Currently Reading: 21 June to 27 June 2020

Currently Reading

- Not a Hero by Cherise Sinclair (49%)

-  IT by Stephen King (40%)

- Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en (39%)
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (59%)

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Yearly Goal

50/50 (100%)

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I have no idea what it was I was doing last week that made me entirely skip a week of my reading blog? Who knows. I remember being obsessed with tracking last Book Outlet order, which took a full week to actually go from "Label Created, Not Yet in System" to "Received by Partner Facility In -------" How does that take a week? 

Hmm...I also signed up for Once Upon a Book Club. It was supposed to ship on the 17th. I don't know if it did or not and how long it will take to get here. Opted into the month-to-month one. I can't wait to see what book I get and what bookish goodies I get to open with it. Do I play by the rules or do I open them all first and potentially spoil myself for whatever is in the book? I think for the first box, I should play by the rules. Open each item when I get to the corresponding page in the book and find the little "open your gift" post it note. That was a fun idea to even wrap the little themed items. As far as I know, none of the other book boxes do that. You get all random literary themed things. The fact that Once Upon a Book Club box themes it to their pick is brilliant as well. I would not care all that much about stuff from a book box where I have not read the book in question. Like Game of Thrones, Outlander, or Cassandra Clare's numerous series. Never read them. Don't give a sh*t about the merchandise. 

I completely forgot that Camp NaNo is next week. I haven't declared my project yet. I think I will work on "The Lost Star" this time, since I already sort of know where it is going. So it won't be as hard to jump back into the plot. I will read over what I already have and start with chapter 8 in a new google doc. That way I can write anywhere I am on my tablet or phone. Computer when I am home. Decision has yet to be made over if I am writing 500 or 1000 or even 1500 words per day. I am leaning more toward 500-1000. 1500 is pushing my limit. Especially with my next subject in mind.

I think I have mentioned this before, but I am doing the Four Nations reading challenge next month. If I forgot to explain, I will do so again. If I remembered to explain, then ignore this bit of me rambling. The Four Nations reading challenge is based on the Nickelodeon series Avatar: the Last Airbender (henceforth to be referred to as ATLA). In the show there are different groups of people that each have a different style of bending they can do. The Air Nomads can manipulate the air and wind, Water Tribes ice and water, Earth Kingdom soil, stones...and the Fire Nation, well, if you haven't figured that out by now, there is no sense in telling you. Aaaanyway, everything was going swimmingly until the Fire Nation decided they wanted the all of it. They attacked the other countries, subjugating their people. The Avatar, capable of bending all four elements and keeping peace between the nations...disappeared. Fast forward one hundred years and we are now following the tale of Aang, the Avatar and last remaining Air Nomad. The entire rest of the population wiped out by the Fire Nation. This readathon is completely inspired by the path Aang had to take to master the five bending types to become Avatar. I totally plan to follow his lead. I am starting with the Air Nomads and planning to try to get all the way to Avatar. Eventually. I will totally let you all know of my progress! I can only hope to make it at least to master airbending. 

My team in the Discord server Com-page-titions is in first...again. This is the fourth week in a row that we have. I was quite surprised when they announced that it was the Emerald Bookshelf that had won. With some of the other teams and their members, we all had been convinced that another team, The Sunflower Scribes, would have totally taken first place. We managed not only to beat them, but to beat them by 1000 pages! I still have no idea just how we did that. 

I'm so proud of myself! I did it! I reached my goal for 2020 before the first half of the year was over. Now I could go and up the goal to like 75-100 or something, but I have made a rule with myself to always set it at 50. If I read more than 50, great, if I don't....also great. I never really concern myself with if I can actually hit the goal or not.