we're all mad here
Not gonna lie, I didn’t super want to write this wrap-up. I don’t know what’s going on, but I am really pulling back creatively from talking about the books I’m reading and the life I’m curating, but I also really appreciate having something to look back on and see what I’ve done in the last…
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Long time no chat! I know that this is probably going to come as a surprise and not, but I’m taking a step back from blogging. I mean, take any of the following things for reference: my hiatus in May, my absolute exhaustion throughout all of April, the fact that posts kept going up incomplete…
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The what are you reading Wednesday posts are hosted by Taking on a World of Words! If you were paying attention, you’ll notice that Monday and Tuesdays posts went up around 7PM on Tuesday, and I’m only just now drafting this one around 10:30PM. It’s been a week, suffice to say, and I’m going to be glad to…
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I have a lot to say on obviously queer books, but I literally just did that, so I won’t rehash it here! If you’re interested, here’s my post from yesterday, and the tl;dr of it is that I am sick to death of being queerbaited by book covers, so can we just? Make it obvious?…
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The what are you reading Wednesday posts are hosted by Taking on a World of Words! I’m back at work this week, and while it’s been wonderful to be back, I am still feeling short of breath from my bout with COVID, so it’s been a fun time trying to get back up to speed. I am absolutely…
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Things are finally starting to look up. I’m glad that I took a small hiatus in May because I honestly think that it helped. I was stretching myself way too thin, and about one second after I decided to take a hiatus, I started reading and writing more regularly. I just needed a little step…
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HAPPY PRIDE! I have so much going on this month, from insane goals with this TBR to an entire weekend festival in Salem, that I am so ready for this month to be here. With the amount of utter bullshit that’s been going on in the world, I am truly just exhausted by existing, and…
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The what are you reading Wednesday posts are hosted by Taking on a World of Words! I am nearly ten whole books behind on my Goodreads goal, and I am somehow less freaked out than I thought I was going to be, and I’m pretty proud of myself for being chill. what did you recently finish? I finally…
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At the end of my last two weeks, there was a wedding. The first one, I knew it was going to end in a wedding. There was no other way that I could close out the trilogy than to finally show off the absolutely badass love my main couple had than with a Goth wedding.…
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Back in 2019, one of my friends was talking about how much she loved Austen and how I really needed to give her a chance. She was one of many people I’d met who loved Austen, but had never anything beyond Pride and Prejudice, and it just seemed strange to me. I hadn’t really loved…
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Mary and the Words 