Books Are Jazzy

A reader lives a thousand lives before they die. The person who never reads lives only one.

With everything happening this spring both around the world and in my personal life (I moved to a different country!) it's no wonder I've fallen behind on my reading goals. If you follow me on goodreads or keep track of my 2020 reads, you can see that I've obviously still been reading. But with my own books stuck in boxes in storage, I haven't been able to read the books I had planned on for my various reading goals. 


With that in mind, and considering I finally have some free time, I want to focus at least in July on getting back on track with all of my goals and then make sure I'm staying on top of them through the end of the year. 

I also want to be posting on here more regularly and I have some fun new posts lined up for the rest of the year, including a couple of blog tours! Are there any types of posts you would like to see? Let me know in the comments below!

Happy reading!
-Laura
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That's what I'm going to try to figure out and explain to myself as I write this post.

First I should distinguish what I mean by the alarming question of a title. Well, as you know if you've been following my updates, I'm a fantasy, fiction, mystical creature and alternative reality loving gal from head to toe, inside out. I love putting myself to sleep with fantastic beasts and lands far, far away. I take anything mysterious, supernatural and mythical as a serenade of the imagination. Just take a look at my "read" books on my Goodreads. But for the past month or so, my "to read" list has been attracting non-fiction, self-development, inspirational and more mundane opuses. See what I mean by alarming?

Am I in some sort of a youth age crisis considering I'm turning twenty come summer? Or have  I lost my love for magic and storylines? Sure I've alway enjoyed a historical fiction every once in a while or perhaps flipped through a literary classic feeling obliged to do so. But never has the ratio been 3 to 1 like it is with this years finished novels.

Spring is that you?

I still feel drawn to fictive stories and will never abandon my Ravenclaw colors or stop referencing every fantasy classic ever written. I think it might just be the light outside and spring time nearing day by day that has awaken this side of me. I definitely see myself turning the pages of a light romance book on a bench in the park or hitting up some QT with another classic or history infused read. In another sun circling revolution's time I will probably be comfortably back with my hot tea submerged in who knows what universe marvelling at all kinds of creations of the mind. But before that, I feel more up for quick, uplifting books to gulp down.

Have you noticed a shift in your preferences corresponding with the seasons? Or have you grown out of old reading habits and fallen into new ones? Let me know, I'd love some peer support. :D

So long, 'til the days warm up,

Anna
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Great news for Emma Watson fans who love reading and are up to making a difference!

The ultimate girl power icon and equality promotor (UN Women's Ambassador) Emma Watson recently started a feminist book club on my favourite reading app of all time, Goodreads. I joined the group and will participate as much as I can without taking any added stress from having to finish this book (the goal is one book a month) so that I can genuinely stay interested in it. As of now I'm super pumped to see where this will go. Also I've only ever dreamed of joining an actual book club so this is definitely one of those triumphant "win-win" situations.

If this sounds as amazing to you as it did to me then here is your link to heaven:
Our Shared Shelf

Hope to see you joining this game changing, eyeopening (hopefullly) chance!

-Anna
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Hi! We're Laura and Anna, two twenty-something women who love reading! We originally met each other in Atlanta, GA, over 10 years ago. Since then, we moved back to our home country of Finland, and now that we are in university, Anna lives in Turku, Finland, studying medicine and Laura lives in Asheville, NC, studying literature.

We read in a wide variety of genres, including all forms of young adult fiction and some adult books as well. Laura tries to focus on fantasy, but sometimes her coursebooks get in the way, whereas Anna is happy to read anything other than her textbooks!

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