Summer Won’t End…and I’m just over it Sometimes even when life is just normal, it can be depressing. You go to work. You come home. You go to work. You get the idea. Right now, life feels hard. I don’t know why. I really wish I knew. I can’t even compare my general malaise with…
It’s the first Sunday in August, and I’m looking back at July feeling unsatisfied with my reading. I read 14 books, but somehow I still felt like I was in a reading slump. Six of those books were ARCs, and three were from the Throne of Glass series. I also spent an entire week finishing…
I started writing on Substack to get better at putting my thoughts on virtual paper. I’ve always loved reading essays, and I wanted to work on letting my humor show in my writing. Plus, who doesn’t want to think of themselves as having a little hobby? Although, in my case, hobbies have a tendency to…
The Sunday Spiral is arriving late because this was a very big week. I’ve been excited about Christina Lauren’s newest book, The Romance Revival, partly because it’s a new Christina Lauren book and partly because I was going to see them in person. Friday night was the big night. My friends and I piled into…
When You Think You Can Read More Than You Can Going into July, I knew I’d accidentally overcommitted. Three books due by July 7th, two by July 14th, and two more by July 21st. I also put off starting any of them until late June. I’m two days from the 14th and still have Make…
Where I rant about what “counts” as reading This week I keep thinking back to some videos I’ve seen lately. Once again the internet has decided it should have opinions about how people read. Reading 100 books a year is just consuming, not reading. Audiobooks don’t count. Romance isn’t real reading. Classics count. Serious books…
In Which Mary Bennet Makes An Appearance The Other Bennet Sister has me in my feelings. Mary Bennet is not the pretty one or the witty one or the one anyone expects anything from. She is awkward and overlooked and doing her best in a world that made up its mind before she finished a…
Shade, sunscreen, and enough books for a three-week trip Some people treat vacation like a military operation. Can they see every possible sight in seven days? Have they maximized the local culture? Have they hiked the thing, toured the thing, and eaten at the place? I treat vacation like I have nothing to do but…
What’s a pillar anyway? I have questions. The internet has jargon. This week I went down an organizing rabbit hole. I was feeling like I didn’t have enough ideas for TikTok and Instagram, so I decided I needed a system. Which is how I discovered I have roughly 2,000 screenshots, 10 notes, and 9 tabs…
Vacation books, sheep redemption arcs, and arguing with AI I’ve been planning for vacation in the next couple of weeks. We typically go to an all-inclusive resort where I get to read all day listening to the ocean. Which means it’s officially time to figure out what books are making the trip. One of my…