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absolutely loved this book, highly recommend.

Story of My Life by Lucy Score

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this was definitely not what I was expecting (I was thinking more along the lines of silly romance) but it was fun and funny, silly but still serious at times.

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E Schwab

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very much overdue reading update

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reading update ✨

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january wrap up ✨

physical reads -

When the Moon Hatched

The Housemaid

Butcher & Blackmail

Leather & Lark

Her Soul to Take Her Soul for Revenge

Soul of a Witch

audiobooks -

Fourth Wing

Iron Flame

Onyx Storm

january fav - Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

honorable mention - When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker

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Her Soul to Take by Harley Laroux, Her Soul for Revenge by Harley Laroux, & Soul of a Witch by Harley Laroux

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did a galentines basket exchange with some friends and it was so much more fun than I even expected. ❣️

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forgot to check on this one for a while and it grew through itself

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onyx storm release party with some friends 🥰

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this is really interesting to think about. I think for me it would be either Nora Roberts or Janet Evanovich. their books are comfort books for me that remind me of reading with my nana.

So, I have a friend who recently had fairly serious surgery, of the "high risk but lifesaving" kind, and afterward between the pain of recovery and the painkillers to deal with it, he understandably had issues with focus. He couldn't read anything longer than an email for about six weeks; even audiobooks were too difficult. He spent a lot of time falling asleep while watching nature documentaries on Netflix.

This week he finally felt like he could concentrate enough to start reading books again, so I asked him what book he'd chosen to start with, and he said, "Don't judge me for it being Tom Clancy."

Now of course I wouldn't. Genre fiction, especially your average thriller or romance novel, are easy to digest, so it makes sense. But it got me thinking, if I couldn't read for six weeks, what would I choose to return with? New book or old favorite?

I think for me it would be something familiar, but I'm torn. On the one hand something easily digestible like Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong would be simple and well known. On the other, something like Jack London's The Sea Wolf which I read almost ritually every few years, has deep emotional resonance...but is a bit complicated as a first book back.

I think I've settled on The Great Gatsby, which I reread often like The Sea Wolf but is slightly less philosophically complicated. And shorter than East of Eden, another strong contender.

Either that or a Rex Stout novel, but I feel like a whodunit would be stressful.

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recent reads

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birthday photos with no context.