this time last year

Every year, I write a post called This Time Last Year where I reflected on where I currently was in my life and where I’d been the year before. I normally do this in February, but I’m running a little behind this year, so I’m doing it in March.

I found the experience of writing it to be enjoyable, and it allowed me to reflect on things that I don’t normally reflect on.

While I’m mostly focused on reading and my reading habits, this post is just a general “how have things changed in the last year” post.

This Time Last Year I Was Reading: Wake the Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne

My full review can be found here

Synopsis: The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew up on has awakened. The woods are shifting, the soil is dead under her hands, and her bone pile just stood up and walked away.

After dropping out of college, all she wanted was to resume her life as a tobacco hand and taxidermist and try not to think about the boy she can’t help but love. Instead, a devil from her past has returned to court her, as he did her late mother years earlier. Now, Laurel must unravel her mother’s terrifying legacy and tap into her own innate magic before her future and the fate of everyone she loves is doomed.

I’m Currently Reading: The Odyssey of Fletcher by Erik Dargitz

After a global virus seemingly wipes out the entire male population, a skinny, socially awkward, self-conscious video game junkie is somehow still kicking. And he’s wildly unprepared for this new world. Out there waiting for him are physicians who want to study him, a cult of spiritual extremists who want to deify him and brutal gangs with far more nefarious intentions. Throughout his journey, Fletcher does his best to act like a real man, being that he’s the only one around. Unfortunately, this only leads to more problems … for him and humanity.

This Time Last Year I Had Read:

7 Fantasy
4 Science Fiction
1 Thriller
1 Non-Fiction
1 Contemporary
1 Romance
1 Poetry

In 2024, I’ve read:

9 Fantasy
4 Science Fiction
3 Memoir/Autobiography
2 Romance
2 Non-Fiction
1 Magical Realism
1 Mystery
1 Literary Fiction

This Time Last Year My Reading & Blogging Goals Were: I wanted to read 100 books, read more romance, and complete a certain series.

My Current Goals Are: I have a full list. Some of those goals are the same, such as reading 100 books and completing a certain series. I also want to read a wider diversity of genres.

This Time Last Year The Series I Was Reading Was: I wasn’t reading a series at this time. I was only reading standalone books.

The Current Series I’m Reading Is: I’m about to start the first book in the Lightbringer series. I meant to read it last year, but that didn’t happen.

This Time Last Year I Was Watching: I was rewatching Justified.

I’m Currently Watching: I’m rewatching Sons of Anarchy because I haven’t seen it in a while.

This time last year, my cats looked like this:

Now, they look like this:

This is the end of my very quick reflection on “this time last year”. I didn’t want to go over everything that’s changed, and a lot of what’s changed are personal things I’m not ready to share, but this feels like just enough sharing for me.

What were you reading at this time last year? How have things changed for you in the last year?

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This Time Last Year

Every year, on almost this exact date, I write a post called “This Time, Last Year” where I reflected on where I currently was in my life and where I’d been the year before. I found the experience of writing it to be enjoyable, and it allowed me to reflect on things that I don’t normally reflect on.

While I’m mostly focused on reading and my reading habits, this post is just a general “how have things changed in the last year” post.

This Time Last Year I Was Reading: Queen of Shades by Eli Hinze

My full review can be found here

Synopsis:

A wanderer. An outcast. A Queen.

Against the customs of the land, Kigal is amongst the few still willing to bury the dead. It is a life that has left her wandering, without friend or home, but she spreads her message of justice for the deceased wherever she can. However, when targeted by those who loathe her, she narrowly escapes execution and tumbles into the Underworld.

There Kigal is met with the impossible: the souls of the dead proclaiming her as their goddess, fated to be Queen of the Underworld.

Hurled into a world beyond her imagining, clashing with seductive gods and bringing demons to heel, she must fight to bring justice to the forgotten dead. Yet as an ancient evil rises in the Land of the Living, Kigal must not only fight for the lives of those who sought her ruin, but for their very souls.

I’m Currently Reading: Nobody by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

There are people in this world who are Nobody. No one sees them. No one notices them. They live their lives under the radar, forgotten as soon as you turn away.

That’s why they make the perfect assassins.

The Institute finds these people when they’re young and takes them away for training. But an untrained Nobody is a threat to their organization. And threats must be eliminated.

Claire has been invisible her whole life, missed by the Institute’s monitoring. But now they’ve ID’ed her and have sent Nix to remove her. Yet the moment Nix lays eyes on her, he can’t make the hit. It’s as if Claire and Nix are the only people in the world for each other. And they are—because no one else can really see them.

This Time Last Year I Had Read:

6 Fantasy
4 Science Fiction
2 Contemporary
3 Non-Fiction
1 Autobiography/Memoir

In 2023, I’ve read:

5 Fantasy
2 Science Fiction
1 Contemporary
1 Non-Fiction
1 Thriller
1 Poetry

This Time Last Year My Reading & Blogging Goals Were: I had a lot. They were mostly read 100 books, finish certain series and read more diverse authors.

My Current Goals Are: A full list is linked here. Some of those goals are the same, such as reading 100 books and completing a certain series. I also want to read a wider diversity of genres.

This Time Last Year The Series I Was Reading Was: The Poppy War. I had just started the first book at the time.

The Current Series I’m Reading Is: I’m about to start the first book in the Lightbringer series.

This Time Last Year I Was Watching: Daredevil on Netflix

I’m Currently Watching: I’m rewatching Justified because I never finished it the first time.

This is the end of my very quick reflection on “this time last year”. I didn’t want to go over everything that’s changed, but I wanted to talk about the things that stood out to me as having changed the most.

What were you reading at this time last year? How have things changed for you in the last year?

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This Time Last Year

Last year, on almost this exact date, I wrote a post called “This Time, Last Year” where I reflected on where I currently was in my life and where I’d been the year before. I found the experience of writing it to be enjoyable, and it allowed me to reflect on things that I don’t normally reflect on. I’ve decided to make it a yearly thing.

While I’m mostly focused on reading and my reading habits, this post is just a general “how have things changed in the last year” post.

This Time Last Year I Was Reading: The Lord of Stariel by AJ Landcaster

My full review can be found here

Synopsis: The Lord of Stariel is dead. Long live the Lord of Stariel. Whoever that is.

Everyone knows who the magical estate will choose for its next ruler. Or do they?

Will it be the lord’s eldest son, who he despised?

His favourite nephew, with the strongest magical land-sense?

His scandalous daughter, who ran away from home years ago to study illusion?

Hetta knows it won’t be her, and she’s glad of it. Returning home for her father’s funeral, all Hetta has to do is survive the family drama and avoid entanglements with irritatingly attractive local men until the Choosing. Then she can leave.

But whoever Stariel chooses will have bigger problems than eccentric relatives to deal with.

Winged, beautifully deadly problems.

For the first time in centuries, the fae are returning to the Mortal Realm, and only the Lord of Stariel can keep the estate safe.

In theory.

I’m Currently Reading: Queen of Shades by Eli Hinze

This Time Last Year I Had Read:

7 Fantasy
5 Science Fiction
2 Contemporary
1 Mystery
1 Historical Fiction

In 2022, I’ve read:

6 Fantasy
4 Science Fiction
2 Contemporary
3 Non-Fiction
1 Autobiography/Memoir

This Time Last Year My Reading & Blogging Goals Were: I had a lot. They were mostly read 100 books, finish certain series and read more diverse authors.

My Current Goals Are: A full list is linked here. Some of those goals are the same, such as reading 100 books and reading more diverse authors. A few I updated or made more specific. I also want to read a wider diversity of genres.

This Time Last Year The Series I Was Reading Was: The Wheel of Time which I finished in May of 2021. I had just finished the 11th book, Knife of Dreams

The Current Series I’m Reading Is: The Poppy War. I’m about 200 pages into the first book.

This Time Last Year I Was Watching: Letterkenny on Hulu

I’m Currently Watching: Daredevil on Netflix

What were you reading at this time last year? How have things changed for you in the last year?

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This Time Last Year

Every now and then, I decide to take a moment and look back on things. I’m not typically one to be sentimental, but I like thinking about how far I’ve come and how much things have changed in a certain amount of time. So, this week, I wanted to look back at this time, last year. While I’m mostly focused on reading and my reading habits, this post is just a general “how have things changed in the last year” post.

This Time Last Year I Was Reading: Odriel’s Heirs by Hayley Reese Chow

My review can be found here

Synopsis: The brave, burning with fire, harnessed the Dragon’s Rage….

As the Dragon Heir, seventeen-year-old Kaia inherited the power of flame to protect her homeland from a godlike necromancer’s undead army. But after centuries of peace, the necromancer has faded to myth, and the Dragon Heir is feared by the people. Persecuted and cast out, Kaia struggles to embrace and control her seemingly useless gift while confined to her family’s farm.

But when the necromancer’s undead terrorize the land once again, Kaia runs away to join the battle.

With the help of her childhood rival, the handsome Shadow Heir, and a snarky, cursed cat, Kaia must figure out how to control both her fire and her confidence in time to save Okarria. If she fails, she will sacrifice her family, her new friends, and the enchanting world she has only just begun to see.

And time is running out.

I’m Currently Reading: The Lord of Stariel by A.J. Lancaster

This Time Last Year I Had Read:

5 Fantasy
2 Contemporary/Literary Fiction
2 Science Fiction
2 Humor
1 Mythology
1 Children’s Book
1 Non-Fiction

In 2021, I’ve read: 7 Fantasy, 5 Science Fiction, 2 Contemporary, 2 Non-Fiction, 1 Mystery, 1 Historical Fiction

This Time Last Year My Reading & Blogging Goals Were: Read 100 books. Update my blog at least once a week.

My Current Goal is: I’ve set several reading goals for myself, but no blogging goals.

This Time Last Year The Series I Was Reading Was: The Dune Saga which I’ve abandoned after not enjoying God Emperor of Dune

The Current Series I’m Reading Is: The Wheel of Time. I just finished the 11th book, Knife of Dreams

This Time Last Year I Was Watching: Planet Earth for like 3rd time.

I’m Currently Watching: Letterkenny

This Time Last Year I Had: No Pets

I Now Have: 2 Cats, named Gin and Whiskey shown below.

What were you reading at this time last year? How have things changed for you in the last year?