Currently Reading
- The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi (24%)
- Where the Crawdad's Sing by Delia Owens (31%)
- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (35%)
- Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James (41%)
- Where the Crawdad's Sing by Delia Owens (31%)
- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (35%)
- Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James (41%)
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Once again, the books I'm not actively reading this month are not going to be included on my list. However, the books that I am actively reading will be there. There are sixteen (16!!) books on my reading list for this upcoming month because I'm doing the OWLs, and I have other things that I want to read books for that I don't remember and then the BooksandTea read along is Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. At least I'm a good chunk of the way into that one before I start the month.
I'm deciding yet if I want to actually do a read-along in December or if I want to just take a break and allow myself to either not read anything or read whatever as a mood month. I'm not sure yet what my plans will be. It's still a toss up. Though I'm probably going to just let it be a relaxed month.
I have officially made it! At 12:06a on Sunday, September 1st, I reached my Goodreads goal of 50/50. I usually don't see 50 for another week or two yet, when I actually see it. There have been years where 40 was a hard stretch. I have plans to get through the rest of the year reading a total of an additional....76 books. That's so not going to happen, but I'll still make a valid effort at it. Maybe I can at least make it through the other 12 for this month and the 2 that I have to review in October and November. Yes. I can do the thing.
I am not sure why, but I have decided to actually just incrementally increase my read-a-thon challenges. You all know that it's 12 in September. In October, I've decided to do the Read Voltron read-a-thon (that is technically happening in September...) and these are what I have chosen for it:
Shiro
- The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee
- The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
- Act of God by Jill Ciment
- A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel
- The City & the City by Herman Mieville
Keith
- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
- The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
- Proxy by Alex London
- The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
- Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
Lance
- The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
- Red by Jordan Summers
- Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Pidge
- Warcross by Marie Lu
- Matched by Ally Condie
- Archenemies by Marissa Meyer
- The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
- The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
Hunk
- Eve by Wm. Paul Young
- Recursion by Blake Crouch
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- A Frozen Heart by Elizabeth Rudnick
Do I remember what any of the prompts were? Not a chance. I remember a select handful. Like they each had a prompt to read a book that was their Paladin color (black, blue, red, green, yellow) and Hunk had one about food.
Then in November (yes, during NaNoWriMo) I intend to up my goal AGAIN to read 36 books. This is why I plan to just allow December to be chill. I will ramp myself up into so many books that when I try to actually get through them, I will cause myself horrible anxiety.
Decided that instead of reading whatever I felt like during the OWLs from the reading list, I would actually read the OWLs related to the career I wanted first, then go on to read other books in the list. That way I can be sure to at least get close to the career I want and then worry about possibly being able to apply for other careers on top of that.
So I lied, earlier, about the relaxed December. I found another read along (taking place in September, but I disregard that nonsense) called the Map of the Soul Read-a-Thon. I missed the part where the BookTuber stated the inspiration for the read along so it took me a while to realize it was based on the one and only BTS album I happen to have, Persona: Map of the Soul. I have decided to participate and here are the prompts and my choices for said prompts:
1) Persona: Own Voice that Represents You - For this I sort of cheated and went with They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera because the boys are LGBT+ (at least one of them is), Adam Silvera is LGBT+, and I am LGBT+. It seems like a bit of a cop-out, but it was all I could think of.
2) Boy with Luv: "Love" in the title - For this I have chosen literally the only book I own (I think) that has the word love in the title, Love and Friendship by Jane Austen. It's, I believe, a bunch of shorts and/or unfinished works? I don't know.
3) Mikrokosmos: A book from an author that changed your life - I panicked and went for Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan. I was sort of slumpy two years ago after my grandma had passed and I wasn't reading much until I stumbled quite accidentally upon Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. I blew through the entire Percy Jackson and started the Heroes of Olympus. Then I read the Kane Chronicles and just couldn't get enough of books again. Riordan helped pull me from my slump so I'm going with the first book in a series I haven't read yet.
4) Make It Right: A book written by more than one author - I went for Modern Irish Short Stories edited by Frank O'Connor because it is a bunch of shorts written by many Irish authors. It is one I've been meaning to read for a while and now I've finally gotten around to including it on a TBR.
5) Home: Book with your bias - Okay, so, I had to actually think hard to even remember what "bias" was referring to in the K-Pop world. It's your favorite member of the band. Seeing as I couldn't remember what the word meant, that clearly means I have no bias. So instead of picking just one member of the band and going with it, I've decided to read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and use the photo strip thing from the photo book itself as my bookmark because it has all seven members of BTS on it. Cheating? Probably. Do I care? Not a bit.
6) Jamais Vu: Mental health rep - After an hour of Googling 'mental health rep books' on my tablet, I have come up with We Are the Ants by Sean David Hutchinson because this one kid faces the mental anguish of being the deciding factor in whether humans live or die. I think? I don't know. I saw the words "mental health representation" in the synopsis and ran with it. I got nothing.
7) Dionysus: A diverse book or one featuring Greek mythology - True to my ironic self, the one I've chosen for this prompt is Dionysus by Walter F. Otto. I thought it to be an excellent choice in book if I do say so. The book itself explores the cult and myth of the Greek deity Dionysus, God of Wine, Revelry, and Protection of Children (yeah, that last one always throws me, too, who knew?).
Got approved for the last galley that I was in for. I can't wait. I'll try to read them at work, since I can easily carry the Kindle around with me as opposed to the OWL/NEWT/Voltron/BTS book for the read alongs.
I may or may not have done a stupid thing. I'm not sure if I have or haven't yet. I signed up for Book of the Month club. It's just more stuff that I have to pay for once a month. Go figure. It's not terribly expensive. They had a book I was interested in so I decided I would give it a go. It couldn't hurt and I can cancel it at any point. Hopefully I actually like it and want to continue with it. I should try to read the book within a few days of getting it? I'll have to for the one prompt for NEWTs currently. It is the last book I acquired (for the time) and thus it will go toward one of the NEWT challenges.
TBR update for this week's blog. Each week of the blog, I'll put this in and just strike out the books I've finished. November is going to be bananas with the bookish list I'll have.
OWLS Read Along
1: Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
2: Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
3: Every Day by David Levithan
4: Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
5: The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi
6: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
7: Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
8: The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup
9: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
10: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
11: Scythe by Neil Shusterman
12: Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco
BooksandTea Group Book
13: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
NetGalley e-galleys
14: She's My Dad by Jonathan S. Williams
15: The Weight of a Soul by Elizabeth Tammi
16: Lion's Head Revisited by Jeffery Round
17: The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
Now I'm thinking about putting my Currently Reading posts weekly instead of bi-weekly. It seems that recently I've had a lot more to say than normal. My blog posts have been crazy long and they all only encompass two weeks. Perhaps for the last third of the year, I'll try to post my currently reading blog weekly. It will do. It helps that the most recent week. If it work, I'll do that for next year.
So many things on my mind all at once. I'm trying to get through the books for OWLs, then I got an idea for another fiction novel, which means that that took over my mind the other day so I got no reading done. If I manage to finish The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi I will be 1/4 the way through the OWLs, but a book behind? I need to do 4 books a week, and I'm sitting at 2 right now. Bluh. I'm stuck between do I want to bring just OWL books for my weekend off from work or do I want to bring one OWL and the BooksandTea book?
I've decided to stop entering Goodreads Giveaways. My goal is complete. I have won an ARC and a regular book. I have so many (literally thousands) of books of my own to read that I don't need to be entering giveaways to get more. Now I have the task of getting rid of all the books from my shelf that I don't want on there. I only put up books I physically own/have read/am reading (library books).
I'm stuck. I really really want to start The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup, but here's the problem: I have 17 books on my TBR. The only way I could read it is to replace a book on my OWLs list with it. It could take the place of Enigma as the adult book.
That's the end for this week, see you again next Sunday~
Once again, the books I'm not actively reading this month are not going to be included on my list. However, the books that I am actively reading will be there. There are sixteen (16!!) books on my reading list for this upcoming month because I'm doing the OWLs, and I have other things that I want to read books for that I don't remember and then the BooksandTea read along is Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. At least I'm a good chunk of the way into that one before I start the month.
I'm deciding yet if I want to actually do a read-along in December or if I want to just take a break and allow myself to either not read anything or read whatever as a mood month. I'm not sure yet what my plans will be. It's still a toss up. Though I'm probably going to just let it be a relaxed month.
I have officially made it! At 12:06a on Sunday, September 1st, I reached my Goodreads goal of 50/50. I usually don't see 50 for another week or two yet, when I actually see it. There have been years where 40 was a hard stretch. I have plans to get through the rest of the year reading a total of an additional....76 books. That's so not going to happen, but I'll still make a valid effort at it. Maybe I can at least make it through the other 12 for this month and the 2 that I have to review in October and November. Yes. I can do the thing.
I am not sure why, but I have decided to actually just incrementally increase my read-a-thon challenges. You all know that it's 12 in September. In October, I've decided to do the Read Voltron read-a-thon (that is technically happening in September...) and these are what I have chosen for it:
Shiro
- The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee
- The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
- Act of God by Jill Ciment
- A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel
- The City & the City by Herman Mieville
Keith
- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
- The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
- Proxy by Alex London
- The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
- Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
Lance
- The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
- Red by Jordan Summers
- Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Pidge
- Warcross by Marie Lu
- Matched by Ally Condie
- Archenemies by Marissa Meyer
- The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
- The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
Hunk
- Eve by Wm. Paul Young
- Recursion by Blake Crouch
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- A Frozen Heart by Elizabeth Rudnick
Do I remember what any of the prompts were? Not a chance. I remember a select handful. Like they each had a prompt to read a book that was their Paladin color (black, blue, red, green, yellow) and Hunk had one about food.
Then in November (yes, during NaNoWriMo) I intend to up my goal AGAIN to read 36 books. This is why I plan to just allow December to be chill. I will ramp myself up into so many books that when I try to actually get through them, I will cause myself horrible anxiety.
Decided that instead of reading whatever I felt like during the OWLs from the reading list, I would actually read the OWLs related to the career I wanted first, then go on to read other books in the list. That way I can be sure to at least get close to the career I want and then worry about possibly being able to apply for other careers on top of that.
So I lied, earlier, about the relaxed December. I found another read along (taking place in September, but I disregard that nonsense) called the Map of the Soul Read-a-Thon. I missed the part where the BookTuber stated the inspiration for the read along so it took me a while to realize it was based on the one and only BTS album I happen to have, Persona: Map of the Soul. I have decided to participate and here are the prompts and my choices for said prompts:
1) Persona: Own Voice that Represents You - For this I sort of cheated and went with They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera because the boys are LGBT+ (at least one of them is), Adam Silvera is LGBT+, and I am LGBT+. It seems like a bit of a cop-out, but it was all I could think of.
2) Boy with Luv: "Love" in the title - For this I have chosen literally the only book I own (I think) that has the word love in the title, Love and Friendship by Jane Austen. It's, I believe, a bunch of shorts and/or unfinished works? I don't know.
3) Mikrokosmos: A book from an author that changed your life - I panicked and went for Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan. I was sort of slumpy two years ago after my grandma had passed and I wasn't reading much until I stumbled quite accidentally upon Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. I blew through the entire Percy Jackson and started the Heroes of Olympus. Then I read the Kane Chronicles and just couldn't get enough of books again. Riordan helped pull me from my slump so I'm going with the first book in a series I haven't read yet.
4) Make It Right: A book written by more than one author - I went for Modern Irish Short Stories edited by Frank O'Connor because it is a bunch of shorts written by many Irish authors. It is one I've been meaning to read for a while and now I've finally gotten around to including it on a TBR.
5) Home: Book with your bias - Okay, so, I had to actually think hard to even remember what "bias" was referring to in the K-Pop world. It's your favorite member of the band. Seeing as I couldn't remember what the word meant, that clearly means I have no bias. So instead of picking just one member of the band and going with it, I've decided to read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and use the photo strip thing from the photo book itself as my bookmark because it has all seven members of BTS on it. Cheating? Probably. Do I care? Not a bit.
6) Jamais Vu: Mental health rep - After an hour of Googling 'mental health rep books' on my tablet, I have come up with We Are the Ants by Sean David Hutchinson because this one kid faces the mental anguish of being the deciding factor in whether humans live or die. I think? I don't know. I saw the words "mental health representation" in the synopsis and ran with it. I got nothing.
7) Dionysus: A diverse book or one featuring Greek mythology - True to my ironic self, the one I've chosen for this prompt is Dionysus by Walter F. Otto. I thought it to be an excellent choice in book if I do say so. The book itself explores the cult and myth of the Greek deity Dionysus, God of Wine, Revelry, and Protection of Children (yeah, that last one always throws me, too, who knew?).
Got approved for the last galley that I was in for. I can't wait. I'll try to read them at work, since I can easily carry the Kindle around with me as opposed to the OWL/NEWT/Voltron/BTS book for the read alongs.
I may or may not have done a stupid thing. I'm not sure if I have or haven't yet. I signed up for Book of the Month club. It's just more stuff that I have to pay for once a month. Go figure. It's not terribly expensive. They had a book I was interested in so I decided I would give it a go. It couldn't hurt and I can cancel it at any point. Hopefully I actually like it and want to continue with it. I should try to read the book within a few days of getting it? I'll have to for the one prompt for NEWTs currently. It is the last book I acquired (for the time) and thus it will go toward one of the NEWT challenges.
TBR update for this week's blog. Each week of the blog, I'll put this in and just strike out the books I've finished. November is going to be bananas with the bookish list I'll have.
1: Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
3: Every Day by David Levithan
Decided that instead of reading whatever I felt like during the OWLs from the reading list, I would actually read the OWLs related to the career I wanted first, then go on to read other books in the list. That way I can be sure to at least get close to the career I want and then worry about possibly being able to apply for other careers on top of that.
So I lied, earlier, about the relaxed December. I found another read along (taking place in September, but I disregard that nonsense) called the Map of the Soul Read-a-Thon. I missed the part where the BookTuber stated the inspiration for the read along so it took me a while to realize it was based on the one and only BTS album I happen to have, Persona: Map of the Soul. I have decided to participate and here are the prompts and my choices for said prompts:
1) Persona: Own Voice that Represents You - For this I sort of cheated and went with They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera because the boys are LGBT+ (at least one of them is), Adam Silvera is LGBT+, and I am LGBT+. It seems like a bit of a cop-out, but it was all I could think of.
2) Boy with Luv: "Love" in the title - For this I have chosen literally the only book I own (I think) that has the word love in the title, Love and Friendship by Jane Austen. It's, I believe, a bunch of shorts and/or unfinished works? I don't know.
3) Mikrokosmos: A book from an author that changed your life - I panicked and went for Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan. I was sort of slumpy two years ago after my grandma had passed and I wasn't reading much until I stumbled quite accidentally upon Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. I blew through the entire Percy Jackson and started the Heroes of Olympus. Then I read the Kane Chronicles and just couldn't get enough of books again. Riordan helped pull me from my slump so I'm going with the first book in a series I haven't read yet.
4) Make It Right: A book written by more than one author - I went for Modern Irish Short Stories edited by Frank O'Connor because it is a bunch of shorts written by many Irish authors. It is one I've been meaning to read for a while and now I've finally gotten around to including it on a TBR.
5) Home: Book with your bias - Okay, so, I had to actually think hard to even remember what "bias" was referring to in the K-Pop world. It's your favorite member of the band. Seeing as I couldn't remember what the word meant, that clearly means I have no bias. So instead of picking just one member of the band and going with it, I've decided to read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and use the photo strip thing from the photo book itself as my bookmark because it has all seven members of BTS on it. Cheating? Probably. Do I care? Not a bit.
6) Jamais Vu: Mental health rep - After an hour of Googling 'mental health rep books' on my tablet, I have come up with We Are the Ants by Sean David Hutchinson because this one kid faces the mental anguish of being the deciding factor in whether humans live or die. I think? I don't know. I saw the words "mental health representation" in the synopsis and ran with it. I got nothing.
7) Dionysus: A diverse book or one featuring Greek mythology - True to my ironic self, the one I've chosen for this prompt is Dionysus by Walter F. Otto. I thought it to be an excellent choice in book if I do say so. The book itself explores the cult and myth of the Greek deity Dionysus, God of Wine, Revelry, and Protection of Children (yeah, that last one always throws me, too, who knew?).
Got approved for the last galley that I was in for. I can't wait. I'll try to read them at work, since I can easily carry the Kindle around with me as opposed to the OWL/NEWT/Voltron/BTS book for the read alongs.
I may or may not have done a stupid thing. I'm not sure if I have or haven't yet. I signed up for Book of the Month club. It's just more stuff that I have to pay for once a month. Go figure. It's not terribly expensive. They had a book I was interested in so I decided I would give it a go. It couldn't hurt and I can cancel it at any point. Hopefully I actually like it and want to continue with it. I should try to read the book within a few days of getting it? I'll have to for the one prompt for NEWTs currently. It is the last book I acquired (for the time) and thus it will go toward one of the NEWT challenges.
TBR update for this week's blog. Each week of the blog, I'll put this in and just strike out the books I've finished. November is going to be bananas with the bookish list I'll have.
OWLS Read Along
2: Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
4: Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
5: The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi
6: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
7: Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
8: The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup
9: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
10: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
11: Scythe by Neil Shusterman
12: Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco
BooksandTea Group Book
13: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
NetGalley e-galleys
14: She's My Dad by Jonathan S. Williams
15: The Weight of a Soul by Elizabeth Tammi
16: Lion's Head Revisited by Jeffery Round
17: The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
Now I'm thinking about putting my Currently Reading posts weekly instead of bi-weekly. It seems that recently I've had a lot more to say than normal. My blog posts have been crazy long and they all only encompass two weeks. Perhaps for the last third of the year, I'll try to post my currently reading blog weekly. It will do. It helps that the most recent week. If it work, I'll do that for next year.
So many things on my mind all at once. I'm trying to get through the books for OWLs, then I got an idea for another fiction novel, which means that that took over my mind the other day so I got no reading done. If I manage to finish The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi I will be 1/4 the way through the OWLs, but a book behind? I need to do 4 books a week, and I'm sitting at 2 right now. Bluh. I'm stuck between do I want to bring just OWL books for my weekend off from work or do I want to bring one OWL and the BooksandTea book?
I've decided to stop entering Goodreads Giveaways. My goal is complete. I have won an ARC and a regular book. I have so many (literally thousands) of books of my own to read that I don't need to be entering giveaways to get more. Now I have the task of getting rid of all the books from my shelf that I don't want on there. I only put up books I physically own/have read/am reading (library books).
I'm stuck. I really really want to start The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup, but here's the problem: I have 17 books on my TBR. The only way I could read it is to replace a book on my OWLs list with it. It could take the place of Enigma as the adult book.
That's the end for this week, see you again next Sunday~
I've decided to stop entering Goodreads Giveaways. My goal is complete. I have won an ARC and a regular book. I have so many (literally thousands) of books of my own to read that I don't need to be entering giveaways to get more. Now I have the task of getting rid of all the books from my shelf that I don't want on there. I only put up books I physically own/have read/am reading (library books).
I'm stuck. I really really want to start The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup, but here's the problem: I have 17 books on my TBR. The only way I could read it is to replace a book on my OWLs list with it. It could take the place of Enigma as the adult book.
That's the end for this week, see you again next Sunday~
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