October Wanderings

For someone who normally sleeps in and takes it pretty easy on the weekends, I had quite a bit going on last weekend. I went to a Halloween themed concert and then drove to a completely different part of the state. I'd say that counts as a busy weekend.

I've been to Kern County before, but it never ceases to amaze me that such a different landscape and such a different lifestyle exists just four hours from my Southern California home. It really just reminds me how big and diverse of a state California is and that I should be so incredibly grateful to live here.

Wishing you all a safe and fun Halloween weekend!

Creepy Reads for Halloween

HALLOWEEN RECOMMENDATIONS

Mary Shelley / Frankenstein

Nathaniel Hawthorne / Young Goodman Brown / The Birthmark / Roger Malvin's Burial

Henry James / The Turn of the Screw

Original fairy tales

Charlotte Bronte / Jane Eyre

E. B. Hudspeth / The Resurrectionist

Chuck Palaniuk / Fight Club

My Jane Austen Collection

Happy Monday, everyone! If you are reading this, then I am currently somewhere in the Mojave desert on an impromptu work trip. That unfortunately means no "new" content from me today, but I did forget to post my most recent video, My Jane Austen Collection, last week.

So here you go, a little Austen goodness to tide you over. Hope you all had a fantastic weekend!

Wild One / October Playlist

Rebel / Beach Weather Wake Up / Arcade Fire Salesman At The Day Of The Parade / Rogue Wave Throw It Away / Kina Grannis On the Bus Mall / The Decemberists Mykonos / Fleet Foxes I'll Never Leave You / Rogue Wave Oh Father / Kina Grannis Wolf / Beach Weather Come Back Home / We Are The In Crowd

BookTuber Shout Outs [Tag]

BOOKTUBERS MENTIONED

Sanne / booksandquills 

Priscilla / TheReadables

Max / WellDoneBooks

Michael / Bitten by a Radioactive Book

Rincey / RinceyReads

Angelica / AngelicaM2009

Elizabeth / books and pieces

Gary / BookNeedLove

Amy / TheCollectedWorks

Rosianna / Rosianna Halse Rojas

Ariel / Ariel Bisset

Erika / Erika Chung

Sam / Novels and Nonsense

Vanessa / chboskyy

Wiebke / 1book1review

Ronnie / RonLit

Geraldine / starian72

Mercedes / MercysBookishMusings

Jen Campbell / JenvCampbell

Sabrina / unmanagedmischief

Misty / MistyBookRat

Emily / ObsessedReader

Holly / Library at the Edge of the World

Abby / The Story Magpie

Ashley / Climb the Stacks

Leslie / Words of a Reader

Candace / librarianfanmail

Marlin / MarlinElina

September Reading Wrap Up

BOOKS READ

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest / Stieg Larsson

A Necessary End / Holly Brown

Casino Royale / Ian Fleming

DISCUSSION POSTS

The Millennium Trilogy / What I Love About Lisbeth Salandar

CURRENTLY READING

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness / Kenzaburo Oe

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers / J.R.R. Tolkien

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II / Denise Kiernan

September Favorites

FAVORITES MENTIONED

MOVIE

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

MUSIC

Daniel Pemberton / The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Soundtrack

My September Playlist / Old School

DAY TRIP

Battleship USS Iowa

BOOKTUBE VIDEOS

Vanessa's Video / Big Book Fear & TBR Challenges

Sabrina's Video / Where to Start with Japanese Lit

A Quick Note About #YearofMiyazaki

Happy Friday, friends!

Today I just have a quick note about my Year of Miyazaki project. As of right now, at the beginning of October, I have only watched and made a discussion video about one Studio Ghibli film. Because of all the changes that ended up happening midway through 2015, I actually kind of forgot I was doing this project. With 20 films I have yet to watch, I don't think this is a project I will be able to complete in 2015.

So I've decided to push this out to 2016, rather than canceling the whole thing. I'll still be watching all of Studio Ghibli's filmography, just not right now.

That's all I have to share for this quick update. Have a great weekend everyone!

Summer + September Book Haul