This is technically the first time I'm mentioning Bout of Books this year as I made my participation announcement on Twitter but happy day 3! I haven't been doing such a great job as usual but I have been busy with work and getting ready to go back to school so the amount of time I have to sit down and read is not as much as I would like. 

With that said, I don't have much to update on...I'm currently working my way through The Crown's Game by Evelyn Skye but I'm thinking of picking up The Romanov Empress by C.W. Gortner which I got from my library yesterday. This leaves my current page total at a sad 295...

Today's challenge was created by Emma from Words and Peace which is to connect the words Bout and Books together through six books. I checked Emma's page and she did something like an acrostic poem so let's run with that.

It is actually pretty hard to find books that start with O and I also dropped the "of"...but this kind of makes sense? 

the

BOne witch understands

the hate 

U give

as she is

The empress of all seasons

with the

Bear and the nightingale

the

One who flew over the cuckOo's nest

with

Starry eyes

I'm also attempting to Instagram story the week instead of vlogging so be sure to check that out for "daily" updates - @_lepetitphotograph_

It is four days into the new year and I figured that I should probably construct some sort of greeting to get things started. Hello universe, 2019 is here and there are so many things to do. I'm just getting over a cold so I was a bit MIA but now that I can finally breathe through my nose again let's figure out some goals I want to set.

65 books
I'm back with another Goodreads challenge. Honestly, 2018 was rough - I don't think I've ever been that behind on a Goodreads reading challenge ever and there was a moment where I thought I wasn't going to make it. With that said, we're going back to 65 which was my original goal before I changed it. I think it's pretty doable...a bit more than a book a week.

2 posts a week
This one makes me a bit nervous because I haven't had the best track record with consistent posting. However, I mentioned with Petitmas that I've rekindled my determination to be more active on the blogging community so I'm going to aim for two posts a week to make sure I'm actually putting out content.

Journaling
Starting from June of last year, I've kept a pretty consistent schedule with journaling and this year I want to try to keep the streak going for the whole year. I've set up my new journal and have all these different spread ideas so I'm super excited to get started. My friend also gave me two massive books of scrapbook paper to play with. I'm thinking of filming some spreads so maybe I'll share some "journal with me" posts.

Reviews
Another one I'm carrying over from last year - I want to have a review for every book I read in 2019. I almost achieved this last year but a couple books still slipped from my mind. I found myself remember a lot more even if I just scribble a couple bullet points down on Goodreads. Another goal that branches off of this one would be to post full review more often on the blog which goes into the whole two posts a week. I feel like last year I had my Goodreads bullet points and didn't get around to expanding my reviews into full coherent sentences so that's something to work on.


I think I'll keep my list simple and not get too ambitious. Everything feels relatively doable but still challenging to a certain extent. If there are any post ideas that you would like to see, please share them with me below! Have a wonderful start to 2019!