Hi hello and welcome to the Kpop Book Tag: The Comeback! I figure since (almost) every kpop group gets a comeback, why not the kpop inspired book tag? In this second version, I've included some newer songs and maybe even some hidden gems that not everyone may listen to very often. I also made another playlist with all of the songs included in this tag and linked the songs in the titles of each prompt in case anyone is interested in listening to the songs that inspired this tag!

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1. Red Velvet- Psycho
A character that drives you absolutely crazy (in a good or bad way!)

 

For this, I'm going with Cardan from The Cruel Prince by Holly Black. He's so good at being, well, cruel but he also has a sweet-ish side to him and it really just drives me insane when I'm reading anything about him. Although, the ending of The Queen of Nothing had me in tears and honestly nothing will make me stop loving Cardan ever.

2. Wengie ft. Minnie of (G)I-DLE- Empire

An author duo you weren't expecting to love but can't get enough of

Hi hello and welcome to my 2019 wrap-up! 2019 was quite a year for me, in my personal life and my reading life, so I wasn't as active here on my blog as I wanted to be. But I surpassed my reading goal of 24 books, accidentally discovered a new genre that I fell in love with, had my first buddy read, and so much more! I got these questions from BooksandLala and I figured they would be a great way to wrap up my reading year and share it with everyone. Let's get started with my bookish wrap-up of 2019!
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1. How many books did you read this year?

According to Goodreads, I read 43 books which is almost double my initial goal of 24 books. I'm so incredibly proud of myself for reading so much this year! I was reading fairly slow for most of the year, but I really picked up with my reading in December when I picked up a book and just could not put it down until I finished the entire series.

2. Most read genre?

I believe my most read genre was Reverse Harem! This is a genre that I discovered by accident at the start of the year but have just fallen absolutely in love with. So much so that I read 18 books in the RH genre in 2019. And if you were curious, the Haret Chronicles series by Laurel Chase is my all-time favorite RH series! I never thought that this would be a genre that I'd be interested in because I've never been a fan of romance books in general, but there's just something about it that I love reading. I read three RH series this year (Power of Five by Alex Lidell, Her Elemental Dragons by Elizabeth Briggs, and Haret Chronicles by Laurel Chase) and I started a fourth (To Tame a Shifter by A.K. Koonce) and I'm so excited to read all of the new ones that I've discovered in 2020!

3. What was your favorite book of the year?

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. This was my first buddy read ever and I had the best time reading with my group chat! Shoutout to all of those wonderful humans and our shenanigans while reading this book #evanescenceforthesoundtrack #bringmetolife #darlingtondeservedbetter. I loved the book, of course, but I think that reading it with a group and getting to read everyone's reactions as we all progressed throughout the book just made it so much better. 

4. What was your least favorite book of the year?

A Court of Blood and Void by Meg Xumei X. I started this right after I finished another RH trilogy that I really enjoyed and I was looking for another RH series to start. Unfortunately, this one just did not do it for me. The writing was alright, but the main character was incredibly immature and crass. I just didn't enjoy reading from her perspective and while I do think that it has the potential to be a decent read, I don't think I will be continuing with the series.

5. Most disappointing book of the year?
See above answer, because that was definitely the most disappointing book that I read in 2019, unfortunately.

6. Longest and shortest books

Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff was my longest book at 659 pages and Warm Up by V.E. Schwab was the shortest at 15 pages!

7. Biggest accomplishment

Finally starting the Shades of Magic trilogy! Vicious is my favorite book of all-time and V.E. Schwab is my favorite author so it only made sense that I finally start this series. I absolutely devoured A Darker Shade of Magic and am about halfway through the sequel, A Gathering of Shadows. I'm just so proud of myself for finally starting this series in 2019 and I can't wait to finish it in 2020!

8. Favorite characters

Hands down, the characters in the Haret Chronicles by Laurel Chase. I flew through this series in 13 days and I loved all of the books and the main characters! If you were wondering, Piece of Vampire (book 6) is my favorite and the one I was dying to get to the most for reasons.

9. A book that made you cry

It's a tie between Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid and Heroine by Mindy McGinnis. Maybe in Another Life was my first experience with TJR and it utterly destroyed me. I laughed, I cried...okay I mostly cried. It was so beautiful and I loved it so much despite it making me bawl my eyes out. It was more so "Oh my god this book is beautiful" crying combined with "Oh wow this is hitting me hard" crying. But it was amazing and I highly recommend it. With Heroine, it made me cry for some seriously personal reasons that I don't necessarily want to get into. I actually never ended up rating this book because by the end I was just so...numb and couldn't process my thoughts on it. But it was an incredibly intense book and I would only recommend it if you feel like you're in a good headspace to read something heavy.

10. A book that made you laugh

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff! I had heard so many good things about this book before I finally picked it up in 2019 and oh my god I am so glad I did. I loved Kady and her sass, and Ezra and his cheesiness, and if you don't stan AIDAN then what are you doing with your life. We love murderous emotional robots around here. I should also include the sequel Gemina because that one had me dying laughing as well. I was so impressed by the formatting of these books and found that I adapted to it very quickly and had no issues following the story, thankfully! Now I just need to read Obsido and honestly, I'm not sure I'm prepared for the ending.

11. A book that you think is underhyped

Comeback by Lyn Ashwood and Rachel Rose. It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of kpop (wait did I already say that?) so it should be no surprise that I loved Comeback. But I definitely haven't seen enough people talking about this book! You've got kpop, a cute as heck romance, kpop group friendship and growth as a team, the main characters working through emotional trauma and growing as people. Like, seriously, this book is incredible! If you're a kpop fan, I highly recommend reading Comeback and keeping an eye out for another book by this amazing author duo!

12. An author you discovered this year that you fell in love with

It might be obvious but...Laurel Chase. Hilariously, while adding the tags for this post, I realized I did a post in 2018 for Piece of Shifter and just...forgot. I blame chemo brain on this one, y'all. But I'm so happy to have "officially" discovered Laurel Chase and the Haret Chronicles and one of my new favorite series in 2019!
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 And that's it for my wrap up of 2019/first post of 2020! I've officially been blogging for 6 years now and I'm so grateful to everyone who has supported me over the years. I'm ready for a new year of blogging and I can't wait to share what I have in store! Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you in the next chapter.

Hi hello and welcome to day 19 of Blogtober 2019! If you don't know what Blogtober is or are curious as to what I'll be posting throughout the month, feel free to check out my Preparing for Blogtober 2019 post to find out what it's all about! Today, I'll be showing you guys a flip through of my October bullet journal spread. I typically follow Amanda Rach Lee's monthly spreads but try to put some of my own ideas in there. Be sure to go and check out her video where she does her October 2019 spread because it's a lot better than my disaster of a spread. Let's get spooky!
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The beginning of my October spread has two pages, which isn't common for me to do but I just couldn't resist when Amanda did her design for this month. Not only is this entire spread in black and white, but I also got some black paper from Hobby Lobby to do the black spreads that Amanda does! So on the left is a quote from Moonchild by RM, who is a member of the kpop group BTS. It's done completely with a Gelly Roll 10 white pen and I love how pretty it ended up being! And on the right is the opening page with the month name and the phases of the moon. I will say I didn't realize that the phases were incorrect until Amanda herself pointed it out in a video recently so yes, I messed up the phases of the moon and no, I don't care enough to fix it. There are also some pretty dots and small stars that are surrounding the moon phases and I am just super proud of how this turned out. It was a difficult page for me to do as I am not artistic but I am a perfectionist with my journal so me being super happy with it is a big deal!

My first spread is my calendar spread! This is probably my favorite style of calendar that I've done in my journal because it takes up a decent amount of the page and still looks neat and compact. I basically just use this to track things like doctor appointments, book releases, things to do with readathons, important things for Sora, and holidays/birthdays. At the top on the right of the spread is October with some moon phases and stars and at the bottom, across both pages, it says "stay wild moon child" with more stars and dots and a filled-in moon with some white stars and dots. 

The next two pages are my habit tracker and my mood/pain tracker. I have some simple tasks that I like to track (but I'm not always good at completing these tasks as you can see) and below that I plan to put a "Books Read in October" section where I'll track the books and their ratings from the month of October. On the right side is my mood and pain tracker set up to be the phases of the moon from this month. I'm a recovering cancer patient and I feel it's important to track my pain levels from day to day to see if I'm improving at all. I usually have more than 3 colors to track my mood and pain levels but I wanted to keep with the black and white theme, although I did add in some light and dark grey to help me track these things. At the bottom of the habit tracker, I have the start of a quote from A Court of Thorns and Roses that says "To the stars who listen" and on the top of the right page the quote is finished with "and the dreams that are answered" and I really liked how this fit in with the moon and stars theme this month. And no, I still haven't read that series don't @ me.

My final "spread" is my October TBR on the left page with the phases of the moon at the top of the page. I don't actually plan to read every book on this list but these are all of the ones that I would like to try and read during the spooky month. I'm currently reading Ninth House and plan to start Gideon the Ninth as well even though I'm in the middle of doing Spookathon and neither of those are on my TBR. Oops. But on the right side is another black paper insert with my book line poem from a previous Blogtober post where I did book line poetry!



And the final page of my October bullet journal is a quote page where I plan to put all of the quotes that I like from the books that I read throughout the month. So far, this is one of my favorite ones from Ninth House! Hopefully I have many more quotes to add to this page before the month is over.
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And that's it for my October bullet journal spread! I've never shared my bullet journal before because I'm very new to doing it and my spreads are usually pretty boring but I was super proud of this one and couldn't wait to show it off. Are you into bullet journaling? I'd love to see some photos of your October spread! Feel free to leave me a comment telling me about your spread or leave me a link to your Instagram if you post your bullet journal photos there so I can see your beautiful work! Thanks for stopping by and I'll scare ya later!

Hi hello and welcome to day 6 of Blogtober 2019! If you don't know what Blogtober is or are curious as to what I'll be posting throughout the month, feel free to check out my Preparing for Blogtober 2019 post to find out what it's all about!! Today, I'll be sharing some of my favorite spoopy book covers and I am super stoked to share some of these. It's absolutely true that a lot of people judge books based on their covers, myself included, so if you're in the mood for some spoopy books to read with aesthetically pleasing and scary covers, keep reading! Let's get started!
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 And that's it for some spoopy book covers! I am aware that a few books (Witches of Ash & Ruin, The Familiar Dark, and Ruthless Gods) are not out yet, but I still wanted to include them because I love how creepy their covers are. There's just something about an eerie cover that gets me interested in what's on the pages underneath. And yes, I included all of Riley Sager's books because they're very spoopy and I love them all so much. But I also love new book recommendations so if you have any books with creepy covers that you love, let me know in the comments! Thanks for stopping by and I'll scare ya later!