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Saturday, December 19, 2020
Currently Reading: 06 to 19 December 2020
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
November 2020 Wrap Up
I have actually started working on bringing this back from the dead. I use a combination of Blogspot and Samsung Notes (to track when I am not able to use the computer). This should help me actually keep up with the things I am trying to do!
With that in mind, let us get moving with this bookish wrap up~
1. Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco - I had totally forgotten that I had preordered this until it arrived on my doorstep on the 2nd. I started it immediately. I wasn't sure what I should be expecting. I was pleasantly surprised. Set in Palermo, it is a YA fantasy about witches. We open with twins Emilia and Vittoria praying over their own protection symbols. It was pretty good. This book follows the death of one of the twins and how the other summons one of the Demon Princes of Hell to help her find out who murdered her sister and why. I had forgotten this was a Hades and Persephone retelling, because it's not like the modern versions with Persephone being a damsel in distress. This is the old kind where Persephone was actually pretty scary (for those that don't know, Persephone translates to "destruction"). I liked the way they worked together, and how Emilia never properly trusted Wrath even though he had proved himself over and over. I can't wait to get to the next book in the series.
2. Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco - My second (and final) Kerri Maniscalco book for November. I can't give too much of a synopsis of this, since it is the fourth and final book in the series. All I can say is that the past comes back to haunt them with a vengeance. I liked the way she brought it back, however, I didn't like that it was brought back in the first place. I think she was trying to bring in what originally got the book famous. It was a bit contrived in my personal opinion. I hate Lord Cresswell, like to the point of wanting to hit him. He knew full well that his son would be opposed to the match. People who marry only for money and titles are the worst kind. I'm glad it worked out for them in the end. Though I'm pretty sure he would have changed his tune pretty quickly if he had heard about what Audrey Rose was actually worth. Anyway, this was a beautiful conclusion to the story. I don't think it is though. We all know that marriage is not going to slow Audrey Rose and Thomas down. They are too good at what they do.
3. The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler - I couldn't resist. I grabbed it from the shelf becuase it had books on the cover and in the title. I read the synopsis and absolutely had to. Old books and drowning mermaids. How could I resist? The story was very good. I loved the way that it was told half in Simon's perspective and half in the troupe's. I still have no idea how some characters connect and how they even came into possession of certain objects. It was very good. I thought Enola was a bit rough with her brother, but then someone had to be or he would have descended into chaos. Looking forward to reading more books by Erika Swyler in the future. She has an interesting style that I like.
4. Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada - I loved it. I saw it in an ad from BookBub or possibly Freebooksy, I forget, but when I saw that it was available as a print book, I just had to. I picked it up and started it right away. This follows a former Japanese yakuza member as he finds and helps a Korean mafia member back to health. As they grow closer, it becomes more obvious what is going to happen in the book and where the pieces actually lay. I was kind of surprised by the ending. I didn't think that was quite the way it was going to turn out. Nao had been trying to get away from the life of a yakuza and instead he ends up falling deeper into it. Though this does make me rather wary of any and all tea shop owners. Who knows what's behind their façade? I am looking very forward to the sequel Better than Suicide, which I already bought.
5. Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler - I technically got this for a friend and am temporarily borrowing it back (now permanently as they no longer practice the witchcraft religion and do not want the book any more!) and I figured I would give it a read since it is one of the eminent books on the subject. I listened to this one via audio and am quite pleased with the way it was written. She breaks down important information into chunks that are manageable. Unlike other books, though, she does not put a lot of practice materials into it for the young to do. It really was just more of a history primer. Interesting to read.
6. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig - I got this one through Once Upon a Book Club and as I have been interested in Matt Haig for a while, I decided to read it immediately (if I have no interest in the book, I open the gifts and just put the book away on the bookshelves). This author however was one on my list of books I wanted to read from so, let's do this! I loved the premise of someone being on the verge of death and their own subconscious creating a space where they could live out alternate versions of their life. The ending though was brilliant. It took her a long time to realize something important that I kind of picked up from the start. The only life they could truly stay in was the "root" life. None of the others were the proper fit. It's like wearing someone else's shoe. Yeah it may be the same size, but it won't feel right ever because it's not yours. Hoping I can get more Matt Haig books in the future.
7. Coming Up for Air by Amanda Meuwissen - I loved it. It was so weird. It sort of gave me combination Beauty and the Beast and Little Mermaid vibes. Leigh is a thief who is good at well, thieving. We literally open with him in a river about to drown. He thinks he hallucinates a pretty face and the next thing he knows, the pretty face is showing up at his door naked (mostly? In an old lady's nightie...). Anyway, no one really expects Tolomeo "Tolly" to show up. I thought the way he was written was really good. He was so afraid of what Leigh would think of him based solely on what he really looked like. Even though Leigh rarely thought of it. If you want a really good, only slightly mushy romance....I'd pick this one up.
8. Assassination Classroom #14 by Yusei Matsui - I don't think I've ever wanted to hit an imaginary man more in my life. Headmaster Asano is so wrapped up in his idea that you are only a successful winner if you utterly destroy your enemies is going to get him killed one of these days. Even his own son has realized that there is merit to losing now and then. I loved how the high school gang went there to demoralize them and ended up loving it. And poor Yuji! I feel bad that he was still tricked into thinking Nagisa was a girl. At least it ended well for the students. I'm betting if the high school was not part of the festival (as in separate parts for the junior and regular high students), Class 3-E may have been in 2nd place over all. Even though there was no way they were going to defeat 3-A, they still did an amazing job. I'm looking forward to getting the next volume and finding out more of what is happening with Koro-sensei and Asano. Wonder what's in that last grenade...?
9. The First Step by Tao Wong - This was brilliant. I had watched and adored The Untamed on Netflix, a wuxia story. Then I discovered there were more wuxia/xanxia stories to be had. Great tales of cultivators of the Taoist arts from ancient China. An easy sell to me. I needed it. So I had to read this when I saw this on....I wanna say Freebooksy. Either way, I ended up picking up a physical copy of the book and I read it quite quickly once I started. It tells the story of Long Wu Ying as he cultivates. He starts out in a peasant village and is brought into a sect known as the Verdant Green Waters Sect to train as a member of the outer sect in hopes of winning the tournament and joining the inner sect. He is sent on a mission that is unheard of for outer sect members after he broke rules that he didn't even know were rules. You would think they would have known he would be clueless, knowing who his sponsor is. He does make it to the inner sect and that's where the novel ends. I loved how he didn't let anyone pest him. I enjoyed his burgeoning friendship with the former monk, Tou He. This looks like the kind of thing I am going to adore. I am looking forward to getting the rest of the series.
10. Beneath the Moon by Yoshi Yoshitani - I grabbed this one because of something else Yoshitani produced. I bought a copy of the Tarot of the Divine. A beautiful deck that uses folklore and legends for each of the cards. My favorite cards in this deck include Judgement (Sun Wukong, the monkey king) and the Eight of Wands (John Henry) because I'm very familiar with their stories. It makes me smile knowing that...Mx Yoshitani chose their sources from literally all over the place for the works. The book was a simple compilation of all of the legends and folklore drawn from for the cards themselves. While it would have made more sense had they gone in the same order of the cards in the guidebook, but it was still really good to be able to read the associated legends, even in their highly abridged forms (I know Sun Wukong's story is much longer. I own it.).
11. A Hero Born by Jin Yong - I have been obsessed with ancient/historical China recently and this book sparked my interest almost immediately. I loved it. We follow a young man as he grows up far from his home and is accepted by a people considered to be the enemy. His father is murdered before his birth and his mother fless to the north to escape the murderer. There she gives birth to her son, Guo Jing, and raises him with the help of none other than the man who would become Genghis Khan. I did get a bit confused when we were told one thing would happen and it then seemed like something else was going on. I liked how we aren't outright told at first who is who, but it was kind of obvious when you paid attention to the background description. I adored this book and I hope to find the second one soon. I think Jin Yong may be a new favorite author of mine.
12. THICK by Tressie McMillan Cottam - This is a series of essays written by the author and reprinted in this book. While it was not bad, it was not quite what I was expecting. I enjoyed it and I think it opened my eyes to a lot of things that they hadn't already been open to. I don't think I would read anything else by her specifically, but I will likely look into more in the same general theme.
Currently Reading: 29 November to 05 December 2020
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Saturday, November 28, 2020
Currently Reading: 15 to 28 November 2020
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Saturday, November 14, 2020
Currently Reading: 08 November to 14 November 2020
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So, I gave up on the two big books for the year. I lost interest in them. I may read them again in the future, but I just didn't care any more. I have a new big book planned for 2021 that a friend is going to buddy read with me. I managed to get a book that splits evenly. Each quarter I have to hit 227 pages exactly. I don't know how I did it, but I did.
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Review: The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
Review: Brimstone by Justine Rosenberg
Sariel, a fugitive slave, is running from the desert mines, and from an Empire that is hungry for a new and mysterious metal that the alchemists call brimstone. In a moment of mercy and lust, Ava Sandrino, herself a knight fallen from grace, shelters Sariel from his pursuers, and in the light of the moon, he speaks to her of a door. It is a gate that opens into a world that lies beyond the Northern Dark, over the edge of their farthest horizon. There, paupers rub shoulders with princes, and there are riches to be had by those with the will to seize them. Swayed by Sariel's tales of strange oceans and distant stars, and tired of a past that holds her down, Ava joins him on the trek to the kingdom where souls are remade. Together, they must cross a borderland that is the domain of magicians, the humans that serve them, and the One O’clock King: a faceless despot who guards the crossroads of worlds.
It was good. 4/5 stars because while I enjoyed a ton of it, I'm not sure that we needed the sex scene or to be told about Ava's previous dalliances with members of the Guard, random opium addicts, that sort of thing. They didn't add much more to the story beyond us knowing that in the House of Tong, she would be deemed an unfavorable. I hear there are to be more in this series and I am looking forward to them. I got this book in return for a review from NetGalley. I did quite enjoy it.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Currently Reading: 05 July to 01 August 2020
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (59%)
Monday, July 13, 2020
Currently Reading: 28 June to 04 July 2020
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (59%)
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
June 2020 Wrap Up
11. Cinder by Marissa Meyer - I have read a few of her previous books (read: entire Renegades series) and I thought I would give this one a go, just to see if I liked it. It was decent enough for a Cinderella retelling (we've seen that before) and had the makings as well as an Anastasia retelling (we've seen that too, here today). I didn't much care for how they described the cyborgs. You could just tell when they kept rattling on about Cinder not remembering her past and Princess Selene being missing for the exact same amount of time Cinder had been, well, Cinder that there was a connection. I might continue on to at least the second volume in the series and see if I like it.
Monday, June 29, 2020
Currently Reading: 21 June to 27 June 2020
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (59%)
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Currently Reading: 07 June to 13 June 2020
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (59%)
Sunday, June 7, 2020
Currently Reading 31 May to 06 June 2020
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (59%)
Saturday, June 6, 2020
Currently Reading: 18 to 30 May 2020
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (07%)
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (59%)
Naturally since I got done, I took the children down to see it. They are impressed by the library though I do not understand why. Regardless, my niece asked me a very interesting question: "Dodo, how many books do you have?" Of course, I then had to count. I couldn't not tell her. So, barring anything that does not belong to me or is not in the room at the moment (I cannot remember if I lent anything out or left it in another room) I have 1,625 books that I personally own.
Since this will be going up right before June, I am going to share something. I'm participating in another readathon. The Calling from the Discord group Axis Libri and it looks amazing. There are six "lands" you can choose from: Sun, Moon, Earth, Water, Fire, or Air. I'm in the Air Land myself. Go Anemoi! Anyway, there are a total of 8 challenges for the readathon. 3 Main and 5 Extra. You are encouraged to try to make your 3 main challenges first before the 5 extra or bonus challenges, as follows:
- Sun: Yellow/Gold
- Moon: Purple/Silver
- Earth: Green/Brown
- Air: White
- Fire: Red/Orange
- Water: Blue
(2) Finding Your Land: Read a book featuring a map.
(3) First Classes: Read a book you know nothing about.
Saturday, May 16, 2020
April 2020 Wrap Up
The healing power of reading has been renowned since Aristotle; focus, flow and enlightenment can all be discovered through this universal act. Bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud explores how reading mindfully can shape the person you are, teach empathy with others and give you your moral backbone. Through meditative exercises, engaging anecdote and expert insight, discover the enriching potential of reading for mindfulness. Learn:
• How to use reading to develop your emotional intelligence
• Different ways of reading
• Reading like a child – without preconceptions and in exciting places
• The benefits of reading with others
• How to find yourself in a book – remembering what you have read
I was very interested in this, and willing to entirely go off-script just to get to it in April. Then I saw it. I could read this for Care of Magical Creatures (Read a book that has an animal with a beak on the cover) because hiding just to the left of the title, there are two ducks in the pond. Ducks have beaks. This one is a nonfiction and I believe the only one on the wrap up list. I didn't quite understand the concept of mindful reading at first, but now I think it's what I've been doing this whole time. Especially when I created my library down in my basement complete with my little reading corner (which is totally where I am sitting to write this blog post). I enjoyed it immensely and am likely going to look for more books by this author or at least in this series.
5. Good Boy by Jennifer Finney Boylan
"This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love helps us understand the people we have been. It’s in the love of dogs, and my love for them, that I can best now take the measure of the child I once was, and the bottomless, unfathomable desires that once haunted me. There are times when it is hard for me to fully remember that love, which was once so fragile, and so fierce. Sometimes it seems to fade before me, like breath on a mirror. But I remember the dogs." In her New York Times opinion column, Jennifer Finney Boylan wrote about her relationship with her beloved dog Indigo, and her wise, funny, heartbreaking column went viral. In Good Boy, Boylan explores what should be the simplest topic in the world, but never is: finding and giving love. Good Boy is a universal account of a remarkable story: showing how a young boy became a middle-aged woman—accompanied at seven crucial moments of growth and transformation by seven memorable dogs. “Everything I know about love,” she writes, “I learned from dogs.” Their love enables us pull off what seem like impossible feats: to find our way home when we are lost, to live our lives with humor and courage, and above all, to best become our true selves.
Remember one prompt ago when I said that was the only nonfiction book on my list? Yeah, I lied. I forgot that I had read this one for Charms (Lumos Maxima: Read a book with a white cover). I received this one for free from the publisher in return for a review (which I think I posted here? I don't remember). It was really interesting. I've read one of Boylan's fiction novels (ironically, that one has a predominantly black) and loved it. So when they asked if I wanted to read it, I said yes. I liked the idea, but would have been happier with less tangents.
6. Fairy Tail #1 by Hiro Mashima
Cute girl wizard Lucy wants to join the Fairy Tail, a club for the most powerful wizards. But instead, her ambitions land her in the clutches of a gang of unsavory pirates le by a devious magician. Her only hope is Natsu, a strange boy she happens to meet on her travels. Natsu’s not your typical hero – he gets motion sickness, eats like a pig, and his best friend is a talking cat. With friends like this, is Lucy better off with her enemies?
This one I read for Defense Against the Dark Arts (Grindylow: Read a book set on or near the ocean). The first third of this takes places in a port city and on a yacht in what I assume is an ocean. Then we are shown a map and told about how the main village where the guild itself is located is near the port. So I counted it. I adore Fairy Tail and think it's funny. I definitely enjoyed this and am looking forward to the rest of the series.
7. Love Recipe #1 by Kirico Higashizato
Tomonori Ozawa has just landed his dream job at a large publishing firm. The only catch is, he is the new editor of a Boy’s Love magazine! With that, comes the responsibility of managing Sakurako Kakyoin, a male yaoi artist who is notorious for missing his deadlines. To become a full–fledged editor, Tomonori-kun has to start from the bottom – checking drafts, editing scripts and lettering. Now if only Kakyoin-sensei would stop sexually harassing him, he could actually get some work done!
Another re-read, but an old favorite of mine. I enjoy these books a lot for the actual nature of them. Yes, it is yaoi (explicit m/m content, be warned). Though I like the fact that it's someone falling in love for the first time and realizing what it means to be in love. I don't think he is gay so much as probably bisexual. We don't get any indication whatsoever that he doesn't like women, just that his first love is male. I can't remember if we get more on that in volume 2 or not...perhaps I'll reread it. Anyways, this was to cover the prompt for Divination (Assign numbers to your TBR and use a random number generator to choose a book for you). I just went with my manga collection. Was cutting it close to the wire here.
8. Mythical Beast Investigator #1 by Koichiro Hoshino
Ferry is a mythical beast investigator, charged with keeping the peace between humanity and the many magical creatures that populate the world. When a dragon starts attacking a small village, Ferry and her otherworldly bodyguard, Kushuna, go to investigate. They soon discover that the dragon has a good reason for its rampage.
I read this one for Herbology (Mimbulus Mumbltonia: Read a book beginning with the letter M) because it looked amazing and I wanted another short read. Plus I am easily amused with the manga I purchase and have a terrible habit of reading them immediately. This one was very well drawn and I loved the whole idea behind it. If this wee powerhouse is just an apprentice or whatever, not even a proper Investigator of their alliance? Group? I don't remember offhand, then I am terrified of what a powerful proper one is going to be like. World ending super strength I would assume. I found this, much like most of the others, on BookOutlet.
9. Captive Hearts in Oz #3 by Ryo Maruya
The story is back on track, but darkness is still creeping down the yellow brick road. With danger hot on her heels, Dorothy finally gets her chance to see Oz. Will their meeting really be everything shes been hoping for? Something about this feels familiar, like a book from her childhood the one where the wizard was a fraud.
I read this one to complete the prompt for History of Magic (Witchhunt: Read a book featuring witches or wizards) I was racking my brain for something quick that involved witches or wizards and couldn't come up with anything. Then I remembered. Captive Hearts in Oz takes place IN Oz where there are four witches and a wizard. Duh. I don't know why I hadn't thought of it earlier. I enjoy how instead of being the original characters, what we see are all human versions of them. Though this is not the land of Oz from the original book series. This is a recreation by a young man. I cannot wait to see how it concludes in volume 4.
10. Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. She’s an anomaly in her friend group: the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.
I read this one for Muggle Studies (Read a contemporary) because I've been dying to get to it and it fit nicely for the prompt. I think I read the first one last year or the year before, and I have been looking so forward to this one. It did not disappoint. I love that we follow Leah as she is a bit sad over the realization she can't have her first crush (Simon) but then falls for someone else and gets the girl. Yes, girl. I think this is my first sapphic romance, but I loved it. It was so good and now I am entirely excited to read The Upside of Unrequited.
11. Satan's Secretary #1 by Kamotsu Kamonabe
Satan has awoken and is dead set on conquering the human world. His secret weapon? A human woman with an unimaginable talent for organizing his demon army and keeping the conquest on track. But why would a mild-mannered woman like the Secretary betray the human race? And will Satan survive her strict schedule? Either way the human world is in big trouble!
I read this for the Potions (Shrinking Solution: Read a book under 150 pages) OWL prompt. This one came it at 144 pages. It read like a terrible RPG. I loved every minute of it. The demons of the underworld hate humans, hate them. So when Satan is awoken and they need help with the current world in the universe, they are now subjected to a human who wants...to kill all of the other humans in the world. I really think something more is going on than what we were told and I am very looking forward to locating the next volume in the series and finding out if things are actually what they seem. I keep thinking that she's not human at all. She's either like a minor half-demon, or maybe a golem? I don't know. This is just me speculating.
12. Supernova by Marissa Meyer
The Renegades' worst enemy is back among them, threatening to reclaim Gatlon City. Nova and Adrian must brave lies and betrayal to protect those they love. Their greatest fears are about to come to life, and unless they can bridge the divide between heroes and villains, they stand to lose everything. Including each other. Intrigue and action will leave readers on edge until the final, shocking secrets are revealed.
Last but certainly not least, I read this one for Transfiguration (Animagus Lecture: Read a book featuring shapeshifting). A friend and I had read the previous two books for a buddy read and thought we could just finish out the series together. I knew it would already be hard to get twelve books in for OWLs and then this on top of it. I didn't know where to put it. Then I remembered. Monarch. A superhero who's (my brain wanted to say quirk, no, bad brain, not quirk) power is the ability to shift into a swarm of monarch butterflies. Duh. That's shapeshifting. Then there was probably a few people who also could shift that I have just forgotten about. I loved this book a lot. It was a very good conclusion to the story. I kind of figured it would end that way, but you know, a girl can hope for not a predictable ending. I'm going to read Cinder next month and hope the writing is just as good.
Currently Reading: 03 May to 16 May 2020
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (10%)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (03%)
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (59%)
I've been thinking about the NEWTs Magical Readathon in August and deciding which career I want to go for. I'm stuck between three that I really want. Journalist/Writer, Librarian, Trader of Magical Tomes. They each have a different number of NEWTs too...
Clearly the one that I would have to read most for is Librarian. But if I read for that, and decide Charms is my bonus subject...I can actually do all three careers with just 8 books read in the month. I already set up my journal
That was something else. For the OWLs you needed to only read one book per subject. For the NEWTs? It's up to three, depending on your career choice. They are set up in A, E, and O.
A - Acceptable
E - Exceeds Expectations
O - Outstanding
Now to read the O-level book for Ancient Runes, I would have to have read the A and E levels. I'm kind of concerned because I want to read all the things, I mean I just got three new BOTM picks in, but I also want to wait because what if that was the perfect choice for a NEWT prompt? The example in my head when I was heading into work was, say I finish The Uninvited by Cat Winters, and I start The Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana. I finish it in June, then in July the Charms prompt is "A book with pink on/in the cover" or "A book featuring the word library/fate in the title". Well now I've already read The Library of Fates which fits all three of those prompts. I would have to hope I had something else.
Another thing that I don't like is that we cannot do multiple prompts in one book. That would make the readathon so much easier! Tell me it wouldn't be? I get that it's to challenge us like they would be the actual wizards in the Harry Potter series. I'm going to just read what I want and hope for the best!
Speaking of The Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana....it looks more interesting than I first thought. I bought it at random on BookOutlet because it involved the word "Library" (yeah, if your book has "library", "book", or "bookstore/shop" in it, I will very likely buy it). This was weeks ago. I just now read the synopsis on the inside flap and it looks brilliant. The Emperor of another nation is violent and cruel. He comes to the shores of another country and the princess tries to prevent him from taking over her land by marrying him. It doesn't work. In the chaos of this, Amrita runs off with Thala, an oracle and they go to find the Library of All Things. It makes mention of a romance. Is it between Amrita and Thala? Or are they going to just toss some random dude in there? Inquiring minds want to know! (This is why I never get any of my work done.)
I changed my mind about doing the Bookemon challenge, however there is the Axis Libri next month. I think I will just do that instead of this one. May I will devote to just reading whatever I feel like. It won't be as hectic that way. Every other month is best. That said, so far I've finished 2 books and I'm doing pretty well.
I'm enjoying my newly refinished library. We have two final things to do, which we'll likely be doing the day this blog post goes up (there will be pictures in the next post), so that's fun. I just need to get my vinyl faux wood flooring and my little coffee table from my sister. Well, I'm lying. We still need the [insert fancy term that dad used that I can't remember here] for the windows to finally get them all trimmed out.
Saw the June pick for BooksandTea and decided I would join in. The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson. It looks pretty good. I figure from now on, I would start reading Kindle books before I go to bed....when I'm conscious enough. That rarely happens, I passed out soon after getting into my pajamas last night after work.
With that, I will say good afternoon and leave off here. (Look at me go, remembering to post my reading update for the week on the proper day, and nearly the proper time!! Hopefully I will remember next week too!