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Chugging along, month after month, reading book after book.

Reading keeps getting better month after month. I read more to both my son and my daughter, and twice as many books for myself than I did last month.

July was a pretty good month reading-wise. It helps that my son likes to bring me books to read. However, he often usurps reading time with my daughter.

Another month over, and another month begins. We’re halfway through 2020.

Another month in the books… With that said, more books read.

Chugging along in this pandemic apocalypse, reading book after book.

Like many of you who are still working, I’m working at home now. Thankfully, I can take our kids to my wife’s parent’s house while we both work at home.

February was a heck of a month reading-wise.

I’ve been incredibly busy with the newborn (now six weeks old) and the oldborn (almost two years old!) that I’ve barely had time to keep up with this blog.

It’s been a heck of a year so far. It’s the twelfth and I haven’t even published a post yet!

This is the final book reading list I’ll be writing this year - since I write about the previous month at the beginning of the next, I won’t be writing December 2019’s until January 2020.

Another month over, another book reading list.

Some kids are into dinosaurs. Others, trains. Some kids even like trucks. But my son? He likes books.

My son has gotten really into looking at books lately. He absolutely loves flipping through his books.

This July 2019 book reading list marks my eighteenth book reading list.

2019 is half over. It’s time for my seventeenth book reading list.

May is over. The year is almost halfway over. And it’s time for yet another book reading report.

I’m feeling a bit lazy this month, so I’m just going to list the books I’ve read.

Spring is here and March is over, so it’s time for another book reading report.

February is a short month (and the only truly four-week month) but I still managed to finish two books. And, of course, I’ve read plenty of children’s books to my son.

January brings in a brand new year, which means I’ll be reading brand new books… Or maybe I’ll be reading old books. In either case, they’ll be new to me.

I finished 2018 strong, having read 15 different books for myself - three times as many as I read in 2017. I only read one book in December, but I was determined to finish it by the end of the month/year so I could say I read 3x as many books in 2018 as I read in 2017.

November was a pretty busy month with working on the bathroom remodel, Thanksgiving, and being sick the last week. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the time to read any books for me.

October was a pretty busy month for me. We bought a van. I’ve been hard at work on remodeling the master bathroom. And, of course, I’ve been busy helping my wife take care of our seven-month-year-old son.

Sometime around September 15th I looked at the date and realized I hadn’t been reading anything for me. I had been reading fairly regularly to my son - a dozen or so different books in September - but I must’ve been too busy for myself.

August was a good month for reading. I read four books for myself and eleven different books to my five-month-old son. I guess all the free time from being done with school has really paid off!

July has come and gone and I have finally - FINALLY - finished my master’s degree. I’m done with classes. I’ve yet to receive that piece of paper saying I’m done in the mail, but all that’s left is waiting. No more responsibility. That means I have more time for reading (and video games, and writing, and my wife and son - but of course not in that order!)

Time is precious - once again, I only managed to fit in one book in my busy schedule for the month. Hopefully, come August, I’ll have more time, since the last session for the last class in my Master’s program is on July 25th. Of course, my son might be mobile by then - he’ll be four months on the 26th - so he will require more attention.

For the month of May, I only read one book, which seems to be the trend for the year. While I did read three books in January, I only managed to read one book in March and one book in April.

Time sure is flying. My son is already over a month old. I finished my second-to-last (penultimate!) class for my Master’s degree. And it’s already another month, so time to report what I read last month.

March was an incredible month. I started a major renovation on the master bathroom, which I ended up putting on pause due to a major life update. Due to the incredible busyness, I was only able to finish one book.

Part of my 2018 resolutions and goals this year was to read more books. So far, I think I’ve done okay. I only finished three books in the last month. That’s actually pretty good, considering I finished only five books in 2017.