Well, it’s been a minute since I popped up around here. The hiatus was completely unplanned. I had a handful of posts batched and scheduled, and then the Fall Semester at work started and after they all posted, I didn’t have a chance to start writing again. Responsibilities of a new position added a lot to my plate, and that was my focus these last few weeks. But, I think I can finally see some horizon. I still may not be as consistent with posting as I was over the summer, but at least once or twice a week I plan to write here again. I missed it. I need it, more than I realized. Reading is an escape for me, a chance to wind down and relax. But writing has become something similar. A chance for me to have a little freedom when my days are filled with a bit more structure and things that I can’t always just wing and have fun with. Such is life.
I have still been reading. Not as much as the halcyon days of summer break, but reading at least a little every day. And more audiobooks now that I have a daily commute. Although when I get home now, I am bone-deep tired after having to be on my game all day teaching and figuring out my new role. Exhaustion happens after a day full of having to be mentally on it, just as much as physical exhaustion. And getting home at the end of the day is a giant sigh of relief and a collapse on the couch, not wanting to move. I’m still working on getting a consistent schedule outside of my work hours. This is an ongoing thing for me, especially since my schedule does change every 4ish months due to the nature of my work.
And even though it’s a little late, I have a small recap of my August books. This isn’t all of them, but these were the favorites.
There were a lot of good ones this month. I Feed the Beast is a great horror story set in the world of ballet (think Black Swan movie vibes) with foundations set in race, class, and the cutthroat world of the elite. Lips Like Sugar has older (in their 50’s) MCs and a hefty dose of reality.
Clean Finish (highly rec the audiobook!) is the most recent entry into Lily Mayne’s Goliaths of Wrestling series. I love a Lily Mayne monster romance, and in this one Seb and Larkin stole m whole heart. Priceless and The Alpha of Bleake Isle are omegaverse stories, but very different versions of that sub-genre. Both excellent, and with FMCs that find themselves with the support of their guys (and Bleake Isle has dragon shifters!).
We Deserve Monuments is technically YA, and deals with race, the South, family secrets, queer love, and death. It’s heavy, but so worth the read.
And Beneath the Buried Sea is an ARC that comes out at the end of September and will get a whole post of its’ own. I loved it so, so much!
Here’s to continuing to read, coming back to writing again, and learning how to fit everything I love to do and need to do in my current phase of life.
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