I’m out of my slump for an undetermined amount of time, so I might as well make the most of it. It’s been a productive month and if the momentum continues, March will be productive as well.
I haven’t been keeping track of Instagram and Twitter followers just yet, but based on my notifications I gained quite a few. I seem to receive a notification every couple of days. Several appeared to be spam accounts/ follow-for-follow accounts, so I’m not sure how many of those followers will stick around.
Last month, I published published three posts (click the image to read ’em):
Sadly, I only managed to taste one tea in Feb but my tasting notes should be out on the 8th. I’ve been trying to recover from this weird evolving flu-mixed-with-food-poisoning. My stomach can’t tolerate caffeine at the moment. 😦 I’ll try again soon; life without tea is boring, haha.
Though I told myself I wouldn’t request any books in February, I couldn’t resist these Black History Month titles:
- White Privilege by Kalawant Bhopal, Pub Date: Feb 15th, 2018
- Denmark Vesey’s Garden by Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts, Pub Date: April 3rd, 2018
- James Baldwin and the 1980s by Joseph Vogel, Pub Date: March 30th, 2018
The respective publishers approved me for all three but I have no idea when I’ll get around to actually reading them. Thankfully, two of them don’t have archive dates set. However, a couple of the pub dates are about a month away so I might pause my China readings and read these instead. I’ll finally be ahead of the curve! I’m a little scared of Denmark Vesey’s Garden though, because it’s nearly 500 pages. It’ll take me at least two weeks of dedicated reading to get through it.
I also requested Song of Blood and Stone, which is an afro-futurist novel. I didn’t include it with the Black History Month titles because those are all political, but this one definitely deserves a mention because afro-futurist novels tend to be pretty good. I think I’m most excited to read this one.
I’m almost finished reading Imperial Woman (Pearl S. Buck), so that review should be out soon (the 12th?) anyway, but do you think I should continue with my original plan or do the Black History Month reading first? Alternating is also an option, but I like themes.
General Reading Stats
Books Finished: 3
Read but Unreviewed Arcs: 5
Unread Arcs: 15 from Netgalley, 5 from Library Thing
I promised myself I wouldn’t sign up for Edelweiss until I cleared my NetGalley and Library Thing ARCs. Looks like I’ve got my work cut out for me.
Perfect Leaves 
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