Bookmarked... #8

The return of the (mostly) weekly post letting you all know what I'm reading and have lined up for the week! It's my own version of Sheila at Book Journey's It's Monday What Are You Reading and I have her permission to rename it for my own nefarious reasons :)


Well, I'm still reading what I was reading two weeks ago but have also picked up and/or finished a few other random books! A couple were library books that had to be returned as they had holds on them but mostly I've been picking up books and trying them to see if they hold my attention. This crazy method seems to be working as my reading has improved, especially over the last week.


Finished

The Death House

Hexed

Violent Ends

Currently Reading

The Edge of Reason

The Great Hunt

The Machinery

The Martian

The Quick

Sorcerer to the Crown

Up Next, Maybe

Hammered

Illuminae

Mythmaker

When I Was Me

Bookmarked... #7

The return of the (mostly) weekly post letting you all know what I'm reading and have lined up for the week! It's my own version of Sheila at Book Journey's It's Monday What Are You Reading and I have her permission to rename it for my own nefarious reasons :)

I don't often talk about my personal life in much detail but wanted to say a few words about why I've been a crappy blogger over the last few weeks/months. Apart from suffering from pretty severe depression & anxiety I also have Rheumatoid Arthritis, a major auto-immune disease. I mostly get on with everything but after a blip on my regular monitoring my doctors are messing about with my meds and I'm struggling. All I want to do is sleep - all day and all night - and if I don't want to sleep I have dreadful insomnia. This is not conducive to anything so hence the blogging going slightly awry. The point of this though is just to say, bear with me as it'll settle eventually and things will be back to normal soonish!

Currently Reading

The Edge of Reason - Melinda Snodgrass

The Machinery - Gerrard Cowan

The Quick - Lauren Owen

Sorcerer To The Crown - Zen Cho

Bookmarked... #5

The return of the weekly post letting you all know what I'm reading and have lined up for the week! It's my own version of Sheila at Book Journey's It's Monday What Are You Reading and I have her permission to rename it for my own nefarious reasons :)

Hands up if you thought I'd fallen off the planet? Yeah, me too! I don't even know where to begin except to say sorry - again - for my really crappy blogging this year. I'm hopefully home for a good while now so can get caught up, start posting regularly again, catch up on all my reading and maybe even get back to scheduling blog posts in advance!

I haven't been doing anything exciting while I've been away - apart from LFCC & YALC, enjoyed it this year more than last but there's still things I didn't like and I'm still completely stunned about the totally rude encounters I had with a couple of bloggers. I don't think I'm going to do a write-up post because I think those incidents have colored the whole thing for me sadly. Highlights were finally getting to meet the wonderful amazing Frances Hardinge (!!!), there were photos, she drew geese in my books and she'd heard of my blog!!! Another highlight was meeting the amazing Dawn Kurtagich, author of The Dead House, and bonding over parma violets much to the disgust of Kat Ellis, meeting Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan and some fantastic panels. If you asked me now I'd probably say I wouldn't go again, not for YALC anyway, but who knows what next year will bring?

Finished

Arsenic For Tea

Currently Reading

Birdy

An Ember In The Ashes

Sorcerer To The Crown

The Unnoticeables

Up Next

Black Cairn Point