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Something unusual has happened

I went on a bit of a kick this month with reading non fiction. Then. I started looking through some of the non fiction titles in my to be read list and got really excited about a bunch of them. And then on trips to the library, I happened to find a lot of releases on the non fiction shelf that caught my eye and I ended up going home with.

And note, for probably the first time ever:

31% non fiction! That’s so much. I’m sure this will skew back towards fiction by the end of the month, but still. I wanted to capture this moment. 🙂

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Starting the year with the joy of a random day off ^.^

Hey y’all! I started 2022 off with an extra day off from work so I could bask in doing whatever the heck I wanted for a day while everyone else performed tasks. Suckers!!! 😁 Unsurprisingly, that turned into reading… all day… for literally about 6 or 7 hours.

I re-read the webcomic Let’s Play because the third season is out. I hadn’t planned to read it all in one day, but it’s all so good! 😊

So I took a little bit of luxury to start the new year. Yay for small condos.

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Preparation begins!

Hey y’all! I’ll be getting a puppy in a few months, and to prep I just started reading some puppy training books! I haven’t had one before so I have a lot to learn. I’ve been taking mad notes so I’m ready, hopefully. ☺️ Thankfully my partner has had several puppies before so he’s pretty good with it. Still, I want to be able to do my part!!

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I want something epic

I’ve been in the mood recently for dinner kind of epic, sprawling fantasy bicep. I think I might finish Dune (finally). I also have Empire of Gold on my shelf and waiting which I think would deliver. And then there’s The Poppy War, which works be s truer beastie too five into. But then…. Orson Scott Card. I still really want to read Pathfinder, and I think it would be easy and rewarding to sink into his familiarly excellent fantasy.

I think that settled it actually: Pathfinder is up next. 🥰

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I think I found a book I’m going to DNF

I picked up The Break-Up Book Club by Wendy Wax from the library on a whim recently. It’s a book I’d heard of a little bit around when it was published earlier in the year, and I thought it might be a light happy read to round out the grimness of December. But just within the first few pages, I found three specific things that annoyed the heck out of me. Just one might have been forgivable, but three I couldn’t ignore.

That combined with 6 different characters, 5 of which I didn’t care about as people or stories, and I’m preeeetty much done with this one. I think I’ll read out the chapters for the one character I was interested in, and otherwise gently part ways with this one.

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Tiny in-progress update

Hey y’all! A few weeks ago I posted a Fast Forward Friday about a book by Denise Williams, called The Fastest Way to Fall. It’s now out, but in the meantime I had decided to read another book by her that I have been wanting to read: How to Fail at Flirting. Y’all… I LOVED IT. It was sexy and sweet and scary all at once! Plus I got to barely meet some of the characters from the next book, which is a fun little extra.

I also started a book from Booksirens yesterday and have been absolutely devouring it!! It’s SO GOOD! I’m really glad I went for it! It’s to the point where I’m squeezing in a few pages at any moment — brushing my teeth, before bed, waiting for meals to cook. I’m going out for a fun event tonight, but I almost wish I didn’t have to so I could stay home and read more! 😅 Anyway, this one is called Fire Within and although that’s a pretty common title theme, the book itself is incredibly unique and captivating! I’ll have a full review soon I’m sure, because I’m reading it so quickly!

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The best small things

Hey y’all! I’m just over here celebrating because I managed to snag a copy of No Words by Meg Cabot! It’s always a delight to be able to pick up a new book that I’ve been looking forward to. With this one, I got extra lucky: the library holds were all super long, but I found a less-popular digital format and was able to borrow it right away!

(EPub. It was ePub.)

I’ve already plowed through a third of it by the pool last night and am about to dive back in (har har). Hopefully this Fast Forward Friday book was worth the hype!

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Disappointing?

I’m in progress with HONEY GIRL right now and in surprisingly disappointed by it. The love interest has that attitude of a broken butterfly, calls herself a monster, says she’s broken… but without any reason really? And she has the tendency to say things as though they are profound and philosophical but just sound like a high person rambling their discoveries. I’m surpassingly not into it. Trying to finish it since it goes quick when I’m not rolling my eyes through it though…

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