Raise Your Lantern High, chapter 4: Origin Stories

RAISE YOUR LANTERN HIGH

Summary: In which Remus and Tonks fight battles, arrest criminals, befriend werewolves, overcome inner demons and, despite it all, find themselves a happy ending. A love story, and a story of the Order years. (My Remus/Tonks epic, which has been years in the making! This is the second half of the story, set in the Half-Blood Prince year.)

( Chapter 4: Origin Stories )

Books in 2015!

Here we go... Some reflections on a huge year of reading:


I did this meme for the first time last year; in 2014 I'd made a conscious effort to step up my reading of books again; I used to be a voracious book reader, but discovering fanfic sidetracked me for a bit. I still enjoy fanfic too, but I wanted to make a deliberate return to books.

I read 38 books in 2014, and was pretty pleased with myself – that's everything from fairly light reads to massive tomes, and it was on top of working and also traveling a lot (and still reading and writing a lot of fic), etc., so that actually felt like quite a few. (Averaging out to 3 or more novels a month.)

In 2015, though, I was really pushing myself to expand my reading – reading authors from many different backgrounds, reading some classics, working my way through some of the books that had been on my "recommended" list for ages – and I also had a lot more time to read, since I was between jobs for part of the year. So as the end of 2015 drew near, I decided to see if I could hit double my previous year's total, i.e., at least 76 books.

I'm pleased to report I read 79 books in 2015! (For an average of 6 to 7 books a month??) I also did quarterly round-ups of what I'd most enjoyed during each three-month chunk of the year (findable under the "books" tag), which was fun.

Here are some reflections on my year in books:

( BOOKS MEME 2015 )

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