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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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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I’m not going to sit here and pretend that March was a magical month. We’ve watched the war in Ukraine escalate as lives are lost, we’ve seen yet another wave of COVID virus mutation make its way through our populations, watched inflation absolutely cripple those already struggling monetarily, and we are all out here just doing our best to not come apart at the seams.
I think my overall feelings are reflected in my reading for the month. I didn’t find joy in much that I read and a lot of my reading just felt like going through the motions. Not every month can be a winner.
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As a person who loves to talk about books, I spend I great deal of time discussing what I’m reading in the moment, what I just finished, or what I plan on picking up next. Rarely do I just have a chat about recent books that simply caught my eye.
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Sometimes, I just want to do a good book tag. Often, it is when I’m in the midst of a bit of a reading slump but never mind that. I stumbled across this post over at Books Are 42 and how can I deny talking about books AND cats?
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WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words and was formerly hosted by A Daily Rhythm. It is open for anyone to participate, even without a blog you can comment on Sam’s post with your own answers. It is a great way to share what you’ve been reading! All you have to do is answer three questions and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
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Something I’ve been looking at lately is the books on my TBR. I started doing a massive TBR purge at the beginning of 2022 because, honestly, enough time had passed since I had put many of the books on my Goodreads TBR that my interest in them had wained and it was time to free up some space. Yes, I know, there isn’t a limit to how many books you had add to your to-read shelf on Goodreads but if that number gets too big it makes me have a little internal panic. Easier on my brain to just tidy up.
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If you’ve followed me for a while here at Literary Weaponry, you would know that I am absolutely not much of a TBR person. I am a mood reader extraordinaire! However (there is always a however), being a mood reader means that sometimes the books I am most anticipating reading sit languishing on my shelf for months, or sometimes even years.
Continue readingWWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words and was formerly hosted by A Daily Rhythm. It is open for anyone to participate, even without a blog you can comment on Sam’s post with your own answers. It is a great way to share what you’ve been reading! All you have to do is answer three questions and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
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Title: The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling
Published: October 5, 2021
Genre(s): adult, historical, gothic, horror
Read as: hardback, owned
Rating: 3
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