Oh man, September, what a month. College has been super crazy and busy, which is why I’ve been pretty absent this past month. And thus why I stress ate A LOT and ate way too many desserts (I know there’s a freshman 15, but I feel like I’m on my way to my own junior 15, whoops).
All of the books I read in September were for class or book club, but now that I’ve gotten back into the swing of things at college I’m hoping I’ll be able to adjust my schedule to squeeze in more reading for fun! (not that my Jane Austen reading isn’t enjoyable, but I miss my fantasy & YA books!)
BOOKS I READ:
1. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Rating: 4 stars
This was my second Jane Austen book and it was so much fun! Well, fun and slow at times. Oh my gosh though, I didn’t realize how truly sassy Jane Austen was until I began reading this book with my class!
2. The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries by Emma Thompson
Rating: 4 stars
And of course after my Jane Austen class finished Sense and Sensibility, we had to watch the movie adaptation and then read about it’s production. This book was super interesting and insightful; I didn’t realize how stressful and complex it was to film and produce a movie!
3. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Rating: 3.5 stars
My second time reading this book this year! Lol, I literally read this book for the first time at the end of July, but my book club read it for September so of course I had to read it again! Even though I remembered most of the book, I still had a fun time reading it again!
4. Hybrid Creatures: Stories by Matthew Baker
Rating: 3.5 stars
Loved the concept of this book. Wasn’t a big fan of the first two stories though. I liked the third one and fell IN LOVE with the last one though. The author not only visited my college in September but also my fiction writing class. He was super nice, so I feel a little bit bad not rating this book higher.
OCTOBER TBR:
- The Hate U Give- My book club is reading this book this month so I will FINALLY be hopping on this bandwagon. Also, I’m super psyched to see the movie later this month after reading it!
- Station Eleven- The author of this book is visiting my college at the beginning of November and since I don’t really have a lot of time to read outside of homework, I should probably get a head start on this book and start it this month.
It also sounds like I might buddy read They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera at the end of October/beginning of November but the details are still being worked out.
RANDOM LIFE UPDATES:
- I didn’t die under all my homework, yay me! (thank you coffee and naps!)
- I went to a Christmas party this month??? Yes, you heard that correctly. My friend’s friend has been in a Christmas mood for awhile so they finally decided to appease him by having a party!
- We had pizza, decorated cookies, played telestrations, drank hot chocolate, listened to Christmas music, and watched National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation! It was a lot of fun and surprisingly less weird than I thought it would be.
- I actually had a book haul! (I love buying used books from Thriftbooks!) I posted about it last week and you can read about it here!
- My roommate and I had lots of movie nights! We watched The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Snow White and the Huntsman, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, and Underworld: Blood Wars (even though neither of us had seen the previous movies).
- Even though it’s not a movie, our goal for October is to get started watching Avatar: The Last Airbender! My roommate has never seen the show so we’re going to watch it together. (ALSO apparently Netflix is going to reboot the show and make it live-action? Not sure how I feel about this but I’m curious to see how it will turn out)
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