!
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I'm also going to try to get more read in Mistborn.
The Gunslinger isn't that long of a book, so I am hoping to have it finished before or by Wednesday. I'm starting to really feel like my goal of 5 books by the end of the month is going to be very possible!
What have you been reading this weekend?
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I will be doing a mini review of A History Of Women In America, probably Monday. It isn't exactly the kind of book that you give a star rating to. It's history. But I got engrossed in it and just couldn't put it down. I think I went to bed at 11pm last night.
So my plans for today are pretty simple, Saturdays are my heavy work days (I have a job outside of taking care of the Lady). So I will be reading and doing things in between shifts. So I don't predict that much reading going on, but I will squeeze in as much as I can.
I know I have Mistborn and The Gunslinger on deck, but I'm trying to decide which non-fiction book to read as well. I'm thinking it's gonna be The Borgias by Michael Mallett.
Along with reading Stephen King in 2026, I think I'm going to try to read at least 2 non-fiction books (mostly history since I'm a nerd for it) a month.
So what are your weekend plans? Are you ready for Christmas? Do you feel the Christmas spirit?
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I have 3 books that I'm reading on and off today, A History of Women in America, Mistborn, and The Gunslinger (the dark tower book 1).
That last one goes into what I've decided for one of my reading goals for 2026. I'm going to read a lot of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Robin Hobb.
I've loaded my kindle up with a lot of those writer's books. I have a boxed set of the Dark Tower series and a few other physical copies of other SK books.
I don't have anything planned today other than chilling and reading. I've caught up on Welcome to Derry, which is the only show I'm really addicted to nowadays, so I have nothing to watch.
Anyone got any reading challenges for 2026 going on? What are your goals for next year?
Ya'll! This show is so so good! I won't spoiler anything but damn..this show had me gasping in shock and grossing me out and then in the next scene crying like a little baby! (If you know, you know!)
I also finished up that Diddy doc on Netflix, it was mostly a curiosity watch...was decent.
Today I have the day off and a few chores to get done but I don't work until later today.
What are you doing today? Have you been watching Welcome to Derry? What do you think of it if you are?
My day off is tomorrow so I do think that I'm going to be doing a personal readathon. I want to finish up one book by the end. I'm going to aim to wake up at 7am tomorrow and read until 1 or 2am. Of course, I won't be able to read straight through that time frame. I still have to do things for the Lady and some weekly chores, but that will give me a good chunk of time to be a lazy bookworm!
Do you read holiday themed books during this time of the year? Do you have any Christmas-y books on your TBR?
Just curious!
After that, I did indeed take a nap and woke up with just enough time to make the lady some food and then get ready for work.
Maybe I can get some reading done at work, but I am not sure. I'll do my best to make up for today, tomorrow.
At least I managed to keep the streak alive!
After this upcoming week, I do have more work hours put into my schedule so this upcoming week I am going to be squeezing more reading in as I can! I've got to shake this lazy streak with my exercise! So that's also going to be a priority too.
This was a very short update, tomorrow I'm going to post about my reading goals! I am still hoping to get 10 books done, but it's not looking likely. So I may try to aim for 5, which with how slow I read that might be a high total but I'm going to give it a shot!
I'm also wondering about reading tracker apps. I know there's Goodreads, but I don't really like the format. Anyone got any good suggestions?
How's your weekend been? I hope it's good!
I got some reading done yesterday and last night too.
I'm really enjoying Mistborn (first book) and can see myself diving right into the second one soon after! A History of Women in America is also very very interesting. That's what I've been reading first thing today, it's not as dry as some history books that I've read, so that helps my attention span stay focused.
Tomorrow I just have my normal shift later in the day, but Sunday is usually my day of "reset" and meal prepping. I still should have quite a nice chunk of day to get some good reading sprints done!
How are you guys liking these daily updates?
Too much? Too boring (probably)?
See ya tomorrow!
I have a few things to do but otherwise it's a calm and relaxed day. My lady is doing well, she had her follow up check in with her nurse and she got the all clear. She had a rough couple of days but should be on the mend. I'm off work today so other than doing things for her I'm just gonna read and chill.
I've relaxed my diet restrictions, just simply out of stress and lack of energy. I couldn't be bothered to stay on track (i know it's a bad excuse) when I was stressing over hospital calls, waiting on updates from her nurse/doctor, and getting her back home and settled in. So I will ease myself back into the swing of that. I haven't worked out either, so that's bad. Now I am planning on starting back this weekend.
So after coffee, I'll get some of my to do's done and settle in with some coffee and a book.
Reading these two again, I hope that this weekend and next week play nice and let me focus on reading more.
How are you doing today?
I'm going to be meal prepping some foods and a bit of tidying up and of course taking care of the lady but I think I'm going to aim for an hour or two of reading in total today.
I am going to do a mini readathon tomorrow. I'm thinking I'll aim for 10-12 hours total reading time tomorrow. I have plans for the night so it'll be day reading a bunch.
Still reading Mistborn and A History Of Women in America. I'm going to try to finish AHoWiA tomorrow.
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Today is my day off from work, but with all that's bound to happen today I don't know how much actual reading time I'll be able to squeeze in.
I do have Friday off, so maybe that can be my designated reading day? She usually has her nurse visit then, but that's only an hour or so out of the day.
So there's my Day 2 update.
Today I will squeeze in as much reading as I can manage. I am exhausted though, I didn't get to bed until about 2:30am and got a text from her at about 5 something (was too bleary eyed to see for certain) letting me know how she was doing.
How's your December going so far?
See ya tomorrow!
Today I didn't do the treadmill but I did some stretches and have been on my feet a lot already. I'm about to have my breakfast and get some reading started up.
Mistborn is hooking me in and I'm really enjoying it. My kindle told me I started out with a bit over 15 hours of read time and I finished up with a little over 11 hours left (not sure how that translates to pages). So I take that as a win too!
I also did some reading in my other book, History of Women in America. That's a more "thinky" kind of book so it is slow going but very very interesting! I am liking Mistborn (first in the series) so much I went ahead and got the next two books!
It's a cold, wet day today so I don't know how my energy is going to hold out but I'm going to do my best to stay on this streak!
Tomorrow I have the day off so I am going to really really focus on reading!
I hope you all have a wonderful day and "see" you tomorrow!
So I'mma try a little something something this month and see how it goes. Are you prepared for the rambles? Tooo bad cuz that's what you're getting! I'm thinking that from now until the end of the year I'll do little daily posties to keep myself accountable for my reading, fitness and just about anything that I am up to. I'm calling it December Doohickies Days.
I'm on day 2 of my restart of the carnivore diet, I had a little slip up over the weekend so I began anew Sunday. I woke up today feeling great! After getting my furry creatures fed, I jumped on the treadmill for a little leisurely walk.
Nothing major, just about 20 minutes to get the blood pumping before I filled my body with all the caffeine!
Got some cleaning tasks done and a shower so now I'm able to sit and relax a bit. Coffee and books at the ready. I'm gonna get a nice chunk of Mistborn read before I have to get up off my booty and do more things.
Later on before I go to work I think I'll catch up on Welcome To Derry. Anyone else watching it? I'm loving it! I even paid for the HBO Max subscription to renew!
I'm not sure what I will have for dinner, thinking it'll be an easy day and do breakfast for dinner or something like that. (Bacon and eggs..lots of bacon!)
My goal for the day (I'll let you know if I make it) is to read about 2 hours total for the day. I'll keep track on my timer for it. I don't go into work until 6 (it's 9am ish atm) but I do have lots of things to do before then. I'll let ya'll know tomorrow!
So how's your December starting out? What are your goals? What are you watching?
I'm dangling the carrot in front of it to get it ready to chow down on some yummy papery delights this month..
My goals for December are to gobble up 10 books. That's a doable amount I think.
I won't make a TBR stack but I have a few in mind.
Currently I'm reading these two:
So those are my starting books for the month.
I'm also thinking about doing a couple of my own personal readathons this month too. I have Wednesdays and Fridays off work, so I might just pick on of those days each week to read all day if I can? We shall see how that goes. I'm finding myself less and less attracted to doomscrolling and aimless watching of things and more drawn to my books and kindle, so I'm going to take from one bad distraction and feed a much better one.
What are you planning this month? Do you have any goals to finish up the year? Drop me some recommendations for books that you are reading or excited about!
I've got some great books on my deck for this week (and probably into next week as well knowing my reading pace!) So here they be:
Two souls trapped in one body must work together to solve multiple murders before it’s too late – before they can no longer tell where one of them ends and the other begins…
Two souls, one body …
When Joy wakes up in an alley, she knows three things: she was brutally murdered, she has somehow come back to life … and she is not alone. She’s been possessed by an inhuman presence, a being that has taken over her dying body. That being is powerful, in pain, and on the run from entities more dangerous than he is.
Shade, a Fae prince on the run, didn’t mean to share the body he jumped into. Desperate and afraid, accused of a murder he didn’t commit, he only sought a place to hide—but if he leaves Joy now, he faces discovery and a fate worse than death.
Forced to work together to solve multiple murders, including her own, Joy and Shade discover hidden strengths and an unlikely friendship. Yet as their souls become increasingly intertwined, they realize their true danger might come from each other … and if they don’t find a way to untangle the knot their souls have become, then even the truth won’t set them free.
Knot of Souls is a stand-alone buddy love fantasy that forces two very different beings to work together … and come out stronger on the other side.
Knot of Souls is available at Amazon.
Book Excerpt
The first thing I realized, after I died, was that my body could walk and talk and no longer needed my help for any of it. I was in there, able to look through my eyes and hear through my ears, but even the simple task of aiming my gaze had slipped outside my control. I was a passenger inside my own mind, an observer along for the ride.
Kristen had been right, I thought numbly as I struggled to make sense of my new reality. Had it only been lunchtime today when she’d told me I’d never get ahead if I didn’t learn to assert myself? “Take control of your life,” she’d said, “or others will take it for you.”
She couldn’t have been thinking of anything quite so literal. Whatever was happening to me, it wasn’t because I’d failed to advocate for a promotion at work or refused to ask out a coworker.
Right?
My body reached my car and slid behind the wheel. A rattled thought—not my own—cursed as it tried to understand how the contraption worked. How much can cars have changed in only a century? Visions accompanied the thoughts, memories—again not my own—of a classic car, gleaming black and elegant, its top down, my bobbed hair whipping around my face as I laughed with glee, a white-faced young man at my side gripping the door, begging me to slow down. I did not.
Which brings me to the second thing I realized, after I died: I was no longer alone inside my own mind.
Whoever was in there didn’t seem to have noticed me yet. Fine. I slid into the smallest corner of my brain I could find, ignoring the intruder as they struggled to figure out how to work an automatic transmission. Maybe they’d get frustrated and give up and go find someone else’s body to possess.
Holy shit! I’ve been possessed by the ghost of someone who died in like 1930.
But why?
I tried to remember what had happened, but the images danced just out of reach. I recalled that the night had been unseasonably cold for October, the chill biting through my inadequate jacket as I hurried to my car, parked in a garage two blocks away from the shelter where I’d been volunteering. Hugging my arms around my torso for warmth, I took a shortcut through an alley and …
There was a noise. I’d startled, my heart pounding in my throat, already on edge because of the argument.
Wait. Back up. There’d been an argument. That seemed significant, but my scattered thoughts couldn’t piece it together as yet, not when a bodily intruder fumbled at the gearshift of my two-month-old Hyundai Accent with only fifty-eight “low monthly payments” left to go.
Low is such a relative word.
– Excerpted from Knot of Souls by Christine Amsden, Christine Amsden, 2025. Reprinted with permission.
Christine Amsden is the author of nine award-winning fantasy and science fiction novels, including the Cassie Scot Series.
Speculative fiction is fun, magical, and imaginative but Christine believes great speculative fiction is about real people defining themselves through extraordinary situations. She writes primarily about people, and it is in this way that she strives to make science fiction and fantasy meaningful for everyone.
In addition to writing, Christine is a freelance editor and political activist. Disability advocacy is of particular interest to her; she has a rare genetic eye condition called Stargardt Macular Degeneration and has been legally blind since the age of eighteen. In her free time, she enjoys role playing, board games, and a good cup of tea. She lives in the Kansas City area with her husband and two kids.
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