Week 2 [20/01/2025 - 26/01/2025]: What I have read this week...

 What I have read this week...




I have decided to do a weekly post on Sundays, only a short one, just to inform you all what I have been reading that current week. When I do these little posts I will try to include everything I have read, even if it does not seem relevant to the general themes of my blog posts from within that week.


This week has seen me read a little bit, though not much in the way of variety.


1: French!

Yes I am still doing my French daily. I have done over a year without losing my record of days.


2: The Testaments (2019) by Margaret Atwood.

I finished this awesome novel off at the beginning of the week. As you can see from my review, I thoroughly loved it.


3: Wonderbook (2018) by Jeff Vandermeer.

I got this book while in my final year at university and lately it has been insightful to me. I love reading bits and pieces of it at times. For me this is instrumental to anyone wanting to write anything considered within the realms of speculative fiction - fantasy, horror, sci-fi, dystopian, adventure and I would argue mystery too. This is a book that I will keep coming back to.


4: Track listings.

I had a number of second hand albums I had yet listened to. I was reading the tracklists again to see what songs I had.


5: Instagram. (Again)

I must admit that I have read some Instagram posts this week in relation to what's been happening lately. Though after Mark Zuckerberg's latest news about scrapping fact-checking policies, I think I'll be keeping Instagram scrolls to the bare minimum. There is still some stuff I like to know from sources/people I can trust out there. (P.S: I like fact check politics's page.) I won't use X so I might swap to Blue sky completely.


6: More packets.

Just for dates of eggs and cooking times of both wholewheat spaghetti as well as cod fishcakes.


7: Oryx and Crake (2003) by Margaret Atwood.

This is the first dystopian in the MaddAddam trilogy. I have always wanted to read it and though I have had it for a little while, I never quite got round to it. Now I have! Wait and see what I thought of it when I've finished it.


8: Song titles.

When I'm on YouTube, I read song names and their artists as I'm looking for something. Sometimes I want some Madonna, sometimes I just want a recent album or perhaps 80s music...



That is all for what I have been reading this week. See what next week brings...

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