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The Cost of Change

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What am I even doing? What is my goal? What do I hope to achieve here? Why am I doing this?

Since returning to Literary Weaponry earlier this year, I’ve been struggling, I thought I could tumble back into this world of blogging and social media bookish interaction like no time had passed and I would integrate back in smoothly.

As with so often in life, expectations did not equal reality.

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January Wrap Up

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I feel like I say this every January but it always feels like the longest month of the year. It’s dark, cold, miserable, and we are learning what the new year will bring us. Spoilers, it isn’t looking good. Typically I try to keep my opinions outside anything bookish out of this community but good grief, watching the Fascist Fanta take political office was like experiencing the start of the apocalypse. To be real with you all, I’m a little terrified of what his reign of terror will bring since he was giving Nazi in the first week.

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Favorite Reads of 2024

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In 2024, I had begun to find my joy in reading and getting lost in a lost in another world, again. The last time I had been anything resembling active here on Literary Weaponry was the spring of 2022. If I am being honest with myself, the last time it had brought me joy was a considerable time before that. My life had spiraled into a dark place that I didn’t think there was an escape from. It took a long time to pull myself out and I truly have my wonderful therapist to thank.

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The Return of Literary Weaponry

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The last time I logged into this blog was in April of 2022. I posted about an indefinite hiatus and have never been back. At the time, my life was in a state of complete upheaval and I was so deep into depression that I didn’t think I would ever find the light.

It has taken me three years, but I feel like I am ready to return. The thought of returning to this glorious world and community has been consuming my thoughts more and more. I think it is time. It feels right.

The last few years I found it near impossible to find joy or satisfaction in hobbies or even everyday activities. My wonderful therapist tells me that is part of trauma and the fact that I am finding those joys again is positive and I should embrace it. So here I am. Embracing it.

For many years this blog was a wonderful outlet for my passion of reading and literature. I would look forward to logging in and writing posts, discovering books I wanted to share, and just sharing something I love with like-minded people. It is my hope and my goal to find that again.

So thank you for reading this and returning to this journey with me. I look forward to reconnecting with old friends and making new ones.

Happy reading. 🖤

Books I Don’t Talk About Enough

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I think we all (or at least most of us) have a set or list of books that seem to regularly come up in posts and conversations. We may not mean to, but they have become our go-to selections when prompted for opinions, both positive and negative. This can lead to inadvertently not discussing books we enjoyed because they just aren’t the ones that pop to the forefront of our minds when we are called up for opinions.

Or is this just me?

Either way, I wanted to bring up some titles with you today that I may not talk about often but they very much deserve to be part of the bookish conversation.

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Reflection | Most Anticipated Releases of First Quarter 2022

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Something I have found I enjoy doing is looking back on past TBRs and anticipated lists and taking mental stock of what I thought of those books. Was I right in choosing them? Why did I or did I not enjoy about them? Did I actually read them at all?

I’ve been doing this for myself for a while now and thought I’d share it with you as well! So, today, we are going to look back at my most anticipated list from the first quarter of 2022 and see, first, if I read the books and, secondly, if I enjoyed them.

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