WWW Wednesday

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on  Taking on a World of Words. Every week, you dedicate a post to the three W’s: What are you currently reading? What have you just finished reading? What are you going to read next? 

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2021 Year in Books

Well, it’s been another weird year. Not having lived through a global pandemic before, I had no idea things could go on this long. I haven’t been able to travel much, but did get away Thanksgiving time to Quebec, Canada for a few days. I also finished my student teaching and teaching certification this year, which is really exciting! Currently waiting for my permit student-teacher permit to be converted to my teaching license so I can start working.

As for book news, I’m happy to say I reached my Goodreads challenge this year of reading 60 books!

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WWW Wednesday

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on  Taking on a World of Words. Every week, you dedicate a post to the three W’s: What are you currently reading? What have you just finished reading? What are you going to read next? 

I’m already in the 8th week of my student teaching and only have about a month to go! School is going well and keeping me busy. This weekend for Halloween, some of my friends and I are going to Lunarfaire, a witchy sort of Renassaince Faire in New Jersey for their Halloweekend celebration. I really want to get back to regular blogging again. I love seeing what everyone else is reading!

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Most Anticipated YA Reads of 2021 (September-December)

I’ve been super busy with student teaching, but I’ve been trying to squeeze in some reading in the evenings. So many good books are releasing in the second half of the year! I’m especially excited for Naomi Novik’s sequel to A Deadly Education and C.S. Pacat’s new Dark Rise series. If you haven’t checked it out yet, check out my Most Anticipated YA Reads of 2021 (January-August). What books are you guys most excited about that come out this fall and winter? Here are some of mine…

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WWW Wednesday

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on  Taking on a World of Words. Every week, you dedicate a post to the three W’s: What are you currently reading? What have you just finished reading? What are you going to read next? 

Things are going well here. I did a bunch of shopping in the last week to get ready to go back to school. Our house had some leaks from Hurricane Irma and our basement flooded a tiny bit. The roads were crazy though! Broken down cars and flood water everywhere! We’re supposed to have another flash flood this evening from Hurricane Larry, but I’m hoping it won’t be as bad. I had my first week of student teaching this week! It’s been really fun getting to know all the 6th graders at my school. I’m excited to teach and learn from them.

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Book Review: Under the Whispering Door

I was lucky enough to get an advanced reader copy (ARC) of TJ Klune’s book Under the Whispering Door from NetGalley, so thank you to them! I finished this book in early July, but in typical me fashion, I haven’t gotten around to reviewing it until now. This book will be released on September 21st, so be sure to preorder it.

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WWW Wednesday

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words. Every week, you dedicate a post to the three W’s: What are you currently reading? What have you just finished reading? What are you going to read next? 

I had a wifi-free week last week, visiting Cape Cod with my family. It was nice to get away – one of my first vacations since Covid started. Ate a lot of seafood, went to the beach, read, and relaxed. We came back early on Saturday because of the impending storm on the East Coast. Wasn’t too crazy here though, just two days of rain. Been slowly getting back into things – went to school on Monday and Tuesday to get settled in, but won’t need to go back for student teaching for another week. Today, I’m finally getting around to my laundry from vacation…and catching up on emails. How’s everyone else’s summer been?

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It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR

It’s definitely been a minute since I updated! I thought I’d have more free time come summer, and while that’s true, I underestimated how much I would just want to rest. I worked at my school summer camp last month, which was a blast, but also exhausting. My old car from 2003 also finally gave up, so I was on the hunt to lease something. I finally decided on a white Volkswagen Tiguan and I’ve been really enjoying it so far. Other than that, it’s been a relatively uneventful summer, hanging out with my friends, working on creative outlets, making and jarring jam, and catching up on my Goodreads challenge. How are all of you? What have you been up to this summer?

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Summer 2021 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week’s topic is “Books On My Summer 2021 TBR”.

There are so many good books coming out this summer! My focus hasn’t been the best lately, so I’m not sure how much reading I’ll get through. But here are a couple of books I’m looking forward to…

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A Writer’s Life

Last year was a strange year. I was home from work for several months during the worst of the pandemic and thought I would get a lot of writing and editing done in that time. I definitely picked up some crafty hobbies, like miniature building, and worked a lot on my blog, but my novel felt like…work. Like, I needed to prove I was still a productive citizen of capitalism. And honestly, I think that period of time was a gift in some ways in that it allowed a lot of people to rest and reset. (While simultaneously revealing a lot of devastating structural flaws in our system of government.) At the end of the day, I’m not going to stress myself out over not enough work time put in. I managed to keep my mental health in a relatively good place and that’s really enough for me. I have been trying to put more of an effort into my writing and editing lately and thought I’d share some writerly memes that have made me laugh and kept me sane.

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