i read a YA novel called 'Radio Silence' by Alice Oseman after i saw one of my twitter friends recommend it. and it was excellent. it was about friendship and fandom and how it's okay to not know where your life is going or where you want your life to go, and TT parts of it were sad but at the end of it, it was so hopeful and strengthening. i loved it.

Aaaand it's been a bit. High risk person so no house leaving for me, unless it's health stuff.

Reading slowly but doing more puzzles. I'm listening to more horror short stories on youtube, and picked up Carry On again via audiobook. I have Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore on hold but it will take a while. Audio books seem to always be a few weeks wait. I've got time.

Still working through Fangirl and Vas.

nothing wrong with puzzles!

did i ever post here the huge-ass puzzle hubby got for me years ago? we call it The Beast (that's a link), so... yeah XD

very slow going. i just finished A Stranger in the Mirror by Sidney Sheldon.... i'll start the next one in the list, we'll see how it goes. the library is now taking returns and holds again (they started yesterday) and i think in about 2 weeks they'll start with curbside pickup of said holds. hopefully i don't get all 5 books i have on hold at once! XD

No kidding, slow. I found I didn't like the Murakami audio book and wanted to read it so I've got that and The Shape of Water on hold at the used bookstore here. Still reading everything I was before, with Carry On on audio book (had to borrow it again. Still not a fan of the narrator), and another review book that I've hardly read yet because so far it's only on my computer. Overdrive won't sync it to my phone. Blah.

well that's rude of Overdrive...

i have a book waiting for me at the library. if all things stay the same, they're saying that holds should start being able to be picked up the week of June 18-25. the hold expires on July 6th! XD

I mean...that's plenty of time to pick them up?
Unless you mean that the checkout expires then, not the hold. In which case...read fast?
XD

I keep just...forgetting to read. Though I have made a little progress the last couple weeks in one book.

that's when the hold expires. that may also change, because the due date on the book that i just returned kept changing. XD

once they're open for curbside pickup, i'll make an appointment (over the phone?) as to when i'll be able to actually go pick it up.

Derpy wanders in.
"Read me a stowy!" He demands, sitting down in the middle of the floor, waiting to be read to.

i'd have to find a little dragon friendly story, Derpy, i don't have one right now....

Lol....time for me to dig out the Edge Chronicles? Or maybe contine the Redwall series?
XD

flip a coin?

My library has all late fees being forgiven until they are able to open properly, and holds are being processed over the phone right now. They might refresh the hold for you given the circumstances, or try placing it on hold again. Might work if no on else wants it.

yeah, my library is waiving all fees too. and the official due date on my book is August 1! XD i returned it on monday, so sometime this evening i'm going to check and see if it's been cleared from my account. (if not, i'll check it again saturday.)

Quick (sorta) listen to Lovecraft's "The Horror at Red Hook" because I finally got an audio book of "The Ballad of Black Tom" which is a satire/rebuttal to the heavy racism in Lovecraft's stuff. "Red Hook" is pretty much immigrant slum becomes bed of cosmic primitive horror! Save us all!

I've managed to read several books during my downtime. 'Flour Babies' by Anne Fine, which was perfectly delightful; 'Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead' by Barbara Comyns (I didn't understand this one being the favourite of her works for some readers; 'The Vet's Daughter' is still my favourite and I have a few books of hers left to read, if I can only get my hands on them). I also read 'Nemesis' by Agatha Christie and 'Behold, Here's Poison' by Georgette Heyer. Hooray for cosy mysteries.

i have a few more books i want to put on hold at the library... but as it is i already have 7 - one of which is able to be picked up when they start back with that. i really don't want to get all 7 (or 9?!) books at once! LOL

curbside pickup has started! i had four books available, but i only picked up three. i have until July 6th to pick up the 4th one, and i'll bet by then i might have 1 or 2 more! XD

i start American Demon tomorrow! (i mean, i could start tonight, but i fall asleep reading, so there's that....)

I finally finished another book! XD
Only 6 more to go! Actually 7 more. I need to add one to the list again.
XP

yaay!

and i know that feeling too! XD

I may just read more though. It's a billion degrees in my apartment (it's gotta be hot if I'm laying motionless on my bed at 7am, sweating), so I don't even so much as want to think about yarn right now. Or moving more than I have to.

oh YUCK!

do you have a fan, or would that not help?

I have a box fan in the window and a ceiling fan. Both were on.

yikes. i'm sorry it's so hot. come on over to my house, i have some AC for you. :)

Awww darn! My teleporter is broken again. XD

oh rats, i was looking forward to some company!

Have made some modifications to my reading list by adding the 2 books I started reading last week, but also taking off a few books that I was less than 100 pages into and haven't touched yet this year.

i'm almost done my current book, yaay!

Finished a book! (Also have made substantial progress in a couple other books too!) Didn't get anything else done that I wanted to this weekend, but I still count it as a win.

any little win counts! woo hoo!

Now to finish like....7(?) more books and also make masks and finish like 10 plushies (well...5 or 6 that I know of for sure, but knowing me there are more stashed somewhere that I've forgotten) and a shawl.
XD

let's see, i have four books still out from the library and two more to pick up! three of the ones i have out are due 8/8, the other 8/14. one of the ones to pick up i have until 8/4, the other 8/11. yikes!

Lol. Hopefully they're quick reads!
XD

hopefully. i mean, i also have to actually read them instead of goofing off online or playing with yarn or fabric. and hopefully i can renew some of them too.

I'll just keep slapping the yarn and fabric out of your hands. XD

LOL... but nah, that's what i do when i'm watching tv at night with hubby.

although i'm not so sure he realises i'm watching it "with him" XD

Nope. You gotta read instead now.

Lol

welp. i finished The Night Watchman. now onto the first book due 8/8, White Fragility.

Yay! You can do it!
(Kinda wishing I had brought a book with me to read on my break at work today now... >.>)

i always have my book. :)