Life of a Random

Hello from the Abyss known as the Year 2020! I haven't written on this blog in so long that I don't know if I even remember how to blog properly. This has been such a year filled with awful things...the presidential race, the pandemic, plus the yearly entrances of anxiety and depression and all that low mental health bar stuff...that I wanted to take a minute to focus on something else and talk about books. I wasn't tagged for this so feel free to grab questions from here for your own tag post (this tag was created by Ariel Bissett ).  Are there any books you started this year that you need to finish? / Do you have an autumnal book to help transition into the end of the year?     There are several! The norm for me this year is that if I didn't finish reading a book in 1 or 2 days, I didn't end up finishing it at all. I really want to finish reading Serpent & Dove , Rules for Being a Girl , and Steel Tide . Just because I hate taking things off my Goodreads ...

Tansie  @Totally Tansie tagged me for this ages ago (something like September last year) and I have horrible memory please forgive my forgetfulness. I'm sorryyyyyy. *grins winningly* Anyways, thank you so much girl you da bomb. (This whole post is kind of ironic though as I don't like tea at all. Oh well.) Tea: the foundation of your reading life I would say either the Little House on the Prairie series or Marguerite Henry horse books. I know that I've always loved to read but I can't remember what I read when I was super little. I loved imagining Laura's adventures and constant traveling. And I loved horses. A lot.  Milk: a rich, smooth book I agree that Cruel Beauty was amazing (everybody should read it imo), but another book that I think fits this spot is The Coldest Girl in Coldtown . No... I wouldn't describe it maybe as the smoothest book. But it was rich and the language was beautiful and raw. It wasn't a story about vam...

Soooo this unpopular opinions thing. I have them of course. BUT I do not think that everybody should agree with me or that my opinion is the gospel truth (but you can think that if you want ;) ). THIS IS A FUN THING. And, please, if you want to-- go ahead and write a huge comment disagreeing with me.  Sophia from Ravens and Writing Desks tagged me and according to her this tag originated with TheBookArcher (I'm trusting you, Sophia). Thanks so much for the tag! 1. A popular book or series that you didn't like:     Yup, you saw right. :D I don't like The Hunger Games series.  The weird thing is, the first time I read the books (or the book , the first one) I loved them. I thought they were the greatest thing in the universe. BUT, when I read them the second time... I wasn't so impressed. Especially with the way Katniss was written. Something about it totally didn't work the second time.  I don't even know why this happened. I...

I got tagged two times last month by Lizzie from Lizzie the Sarcastic Blonde . Thanks so much Lizzie! It's been a while since I was tagged. :) You guys should go check out her blog now . I'm gonna be doing both tags in this post to keep it nice and simple. :) book tag 1. Do you have a specific place for reading? Not really... I mean I do have preferred spots though. Like at college I love reading while I'm sitting on my bean bag or at home I like reading flopped across my bed or leaned against a bedroom wall. Call me Classy. 2. Bookmark or random piece of paper? A random piece of paper? Ha, I'm lucky if I can even hold on to one of those. I've used my cellphone multiple times, which resulted in me thinking I lost my phone. *le sigh* I just don't keep track of things very well. 3. Can you just stop anywhere in a book or do you have to finish a chapter? I've never really thought about it, but I guess I can stop anywhere. I'm pretty...