IN WHICH The Girl Goes Down with the Ship

Bad blogger, bad blogger! It's been a busy month including moving, traveling, and the start of school. In those travels, I did visit Mark Twain's boyhood home, which I plan to come back and write more about later this week. Here's a picture to get you excited!

Not excited? We can no longer be friends.

The other thing that has taken over my life this week has been the Queen of Shadows release. This book is destroying me. Sarah J. Maas's fourth book in the Throne of Glass series was released on Tuesday. As a serious fan of the books, I re-read the previous two installments in the last few weeks, and then started to take on Queen of Shadows on Tuesday night. After getting about 100 pages in, feeling very frustrated by one character, and realizing I couldn't possibly get through the nearly 700 page book if I ever wanted to sleep, I started skimming ahead. I know, I know, bad reading technique. Granted this skim to the end still took me until four in the morning, which left me with just a couple hours of sleep before tutoring at eight AM. 

Now, I'm going back and re-reading in depth. I have so many many feels - some good and some bad - in reaction to the book right now. I'm seriously thinking about it non-stop and have gotten lost in a scary land of Goodreads and blogger reviews. I need to find my way back to the real world. But first I need to finish the book. Once I do, I may write something that actually makes sense. 

Go read the book too! I seriously need discussion buddies.

By the way, if I were to get drunk right now, I would totally think I was a badass assassin trying to take down a king. It would probably be entertaining and embarrassing. Those that know me understand I can get a little too involved in fictional worlds and that seeps out when I'm drinking. I've tried to investigate murders and make meetings at the White House. I swear I don't take drugs.