Monthly (and Yearly) Wrap Up. December

Happy New Year's Eve! 🥳 Still remember me? No, I didn't give up on blogging after my 10th blogversary (although it might have seen like I did since I have not shared new content nor blog hooped in the last two months). Life was a bit busy, aka I began a course that took all of my free time, so I had to take a mini blogging break. I don't like taking breaks (I fear everyone will forget about me), but sometimes it's very hard to jumble my PhD / work and blogging together. Hopefully, 2021 will be a year filled with lots of new content.

What I've been up since I've been gone:

🌻 Job hunting, which is so much harder with COVID since no one seems to be hiring. I sent three applications in December, so wish me good luck.

🌻 Lots and lots of drawing! I'm no Picasso and after a ten-year break, I still have a lot to relearn.

🌻 Talking about drawing. I'm slowly putting together a new project that I can't wait to share with you.

🌻 I've been wondering about creating a Patreon account. Do you have one? 🤔

🌻 About the course I mentioned above, I just sent my final paper and if everything goes well I will be able to teach.

🌻 I read 59 books this year. Not the number I was aiming for, but 2021 will be better. Ps. I will be talking about my reading year in another post.

🌻 Now, onto the most exciting book-related thing of the year: I RECEIVED MY FIRST EVER PHYSICAL ARC! 😭 You can watch the unboxing here. The recording is bad,  but I was not okay, okay? After ten years and since I'm an international blogger, I had given up hope. But nice things do happen when you least expect.

🌻 I received an acceptance e-mail for my first international conference of the year. I will be presenting a paper on YA dystopias, pandemics, and posthumanism. Since it is an online conference, I will be presenting from home, and a cat (or two) may make an appearance.

 

Thank you to Penguin Random House International for sending me a physical ARC of Cast in Firelight by Dana Swift. I can't wait to read it -- maybe it will be my first read of the year. 🥰 I was surprised to find that my Netgalley request for Dustborn by Erin Bowman was accepted - I requested it more than three months ago!!! I finally got Cress by Marissa Meyer -- it was a Christmas gift, from me to me.

 

How was your December? Did Santa leave any books under your chimney?

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