During the holiday break, I decided to add a touch of pizzazz to my website by purchasing the domain zachurchill.com instead of sticking with the default GitHub Pages domain. While I still use GitHub Pages to host my site using Jekyll, I’m excited about the change. Unfortunately zachchurchill.com was already taken, but I’m pleased with zachurchill.com as it can be interpreted in two ways:
- It incorporates my initials and last name, “Z. A. Churchill.”
- It highlights the “ch” from my first name, Zach, and my last name, Churchill.
As you can see in books, I read 18 books in 2023 (17 novels and 1 novella, excluding short stories and poems). For 2024, I’ve set a more ambitious goal of reading 24 books, averaging 2 books per month. After reviewing my personal library, I’ve selected the following 12 books as part of my goal:
- “Iron Flame” by Rebecca Yarros (actually in my wife’s library)
- “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Iliad” & “The Odyssey” by Homer
- “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius
- “The Thunder Heist”, “Across the Broken Stars” & “Kingdom of Dragons” by Jed Herne
- “The Daily Dad” by Ryan Holiday
- “The Splendid and the Vile” by Erik Larson
- “On Writing” by Stephen King
- “Whipping Star” by Frank Herbert
Additionally, I want to continue reading short stories and poetry but I haven’t decided how I’m going to track these. I may decide to stick with journals, like Ohio University’s Quarter After Eight, so then it’ll just be easy to add them to the books log but I suppose we’ll see.