I feel like I was just writing a post like this with a very similar title. It was just February. Life is continuing to just need attention, though, and it's not all bad, most of it at this moment isn't, but I'm trying to pack up all the books I own and move and not be too sad.
And I also just plain haven't really been reading - as seen from my May wrap up and lack of reviews around here - and I'm not sure when my move in date is but it's this month. And I need a good nights sleep, and still have ALL THE BOOKS to pack (I'm way over halfway done now but it still feels like all the books. Also - comics are fucking heavy).
So I think I'll be taking this month off, sadly. Hopefully if my move in date is sooner rather then later I'll be able to sort everything out, see: internet, and be back to you lovely people soon. I'm hopelessly behind on reading blogs, on all the youtubers I watch, on just everything. I'm a tad hopeful I'll be able to at least try and keep up a little, or at least read something.
Here we are again - Hiatus part two, I'll see you soon (end of the month / beginning of January). And I'll still be present on social media because that's easy.
(This is probably going to be a full hiatus, not even weekly updates. And I doubt I'll be reading too much in the coming weeks with moving so it shouldn't be that hard to just put everything into one week).
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Monday, June 1, 2015
May 2015 | Monthly Wrap Up
I can't believe May is over already, it was a crazy month, and I spent a lot of it trying to clean the house, packing the move out, and so not a lot of time reading. There was also a convention, that I want to make a post about but currently all I can form about Misti Con is - oh my god it was amazing, holy shit, I miss everyoneeeeee. And I don't you guys want to hear me wax poetry about how amazing everything was and how much I miss new/old friends.
Anyway - there was a read-a-thon this month, well more then one, but I really only participated in one. I have no idea when I'm moving, but I'm assuming it's early June so I'm trying to pack and you guys might understand how impossible it is to pack boxes. Especially when one has hundreds and hundreds of them - possibly 2,000 but we're not talking about that because I'll start to stress out more then I already am.
So I read a lot of comics this month - I got Marvel Unlimited this month and started just reading all the things on that, and comics are just easier when I'm stressing out. I read sixteen things and only two of those, I believe, were novels and they were both barely long enough to be considered that, hopefully next month is better, though it depends on when I can move in/start reorganizing everything.
Anyway - there was a read-a-thon this month, well more then one, but I really only participated in one. I have no idea when I'm moving, but I'm assuming it's early June so I'm trying to pack and you guys might understand how impossible it is to pack boxes. Especially when one has hundreds and hundreds of them - possibly 2,000 but we're not talking about that because I'll start to stress out more then I already am.
So I read a lot of comics this month - I got Marvel Unlimited this month and started just reading all the things on that, and comics are just easier when I'm stressing out. I read sixteen things and only two of those, I believe, were novels and they were both barely long enough to be considered that, hopefully next month is better, though it depends on when I can move in/start reorganizing everything.
- Wayward #7 by Jim Zub, Steve Cummings (5/5)
- Kaptara #1 by Chip Zdarsky, Kagan McLeod (4/5)
- Captain America: Winter Soldier, Volume 1 by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting (4/5)
- Captain America: Winter Soldier, Volume 2 by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting (5/5)
- Captain America, Red Menace, Volume 1 by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting (4/5)
- Young Avengers, Volume 1: Sidekicks by Allan Heinberg, Jom Cheung
- Captain America, Red Menace, Volume 2 by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting (5/5)
- A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring #1) by James Dashner (3/5)
- Divide and Conquer (Infinity Ring #2) by Carrie Ryan (2/5)
- RunLoveKill #1 & 2 by Jonathan Tsuei, Eric Conete (5/5)
- Captain Marvel, Volume 2: Stay Fly by Kelly Sue DeConnick, + multiple artists (5/5)
- Captain Marvel, Volume 1: In Pursuit of Flight by Kelly Sue DeConnick, + (5/5)
- Spider-Gwen #4 by Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez (3/5)
- Descender #3 by Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen
- The Wicked + The Divine #10 by Kieron Gillen, Jamie, McKelvie
- East of West #19 by Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta
There's suppose to be a weekly wrap up also going up today, and I didn't put one up last week because I was in New Hampshire. And this week I've just been packing/cleaning like a crazy person. I think I might be going on another hiatus until I'm moved and everything is set up because STRESS and no time to do anything fucking else. I'm also stuck in this strange cycle of not getting enough sleep, which was fine during a con but is not so fine right now.
I hope you guys had a good month - May is a lot of things, hectic for everything - so I hope everything went well and you read some good things amid all of that.
I hope you guys had a good month - May is a lot of things, hectic for everything - so I hope everything went well and you read some good things amid all of that.
On the Blog:
April Monthly Wrap Up
May 4th | Weekly Wrap Up #18
May 11th | Weekly Wrap Up #19
May 18th | Weekly Wrap Up #20
(Bout of Books related)
April Monthly Wrap Up
May 4th | Weekly Wrap Up #18
May 11th | Weekly Wrap Up #19
May 18th | Weekly Wrap Up #20
(Bout of Books related)
Monday, May 18, 2015
May 18th | Weekly Wrap Up #20
So it was - a bit of a very, super hectic week. My mom and I had a meeting on Monday about these apartments, see? And I'm not even sure we got them yet, but if we did - then I'll be able to move in June 1st. Which is fantastic, I"m so excited - however, we're going away for about a week for MistiCon (HP convention) and... and I have a lot of books to pack (and then try and fit into the loft/studio apartment). So that's - hectic, stress, why do I own so many books.
And it's just been busy overall, so while it was Bout of Books, there were three days where I just didn't read a thing. I did still get some good reading done, though, mostly comics related. My bout of books wrap up should of also gone live today, and I did get some last minute single issues down on Sunday, but I didn't really read most of the days of the week.
And I'm pretty sure I won't be getting much read next week with the convention I'm going to and more packing, but I think I'm okay with that at the moment, we'll see.
Reading: (finished this week and actively currently-reading)
Young Avengers, Volume 1: Sidekicks by Allan Heinberg, Jom Cheung (3/5)
Enjoyable, but also a little eh for me. I'm hoping late issues/whatever deal more with the new characters (which I know they do because I've read volume 1 of the new run and am now backtracking, as I also did with another comic this week).
Captain America, Red Menace: Volume 2 by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting (5/5)
I'm seriously really enjoying this Brubaker/Epting run. I'm stalling continuing because... well, if you're into comics, you probably know. (I am not prepared, even though I know it's comics. Gah).
A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring #1) by James Dashner (3/5)
A reread for me, and definitely didn't enjoy it as much as I did the first time I read it (two/three years ago now, I think), but I did still enjoy it. I've just got some major issues with the characters/plot, it's cool.
Divide and Conquer (Infinity Ring #2) by Carrie Ryan (2/5)
This is not going well. Especially because this one had, pretty much, the exact lay-out of the first in terms of the basic plot twists. Also - I'm already sick of the tolken female character getting crushes on all the guys (she's fucking eleven and basically a quantum physicist, she doesn't give a shit).
Captain Marvel, Volume 2: Stay Fly & Captain Marvel, Volume 1: In Pursuit of Flight by Kelly Sue DeConnick (5/5)
So there's a reason they're in this order - mostly it's how I read them. I read the other, more recent, volume one before I realized maybe I should start earlier. But by then I just thought fuck it, that would of been a good bit of money. And now I have Marvel Unlimited (magic-y), and I'm so glad I do - I'm loving this series and learning I'll probably just read anything DeConnick writes.
RunKillLove #1 & #2 by Jonathan Tsuei, Eric Canete
Oh man - #1 was so good I was immediately like I need more, give me more.
Spider-Gwen #4 by Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez (3/5)
Descender #3 by Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen
The Wicked + The Divine #10 by Kieron Gillen, Jamie, McKelvie
East of West #19 by Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta
Stuff:
Liz's BookTube Philosophy - this is interesting and fun. Keeping in mind why you're doing things, whatever they are, is always a good idea.
I didn't not spend a lot of time watching things - some random stuff, but I did start watching Spartacus again. And why did no one tell me Jaime Murray was in the second season? I would of definitely continued sooner. (Warnings for Spartacus: everything, specifically blood/gore but seriously everything)
On the blog:
And it's just been busy overall, so while it was Bout of Books, there were three days where I just didn't read a thing. I did still get some good reading done, though, mostly comics related. My bout of books wrap up should of also gone live today, and I did get some last minute single issues down on Sunday, but I didn't really read most of the days of the week.
And I'm pretty sure I won't be getting much read next week with the convention I'm going to and more packing, but I think I'm okay with that at the moment, we'll see.
Reading: (finished this week and actively currently-reading)
Young Avengers, Volume 1: Sidekicks by Allan Heinberg, Jom Cheung (3/5)
Enjoyable, but also a little eh for me. I'm hoping late issues/whatever deal more with the new characters (which I know they do because I've read volume 1 of the new run and am now backtracking, as I also did with another comic this week).
Captain America, Red Menace: Volume 2 by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting (5/5)
I'm seriously really enjoying this Brubaker/Epting run. I'm stalling continuing because... well, if you're into comics, you probably know. (I am not prepared, even though I know it's comics. Gah).
A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring #1) by James Dashner (3/5)
A reread for me, and definitely didn't enjoy it as much as I did the first time I read it (two/three years ago now, I think), but I did still enjoy it. I've just got some major issues with the characters/plot, it's cool.
Divide and Conquer (Infinity Ring #2) by Carrie Ryan (2/5)
This is not going well. Especially because this one had, pretty much, the exact lay-out of the first in terms of the basic plot twists. Also - I'm already sick of the tolken female character getting crushes on all the guys (she's fucking eleven and basically a quantum physicist, she doesn't give a shit).
Captain Marvel, Volume 2: Stay Fly & Captain Marvel, Volume 1: In Pursuit of Flight by Kelly Sue DeConnick (5/5)
So there's a reason they're in this order - mostly it's how I read them. I read the other, more recent, volume one before I realized maybe I should start earlier. But by then I just thought fuck it, that would of been a good bit of money. And now I have Marvel Unlimited (magic-y), and I'm so glad I do - I'm loving this series and learning I'll probably just read anything DeConnick writes.
RunKillLove #1 & #2 by Jonathan Tsuei, Eric Canete
Oh man - #1 was so good I was immediately like I need more, give me more.
Spider-Gwen #4 by Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez (3/5)
Descender #3 by Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen
The Wicked + The Divine #10 by Kieron Gillen, Jamie, McKelvie
East of West #19 by Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta
Stuff:
Liz's BookTube Philosophy - this is interesting and fun. Keeping in mind why you're doing things, whatever they are, is always a good idea.
I didn't not spend a lot of time watching things - some random stuff, but I did start watching Spartacus again. And why did no one tell me Jaime Murray was in the second season? I would of definitely continued sooner. (Warnings for Spartacus: everything, specifically blood/gore but seriously everything)
On the blog:
Bout of Books 13 | Day Seven (and final wrap up)
I didn't read for the last about three, really kind of four, days of the read-a-thon. I was trying to pack, spending time with my best friend, and then accidentally writing a lot (also marathoning a few episodes of Spartacus - no regrets, well some regrets).
I wish I'd been able to read more, but I knew I was going to be able to at the beginning of the week, and I did get to both twitter chats and that's always fun.
Anyway - I hope everyone had a great week, reading related and not.
Number of Pages Read Today: 150
Total Number of Pages: 1,054
Bout of Books blog
Announcement Post
I wish I'd been able to read more, but I knew I was going to be able to at the beginning of the week, and I did get to both twitter chats and that's always fun.
Anyway - I hope everyone had a great week, reading related and not.
Number of Pages Read Today: 150
Books (today):
Spider-Gwen #4 by Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez (started and finished - 30 pages)
Descender #3 by Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen (started and finished - 30 pages)
RunLoveKill #2 by Jonathan Tsuei (started and finished - 30 pages)
The Wicked + The Divine #10 by Kieron Gillen, Jamie, McKelvie (started and finished - 30 pages)
East of West #19 by Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta (started and finished - 30 pages)
Total Number of Books Read: 6 (+ single issues)Spider-Gwen #4 by Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez (started and finished - 30 pages)
Descender #3 by Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen (started and finished - 30 pages)
RunLoveKill #2 by Jonathan Tsuei (started and finished - 30 pages)
The Wicked + The Divine #10 by Kieron Gillen, Jamie, McKelvie (started and finished - 30 pages)
East of West #19 by Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta (started and finished - 30 pages)
Total Number of Pages: 1,054
Bout of Books blog
Announcement Post
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Bout of Books 13 | Day Three
It was a very strange day - that ended in a Captain Marvel binge? I started reading the 2014 series without going further, so I'm kind of reading them backwards and I'm okay with that. I've learned comics are less need to be read in order to understand thing, because they're expecting people to jump in at different points. Anyway - stats / thoughts.
Number of Books Read Today: 3
Total Number of Books Read: 6
Books:
Divide and Conquer (Infinity Ring #2) by Carrie Ryan (finished - 157 pages)
RunLoveKill #1 by Jonathan Tsuei, Eric Canete (started and finished - 30 pages)
Captain Marvel, Volume 2: Stay Fly by Kelly Sue DeConnick, +
Captain Marvel, Volume 1: In Pursuit of Flight by Kelly, Sue DeConnick, Dextor Soy (started and finished - 136)
Number of Pages Read Today: 443
Total Number of Pages: 904
Notes/Comments:
I'm not really sure how I am feeling, or how I'm going to continue to feel, about the Infinity Ring books, we'll see. However - RunLoveKill was an interesting hook, I'm excited to see more. And I really love Carol as a character in Captain Marvel and am excited to see what else happens. (And if you haven't seen the cover of Sure Fly you need to because cats.
How did you Wednesday go? What are you currently-reading?
Bout of Books blog
Announcement Post
Kick-off Post
Day One
Day Two
Number of Books Read Today: 3
Total Number of Books Read: 6
Books:
Divide and Conquer (Infinity Ring #2) by Carrie Ryan (finished - 157 pages)
RunLoveKill #1 by Jonathan Tsuei, Eric Canete (started and finished - 30 pages)
Captain Marvel, Volume 2: Stay Fly by Kelly Sue DeConnick, +
Captain Marvel, Volume 1: In Pursuit of Flight by Kelly, Sue DeConnick, Dextor Soy (started and finished - 136)
Number of Pages Read Today: 443
Total Number of Pages: 904
Notes/Comments:
I'm not really sure how I am feeling, or how I'm going to continue to feel, about the Infinity Ring books, we'll see. However - RunLoveKill was an interesting hook, I'm excited to see more. And I really love Carol as a character in Captain Marvel and am excited to see what else happens. (And if you haven't seen the cover of Sure Fly you need to because cats.
How did you Wednesday go? What are you currently-reading?
Bout of Books blog
Announcement Post
Kick-off Post
Day One
Day Two
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Bout of Books 13 | Day Two
So I did not get as much reading done as I'd hoped today either, but I did get some done. Hopefully tomorrow will be better, I thin my bi-weekly pull is coming in, so I'll definitely have so single issues to read, maybe that'll push me to read more!
Number of Books Read Today: 1
Total Number of Books Read: 3
Books:
A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring #1) by James Dashner (started and finished - 198 pages)
Divide and Conquer (Infinity Ring #2) by Carrie Ryan (started - 35 pages)
Number of Pages Read Today: 227
Total Number of Pages: 461
Notes/Comments:
Just ten pages shy of what I read yesterday, and today it was all novels, no comics (which was kind of strange, I missed the comics, definitely tomorrow). I was trying to not add anything to bother my eyes while reading today, hopefully I can spend more time off the computer tomorrow as well.
Anyway - A Mutiny in Time was a reread for me so I can continue with this series. I'm kind of hopeful I can make a dent in the series this week, they're all really short books and middle grade.
How if your reading going? What are you currently-reading?
Bout of Books blog
Announcement Post
Kick-off Post
Day One
Number of Books Read Today: 1
Total Number of Books Read: 3
Books:
A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring #1) by James Dashner (started and finished - 198 pages)
Divide and Conquer (Infinity Ring #2) by Carrie Ryan (started - 35 pages)
Number of Pages Read Today: 227
Total Number of Pages: 461
Notes/Comments:
Just ten pages shy of what I read yesterday, and today it was all novels, no comics (which was kind of strange, I missed the comics, definitely tomorrow). I was trying to not add anything to bother my eyes while reading today, hopefully I can spend more time off the computer tomorrow as well.
Anyway - A Mutiny in Time was a reread for me so I can continue with this series. I'm kind of hopeful I can make a dent in the series this week, they're all really short books and middle grade.
How if your reading going? What are you currently-reading?
Bout of Books blog
Announcement Post
Kick-off Post
Day One
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Bout of Books 13 | Day One
It wasn't the greatest first day for a read-a-thon for me, but I expected that. I knew that it was going to be a kind of hectic morning. And it was that, but it was also exciting, which also inhibited my ability to sit in read but was exciting so I am not too upset about it.
I said, before said meeting which was about an apartment, that I wanted to strive to beat my last record. This is not going to be one of those read-a-thons, because I've got to start trying to pack the, like... way too many books I own to transport them. This is a thing, gahhh I'm so excited but also I own probably about 1500/2000 books? Terrifying.
Anyway - I did, actually, get some reading done on top of all of that.
Number of Books Read: 2
Books:
Young Avengers, Volume 1: Sidekicks by Allan Heinberg, Jom Cheung (finished - 70 pages)
Captain America, Red Menace Volume 2 by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting (started and finished - 104 pages)
Rusty Nailed (Cocktail #2) by Alice Clayton (started - 160 pages)
Number of Pages Read: 234
Notes/Comments:
I am seriously enjoying Brubaker's run of Captain America, but I don't know if I am emotionally prepared for Civil War, in all honesty, I just don't know. Enjoyed Young Avengers, but not as much as I wanted to, am looking forward to hitting the newer stuff (which I read volume one of that before, but wanted to go back and start again, so ended up here).
And Rusty Nailed - just one of those books that you just accidentally find yourself halfway through. Do other people experience this? It's fine so far, mostly just cute.
Also - twitter chat! Yay twitter chat days!
How did your bout of books day one go? Or how did your just Monday go?
Bout of Books blog
Announcement Post
Kick-off Post
I said, before said meeting which was about an apartment, that I wanted to strive to beat my last record. This is not going to be one of those read-a-thons, because I've got to start trying to pack the, like... way too many books I own to transport them. This is a thing, gahhh I'm so excited but also I own probably about 1500/2000 books? Terrifying.
Anyway - I did, actually, get some reading done on top of all of that.
Number of Books Read: 2
Books:
Young Avengers, Volume 1: Sidekicks by Allan Heinberg, Jom Cheung (finished - 70 pages)
Captain America, Red Menace Volume 2 by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting (started and finished - 104 pages)
Rusty Nailed (Cocktail #2) by Alice Clayton (started - 160 pages)
Number of Pages Read: 234
Notes/Comments:
I am seriously enjoying Brubaker's run of Captain America, but I don't know if I am emotionally prepared for Civil War, in all honesty, I just don't know. Enjoyed Young Avengers, but not as much as I wanted to, am looking forward to hitting the newer stuff (which I read volume one of that before, but wanted to go back and start again, so ended up here).
And Rusty Nailed - just one of those books that you just accidentally find yourself halfway through. Do other people experience this? It's fine so far, mostly just cute.
Also - twitter chat! Yay twitter chat days!
How did your bout of books day one go? Or how did your just Monday go?
Bout of Books blog
Announcement Post
Kick-off Post
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