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2017 Wrap Up: Non-fiction & Series

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I'm combining these into one blog post, because it's already February {Edit: Now it's March? when did this happen?}  and I think that these 2017 year-in-review posts are dragging on. So here's a quick wrap up of my favourite nonfiction and series from 2017. If I was a put together person I would have finished these way back in January, but clearly I'm not on it, so here we are. In March. Still reviewing 2017 books. But in my defense I found out that I've apparently been battling the flu for a month or so. So motivation for blogging and life in general has been at 0%. So here's a quick last 2017 Wrap Up post, and then we're back to our normal schedule (of sporadic posts/no posts at all. Depending on how fast I can kick the last vestiges of the flu out of my system). First up is my favourite non-fiction reads of the year: Nonfiction: Sacred Mundane by Kari Patterson This book is a celebration of the mundane. Sometimes, when...

2017 Wrap Up: Fiction

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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...