Life & Reading Update: I’m back!

Life :earth_americas:

I did not drop off the face of the earth.

I was not eaten by a pack of hyenas.

I did not delete this wonderful app.

I do have to apologize to the community for not informing you of my 3ish month hiatus from this community. Life and my last semester of uni just got the best of me and, while I didn’t originally plan on taking a break, I just got super overwhelmed. Straight to the point, I found myself here less and less until I just decided to officially leave from Feb - May.

Excuses over.

I’m back now!

Books :books:

While I’ve been away from this app, I still had lots of required reading for classes, listened to many audiobooks between classes, and squeezed in a few other physical books in 2018.

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Statistics

🥚so far I’ve ‘read’ 32 books this year

🥚I read 9 audiobooks

🥚I read 18 books for school

🥚I read 5 physical books for fun

🥚I read 3 books of poetry

🥚I read a total of 5305 pages (excludes audiobooks)

🥚my average rating is 3.6/5 stars (though I did not rate every book)

Wrap Up & Ratings

1. The Austere Academy (The Series of Unfortunate Events #5) by Lemony Snicket

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2. The Ersatz Elevator (The Series of Unfortunate Events #6) by Lemony Snicket

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3. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

4. Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

5. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Roger L. Green

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6. Marina (audiobook) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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7. Vathek by William Backford

8. The Monk by Matthew Lewis

9. The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White

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10. Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography (audiobook) by N.P.H.

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11. The Manticore by Robertson Davies

12. The Magic Misfits by N.P.H.

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13. Observations by Marianna Moore

14. Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

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15. The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

16. Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre

17. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (audiobook) by Holly Black

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18. The Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen

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19. No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay

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20. I Am Morgan Le Fay by Nancy Springer

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21. Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison

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22. Dracula by Bram Stoker

23. A City Girl by Margaret Harkness

24. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

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25. This Connection of Everyone with Lungs by Juliana Spahr

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26. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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27. The Lying Game (The Lying Game #1, audiobook) by Sara Shepard

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28. Never Have I Ever (The Lying Game #2, audiobook) by Sara Shepard

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29. Two Truths and a Lie (The Lying Game #3, audiobook) by Sara Shepard

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30. Hide and Seek (The Lying Game #4, audiobook) by Sara Shepard

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31. Cross My Heart, Hope to Die (The Lying Game #5, audiobook) by Sara Shepard

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32. Seven Minutes in Heaven (The Lying Game #6, audiobook) by Sara Shepard

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If you want to see some full length reviews check out my BLOG, or comment/message me and we can chat 🤓

Now

Now I have one month to myself before I begin working again, so I’m working my way through the unread books on my shelf.

I wrote every book on a piece of paper, folded them up, put them in a mug, and am picking out my next read at random — ok, ok, I may have picked 9 times, but I’ve settled on reading The Lying Game by Ruth Ware now. I’ve heard mixed reviews about it but, oh well! We’ll see how it goes!