Goings-On

November was once again, not the best for blogging. I did end up reading a good amount though, and giving some love to my other hobbies.

Up until the 17th I frantically trying to finish my Hugo reads and get my votes in, and that organized chaos kinda tired me out.

In sewing, I’ve been working on a petticoat (that’s been on pause for 2 weeks since I managed to slightly dislocate my hip by sitting crosslegged for too long):

Oh and I’m really happy with how painting my own nails is going, I’m using acrylic paints and semi-permanent not-gels, and doing patterns that can grow out for a couple of weeks without it being super obvious:

I’ve been playing lots of Terraria with my bf, and also some Mario Marty and Mario’s 3D world, our Terraria house looks really cute, but we’re moving out of it to a new world soon. I’ve played some Gris and Far Lone Sail, which I go on the Steam sale and are lovely, but I haven’t finished them yet.

And we took a little weekend trip, to a nearby medieval castle and old Dacian ruins, also stumbled upon a great miniature train musem.

Castelul Corvinilor:

Train museum:

Sarmizegetusa Regia:

I’ve also been watching a lot of TV, loved Arcane, enjoying Wheel of Time and making my way through the Netflix Christmas Universe, I’ve seen the 3 Princess Switch Movies, A Castle for Christmas and currently on A Prince for Christmas.

Books read

• Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead, – great anthology, hopeful distopyan, klinda
• The Undertakers (Murder & Magic #2) by Nicole Glover, – great sequel, I love these two characters so much
• Catch Lili Too by Sophie Whittemore, – UF with found family
• Black Water Sister by Zen Cho, – loved it, the setting in Malasya was so good
• The Hidden City (The House War, #1) by Michelle West, – officially best street urchin/shady mentor combo
• Monstress, Vol. 5: Warchild by Marjorie M. Liu, – solid entry in the series, but I’m struggling to keep the story straight
• Thorn (Dauntless Path #1) by Intisar Khanani, – good fairytale retelling, loved the main character
• The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, – excellent debut
• Die, Vol. 2: Split the Party by Kieron Gillen, – good follow up, really interesting graphic novels
• The Labyrinth’s Archivist by Day Al-Mohamed, – huge library + mystery + great disability rep
• The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones, – umm… cosy horror? loved it
• Familiars and Foes by Helen Vivienne Fletcher, – cosy mystery with great service dogs
• Ghost-Spider, Vol. 1: Dog Days Are Over by Seanan McGuire – meh
• Currently reading:  
•  Darkly: Blackness and America’s Gothic Soul by Leila Taylor
• Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

Blog Posts

• 28 Young Adult and Middle Grade Books: Gift Buying Guide Based on my Favorites
• Top Ten Tuesday: 10 love stories in SciFi and Fantasy
• The Wheel of Time Turns … a little too quickly – spoilery thoughts for WoT episodes 1-3
• The Wheel of Time Ep 4 – This is now a Nynaeve stan account
• Mage Errant by John Bierce – Series Review – Spoiler Screaming Hidden
• The Sunday post, Stacking the Shelves and Sewing a Petticoat
• Sordaneon by L.L. Stephens – Can’t Wait Wednesday – Excerpt

I’m linking up with The Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up, hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight. I’m also linking up with The Sunday Post, hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. and The Sunday Salon, hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz