Vacation is over. Summer months are done. I’m ready for autumn to begin ( I was also ready by July, but that was just me). I’m still excited to write these HRCYED updates. Slowly but surely, I’m making some progress and having a good time with the books that I’m reading. And with autumn starting, the sweater weather upon us, the rainy afternoons… I can smell the cosiness in the air, and the books are thrilled to be picked up. New HRCYED month, new book. I started Insurgent by Veronica Roth straight away. If I wanted to keep up with my plan to reread the whole series before the newest member of the Divergent family arrives, I had to read it soon. This also marked the start of my Shiritori, and sadly, the only prompt this book counts for. The last time I read Insurgent was in 2016, and I …
A month has gone by since HRCYED 3.0 officially began, and I did an upsy. Here I was with talks about reading more and bringing back a good reading habit. But then I bought a game. And not just any game, Blue Prince. Obviously, for a little while, the only thing on my mind was the game. I was thinking about clues, next steps, theories. My mind was thinking about everything except reading. Usually, this isn’t a bad thing. I have multiple interests, so it’s normal to jump between them and give more attention to some instead of others. But it’s really not helpful when I’m taking part in a readathon. A reading marathon. Meaning that reading is me running the marathon, and gaming is me stopping at the first table to munch on snacks. They give energy, and it’s good to take a break, but the marathon doesn’t run …
