You can tell I'm done school when the amount of books I read each month skyrockets 😂 I also have a new quilt background for taking book pics because my aunt gave me this gorgeous quilt when I moved 🥺 My favourite book this month was Project Hail Mary! (grievances with the author aside, it was very enjoyable to read, and some friends and I formed a lil book club to read it so that also elevated the experience 💗)
Thanks for being here, I'm already excited about what I'm going to read this month! 📚 As always, mini reviews below!
🌟 5 star books:
Seven Days (Alex Lake) - Reread from almost a decade ago 😶 I forgot just how fucked up the premise of the book was. It has the same elements of Emma Donoghue's Room (young woman kidnapped and held captive for several years during which she gives birth), but the motivation for the kidnapping, the events of the escape, and the storytelling are completely different. The pacing of Seven Days is well-done, and really dials it up to 11 for the conclusion. If you love thrillers that leave you a little disgusted upon reading it, I'd recommend this.
What Art Does (Brian Eno and Bette A.) - (Rounded up from 4.5) A delightful read on the importance of art! If you like thinking, exploring, and playing, you'd enjoy reading this. Full review here.
The Giver (Lois Lowry) - Believe it or not, this was my first time reading this and wow.... I can definitely see how this would leave an impact on someone reading it around 11-12 years old. I wish I had read it when I was younger to see how my perspective and understanding of the book's message would changed as I got older. I'd recommend this for everyone. It really makes you appreciate all the choices we have in life, and even though we have pain, we also have pure, unrelenting joy.
Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir) - The first book club book! I will have a fuller review of it once our group discusses it together this weekend, but I will say I loved it. The science was sound, the pacing and occurrence of plot events worked for me, and I the ending made me teary-eyed in the best way. It read like a comedy for the most part, but there definitely were moments of "this could be a horror" that helped keep the story grounded. I'm planning on seeing the movie soon, I hope it doesn't water down the aspects of learning to communicate with Rocky.
⭐ 4 star books:
The Duke & I (Julia Quinn) - I decided to read Bridgerton and it's fun! I've always loved Regency/Victorian/Edwardian era books and movies, so that was my main draw to this. I'm holding off on watching the show until I've read all the books because I've heard it's quite different. The fake dating to real love pining was done well here.
The Viscount Who Loved (Julia Quinn) - The second Bridgerton novel. It was interesting to see more into Anthony's mind after how he acted in the first book. I don't know anyone personally who has such a specific hang-up around their mortality, but part of fiction is suspension of reality. The only thing I didn't really enjoy was the circumstances surround the engagement. I'm hoping the third book will break the trend that seems to be starting.
✨ 3 star books:
A River of Golden Bones (A. K. Mulford) - Fantastic representation of genderfluid and other GNC characters, but everything else was kind of a flop :/ If you love romantasy tropes, you'd probably enjoy this, I just thought there were too many weighing it down. Full review here.
Happy 1st of June! (at least where I am). Here's the work I did this last month!
I wrote 19980 words! Over half of which I wrote on paper, so June me might have a lot of typing up to do. (I just went looking for the story I wanted to work on after uni work today, had a huge panic because it existed no where and I really don't want to restart, only to remember I hand wrote it... I found it under the laptop... so crisis averted?)
Unfortunately I didn't think to seperate the paper stories from each other, so the word count is all locked up together.
A vast majority of the words I wrote were for uni, this would be short stories, poems and assignments that I needed to do each week.
The second largest project was the Chad Dylan Cooper fanfiction. The the Ouran High Host Club fanfiction, followed by Hellborn-Princess, my original novel.
Apples Fair as Blood - Juliet spray paints the front of Regina's house with a giant tree, in an attempt to add some style to its austere whitewash, but Regina is less than appreciative and sends Emma after her.
Post Curse: Storybrooke
Flynn Gold’s “World Famous” Aerial Dance - A group of Storybrooke residence are invited to view Flynn’s show. Flynn and Rapunzel finally are able to reconnect and make peace with each other. (Group Thread)
After the Dance – Flynn and Rapunzel have a rendezvous after the dance
Snowstorm: Grocery Store – Rapunzel, Hook, Meg, and Ruby are stuck in the grocery store when Elsa starts a crazy freak snowstorm
