Let's not talk about how I haven't updated in weeks because well, there is no other answer to this than I have not been feeling my best recently, and I also tend to forget I even have a blog, huh? Yeah I know.
So, who else is ready for 2020 to be over?? Yeah me too, immediately please. And while the 1st of January is technically just any other day and a new year isn't anything significant other than a new year which happens every year, I think we as humans, especially after a year as shit as this one, are in need of something that we can petition off as everything that has happened, and just have a moment to sit and say that yep okay that happened and have some hope that the future will be different and the day that's coming will be better than the one we've just had.
And I feel ready for that I'm not going to lie. 2020 has had some lighter moments of course and I'm sure I wouldn't have been totally ecstatic over 2020 even if we didn't have a pandemic, but what do I know really?
But if 2019 made me find my way back to writing then I must give 2020 some praise for helping me find my way back to reading and loving it again. I've read 12 books, which yes might not be much, but it's quite a lot of books for me because I am a fussy and picky and a distracted human when it comes to books and they need to make me feel otherwise I'm more than likely to put them down unfortunately. But for next year I might consider feeling a little less every time I pick up a book because most books I have read during this year have actually been utterly heartbreaking and sad. Apparently 2020 was the year for reading tragedies for me, maybe next year I will focus on reading books with happier endings, just to give myself a break.
My top 3 books of the year are:
⭐ The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai - heartbreaking and beautiful. It gripped me from the very first page and I still think about this book to this very day.
⭐ The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne - I laughed and laughed and I felt all the heartbreak too, in every inch of my body. This opened my eyes to John Boyne and for my 2021 reading list I will for sure include some more of his books. The Absolutist are on the top of that list already.
⭐ Beartown/Björnstad by Fredrik Backman - a book about hockey and so much more. This introduced me to the national treasure this man is. This book was incredible and empowering and so sad at times it made my heart ache. Part 3 will hopefully come out next year, that's what I am hoping for anyway.
I love books, finally again.
No matter who you are I do wish you a happy new year with good vibes, God knows we could all need some happiness. Thanks 2020 I guess, you've been shit, I hope 2021 will be better for us all!
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