Aaand I’m back after my long hiatus! Thank you for your patience. First things first; confession time, I reached exactly 0 words total on my NaNoWriMo project. Sigh. My first challenge was that I was too engrossed in In the Afterlight the last in Alexandra Bracken’s Darkest Minds trilogy. This was released just a day or so before NaNoWriMo, which was just mean! I really couldn’t put the thing down. I found this last instalment in Ruby and co’s story to be engrossing and wonderfully satisfying. I probably won’t do a full review on it as it’s been a little while since I read it, but it got a five star rating from me on GoodReads. Then in November things became unexpectedly crazy at work and I spent all day every day working my butt off to keep our support queue under some kind of control. After that the last thing I felt like doing was coming home and writing. It was much easier to delve into someone else’s world than to work on creating my own. These are all, excuses, I know, and I’m not proud of myself. Maybe next year I’ll do better. Other non-reading events in my…