Well it’s 2012 and the New Year has begun, so even though it’s a few days late I wish you all a happy new year and all the best for the coming year.
Upon logging into my dashboard I find that wordpress needed to update again, it doesn’t seem long since the last update just before Christmas I believe, deactivated the ‘let it snow’ plugin and checked for other updates.
So here I am a plugin, wordpress update and 7 other updates later raring to go.
So what’s in the cards for The Crimson Inkpot in 2012? Well my book blog is officially a year old as I launched it in January 2011, in the first couple of days of the year if I’m remembering correctly.
As for my plans for the blog in the coming year I have some, I’m keeping my plans fluid to not make it stressful on my health. Since around June/July 2011 I have been suffering badly with flare-ups of my RA and Fibromyalgia. On December 22nd I had my physiotherapy assessment but am still awaiting my Occupational Therapy assessment which I was actually referred for not physiotherapy, so I am beginning to worry that someone my referral to the OT has fallen through the cracks and been overlooked.
But that doesn’t answer the question of the future on TCI does it?!
I am currently typing on a new – and expensive – Microsoft ergonomic keyboard which hopefully will make inputting text whether on my blogs or for generally surfing/searching online less painful on my joints.
So in 2012 I hope to begin updating more often, naturally! I have been given access to my Mother’s new laptop so when I am too ill to sit at my desktop I will have access online and to update my blog(s) when I am under the proverbial weather.
I have been lining up my books that I wish to review for my blog and hope also to take part in the blog hops once again. I am trying to find the easiest way to review including narrating my reviews onto my iPod and dictate them for typing up for posting. Allowing me to take note of my thoughts on a particular book as I go along taking the strain off the actually reviewing part.
On my digital reader – or I should say readers – I have quite a pile of books to get to work on including:
Maya Banks latest KGI book released only in the last couple of days. Before reading it though I’ll track down the other earlier titles and catch up rather than go into a series a few books down, I hate to do that. I also am currently reading Lora Leigh’s latest breeds book which came out last month, unfortunately I was interrupted by RL and my family over the festive season. I also have several Christmas themed books which I won’t review now as I am not into festive titles after Christmas so as I read these novellas (which most of them are) and I’ll compose my reviews and keep them in stock for either a lull in my review schedule or keep in store of Christmas 2012 instead.
A few days later, I’ve been offline a bit over the past couple of weeks, I found out that Penny Jordan had passed away on December 31st 2011 at the young age of 65 after a long battle with cancer. My thoughts and best wishes go out to her family and friends at this difficult time. Strangely enough the 31st was the anniversary of my Grandfather’s passing as well, only he passed over 35 years ago now. In fact he is one of my earliest, if not my earliest, memory and I was just a toddler when he passed but he is one of the only real early ‘memory’ I have.
Penny Jordan was one of my first real romance writers I read when I first began reading romance novels in the early 80′s as a teenager. She as well as Carole Mortimer, Robyn Donald and Anne Mather were my first real introduction to the genre.
I think I’ll be sure to put a couple of Penny’s books on the top of my list for review.
