Oddish Me

29. Female. Cat-owner, book lover, gamer, occasional k-drama watcher. Pretty friendly. Easily distracted.

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Review: Lovely War by Julie Berry

Review: Lovely War by Julie Berry

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  I’ll admit that this was partially a cover buy for me, although it was a cover buy because it was so obviously historical and the pink coat screamed romance so that’s all it takes to draw me in sometimes. I bought this one around the same time that I bought and read another novelthat I didn’t really get on with. Because of that, it took me a lot longer to get around to reading this…

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Anticipated September Releases

So this is something I’ve wanted to do for a while now, partly to help myself keep tracks of new releases I’m interested in and partly because I honestly just want an excuse to talk more about books.

September is a pretty hectic month for publishing apparently, because there’s a lot of releases this month and so I’m pretty much 100% certain that I’ve missed some. I might do a follow-up post to…

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Becca's Bookoplathon, Space Opera September, Buzzwordathon & More

Becca’s Bookoplathon, Space Opera September, Buzzwordathon & More

So I’ve decided that I want to join and participate in a couple of different readathons this month. Specifically Becca’s Bookoplathon and Space Opera September(this is the prompt video) (who are both month-long readathons) as well as Buzzwordathon. 

I sort of want to see if I can fit in any shorter readathons as well, but I think I’ll pick my books for the three I mentioned first and see…

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as gently as he could, he pressed the tip of his dagger across both her palms and then his. 

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nick: i wasn't trying to hurt you

mae: sometimes when you pull knives on people, they get this impression that you're going to hurt them, and then they're completely terrified. crazy, i know!

nick: okay. look. *unsheathes one of his knives*

jamie: which part of 'completely terrified' did you translate to 'show us your knives, nick!' don't show me your knives, nick. i have no interest in your knives.

nick: this is a quillon dagger. that's a knife with a sword handle. i like it because it has a good grip for stabbing.

jamie: why do you say these things? is it to make me sad?

nick: i didn't have you cornered. you could've run. and this dagger doesn't have an even weight distribution; it's absolute rubbish for throwing. if i had any intention of hurting you, i'd have used a knife i could throw.

jamie: i will remember those words always. i may try to forget them, but i sense that i won't be able to.

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March TBR.

So I decided to go ahead and use March as my “catch up” month like I mentioned in my post about the Sequel-a-thon. I have so many books that I’ve gotten distracted from and stopped in th middle of that I figure focusing on finshing some wouldn’t be a bad idea.

I also figure it works well while doing a readathon since most of these books are already started, although I haven’t gotten as far into all of them.

I do have more books that I could add if I finish these ones, but, between this and my Sequel-a-thon I didn’t want to overload either.

Also, just for funsies, I added a bit below showing how far I’m into each of these books.

Woven in Moonlight - 65% I could probably finish this without trouble if I’m honest. The main reason I’m not is a combination of already kind of seeing where this is going (thoguh, of course I could be surprised!) as well as not really wanting to finish it. Still, I think this is the one I’m the furthest through and I really want to finish it.

The Scorpio Races - ~17% I’m listening to this on audiobook and I’m mostly listening to that when I’m at work and I’m not 100% into audiobooks yet so it could take me awhile to finish it. Especially since I’m also listening to King of Attolia at the same time. I do own the physical copy of this as well, so maybe I’ll pick that up when I’m home if I’m not feeling like listening to anything.

From Lukov With Love - 46% This is my palate cleanser/bus read and probably the book on this list that I’m the most relaxed about getting around to. I do really enjoy it, I just also enjoy picking it up whenever I need a break from what I’m currently reading as well.

Echoes Between Us - 20% Technically this should probably be Say You’ll Remember Me instead since I haven’t finished that one yet but... This one spoke to me more so here we are. I’m not 100% sure how I feel about this one yet. I’m not feeling it, but I’m also not hating it if that makes sense? So yeah. We’ll see. I have liked so many other of Katie McGarry’s books and I really want to like this, but yeah. Not sure yet.

Followers - 5% This is probably the one I’ve read the least of so far. It’s here partly because I did stop for a bit, and partly because I just really want to sit down and read it because I am truly enjoying it. And either way, this is my dumb little challenge for myself so I’ll change the rules if I want to!

So yeah, that’s my current TBR picks for March. I might dump or pick up some other ones depending on how I fare. I have about 25-30 books that I need to finish or decide if I’m dnf’ing so I’m not really lacking in choice!

That said, if it feels tedious or I don’t want to read anything, I am allowed to choose some other books instead.

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This is my current TBR for the Sequel-a-thon that starts tomorrow (March 1st). I don’t actually have that many series I need to catch up on, but that’s because I have so many more books that I just need to finish so I might do a small readathon for myself focusing on those books sometime in March as well.

The King of Attolia is the only book I know I’ll be listening to on audio, the rest I don’t know yet. Aside from Obisidio these are also all fantasy so I have a feeling I might need to make sure that the rest of the books I read this month are a little more varied or I’ll probably be all fantasied out by the end of this.

The annoucement video for Sequel-a-thon is here in case you’re curious or would like to join!

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“And if I never change back? If I’m not human enough anymore?”

Tana & Gavriel (“The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by @hollyblack)

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A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray Gifs Created from Dream Fortress

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Underrated books: TITHE by Holly Black

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

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Assassin’s Creed

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Non temete l'oscurita - accettate il suo abbraccio

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Hufflepuff Common Room

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#AYEARATHON - Pick a Color TBR

#AYEARATHON – Pick a Color TBR

One of the things I wanted to do more of this year was to join readathons. Preferably ones that aren’t too long since I tend to falter a bit the longer they are.

One readathon that I’ve known of for awhile and wanted to join is the #AYEARATHON which is a readathon that happens once a month with different themes each month.

This months theme is to pick a color and read books with that cover…

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5 Books I'd like to pick up again in 2020

5 Books I’d like to pick up again in 2020

It happens more often than I care to admit, I pick up a book, fully intending to finish it ASAP and then, for whatever reason, I put it down and I don’t get back to it. Yet, it’s not because I dislike it or that I’m having a hard/bad time reading it. Usually I’ve just gotten distracted by something else or I was in the mood for something different and just like that, I put it down.

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GoodReads Choice Awards Mini Challenge

GoodReads Choice Awards Mini Challenge | 8 books I'm going to attempt to read in 2020 from 8 different categories in the GR Choice Awards.

I mentioned in my Reading Goals for 2020 that I wanted to attempt to reading at least 1 book from several different GoodReads Choice Awards categories in order to help me branch out a little.

I specifically didn’t say the winners of said categories since I might not want to read the winner, it might not be something I’m able to read or (this is unlikely) I might have already read it.

I did…

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