July 2020

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 first half of the month, watched shows (I'm currently rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender, and getting into Black Clover), gotten some great new music on my radar (James Bay dropped one new song and shared two more during a recent live show he did on YouTube; Taylor Swift surprise dropped a whole new album) and hung out virtually with family and friends.

The one thing that changed this month? I feel like I got back to my normal reading groove! By the end of today, I'll have read 13 books this month. I fell in love with Daughter of Smoke and Bone all over again during my reread. I also finally read The Eye of the World, which is an incredible series starter and I'm ready to read the rest of the Wheel of Time series. I was pleasantly surprised by three 2020 releases: A Song Below Water, Dark and Deepest Red, Forest of Souls and Ever Cursed. And I was happy to continue reading the Keeper of Lost Cities series with Flashback, and to read more Guild Hunter books including Archangel's Blade.

In case you missed anything, here are all the blog posts from July:

• Series Review: The Illuminae Files
• My 2020 Reading Journal | Mid-Year Update
• Friends with ARCs: Paris is Always a Good Idea + Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Teashop
• Adventures in Anime #5: Sailor Moon, Part 1
• Adventures in Anime #5: Sailor Moon, Part 2
• Abbreviations #107: Beach Read, Eighty Days to Elsewhere + The Roommate

If you want to see Macky & I talking about books you should definitely check out our YouTube channel.

Here are all the videos that went up in July:

• July 2020 TBR
• Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag, 2020 Edition
• Cold Snap | BlueRoom Projects Presents
• What We Read S04E01
• May 2020 Book Haul
• June 2020 Book Haul