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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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Last 3 Books | Added to my TBR

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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. 

So, that’s what we are going to do here. Let’s have a chat about the last couple books that I added to my general (not owned) TBR because they caught my attention for one reason or another. Pretty simple, right?

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The TBR Graveyard | Part 1

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So many books, so little time!

We’ve all done it. An upcoming release catches our attention with all the buzz hopping around about it and we add it to our TBR list. There, it languishes for months, sometimes even years, until you’ve all but forgotten about it. It finally gets relocated to your TBR graveyard, never to be heard from again.

Maybe that is a little dramatic but you get my point. These are some of the books that I have nudged into that TBR graveyard recently.

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Books I Read Because of Recommendations

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There are more books in the world than a person could ever read in their lifetime. There are more books even just in one genre than a person could ever conceivably read. Because of this, sadly, we all have to choose what we are going to read and sometimes that means setting some books aside or overlooking them entirely.

However, sometimes a book is so highly recommended, or someone you share bookish tastes with loves a book so much, that a title you would normally not have glanced twice at catches your interest.

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