Happy Sunday, bibliophiles, and happy holidays! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season.
I finally got all my finals over with on Monday, and now I’m on break for a little while! After the flaming ball of stress and confusion this semester has been, I’m so grateful for some time off.
I had a kind of hit-or-miss library haul this week, but there were definitely some gems in there. And Christmas was this Friday, and I got some amazing books, as well as a gift card to a local bookstore, so I’m super excited! (My brother also got me Minecraft, and I’ve been having way too much fun with it…he’s the best)
I’ve started editing my sci-fi WIP as well, which has been…interesting, to say the least. Somehow, my writing on that first draft fluctuates from “okay, I actually like this” to “dear lord, this is a dumpster fire.” There is no in between. None.
WHAT I READ THIS WEEK:
Shadow Frost (Shadow Frost, #1)–Coco Ma (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Cemetery Boys–Aiden Thomas (⭐️⭐️⭐️.5)
Alien: Echo–Mira Grant (⭐️⭐️)
Unhooked–Lisa Maxwell (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
The Gravity of Us–Phil Stamper (⭐️⭐️)
Fangirl, vol. 1: The Manga–Rainbow Rowell, adapted by Sam Maggs and Gabi Nam (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Fargo: This is a True Story–Noah Hawley (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
POSTS AND SUCH:
- Goodreads Monday (12/21/20)–Elysium Girls
- Book Review Tuesday (12/22/20)–DOUBLE REVIEW–The Thorne Chronicles (How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse / How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge)
- Baby It’s Cold Outside Book Tag
SONGS:
- “Needles In A Camel’s Eye” (Brian Eno cover) — Queens of the Stone Age
- “Melatonin”–Radiohead
- “Good News”–Julien Baker
CURRENTLY READING/TO READ NEXT WEEK:
Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA–edited by Emily X.R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma (re-read)
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 
Hello friend
*cracks knuckles* I see you only rated Cemetery Boys three and a half stars…
Ha ha no I would never get angry at you for rating a book what you thought of it. Okay, but I read it in one sitting once I got it for Christmas and I LOVED IT.
I can sorta see why some people might not find it as interesting, given that, well, the plot and the villain wasn’t very clear until the climax, but I still liked it just because the characters are awesome and yeah okay I love queer characters.
It’s funny that you’re rereading Foreshadow right now because I just got it for Christmas and had never heard of it before. Do you like it?
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oh no will I have to face your wrath
HAH yeah I liked it, it just didn’t live up to all the hype for me. I did like the twist with the villain, I loved Julian, and I loved the Latinx/trans rep, but I wasn’t a huge fan of Yadriel and the writing style wasn’t quite for me. But I still liked it though, I’ll probably do a full review next week. Glad you liked it though!
Yeah! I got it for Christmas too, and I’d read it earlier, and it’s great! I loved how there’s writing advice connected to each short story.
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Ha ha.
Yeah, I understand. The twist with the villain was great and also really reminded me of Shadow Magic, which I just read. If you haven’t read it–oops, sorry for spoiling! But like…well I don’t want to say too much but it’s pretty much the same villain twist. Julian was great, I loved how he always tried to say phrases and said them wrong. Hmm, why didn’t you like Yadriel? I enjoyed reading him.
Ooh, I see. Wow, you’re already rereading? That was fast! Yeah, that’s super cool.
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The title rings a bell, but chances are, I’ll forget any spoilers you’re all good
Yeah, I just thought Yadriel was a bit on the whiny/entitled side, but maybe that’s just me
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Ha ha okay.
Hmm huh I didn’t really see that in the book.
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