Three things I've enjoyed lately
1. Drinking iced mint tea in the afternoons
2. Getting lost in books, one after the other
3. Seeing Americans rise up
Three things I dislike participating in
1. Exercises in futility
2. Trash removal
3. Traffic
Three things I don't feel like doing anymore
1. Engaging with people who don't understand how the world works
2. Weeding
3. Commuting
Three reading behaviors I hate
1. When people have to be contrarian about books, like they hate every popular book just because other people like it or because they will not admit they've taken everyone's opinion as fact and hyped it up to a level of greatness it absolutely could never achieve. Sometimes I don't like popular books. Sometimes I do. Neither makes me special. The same applies to you.
2. When people say they don't have time to read. If you have time to watch TV or type on your phone, you have the time to read. It is not your priority and that's okay but it is not a lack of time issue unless you literally have no time to do anything that involves leisure. If that is the case I feel terrible for you.
3. When books are treated like museum pieces. I consider them living, breathing things. That gets a little messy.
Three books I’ve loved this year
1. The Kate Burkholder series by Linda Castillo and the most recent installment of the Fina Ludlow series by Ingrid Thoft: Duplicity
2. A Million Junes by Emily Henry
3. Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
Three books I'm looking forward to reading
1. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
2. Cocoa Beach by Beatriz Williams
3. This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Three things I'm excited to do this year
1. Attend the Pennsylvania Conference for Women
2. Get a runner installed on the stairs at the shore
3. Hunt for a piece of replacement wood furniture in thrift stores
Three things I’m glad I did this year
1. Cancelled our vacation in April
2. Went to DC for the Women's March on January 21
3. Updated the tattoo on my back
Stole some of Jana's prompts and added some of my own. Now you go!
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