Jennifer's 120 +9 in 2026 > Likes and Comments

So, last year, I completely overexceeded my reading goal and completely underexceeded my writing goal. I hope to remedy the latter this year. Last year, I read 200 out of 125 books and wrote 3 out of 14 planned.

That said, I will only update once a month here. I am working on two audiobooks of my published works, and they consume a lot of time. I think I spend 40 hours editing for every 1 hour of book. They are the reason I fell behind on my writing goals at the end of 2025 and updating any goals here.

I am also going to post the links to my Goodreads reviews of the books I read, instead of posting a separate review for them here.

Reading Goal: 18/120
Writing Goal: 0/9

Best of luck with your plans and goals, Jennifer! Here's to a fantastic literary year, filled with captivating stories and the fulfillment of your writing goals.

Books read so far (full reviews can be found on my profile):
1. Pride and Prejudice (Yes, I read this multiple times each year. I just finished reading it to my 10-year old.) 5-stars
2. Hearts at War 3-stars
3. Evidence of Evil 3-stars
4. A Tailor-Made Bride 3-stars
5. Frost Burned 4-stars
6. Envious Casca 4-stars
7. Jane Digby's Diary: To Begin, Begin 4-stars
8. The Trick of the Treasure 2-stars
9. Did I Kill My Husband? 2-stars
10. Within A Captain's Treasure 2-stars
11. The Yellow Wallpaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Seminal Work on Gender and Mental Health 4-stars
12. The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump 1-star
13. Mr. Impossible 4-stars (I did not feel the cover really went with this book.)
14. Fool's Paradise 2-stars
15. Colorado Courtship: Winter of Dreams / The Rancher's Sweetheart 3-stars
16. Bad Boy Husband 2-stars
17. Two Trains Running 5-stars
18. One Year Husband 4-stars

19. Every Cowboy Need A Team: Teach Your Cowboy to Work Together. An Illustrated Children's Story to Teach Kids About Cooperation, Friendship, and the Power of Teamwork 1-star On my don-t-pay-for-this-trash shelf. Completely AI-generated and (as you can tell from the title) not even grammatically correct.
20. Cowboy ABC's: Children's book about Cowboy, Cowboy-themed educational Alphabet I accidentally read two books by this same author. :( 1-star On my don-t-pay-for-this-trash shelf. Completely AI-generated and (as you can tell from the title) not even grammatically correct.
21. Cowboys Can Ranch 4-star
22. A Day in the Life of Cowboy Mike and Winston 3-star
23. B is for Buckaroo: A Cowboy Alphabet 3-star
24. Two Trains Running 5-star
25. 100 Amazing Facts about Cowboys: The Daily Adventure Between the Saddle and the Starry Sky 1-star. On my don-t-pay-for-this-trash shelf. Most of this is poorly researched and repetitive. Some of the same "facts" occur multiple times to make the stated 100.
26. Catching the Heiress 1-star On my don-t-pay-for-this-trash shelf.
27. Knave of Hearts 2-star
28. A Duel of Hearts 3-star
29. In a Treacherous Court 2-star
30. Fascism, Anarchy and Governance: The Search for Social Order in an Age of Political Extremes 4-star Well-written but unapologetically biased look at President Trump's politics. Does give good explanations about how American government works.
31. The Labyrinth of Doom 3-star
32. Fences 5-star
33. The Secretaries 1-star (Read 9-to-5 instead)
34. Summer Lightning 3-star
35. The Princess Bride 5-star (Buttercup's Baby, the addendum, would only get 3-stars tops)
36. My Favorite Kidnapper 2-star
37. Holey Ghosts 5-star (pending)
38. Night Broken 5-star
39. A Lady of Quality 3-star
40. Death Comes to Pemberley 1-star. On my don-t-pay-for-this-trash shelf. Poorly written. Most of book is a bad rewrite of Pride and Prejudice. The mystery is also poorly written by an author who has no clue about the characters in the book she is trying to make money off.
41. Coffee, Tea or Me 2-star
42. The Metamorphosis 5-star--Excellent book but don't get this translation.
43. The Sea of Terror 2-star
44. July's People 2-star
45. Candle in the Window 3-star
46. The Sorrow of War 4-star

Sigh. Ahead on reading again...