Quarter 1 Reading 2025
January, February, and March
Intro
So, in my dream world these quarterly reading updates would come out in the first two weeks of the following month. So like the first two weeks of April for this edition. April kicked my ass. I finally feel like I can complete the tasks I wish to. I finally feel like I have space to breathe and do the creative things I dream about re-introducing into my days. Hopefully, but anyway…here are the books.
January
Book 1: Obscura by Joe Hart//Started 30 December 2024 & Finished 4 January 2025 (Library Book)
Wow. This was slow for me at first. THEN…I did not want to put this down. I do not think SCI-FI is my vibe. I won’t say no because of it, but I won’t seek it either. I do think this was fantastic. Again, the beginning felt a bit slow, and I was like, why did TWO people rave about this book, then all the things happened, and I could not put it down. I definitely liked this more than Project Hail Mary.
Quotes:
“Each time she saw the inner workings of a mind, it threw her. No matter if it was a PET scan of an eighty-year-old Kansas woman’s brain or an MRI of a five-week-old lab mouse, the unreality of observing what made up another being’s thoughts was transfixing in a way she could never articulate. She supposed it was the intimacy of it: she was seeing what made a person or animal who or what they were.”
““No shame in needing help.” That was the slogan of every rehab clinic she’d ever considered checking into before abandoning the idea. But shame was the cage that kept her from reaching out for help. Shame at not being strong enough to deal with what life had handed her. I got news for you, Doc: when you’re an addict, there’s always shame.”
Book 2: Cut and Thirst by Margaret Atwood// Started 3 January 2025 & Finished 16 January 2025 (Prime First Reads e-Book)
I have a bunch of Prime First Reads on my Kindle. A handful are short stories. I do want to read more of these books. I figured this was a good start as it was short and I was in between a digital book without my Kindle. So this became my “phone” book. It was fine. I would not recommend it. I did not hate it. I would not have wanted to read more if there was a longer version.
Book 3: Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness//Started 13 January 2025 & Finished 17 January 2025 (Libby Audiobook)
Again, I am listening to this series. I did not make it this far in reading it. I do find I am enjoying the listening. I still get annoyed with the characters, but I am happy to have found a way to experience this series and fill my need to know what happens in the text.
Book 4: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard//Started 12 January 2025 & Finished 17 January 2025 (Library)
Okay, so there is a story before I get to the book. Skip this part if you only want book. I read Philippa Gregory’s Plantagenet and Tudor historical fiction novels in chronological order years ago. One of them I believe has a similar Red Queen esk title. THIS BOOK IS IN NO WAY CONNECTED OTHER THAN THE WORDS OF THE TITLES. But because I read those this one always stood out to me. I would see it, and good things were said…& well my interest was piqued. I cannot say how many times this occurred. BUT IT DID A LOT. (Ember in the Ashes also had this happen). ANYWAY, my friend read it and loved it (the series all together…not as strongly), and so I decided to bump her back up to a read sooner. And that is how I got here.
AS FOR THE BOOK: I really enjoyed this. I love the story. I love the world. I like the character. The world was very cool. I always love a dystopian tale that thrives on hope. I am excited for the next one. I do not really know what I liked about this. It is like an elevated version of Hunger Games where the protagonist is more aggressive and purposefully manipulative to further her cause. I am excited to read more about the magical aspects of this world as well. I am very intrigued by the different abilities and such. I hope there is more to learn there as the series progresses.
Quotes:
“Silvers aren’t supposed to die here. Silvers are supposed to fight bravely, to flaunt their skills, to put on a good show—but not die. After all, they aren’t Reds.”
“The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.”
“The Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.”
“Long ago he called us ants, Red ants burning in the light of a Silver sun. Destroyed by the greatness of others, losing the battle for our right to exist because we are not special. We did not evolve like them, with powers and strengths beyond our limited imagination. we stayed the same, stagnant in our own bodies. The world changed around us and we stayed the same.”
“The Choke. I’ve never been there, but I’ve heard enough to imagine it. The land is flat, pocked with craters from a thousand falling bombs. Soldiers in stained red uniforms cower in each of them, like blood filling a wound. I float through them all, searching looking for the brothers I lost to smoke and shrapnel.”
“I grew up wondering if I’d have food for supper; now I’m standing in a palace about to be eaten alive.”
“In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don’t know if I’ll ever smile again.”
““What my people are doing to you and yours is wrong to the deepest levels of humanity. Oppressing you, trapping you in an endless cycle of poverty and death, just because we think you are different from us? That is not right. And as any student of history can tell you, it will end poorly.””
“Barely nineteen, on the edge of doom or greatness or both.”
“Suddenly a pulsing beat explodes from the box, and I realize it’s a speaker, like the ones in the arena back home. Only this is for music, not battle. Life, not death.”
“This isn’t a spark of destruction but a spark of life.”
“Now I know the opposite is true. They’ve spent so long at the top, protected and isolated, that they’ve forgotten they can fall. Their strength has become their weakness.”
“Flame and shadow. One cannot exist without the other.”
“Part of me doesn’t either. Part of me wishes I could submit to the chains, to captivity and silence. But I have lived that life already, in the mud, in the shadows, in a cell, in a silk dress. I will never submit again. I will never stop fighting.”
Book 5:Thirty-Two Words for Field by Manchan Magan//Started 7 January 2025 & Finished 19 January 2025 (My Library)
Language itself has always fascinated me. I have a Midheaven in Sagittarius, so other cultures, as well as my own, just filled me with joy to learn about. One area specifically is how language is used. It is so cool. If you do not agree, you are wrong. Well…you haven’t been paying attention to it or its potential. Anyway, this book encapsulates how I feel about languages through immersion into the Irish language and its nuance. Its words are full of specifics for nature because it was used by a culture that was very connected to the natural world. How the folk beliefs are a prerequisite for understanding the words, and how terms change meaning as the world around them changes. This was written so well. Could I confidently pronounce any Irish word?…no. But that did not hinder my enjoyment. It just made me re-download Duolingo. I am doing awful. I also found a children’s playlist of common words, so there is that. I loved this. I have his other novel-sized book as well as some of the children-sized ones too. I am excited to read more.
(Suprise attack, My parents were born and raised in Ireland).
Quotes:
“They reveal a language that not only describes things but also summons them into being, a language that communicates not only to others but to the psyche and the subconscious, a language that is deeply rooted in the environment and can connect us to our surroundings in remarkable ways.”
“Thomas Davis, who wrote that a people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories—’tis a surer barrier, and more important frontier, than fortress or river.”
“It’s no wonder people sense something different in Ireland. The people have been rooted to this land, and to this language, for so long, growing grains, tending cattle, spinning stories.”
“The land holds memories within it. This is a challenging idea to us now but it was pervasive in ancient thought. It is essentially an articulation of the soul of place.”
“Irish is a gritty, earthy language, as rooted in nature as it is in esoteric realms.”
Book 6: The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness//Started 17 January 2025 & Finished 21 January 2025 (Libby Audiobook)
I finished all the books! This one felt like fan service. It was fine.
Book 7: The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop//Started 21 January 2025 & Finished 23 January 2025 (Libby Audiobook)
A dear friend has decided to read more memoirs this year and recommended this one. I immediately wondered if Kelly Bishop/Grandma Gilmore READ her own book. She does. This was fantastic. I did not want to stop listening.
Book8: A Queen this Fierce and Deadly by Stacia Stark//Started 17 January 2025 & Finished 27 January 2025 (My e-book)
I SOBBED through the end of this book. This series was very well done. I put off reading it. And I DO NOT KNOW WHY. I binged the first three. The third’s ending SHATTERED ME. I had to wait for this one, but just never picked it up. I am glad I finally did. I even googled if some of the characters I was getting attached to survived because I did not know if I could handle if they didn’t…
There is a bonus chapter from the author that is really nice too.
Quotes:
“power is always drawn back to its origin”
“You think feelings are a weakness. And sometimes, they are. Sometimes, those feelings eat at everything you thought you were. But a life refusing to feel, to love? That is worse than a weakness. That is a travesty. To refuse to feel the full range of emotions, to deny yourself joy in an effort to protect yourself from the loss? I may not know much—may have no true glimpse of the future the way my mother does—but I know without a doubt that one day, the tiny moments of joy you keep turning your back on? They’re the moments that will keep you alive.”
“And in that moment, I could briefly forget about death and war”
“Whoever said vengeance didn’t help was lying”
“Bravery is a choice. However, you can’t wait until the moment you need to be brave to reach for that bravery. Because if you haven’t been purposefully tending to it, building it up, you may find that it is not there when you need it. You must stoke the fires of courage little by little, day by day, so they are burning bright long before you ever need them.”
“My only regret was that I wouldn’t get more time. But I could never regret losing my life to save theirs. And suddenly, the thought that I’d wanted glory or notoriety during this war… It was silly now. All I really wanted was to know they would all survive. I didn’t need prestige.”
“I’d once believed there was nothing heroic about war. Now, I knew it brought out the best and worst in everyone.”
FEBRUARY
Book 9: Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera//Started 28 January 2025 & Finished 2 February 2025 (Library Book, Ink Drinker’s Book Club February Pick “Popcorn Thrillers”)
Fuck I did not expect this to be so good. I am still processing if I liked the ending. But I loved the book. I loved Lucy’s dry humor. It made me laugh. I could not put this down. I was reading it with Onyx Storm and it was COMPETING for my attention. As someone who made Fourth Wing their personality…I would say that is a compliment of the highest order.
Quotes:
“Except this is a “sorry I didn’t tell you I’m the prime suspect in my friend’s murder” chicken.”
“He may be a deeply average dude, but he has a great taste in dogs.”
“An insult doesn’t have the intended impact when spelled incorrectly.”
“I’m riveted. Can’t wait to find out if I did it.”
“I don’t think he’s caught many swooning ladies. He’s not very good at it.”
“My life was vastly improved once both those men were gone. Men don’t protect us, not really. They only protect themselves, or each other. The only thing men ever protected me from was happiness.”
Book 10: Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros//Started 27 January 2025 & Finished 4 February 2025 (My book)
Fourth Wing became my personality. Iron Flame was annoying, but like I was annoying at that age, too. So, this book scared me. I wanted the magic of Fourth Wing back. I believed in Rebecca’s ability to deliver. I think the internet chaos and pressure to produce was a factor in Iron Flame's meh-ness. Anyway, this was so much better, and it felt like the Fourth Wing I fell in love with. Clearly, the story moved on. But the energy that grasped me returned. I really did not want to have to ignore 4 books because I was obsessed with one, so this is LOVELY news for me. I tried to read this slowly, and did not succeed because I was so encapsulated in how this progressed. I am happy the next book will take more time because I think we will get a better book for it.
Also, the publishing is a mess with these hardcovers. They are cute to look at, but the pages are not it. Like the quality control really is taking a hit. I have another series by the same publisher in paperback that is so much nicer because that series is not this level of crazy popular. And that annoys me that my hardcovers are not as nice as the paperbacks…fucking capitalism.
Book 11: Playing Dead: How Meditation Brought Me Back to Life by Robert Sheehan// Started 6 February 2025 & Finished 11 February 2025 (Libby Audiobook)
I like this actor on the Umbrella Academy and Misfits. I feel like his experience would be more enjoyable through a podcast format than a book. Like limited series on topics of interest, like one season is meditation. I found I was wishing this was a podcast and that a guest would join in the conversation at some point. Maybe because I did listen to the podcast he was on? Overall, it was not my favorite.
Book 12: The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel// Started 5 February 2025 & Finished 13 February 2025 (Library Book)
A slow start, and then you just broke my little heart. I was SOBBING as I read part of this. Once she got to the library, that is when this book really grabbed me. So it was fine, then it was amazing. I just really loved it. Some characters annoyed me so much, but like they are human. Ugh, my cousin recommended this, and just, ugh…I loved it. I love books.
Quotes:
““How nice it must be,” I say softly to Kuhn’s picture, “to be haunted by questions rather than ghosts.””
““It might also be a trap.” “Set by a priest?” “There’s no rule that all priests must be decent human beings.” “I don’t know much about Catholicism, but I’m fairly certain that’s part of the job description.””
“My room is lined with books, most of them stacked in precarious piles on the bowing bookshelves Louise assembled years ago. They are filled with other people’s stories, and I’ve spent my life disappearing into them. Sometimes, when the nights are dark and silent and I’m alone, I wonder if I would have survived without the escape their pages offered me from reality. Then again, perhaps they just gave me an excuse to duck out of my own life.””
“In this, I know I failed him. I love him more than anyone on earth, but time has shown me that I made a mistake in letting him learn his priorities from his father while I lost myself in books. Where was I when he needed to learn about courage and faith and bravery? He’s a good man—I know he is—but he cares too much about success and too little about the things we can find in our hearts, and that is never who I was.”
““It’s magnificent,” she murmured, forgetting for a moment that she was supposed to be wary. Books, wherever they were in the world, always felt like home to her.”
“He’s good at what he does, too, but different people have different strengths, and we’re all stronger when we join. “
“When she came to see me, she said that anyone who saw the magic in books had to be good.”
“Life turns on the decisions we make, the single moments that transform everything.”
“I’ve always thought that it’s those children—the one’s who realize that books are magic—who will have the brightest lives.”
“But it wasn’t a peaceful silence; the clean air was still, as if the sky was holding its breath, and there was no birdsong.”
“That’s what books were for, after all. They were passageways to other worlds, other realities, other lives one could imagine living. But in times like these, was it dangerous to dream unrealistic dreams?”
“And isn’t that the moral of the story anyhow? You can’t judge a person by their language or their place of origin—though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself.”
“Once you’ve fallen in love with books, their presence can make you feel at home anywhere, even in places where you shouldn’t belong.”
“Hope was a dangerous thief, stealing her todays for a tomorrow that would never come.”
Book 13:The Encyclopedia of Bach Flower Therapy by Mechthild Scheffer//Started 30 August 2023 & Finsihed 19 February 2025 (My Book)
I have had really cool results from Bach Flower Remedies. I have my own collection at this point for personal usage and I wanted to learn more. I would dip in and out of this book hence its long reading time. It will be an excellent reference. It was very informative on all the remedies. I have a few others I want to read on this topic too. I know one for sure is by Bach himself, both may be though.
Book 14: Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson//Started 15 February 2025 & Finished 20 February 2025 (Libby AudioBook)
I am not a fan of hustle culture. I am a person who needs to be on the active look out for burn out becuase my body will take me out if I do not adequately make time for rest. That being said I loved this book. 50 reads it to you. His perspective of how to hustle was really interesting. He made business moves make more sense for me. I really enjoyed this.
MARCH
Book 15: Raven’s Wand by Steve Hutton//Started 15 February & Finished 2 March 2025 (My eBook)
Damn the emotions I went through. I will say I did have a hard time getting into this book because the perspectives changed without a title. Given I normally am inclinced to ignore those titles, it quickly became a non-issue. But the changes at first made it hard for me to get into the story. Once I overcame that small hurdle it was a wild tale. I easily developed care for so many of the characters and the sturggles they faced. I am excited to continue this series. Allie, the Cosmic Space Witch, recommended it to me in one of my readings from her.
Quotes:
“The hourglass was his prison and purpose and the sand inside poured through it infinitely slowly, measuring the life of the universe.”
“Remember that death is always a last resort.”
“Her word was her will, and her will changed the world.”
“You can have your gold, or you can have your God, but not both”
““Only belief, not steel, will finish witches for good. Consider how unpopular they’d be if . . .” he pretended to think. “Someone prominent was harmed by them.””
“Rowan’s happiness was selfless. That was one of the things Kolfinnia loved most about her.”
““Their view is upside down. They believe gold is alchemy’s ultimate aim when in truth it’s the transforming of the soul.””
“She was a child and still believed that anyone capable of feeling fear must have some capacity for sympathy.”
“Glad tears pricked her eyes and an important lesson she’d forgotten in the heat of battle wrapped its soft arms around her: celebrating life was true magic.”
“The strongest yet simplest spell in the universe: ‘Forgive me.’”
Book 16: Athena’s Child by Hannah Lynn//Started 3 March 2025 & Finished 9 March 2025 (My eBook)
I wanted to read a Medusa retelling. I am so happy I chose this one. I really loved this retelling. It is part of a series, and I was not planning on reading the others…but now I might because I really enjoyed the way this retelling wove the myth with the complex human emotions that are often overlooked or just completely ignored.
Quotes:
“Medusa grew from monsters, but she was not born of them.”
“Men or boys? The line was so close, and Medusa had never learned when the change occurred.”
“With dawn, came hope.”
“Trust does not require answers, Perseus. Trust requires acceptance.’”
“The gods, like the rich of the world, push their agendas onto those whose voices are not loud enough to speak for themselves. The women. The weak. The unwanted. And no one shouts for those who need it the most. Why would they? To shout for another is to risk losing something yourself. And man cannot see beyond the depth of his own reflection.’”
“She knew that true words from a man were more valuable than shallow gifts from a god.”
Book 17: A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen//Started 11 March 2025 & Finished 12 March 2025 (Libby eBook)
I did not want to put this book down. I am so happy the sequel comes out this year. I cannot wait to continue this tale. I find vikings and their lore fascinating and this was such a fun ride.
Quotes:
“It was because there was no demand in his touch. No sense that he intended to take anything from me or to use me the way so many others had. A touch entirely without agenda beyond chasing away the cold.”
Book 18: Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard//Started 2 March 2025 and Finished 21 March 2025 (Library Book)
I am enjoying this series. I plan on continuing it. A few books have Bumped it down on priority, but still planning to pick up book 3. I think this falls into one of my default vibes in terms of books. This is a genre (how we classify books baffles me) that is my go to…
How woul I describe my go to…it is a dysptoian hellscape with a serving of hope driving the revolution/rebellion efforts. Idk how to define books, but this is the vibe I tend to grasp onto the most. Add dragons. Add magic. Don’t have those. Add lore I am interested outside of the tyrant vs. underdog. (Hilariously timely, am I right?).
This series is making me reflect on what makes me as a reader fall head over heels into a book. Like the world around me is no longer real and I have fully been wrapped between these covers when I am reading… This book did not give me that feeling, but Ember in the Ashes series did for EVERY book in the series. However, they have a similar feel and vibe. So, I wonder what nuanced difference exists and how it differs from reader to reader. Also, how it differs from the moment when the book is read, and what is read around it. Like if I read this first, would another book in a simialr vibe fall flat because I was still reminiscing of the experience of the last one? Just some random nerdy reader thoughts…
Quotes:
“I’m the greatest weapon on a ship full of warriors, and they don’t seem to know it.”
“Any sensible person would call them my enemies. Strange, my enemies know me best, and my family doesn’t know me at all.”
“Now I fear he’s becoming the shadow in my mind, worse than a hunter, worse than a ghost. At least I’m not alone in his hauntings.”
“If only they were the monsters *** believes them to be. If only things were that simple.”
“It is not death I fear, not anymore. I’ve faced dying too many times to be afraid of it.”
Book 19: Peony in Love by Lisa See// Started 20 March 2025 and Finished 30 March 2025
My friend was reading this in a buddy read with her sister. I liked other books by this author and requested to join. I ended up finishing it first. I would say it took me a while to appreciate and like this book. The other ones I read were different and I did overall prefer them to this one. However, the way culture was explored in this book and humanness was very cool once I moved past the strangeness of it all. It covered hard topics of a culture in a way that had a lot of heart and understanding. I really liked how it covered difficult to understand cultural practices.
Quotes:
“Sold for pork? I was to be married in exchange for bride-price gifts, which included pigs. Perhaps Willow and I were not so different after all. Neither of us had any say in our futures.”
“We were brought together by a failing world and found companionship.”
“Ghosts, like women, are creatures of yin—cold, dark, earthy, and feminine.”
“During the following months, I found no answers, but I began to regain my strength, find my resolve, and once again remember that I, like all women and girls, wanted—needed—to be heard.”
“Both of us had been doomed because we’d been born girls. We’d both struggled on the precipice between being worthless or valuable as a commodity. We were both pathetic creatures.”
Book 20: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins//Started 21 March 2025 and Finished 31 March 2025
FUUUUUCCK.
I feel like that covers it.
Anyway, I really appreciate this world. It allowed college me to read for fun with vigor again. It is amazing to be able to learn more about this world years later. It is just a work of art how Suzanne Collins weaves these prequells into the series. If you read the series, you know basically how this is going to go. You walk in knowing this is not going to be pretty. No fun will be had here. And it still rips your heart out and stomps on it, and then picks it up and shredds it into teeny tiny pieces.
I need to read her other series.
Quotes: (Beware they are spoilery)
“She says that’s just a teaspoon of trouble in a river of wrong.”
“For the first time, I understand that when they show the reaping live, it isn’t really live.”
“The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us.”
“A world of words to wrap herself up in. Each book’s as precious as a person, she says, as it preserves someone’s thoughts and feelings long after they’re gone.”
“From this point on, the Games evolved from pure punishment to unapologetic entertainment.”
“Sometimes she cries because things are so beautiful and we keep messing them up. Because the world doesn’t have to be so terrifying. That’s on people, not the world.”
““No. Just hauled me in. Less about what I played, more about how it drew people. Everybody’s real upset this year, so many kids. They needed a place to be together, to raise their voices. Sometimes the hurt’s too bad to bear alone.””
“Hoping for something better could be dangerous; it could blind me to the reality of my situation. I remember how Mamaw always said, “Where there’s life, there’s hope.” But from where I’m sitting, hope seems a lot like white liquor. It can fool you in the short run, but like as not, you’ll end up paying for it twice.”
“Eyes on me, 24/7. I will not be allowed to die. I will be resurrected by the Capitol for their entertainment.”
“I didn’t want to let them him, her and Peeta, but the walls of a person’s heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love.” (I AM LITERALLY CRYING WRIRITNG THIS OMG, THIS FUCKING BOOK.)
DNF’d:
In the Dreamhouse by Carmen Maria Machado (Ink Drinkers Book Club March Book)
I am so conlficted because I wanted to like this. I liked the writing. There were some excellent quotes. But overall, I do not tend to love a short story or a short story collection. This memior is written in a way that reminds me what I do not like about those collections. I was DREADING reading this. I wand to say around 30% I asked someone else how they were liking it, and how far they were…and those answers gave me the information to feel confident in choosing not to continue. I do not want to dread reading. I will give a book MORE of a grace period if it is for book club. One of my favorite things about being in a book club is exposure to books I would not normally choose.
2025 Goal Check-in:
Let us revisit The Goals:
1. Read 24 Books *
I am currently at April 29th at 22 Books read so far this year. Honestly, more than I expected. The summer time is usually my bigger months becuase beach binges.
2. Read 3 Classics
I have read one classic! BUT finished in April so next issue will cover that one. For this issue 0/3.
3. Read A Song of Fire and Ice?
LMAO. I was thinking of starting, but I am going away in May. So, after I am back maybe this will be on the docket.
4. Read at least 6 nonfiction books on a personal interest area (tarot, Astrology, Etc.)
Nonfiction has been solid this year. So far in the finished there i the Bach Flower book! Also, Thirty-two Words for field hits my lingustic and Irish language interests. 2/6. I have two opened!
5. Keep opened books to under 5. (I typically sit at 7)
I have 6 opened at the moment. I was doing good, but the nonfiction keep interesting me and then a fiction distracts me. So this has been better than I expected, BUT not great. I am happy with it though. Thinking about this as a goal makes me remeber the books I have chilling in the wings.
*this is a random number to track around.
Books I am Currently Reading:
Understanding Interceptions by Chris McRae//Started 11 February 2025
Unlocking the Tarot: Create Your Own Keys by Lisa Papez//Started 14 October 2024
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures by Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania// Started 15 March 2025
The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe// Started 11 March 2025
Flowers of Fate: Dark Raven Chronicles by Steve Hutton, Hilary Emeny//Started 30 March 2025
Listen to the Land Speak:A Journey Into the Wisdom of what Lies Beneath Us by Manchan Magan//Started 29 April 2025
TBR PLANS:
I want to finish the Red Queen series. I want to start A Song of Ice and Fire. I want to keep progressing through the Dark Raven Chronicles as my every other ebook. I am trying to go through the ebooks I have collected. As well as hitting some physical TBR books.
What am I watching/listening too?
I have been rewatching Game of Thrones as a pre-reading activity. I have been listening to cluster of podcasts. I am honestly so late to post this that I am going to list some I have been loving. I would prefer to include pictures, but I have been unfocused for the month of April. In no order, these have made my ears happy:
Inspirited Word,Obitchuary, Lore, The Almanac of Ireland, That’s Pretty Dark, Cult Liter, Keep it Tight, Not Gonna Lie, Celtic Myths and Legends, Listen, I’m Delicious.
What am I working on?
TOO MANY THINGS. But I would have it no other way. I have this video that I want to film. BUT life keeps getting in the way. However, this weekend it should be all good to film and post and restart my youtube life. I wasn’t expecting a break this big, but what can ya do…
I want to do more artistic things, so I am working on posting and moving forward with crochet plans. I also want to start painting again. I have done one! I haven’t posted it. I have been posting things to keep me accoutable to myself. Which is silly, but it is somewhat working. So, I have all the things. Mostly I post across IG, Tumblr, and Pinterest. I am thinking of starting a Pateron (free atm) for people who are staying away from IG…maybe I will post these little updates here? WOULD YOU LIKE THAT? Tell me. This feels more substantial in my brain, but I can do smaller more frequent check-ins? I just feel like the books got too much and I dont want to focus on that other than like a day here and there I dump all the info in this draft.
Reading App Updates? (I use Storygraph and Fable:
If I was not so late I would add some photos. However, here are some stats:
8,809 pages read.
Top moods are adventurous, emotional, tense, and dark.
27% are nonfiction, 73% fiction.
Top genres are Fantasy, Romance, Thriller.
45% print, 32% digital, 23% audio.
Top Authors with 2 books each: Victoria Aveyard, and Deborah Harkness.
I cannot edit this in the app so this is for up to April 29th.
If you made it this far, thanks for being here,
Boars of Valor