Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

I've purged the pages on my BL, to focus on my newest projects for 2019, which I expect to pretty much fail at.   My jam seems to be spreading myself too thin and just reading a fraction of each project, but diversifying this way.   

So new projects:

1. IDW Transforers re-read with Jessica.   I'm going to get you through the whole series, all four this time.  I swear it.   This will be the year, because holy crap, the end of Lost Light.

2. Keep up with my weekly comics. 

3. Am Yisrael Chai.   I will read more on Israel, including from the Palestinian side.   My friend got me the Lady in Gold, about art stolen from a Jewish family during the Holocaust and I have books on the Mossad.   Basically, it says Israel, but anything Jewish will be under this, I just am a hardcore Zionist, so my Jewish reading will most likely be tied up in Israel.

4. Torah project.  I want to read at least three different versions of the Torah and I own three, and have Robert Alter's epic three volume set coming.   One of the volumes I own is an app with the JPS version, so yay!

5. Haggadah project.  I want to read at least twenty different Haggadah's, including Jonathan Safran Foer's New American Haggadah.   These are pretty easy reads.   

6. AI/robot project.   Yeah, cyborgs will count if I think there's enough emphasis on the tech.   Synthezoids like Viv Vision count. 

7. Blindness project.   I want to slowly continue along with this.   It's kinda dead, and I want to bring it back. 

8. French reading project.   This one is super dead, but I want to read much more in French.   

9. Pot project.   Now that pot is legal in my state, I want to read up on pot.   I'm basically clueless so if anyone has any good reads, let me know.   I will consider fiction, but I'd like to read one or two non-fiction books on pot. 

10. Media-tie ins.  I enjoy these.  I want to read more. 

So, here's the deal: books can belong in one or more categories.  If I read a Robocop tie-in or the Bumblebee comic prequel, that can count in two categories.   (Robocop would be AI/robot project and media tie-in, while Bee would count as keeping up with comics - in this case part of the backlog I have going, my AI/robot project and as a media tie-in.   The IDW Transformers comics will not count as media tie-ins; they are related to some degree on the old TV show, but are really their own continuity.   So things that might seem weird will actually be playing by these rules I have in my head.)   The reason things can count for two categories is I mostly want to keep track of how many books I read in each category so they will be lists on the pages/blog posts - maybe both, maybe a list in Pages, something like that.   I will start the blog post/page on the side of my blog when I start these. 

And I left most counts blank.   Yeah, I'd like to read a couple books at least in each category, but depending on my moods, how much may change.   I do want to get serious about the Torahs and Haggadah readings so thus the numbers.   It's also hard to calculate keeping up with weekly comics based on what I buy, what gets cancelled or started up in the year, etc, so there's that.   Let's see what's what with these.