3. The Year in Books: 2019
( Photo by Dollar Gill on Unsplash ) Good morning sweet friends, I come to you on this January morning, snuggled up with Dinah, a book, and a hot cup of coffee. The past year was a strange year of reading. It was a year of putting down books halfway through. There were a lot of duds on my reading list. I tried to explore outside my usual reading preferences by trying new genres and new writers. This lead me to disliking a lot of what I read! I guess we read what we read for a reason, huh? ↠↞ I don't think exploring new writers or genres is a bad thing AT ALL and it is something I'll continue doing. It is important that we push ourselves to read books that challenge us in different ways. That's when you discover them gem--the book that changes your life. I just don't plan to dedicate an entire year to exploration. There have to be some tried-and-trues in the mix as well. It's all about balance! ↠↞ Without further ado, my favori...