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Happy New Year! I can’t believe it’s 2024 already! 2023 really took an… unexpected turn towards the end of the year. I had just made a post saying I needed to catch up on posts after a small hiatus, and then I found out I was losing my full-time job, so I had to be on the hunt for another opportunity in the past few months. That’s left very little time for me to do much of anything else, and I’ve felt really terrible that this blog has taken a back seat. I want 2024 to be a bit of a clean slate, so while I’ll be trying to catch up on arc reviews I seemed to miss from summer – end of 2023, I won’t be continuing my 2023 Buzzword Reading Challenge posts. I think I’ll be cutting down on the number of books I request on NetGalley, and be really selective about books I’m choosing to review. As I’m starting a new job in January, which leaves me with a lot less free time, I want to be strategic about what I post, so it continues to be something I enjoy doing instead of feeling like more of a chore or simply an obligation. I love reading, and I want to share my thoughts about books I love (or like, or hate, reading is subjective after all). All I ask is that if I need more time to get my life settled again after a big change, that you’re patient with me.
Here’s hoping to many great books in 2024!
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