Happy New Year!

It's been 4 years and 3 months (more or less) since I last posted anything to this little blog.  I really have never been consistent with it or disciplined enough to write on it regularly.  I've always been the sort of "as the mood strikes"... hence, no consistency whatsoever on anything I do, except as it pertains to work.

During these past few years I've been through multiple episodes of not being in the mood to read anything.  I found myself more and more fastidious regarding what to pick for reading so, to make the story short, until the middle of last year (2018), I was mostly "sticking" to my tested and true favorite authors rather than going out exploring offerings from authors that I am not familiar with.  One funny thing is that I continued "hoarding" ebooks, even when I know full well that more than half of the ebooks I get, I will likely never read... and I don't plan on stopping this practice  😁😁

Last year I joined a few groups on Facebook related to historical romance, Jane Austen, and specific English historical periods (Victorian, Georgian, Regency).  Through those groups I decided to venture into uncharted waters to discover new authors.  I subscribed to Kindle Unlimited as well, to further my journey.  I am happy to say that I consider the quest, a success.  Yes, I encountered many that had me puzzled (i.e., authors that don't give a fig about basic historical accuracy -- since when were there governesses in Medieval England, just to give an example of whattheeffery; typos, misspellings and grammatical errors galore -- and English is my second language so you can imagine how bad it must be in some cases; words that didn't belong -- wonton in place of wanton...yeah, that one was extra special and very funny, etc.)  Either way, the results were good enough that I decided to continue trying authors new-to-me.  I've started a running list of authors because now I am having a hard time keeping up.  I went from less than 6 favorite historical romance authors to about 15, and my memory is not what it used to be, so I do need to keep a list. I'll probably share it here, on a separate post.  I am also starting a reading journal, and for this topic, I am already in the process of writing a new post.

I am done with New Year's resolutions of any sort.  By now I know that I will never follow through.  All I accomplished on previous years was putting pressure on myself and then feeling bad because I wasn't able/willing to follow through with my resolutions. 

Regarding the future of this blog, aside from what I mentioned already, I am not going to post what I plan on doing next as now I do know better.