May Wrap-Up: Living up to the ol’ username

I’M GOING TO LIVE FOREVER!!!

Translation: I just had the single most insane reading month I have ever had, and sure maybe it was because I’m in the gilded age of being unable to be alone with my thoughts, and yeah perhaps “just” here means more than 3 weeks ago, but beggars can’t be choosers.

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April Wrap-Up: Everything’s coming up apocalypse

The world is so awful right now.

Basic human rights: Being stripped. Really cute Easter-related items like pastel candy and small stuffed animals shaped like chicks: Were on sale but now impossible to find until next spring. The weather: Weird, for existential environmental reasons, probably.

March Wrap-Up: Everything is perfect actually

HELLO EVERYONE. WELCOME. WELCOME TO ALL PROBLEMS BEING GONE, HAPPINESS INCARNATE, A WORLD OF SUNSHINE, OF THE PROVERBIAL AND LITERAL VARIETY.

Folks, in my head and in my heart, it is Summer. Is this true under any other calendar, temperature, scientific methodology, concept of seasons, holiday perception, schoolchild’s belief, or alternate canon?

No.

Happy belated February Wrap-Up to all who celebrate

Enough.

I’m calling it.

Winter needs to end right now, immediately, or possibly yesterday, and if it keeps going I am going to lose my mind and do something drastic, such as giving books non-critical ratings or posting regularly on any of my 1,000 platforms.

The most absurd actions I can think of.

January Wrap-Up, or: do I remember how to write these

I have begun many posts by yelling at myself, and this should be no exception.

I used to write wrap-up posts for EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR, and now it’s 2022 and I spent all of 2021 not posting at all and in 2020 I wrote two wrap-ups to last the whole year.

And I may have been an English major, but even I know that math doesn’t work out.

June Wrap-Up: Books by Black authors

I want to begin this post by calling myself out.

When it comes to reading diversely, I have failed. My privilege has allowed me to read from a homogenous group of authors without noticing, because again and again I find myself, a cis white woman, represented in those pages.

New Year, New Me: January, February & March Wrap-Up

I realize saying “new year, new me” in a post going up in April is more “not really new year, same me with irregular posting times,” but still. Let me have this.

I’m posting twice in one month!! Okay. Well, more like twice in four weeks.

Fine, twice in OVER four weeks. But that’s still frequent for me.

Oops: Wrapping up June, July, August, September, and October because I’m a mess

HERE WE ARE AGAIN.

My fourth-most recent post is a wrap up of FOUR MONTHS. Merely three posts ago!! That’s how recently we did this!!

And yet somehow, enough months have since passed that I have to wrap up five more.

The Ultimate Wrap-up: Let’s talk February, March, April, & May

Well.

It’s been a goddamn while.

And when it’s been a goddamn while (read: FOUR MONTHS)…then we’ve got a goddamn lot to catch up on. So let’s get into it.

January Wrap-Up: In a word, oof

I’M SUFFERING.

I know you may be tempted to be like “Oh, she’s just saying that,” due to the fact that I constantly complain and constantly exaggerate and not a single thing I have ever said can or should be trusted from now until the end of time.

But ignore all that, because I’M SUFFERING.