Rainy Day Reads

Tag started by  Mary . This is her image. I saw this on  Christine's  blog, and decided to do it, because it looked fun! ...even though I wasn't officially tagged (but I feel like half of tag posts are people who haven't been formally tagged. So...). I wanted to do this because I love sweaters. Since I live in a very rainy part of the world, sweaters are a must 9+ months of the year :) The tag was originally in October, which is most fitting, but it's still prime sweater weather here, people pull out their brightest coloured sweaters to drive the January/February blues away. (And also even for those 3 months in the summer when it's warm enough to not need sweaters, people still take them everywhere. Just in case. Old habits die hard) Fuzzy sweater (a book that is the epitome of comfort) Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (or anything by her, to be honest). I can devour it in a day, and it's just such a cozy read. I

So I did end up catching that flu bug that’s going around. My immune system held up for over 2 weeks though, so that’s rad. What’s not rad is how this flu is STILL going around even after more than two weeks. Anyway, I’m holed up in bed, because I’m too sick to get up and do anything remotely productive in between naps, and that's driving me nuts. So what better thing to do than to discuss all of the artsy books from 2017? {NOTE: And then I waited a FULL week to edit. Write when sick and delirious, edit when lucid and well is my personal version of that Ernest Hemingway quote, apparently} These are the books that are hard to describe under any other category, and are works of art. Or just the ones that are really, really, pretty. You know, artsy . And as usual, this isn't in any particular order. Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady My biology teacher from a couple years ago recommended this to me. It's absolutely beautiful. The author, Edith

I'm writing this holed up in my room with tea and shortbread. There's a weird cold/flu thing going around, and it's taken out my whole family, so I'm doing my best not to catch it. My avoiding sickness techniques include holing myself away with tea and shortbread, so what better time to write my end of year reading wrap up? Yes, I'm battling sickness by pretending to be sick. But maybe if I put my sick time in, and stay in bed the flu spirits will pass over me. I'm optimistic. Anyway, I thought that now would be a good time to do a sort of reading wrap up for 2017. I read 92 books, so there's definitely a surplus of books to talk about. I've got my 'Year In Books' (Courtesy of Goodreads) open, so that I can have a shot at remembering what exactly I read this year. I've decided to do a top five(ish. Picking favourite books is hard, ok?) in several categories. I'm not doing them in any particular order, just in what orde