Weekly Recap: 6/13 - 6/19

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOGHi, everyone! It's been another couple weeks with barely any posts because I'm getting ready for a puppy!! My lil guy, Rufio, will be here in just over a week and I'm so excited to meet him when I go to pick him up! His head and his ears are massive and I'm just hoping that he grows in to them. XD This week I dug into fan edited films for the first time. I have a couple (one Hobbit and one Star Wars) but I've never really gotten into finding and downloading them for myself. I am so far down this rabbit hole I think I may be obsessed! I'm starting with the basics - Star Wars Prequels - but I'm definitely going to be...

Top Ten Tuesday #302: Books that made me want more

Today's Topic: Books that made me want moreHappy Tuesday! This week I'm sharing books that were so unique they made me want more of the same immediately! I haven't found any good recs for most of these so if you have some, please share them in the comments! The Kingdom by Jess RothenbergNinth House by Leigh BardugoWilder Girls by Rory PowerUnder the Dome by Stephen KingAnd I Darken by Kiersten WhiteNeon Gods by Katee RobertThe Grace Year by Kim LiggettEcho North by Joanna Ruth MeyerThe Rage of Dragons by Evan WinterWintersong by S. Jae-JonesTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Gi...

Weekly Recap: 5/30 - 6/5

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOGHi, everyone! Shockingly, it has been almost a month since I've done a recap so I suppose I'll just wrap it all up here. I kind of fell off the internet for awhile when the situation in Palestine came to the forefront of social media a few weeks ago. I became a bit overwhelmed and somehow it didn't feel quite right to be blogging at that time. Since then I've been trying to educate myself and have realized just how much I wasn't taught about the world at school. Please feel free to drop any resources that you've found useful!Unfortunately, I've also been in the midst of a huge reading slump for the past several weeks. I've...

Reading (and writing!) with aphantasia

In January of 2020 I wrote a post about reading without a mind's eye and discussed what reading with aphantasia is like for me. Since then, I've thought about this A LOT. Almost daily I think about whether or not I can "see" things. Am I overthinking this whole visualization thing? Surely people can't literally see scenes play out like they're watching TV. They must be exaggerating, right? Maybe my being able to think about or imagine something is what visualizing is. But no, I'm definitely not visualizing.I've talked to countless people about their experiences and, while I'm still not convinced people can actually SEE things in their minds,...