September Wrap-Up

Happy September 🍂

School starts up this month, so I did not have a very prolific reading month :") I can feel myself falling back into that reading slump, probably because I've been spending more time thinking about which books to bring to my school apartment and which books to keep at home. I'm bringing the absolute bare minimum (books I haven't read that I plan on reading, books I know I'll be lending) but it really does pain me to leave books behind, especially the books I have on display on my shelf. 

Books Mentioned

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 8 - 16 by Akutami Gege
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

August Wrap-Up & more

Happy August! 

It's the last full month of summer before school starts up again 😥 And yet I had quite a lot to do this month to prepare for school to start. 

It's also my birth month! And even though every month is a month where I should be "taking liberties" and reading whatever I want, I felt that extra this month with all the work and studying I was trying to avoid. Sometimes it's just 1000x easier to just read through a manga with lovely artwork as opposed to reading blocks of words. I also recently got back into manga because my sister convinced me to continue reading a childhood favorite, and now I'm hooked once more. And maybe I'm realizing that one of my favorite genres of manga are stories set in Victorian England where the protagonist is a morally grey genius who I adore and am secretly rooting for 👀

Books Mentioned

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji) Vol. 26-30 by Toboso Yana
• Moriarty The Patriot Vol. 1-15 by Takeuchi Ryosuke & Miyoshi Hikaru
• People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry
• Tokyo Revengers Vol. 1-24 by Wakui Ken

July Wrap-Up & August TBR

Hi! I'm writing this at the tail end of July and I think I finally have a somewhat decent reading month? Decent for me, at least.

It probably helped that I went overseas and had a lot of ebooks on hand for when I had absolutely nothing to do on the airplane, and during my whole-trip quarantine as well. 

I've started using the CAWPILE system to organize my reading, since the spreadsheet by G does a really lovely job with helping me decide on a star ranking and also it makes it very easy to see my reading stats for the year. 

Books Mentioned

• The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang
• The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
• Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
• Jade City by Fonda Lee
• Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater

Everything I Read in the First Half of 2021 -- Wrap-Up

Oh wow it has been a while :")

For fall quarter I did quite a lot of reading for school only, and I didn't have much time to read for myself, so I didn't make wrap-ups for those months. The following quarter was also a bust. I tried to read as much as I could and mostly stuck to short fanfictions since I spent most of my time reading articles and papers for class, so here is a first half of the year wrap-up. I'm also including the one book series I read at the very end of the month of December.

Books Mentioned

•  默读/Mo Du/Silent Reading by priest
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
• 七爷/Qi Ye/Lord Seventh by priest
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
• 小蘑菇/Little Mushroom by 一十四洲

默读/Mo Du/Silent Reading by priest [SERIES REVIEW]

 

Synopsis

-from novelupdates

Childhood, upbringing, family background, social relations, traumatic experiences...

We keep reviewing and seeking out the motives of criminals, exploring the subtlest emotions driving them. It's not to put ourselves in their shoes and sympathize, or even to forgive them; it's not to find some reasons to exculpate their crimes; it's not to kneel down before the "so-called complexity of human nature"; nor to introspect social conflicts, much less to alienate ourselves into monsters.

We just want to have a fair trial—for ourselves and for those who still have hope for the world.

Ratings

• Book 1: ★★★★+(.5) (4.5/5)
• Book 2: ★★★★★ (5/5)
• Book 3: ★★★★+(.75) (4.75/5)
• Book 4: ★★★★★ (5/5)
• Book 5: ★★★★+(.75) (4.75/5)

Overall Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (4.8/5)

Trigger/Content Warnings: violence, drugs, suicide, self harm, bullying, psychological abuse, domestic abuse, child abuse, human trafficking, child prostitution, pedophilia, mentions of rape, loss of loved ones, death, murder, violent accident, torture, animal abuse