Happy Sunday, bibliophiles! I hope this week has treated everybody well. Only one month left in 2020…we can do it…
My Thanksgiving Break was this week, and luckily, only one of my teachers assigned homework, and I was able to get it done last weekend, so that was really nice. I had a lot of time to relax–I picked my Radiohead puzzle back up (I hit a wall with it in October, so I figured that now would be a good time to resume it), and watched Annihilation (AAAAAAAAH), I’m Thinking of Ending Things (excuse me while I internally write a 17-page essay on that one), and the newest episode of Fargo. Thanksgiving dinner was delicious, even though we didn’t have anyone over. And we just got our Christmas tree yesterday, and it smells so nice…π₯Ί
And NaNoWriMo’s almost over! It feels like it’s gone by so fast…but hey, I’m on track to finish my 35,000 words very soon!
I’ve had a bit of a reading slump this week, though…after Clap When You Land, I’ve had a mostly disappointing library haul. So chances are, my Book Review Tuesday next week will *probably* be a bit of rant review…sigh…
But hey, I finished my 2020 Goodreads Reading Challenge! 250 books!
WHAT I READ THIS WEEK:
I love this part–Tillie Walden (read twice) (βοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈ)
How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back–Jeff Tweedy (βοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈ)
Clap When You Land–Elizabeth Acevedo (βοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈ)
Kingdom of Souls–Rena Barron (βοΈβοΈ)
Music from Another World–Robin Talley (βοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈ)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?–Philip K. Dick (βοΈβοΈ)
Six Angry Girls–Adrienne Kisner (βοΈβοΈ.5)
POSTS AND SUCH:
- Goodreads Monday (11/23/20)–How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse
- Book Review Tuesday (11/24/20)–I love this part
- Fall Time, Cozy Time Book Tag
- Down the TBR Hole 10
SONGS:
- “Dried-Up Paint”–Jim Noir
- “Pink Lemonade”–Jim Noir
- “Gratitude”–Beastie Boys
- “Insane Asylum”–Koko Taylor and Willie Dixon
CURRENTLY READING/TO READ NEXT WEEK:
Falling Kingdoms–Morgan Rhodes
Blood & Honey (Serpent & Dove, #2)–Shelby Mahurin
The Candle and the Flame–Nafiza Azad
Sparrow–Sarah Moon
Today’s song:
That’s it for this week in blogging! Have a wonderful rest of your day, and take care of yourselves!
The Bookish Mutant 
250 BOOKS???? That’s so impressive! Here I am sitting on 163…at least my challenge was only 150. Still, I’m really impressed.
Hmm, I’ve been wanting to read Kingdom of Souls for a while (I heard the author talk at a webinar this summer–I actually did my first ever blog post (on my current blog) on that!). What didn’t you like about it?
Hang on, I’m actually just gonna go check out the goodreads review XD
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Oh wait you didn’t link to your actual review, oops. Anyways. What did you not like about it?
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Whoops sorry to lead you astray π€£ those links are just for the Goodreads page, there’s no way I could possibly review every single book I read
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Ha ha, it’s okay!
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Thank you! I tried for 300 a few years ago but that was really stressful so I took it down a notch π
Yeah…part of my low rating can probably be chalked up to having my expectations too high, but personally, the action was very understated, it dragged on for too long (close to 500 pages), and it was rather boring. I liked some of the West African-inspired mythology and some of the imagery though Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
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Wow, that’s a lot.
Ah, I see. Yeah, I hate when that happens, it’s happened a few times to me. Ooh, that is pretty long. But I do find it interesting to read books inspired by other cultures!
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And congrats on 150! Nice job!
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Thanks!
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Congrats on your reading challenge! That’s so exciting!! (Plus, I always love a good LBD gif π )
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Thank you! (Sorry to disappoint, but I don’t even know what the gif is from…I just looked up “done/finished” gifs and it came up…π€£)
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Ah, a happy coincidence then! π
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The cover art of I love this part makes me want to read it this instance!!!
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Tillie Walden is a stellar artist and writer, I’d recommend giving any of her graphic novels a try π
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Sure! Thankx for the rec!
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