#dayflowposts

[dayflow]

[dayflow]

originally posted on my main blog on 6 feb 2025 - reposting here because i forgot posts on my main blog don't show up in tumblr search

i found this 2025 book bingo from @batmanisagatewaydrug, and @obi-wann-cannoli set it up as a challenge on storygraph, so i figured i'd play! here's my card w/ my January 2025 reads.

literary fiction: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

short story collection: Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions about Small-Town America

sequel: Hathor and the Prince by J.J. McAvoy

reread a childhood favorite: Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot

memoir: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

romance novel: Wild Love by Elsie Silver

historical fiction: The Lady Most Willing… by Eloisa James, Julia Quinn, and Connie Brockway

i'm already currently reading books that will fill the science fiction and published in the aughts (2000-2009) slots; this is so fun!

i need a 20th century speculative fiction to get my first bingo. any recs?

thanks again to @batmanisagatewaydrug for creating this! and @obi-wann-cannoli for setting this up on storygraph! you have a new follower in me

originally posted on my main blog on 6 feb 2025 - reposting here because i forgot posts on my main blog don't show up in tumblr search

[dayflow]

it's really getting down to the last few squares! i stamped 2 spots in April with a nice pastel blue for Easter 🙂 and i got a bingo yay! 🎉

20th century speculative fiction: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

non-fiction: learn something new: Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green

i had the hardest time finding a book for the speculative fiction prompt. i know the original post mentions early discworld books count as speculative fiction, but i was so confused because i'm like "it's fantasy?" i thought speculative fiction was some super niche genre that was outside sci-fi/fantasy/romance/etc. it wasn't until i finally realized that speculative fiction was a SUPER genre that contained sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc. that i realized how early discworld books fit the prompt! it took a while but yay me for using my single brain cell! 😂

and i've been watching John Green on his vlogbrothers YT channel, so i knew he was involved w/ tuberculosis education, research, and care. Everything Is Tuberculosis really does teach w/out sounding like a textbook and Henry's story reminds us that this disease is still here and relevant.

only 4 more stamps to go! i think the recommendation one is going to be the hardest because i don't want to talk to people. that and the zine one. i'm still trying to finish my zine. wish me luck! 👍

thank you @batmanisagatewaydrug! good luck to everyone with their bingo cards! happy reading! 🥰

[dayflow]

updated 2025 book bingo card! with 4 new stamps and 2 more bingos! yay! this month i used a darker green for St. Patrick's Day 🍀

set in a country you have never visited: White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

essay collection: How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation edited by Maureen Johnson

2024 award winner: Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista

horror: Terrifying Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

White Nights is on my 25 books for 2025 tbr; so happy it also works here! and Terrifying Tales is a small collection of some Edgar Allan Poe short stories. i've heard of a few of them, but to read the original classic stories was like woah 😱👻

Some People Need Killing, which won the 2024 Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, made me so smad! 🤬 the cruelty and lack of compassion, combined w/ our current political climate in the USA, makes me lose faith in humanity. 😔 so i had to find something hopeful to read, which led me to How I Resist. there's interviews and essays w/ comfort, encouragement, advice, and so much hope... even if all you can do is survive w/ hope, that is RESISTING! take care of yourself and stay strong; we can do this together 💪❤️

as always, THANK YOU @batmanisagatewaydrug for the wonderful 2025 book bingo card! 🙂

only 6 left to go! happy reading everyone! 🥰

[dayflow]

25 books for 2025 - Jan/Feb update!

a book by Agatha Christie

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer - bought the book, such fun vibes, loved it! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley with Sandra Harmon

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

In Want of a Suspect by Tirzah Price

a book† by Jane Austen - i listened to the Sense and Sensibility audiobook, it's been a while since i read the book or watched the movie w/ Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, so it was almost like a new read, loved it! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lights Out by Navessa Allen

a book† by L.M. Montgomery

Magician: Apprentice* by Raymond E. Feist

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

a Discworld book† by Terry Pratchett

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

The Lord of the Rings* by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

a Princess Diaries* book by Meg Cabot - i actually read Princess in the Spotlight, Princess in Love, Princess in Waiting, and The Quarantine Princess Diaries in Jan/Feb 2025, i really love this series, it's just so much fun, i read my physical books and borrowed The Quarantine Princess Diaries ebook from the library, but i want to buy the physical book to add to my collection ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - listened to this on my morning commute, it was a bit confusing, but i eventually figured it out, i really liked it ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon

4 books down, 21 to go! i'm hoping to buy Scythe & Sparrow soon, so hopefully i'll be able to cross it out next month 🤞

good luck to everyone working through their tbrs! happy reading! 🥰

[dayflow]

On Reading

originally posted on my main blog on 29 jan 2025 - reposting here because i forgot posts on my main blog don't show up in tumblr search

a few months ago, my interest in fandoms and fanfic started to wane. i'm just not as interested in my OTPs as i used to be. so i started to look around for something new to obsess on and i found larryreads on YT and booktube in general. and after 10+ years of reading mostly fanfic, i'm back to reading mostly books again.

watching all these youtubers talk about books kinda makes me want to interact and contribute in some way, but NO. i'm an introvert and have been lurking online since online was invented, so i'm not comfortable putting myself out there. also, i really don't have anything to say besides "yeah i liked it" and "nah i didn't like it"

i mean, i have a storygraph account and all i can do is mark the book as finished and give it a star review. i can't even categorize anything or gather my thoughts and leave a review, so making actual videos is just not doable.

i think i'll just post my storygraph stats here on tumblr, and anything else i feel like. i'm currently watching ashlynn calee's video about 25 books for 2025 and instead of creating a whole ass video for YT, i'll just list them here for very few people to see. i've started a list, and i have a goal of 52 books this year (1 a week), but i can't even come up w/ 25 books so we'll see.

at least i'll be posting something different and not just reblogging memes. or political BS. seriously, i need to block politics because it's beginning to mess w/ my mental health, i've regressed back into a nihilistic teenager, it's soulsuckingly depressing.

ANYWAYZ, i hope you enjoy the sporadic reading posts bookblr.

p.s. i listen to audiobooks on my morning commute. and reading fanfic on my phone has RUINED ME. i now have the hardest time reading physical books, so i've been using the cloudlibrary app (it's what my local library uses) and the kindle app on my phone to read ebooks. i don't have kindle unlimited, but i do have prime so i've been using prime reading. i'm OLD and don't want to pay for a license to an ebook, or rent/subscribe to an ebook service. if i have to spend $$$ i better get something physical i can hold in my hands damnit!

originally posted on my main blog on 29 jan 2025 - reposting here because i forgot posts on my main blog don't show up in tumblr search

[dayflow]

25 books for 2025 - Mar/Apr update!

a book by Agatha Christie

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer - Jan/Feb

Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley with Sandra Harmon

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green - purchased the physical book. i've been watching vlogbrothers videos on YT for years. reading about henry reider's story mixed w/ the history of tb was touching; i'm glad henry got the treatment and care he needed and is doing better now. ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75

From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

In Want of a Suspect by Tirzah Price - borrowed the ebook from the library. lizzy and darcy as solicitors in london solving a murder! i love when my otp is reimagined into different AUs, it's so much fun ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75

a book† by Jane Austen - Jan/Feb

Lights Out by Navessa Allen

a book† by L.M. Montgomery

Magician: Apprentice* by Raymond E. Feist

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver - bought the physical book, loved reading this on my lunch break, even w/ all the violence and killing. fun vibes and romance. ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins - borrowed the ebook from the library, i think they had multiple copies because it originally had a hold on it but after a week it became available, i had to jump on it! read it in 3 days and LOVED it! went out and bought the book when i finally had time. i felt SO BAD for haymitch! poor lenore dove! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

a Discworld book† by Terry Pratchett - re-read my old worn paperback copy of small gods. every few years, it's nice to think about religion and philosophy, laugh over Pratchett's wit and writing, and have a bit of hope and faith in humanity restored ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

The Lord of the Rings* by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley - borrowed the audiobook from the library, i loved the setup of this story, how the narrator deals w/ these people out of time, and the mystery that develops for the last half of the book, it was so good! not a happy ending, but a hopeful one ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

a Princess Diaries* book by Meg Cabot - Jan/Feb

The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - Jan/Feb

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky - free classic ebook that i downloaded from apple books, read it in day, took a bit to get into because even though the prose is beautiful, it isn't what i'm used to. i guessed the ending early on and it's not really happy, more of a bittersweet melancholy one ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon

7 more books done yay! 14 left to go! woot woot! i'm almost 1/2 way done! woo hoo! 🎉

i'm currently listening to Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie, so that should be crossed off by the end of the month. and my library hold for Lights Out by Navessa Allen should be coming up soon. i think i'm probably going to slow down a bit once those 2 are done. some of the remaining books aren't available at the library or just don't interest me right now and i don't know if i want to purchase them or not. we'll see how it goes. 🤷‍♀️

thanks for reading and good luck w/ your tbr! 🥰

[dayflow]

StoryGraph April 2025 Wrap-Up

woot woot still reading! honestly, my goal is 1 book a week, but w/ 3 books constantly in rotation, i met my 52 books a year goal this month, yay! 🎉

my 5 ⭐️ reads this month were both re-reads. i think i needed a good comfort read and "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin, was perfect! it's a murder mystery where the victim asks his heirs to find his murderer and whoever does will inherit everything! this is a newbery medal winner that i read in 6th grade and it's one of my childhood favorites. LOVE the twist and i end up re-reading it every few years or so. highly recommend 🥰

i've also read some jane austen inspired novels: "Murder in Highbury" by Vanessa Kelly is a mystery w/ characters from "Emma" and "The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch" by Melinda Taub is a fantasy in the "Pride and Prejudice" world. you know i love historical romance and these characters in different genres is just SO FUN. 😆

it's still super hard to read physical books, but i got through 4 so that's good. like audiobooks, as long as i dedicate my lunchbreak to the book in my purse, instead of the ebook on my phone, i'll be happy. 👍

hope everyone had a great reading month! and i hope you continue to enjoy reading! ❤️

[dayflow]

StoryGraph March 2025 Wrap-Up

woot woot! it's time for a monthly wrap-up! 16 books, i'm still reading yay! 🎉

i think i was being dumb about not trusting the number of pages. because yes, the number on my app doesn't match the number on storygraph, so when i mark a book as finished, it says i've read a BUNCH more pages on the last day than i've actually read. but I FINISHED THE BOOK, so i did READ ALL THE PAGES! it just looks like i read a bunch at the end when in reality it was spread out differently. it still counts in the end! 👍

anywayz, i bought the batman: wayne family adventures vol 2. i love this webseries, it's SO GOOD! i had to have a physical copy. 5 ⭐️

i also continued the Princess Diaries series, and actually started reading the middle school princess spin-off series! it's SO CUTE! 4 ⭐️ all around 🥰

i read a bunch of different genres this month too. i'm trying to mark off more books on a bunch of different challenges (@batmanisagatewaydrug's 2025 book bingo, youtuber ellenmadebookclub's diversity bingo, and a couple jane austen storygraph challenges), so i read some non-fiction, horror, and books from other countries. new things worth trying out every once in a while AND they're a good palette cleanser between all the romance 🙂

overall another great reading month! happy reading everyone! ❤️

[dayflow]

here's my updated 2025 book bingo card with my February reads! i'm using pink stamps for Valentines; and i have a BINGO yay! 🎉

fantasy: Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger

published before 1950: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

indie publisher: Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

graphic novel, comic book, or manga: Spy x Family, Vol. 13 by Tatsuya Endo

animal on the cover: This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

science fiction: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

read & make a recipe: Homemade Crispy Hash Browns from the allrecipies website, had breakfast for dinner one night, they were basic but still yummy! 😋

published in the aughts (2000-2009): Princess in Love by Meg Cabot

i can't believe more than half the card is filled now, that's AWESOME! but now that all the easy reads are marked, the hard out of my comfort zone parts are all that's left. it's a good thing i have 10 more months to work my way through the card.

i actually started making a one-page mini zine! let's see if i can finish it by the end of the month 👍

again, thank you @batmanisagatewaydrug for the bingo card! 🥰

[dayflow]

StoryGraph January 2025 Wrap-Up

originally posted on my main blog on 1 feb 2025 - reposting here because i forgot posts on my main blog don't show up in tumblr search

i started using storygraph last year. i like their charts and graphs and the questions they ask on the review book page. it makes me think more about the book than just if i liked it or not, but not think so much that i actually write down my thoughts. i usually just do the star review.

when i added a bunch of old read books in storygraph, it added a read date of today and messed up my numbers for that month. it says i read SO MUCH in September 2024 that it’s crazy.

so since it’s a new year, i’m gonna start posting my stats now. let’s see how much i actually read.

i don’t know if 11 books is a lot or not. i’ve been reading fanfic on my phone for 10+ years now, i don’t remember how many books i used to read before then.

i don’t actually trust the pages read number on here. for some reason, the book’s number of pages on storygraph doesn’t always match the actual number of pages in the book i’m reading. 🤷‍♀️

i used to read a lot more fantasy books when i was younger, but i’m very much a romance girlie now. seeing the stats confirm this is validating, but it also makes me want to branch out more. i rarely read non-fiction so seeing some here is good.

and 9% print REALLY shows i don’t like physical books anymore. but i LOVE shopping in book stores and buying books! WTF am i supposed to do now?! actually PAY for digital files that can disappear when the company folds?! or fuckin support Amazon?! 🤬

i joined storygraph’s January Pages Challenge 2025, to read every day in January. i pretty much read every day, but i don’t always read books and i don’t always keep track of what i’m reading, so this helped remind me to update my book stats.

overall, i think this is a crazy good start for the year! i read from at least 1 book a day every day for the month AND tracked it! i’m ahead of my reading goal for the year, so if i have a slump or switch back to fanfic, it’s not going to affect it too badly.

and i posted something new to tumblr so yay me! 🎉

i hope to keep this up so see you next month! ❤️🥰

originally posted on my main blog on 1 feb 2025 - reposting here because i forgot posts on my main blog don't show up in tumblr search

[dayflow]

i hate tbrs

originally posted on my main blog on 3 feb 2025 - reposting here because i forgot posts on my main blog don't show up in tumblr search

to-be-read (tbr) lists suck. admittedly, this is a me thing. lots of people love tbrs. there's tons of YT vids of peoples' tbrs for the current month, listing new releases and books that catch their interest. it's good to have goals, ya know?

but for me, tbrs seem too much like a homework assignment that i need to complete (and ya know my gifted child asian ass is gonna try -and fail- to complete it), not a relaxing hobby. i'm very much a mood reader and there's been tons of times when nothing on my tbr sounds good to read. and also tons of times when something on the list sounds great but isn't available. so i end up reading something that i want to read, but isn't on my tbr list.

how is it possible that i've met my reading goal for the week/month/year, read a bunch of awesome books, but my tbr list is longer now than it was then??? yes, i read 3 books, but i removed 1 and added 6 more, and it just keeps growing and growing and i really want to read all these books but i'm never going to finish them all and it just sucks!

i hate tbrs.

anyway, here's wonderwall a 25 books for 2025 tbr list that i'll never finish.

in an almost but not really alphabetical order:

a book by Agatha Christie

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley with Sandra Harmon

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

In Want of a Suspect by Tirzah Price

a book† by Jane Austen

Lights Out by Navessa Allen

a book† by L.M. Montgomery

Magician: Apprentice* by Raymond E. Feist

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

a Discworld book† by Terry Pratchett

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

The Lord of the Rings* by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

a Princess Diaries* book by Meg Cabot

The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon

(*) books are re-reads (†) books might be a re-read

"how did you pick these books?" you ask?

well, some are physical books i never read, like Arsenic and Adobo, which look awesome but just sit on my shelf because i read most books on my phone now. some, like Scythe & Sparrow, are new books in a series i've read, liked, and want to continue. a bunch are re-reads that i, obviously, want to re-read because i love them and it's been a while. and others are book recs from various booktubers, like Lights Out and White Nights. ultimately, they're all books that caught my interest in one way or another and a) are saved in my cloudlibrary app, b) are in a bookshelf somewhere, or c) will be purchased because i already know i want a physical copy.

i'm currently re-reading Princess In Love so #20 will be checked off -it's physical so hopefully- soon. progress is being made, yay. let's hope it continues.

originally posted on my main blog on 3 feb 2025 - reposting here because i forgot posts on my main blog don't show up in tumblr search

[dayflow]

StoryGraph May 2025 Wrap-Up

so i drafted this at the first of the month and i just... forgot about it. 🤷‍♀️ so here's a super late May Wrap-Up 🎉

i don't know if i'm entering a reading slump or if the books were just mid… 🤔

i read 8 books this month, which -don't get me wrong- is still a lot of books! but i started to slow down mid-month and didn't read any books 2 days this month! shocker! 😱 (i was still reading but it was fanfic 🤫) i didn't DNF any books, but i did rate more books than i normally do 3 ⭐️, which feels really low for me. 3⭐️ should be average "i like it" not "i like it BUT", which is what i think for some of these books. but i don't think they're 2⭐️books either. i think i need to reevaluate my rating scale.

happy father's day to all the dads and congrats to all the grads! 🥳 have a great rest of the month! happy reading! ❤️

[dayflow]

StoryGraph February 2025 Wrap-Up

17 books! that seems INSANE to me! but i’m having fun and don’t want to stop so 🤷‍♀️

i don’t really give out 4 ⭐️s often, but Assistant to the Villain was such a fun read and the vibes were so good! i probably would’ve read it much faster if it was an ebook, but i knew i would love it so i bought a physical copy. will hopefully buy the rest of the series soon 🤞 the rest of my 4 ⭐️s were rereads.

i read 3 physical books, which is great! i need to keep that up. and only 1 nonfiction book, so i need to work on that.

and i really love historical romance ebooks! they’re just so bingeable! sometimes i think i should branch out into different genres but then i just borrow another historical romance. they’re like candy to me, so yummy 😋

i’ll update my tbr and bingo challenge soon! happy reading! 🥰

[dayflow]

Crash

crash

[dayflow]

The porgs decided to come with me on a scavenger hunt at work today :-)