Not to sound like a broken record, but I can't believe it's November! I hope you all had a great October and, for those who celebrate Halloween, a great Halloween as well! I always love seeing everyone's costumes, and this year I feel like I saw some really fantastic ones. October was a crazy month, but not a bad one, and I've enjoyed putting this post together this month to remember what I actually read and posted.
In personal news, it's been a very busy month! The biggest thing that happened is probably that I performed in my first aerial silks performance for my local aerial studio's showcase in October! I've only done two previous aerial performances, but those were both group pieces that I didn't choreograph and they were on different apparatuses, so this was a very different experience creating my own piece and performing solo. I worked on the piece for about twelve weeks from about late July until October and it was a huge rollercoaster of an experience, but I'm so glad I made it through and had a (generally) successful performance! The theme for my studio's showcase was movies, so I chose to use Mad Max: Fury Road as the inspiration, which in hindsight was definitely a huge challenge of a piece to tackle, but you know, who among us doesn't accidentally add extra stress to their lives regularly? 🤣 Outside of that, I've been mainly trying to enjoy the spooky season, read a lot, and survive busy season at my job (the stress at work is also real, but you know, such is life). The saddest news of the month is that the library closest to me is closed from now until February for repainting (four months!?), so I am quite sad. There are other libraries I can visit, but they won't be quite as convenient to get to, unfortunately.
In reading news, October was a great reading month! I read more than I anticipated and still managed to not read half of the books I wanted to, but I really think that's more of an "I have too many books I want to read" than an "I didn't read enough" problem, haha, a problem which I'm sure most of us share. Some of my top reads from the past month were House Haunters, The Nudge, Subcutanean, and Solace House, though I really enjoyed most of my spooky October reads! November will continue to be a spooky reading month, though, because there are still more I want to get to. I also managed to actually have a solid number of reviews up in October as well, which I'm feeling pretty good about for once, since I've been woefully behind most of the year.
# books read: 15
Solace House by Will Maclean
Thoughts: I really enjoyed exploring this story and all of the ideas Maclean played with in it. It was definitely one I found easy to get lost in and follow along with all the weird things that happened to the characters. My review is already up (the link is listed below)!
Quaint Folk by Bitter Karella