I feel like I’ve neglected my blog since, well, March. While I’ve been posting regularly, I haven’t read as much this year as I normally do. I finished 208 books between September 1, 2019 and August 31, 2020. Last year, I finished 249. The 41 books I might have read evaporated into hours spent checking Twitter for news, watching COVID-19 numbers rise and rise. I, like a lot of people I expect, thought that I would be able to turn my commute time into reading time. That clearly didn’t happen. In fact, I also spent a lot more time playing computer games with my family, to take the edge off of self-isolating for months.
So, this year is going to have a big ol’ asterisk by it to explain why my numbers and blog posts went down.
You definitely aren’t alone in the numbers drop.
Congrats on all the reading and posting you have done!