"Why are we so bad at being honest about our feelings? Is it because we're so exhausted from living that we don't have time to share them?"
Current read: I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Continuing my 2026 Classics Reads with a little bit of split personality.
Current read: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
It's a good one. I wanted to quote the entire paragraph, but character limits are a thing.
"Someone, at some point, had told him he was too much, had shut him up, and now he did it to himself, even when whoever he was talking to didn't seem to mind."
Okay, thanks for awkwardly hitting the relatable feels already.
Current read: The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher
Read if you like: realistic character growth, an octopus who will make you feel, wonderfully layered flawed characters
Read if you like: vampires, morals being challenged, takeover of power, coming into your own
I am tired. I am old and like as much sleep as possible.
But I have 40 pages left in my books and I am STRESSED and I need to finish this but my eyes are betraying me. Someone tell myself I can not stop where I'm at.
Current read: Blood Slaves
I am so frustrated by Gertie, which I can't explain without giving any kind of spoilers, but man is the frustration real.
That aside, if (when? 😏) this gets made for the screen, I have the perfect person in mind for her role. Wunmi Mosaku
Current read: Blood Slaves
"Immortal slaves to blood mean you still a slave!"
Tell it Gertie
Current read: Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond
Step one: make Wild Strawberry Grove from The Raven's Cup
Step two: open Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond
Step three: sip, read, ignore everything else.
With the Smithsonian contributing in the attempt to rewrite and hide parts of history, I feel like this is an even more important time to start reading this book.
Current read: Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools
Kitty stretches and first reads of August.
Current read: Mallory in Full Color
(and if you haven't checked out Elisa Stone Leahy yet, please please do it now)
11 pages in, not even out of the introduction, and I'm wondering if this book may be too smart for me. Or should I not read it when I'm getting tired.
Current read: Abundance
"I'll find myself happy, on occasion, but the feeling never stays long. Life has become something to endure, rather than to savor, and the prospect of it lasting forever is more than I can bear."
Current read: The Unkillable Frank Lightning
A humid Ohio morning. A porch kitty demanding attention but not too much. A western horror twist on Frankenstein brought to you by Josh Roundtree and #TachyonPublications
Current read: The Unkillable Frank Lightning
Current read: Hungry Bones by Louise Hung
Finally reading A Long Stretch of Bad Days by @mindymcginnis.bsky.social
Every time I open up one of her books, I'm reminded how amazing her skill is with making realistic teen characters who act in ways that aren't watered down or "nice".
If you haven't checked her books out yet, HERE'S YOUR SIGN.
"Now someone did know his name.
He wasn't sure he liked that."
Uh huh, yea, didn't like that. Sure you didn't. Mmhmm.
Current read: The Keeper of Lonely Spirits
Finished Vol. 5 of the series Monstress. I wish I knew more who read these. The take on racism, homosexuality, being a woman, being in pain & suffering, is all told with top notch storytelling by Marjorie Liu & phenomenal artwork by Sana Takeda. I'm reading them as fast as the library gets them in.
Sitting on the front porch of where I'll be moving to this summer. Book out, rain gently falling, birds doing their bird things, church bells softly playing in the distance.
Continuing my non-fiction reading journey.
Current read: A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery
The roller-coaster this series puts me through is going to give me high blood pressure or put me on extreme anxiety meds, yet I can't stop because it is absolutely amazing.
Current read: To Your Eternity 12
For me, I'll stick to the movie where Culkin and Green give some outstanding performances.
If you want to read how jealous St. James was of most people he was around while acting like he wasn't, this is for you. If you want to read something that has A LOT OF very chaotic writing on every single page, this one is for you.
St. James writes as if he was still fueled by drugs, with most situations centered around him. Frankly Michael is a side side character and Angel hardly shows on the pages. If you want to know what St. James was thinking when he existed on drugs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, this is for you.
I learned about Angel's death by watching the movie Party Monster, so decided to finally read the book written by someone who was deep involved in the events.
If you're wanting to know more about the murder of Angel, you won't really find it here.
Read if you like: true crime, drug-addled ramblings, egotistical characters, Club Kids
I want to read Wake Up and Open Your Eyes next, but want to read Carl's Doomsday Scenario, but also want to read Bunny, but I also have The Last Bookstore on Earth from the library, but also I've been wanting to read Navola, and need to read The Year of the Witching for book club...
#readerproblems
In the Miso Soup has a slow buildup leading up to the explosive climax, with an ending that will have you staring at your novel for awhile after the last page is read.
If you're familiar with Murakami's novels, you'll know a general of what you're getting into. If this is your first time, be prepared for some uncomfortablyaddictive and dark storytelling with heavy character reflections that aren't necessarily positive.