The Sunday Post | Book Cons & Hauls

Hey friends, welcome to The Sunday Post – a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer to share all the weekly news and feels!

Last week I talked about how excited I was for reading week this week and how much stuff I was going to get done. *Insert canned audience laughter* Of course, that didn’t happen. I didn’t get any work done for my uni course or any life stuff sorted. So, what did I actually do?

Extracurricular Activities

Although I haven’t gotten any work work done I did get some other stuff done this week! I’ve been getting involved in a society at uni so spent some of last week in committee organising things. Whilst it meant I got a little bit distracted from my uni work, one of my main goals for returning to education was to get more involved in student life, so I’m not going to be too hard on myself for actually joining in when I know I can get my work done in time as well!

On Wednesday I also had SO MUCH FUN playing D&D with my best friends again. We started part 2 of our “one-shot” and we’re going to need another session to wrap up the last bit. I’ve wanted to play D&D for ages but felt too anxious about playing with people I don’t know so getting to play an awesome story with the best people is bringing me a lot of joy.

Yesterday I went to the SFX Book Con 2! I’m going to be doing a proper run down of the event because boy did a lot happen. Overall it was a really fun event though. It was the perfect thing to go to during Sci-Fi Month, I got to meet lots of great people (both authors and book bloggers!), and, of course, ended up with even more books. This coming week I’ll share my SFX Book Con 2 event review so keep an eye out for that.

Books, Books, Books

This week also turned out to be a pretty good reading week as well! I finally finished Frankenstein, which I’ve been reading since the end of October, and also read The Princess Diaries 2 this weekend. Earlier in the week I also picked up Red Rising which is a book that is on both my #mythothon and Sci-Fi Month TBR. My friend bought it for me almost exactly a year ago and WHY DID I LEAVE IT FOR SO LONG?! So far it’s mind-blowingly good and I can’t wait to see how the story continues to develop. Also, Matteo is A*.

I’ve also managed to acquire quite a lot of books since my last post. I got the best book post from Angry Robot Books who I give all of my thanks to, as well as 5 books from SFX Book Con 2! Here’s a quick rundown of what I got this week:

• Space Unicorn Blues by T.J Berry (Angry Robot Books)
• An Oath of Dogs by Wendy Wagner (Angry Robot Books)
• Lost Gods by Micah Yongo (Angry Robot Books)
• An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows (Angry Robot Books)
• Mecha Samurai Empire by Peter Tieryas (SFX Book Con 2 – Free)
• The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman (SFX Book Con 2 – Free)
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (SFX Book Con 2 – Free)
• The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James (Bought & Signed)
• Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan (Bought & Signed)

Games

NGL, I’ve also been getting sucked into a very deep Sims 4 hole after finally getting over my tantrum about the price & how different it is to my beloved Sims 3. After unsuccessfully finding anyone suitably awesome for our Sim, me and my partner designed her someone instead – Charni Ahmed, a talented non-binary tech guru in search of ‘The One’. After a very successful date at the park, we got Charni to move in with Genesis and redecorated their house ❤

Other News

• I am only 11 FOLLOWERS AWAY FROM 300 FOLLOWERS ON WORDPRESS which I am SUPER EXCITED ABOUT CAN YOU TELL?!
• This week was not great for posting. I only posted up TTT – A Love Letter to All the Owned Books I Still Haven’t Read and a book tag designed from the Sci-Fi Month prompts! One day I will get round to actually posting my half-written reviews…
• Around the blogosphere this week:
  • Bookish Rita shared this fantastic fiction/non-fiction pairing post
  • Destiny was inspired to share with us her ARC shelves (which is something I totally want to do btw)
  • Avery (Book Deviant) is finally getting back on the State of the ARC wagon
  • Kaleena wrote this great list of 7 reasons why she loves science fiction and I agree so hard with a lot of the things she said
  • Fadwa produced this really important post where she talks about navigating the book community as a person of colour which is the Must Read post of the week!

It’s been really nice catching up with all the posts from this week but I’d love to hear what you’re reading/playing/watching/doing at the moment or anything you’re excited about in the coming week!

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