Books and Backpacks

Alone With You in the Ether: A lyrical and beautifully crafted love story. Happy belated Valentines day, book friends. While I have recently discovered that I'm not really a big romance girlie anymore, there are a few romances that stick out in my mind — especially during this time of the year. One of those romances is Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake . Olivie Blake is a name I only really knew for their quick rise to popularity after the release of  The Atlas Six  back in 2020. I had bought that book back when it was released, but never really had a strong desire to read it— mostly, I just really liked the matte black cover. I have a vague memory of hearing about  Alone With You in the Ether  a while after  The Atlas Six , but it was more of a general awareness that a lot people active in online book communities tend to have.  So when I was scrolling through Libby trying to find a short-ish audiobook to listen to whilst I was runni...

Everything I read, watched, played and did in January.  Anyone that knows me knows that I don't really do much — I'm very much a homebody and I'm more than happy with that. But even as an introvert, there are still a handful of things I like to do. Many of those things are just done at home. My partner and I are both pretty sentimental people.I blame both of us being eldest children for that. We have a little storage box that we keep mementos from all of our dates in. In a kind of similar way, I was thinking about how it could be interesting to keep a kind of virtual diary where I can keep track of all our important (and some non-important) life events and look back to see what we were doing at this time in our life. An in-depth wrap up that focuses on not just what I'm reading, but also what I'm playing, watching, and doing each month. I think doing this monthly wrap ups will help me both to post on my blog more and to keep track of what I'm doing at different ...