Welcome to the Sunday Post, a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer to share weekly news and updates on what we’ve been up to on our blog, with our books, and book-related happenings.
School Starts This Week!
I had my orientation last week and I’m excited and anxious as hell. Honestly, I wish I was too cool for school, but I’m feeling very, very uncool right now! 😂
In some ways, I feel like I’m ready and overprepared, in other ways, I feel so unprepared it’s not even funny. Also, I’m fully aware that I’m being really annoying now with all the school talk and how excited I am, but give it a few weeks and I’ll probably start complaining about school then! Hopefully not though!
Yeah, I don’t have much to share other than about going back to school. It’s my whole personality right now! Thank goodness I do have some books to talk about too!
The Books
Books I read last week:
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins – This is a reread. I resisted reading this for a long time because I just didn’t feel a need for more books in the THG world, but a friend talked it up and I was pleasantly surprised that I ended up liking it. Reading it the second time now, I’m seeing more of the details I missed before and I love it even more now!
- Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa – I don’t usually like “slice of life” novels, but this was my online bookclub’s BOTM, and it was relatively short, so I decided to give it a chance. I didn’t love it, but it wasn’t bad and I liked it well enough.
Books I’m reading:
- S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst – I haven’t touched it since the week before! I haven’t had time to immerse myself but I don’t want to leave it too long, otherwise I’ll have to start over.
- Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman – The second book in the Dragonlance Chronicles I’m working through. I’m about 45% in.
Last Week on The Blog
This Week
I will try to get some reading in for S. I’m also hoping to finish Dragons of Winter Night early in the week so I can start Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.
How was your week? I hope you had a great week last week, and I hope you have a great one again this week!
Have a good first week at school!
Thank you!
Good luck with the start of the semester! I envy you a bit, the start is really fun. (If I hadn’t just finished my last degree, I’d probably be tempted, ahaha.)
Book club books can be really interesting for trying something different — I used to be part of a bookclub on Goodreads that was massively formative for me, but I haven’t really had anything like that since. Maybe I should join something! 😁
I love that! So happy for you that you finished your degree! I think it’s exciting to start something new, but it’s so fulfilling to finish it too!
That is true about the bookclubs, I read a lot of books I probably wouldn’t have picked on my own because of bookclubs.
Oops, clicked post before I was ready. You should totally join something!
School can be very exciting 🙂 Hope you continue to enjoy it. I’m sort of considering re-educating to maybe change jobs, but already paying for a child’s education, and another to start in five years, is scary!
Oh yeah, I feel you! I’m scared too, but I think it’s the right move for me. If you think it’s what’s right for you, I’m sure you’ll be able to do it too! We can do this!
My daughter starts a new session of school this week. She has her second economics class.
It’s all so exciting! I’m happy for her!
Enjoy your return to school. My son is back on Wednesday. It just flew by! It felt faster than some half term holidays we have had 😂
Have a great week!
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I know right! I was so anxious for the time to pass and now September is here, I’m like, where did the time go!
I hope the school high lasts for a good long while!
Me too!
I recall being very excited the first days of school too LOL
Lol! Yes!
Good luck with school!! I am sure you will have a blast. Enjoy your weekend.
Thank you!
Good Luck with school!
Thank you!
Good luck with school! I’m enjoying my weekend before heading back to four days of Kindergarteners. Those poor kids are so sleepy in the afternoon!
Aww, that’s so cute! Enjoy your Kindergarteners!
Have a great first week! You are going to do awesome! And you are totally cool.
Awww, thank you!