We’re finally in the best season for reading! Just like this time last year, my TBR exploded. At one point I was reading four books at the same time, only to ditch them for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab, which took over bookstagram. The fomo was real.

I caught up on some other highly anticipated books of 2020, one backlist title, and meant to finish off the ACOTAR series, but I’m still in the middle of the last book. I’ve been in a book slump for the last week and a half, and I think it’s because I’m having anxiety about 2021 coming around. Reading is a wonderful escape but I might be spending too much time in la la land.

Happy Halloween week! I finished my first reread of Harry Potter in my entire life earlier this year, so here’s a festive post to celebrate, because everyone knows that Halloween = Harry Potter, Thanksgiving = Harry Potter, Christmas = Harry Potter. I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules. The movie channels do.

A friend suggested a buddy read and I said that I probably couldn’t get to the book this year but I’d add it to my TBR. (The Cruel Prince by Holly Black, if anyone’s curious.) This year, I said. With just two full months left of 2020, apparently I’ve begun to think of my TBR in terms of what I can cram in before the end of the year. Forget months or weeks!

Although there’s no need to rush my TBR since those books will exist beyond 2020 and for the rest of eternity, there are still some books I definitely, arbitrarily want to get to before the year is over and here they are.

To not buy any books (and instead make better use of the library) is a lofty goal, but surely I have the willpower to not buy multiple copies of the same book?

Yes?

NO.

Not buying multiple copies of the same book is a rule I set for myself (unsuccessfully, evidently) because I have a problem with aesthetics over content, and buying multiple copies of the same book is one of the avoidable ways it manifests in my life (obsessing over aesthetic consistency on Instagram is another way, but let’s save that conversation for another time).

So let’s see which stunning books I made exceptions for, shall we?

It’s been a bit quiet around here, but I’ve been doing a lot of reading! September included four buddy reads and one failed buddy read, and I have a few more buddy reads lined up for October. I also have a few bookish blog posts in the works that I’m super excited to share, so look out for those.

Two amazing reads this month!! The rest were meh. I finally started the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, which is the perfect way to transition into autumnal reading—my favourite season for reading… and for life in general haha.