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While I didn’t think it was that well written (portions were redundant and there were too many Wizard of Oz references), I walked away from the book thinking a lot about contemplative prayer (which I have now adopted into my regular spiritual routine). For my library’s book club, we read Chemistry by Weike Wang. In my coffee shop book club, we discussed The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I couldn’t look away from the masterful world building (a Romanesque empire set in a fantasy world with three suns), brilliant footnotes (which expand the world’s mythology), the sharp-tongued narrator (who frequently breaks the third wall), and the thrill of the fast-paced plot.

This year, I spent New Years Eve painting, taking a hot bath, rewatching Downton Abbey, drinking one too many glasses of wine, and going to bed before midnight. But, this year, I want to take a new slant on New Years. Here are things I’m asking myself this year: How can I live each day with intentionality and wholeness? I don’t know where 2019 will take me, but I know the kind of life I want to live this year.

At the start of this year, I launched an ambitious challenge to take careful statistics of all the books I read. If I read a bunch of short, easy books in one month, does that mean I’m more productive than a month where I read less, longer ones? If you’re interested in my mini-reviews, you can check those out via my monthly recaps: The longest book I read this year was Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson, which was 1,243 pages. The best book I read this year is easily The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

As I’ve been reflecting on the past year, it stuck with me. I thought 2018 would be a year of questions. To my great surprise, 2018 was a year of answers. With so many answers in my pocket, it’s time to go back to the drawing board and discover what questions need to be lived into next year.