2021 in Review

Last day of 2021! At the beginning of every year, I set personal goals for myself. Let’s see how I did.

These were my 2021 goals:

• 1. Read 45 books
• 2. Complete my third novel (it’s about 2/3 of the way drafted already).
• 3. Write 12 short stories (return to my blog every month for the short story of the month)
• 4. Finish my flower needlework project
• 5. Finish my Grimm Fairy Tale Cross Stitch

And how did I do?

1. I read 42 out of 45 books. (Top three books of the year are in bold.)
   • Nevernight
   • Unicorn War
   • An Orc on the Wild Side
   • Serafina and the Black Cloak
   • Lore Olympus Volume 1
   • Witches Steeped in Gold
   • The Bone Witch
   • The Red Pyramid
   • The Doll in the Garden
   • Twist of Faith
   • The Good Samaritan
   • Lucky
   • The Homeward Bounders
   • Understanding Show, Don’t Tell
   • A God in the Shed
   • Questland
   • Tokyo Ever After
   • Chi’s Sweet Home Volume 3
   • Behind Blue Eyes
   • Harrow the Ninth
   • A Deadly Education
   • Ruin and Rising
   • Among the Beasts and Briars
   • The Lost Apothecary
   • The Ghost Tree
   • There Are No Countries
   • Siege and Storm
   • As Far As You’ll Take Me
   • Firefly: Legacy Book 1
   • Gideon the Ninth
   • One of the Good Ones
   • The Many Lives of Pusheen the Cat
   • Shadow and Bone
   • A Peculiar Peril
   • Queer, There, and Everywhere
   • Stuffed
   • The Next One Hundred Years
   • I Can’t Make This Up
   • Looking Glass
   • Sheepfarmer’s Daughter
   • Swing Time
   • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
2. I wrote, finished, and published my third novel!
   • Here is a link for it!
   • Unicorn War by AJ Niblock
3. I wrote and shared 12 short stories of the month!
   • You can find them all throughout my blog posts for the year. Just look for the short stories of the month!
4. I finished my flower needlework.
   • I have been working on it for years!!!!
5. I only have one section left on my fairy tale cross stitch!
   • My plan is to finish it in the next couple of days. (Almost did it!)

Hope everyone had an okay 2021!

Happy reading and writing today and every day!