In My Life
My senior year of high school started this month. It is going well, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t wish it was still summer. So far, I am enjoying all of my classes, especially AP Art History and ceramics.
On This Blog
I had eleven posts this month. I wish that I had more—honestly I had other post ideas, I just didn’t write them—but adjusting to school took most of my time.
Book Tags:
Top Ten Tuesdays:
- Books I’d Buy This Second If I Had a Fully Loaded Gift Card
- Topics That Will Make Me Not Pick Up a Book
- Books I Have Owned for a While That I Haven’t Read
- Parts of High School I Wish YA Authors Talked About More
In Reading and Reviewing
I have no time to read in class anymore! Last year, a lot of my classes focused on classwork, so I would finish early and have time to read, but that is not the case this year. While I am happy to have less boring classwork, this means that I only read three books this month.
I DNF-ed The Demon King halfway through because I just did not care about the story. Then I read Symptoms of Being Human and started rereading the Gemma Doyle trilogy. I also caught up on some book reviews this month.
- Ruin and Rising (Grisha #3) by Leigh Bardugo — 4/5 stars (review)
- The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson — 5/5 stars (review)
- Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin — 3/5 stars (review)
- A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle #1) by Libba Bray — 4/5 stars (review to come)
- Rebel Angels (Gemma Doyle #2) by Libba Bray — 4/5 stars (review to come)
In Writing
This was a conflicted month for writing. In the week I had before school started, I wrote 10,000 words, bringing my total for my current draft (and my total for how many words I wrote this summer) to 62,000 words. Unfortunately, school started and I literally have not touched my WIP since them. I did publish a poem—Page One—at least.
Right now, all of my writing energy is going toward trying to get my Common Application essay done for college apps. I have written a ton of drafts, none that I like very much, but hopefully everything will come together in September. (And then I get to work on supplemental essays…yay.)
How was your August? If you’re a student, have you gone back to school yet? What are you planning on reading in September?
52 Letters in the Alphabet 
Not even going to lie – I am so impressed that you are taking AP Studio Art AND ceramics. I wish I had the talent to take even one art class lol.
And I am so glad you liked Ruin & Rising and A Great & Terrible Feeling. Thanks for sharing and, as always, fabulous recap! ❤
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Ahhh thanks 🙂 (though I’m taking AP art history not studio art. I am soooo not talented enough for that!)
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Oh Lordy lord, don’t even get me started on how much uni is stealing my life right now. All I want to do is sit down and read like it’s the end of the world, but instead I’m writing essays *srunches nose*. I can’t wait for summer now, only a few more months to go 🎉🎉 and then I’ll be DONE with studying. Isn’t that a glorious thought? Full time reader here I come. August was an okay month for me – I got through 8 books but I really want to develop magically reading abilities and read like 20 books in one month, could you imagine? *sighs* That would be wonderful.
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Omg I want to be one of those magical readers who can read 20+ books a month too! But even on my best school weeks, I can only read one (*maybe* 2) books.
My summer just ended *sobs* Going from being able to read whenever I want (which I DID NOT appreciate enough) to this new schedule of having hmwk/class/college apps every second is killing me. I just want to read! Not to mention I’m in the middle of an 800 page book, so I can’t just finish it quickly to feel accomplished.
Good luck with uni!
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Ugh, I know right? Imagine how many books we could demolish in a year if that were possible 😱
Ah gosh that really sucks! Nothing quite like having time to just read and nothing else. Thanks!
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