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Ahhh it’s becoming a real book! Look at this gor

READATHON results! I read two of the six books.

READATHON results!

I read two of the six books. Whoops oh well.

MORE IMPORTANTLY, I finished my jumpsuit prototype and ice dyed it so it wouldn’t look like hospital scrubs green. Instead, I look like I got into house painting. But that’s ok. I needed the experience of making it once so that I could make it again with my good fabric! Jumpsuits are a pain in the butt to create but I’m really proud of finishing it! I got the pattern from @rational_dress_society and cut the legs to make them shorts.

[id: elissa, an Asian American woman, holds a copy of Frankly in Love and Like A Love Story (one book in each hand). She’s wearing short coveralls]

Readathon is going well! I forgot how exhilarating

Readathon is going well! I forgot how exhilarating it is to chew through a book in a day. I’ve got two down, four to go, and am feeling good! Pictured is my constant companion, Luna, who has to be near me as I read.

[id: a grey cat’s head nuzzles a hand holding open a book.]

THE SWIMMERS by Julie Otsuka At first meditative

THE SWIMMERS by Julie Otsuka

At first meditative and calm, the story follows a group of swimmers who congregate at a local pool, but when the pool shuts down, their routines are affected — one more than the others. Alice, who had already begun to have memory problems, is moved to a home where she will live the rest of her days. The story, told in second person, describes life at the home and Alice’s rapid decline from the point of view of her daughter.

Alice was a Japanese American resident who, you learn through quiet prose, was interned during World War II. And I don’t know, just reading about a Japanese woman losing her mind really hit me. The way Otsuka writes feels autobiographical, like Alice was her own mother and this was her way of coping with what happened to her. The little details, like Shiseido makeup, hit too close to home for me and my heart ached as I started thinking of my own mother dealing with some sort of health implication that would begin her descent too.

I finished reading this book feeling hollow and sad, but it was also such a beautiful book that I’m glad I read it. Just… need a happy chaser to follow it. Maybe it’s time for a romance?

[id: a pair of legs lie next to an iPad with The Swimmers book cover on the screen. The book cover is of a background of a pool with a few small people dotting its surface.]

✨ READATHON MAY 2022 ✨ I was looking at my st

✨ READATHON MAY 2022 ✨

I was looking at my storygraph reading challenge and I’m perpetually 5-6 books behind after a rough February. So I’m going to push myself this week to read a book a day. Can it be done? Maybe!!

I chose one book per shelf in my library and all YA since they are faster to read (typically). I have had some of these titles for actual YEARS and haven’t touched them so I need to get to it! (One is even an ARC — for a book that came out in 2019.)

I’ll be updating in my stories! Cheer me on!

[id: a hand holds a stack of six books. The titles are:
- Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
- Frankly in Love by David Yoon
-The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
-Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi
- We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
- I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick]

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