Today starts Chapter 42 of my life! I don’t have much planned for today. I am going to sit in the yard and read a book in the morning (since the weather has been so perfect for that all this week). My bestie wants to take me out to lunch in the afternoon. And both of my children will be coming home from college and we’re going to go out to dinner a family at night.
It has been TWELVE years since I walked into my local library and signed up for a library card. The library says I have saved $12,302.96 since I began using the library. In those twelve years I have borrowed books (of course), play away devices, audiobook CDs, video games, movies, TV show DVDs, used their computers to print out things, and went to my first library sale this past spring.
*Note: I am pretty sure my library does not put my Libby and Hoopla savings totals into the dollar amount that printed out on my last receipt.
I keep track of all my reading on Google Sheets. I also keep track of challenges on a separate Google Sheet. Basically, I’m keeping Google in business with how many reading spreadsheets I have made and currently active, haha!
I have finished listening to 28 audiobooks as of this posting. My aim was “binge listener (20-30 books)” since my plan at the beginning of the year was to listen to less books and use my eyes to read more…. apparently that plan went out the window!
It’s Independence Day in the USA!
My husband and son went to hangout with my in laws down the shore, while my daughter and I stayed home with the dog. Us girls will probably be in the pool and I’m sure I will end up BBQing for dinner.
Hope to get a ton of reading time in as well!
June is National Great Outdoors Month. In 2019, the U.S. Senate officially designated June as Great Outdoors Month. The month aims to raise awareness of the importance of outdoor recreation for physical and mental health, as well as to promote responsible outdoor behavior and conservation efforts.
This month I plan to spend as much time outside as I can, as my body needs sunshine and vitamin D. The weather here in New Jersey has been overcast and rainy waaaaayyyyyyy more than normal this entire year and it’s really making my body depressed.
I want to read outside as much as possible also!
Long story short, anything linked to the social media accounts of Melissa The Reading Nerd has been, or will be, deleted. META refuses to believe I am a real person and keeps telling me my accounts are being “fraudulent or deceptive” or “goes against community guidelines”. The emails are never more specific than that.
I will be starting over on social media, if and once META allows me.
This entire year of reading thus far as not been fun for me. I signed up for too many challenges, I have too many ARCs in my possession that I never get around to reading; honestly it’s been too much of everything. I need to make my reading enjoyable again.
So with that I, as always, will mostly be using the library for all my reading needs. My local library is fantastic because it has a huge selection of physical books, does inter-library loans if need be, and uses both Libby and Hoopla for digital books and content.
Today I am currently 7% into The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson. Libby says I have 12 more days to power through this thick boy. Lets do this!
