Jan 20

Jan 20 Episode #183: New Year's Resolutions and Aspirations!

After a bit of a break, Grace and Alvina are back! It's 2023, and they look back at their new year's resolutions from 2022 and set new ones for 2023.

What’s been going on?

Alvina just found out that a book she published, Stollen Heir by Holly Black is on the New York Times Best Seller List! Last year, Alvina had Troublemaker last year as #2 Best Seller. The Best Seller list always comes out on Wednesday. Alvina and Stephen were sick on their California vacation, otherwise Alvina is excited to be back at work.

Grace has been working on her deadline for her new book! She used digital art and talks about some of the new aches and pains she experienced with that. She’s been signing up Hazel for summer camps and her family is figuring out to sell 1,000 Girl Scout Cookies.

A Look Back on Resolutions:

Grace and Alvina talk about their words for the year 2022: Alvina’s: mindfulness. Grace’s: build. 2023 words: Alvina: Connection, and Grace: Launch

The book friends talk about how they did with all these resolutions and discuss their new words and goals.

Fortune Cookie Segment:

Obsessions and recommendations! Grace is obsessed about sleeping with her sleep tracker. She has some books to recommend:

Kate Milford’s The Green Glass House and The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book and Eva-Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch!

Alvina is obsessed with two movies she saw on the plan recently: After Alan movie (AI film), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy, Stay True by Hua Hsu, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

Gratefuls:

Grace is grateful that she has some time to work on her Lunar New Year’s newsletter. Grace is grateful for connections and meeting up with people again.

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