Bookquarium

Omg SO MANY THINGS.     This is gonna be my catch-up post before I kick my own fluke into high gear and conquer my To Be Read List.    I have a HUGE pile of books I want to conquer this year, and I've read a couple already, but the true challenge lies ahead of me.  So, first off, I wanna say, reading has not come easily to me lately. I have depression and anxiety, which I know sounds weird for a whale shark, but humans aren't the only ones with problems.  I started the year by reading this awesome book called Otherwood by Pete Hautman.  This book was one sitting on a table at work for free. I love free books, don't you? As always, I love middle-grade fiction, which is a huge age range, but honestly, children are so varied in development, I think books like this are really special. This story is about two children linked by their families past, but also separated because of it. Literally, their dimensions split away from each other...

After completing my first 24in48 weekend, I am here to tell you – I super duper enjoyed it, folks.  I hosted this time, and managed to get my house clean-ish (as opposed to “wtf happened in here?” which it normally is – Elley was very nice about it being messy.) It being the two of us for the most part, and since it was well below zero, we decided to skip swimming at the YMCA and instead just do more reading. I read a TON. More than I did at last Dewey’s Readathon, I think. I liked this format a lot better two. Two days to read, but it’s more spread out and therefore more relaxed. (I don’t feel guilty if I take a few hours to go out to eat, or you know, sleep.) Plus they had challenges for Instagram and Twitter every couple of hours, which I enjoyed participating in. But I know, I know, get to them book reviews, girl. What did I read? No Country for Old Gnomes by Delilah S Dawson and Kevin Hearne Book two in the “Tales of Pell” series, this featured different charac...