Since I generally do these monthly recaps to capture a snapshot of what my life currently happens to be like, I have to be honest and say that nothing much has changed. I'm still working from home, and only really go out for essentials. I played a lot of Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the fi…
July 31, 2020
July 24, 2020
Abbreviations #107: Beach Read, Eighty Days to Elsewhere + The Roommate
Beach Read has an excellent premise: romance author January Andrews and literary fiction author Augustus Everett are beach house neighbors for the summer and, upon discovering that they are both in writing ruts, they make a deal to write in each other's genres and see who gets published first. …
July 22, 2020
Adventures in Anime #5: Sailor Moon, Part 2
It's time for more Adventures in Anime ! My best friend Rachel & I team up for this collaboration where we pick out an anime, watch it together and then answer a series of questions about it for the blog. Since we've been alternating between anime shows that are new-to-us and shows we…
July 20, 2020
Adventures in Anime #5: Sailor Moon, Part 1
It's time for more Adventures in Anime ! My best friend Rachel & I team up for this collaboration where we pick out an anime, watch it together and then answer a series of questions about it for the blog. Since we've been alternating between anime shows that are new-to-us and shows we…
July 15, 2020
Friends with ARCs: Paris is Always a Good Idea + Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Teashop
It's been seven years since her mother died, and Chelsea Martin still has parts of her life on pause as she grapples with her grief. When her father announces he's getting remarried, it throws her for a loop and pokes at parts of her life and heart that she'd been avoiding. Chelsea impu…
July 13, 2020
My 2020 Reading Journal | Mid-Year Update
Since we're halfway through 2020, I thought it'd be fun to share a quick 2020 reading journal update. I'm proud of the fact that I've been consistent about using it every month! It took me a little while to figure out what really worked for me in terms of layouts, and what informat…
July 8, 2020
Series Review: The Illuminae Files
I did it, friends. I finally listened to/read The Illuminae Files, and it was a brilliant series binge. (Kudos go to Hannah for talking me into reading the series by going the double format route, and kudos to Macky & Kelly for being my moral support as I experienced the first two books.) The I…
July 6, 2020
May + June 2020
I've been trying and failing to start this blog post for nearly half an hour, so let's get the elephant out of the room: I feel really rusty when it comes to blogging. I haven't flexed my writing or blogging muscles in some time for two reasons. First, there is a lot going on in the Un…
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