When I was in middle school and the first Hunger Games movie came out, I remember that while everyone else was concerned with the whole Peeta versus Gale stuff, I was more concerned about other things excluded from the film, things that I thought were important. For me, the best part of the book The Hunger Games was the boy from District 10. He was never given a name, but for me, that really characterized all of the worldbuilding that I needed to know about Panem, the nation that would make a boy that could barely walk participate. Yes, it was awful that teenagers had to fight for the death, but the boy from District 10 was the part that really impacted me, as well as all the motifs relating to hunger. The movie left all of that out. Honestly, it didn't make it seem awful that all these teenagers were forced to fight until they all died, much less how hunger motivated them in playing along. I don't know why some things such as my example get excluded from films, like S...

I've decided that blogging at least once a month has to be a success. I just gave up on alphabethon for this month because I was just busy. I read about two and a half books total, which isn't bad but definitely is not what I need for my goodreads goal. I'm twenty four books behind schedule. Oops. For the reverse readathon, which begins in about three hours, I went with library books, because I'm moving five and a half hours away in four weeks and I want to read books that I can't bring with me. I chose the first book of two middle grade series that I loved a few years ago. I want to start back into middle grade because there have been so many amazing science fiction and fantasy MG books that have come out since I stopped reading them. So the first two books in my stack are The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy and The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer, which I also have on audiobook. Boyfriends With Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez I ...

It's finally July 1st (I started writing this at 12:04 AM so...) and that means many things. One of those such things is pretty obvious from the title of this blogpost- alphabethon just started. But July is so much more than that. July also includes: Camp Nanowrimo! Yes, I'm participating in that too, even though July is one of the busiest months of the year for me. I don't expect to do so well on that, but hey, at least I finally got back to this blog. My birthday! Which, does not actually say much. I'm turning 19 in five days and don't want a party, not even for family. I don't even want gifts really. My last fair. The 4H part of my life was a big deal, and it is going to be all over after this month. That's a little depressing. Today is also going to be the third consectuitive day in the 90s. We are supposed to get to at least eight. While this might not seem like that big a deal, I hate the heat and am convinced that I am going to melt. I took a ...

I have had a heck of a hard time trying to work on any of my writing projects in the past few months.. Especially with my initial goal at the beginning of this year, sometimes it is hard to take the small victories.  I wanted to write 40k every month in 2018. I quit writing mid January and didn't pick it back up again until Camp NaNoWriMo in April, where I managed to write almost 15k before I quit again. And I want to make excuses, but at some point, who am I even making them to? I know what happened. I know that school got busy, or that my mom had surgery, or that AP exams started or everything else that happened that I did not write during. I know all of that. So then why do I feel the need to excuse my writing behavior? So, today is the day I am not going to make anymore excuses for my not writing. If it is something that I enjoy, then of course I should try to make time to write. And I want writing to be an important part of my life. The next day that you are behind, or d...

Another TBR for a readathon! Sob-A-Thon runs from Monday, May 21 to Sunday, May 27 with the expressed purpose of reading those books that will make you cry. Coming up with this TBR was fun and hopefully will be successful in bringing those tears. Challenge 1: Read a book you've been putting off because you know it will make you too emotional. I chose The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas for this challenge. I requested the ebook forever ago and though I got the book, I just haven't read it. Not only do I know that I'll cry, but I am also afraid that it will not meet my expectations as the amazing book I am expecting. Seriously though, I know that this will be an emotional read and therefore perfect for this readathon. Challenge 2: Read a book that will make you cry from happiness. I feel like Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton has the best chance as making me cry as anything else. I cry often enough that it is hard to remember, but I think that I ended up cryin...

Within the past year, I have gotten really into readathons so it seems fitting my first blog post is about an upcoming one. Borrow-a-Thon runs from Sunday, May 20 to Sunday, May 27. While this is also the same week as Sob-A-Thon, I am refraining from posting about the latter readathon now, primarily because I don't have my TBR done yet. For some reason, I decided to not overlap books for challenges between the two readathons. Even though all the books I am using are both borrowed and liable to make me cry. But let's get into this Borrow-a-thon TBR: Challenge 1: A book award winner or nominee For this challenge, I decided to read What Girls Are Made Of   by Elana K. Arnold. I stumbled upon this at the library, and while I have only the vaguest idea what it's about, it seems like a bildungsroman novel for women as the main character, Nina, faces life. It also is a National Book Award Finalist and likely one of the first challenges I finish. Challenge 2: A book w...