26 Titles Since Year 1

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It’s my birthday today, and this quarantine kind of sucks because I can’t celebrate it with the one person I would have loved to spend it with but I just keep in mind that this is all for the best. We need to stay separated for a while now, so that we can spend more birthdays together in the future.

For the past couple of years, I’ve been doing blog posts about the lessons I’ve learned in my x number of years here on Earth. This year, I thought that maybe I could tweak the concept a little because to be honest, I’m running out of lessons to take note of. Not that I do not learn new things anymore, but it’s just so hard to jot them down year after year. Also, to be honest, I feel like most of the lessons I write were carried over from the past year. So yeah, that concept kinda gets boring in time.

With that being said, I came up with this: 26 Titles Since Year 1. Since I am an avid book nerd, the idea is to list 26 book titles that I’ve read through the years, but I have to choose one book per letter of the alphabet. It fits, since I turned 26 today and we have 26 letters in the alphabet.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
By the River Pierda, I Sat Down and Wept – Paulo Coelho
City of Bones – Cassandra Clare
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell
The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
The Guardian – Nicholas Sparks
Hush, Hush – Becca Fitzpatrick
If I Stay – Gayle Forman
Justice League – DC Comics
The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness
The Longest Ride – Nicholas Sparks
The Mark of Athena – Rick Riordan
The Next Person You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
Origin – Dan Brown
P.S. I Still Love You – Jenny Han
The Queen (The Selection, #0.4) – Kiera Cass
The Retribution of Mara Dyer – Michelle Hodkin
Sam’s Letter to Jennifer – James Patterson
Turtles All the Way Down – John Green
The Universe of Us – Lang Leav
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Wicked Fox – Kat Cho
X-Men – Marvel Comics
You – Caroline Kepnes
Zombie VS Unicorns – Holly Black

I gotta be honest with you, I cheated on numbers 11 and 26. I haven’t read those books yet, but they are on my to-read shelf on Goodreads. I can’t believe that all these years, I haven’t read a book that starts with a letter K! Z, I can forgive myself, but K?! Oh, well. I need to work on that in the coming days and weeks. I gotta make the most out of this quarantine because reading is all I can do to help save lives by stopping this virus from spreading.

How are you guys holding up during this quarantine period? I hope all of you are safe and staying indoors as much as possible. My only wish for my birthday this year is for this virus to stop spreading once and for all, so that we can all go back to our normal lives.

You know what I realized during this time? That those routines that we are all accustomed to are really special and I have learned to appreciate them because I miss going to work, having spontaneous lunch outs with my boyfriend, being able to see my friends, etc. I didn’t really appreciate all those things until this happened.

Stay safe, everyone.