riaelle

[luvateliers]

did, experienced some insane things this week:

finished 3 books (the wicked king by holly black last saturday, shatter me by tahereh mafi last monday and play along by liz tomforde yesterday)

got severe stomach ache and got diagnosed with gastric last thursday. doc told me to get properly it properly checked bc i told her i can't even eat spicy food anymore. blood pressure rose a little bit too, it's 133 iirc

work has been kicking my ass bc i'm mostly on the floor all by myself answering emails and calls bc most of my colleagues are away

i sort of splurged on a special edition book arriving end of this month or june. can't wait to receive it!

[sourdough-seal]

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

[luvateliers]

picked up clockwork angel for my first september botm and i'm already past the first 100 pages of the book. only one major plot point happening for now since we are pretty early into the story.

one thing i do have to say though, i can't vibe with tessa just yet. she seems like a strong girl, sure, but her idea of what a girl/woman should and shouldn't be is pretty naive and juvenile(?). maybe it's just me being a girl myself, living in the 21st century, but girl grow up?? i also couldn't get into her acting like she knows a person just because she spent like what? a day max with said person? glad she got told off about it too. she needed that little wake up call for sure.

but! with all of that being said, i do find the plot and world building intriguing and i'm actually super excited to met jem/james in future chapters.

[luvateliers]

reading update

finished the poppy war like, an hour ago and i'm so overwhelmed. ngl the book rly gagged me a lot. i don't delve into my own country's history all that much past what were told in the history books and what i discovered over the course of my life from the internet. but the imperial japan references scattered throughout the book threw me off guard. the only atrocity i remembered being told as secondary student was our people was forced to drink soap water and not much else. but i know it goes way beyond that.

the book is a very very interesting read and i'm glad one of my friends put me on. can't wait to get into the next book but not anytime soon since i do have a few books on my TBR list. thought of starting the infernal devices first but i think i'm going to start the gilded wolves by roshani chokshi next.

some of the books on my physical TBRs are:

the infernal devices (got a boxset of all 3 books at around 18 dollars which is insane btw)

the atlas six (dnf it a few chapters into the book so i might give it a go again)

circe (dnf at 30% because i was reading it during mid-sem break then i spiraled into academia purgatory and never continue)

once upon a broken heart (alright i admit it the booktok girlies got me with this one. but i haven't read caraval yet so this one is also not getting cracked open anytime soon)

a little life (yet another book i bought bc of social media namely booktube. we shall see how this book will scar me. or not)

the god and the gumiho (sucker for cover)

the girl who fell beneath the sea (bought this book on my birthday last year but i never got to reading it)

shatter me (found a really old copy that i bought a lifetime ago stacked among my older books)

[luvateliers]

let's start this again shall we?

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going back to my roots of being a tumblr girlie after being a twt girlie for so long