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Yes I love reading books. Yes I haven’t picked one up in three months. Yes we exist.

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Favorite Character Tag!

Another waaaaay overdue post I was tagged in! Slowly but surely getting through them! I was tagged a million years ago by @thatspeterparker

Rules: name ten different characters from ten different things (books, tv, film, etc.) then tag ten people.

1) Emilia // Shakespeare’s Othello

2) Hope VanDyne // Marvel’s Ant-Man

3) Neville Longbottom // Harry Potter

4) Crowley // Good Omens (TV)

5) Elle Woods // Legally Blonde (Movie & Musical)

6) Gwen // Merlin

7) Jules // Psych

8) Diaz // Brooklyn 99

9) Donna Noble // Doctor Who

10) Muggles // The Gammage Cup

@pomelo-villano @sherlokiholland @thisisbookland @bi-capricorn @official-spidey @bookloveaffair @blackroses-shadows @lesty-xx @sleepyqueermess @xmermaidesx

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30 Questions Tag

I was tagged in a few of these 20-30 questions tags by wonderful people, including @storm-fairy, @all-these-paperback-dreams, @logarithmicpanda, @lizziethereader And maybe some other folks - sorry, this one got away from me Rules: Answer thirty questions, then tag twenty blogs you would like to know better. 1. Nicknames? Not a lot of nicknames for Mable. Sometimes I get Mabes. 2. Gender? Female 3. Star sign? Pisces 4. Height? 5′4″ 5. Time? 8:21pm 6. Birthday? March 13th 7. Favourite bands? Travis, James, Coldplay, The Smiths, Radiohead 8. Favourite solo artists? I am obsessed with Kate Bush right now 9. Song stuck in my head? Running up that Hill by Kate Bush 10. Last movie watched? In the theater, Spiderman: Homecoming 11. Last show watched? Preacher 12. When did I create my blog? October 2015  13. What do I post? Books, woodland creatures, nature, positivity stuff 14. Last thing I Googled? How far from Detroit to Montreal then to Prince Edward Island (maybe trying to think about a future Anne of Green Gables road trip) 15. Do you have other blogs? Nope. I already waste enough time here. 16. Do you get asks? Not often 17. Why did you choose your url? I wanted something related to woodland animals and reading 18. Following? 476, but I feel like only 30-40 post regularly. I need to do a clean up. 19. Followers? 990 wonderful people! I can’t believe it! 20. Favourite colours? Always teal 21. Average hours of sleep? 7, but I really need more 22. Lucky number? 13 23. Instruments? I played alto sax for one year in middle school, but was not good at it 24. What am I wearing? Pajama pants and an X-Men shirt 25. How many blankets I sleep with? 2 now, more as it gets colder 26. Dream job? Doing something I enjoy for an organization that does good in the world 27. Dream trip? Road trip in the UK 28. Favorite food? Tacos, cheese enchiladas, sushi, red curry with vegetables 29. Nationality? American 30. Favorite song now? Did you hear about my obsession with Kate Bush?

Tagging (no pressure, only fun): @addictedtobookss, @kittypotter16, @katherinevar, @bvkspine, @khgirl153, @failinghuman, @thisisbookland, @studyphanetzz

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Book Twitter!

Hi Guys! 

I made a book twitter (bitter? I still dont know if theres a fun fancy name for it like bookstagram and booklr) - and I wanted to share the link with everyone. 

You can find me on twitter @/thisisbooklands or by clicking here

I will be live-tweeting some of the books I’m reading, as well as hopefully interacting w people a little bit more!

I’m not going to live-tweet all my books, as some I don’t feel I have enough to say, but I will be starting off with some late live-tweeting of Vulgar Favors. So pop on over if you want! I’m still trying to get things together and also I discovered fonts so be nice to me I want to try them all right now...

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I DID read last night before bed AND this morning when I woke up. But now its time to work on applying for internships so no more fun for the moment just stress.

How is everyone else’s week starting?

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Sorry it’s a low quality picture the sun is hidden today so I’ve had to use my lights in my room which are too bright. I realized I forgot to bring home Six of Crows which I was going to put the little embroidery piece next to so instead I grabbed Crooked Kingdom since I actually brought this book home. I just wanted to show off the feather I made though because it took a surprising amount of time to make!

Please don’t repost!

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I read some more last night! Got to a pretty exciting part and I’m looking forward to finishing this book and starting the new one as soon as I can get it!

Hope everyone is having a great Saturday!

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June 17th, 2019

Good morning everyone! I thought I would get some reading done bright and early today. I’m drinking my favorite kind of tea, Lipton black tea with honey, sugar, and milk in it. What’s your favorite kind of tea and how do you drink it? If you don’t drink tea, what do you drink to wake up in the morning?

Hoping to get a dent in to one of my readings, The Borgias: The Hidden History by G.J. Meyer! I’ve been stuck in this book because I keep forgetting that I have it! Hopefully I’ll finish it before the summer ends. 

If you like what I post, consider buying me a coffee :)

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Did anyone get any books during the holidays? I didn’t get any for Christmas but I don’t usually like getting them as presents (I’m picky about covers sometimes)

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Haven’t posted in a while but I’ve been busy with work since the semester started! So here’s an okay photo of The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius that I’m reading for a class.

Hope everyone’s having a great weekend!

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What you don’t see is that I had to shove everything off my desk to take this photo.

But anyway, I think I’m gonna get a few pages in tonight while I have some tea. I’ve been havinng a very stressful few weeks and sometimes you need to do a little self care once in a while.

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My Decade in Books

I know this is a tag but I decided to just do this one on my own (Sorry if you’ve tagged me and I missed it!)

Anyway, I’m going to go year by year and list the books that best defined that year for me. I didn’t start tracking books until 2017 though, so before that is mostly going to be me guessing that I was saying the right books haha. 

2010

I remember I hated reading before sixth grade, so I didn’t really read in 2010. I do remember my teacher in 4th grade reading The Percy Jackson series to us every day in prep for the movie coming out, so I’d say that that series was important for me at that time. 

2011

I don’t remember reading any books this year honestly. I know I read part of Anne Frank’s diary though, because it was in our classroom library. Though I don’t remember why I picked it up at all and I don’t remember if I finished it. I hadn’t quite found my love of reading yet. 

2012

Of course, on my birthday in 6th grade I got my Kindle and that’s where I really began to read and I read through books like they were water somehow. (And no, I do not quite do that anymore). I’d say there were two series that majorly impacted my reading this year. Those would be all the Warrior Cat series books out at the time, and the Hunger Games. 

I found the WC series because of my Kindle actually, and I think I read them literally because there were cats on the cover and I loved (and still love) cats. I think these books took over half my life until I was heading in to highschool, and at the same time I don’t think I ever talked about them with anyone I knew at school because I was afraid of getting bullied. Go figure.

The Hunger Games series became important to me because my teacher in 6th grade read the books to us every Friday or something, and we all really enjoyed them. However some students mother was angry that the books were being read to us and we were forced to stop by our principle. My class sort of threw up a protest over it but it never went anywhere, and most of us just decided to get the books one way or another and read them ourselves. 

2013-2015

I’m honestly not quite sure what books I read during what year in this time. I know I read the Twilight series in about four days during either the later part of 6th grade or 7th grade. (Twas a bad idea). I know I started reading a lot of weird YA series with one of my aunts that I probably shouldn’t have read but nobody stopped me. (And honestly, I’d like to re-read one of those series). I know I read through The Mortal Instruments series, Percy Jackson, and Harry Potter too, ect. But there aren’t many books outside of school books that stood out. I’d say this was my big slump before I started reading for fun again. (And considering I went into middle school in 2013 and then high school in 2014, it makes sense, because my homework increased and I got reading fatigue). 

2016

I’d say that the book I most remember reading was The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. It’s the book I remember reading that got me back into wanting to read, and I finished it in about two days. I don’t have much else to say, I reread the book a second time and I still enjoyed it well enough but I can’t say I’d read it a third time. Though it was interesting and it’s also what made me want to start reading The Iliad, which I have not finished yet haha.

2017

Now is where I started tracking books for real. I had four books I had to read during the summer before senior year of high school and boy I struggled with them. It was when I started my blog and my goodreads account! Which is great because now I can look at lists of books haha. There were quite a few books that I’d say defined that year. 

First I’d say It, because I really pushed myself to finish that damn book before the movie came out. Then I gave up and saw the movie, and then I finished the book afterwards. (Which is surprising, because usually I can’t finish a book if I’ve seen the movie recently.) I enjoyed it more for the coming of age aspect, with the kids sitting around acting like kids, than anything else honestly.

And then I’d say The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas was another book that defined that year. It was a really good book but also important to show the effects of police brutality/racism and how awful it is for victims and their friends, family, and community, I don’t know if I have much else to say about the book though, it just made me angry.

Some honorable mentions I don’t feel like writing too much about - They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera. Bone Gap by Laura Ruby. Ari and Dante by Benjamin Alire Saenz.

2018

This was when I read a lot more. I logged a lot of books I read for class which boosted my read count but hey, I did read them so. 

I’d say Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy was one book that was pretty important to me. It was about a girl coming to terms with her bisexuality, and well - I’m bi so I did enjoy that one haha. I read quite a few books but Ramona Blue is the one that sticks out the most for 2018. A couple others I really enjoyed were historic fiction like The Alice Network by Kate Quinn and All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. But mostly I spent 2018 graduating high school and settling in to college, so I didn’t read as much for myself as I had wanted to. 

2019

Well.. here’s the part where I admit I spent a major part of the last year of the decade re-reading Warrior Cats. I got curious about what happened after what I last read and had a free link to read the books so, I took advantage of it. So while I did read I think almost 70 books, 60 something of them were Warrior Cats books. (They’re quite easy to get through). 

But, BESIDES WC I read some other fun novels and graphic novels! I read The Prince and the Dressmaker which a friend of mine loaned to me, and I later bought the graphic novel myself. It was a very good one that had a happy ending -- perfect for the end of the school year stress of finals. I also read Six of Crows, which I really enjoyed and I am looking forward to reading the second book, and perhaps the other series that Leigh Bardugo has written. 

For the next decade I’m looking forward to all the books I’ll find and read, and hopefully by the end of it I’ll still be reading and enjoying books!

I’m not tagging anyone, if you wanna do this just go for it!

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“Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.  If you're reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life.” The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan, pg 1. 

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Good morning!

I’ve decided to start Six of Crows and after pushing past the part that I wasn’t interested in last time I tried reading it I became more interested in the story. I’m only on chapter 2 but I can tell I’m gonna need to buy the next book soon!

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Apparently I had to wake up at 6am today? Don’t know why but I was both wide away and falling asleep again in my bed and decided to just get up. So I’m sitting on the rental deck getting a little early morning reading in.

How early did anyone else wake up this morning?

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It’s been a minute since I’ve read for fun! I left off at a big moment so I’m jumping back in and I’m gonna try real hard to finish this book today or tomorrow because I want to read a horror novel during October!

Hope everyone else is having a nice Sunday! It’s fall break for me so I still have two more days off of classes.