#cassandrareads

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Ok, real talk - this book was phenomenal. It was so sweet and real and hopeful and well-written, I honestly can’t say enough good things about it. So put aside the cheeky cover and listen to me, this is the book you need right now. #RedWhiteAndRoyalblue #CassandraReads https://www.instagram.com/p/ByrIVAPn18m/?igshid=1yzsobyrnmdt

[cassandra-reads]

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*wipes dust off keyboard*

Hello out there!

It has been a very long time since I’ve posted anything on this blog, and it makes me so very sad, because that means it has been that long since I’ve finished a book.

Let me explain.

My life has been a little crazy over the past year or so. I moved to a new city, then moved to a different apartment within that new city, and have been trying (and failing) to effectively manage my money and work and relationships and life in general. Things are finally starting to level out for me and I think I’ve finally found my rhythm.

So when the New Year rolled around, my smart self said, “Hey, you know what? I miss reading. And I have this nasty habit of buying books that I never read, so my resolution for 2017 is to read that pile of books that I bought and never read.”

Oh, to be young and naive.

 I finally went and counted the number of books in that stack, and it’s 38. Y’all, that’s a lot of books. I work over 40 hours a week and watch a significant amount of TV (what can I say? I like stories in every medium), neither of which I’m willing to cut back on. 38 books is over three books a month, which means... I’m already behind?! SOS tell my mother I loved her.

So this resolution has morphed into both a reading goal AND a time management goal. I started by finishing the book I’d been reading on my Kindle for FAR too long (The DUFF: super good, but not posting a review because of how long it took me to read), and have now started my very first book of 2017. I’ve made a separate shelf on Goodreads for my 2017 books, so feel free to follow along (and also maybe bug me to keep me on track): https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/11479728?shelf=2017

Let’s do this, 2017!