Bookish Recap
I can’t believe it’s the last day of 2019. I thought a recap of the year is in order. Let’s start with books I read around 578 books, which is 100+ books more than 2018. Cross 17,3401 pages, 45 books of which I gave five stars. The largest book that I read this year was Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse at 737 pages, and the shortest read was a novella by Lee Child titled Second Son (Jack Reacher #15.5) at 32 pages.
When it comes to LGBT+ themes or the main character who is LGBT+, I read 88 books which means that I failed this challenge because, in 2018, I read 108 books from this genre. What’s your guess of many books that I gave a one-star rating? Leave your guess in the comments and don’t cheat. The answer is 13 books, and my average rating was three stars. I have to say that there was a book that I read at the beginning of the year and I keep thinking about is I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver because I could relate with Ben a lot.
My Life
The most significant events of my whole life I believe happened this year. I had my first appointment at the gender clinic, which started my medical transition. I became Alex legally and changed my gender marker to male, which was a dream of mine since I was 8. I met some excellent trans people who helped me feel less alone and more vocal about trans issues. I was about to forget that this year my dad found out that I’m trans and he didn’t kill me and before I forget I came up and started a new writing project which I’m enjoying writing a lot.
Happy New Year,
Alex
You are truly an avid book reader. Also I would like to know how did your first published book go.
Ok, I will do that, and my dream is to blog and write full time
Mine too. Perhaps this is the year we can achieve this dream
I’m sure, you can do it