I got a little more reading done in September than I did in August, but only because I leaned into romances. This academic reading is no joke ya’ll—if I added that in you’d think all I did was read for the entire month! It also didn’t hurt that we were on vacation for the first week or so of September so I got plenty of reading and knitting done without adorable puppy interruptions.
When I wasn’t reading I was knitting, so that was most of the time on our trip and once we got back. I needed Barnaby to learn not to eat my yarn while I was knitting so wanted to make sure I knit a lot while he is a puppy. That being said I also bought a project bag with a zipper to keep him out of it 😀
Books and Bookish Things
I read so much for school as soon as it started in earnest and I’m struggling to read non-school books. Like I said above I’ll be really leaning into manga, comics, and mm romance to keep this blog alive over the next two years.
- With Love from Wish & Co. – Minnie Darke*
- Levi’s Love (Maine Men #7) – K.C. Wells*
- Art Therapy (Rooms for Romance #1) – Tag Gregory*
- I Hear the Sunspot (I Hear the Sunspot #1) – Yuki Fumino
- The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers – Adam Sass*
My two favorites this month were Levi’s Love and The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers. Even though Levi’s Love wasn’t the best written of the series, it brought everything to a nice close and there were a couple of scenes that were just perfectly written. The latter of the two was just a fun whimsical and wonderfully written homage to the space case gaybys out there who spend more time dreaming about a future boyfriend than they do trying to find one.
Recent Acquisitions
I picked up a lot of books this month, but four were from a gift card I got over the summer (Gawande; Iansiti & Lakhani; Kimmerer; and Tagame) to the Harvard Coop, two were from the exchange library in our kitchen at work (Macdonald and Zauner), and one I picked up on our trip up to Canada (Curato) from a local trading card/game store.
- Flamer – Mike Curato
- The Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande
- Competing in the Age of AI – Marco Iansiti & Karim R. Lakhani
- Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
- H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald
- Our Colors – Gengoroh Tagame
- Crying in H-Mart – Michelle Zauner
Crafting Corner
In addition to the Brette Scarf I made (up at the top; Ravelry link) I finished the Look at My Holes. It was a crop top, but I turned it into more of an oversized sweatshirt/sweater thing that both keeps me warm and cool at the right time. It’s 100% cotton so it should relax a little and get even comfier after I wash it:
I’m still trekking away on a pair of socks for Tim and a random shawl for me. I’ll start on Tim’s Flea Sweater (Ravelry) soon and my Heartstopper sweater as well now that winter is almost here.
What’s Next?
ALL THE ACADEMIC READING. I’m already looking forward to December and January when we get a brief reprieve before the spring semester. I am finding the reading fascinating, but it is exhausting. On the Barnaby front, he’ll be at boot camp/training school for the first few weeks of October so we’ll be able to catch up on sleep and go on a long weekend to upstate New York. Here are my two favorite pictures at the moment. The first is from the friends who watched him while we were on vacation. The destruction, the exhaustion from the chaos, it’s just perfectly hilarious. And the second one is my absolute favorite of him right now, it just shows his goofiness perfectly.