Happy 2022! I hope you were all able to welcome the new year with health and happiness in your homes. We actually had our Christmas on new year so that was fun. One of my gifts was the perfect book for the start of the year.
This beautiful book is A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year. Every day there is a poem to celebrate the seasons. There are some sweet illustrations too (yes, I’ve already taken a pick throughout it) and I’m just excited to have something to help me relax and and let go of the crazy and busy of the day.
I typically start the year with a new novel but I’m still carrying over several books from last year so I’d like to finish one before starting a new one.
I’m still not reading a lot because I helping my mom with medication reminders and other daily living activities but I’m very happy to report that she’s been very good about doing her exercises and has started walking a bit with her walker. We’ve already had one home health visit and now just need to keep positive and looking forward to better days.
Speaking of looking forward, I have a bunch of new books I need to tell you about. These were some purchases I made over December and all have arrived. And, yes, I still have reviews to post. I’m so excited about a new reading year. I always look forward to exciting new reads!
Anyway, thank you again for all the good wishes and prayers for my mom. We all appreciate them! I’d love to hear about the book(s) you’ve started your year with. Are you starting a new series or discovering a new author?
Iliana, glad you guys got to celebrate ‘Christmas on New Year’. I’ve been thinking about your Mom and wishing her well and also thinking of you and your husband as you assist her with her recovery. Hope all goes well this week! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! I’m so glad to hear about progress in your mom’s well-being. Enjoy your new purchases and your first book of the year. I’m reading There There by a new-to-me author – Tommy Orange. So far, it’s a good read.
I am glad you were able to enjoy Christmas, even if on New Year’s. The date on the calendar isn’t what’s important in the end. I am so glad your mom is home. I hope she continues to do well. A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year does sound like the perfect start to the New Year. Take care, Iliana!
Kay – Thank you so much for the well wishes! We are doing well just a bit tired from having so many things to do and think about but my mom has been making some good progress so that’s so encouraging! I hope you guys had a great holiday. Not sure if you are around Austin but isn’t it cold and just last week it was crazy warm!
Athira – Thank you! Oh my goodness I got the Tommy Orange book earlier last year and still sitting on my shelf. Glad to hear you are enjoying it and I want to get to it soon. I hope you guys had a wonderful holiday season.
Literary Feline – You are so right, it’s the being together and in good health that counts! She was so sad at the hospital which I totally get (I was sad too!) and there’s nothing like being home to cheer you up right? I hope you guys had a wonderful holiday and can’t wait to hear all about it!
I’m so glad to hear that your mom is improving so well. It sounds like you are being good about taking time for yourself, too. That poetry books sounds wonderful. I’m currently reading two books: Taste by Stanley Tucci and Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher. Both are very good!
That’s a great book to start off the year. Nature (or reading about Nature) can be a wonderful remedy. Hope your year is off to a great start! My own first read hasn’t come up yet, sigh.
I am so glad your mom is making progress … even a little bit each week helps. No reading worries yet …. so don’t fret. I read a new author (and a short novel) for the Japanese Lit challenge … called The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada (got at the library) … I was impressed! You might like it,
Happy New Year, Iliana. And I’m happy to hear about all the successful and ongoing adjustments. Change is hard, and relentless. I know what you mean about starting the new year with a tidy new stack; sometimes it happens for me, sometimes it doesn’t. Either way, there’s good reading ahead (which makes for a fine escape, too, at times). Enjoy and keep well!