Phoenix

Nah, I despise Amazon and Goodreads. Appreciate the suggestion tho!

A white hand holds a book titled Guardians Of Dawn: Yuli by S. Jae-Jones, a New York Times bestselling author. It has a library barcode sticker on the top right. The cover is very colorful artwork of the main character and a creature- a large bird with peacock style feathers in various shades of blue, purple, and turquoise. The bird has one wing in front of Yuli and one wing behind, its head arcing over her. Yuli is in the center, her name large in front of her. She holds a golden arrow as if it’s strung in a bow, pointing slightly off center, to the right. Her skin is white, and she wears a fancy long sleeved shirt, puffy around the wrist. Her hair is in a braid that starts at the top of her head, and the strands are multicolored- red, brown, and blonde. There are yellow butterflies around her head, a large one with pink at its center by her ear.

Currently reading Guardians Of Dawn: Yuli by @sjaejones.com! It’s the third in the series. As always, these covers are gorgeous! I would love to own them just for that fact alone!
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Finished 69 books so far this year. #nice
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Well said!! Keeping that motivation 💪🏻

September Reading Wrap Up from the Storygraph app, @unmistakablyphoenix. 4 books read, 1037 pages, 18.67 hours, 4.19 average rating. Highest Rated Reads are Spy Family volume 14 by Tatsuya Endo at 5 stars, Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi at 4.5 stars, Emma by Jane Austen at 3.75 stars. Average book length was 340 pages and average time to finish was 22 days. 50/50 split between fiction and nonfiction. 2 biographies/memoirs, 1 literary, 1 manga, 1 poetry. 75% print, 25% audio.

Calendar of September showing books read, logged on the Storygraph app, @unmistakablyphoenix. 1 page at least was read each day. Emma by Jane Austen was finished on the 18th, Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi was finished on the 20th, Spy Family volume 14 by Tatsuya Endo was finished on the 26th, and Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes was finished on the 28th. Magda Revealed by Ursula Werner, James And The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, and The Bassoon King: My Life In Art, Faith, And Idiocy by Rainn Wilson were all started this month as well, but not finished.

September was a slower month for me- couple books took me quite a few days to finish and messed up my average time to finish. But at least I read everyday, keeping my streak going strong!

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What’s an apologize going to do? Useless

I just saw The Long Walk in theaters, and it’s the best Stephen King movie adaptation, in my opinion! The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is my favorite of his books. 🐻

Pentagon Accused of ‘Intimidation’ With New Restrictions For Journalists The Pentagon released new rules for journalists that prevents them from reporting on unauthorized information.

We told @time.com that journalists shouldn’t trade their independence for access to Pentagon spin.

“Agreeing not to look where the government doesn’t want you to look and, by extension, not to print what it doesn’t want you to print, is propaganda, not journalism.”

Definitely! I saw someone say they read along with a guide for Pride and Prejudice, and I may have to look into that next time!

It took a month, but finally finished Emma! Shout out to @kathlenebrown.bsky.social for telling me Clueless is a retelling of Emma- gave me the push to power through! #JaneAusten is very talented, and I will definitely try another of her novels, but for now I think I need some short & sweet reading.

That is the ultimate goal!! 😊

Well said, thank you!!

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Do you have any advice for someone who may be interested in getting into book blogging? What sites would you recommend, if any? Any pitfalls to avoid for beginners?

We’re one step away from Real Housewives of Congress, I swear.

Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.

A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.

From the Storygraph app, a summary of my August reading @unmistakablyphoenix. 7 books, 1351 pages, 22.98 hours, 4.18 average rating. Highest rated reads are The Hunger Games illustrated edition by Suzanna Collins with 5 stars, Vengeance Of The Pirate Queen by Tricia Levenseller with 4.75 stars, and Wildflower by Drew Barrymore with 4.5 stars. Average book length was 246 pages, average time to finish was 10 days. 56% nonfiction, 43% fiction. 3 young adult, 2 history, 2 romance, 1 fantasy, and 1 travel. There’s a graph showing how many pages and minutes I read per day. 71% print, 29% audio.

From the Storygraph app, a ratings collage with my August book covers @unmistakablyphoenix. Wildflower by Drew Barrymore rated at 4.5, Vengeance Of The Pirate Queen by Tricia Levenseller at 4.75, Gamer Girl by Mari Mancusi at 3.75, The Hunger Games illustrated edition by Suzanne Collins at 5, Imperial Rome travel companion at 3.5, Italy Monuments travel companion at 3.75, and Reinventing The Body, Resurrecting The Soul: How To Create A New You by Deepak Chopra at 4.

From the Storygraph app, a calendar showing my August reading @unmistakablyphoenix.

Here’s my #August #reading wrap up! It was a slower month of finishing books for me- Emma and My Name Is Barbra sure are long! But I do have an itch to reread all The Hunger Games books since finishing the illustrated edition!

What was the best book you read in August?

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Strikes across Gaza kill at least 31 as international scholars accuse Israel of genocide Airstrikes and artillery shelling have echoed through Gaza City since Israel declared the territory's largest city a combat zone last week.

“Another merciless night in Gaza City,” said Saeed Abu Elaish, a Jabaliya-born medic sheltering in the northwestern side of the city. https://to.pbs.org/3HVQ7T5

I want them all of course, but this banner is so cool! They should let us buy them in packs!

@deadbydaylight.com Pleeaaase bring this banner back somehow so I can get it! Pleasepleasepleasepleaseease pleeeeaaasssse 💔🔪👻

#ghostfaceisbae #dbd

Happy to help!! I love Storygraph and there’s so many little features people don’t know about!

Logging streaks? Yes, it’s one I like a lot as it motivates me to read everyday! Just make sure to log your pages/minutes within a day or else it might not log the streak!

Screenshot from the Storygraph app, showing a 200 day reading streak at the top in orange letters with a fire emoji on the left. Below that in teal letters it says Current Reads (2), followed by two book covers. The one on the left is Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi with a progress bar below it at 6%. The cover on the right is Emma by Jane Austen with a progress bar below it at 36%.

Just hit 200 straight days of reading! This is my longest streak yet! (In recorded history lol)
Currently reading Emma by Jane Austen and just started listening to Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi.

What’s your longest reading streak?

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This job is making me this way right now...

The plot is so lost that I’m not even sure it exists anymore… we cannot protect our earth because of imaginary lines? Tired.

That may be what I needed! I’ve already found the most glaring one- Elton! Most names are different, but I love that they kept that one the same.

I haven’t seen the movies, been waiting to read the book haha. But I have seen Clueless, love that movie! It’s a modern retelling of Emma?? I didn’t even realize that!

Cover of Emma by Jane Austen, the spring edition. There are two layers- the top is teal and cut into a design of a woman's profile, facing left. She has a parasol and 1800s period clothing and bonnet. Behind her, the second layer in pink, shows hills, trees, and the sky. Jane Austen, the author, is at the top in an arch. There are roses in front of the woman, and what appears to be wheat behind her. In the forefront are different items relating to the story- a picnic basket with breads and food in it, letters, glasses, and a cake.

Right now I am struggling with #Emma by #JaneAusten and I fear it may be putting me in a slump. Have you read it? If you loved it, please give me (spoiler free) thoughts on what you loved about it! Looking for the inspiration to keep going. I'm about 22% in.

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Getting into the reader social sphere often has me feeling like I'm not reading enough- so many people seem to finish a book a day!
So here's a reminder to me & anyone else experiencing this- read. It doesn't matter how slow you are, or how many books you finish in a month. Just. read.

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I will say that if the synopsis or something is misleading, then it’s great for a review to point that out and detail a synopsis more agreeable with the book.