Snapshot 4/10/19

Currently listening: “The Last of the Real Ones”– Fall Out Boy
Currently (finished) reading: We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett Currently (re)reading: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
Currently watching: Friends (Season 3)
Currently playing: Devil May Cry 5

Music is good. Books are good. Friends is surprisingly good. Why didn’t I start this show sooner? (Because you take your sweet time savoring everythinggggggg). I get it all done. Eventually.

If you are looking for a book that is packed to the sheets (are we making up expressions now, really?) with strong female characters who are not afraid to REALLY get things done but who also have the relatability of normal human beings We Rule the Night may be the right call. At times the story did slow and the ending was a bit abrupt (leaving an opening for a sequel?) but the strong feminism ties that are the framework of the book really do make you feel empowered and ready to take on the world. Which is always a nice feeling. Especially since the book is based off the real story of the Night Witches of WW2. So, if you have a need to be in that very specific niche of a mood… I recommend.

I also am re-reading the Grisha trilogy because let’s be real, Leigh Bardugo is writing goals and I just preordered Joan He’s Descendant of the Crane the other day because all I have been hearing is good things. I’m really setting my reading goals high this year. Last year I read 25 books and this year I’m hoping to set a personal best (at the very least 26, SMALL STEPS JAI).

I do have a habit of trying to do to much at once. Though, to my credit, I always follow through (just my sleeping patterns tend to suffer). The thing about habits is that if they are good they are GREAT, and if they are not good then they are most definitely not great. Are you picking up what I’m putting down?

In other news I find I am enjoying blogging. It’s kind of relaxing! Which is good news for any of you who enjoy reading my dribble. Writing the Living Life vignettes helps me too. When I write it just feels like all my feelings have a place to go. Before I just kept them to myself, and that was fine but when you share the stories and you share your experiences I don’t know it really does just make your world feel a bit better. It’s like when a painter paints or an architect builds. The world gives us all these feelings and we need to get them out. And if we show others these feelings and they get it, it makes you feel more understood in return. Do you know what I mean? And you get one heck of a picture or building. Or story. 🙂

Why didn’t I start doing this sooner? (Oh yeah, because I take my sweet time to savor everything. Duh.)