Thank you again to Sam @ Taking on a World of Words for hosting this weekly meme. I’m pretty sure you all know the drill by now, but in case you don’t and you want to join, here are the three questions we always answer:

1. What are you currently reading?
2. What did you recently finish reading?
3. What do you think you will read next?

First… before I go into anything today, I just wanted to wish my mom a very special Happy Birthday! I miss her so much and wish I was going to be able to see her and celebrate her day with her but that won’t happen this year. Hopefully I’ll be able to see her later this year when she takes my sibling and grandma on a trip to Hawaii. That would be so amazing! Especially because I also haven’t seen my grandma since I left Guam either. I miss all three of them, so what an awesome present that would be.

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There she is!! So beautiful.

Okay back to the post at hand.

• A Reaper at the Gates – Sabaa Tahir***
• Last of the Talons – Sophie Kim
• When Happily Ever After Fails – Courtney Deane
• The Poppy War – R. F. Kuang
• Mysteries of Thorn Manor – Margaret Rogerson

I’m slowly getting through my books as best as I can. With all of my furniture out of my house and me living on a futon for the next two weeks, I’ve been having a rough time sleeping. I also now have to try to do as much of my work outside of my house because sitting with a scrunched up back for hours on end is not good on me. Plus sometimes I just need to get out of the house and be able to be comfortable while I talk with consumers and my staff. Like today though, I am able to be at one of my meetings at the library but my other one needs to be done at home because the library is closed by then.

Everything I’m reading, though, has been enjoyable. Yes, I am rereading The Poppy War AGAIN lol. I think when I was looking at my Goodreads data, I read this book four times so far? I don’t think nearly as many times as I’ve read The Bone Witch but still a high contender. Now, I have to finish the trilogy like I said I would last year. Everything else is a first time read for me.

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories – Julia Alvarez
• Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng

I somehow snuck in Little Fires Everywhere into my reading this past week and whoa. I don’t know what I was expecting but it was certainly good. There were a lot of moments where I was just like… wow. It made me think about different situations that I’ve either seen in movies/ tv shows or in the news and made me question whether I would have had the same reaction as one set of characters over the others, or what I would even do if I was in that situation. I don’t know how I was expecting it to end either, but I felt like it was pretty open-ended and it worked out that way. I can’t wait to sit with my thoughts and write my review at some point.

I don’t know when that will happen but hopefully soon before I forget everything.

• Fake Dates and Mooncakes – Sher Lee
• No Filter and Other Lies – Crystal Maldonado
• Love, Decoded – Jennifer Yen
• [REDACTED WEDNESDAY BOOKS BOOK]
• Endless list of ARCs received here…

Because there’s so many backlisted that I need to get through and the ones that have been coming in recently. I decided that I was going to take all of them on the plane with me, and even though I won’t be able to read all of them in one flight, I’ll at least get to pick which one I want to start. And maybe work my way through a few when I need a break from one of them. I think it’s going to work out just fine. Although my carry-on is going to be heavy as all heck with all those books, I don’t care. I’m also making sure I bring my laptop so I can try to get some work done. I’m also debating on if I should get myself another Chromebook since I think the movers packed mine. So maybe I can pack my laptop in my luggage? I don’t know. Just because now it’s getting pretty bulky with all of the books now. Not a terrible problem to have but it’s okay.

I hope everyone is having a good week! I can’t believe I’m going to be out of here in two weeks! Time is now going by so quickly that I feel like I’m not going to be able to get everything done. As long as I’m able to get the dogs on the plane and ship the truck out, those are the top important tasks right now.

But I’m also so stressed and I’m just trying to make sure I don’t freak out. I got this, but I’ll allow myself to feel my feelings in the meantime.