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weekly wrap-up | bl and true crime and children's books oh my

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mid-month september tbr

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i unhaul like ninety percent of my warrior cat books

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end of may--top ten, bottom five

 It is that time of the month again where I update you on what my best and worst books of the year have been! Rereads are included.  WORST FIVE: 5. Pretty Bo y by Jett Masterson Look. I've been experimenting with reading erotica. This was omegaverse. I did not know. I did not want it to be. Also the writing wasn't great. Another self-pub'd one, which doesn't feel great, but, ehh . 4. The Red Labyrinth by Meredith Tate Wanted to be The Maze Runner SO BAD. 3. The Nameless by Ramsey Campbell Also boring! You would think a book with child murder would at least be shocking if nothing else but it WASN'T. 2. Art is the Lie by Courtney Cooke Hopp Boring. Boring boring boring. Wanted to be Twilight SO BAD. 1. Call of the Cherokee by F Gardner Like, I don't like to stereotype self-published books, because I self-publish books, and there are a helluva lot of great self-published work out there... this, uh. The grammar alone is terrible. BEST TEN: 10. Charming Young Man by ...

a bookshelf tour in the new office

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a (mostly) manga haul

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a new way of doing things

 My reading, I mean.  I don't know if it's just because I haven't been especially inspired by anything I've been reading lately, but I've been reading so many books at a time. Maybe I'm missing when I taught high school and let kids do "novel studies", which meant that I read a book with them. Each one of them. Forty separate books. God, life was good. But I dunno. Nothing I've been reading lately has been all that good; currently my main read is The Unborn , which is about a fetus and a computer that become best buds, but honestly the book I'm reading that's captivating me the most is my current kindle read, which is still The Sunshine Court , because it takes me ten years to read anything on kindle, but... What I've been doing is thus: Monday comes. I take a book to the school. I read it throughout the day. I don't take it home unless I finished it. Tuesday comes. I pick out a new book. I take it to the school. I read it, plus Mon...