November’s Watch List

While I am crawling my way out of a reading slump, I am still in a drama slump. With all the new shows I saw on Netflix, I feel like one is bound to catch my attention soon! So, here are the three shows I want to watch this month.

Do Bong Soon is a petite, unemployed woman who is honest and kind. She appears little and sweet on the outside, but she is in fact very, very strong. In her family, for generations the women have been gifted Herculean strength to use for the greater good. If abused, however, their power will be taken away. Whilst standing up for herself after gang members bully her, she finds herself approached by Ahn Min Hyuk, the handsome and somewhat childish CEO of Ainsoft, a gaming company. Ahn Min Hyuk, who holds a great distrust towards the police, witnessed the whole exchange of Bong Soon’s superhuman strength, and now wants to employ her as a bodyguard after being threatened by an unknown enemy. Min Hyuk falls in love with super-strong Bong Soon at first sight, but there’s a catch. Bong Soon has eyes for someone else; police officer and childhood friend, In Guk Doo, whom she has known since high school. When chaos ensues after a series of kidnappings in Do Bong Soon’s hometown of Dobong-dong, Dobong-gu, Bong Soon must decide whether to use her strength and stand up to evil, or play it safe and keep her powers hidden from the world. Combined with the love triangle she faces between In Guk Doo and Ahn Min Hyuk, as well as having to keep Min Hyuk safe, Bong Soon’s life is thrown into turmoil. Can she use her strength for the greater good, or will it prove in the end to be too much?

A young woman with bad premonition dreams meets two people who suddenly develop the same ability.
Nam Hong Joo lives with her mother, Yoon Moon Sun, a widow who runs a small restaurant. Jung Jae Chan, a rookie prosecutor, and his younger brother, Seung Won, move in across the street. Since she was young, Hong Joo has had the ability to see bad events before they happen, but she is often unable to do anything about it.
One day, Jae Chan has a strange premonition dream about an accident involving Hong Joo and Lee Yoo Beom, a ruthless attorney who used to be Jae Chan’s tutor. Jae Chan decides to interfere in the course of events and ends up saving the lives of Hong Joo and Han Woo Tak, a young police officer. When Jae Chan, Hong Joo, and Woo Tak then start having dreams about one another, they realize that their lives are now somehow entwined.
But can the three discover the reason that they were brought together, and can they prevent the people closest to them from getting hurt?

Noh Ji Wook is a unique prosecutor. He is handsome, hard-headed and intelligent who strives hard to be successful. He is the perfect example of what a prosecutor should be. Later, he becomes a lawyer.
Eun Bong Hee is a prosecutor trainee. Once a former taekwondo instructor, she trained to become a lawyer. She is confident and strong, but naive. She is assigned to work under Ji Wook.
They work together on a mysterious case involving a sly psychopath murderer. As they’re working as a team, they develop affection between them.

November 2019 TBR

It is my birth month! To celebrate I am forcing myself out of my slump and I am making plans to read! I have a friend who hosts a readathon that I thought would be a good place to start this month. There is also a readathon happening where you read books over 500 pages that I decided to participate in. So, here is my Readathin November 2019 and my Tome Topple TBR but that TBR will be up on the day that readathon starts (but there are hints in the image below).

The challenges for Readathin are below!

To fit these challenges, I have five books since I am doubling up on two challenges.

Challenge One and Five – Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

Challenge Two – Keeping Her by Cora Carmack

Challenge Three – Kingsbane by Claire Legrand

Challenge Four and Seven – The Guinevere Deception by Keirsten White

Challenge Six – Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan

Taylor’s Life Update

Why hello there everyone! I hope October has been kinder to you than it has been to me. If you follow Kpop then you know some of the shit we have had thrown at us in the last couple weeks so I will not rehash all of that. I did want to come on and say that we are still alive.

Chelsea and I are still breathing (while it is hard some days, we are here). I am not going to speak for Chelsea and more other than the fact she is breathing because I know this month has hit her different than it has me and even while she is my best friend, I do not feel like I have the right to speak for her. So, continuing on, here is what has been going on in my life.

I took a break from reading. I took a break from watching anything that isn’t Kpop crack videos. I stopped posting on here. I do not think I have a recent picture on Instagram. I have not touched my YouTube channel in months. I took a break from the latter half of the comebacks from October. I got so overwhelmed with everything I just kind of stopped.

Towards the end of the month, I could feel myself wanting to crawl out of the hole I dug for myself so, here we are. I would sit and stare at my shelves and my books were calling to me. I started watching BookTube again. I was inspired for the first time in a long time. While I am still in that hole of life suck, I am starting to slowly coming out.

To start, I have been reading. I finally picked up a book and it’s kept my attention so that is a good sign. I picked up Lock Every Door by Riley Sager and I am about half way through it. I hope to finish it this weekend so I can get a review up sometime next week!

I have ideas for the blog again instead of the same thing every week. I mean, mostly it will still be the same things every week but I have some little sprinkles of ideas to change things up so please look forward to those.

I just recorded a little vlog-style Life Update for my Youtube channel! I think the last video I posted on there was in May and it was an announcement for a readathon I did nothing in. Before that the last video was in April and that was the end of the channel besides the Kpop concert vlogs I uploaded.

I am currently sitting on one vlog I need to get together and upload so hopefully that happens this weekend. By next week though, I would like to have my November Readathing TBR up as well as my TBR for Tome Topple happening in the next week.

So, all in all, things here are getting better. All I can do is keep pushing forward in hopes that all will be right in the world once more. Blog posts will resume, my Instagram should be active again, you will begin seeing my face on YouTube (I am so sorry), and I should meet my Goodreads Reading Challenge for the year.

I will see you on Monday with daily blog posts! Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to hearing from you then. ❤

Taylor

Taylor’s September 2019 Wrap-Up

So, this month I had wonderful plans of reading a ton of books but once again, I only ended up reading five. Not that upset about it because I had a couple shows this month that kept me away from my books. Mangathon is starting on the 30th so whatever I read on the 30th I will mention in my Mangathon wrap up. That being said, here are the books that I read this month.

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
Dates Read: 09-01 to 09-05
Format: Audiobook
Rating: ★★★

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare
Dates Read: Aug to 09-16
Format: Audiobook
Rating: ★★★★

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Dates Read: 09-18 to 09-20
Format: Audio
Rating: ★★★★★

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Dates Read: 09-16 til 09-29
Format: Audiobook
Rating: ★★★★

The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
Dates Read: 09-10 til 09-30
Format: e-Book
Rating: ★★★

What books did you read this month? Which one was your favorite? Let me know in the comments!

October 2019 Random Dance Play-athon

A new month is beginning so that means we have a new round of RDP-athon! I am super excited for this month so without any more introduction, here are the eight songs and the challenges that match!

Our Dawn is Hotter than Day – Seventeen
Read a book that you meant to get to during the summer

Question by Stray Kids
Read a middle grade book

Blood Sweat and Tears by BTS
Read a new adult or an adult romance

Treasure by Ateez
Read a New York Time’s best seller

Simon Says by NCT 127
Read a witchy book

O Sole Mio by SF9
Read a book with a yellow cover or yellow on the cover

Baby Come Back Home by Target
Read a coming of age tale

Vroom Vroom by EXO – CBX
Read a book with a vehicle on the cover

Will you be participating this round? What are some songs we should look to add for future rounds? Let me know in the comments!

Top Five Wednesday – 09.18.19

One of the prompts for the Random Dance Play-athon is to focus on a book with metal health rep, I chose a T5W topic that relates to it. The topic is to choose five books that feature Mental Health Awareness.

Number Five
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a book that deals with PTSD and social anxiety.

Number Four
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson is a book that deals with an eating disorder and trying to rehabilitate from it.

Number Three
Eliza and Her Monsters deals with PTSD, social anxiety, and social muteness.

Number Two
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell deals with social anxiety.

Number One
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo deals with many different things. The fear of skin on skin contact, PTSD, anxiety, and autism.

Tag Tuesday – 09.17.19

The “TBR” Book Tag is a tag that I saw on Kayla of Books and Lala’s channel a while back and stumbled upon again when looking for a tag for today. It jumped out and that was how we ended up here now!

Books and Lala’s Channel
Lala’s Video
Tag Creator

Question One
How do you keep track of your TBR pile?
I try to keep track of my TBR pile on my Goodread’s account. I only put the books that I own on my Want To Read shelf so that is one of the best ways for me to keep up an up to date list of the books I have unread.

Question Two
Is your TBR mostly print of eBook?
Most of the TBR I have is in physical books but I do have a handful of books on my Kindle that I need to read one day.

Question Three
How do you determine which books from your TBR to read next?
I like to say that I am a mood reader but I also feel better with a planned monthly TBR. Chelsea and I host the Random Dance Play-athon so that are eight books that I have planned for the month. The rest of the books I plan on reading are picked while I scroll through my Want To Read shelf on Goodreads.

Question Four
A book that has been on your TBR the longest.
The first book on my Want to Read shelf on Goodreads is Attachments by Raindow Rowell. I added that in 2011 which makes sense because I think that is when I joined Goodreads.

Question Five
A book you recently added to your TBR.
If I go by the last book I added to my Want to Read list on Goodreads it is Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan but the last book I bought is We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia.

Question Six
A book on your TBR strictly because of the beautiful cover.
There are many books on my TBR strictly because of the cover but scrolling through my Want to Read shelf on Goodreads is, I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn.

Question Seven
A book on your TBR that you never plan on reading.
As of right now, there are no books on my 300+ book TBR that I do not plan on reading.

Question Eight
An unpublished book on your TBR that you’re excited for.
The only unpublished book on my TBR is a book that I already pre-ordered and that is The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black.

Question Nine
A book on your TBR that basically everyone has read except for you.
There are a lot of books on my TBR that everyone has read except for me but the one the pops into my mind would be Legendary by Stephanie Garber.

Question Ten
A book on your TBR that everyone recommends to you.
A book that everyone is always recommending to me is The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. I just bought the second one and upon mentioning I haven’t even read the first on, the book seller said it is a book that needs to be read.

Question Eleven
A book on your TBR that you’re dying to read.
There are many, MANY books on my TBR that I am dying to get to but the one that sticks out the most is The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. It is huge and I cannot wait to dive into it.

Question Twelve
How many books are on your TBR shelf?
I know there are more books on my actual TBR shelves in my library but if I were to guess, it would be 500+. On my Want to Read shelf, I have 308 books. I do have plans to catalog my books on Goodreads and an app I have called Book Buddy. Hopefully by the end of the month, I will have a more accurate count.

Taylor’s Weekly TBR – 09.16.19

After taking a week off to recover from Pentagon earlier this month, I am ready to dive back in and start blogging again! I also took a week off from reading, instead casually listening to Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare and some of her friends. I am hoping to finish it tonight during my audit shift at the hotel. Here are the four books I am trying to get through this week.

Currently Reading
The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
I managed to get approved for this book on NetGalley so I am hoping to finish the ARC this week.

Planning to Read
Open Road Summer by Emery Lord

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
This is the book for the Dragons and Tea Book Club and I have heard so many good things about it. I look forward to reading this with the group and I do plan on listening to the audiobook for it.

Where She Went by Gayle Forman

Austenland by Shannon Hale

Mangathon September 2019

Hello! So, something a little new for the blog. I helped to create last year. I have stepped back and asked a dear friend to take my place for the last couple rounds. Now, I am back and ready to spend a week reading nothing but manga! Below is the template with the challenges that Amanda (acourtofbooksandlove) creates for the readathon.

I hope you join us! If you have any questions regarding the challenges, just leave a comment and I will get to it and hopefully be of some help!