June Wrap-Up and Alaska Cruise!!! || This was such a mid reading month...
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Orcas!!! My favorite part of the whole vacation.
Great vlog. And vacation vlog. 📚🥤
I was hesitant to recommend snow globe because I noticed our tastes are really different haha So I'm not surprised you ended up dnfing the book. 😂 I was still a bit hopeful though 😅 and it fit the prompt so well
I LOVED getting the rec lol and I definitely would have picked it up anyway because it should have been something I loved so you were totally spot on with that. And it totally did fit the prompt
My June was great. I've read 3 fairy tale reteling collections (short stories), two manga volumes, one horror short story collection (in Polish); I also finished "Ubik" and listened to audiobook of "Carmilla".
Can't wait for that Fairyloot video!
I’m glad you had what looked like a fun vacation! 😊 I haven’t read any of the books you mentioned yet, but I did add the The Invocations to my reading list. It sounds awesome.
Looks like someone did a great job planning all of this. I am sure that was a lot of work putting together the flights, cruise, hotels…etc. Wonder who planned all of it? HMMMM…wonder? 😂. YD
It was definitely me. I totally planned everything. 😁
Thanks for sharing some of your Alaska trip, it was really cool! My ex-husband's aunt lived in Juneau for most of her life and loved it there. When she came to visit, she would bring smoked salmon that she caught and prepared herself and it was so good. I'm sure the experience would have been even better if no one was sick during the trip. That stinks!
I am finding that I do not enjoy most of T. Kingfisher's books. I don't know if it's the writing style or the actual stories. The one I liked the most is the next one to be released and it's more fantasy forward. That might be why I like it the most? I wouldn't be surprised if The Invocations was picked up for movie. They have 3 young women who all have different backstories but are pulled together for the same issue. The story wasn't what I expected but I wasn't disappointed. That special edition is gorgeous and represents the characters well. The only book I DNF in June was All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. It was highly recommended by a bookstore IG account and listed as a dark mystery thriller so I was on board. Until I wasn't. This story dragged and I WAS SO BORED. I don't understand why the rating is so high on it. If I avoid reading something there is an issue so I threw in the towel and stopped. Maybe it's me and my taste in books aren't great and I'm the issue. Maybe you will like it? I am curious if it's a me thing. I read Leather & Lark with the unpopular opinion that I liked it more than Butcher & Blackbird. I liked the audio because of the Irish accent (swoon). It's not as gore heavy as the first one. The bonus scene at the end ads a little to Lark's character but is not for those who dislike spice and it's not a believable scenario. I know you aren't a fan of super spicy stuff so if you read the book, I wanted to give you a heads up.
I would totally go back to Juneau in a heartbeat if given the chance. I've never been to such a beautiful place in my entire life.
I totally almost got All the Colors of the Dark because, like you said, I saw it recommended multiple places. Then I read some comments about it being really boring so it sounds like you were one of the many that were bored to tears by it.
Your Alaska trip looks awesome! Love orcas, that soo cool you got to see them! Oh many sorry to hear you’re sick! Noro virus being called the cruise virus makes me scared to go on cruises. (Tho my sibling in laws go on Coheed & Cambria cruises every year and love em and never get sick!)
Also your rant about fantasy worlds still need rules is soooo valid! Like I said I def need to feel immersed in the book and, unless I’m having a really good time and can ignore it, having no rules def makes it hard to suspend belief!!
I actually haven't been on a cruise yet where Norovirus was an issue. Covid was the big issue this cruise and EVERYONE got it. So that sucked, but I'd still jump at the next chance to go on one. Cruises are definitely some of my favorite vacations.
my june reading was also really good! i don't read a lot of books, so the only books i read were "Dragonfruit" by Makiia Lucier (4/5) and "The Dragon's Promise" by Elizabeth Lim (also 4/5). dragonfruit was an incredible standalone and im looking forward to reading other books by Lucier.
The Dragon's Promise is the duology sequel to Six Crimes Cranes (which i LOVE), tho TDP had been on my bookshelf for so long bc i THOUGHT i was promised dragons and their underwater kingdom, but by the chapter 15 mark, the protag was on the beach ready to head home and there was still 3/4ths of the book left. i was so pissed, that i shelved the book for months 🤣🤣🤣 but then i finally picked it up again last month and finished it and enjoyed it.
to top it off, i had finally found a decently priced secondhand selling on pango of the Crimson Cranes/Dragon's Promise fairyloot editions, so now i have those beauties on my shelves!!✨
Dragonfruit is definitely on my list. I LOVED "Year of the Reaper" and recommend that one by the same author.
Yeah I've read the Six Crimson Cranes duology. I loved the first one, but thought The Dragon's Promise was a bit repetitive at times and I was also so mad about them spending like no time underwater. It was like the author changed her mind about that plotline.
Alaska is #1 on my bucket list! Your video wants me to go even more. ( i am saying this as an agoraphobe in Florida, so who knows? My whole family is in Western Canada right now (very beautiful) and I'm just sitting here with my little dog! Thanks for the video!!
It was 10000% worth it. I'd love to go back to Alaska too. It was beautiful and the weather was perfect.
Wow you have some amazing family members !!!
🤣🤣 especially my sister-in-law. She's obviously the coolest
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Oh no! I have first lies wins on my Tbr cause I think it’ll be a goodreads choice awards mystery nominee. wanted to read horror movie but I heard not so good things about it. When you said you didn’t like a recommendation for one of your prompts from your viewers I thought it was me 😂 glad it wasn’t lol. I think portals can be sci-fi depends how you do it but doppelgängers are paranormal aren’t they should’ve been clones or a time variants. In home where the bodies are I thought the video footage was so strange to still have that tape around wouldn’t the parents get rid of it
Pretend like I never said anything about First Lie Wins. Shhhh 🤣🤣 It was totally all in your imagination.
Everyone loved that book so I'm thinking it's just me and my weird aversion to spy books.