Apparently you don‘t have to pick one of the five selections anymore? Which is good Bc I got an arc of the Kevin Wilson and preordered The Water Dancer and the other three choices do not appeal to me at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #botm

Oh yeah I just redowoaded litsy hello.

#BOTM I‘m going all out with the YA this month 😬

Apparently the only time I log in now is to post my #botm pics 👀 I was only going to get How Not to Die Alone but I saw that Flight Portfolio was gay and was morally obligated to get the gay book.

I am so excited about all of these. 2019 is apparently the year #botm gets their shit together 🙌

I was deleting pics from my camera and I came across this glaring error that COMPLETELY took me out of this otherwise really great novel. You only crochet with one needle. Knitting is two. You could make the argument that the POV character doesn‘t know the difference but I do and it bothers me so much.

📚JANUARY WRAP UP📚
-7 novels - 1 tpb/gn - 117 comics -
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I read a lot of long books this month, which I don‘t usually do. I‘m not a fast reader so I tend to shy away from door stop books. But four of the books I have lined up to read in February are also door stops so maybe I‘m embracing the Big Books.

#wrapup #januaryreads

I‘m actually super excited about both of these. Also a little salty that Kingdom of Copper is an add on bc I paid $20 for that book last week 😤

First book of #24in48 I‘m getting a late start so I might not make it but let‘s go.

4/100 in 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 3/100 in 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖2/100 in 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Good clean hobo fun.

One of my reading goals for this year is to actually take a break on my lunch at work. The last semester was a nightmare that involved students having to eat their lunches in our classrooms because of truly unprecedented circumstances. But that meant that we didn‘t get lunch breaks at all for several months. Now that I do have 30 minutes to myself every day, I can actually get some reading done and it‘s pretty nice. #teacherstruggles

Im not even 30 pages into this book and it is already devastatingly relatable. I also just find this whole book to be deeply upsetting and uncomfortable. Not in a bad way, but in a “wow this hits too close to home” way. Anyway straight people are trash and I wanted Martin to get hit by a bus when I saw the movie and I still kinda want him to die in the first 30 pages of the book.

📖1/100 in 2019: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

When your Boxing Day book outlet order comes in the day before your birthday 🙌🙌 (they had ocean of minutes in paperback literally how 😯)
#bookhaul #bookoutlet
(I‘m buying more books tomorrow and my botm is gonna be here on the 9th I am fully out of control🤣)

jan 01, 2019 | another resolution is to use social media more productively and effectively. updating my litsy and bookstagram accounts really kept me motivated to keep reading. and when I fell off maintaining these accounts in august, my reading suffered. so here is my first book stack of the new year!
1. Queen of the Night—Alexander Chee
2. Spinning Silver—Naomi Novik
3. Becoming—Michelle Obama

What are you guys starting your years off with?

Clean slate for the new year. I didn‘t meet my goal last year and I didn‘t do a good job of keeping up with my reading on goodreads.

Here are some reading goals for 2019:
-read 100 books.
-read books that I already own and stop buying books to put on my shelf for “eventually”
-get all the way caught up on my weekly comics stack
-do better keeping up with goodreads tracking.

This was a struggle!! As soon as I hit confirm I wished I‘d gotten Maid instead of Golden State but maybe I‘ll add that one on next month 😬 I hope 2019 #botm is better than 2018 was...

Brilliant

I don‘t actually read one star books because I usually just stop reading them. So of the ones I actually finished, Other People‘s Houses was a 2 star read for me. I went in with high expectations because I love this kind of book. But I just found the whole thing really cringey and poorly written.

Of my DNFs, Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero is the one I hated so much I could only get 50 pages in before tossing it.

#worstreads

My Black Friday bookoutlet haul. I‘m so excited about all of these. #bookoutlethaul #bookmail #bookstacks

How do you pull yourself out of a reading slump? I can‘t seem to focus on any book for more than 50 pages and I am not loving it. I have tried focusing on reading comics but that‘s not working either. Any advice is welcome. #readingslump

MEM✈️PIE Florida bound for the holiday. Happy Turkey Day Vacation.

Some of my coworkers are passing around the Trump administration books that I haven‘t had the mental will or energy to read yet. So I got in on it when someone finished this one.

Casual reminder that today is the last day to early vote in Tennessee 🗳 🗳 🗳 #memphis #teacherlife #votesaveamerica #pleasevote

This is the first #BOTM in so long where I am legit excited about most of the selections. The only thing that made it easy to pick is that I already bought The Proposal in paperback and I‘m waiting for Nine Perfect Strangers in paperback so it will match all my other Moriarty novels 🙌

So excited to read another John Boyne.

I don‘t talk about comics enough on here anymore. So here are some #spookybooks to get you in that October Mood.

Harrow County just ended and I‘m going to miss it so much. This has to be one of my favorite horror comics ever & Im so sad to see it go I almost didnt wanna read the last book 😂

Chilling Adventures is Sabrina is part of Archie‘s incredible horror line. If you‘re as excited as I am about the new Sabrina show on Netflix pick this up!

If I threw up some books that I wanted to get rid of would anyone be interested in doing a book swap or something? I have a few books that I didn‘t personally enjoy enough to keep in my library but I know lots of people here loved and have in their tbr.

If no one wants to swap I might do a giveaway or something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ let me know!

It‘s been at least 4 years since I read this book and I forgot how much beautiful melodrama goes into the character description 😂

Side note: Aglionby is the WORST name for anything in the history of books. It takes me out of the book every time because I have to spend 10 minutes trying to remember how to pronounce it.

?Matilda
?China Miéville
?Mad Max Fury Road
?Mozzarella

#manicmonday #letterm @JoScho

📚Les Mis
👤Madeleine L‘Engle
📽Lady Bird
🍽Lasagna
#manicmonday #letterl #joscho

Fall break starts now and I don‘t even want to look at a single teenager until Monday, October 15th. #teacherlife time to catch up on some reading and pull myself out of a slump with some old favorites 👍

Well, casual mention of Harvey Weinstein doesn‘t age well 🤢

Welcome to my 11 year old copy of House of Leaves. I‘ve been wanting to reread this for years now, so I decided to do a Halloween reading kinda thing. If I read 22 pages a day, I will finish the book on Halloween 🎃. #halloween #spookyreads

Whooo #botm! I skipped last month and then heard such great things about Mermaid and Mrs. Handcock that I decided I needed it. And the Clockmaker‘s Daughter was the only one that really grabbed my attention this time around. Overall, this has been a pretty weak year for BOTM but it doesn‘t hurt me to stay subscribed and skip where necessary ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#manicmonday #letterk @JoScho

📚Kindred
👤Stephen King
📽Kill Bill
🍽King Cake

Here‘s my TBR for the rest of the month. Two comic trades and a cozy YA reread 🙌

I haven‘t picked my TBR for next month but I have picked themes for the rest of the year.
1. October = spooky shit obvs
2. November = Obama Staffer Memoirs and political Adjacent books (Americans, DO NOT FORGET TO VOTE!!!)
3. December = Short books and short stories.

I can‘t believe 2018 is almost over 😱
#tbr #amreading #ravencycle #comics

One more quote from Priestdaddy for i officially shelve it 👀

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️// y‘all I have been trying to finish this book for a full month. Not because it isn‘t great, not because I didn‘t love it. Simply because work has been so damn hectic. I can‘t remember the last time it took me a month to finish one 300 page book 😬
Anyway, there isn‘t much to say about this that hasn‘t already been said. It was funny and poignant in equal measure and I loved it.
I think my next few reads are going to be short and easy.

📚-Julie of the Wolves
👤-NK Jemisin
📽-Jurassic Park
🍽-Jambalaya

#manicmonday #letterj @JoScho

When your book store‘s Fear display is surrounded by better books 👀

#manicmonday #letteri
📚—I Hate Fairyland
👤—Christopher Isherwood
📽—It Follows
🍽—Ice Cream

(🙌🙌 caught up!)

#manicmonday #letterh
📚—Harry Potter
👤—Jonathan Hickman
📽—Hidden Figures
🍽—Honey

#manicmonday #letterg
📚—Giovanni‘s Room
👤—Roxane Gay
📽—Get Out
🍽—Gelato

#manicmonday #letterf
📚—Frankenstein
👤—EM Forster
📽—Florida Project
🍽—French Toast

#manicmonday
📚—Egypt Game
👤—Warren Ellis
📽—Easy A
🍽—Eggs Benedict

#manicmonday catchup
📚—Difficult Women
👤—Roald Dahl
📽—District 8
🍽—Donut

#manicmonday
📚—City of Brass
👤—SA Chakraboty (lmao how convenient)
📽—Cabin in the Woods
🍽—chocolate