Happy Sunday, bibliophiles! I hope this week has treated you all well.
It’s been a good start to November, I’d say. My reading week was a little slow, but I got some promising books from the library, so I’m confident that it’ll pick up soon.
The most important thing about this week, though, is the start of NaNoWriMo! I’m still in the Young Writer’s program right now, but this’ll be my last year…[sniffles] I’m shooting for 45,000 words this year, and somehow, I’ve managed to get in my 1,500+ words in every day this week! Knock on wood that I’ll be able to keep up the pace for the whole month…[aggressively knocks on the table]
It’s also been a fantastic week for music, if I do say so myself! First off, we got a new Spiritualized single, and he confirmed that a new album is on the way!! For me, it’s the best music he’s released in years, and I’m so excited to hear everything else!! We got new Snail Mail and some reissued Radiohead BOTH on Friday, and both of them are fantastic! I’m especially happy about Snail Mail—expect an album review soonish! (If Nano lets me…)
Other than that, I’ve just been drawing, watching a few more episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender (very slow progress, oops…), finishing and puzzling over season 3 of What We Do in the Shadows (I’m sorry WHAT were those last two episodes??), seeing Soccer Mommy live (she was amazing! The crowd…wasn’t.), and eating leftover Halloween candy. Also, I’m seeing Last Night in SoHo this afternoon, and I’m excited for it! My brother said it was even better than Baby Driver, which is really saying something…
WHAT I READ THIS WEEK:
The Girls Are Never Gone – Sarah Glenn Marsh (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Dream Country – Ashaye Brown (⭐️⭐️)
Ms. Marvel: Stretched Thin – Nadia Shammas and Nabi H. Ali (⭐️⭐️⭐️.5)
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James (for school) (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
POSTS AND SUCH:
- Goodreads Monday (11/1/21) – Orion Lost
- Book Review Tuesday (11/2/21) – A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)
SONGS:
CURRENTLY READING/TO READ NEXT WEEK:
The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry – C.M. Waggoner
The Soul Keepers – Devon Taylor
The Way You Make Me Feel – Maurene Goo
Trouble the Saints – Alaya Dawn Johnson
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 
Congrats on doing NaNoWriMo! I’m honestly so impressed with anyone who can do that because I could never balance both school and writing like that!!!
Also, I’m curious on what you’ll think about ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’! I haven’t read it myself but I’ve heard there’s a scene in it that’s really disgusting and harmful towards people who don’t eat meat, which a lot of readers are really disgusted by.
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Thank you!! Yeah I’ve been doing it for about 5 years in the young writer’s program (which doesn’t have to be 50,000 words) so I’ve had some practice, the key is making a writing schedule for me
Yeah!! I feel like I haven’t read any rom-coms in a while so I figured I’d give it a go.
Huh…haven’t read any reviews but I’ll have to see
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Ooh, I see, that’s smart! Well I hope you reach your goal!
Aah alright. I’ll link a review here that just has the scene that’s really disturbing people…if you go through several of the other reviews, they speak more about like why it’s so bad and stuff.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3985736255?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
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Oh jeez…yeah I’ve read some reviews by now, yikes…I might still read it, but for all I know, I might hate the book anyway so kdsjfhs
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Yeah, I mean it’s only one part of the book, so the rest might be good, but gosh that just…you can’t just say that. Well, if you still read it, I can’t wait to hear what you think!
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Ahhh I love Ms. Marvel too! Great post!
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She’s the best!!! Thank you! 🙂
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Best of luck with nanowrimo Madeline. Xx
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Thank you!! 🙂
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Best of luck with NaNoWriMo!!! And, WOW, SO MANY BOOKS IN ONE WEEK??!!!
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Thank you!! Yeah I just read really fast for some reason
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