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Been a While

I was laying awake in bed this morning and it struck me I had a blog on WordPress that I always fancied keeping up to date but somehow forgot about it. Luckily I had the username and password saved in the browser and well here it is.

I think i will certainly try my best to keep it updated more going forward and despite the username being ValleyReading, I would also like to get back into my hobby and interest of shaving things which I am a lapsed poster on Instagram of my Shave of The Day’s or SOTD. It was good fun to set up the photos and share my shave with other like minded people. It must be a year or so since I posted one. I really should get back into it.

Back to here and I should keep my reading up to date here, despite my laziness I do religiously keep my goodreads page up to date and as of right now have read 21 books out of 50 for my 2023 Reading Challenge. I just choose 50 as a nominal number and I know it will be exceeded to about 90 or even 100. I’m not a reader who will pad it out either with comics or short books, though I did read the entire Maigret series on 75 books, roughly 200 pages each. That was an enjoyable 4 years dipping in and out of them.

So if I remember and aren’t too lazy I will regularly update here with both my reading and shaving goings on.

My

Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8797999

Shaving IG https://www.instagram.com/valleyshaving/

First blog post

First blog post

Hello and welcome to my blog, as of the time of writing this I have no idea where I am going wih this.I plan to use this site as a place to post my thoughts about the books I read, in hindsight I should have done this seven months ago when I started my Goodreads Reading Challenge. Better late than never I suppose.

For this years Reading Challenge I decided to be modest and set an initial target of 12 books for 2017. Subsequently I have exceeded it so raised the target to 18, I am currently at 15 books read so will likely raise it yet again to either 24 or 30. Considering I slacked last year in my reading, I am pleased to see me making good progress and experiencing new genres.

Currently I am reading a lot of Japanese literature, Yasunari Kawabata in particular. I am not sure why I got into this genre but I certainly am glad that I did. I suppose that is a blog post in itself, so far I have read several books by both him and others and thoroughly enjoyed them, even found a novel that is in my all time favourite reads.

Enough waffling for now, I’m not sure when I will get around to it but soon I will start using this site