Penny Thoughtful: All Things Books and Running

The numbers speak for themselves. December Rather than make a yearly wrap up from scratch, I’m going to use The Storygraph’s. They do such an amazing job. It really is the best reading app out there.

It’s time to reflect on my goals for 2024 before setting my goals for the upcoming year. That brings me to my 2025 goals. I am really excited for the reading year ahead and hopefully will be able to celebrate success with these goals come December 2025.

As I finish off the year, I know that I will have at least two more books read this year that I have not finished at the time of writing this entry. However, I will not write up separate reviews for them since my December wrap up will go up before the next recent reads.…

Race #232 8k #19 2024 Race #11 2024 8k #1 After last year’s smashing and unexpected success, along with the success of the Spinx half, I had a lot of confidence going into this race. I did attempt to temper those expectations a little thanks to the sinus infection/cold that I’ve had for a week…

I know it may not seem like it but my pace has slowed down just a little bit. The rather large size of a few of these books also contributed to the slight slow down. This week started with the second to last day of the semester which meant that I finished one last graphic…

Since I continue to read an absurd amount, I decided to split up my recent reads to make the length a little more reasonable. (It also helps that I still have not caught up with writing reviews and this meant that I could finish writing the reviews for prepping the post to go live. I’m…

Race #231 Half Marathon #84 2024 Race #10 2024 Half #5 I went into this race with a plan thanks to my coach and the determination to follow that plan to the best of my ability even if the predicted warmer temperatures got the best of me. I also struggle with confidence in my ability…

When one reads more than 400 books in a single year – who even am I? – one would think that i would have enough books to have separate lists for different categories. While I could technically, I do not have enough actual 5 star reads to make more than one list. I, personally, cannot…

One of these days I will eventually get caught up with these reviews. Of course, I could help myself with that endeavor by reading less but we all know that’s unlikely to happen. Originally I planned for this post to cover the first two weeks of December, all of the books except for the historical…