I didn’t know what to expect this month. NaNoWriMo took a lot of out me. It does every year. Sometimes that means I don’t have the energy to engage with words at all and sometimes I just don’t have the energy to write. This year reading was fine. I wanted to finish reading some books and I did!

My goal for the year was to read 24 books. I ended up reading 30. I think for 2022 I will aim for 30 again and see if I can surpass it.

Books I finished reading in December:

• House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones
• Year of the Griffin – Diana Wynne Jones
• Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir

Books I’m currently reading:

• The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Heaven Official’s Blessing (Volume 1) – Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

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What books did you read in December? Did you reach your reading goals for the year and are you aiming higher in 2022?