My local library branch has been closed for renovations for MONTHS, but it finally re-opened, and I went and snatched up my holds the first day it did.
Got a little bit of everything: horror, humor, and a story about a girl seduced by an older man.
Plus, I’m slowly making my way through War and Peace—these books are my break from that 😭😂
Let’s go, March reading!
I just finished re-reading this trilogy for the first time in like five years, for the first time post-Trump presidency, for the first time since Covid, for the first time in my thirties. And some of the themes hit harder now.
Like the struggle to choose between fighting to change the status quo or fleeing/hiding for your own safety and sanity.
Like how there’s so much gray area in the good vs. evil debate, when each side truly believes they’re fighting for something noble.
Like how it’s easy to stop seeing individuals and merely see a “side” you’re against.
Like how people on both sides of a war (and the tactics and justifications they use) are far more similar than they think.
This series holds up so, so well, especially compared to a lot of other dystopian YA books that came out around the same time. It might even pack more punch in 2021 than it did when it came out in 2008—which is kind of scary. Dystopia, like satire, is getting more and more indistinguishable from reality.
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It’s the end of September—in other words, basically October—and it’s time to get ready for maybe the best holiday ever with some spooky, Halloween-related posts.
P.S. I may or may not have plans soon to drop by a well-loved horror novelist’s house in a sleepy town in Maine. Stay tuned!
I want to review more books on this blog, but I’ve been dreadfully behind on my reading goal for 2020—for a lot of reasons, like being busy with work, moving to a new apartment, a global pandemic, among other things—so now I’m playing catch-up. And in lieu of a review right now, here’s what I’m currently reading (or reading soon).
(Not pictured: A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin. I’ve been reading it for 84 years. Don’t @ me.)
Look at this cute little stack.
All from the library except the top one. And (unintentionally) all different genres! Sci-fi, horror, contemporary fiction (kind of an umbrella term but, more specifically, like, non-genre bestseller fiction), memoir, and thriller/mystery.
What are you reading?
I have so many HP memes loaded in the chamber and I’d just like to take a moment to applaud my incredible restraint in pacing them out.
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