I remember when I used to post on here a few times a week... Maybe I need to just dedicate one day a week to the blog and schedule things to post so that I at least have something going up.
So I had a whole month off of school, I had planned to have reviews up a few times a week as well as update y'all on my knitting. I posted
one review. One. Yes, I worked on them, but didn't finish many. Do you know what I actually did? I binged video podcasts on YouTube and TV shows on Hulu and Netflix. I mean I did work too, so I wasn't just lazing around in PJs eating chips and watching TV. I also worked on my bullet journal a lot. It's set up through February, but I'd like to get it set up through May since that's when my semester ends.
I'm knitting pretty much every day, but I'm hardly finishing anything because I'm either starting something new or I ran out of yarn and need more. I'm participating in the Harry Potter Knit and Crochet House Cup again, so I'm getting in at least one project a month, even if it's something small like a blanket square.
I'm hoping to attend DFW Fiber Fest in April in Irving, TX. I had hoped to put in my name for the SSK lottery, but some things came up and it just wasn't in the budget. Driving to DFW and staying in a hotel for a couple nights is much easier on my wallet right now than having to pay for a retreat, food, flight, and possibly a hotel. It's still one of my dream retreats, and I'd still love to go to Rhinebeck, but I need to save and work my way towards it.
Currently Knitting
- Campside Shawl by Alicia Plummer
- Owl Cardigan by Mari Chiba
- Cozy Neighborhood by Joji Locatelli
- vanilla socks
- Speckled Space Socks by Amanda Stephens
- Monkey Socks by Cookie A
- The Doodler by Stephen West
Finished
- Find Your Fade by Andrea Mowry
- Color Affection by Veera Valimaki
- Monster Longies by Kristine Jorksogen
- Crocheted a baby beanie
- Felici "Slumber Party" socks
Even over my break, I didn't read as much as I hoped to. I started a ton of books but I only finished a couple of them. I only finished 28 books last year, per Goodreads, which is only a little over half of my goal. Instead of upping or decreasing my goal this year, I decided to keep it the same. Maybe I'll actually hit 50 this year.
Currently reading:
- Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
- Splintered by AG Howard
- King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard
- Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning
- Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas
Finished
- Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
- Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning
- Faefever by Karen Marie Moning
- Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning
- Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier (audiobook)
- Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot (audiobook)
- Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
- The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (audiobook)
Again, sorry for the radio silence. The best place to keep up with me is on Instagram (click the icon in the sidebar).I'll try to get some more reviews up soon!
Splintered by AG Howard is an Alice in Wonderland retelling. We all know AG Howard for Roseblood, but I found this gem browsing through Goodreads. It's a trilogy, the other other two books are called Unhinged and Ensnared. Alyssa is a relative of Alice Liddell, the woman who inspired Lewis Carrol's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The curse of hearing everything in the world around you speak has come upon each woman in the family line as soon as they get their first period. Alyssa has held it together, creating art with the creatures that are speaking to her, silencing them in a cruel, but beautiful, way. Alyssa's mother, however, did not fair so well. She is in a mental institution that Alyssa and her father visit every week to see her mother. That's as far as I've gotten in the book right now, but I'm really enjoying it.
I have been waiting for this book forever. Everybody was raving about it but neither of my digital libraries had it and my local library didn't have it, so I asked them to get it. And they did! Really quickly too! (They also got Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco and Cruel Prince by Holly Black, but we'll talk about those when I start reading them.) My library is actually really great about getting books that I recommend, I think that they're glad to have someone utilizing the building so often and so eagerly. I just finished chapter six last night and I am already loving it! Definitely check it out if you're into horror/murder mystery type books.
King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard is the third book in the Red Queen series (book 4 comes out this year) and I will say, it's been a rough one. I have been "reading" this book since November 13th and I feel like Mare is excessively whiny and overly dramatic, which is sad because I really enjoyed books 1 and 2. I still want to finish it because I want to know what happens, it just might take me a while to get there.