Monthly Recap: June

So I started June off well with watching a lot of TV while mentally preparing myself for Ramadan, hot summer weather and being surrounded by a lot more family. I was reading at a fairly normal pace and everything was going good, but then I got sick like you wouldn’t believe. Ramadan is basically the worst time to get sick because I usually don’t sleep all night which is already taxing on the body. Skipping fasts is only allowed if the sickness is severe and mine was mainly leaving me extremely tired and unable to move which meant lying in bed ordering books and being unable to finish the recitation of the Holy Qur’an. Sigh.

When rain tried to reign

One of the weirdest thing to ever get its own heading but it just had to. So our house is one of the oldest on the street which means that overtime, its foundation got considerably lower than almost all the other houses and the road itself on the street. That combined with the driveway that steeps into our house means that rain from the road sometimes floods in. It’s never a big deal because it just drains away, but this time the rain just wouldn’t let up, somehow the drains stopped working and then…rainwater started getting inside the house. There are 5 doors into the house and muddy rainwater coming in from 3 of them. It finally drained away after about 4 hours and there wasn’t a lot of damage except a couple of carpets getting soaked through. However, it was all so stressful as everyone was trying to stop the water from entering the house while fasting and just gah, what a thing to happen.

A happy tidbit

I finally got my Bachelor’s degree! Such a relief. It was hilarious though that when I showed it to my mom and she was all, ‘So it took you 7 years to graduate?’ (since the date on it is the date of issue). I was aghast because I did everything and got all the credit hours on time except the thesis. So technically, I consider it to be 5 years counting all the extra time I had to put into the thesis from hell. I should probably buy books to celebrate.

TV WATCH

Watching only 4 TV shows in a month must be some kind of record for me.

• Gilmore Girls – Finished season 3 and the last episode made me so emotional. I did start season 4, but everything feels weird with Rory not in high school anymore and no Jess.
• Broadchurch – I finally listened to Maraia and watched one of her TV show recs from start to finish. So glad because Broadchurch is great. I think I liked season 2 way more, but both seasons are very painful and just gaaah.
• UnREAL – THIS SHOW IS SO CRAZY AND I LOVE IT. This season the focus seems to be more on the “creators” of the show than the contestants and I’ve to say that I’m liking the change.
• The Legend of Korra – I finished season 1 and started 2 and man, so many feelings all around. ALSO, KORRASAMI HAD THEIR FIRST DATE ON THE RACETRACK. THIS IS CANON.

MOVIE WATCH

Uh, I honestly tried to squeeze at least one movie in and guess I failed.

LIST OF READS

I’m very glad that I got some reading done in the first half of June.

• Limbo #1 by Dan Watters, Caspar Wijngaard
• Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke
• A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
• Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
• The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies by Lindsay Ribar
• Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst

LIST OF BOOK ACQUISITIONS

I just counted the number books that I got in June and almost died.

• Limbo #1 by Dan Watters, Caspar Wijngaard
• The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
• The Thousand Names by Django Wexler
• The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
• The Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima
• The Gray Wolf Throne by Cinda Williams Chima
• The Crimson Crown by Cinda Williams Chima
• Gods of Nabban by K.V. Johansen
• Loki’s Wolves by Kelley Armstrong
• Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies by Lindsay Ribar
• Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
• Kojiki by Keith Yatsuhashi
• My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
• Join by Steve Toutonghi
• Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig
• The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater (finally got my signed hardcover, whee!)
• The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
• Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain
• Stranger of Tempest by Tom Lloyd
• A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
• The Rose and the Dagger by Renée Ahdieh
• The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
• The Apothecary’s Curse by Barbara Barnett
• Time Salvager by Wesley Chu

PLAYLIST

No idea how this playlist got 35 songs long.