This is the post where I recap what I’ve been doing throughout the week and share what I plan to post about next week. Starting in January 2023, I will be linking up Kim @ Caffeinated Reviewer and her weekly Sunday Post feature.

What Went Down This Week:

The past couple of weeks have been hard, but I’m still here and feeling a little better mental health-wise. Physical health-wise, I am struggling with the heat (and probably a bit from not eating enough), so I’ve been tired and headachy. But I am staying hydrated and doing what I can to keep my body temp down. We don’t have air conditioning, so it has been getting up to 86F in my room, but I have a fan and use ice packs as needed.

My reading took another hit the week of my birthday. My mental health was really bad and I did not do any reading that entire week (and it was supposed to have been my personal readathon week!). Thankfully this past week I have done better and even finished some books. And if you are reading this on Saturday, when it goes live, I am in the middle of the Dewey’s 24-Hour Reverse Readathon right now, so hopefully I will get another big burst of reading done.

Of course, part of my slow reading is due in part to an eARC that I am not connecting with at all right now. I made a policy for myself when I joined Net Galley that I would finish all of my eARCs so that I could give them a fully honest review. Right now, I am seriously thinking of changing that policy, because I’m barely halfway through the book and my disenchantment with it is causing me to shy away from some of my reading blocks altogether (even though it isn’t my only book).

Posts from the Week:

7/16/23
7/17/23
Top Ten Tuesday~ One Word
A Snackless Readathon?
Review~ Unscripted
Reverse Readathon~ July 2023

Coming Next Week:

Plan for the Year Ahead
Readathon Recap
Top Ten Tuesday
Will I Ever Finish?
Review~ Redesigning Happiness

Reading:

Audio Hours completed: 20
Physical Chapters completed: 61
eBook Chapters completed: 9

(Does not include any reading from the Readathon, just leading up to it)

Books Finished:

Creating a Charmed Life by Victoria Moran ***
Ladies of the House by Lauren Edmondson ***
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner ****
Beautiful Stranger by Christina Lauren (re-read)*****