#ManicMonday #LetterZ

📖 🤷‍♂️
✍️ Markus Zusak
🎥 Zombieland, Zootopia
📺 🤷‍♂️
🎸 🤷‍♂️
🎶 Zombie (Bad Wolves; cover of The Cranberries)

Thanks @CBee for resurrecting this fun game! It was a lot of fun playing this every Monday!

#ManicMonday #LetterY

Thanks for the tag @CBee ! 🙂

📖 🤷‍♂️
✍️ Ed Yong
🎥 Your Name (anime)
📺 🤷‍♂️
🎸 Yours Truly
🎶 Yellowjacket (Spiritbox; feat. Sam Carter), You (Breaking Benjamin), You Don‘t Belong (Daughtry), Your Misery (Palisades)

This should be required reading for biology classes instead of a textbook! This was chock full of interesting things about the human body. He also gives brief backgrounds on people who have contributed greatly to the science and medical fields. I‘m so glad I listened to the audiobook; Bryson was a delight to listen to.

#ManicMonday #LetterX

Thanks for the tag, @CBee !

📖 🤷‍♂️
✍️ 🤷‍♂️
🎥 Ex Machina
📺 🤷‍♂️
🎸 🤷‍♂️
🎶 🤷‍♂️

A tough one this week.

#ManicMonday #LetterW

📖 Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)
✍️ 🤷‍♂️
🎥 Whiplash
📺 The Walking Dead (S1-6), The Witcher
🎸 Wolves at the Gate 🎤 Ben Winwood
🎶 Walk Over My Grave (Yours Truly), What I‘ve Done (Linkin Park), Without You (Palisades), Wonders (Envoi), Wounds (Future Palace)

I‘ve noticed some bugs that have been driving me crazy recently. One, is when you go to like someone‘s post, sometimes the like disappears as if you didn‘t interact with the post in the first place. Second, when you post something, on the rare occasion, the post won‘t appear in the feed for a certain period of time. These are the ones that come to mind, but are there any bugs you‘ve encountered? The app hasn‘t been updated in 3 years.

#WondrousWednesday

1. Linkin Park

2. Baggy jeans??? 🤷‍♂️ (For guys). I honestly can‘t remember any fashion trends for the ladies.

I grew up watching iCarly and was curious what Jennette was up to after her time on the show ended. It was clear that she had a tepid relationship with her family and especially her mom. Things weren‘t all unicorns and rainbows on the set of iCarly either. The creator of the show was a dick to work with. Nickelodeon even tried paying her $300K in hush money if she agreed not to throw the creator under the bus. All of this is to say, Jennette ⬇️

#manicmonday #letterv

📖 🤷‍♂️
✍️ 🤷‍♂️
🎥📺 🤷‍♂️
🎸 🤷‍♂️
🎶 Valentine‘s Day (Linkin Park), Vanish Canvas (Erra; feat. Courtney LaPlante), Vivid Dream (Yours Truly), Vortex (Jinjer)

#manicmonday #letteru

📖 Tagged.
✍️ 🤷‍♂️
🎥 Us (Jordan Peele)
🎸 Unleash the Archers
🎶 Unable to See (Tremonti), Undersize (Yours Truly), Until It Breaks (Linkin Park), Used To (Daughtry)

Books are the best Christmas gift! ❤️📚

Merry Christmas everyone! May your day be filled with books, chocolate, and family! 🎄🎅📚🍫

#Two4Tuesday

1. Yeah, for Christmas Eve. My family and I are going to my aunt and uncle‘s house.

2. Yes, there is already snow on the ground now, and we‘re supposed to get at least 5-6 inches Friday. And if I am outside I‘ll be wearing my boots. 🙄 I slipped and fell in my driveway Thursday night and landed on my left shoulder. I was wearing my shoes, which don‘t have a lot of traction in the snow. I‘m better now, but it‘s still a bit painful.

#ManicMonday #LetterT

📚 Take Your Breath Away (Linwood Barclay; TBR), This Time Tomorrow (Emma Straub; TBR), The Troop (Nick Cutter; TBR)
✍️ Amor Towles (TBR)
🎥 Titanic, Toy Story (1&2)
📺 Timeless, Travelers (Netflix)
🎸 Three Days Grace (Adam Gontier era), Tremonti
🎶 Telomeres (Sleep Token), There and Back Again (Daughtry), Tired of Winning (Nothing More)

Pretty amazing what Tara went through to get where she is today. Tara‘s parents might not have fully supported her educational endeavors, but that wouldn‘t stop her from being accepted to a couple Ivy League schools and even Cambridge! And Julia Whelan is quickly becoming one of my favorite narrators.

4⭐️
12/14/22

#ManicMonday #LetterS

📚 Silent Spring (Rachel Carson), Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson)
✍️ Lisa See (TBR), Diane Setterfield (TBR), Douglas Stewart (TBR)
🎥 Stay (2005), Spider-Man movies, The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Saw movies, Shaun of the Dead, The Sixth Sense, Stand By Me
📺 Servant, The Sinner (S1 & 2)
🎸 Saint Asonia, Silverstein, Skillet, Sleep Token, Spiritbox, Starset
🎶 ⬇️

I‘m glad Quinn told this fictional story of a Russian woman who killed 309 German soldiers during WWII. The narration was excellent and I can‘t wait to listen to more of Quinn‘s work.

#BuddyRead #LiteraryCrew

4.5 ⭐️
12/9/22

🙄🙄 Another one bites the dust…

This is just more of a reason why I wish the LA Public Library was open to out-of-state patrons. Cause lo and behold, they have both the ebook and audiobook.

#ManicMonday #LetterR
Thanks for the tag @CBee !

📚 Robin (Dave Itzkoff), Rogues (Patrick Radden Keefe; TBR)
✍️ Rick Riordan, Taylor Jenkins Reid (TBR), and J.K. Rowling (TBR)
🎥 The Revenant, Room
📺 Rick and Morty
🎸 Red, Royal Blood
🎶 Reaching Hypercritical (Palisades), Riot (Three Days Grace), Rotoscope (Spiritbox), Runaway (Linkin Park), Running Up That Hill (Loveless)

I‘m kind of on the fence with how to feel about this after listening to it. I‘ll be upfront and say I‘m not into true crime, so I only read this because I heard great things about the book and the HBO documentary.
This was a little all over the place in terms of the timeline. I‘m not sure if this was intentional, but I would‘ve preferred a more structured timeline with this one.
It is a shame that Michelle died before the GSK was finally… ⬇️

#ManicMonday #LetterQ

📖 Quiet by Susan Cain (TBR)
✍️ Kate Quinn
🎥 A Quiet Place (1 & 2)
📺 …….
🎸 …….
🎶 Q (The Best One of Our Lives) (Evans Blue)

This was both beautiful and sad. I really felt for Connor as he was being bullied at school and everyone knew that his Mom was undergoing chemo for cancer. It was both this and the fact that he dreams of a monster that comes to his house every night, that no one believed him, so he became reclusive. I love that Connor is able to get revenge against one of the bullies at school and is able to “be seen” by everyone again.

4⭐️
11/23/22

#WondrousWednesday
Thanks for the tag, @Eggs !

1. The Nickel Boys

2. No, but I am subscribed to an audiobook service (Libro.fm).

3. Tagged. It‘s set during winter in Alaska.

#ManicMonday #LetterP

📚 Parkland (TBR), The Pillars of the Earth (TBR), Pet Sematary (TBR)
✍️ Laura Purcell (TBR), Ann Patchett (TBR), Jodi Picoult (TBR)
🎥 Parasite, Prisoners
📺 Prison Break
🎸 Palisades, Parabelle
🎶 Pain (Three Days Grace), Papercut (Linkin Park), Paradise (Future Palace), Pisces (Jinjer)

I was scrolling through my audiobook nonfiction tag on Libby today and noticed that my local library and the New York Public Library are no longer carrying this. Does anyone else‘s library no longer have any copies??

#ManicMonday #LetterO

📖 Our Wives Under the Sea (Julia Armfield) (TBR)
✍️ Delia Owens
🎥 Orphan
📺 Over the Garden Wall (🎶 Oh, potatoes and molasses 🎶😂), Ozark
🎸 Of Mice and Men
🎶 Ocean Planet (Gojira), The Offering (Sleep Token), Over and Over (Three Days Grace)

A low pick for me.

I didn‘t read the synopsis, so I didn‘t know what this was about going in, but after doing some research, it makes me mad that this is what black people suffered through during the Jim Crow Era.

I commend Whitehead for tackling an important topic in American history. But I do have one gripe about this book and the use of the n word. It was a little off putting for me.

2.75 ⭐️
11/12/22

Such a sad and maddening point in American history as 60+ wealthy Native Americans were murdered for the fact that they were producing oil on their land.

The audiobook was a little slow and hard to follow at times. But nonetheless, it was an important listen as this is not taught in history classes, as far as I‘m concerned.

3.5 ⭐️
11/9/22

#ManicMonday #LetterN
Thanks for the tag @CBee !

📚 Night (Elie Wiesel) (TBR), News of the World (Paulette Jiles) (TBR), Nothing to See Here (Kevin Wilson) (TBR)
✍️ Alex North (TBR), Sylvain Neuvel (TBR)
🎥 Nope, Nightcrawler, The Night House
📺 New Amsterdam
🎸 Nothing More
🎶 Neon Grave (Dayseeker), Nothing to Hide (Caskets), Numb (Linkin Park)

#ManicMonday #LetterM
Thanks for the tag, @CBee

📚 Migrations (TBR), Madhouse at the End of the Earth (TBR), Mexican Gothic (TBR)
✍️ Jennifer McMahon (TBR), Ottessa Moshfegh (TBR), Charlotte McConaghy (TBR)
🎥 My Neighbor Totoro, Moonlight, Monster, Inc., Minari, Matilda
📺 Mr. Robot, Monsters Inside Me, Mystery Diagnosis, The Mandalorian
🎸 Motionless in White
⬇️

#WondrousWednesday
Thanks for the tag, @Eggs !

1. Back in the good ‘ole days of renting movies from the video store, my parents rented the remake of The Amityville Horror (the one with Ryan Reynolds) and it scared the living daylights out of me.

2. I don‘t have one yet, unfortunately.

3. Since my work shirt is orange, I‘ll say orange.

#ManicMonday #LetterL

📚 Tagged, Lawn Boy (TBR), Leonardo Da Vinci (TBR)
✍️ Erik Larson (TBR)
🎥 The Lighthouse, La La Land, The Lion King (animated) 📺 Lost, Loki
🎸 Lacey Sturm, Linkin Park, Loathe, Lorna Shore, Lost in Separation, Loveless
🎶 Leave Out All the Rest (Linkin Park), Life After You (Daughtry), Locked (Future Palace)

#manicmonday #LetterJ

📖 Jurassic Park
✍️ Lisa Jewell (TBR)
🎥 Joker (2019), Justice League (the long one), Jumanji
🎸 Jinjer
🎶 Jenny (Nothing More), Just Like Heroin (Grey Daze), just like I do (Loveless)

I can‘t continue with this, unfortunately. I‘m just not motivated to pick this up. I guess SK will be a hit or miss author for me, as other people have pointed out. I regret preordering this now.

I think I need to come to the realization that this type of fantasy just isn‘t for me. Or rather, GRRM isn‘t for me. My brain was on auto pilot trying to finish this. There are just too many characters and houses to keep track of that it all becomes headache-inducing.

1.5 ⭐️
10/7/22

#manicmonday #LetterI
Thanks for the tag @CBee !

📚 Tagged, I Am the Messenger, Intensity (TBR), I‘ll Be Gone in the Dark (TBR)
✍️ 🤷‍♂️
🎥 Interstellar, Inception, IT (2017)
🎸 I Prevail and Ice Nine Kills
🎶 I Hate Everything About You (Three Days Grace), I Miss the Misery (Halestorm), In the End (Linkin Park), It‘s Not Over (Daughtry)

#manicmonday #letterH

📚 The Hot Zone, Home, The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy
✍️ Jane Harper, Harlan Coben, Thomas Harris (TBR)
🎥 Hereditary, Hunter Hunter, Harry Potter movies, Halloween (1978) 📺 House of the Dragon, House M.D., The Haunting of Hill House
🎸 Halestorm and Hands Like Houses
🎶 Half of Me (Yours Truly), Have Faith in Me (A Day To Remember), Hypnosis (Sleep Token), Hysteria (Spiritbox)

#ManicMonday #LetterG

Books: Tagged, The Great Alone, Gideon the Ninth (TBR), The Girl With All the Gifts (TBR)
Author: Gillian Flynn and Grady Hendrix
Movie/TV Show: 🎥 Get Out, Good Will Hunting, Guardians of the Galaxy. 📺 The Good Doctor, Game of Thrones.
Band: Gojira, Good Tiger.
Song: Get Out Alive (Three Days Grace), Ghost (Lauren Babic), The Gift of Guilt (Gojira), Grip Shoes (Good Tiger)

😑😑😑 I should‘ve bailed. This was a book that I wanted to go in completely blind and I guess that wouldn‘t have helped regardless. The multiple timelines and characters were all too much for my brain to handle. This is a book you‘ll love or you‘ll hate. For me, it was the latter.

2⭐️
9/17/22

#LittensWantToKnow
Thanks for the tag @EadieB 😊

The tagged book
The Last House on Needless Street (Catriona Ward)
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Douglas Preston)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Mark Haddon)

I‘m not really understanding what is going on in this, but I‘m going to finish this because the narration is really good. I hope his previous book is easier to follow.

I also can‘t believe there is a character named Omicron. 😳🤦‍♂️ Others will make sure to stay FAR away from you with a name like that. 😆

📕 Tagged (TBR), Five Days at Memorial (TBR), The First Day of Spring (TBR)
✍️ Gillian Flynn and Ken Follet (TBR)
🎥 Fight Club, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Finding Nemo
🎸 Flyleaf and Future Palace
🎵 Faint (Linkin Park), Fall for Me (Sleep Token), Feels Like Tonight (Daughtry), Fully Alive (Flyleaf)

#manicmonday
@CBee

OF COURSE it has to go on sale after I just paid full price for it last week. 🤦‍♂️😒

#shouldhavewaited #whyyoudodistome

Right now, I‘m listening to Cloud Cuckoo Land. It‘s historical fiction and I think it‘s alright.

#currentlyreading
#littenswanttoknow

#ThoughtfulThursday

Thanks for the tag @MoonWitch94 ! 😊

✨ I‘m not sure if May counts as summer, so I chose a book that I finished in June and loved.

✨ I‘m SO READY for Fall to arrive! I‘ve had enough of the hot weather. Fall is my favorite season! 🍂🍁🎃

✨ The picture is of Mirror Lake on Whiteface Mountain.

Today‘s National Buy a Book Day!!! 📕

To celebrate, I bought A Psalm for the Wild-Built and I‘m Glad My Mom Died.

#buyabookday

After reading other people‘s reviews of this and reflecting back on the story, I‘m now disappointed that this wasn‘t as good as it could‘ve been. In the beginning, I was totally invested in the “monster in the woods” part of the story, but as it went along, all we got were: Mattie‘s internal dialogue; an abusive father trying to make his daughter his wife; William (the father) trying to protect Mattie; Mattie coming across some strangers, who ⬇️

🖍 Adult Coloring, 🎮 Video Games, 🎥📺 Movies and TV shows, 🎵 Music, ▶️ YouTube.

#LittensWantToKnow

#ManicMonday
#LetterE

📘 Tagged, Everything I Never Told You, Educated (TBR)
✍️ Ed Yong, Erik Larson (TBR author) Emma Straub (TBR author)
🎥 Ex Machina, E.T. , Enemy, Edge of Tomorrow
📺 Everybody Hates Chris
🎸 Envoi
🎵 Easier to Run (Linkin Park), Eternal Blue (Spiritbox), Evil Angel (Breaking Benjamin)

I find that if I‘m not vibing with a book, I‘ll DNF it. You only live once, so you might as well read better books.

#LittensWantToKnow