The University Press of Florida is offering free “quarantine reads” in which 10 of their titles, in eBook format, are free for download through April 30! The books look solid and I’ve already downloaded all the FL related ones.

This month was fairly productive in my reading — I knocked out two more Carl Hiaasen books, and covered some ground in my goal to read 52 books this year. I’m about two books behind and I hope to make up those two books in April and be on pace for 52 books. We shall see!

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from Outing magazine dated 1891.

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from Outing magazine dated 1890.

I’m calling this The Ultimate Florida Quest…but really it’s just goals that I’m setting for myself to keep me on track and I’m hoping that it will inspire others to get out there to live their best lives. At the time of this writing I’m 35 years old. I’m not quite to the halfway point of my life (hopefully!), but I am getting there, and I still have a lot that I want to accomplish…so I figured I should write out what I want to do and to get going.