I wanted to keep up with posting on this blog weekly, but I just haven't.  I don't have anything interesting to say because nothing interesting is going on.  I'm just a sad sack most days, lol.  I try to manage the best I can, and I think I'm doing... okay.  Average at best, but you know.  Staying mostly afloat.  It's hard though.  I just feel like a failure every day.  I want it all to end, really.  But you know.  Doing the best I can.

so reading...

Today I finished my 12 meses, 12 libros book for April, and I'm currently writing my post about it.  However I'm going to save it and not post it today... I still have to finish and write up my March book, and I don't want them posted out of order (even though they got finished out of order lol).

February-March Book Log

 More books!  I'm trying to read more #literature this year, but I will still always love kids' books and comics.  Let me know if you want to hear more about any of these titles.

Sundiata: The Lion King of Mali by David Wisniewski
Dog Man and Cat Kid by Dav Pilkey
Dinosaur Empire! (Earth Before Us #1) by Abby Howard
Pride and Prejudice (Marvel Classics graphic novel)
Star Wars ABC-3PO by Calliope Glass and Caitlin Kennedy
Marvel's Black Panther Prelude
Star Wars Adventures Vol. 1
Captain Phasma graphic novel
Nancy Drew / The Hardy Boys: The Big Lie graphic novel
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Lady Killer 2
Papa's Mark by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
Mr. Goat's Valentine by Eve Bunting
Cowboy and Octopus by Jon Scieszka
Barbie Millicent Roberts: An Original
Lest We Forget: The Passive from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation by Velma Maia Thomas
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
JB's Harmonica by John Sebastian
Jinx and the Doom Fight Crime! by Lisa Mantchev
Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne
Ash by Malinda Lo
Black Panther: The Young Prince by Ronald L. Smith
A Beatrix Potter Treasury
The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit by Emma Thompson
Cinderella by Paul Galdone
Dinosaur Hunter by Elaine Marie Alphin
Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo
Korean Cinderella by Shirley Climo
Horses by Seymour Simon

Ugh

Due to depression and life stress, I didn't finish reading my March book for the 12 meses, 12 libros challenge.  I do plan to finish it and do a write up on it, but it'll be late (obviously, since we're already in April lol).  But I did actually read more than one book in March, so I'm still technically not breaking any rules or anything.  Just late.  April is kinda cool since the theme is just a borrowed book, and most of what I've been reading lately is borrowed from the library, so I've got lots of options.  I think I do know which book I'll do.

this year is going by way faster than the last one did

12 meses, 12 libros: February: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

The challenge for February was a friend's favorite book.  I was recommended the book Good Omens, and I was excited to check it out since I've heard good things!  (Btw, I recommended the same friend read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, and she'll have a post about it on her website!)

I had been wanting to read this for a while but never really gotten around to it, but the beauty of a challenge like this is that you get around to reading things you've been meaning to or wanting to (or needing to)!  I really enjoyed it.  It's funny, got supernatural excitement, and more British-isms than you can shake a stick at.  I did find myself getting more and more invested as the story went on... it took me ages, for example, to read the first hundred pages, but the last hundred pages I took down really quickly.  There are a lot of characters to follow, which can be fun, but if you do like I did and take a break while reading it, you may have to refresh yourself a bit on who some of them are lol.

I began reading this on February 13th, and (after taking a break for at least a week because of Reasons), I finished juuuuust on time on the 28th.

Bottom line, would I recommend this book?  Yes.

a woman of pinpointed interests

I've realized that all my social media accounts have been focused a lot on Black Panther (which was amazing, go see it if you haven't yet) and gun control (which I believe in).  So here I am, lol.  I don't give a shit about your right to bear arms, but I do give a shit about compelling story telling starring an almost all black cast of well rounded characters.  And I love superheros, most of whom hate guns.