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Book ReviewsMay 6, 2019June 25, 2019

Monday Musings: Unhauling Books I Read in Middle School

Welcome to Monday Musings, a series where I review books that I read pre-end of 2017, when I started writing wrap-ups, talk about characters or topics that aren’t as relevant, or sometimes a surprise non-bookish thing. Alright, look, I recognize I’ve been pretty terrible at posting every week for Monday Musings, but as it’s not…

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#marywritesApril 22, 2019June 25, 2019

Monday Musings: Two Things I Will NEVER Do as a Writer

Welcome to Monday Musings, a series where I review books that I read pre-end of 2017, when I started writing wrap-ups, talk about characters or topics that aren’t as relevant, or sometimes a surprise non-bookish thing. I’ll be the first person to admit that I love a lot of tropes. Enemies to friends to lovers?…

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readingMarch 25, 2019July 9, 2021

Monday Musings: Unpopular Opinion: Clary Fray & Alina Starkov

Welcome to a new series–Monday Musings! For a while now, I’ve wanted to write reviews for books that I read before I started posting wrap-ups, or I’ve had topics that I wanted to talk about that maybe weren’t all that current. Just because it’s pre-2019 doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be reviewing or talking about it!…

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I started rewatching Shadowhunters last night, and let me be the first to say, it’s still as fantastic as the first time. I’ve been missing Clary always, but Magnus & Alec specifically, and they are already a joy to witness again.
Sunday vibes. 🌿
This year has been rough. Last year wasn’t great, either, but I’m currently on a hiatus from the blog, I haven’t been posting here much, if at all, reading and writing are pretty laughable, and I’ve just been feeling very discouraged about everything. There’s nothing specific happening to make all of my creative outlets go up in flames, though. Work is better than ever, I love teaching at the gym, my rock climbing is finally improving, and I’m about to see my best friends every single month for the rest of the year. And yet, words have completely disappeared.
Now that I’m actually making it a point to try to read daily again, my weekend plans are to finally and happily binge my way through the rest of the Soulbound series. I’m hopefully going to be back on the blog in a week or two, as well, AND I’m crawling my way back toward writing, so my creative life is starting to look up again.
I said to my friend the other day that I was going to keep my twelve book TBR for Pride because if anything was going to save my reading this year, it was going to be something wildly queer, and I think I’m onto something.
I haven’t quite gotten back to a place of daily reading and working on my novel again, but it’s happening slowly, and it feels so damn good.
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