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Jacqueline Woodson; Brown Girl Dreaming
But I don’t want to read faster or older or any way else that might make the story disappear too quickly from where it’s settling inside my brain, slowly becoming a part of me. A story I will remember long after I’ve read it for the second, third, tenth, hundredth time.
--- reading
Goatathon | Day One: Goat Started
My tbr includes finishing A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir which is also a part of my tbr for #beatthebacklist, read the recently released Queen of Sorrow by Sarah Beth Durst the third book in the Queens of Renthia series which I marathoned last month, sprint through the second two Binti books by Nnedi Okorafor, Home and The Night Masquerade to finish a series, and start the Liveship Traders trilogy with Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb which is part of the Realm of the Elderlings series that I’ve been meaning to continue with. If I am feeling a reread instead of any of these titles, I will pick up The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss because I have been wanting to reread the Kingkiller Chronicle for years.
TIME FOR A #GOATATHON
June 1st: Goat Started
So, over the last month or so I’ve amassed three siren/mermaid type books and one pirate-y arc. I figured why not participate in the #goatathon and have myself a little mermaid party. So, once I’ve finished Ace of Shades, which I’ll most likely do tonight, I’m going to get started on these lovelys!
Sea Change by S.M. Wheeler - This is a BookOutlet buy for me and after reading the synopsis I was very intrigued. What few reviews I read didn’t make it seem like a good book but I don’t care. Mermaid, circus, quest for freedom? Sign me up!
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan - This is a total #booklr inspired buy! After seeing so many people, @bookcub especially, gush about this book I went on the hunt to find it at my local bookstores. Not a damn one had it and for some reason I just couldn’t be fucked to buy it off Amazon and then lo and behold, B&N had it one day so I snatched it up!
The Surface Breaks by Louise O’Neill - This is a total cover buy for me, TBH. Underneath the dust jacket the hardcover itself has scales on it and it’s so damn pretty! I’m going to have so much fun taking pictures of this! It’s supposed to be a feminist take on The Little Mermaid and while not a whole lot of folks liked it, I’m really excited to give it a shot.
Over Raging Tides by Jennifer Ellision - Finally, this is an eARC I received from NetGalley months ago and honestly forgot I even had. I’m surprised I even have access to it anymore. BUT! It’s got lady pirates so I felt like it would fit in with the mermaid-y theme. It was published in March so...yeah. Whoopsies!
Anyways, these are the books I plan to read during #goatathon! I know it looks pretty lofty for one week but my scheduled days off from work started yesterday (Thursday) so short of grocery shopping and wedding shopping, I’ve got nothing but time to sit and read!
I was waiting for goats to appear in one of my Goatathon books! (Though these goats turned out to not actually be goats.)
My Notifications Are Dead
I’m sorry if I miss anyone’s goatathon posts or replies because tumblr is being dumb and not notifying me when it feels like it. I’m not ignoring you, I promise!!
The Goatathon
Day 3: Goat Creative
I’m not even going to try my hand at writing a poem. I learned long ago that I suck with poetry. But here’s a mood board for my current read, Princess of the Midnight Ball. This is the first time I’ve ever made something like this, so it’s probably not the best. But I tried!
Day one of @heretherebebooks Goatathon!
June 1: Share a picture of your Goatathon TBR (I have no idea if I’ll end up reading all of these, but these are all new books I’ll be starting this week)
Where are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark (on my TBR since 2016)
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman (on my TBR since 2016)
Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin (on my TBR since 2016)
Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh (on my TBR since 2017)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars by Karen Traviss (on my TBR since 2015)
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard (on my TBR since 2016)
Star Wars: Revan by Drew Karpyshyn (on my TBR since 2016)
Goatathon Day One: Goat Started
Okay pretty late but here is my -rough- TBR for the goatathon! I’m currently about a third of the way into The Upside of Unrequited and really enjoying it. The books in the stacks are each meant to fulfill one of the Bonus Goat Challenges (and actually, all five of them would work for bleat the backlist...) but we’ll see if I stick to this plan ^^
