Snowflakes and Spider Silk

It's been crazy for the last week! I just got home from studying abroad in Switzerland, and then I realized that I had to figure out my life in the next few weeks as I begin my last year of my bachelor's degree... THE FUTURE IS SCARY. In all my confusion and soul searching, I completely forgot about writing posts for my blog. Oops. But I'm back now! And speaking of forgotten things, it's been a while since I updated how my bingo challenge was going (apparently I last updated it in April). To be honest, I forgot that I'd even started such a thing. Better late than never? Here's where I am so far with my bingo challenge: Space Travel: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff I'm always usually the black sheep when it comes to super-hyped books, but I'm really happy to say that I loved this book and it was just as amazing as all the hype made it out to be! I can't wait until it's released and even more people can experience th...

April and its craziness is finally over! I finally have time to breathe and read and write reviews and it's amazing! I'll be looking through a lot more of my fellow book bloggers' posts now too, so if you have any posts you want me to see, hit me up in the comments! I read more in April than in March, but not too many of the books fit the challenge. I've honestly just been reading books I want to read and hoping something fits somewhere on my bingo card. As we get into the second half of the year, I'll probably start actively searching for books to fill my bingo squares. If you want to join in the Bingo challenge at any time, you can find  the original card and instructions here . You can fill out one line to make a bingo, or try and fill out the whole card. This is mainly geared towards Science fiction and Fantasy, but you can use whatever genre you want! Here's my progress for April: 1. Fairy Tale Retelling: The Huntress of Thorn...

March was probably my worst blogging month on record, because I basically fell off the map for over two weeks. This winter quarter was the craziest in terms of life and hard classes, but it's finally over! Here's my update for my bingo challenge. I didn't get to read as much as I wanted to during the month, but I did make some progress. If you want to join in the Bingo challenge at any time, you can find  the original card and instructions here . You can fill out one line to make a bingo, or try and fill out the whole card. This is mainly geared towards Science fiction and Fantasy, but you can use whatever genre you want! Here's my progress for March: 1. dystopia: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi I got this book from Edelweiss, and I was really excited about it because it's by one of my favorite authors. This book is terrifying, not just because it's gritty and brutal and has a fair amount of torture in it, but because of how rea...

February just vanished in a flash. I didn't get much reading done this month because midterms ramped up, but I'm hoping March will be better. If you want to join in the Bingo challenge at any time, you can find  the original card and instructions here . You can fill out one line to make a bingo, or try and fill out the whole card. This is mainly geared towards Science fiction and Fantasy, but you can use whatever genre you want! Here's my progress so far: 1. borrowed from a friend: Before They Were Hanged by Joe Abercrombie I borrowed this back in November, and I finally got around to reading it! I didn't like it quite as much as book 1; I think the novelty of the flawed characters and the dark humor wore off because in this book I wasn't laughing nearly as much. 2. Published in 2015: Firefight by Brandon Sanderson I really enjoyed this book, and I'm looking forward to Calamity, but there was a little something that was missing. I j...

The first month of my year-long bingo challenge is over! I feel like it flew by, but it turns out I read a couple of books that fit my card without even trying :D If you want to join in the Bingo challenge at any time, you can find the original card and instructions here . You can fill out one line to make a bingo, or try and fill out the whole card. This is mainly geared towards Science fiction and Fantasy, but you can use whatever genre you want! Here's my progress so far: 1. 2nd book in a series: Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas *****  I'm glad I stuck with this series because I LOVED THIS BOOK. Full review here ! 2. POC main character: The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer by Laxmi Hariharan *** The author of this book requested that I review it, and it sounded really cool: a pseudo-dystopian society based on the city of Bombay. The main character, Ruby, and in fact all of the characters are Indian or of mixed origin. Look out for my full review of this...

Happy New Year! I can't believe it's 2015 already. Every year seems to go by so fast! My goals for this year: DiverSFFy posts once a month - This is a feature I started last year, but it was so sporadic that I feel like I hardly spotlighted any diverse science fiction and fantasy at all. I'm planning to fix this by posting one feature each month. Monthly summary posts - I've seen a lot of other blogs do monthly recaps, and I think it's a great idea to see what people have been up to. I've been too lazy to do them myself, but hopefully this year changes that Read 100 books! - I've hit just over 100 books during the past two years, so I'd like to keep up that many books for this year Be much better about commenting on other blogs - I loved this summer because I had a lot of time to check out other blogs and leave comments. Whenever I have classes, I'm so swamped with coursework that I don't have as much time as I'd like t...