A Piece Of My Heart

Welcome to the Roaring 20s!

I'm 25! Woop! It's the start of a new decade and I'm excited to see what the years ahead will bring! Outside of WDC, I've started a daily personal journal. I hope to write just a page in that every day about whatever is on my mind minus the stress of trying to think of what I want to say. Freewriting, I guess you could call it. It'll be a simple experiment to see if I can keep it up. I've done two days so far and haven't failed yet!

First, a reminder for myself of what I wrote in December:

STATIC

Another Year Gone By  (E) In that lull between Christmas and the New Year #2208755 by Emily

STATIC

Eulogy to the Place that Raised Me  (ASR) I thought returning to this place of magic would be a homecoming - a reunion of wonder. #2208816 by Emily

I also realized that I did not list the books I read last year in my "Decade Review" post from a few days ago. A la Jeff, the list of books I read in 2019 is in this little dropnote:

2019 Reading List ▼

= Recommended

January:
1 - "A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There"  
2 - "A Brief History of Time"  
3 - "Jar of Hearts"  

February:
4 - "I've Got My Eyes on You"  
5 - "Lab Girl"  
6 - "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History"  
7 - "Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by Sedaris, David (2013) Paperback"  
8 - "Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know"  
9 - "When You Are Engulfed in Flames"  

March:
10 - "The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age"  
11 - "The Universe in a Nutshell"  
12 - "The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir"  
13 - "Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human by Jesse Bering (2012-07-03)"  
14 - "She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity"  

April:
15 - "The Third Twin"  
16 - "True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray"  
17 - "Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness"  
18 - "Elevation"  
19 - "Calypso"  

May:
20 - "The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century"  
21 - "Brief Answers to the Big Questions"  
22 - "The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs"  

June:
23 - "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"  
24 - "The Last Lecture"  
25 - "Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love"  

July:
26 - "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants"  
27 - "The Silent Patient"  
28 - "On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft"  

August:
29 - "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race"  
30 - "Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel"  
31 - "Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide"  

September:
32 - "The Bees: A Novel"  
33 - "Educated: A Memoir"  
34 - "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail"  

October:
35 - "Within Arm's Length: A Secret Service Agent's Definitive Inside Account of Protecting the President"  
36 - "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow"  
37 - "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism"  
38 - "Wishtree"  

November:
39 - "After the Flood: A Novel"  
40 - "How to Win Friends and Influence People"  

And now, my goals for the first month of the new year!

Read:
For "CLOSED!The Monthly Reading Challenge" , "Invalid Item"  and "Angel Product Reviews" 
"If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating"   by Alan Alda
"Howl's Moving Castle"   by Diana Wynne Jones
"Pax"   by Sara Pennypacker
"Devotion: A Memoir (P.S.)"   by Dani Shapiro

Enter Contests:
"The Contest Challenge" 
"Rebel Poetry Contest" 


Continue Regular Commitments:
Normal review crediting for "WdC SuperPower Reviewers Group"  and "Anniversary Reviews" 
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  January prompting and judging

Happy New Year!
-Emily