#* musings / jude st. clare.

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Mid Year Book Tag

@ninja-muse left the tag open, so I’m taking advantage of it and doing this myself too to reflect a bit on stuff I’ve read so far this year

Best book you've read so far: Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

Best sequel you've read so far: Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

New Release you haven't read yet but want to: I don’t follow new releases a lot, but I just realised that In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune is out already, so that for sure

Most anticipated release for the second half of the year: Well Heavenly Tyrant was apparently pushed back to next April so I tried to google if any authors I like had new books coming out this year and apparently there is one non-TSC fantasy book coming out from Cassandra Clare? So let’s say Sword Catcher, even though to be perfectly honest, I will probably wait for some reviews to come in before picking it up

Biggest Disappointment: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo, which unfortunately just didn’t hit me like The Poet X did

Biggest Surprise: Educated by Tara Westover

Favorite new author: M.A. Carrick, which is actually two authors, but oh well

Newest Fictional Crush: Well I don’t crush, but I read One Last Stop together with a friend and lived vicariously through her crush on Jane Su, so I’m picking her

Newest Favorite Character: Jude St. Francis from A Little Life

Book that made you cry: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Book that made you happy: L’habit ne fait pas le moineau (eng. The Car Share) by Zoe Brisby

Favorite Adaptation: I don’t think I’ve watched any this year? In the next half of the year there will be Heartstopper s2 and All the Light We Cannot See though

Prettiest Cover: Honestly none of the book covers I’ve read have been exceptionally to my liking, but I quite like the cover of Sea of Tranquility which I’m currently reading

A book you need to read before the end of the year: There are three books waiting on my shelf/e-reader, but I know I’ll get to those anyway, so I’m picking Hävitys: Tapauskertomus by Iida Rauma, because my whole family is currently raving about it

And since I wasn’t officially tagged, I won’t be tagging people either, but consider yourself tagged if you’re at all interested in doing this!

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I finally got around to updating and organizing my 00Q playlist on Spotify since 8tracks sort of fell by the way side. Links and tracklist below! 

Side A - Sword (& Shield) - James Bond

Retrograde - James Blake ll Disarm - The Civil Wars ll Madness - Muse ll Fall In Love - Barcelona ll I Love You - Alex Clare ll You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are - Keaton Henson ll I Don’t Want To Change You - Damian Rice ll NFWMB - Hozier ll Writing’s On The Wall - Sam Smith ll In The Dark - Matt Woods ll This Is It - Asaf Avidan ll Work Song - Hozier 

Side B - Shield (& Sword) - Q

Stay Awake - London Grammar ll Hurricane - MS MR ll Skyfall - Adele ll Brandy Alexander - Feist ll Halo - Beyonce ll Nicest Thing - Kate Nash ll Don’t Forget About Me - Cloves ll Dead In The Water - Ellie Goulding ll  St. Jude - Florence + The Machine ll Miss You - Adele ll See You Again - Elle King ll You Belong To Me - Carla Bruni 

Of all of James’ songs are sung by male performers and my Fem!Q songs are sung by females. I’m still working hard on this fic and waiting none too patiently to see No Time to Die (though i’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous to see how this new team takes on the Bond/Q relationship)