On destressing during these difficult times

me not knowing what to do with my life right now. lmao.

Hello,

Just a little update.

I've been feeling quite burnt out lately. The general state of the world finally caught up on me. The recent typhoon in my country, the Philippines, really breaks my heart. The aftermath is terrifying and what's even more worrying is the fact that COVID is still around the corner. Please see tweet below if you're interested to help 👇👇👇

❗️ DONATION DRIVES THAT ACCEPT PAYPAL FOR INTERNATIONAL DONATIONS ❗️

thread for those who want to donate but does not live in the philippines.

— cee 🧚🏼‍♀️ (@akaashi4ever) November 14, 2020

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER WRAPUP (aka the month of going back to work)

Hi,

I mentioned early in October that I went back to work. I think I got the hang of it although I still wake up a bit late and start actual work late in the morning. That's just how things when you also sleep at 2-3AM almost everyday 😅

September was a terrible reading month for me but I was able to bounce back in October. The Bromance Book Club then following it up with The Brave New World gave me a massive book hangover to slump but The Couple Next Door brought me out of that slump then things just fell into place which is all good.

This month, Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon also happened and I participated on that. I took a reading vlog and my lazy self just can't be bothered to edit that video. lmao. I also buddy read The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle with my book best friend. I enjoyed it (rtc) and we still haven't done our final book discussion because he got a bit sick these past couple of days and it's not good. 

* I don't know why I included Where'd You Go Bernadette in the photo. That's for November wrap up since I technically finished it in November 😅 and I also failed to add Brave New World which is the only physical book I read in September.

books read

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | Sorry I Missed You by Suzy Krause | The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena | Nine Elms (Kate Marshall #1) by Robert Bryndza | Unwind (Unwind Dystology #1) by Neal Shusterman | The Secret Language of Sisters by Luanne Rice | Number the Stars by Lois Lowry | The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

9 Unread Readathon Books

Hi,

I've been bad at following my TBR recently. Not surprising but I'm still reading a good amount, at least after my reading slump a month back. From last month's TBR though, I probably only got through one of them. I tried reading a couple more from that list, The Mapmaker's Daughter and The Madwoman Upstairs but I wasn't in the mood for them. I got through probably 5 pages or so and I wasn't feeling it so I dropped them for now.

This time around, I looked through some of the earliest reading challenges I joined and picked out the books on those TBR list that I never got around to reading. Time to clean old TBR lists!! All of these came from the following reading challenges: Take Control of Your TBR Pile Challenge 2017, #breakyourTBRapart Round 2 2018, and 2019 Catastrophe Read-A-Thon TBR.

[REVIEW] Unwind

title: Unwind (Unwind Dystology #1)

author: Neal Shusterman
genre: young adult, science fiction, dystopia
published: June 2nd 2009 by Simon & Schuster BfYR (first published November 6th 2007)
my copy: paperback, 335 pages
purchase: Amazon | B&N | Book Depository
rating: 5 / 5 stars
goodreads

Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives. 

The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.

loved it then. still love it now.

This is a reread. (w o w. I've been rereading so much this year it's w i l d).

BOOKS FROM THE BACKLOG #15

i did a thing. i did an edit. i tried placing ebook covers to my photos to show my ebook backlogs. lmao.

Hi,

Books from the Backlog is a weekly feature hosted by Carole @ Carole's Random Life in Books.

[WEEKEND READS] where I participated in Dewey's #readathon and did a bit of Kindle cleaning

Hi,

So Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon happened and while work kind of interrupted the end of my readathon, I still think it was a success. I read almost the entire half of the readathon duration. And I finished 1 book then I cheated and did an extended readathon because, as I said, work interrupted me. I finished 1 more book then caught up with my buddy read book.

So all in all, I got through a total of 421 pages. I juggled among 4 books and ultimately finishing 2 of them. 1 of those I didn't finish is an ebook and I'm still far from finishing that one and the other 1 is my buddy read book which I had to stop because we still need to discuss that. BUT as I said last week, I did take videos of me reading so I'll have my actual wrapup for that probably next weekend of something. idk since I'm actually not a fan of video editing. lmao.

I'm Joining Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon!!!

Hi,

I am once again trying the 24-hour readathon. lmao.

I did an impromptu 24-hour readathon before and I enjoyed it. I got through a good amount of books and I was also impressed at myself for doing it. This time around, I'm joining the Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon (as long as things go according to plan because I heard my older sister will drop by probably on Sunday which will be most of the duration of the readathon for me) and I will try to take videos and do a "reading vlog" however that's supposed to go.