Good day my darlings,
Right here we’re, on the cusp of Summer season 2021. It’s been surreal, hasn’t it? I’m absolutely vaxxed in the end and having fun with the flexibility to go exterior the home with much less concern, though being in Maryland does imply that I often must wade by way of crunchy drifts of cicadas.
I may have stated this at any level previously 12 months or so however: that is such a bizarre second in time.
I really feel a bit of bit in limbo, realizing that many individuals are shielded from COVID now however not everybody, and by no means realizing what info to belief or who to imagine. I’m additionally feeling some FOMO as individuals hurry into the “return to regular.” I’m vaccinated and intensely grateful, however the truth is that my continual well being points imply that it’s nonetheless going to be laborious for me to exit and do issues. The recognition of Zoom and digital attendance of occasions over the previous 12 months gave me extra choices for private {and professional} connection than I’ve had in a very long time and I’m afraid that’s going to go away.
For those who comply with me on IG, you additionally know that I used to be within the hospital just lately. I’m high quality now, however I’ve needed to reassess how I’m spending my time to make room for some new docs and new therapies, which suggests I’ve needed to minimize down on writing. I’m very grateful to have entry to healthcare once I want it, particularly now that it’s much less harmful for me to be round individuals, nevertheless it’s at all times a little bit of a bummer once I have to scale down on issues I take pleasure in to create space for sophisticated, boring, exhausting, costly medical therapies.
With all of that stated: it’s heat exterior, the sky is gorgeous, flowers are blooming, and I’m capable of spend time INSIDE BUILDINGS with my family and friends once more and that’s probably the most unbelievable pleasure. I missed my individuals desperately and it’s such a reduction to have the ability to host brunch or sit in a automotive with my sister or hug my mother and father. I’m so grateful for the science that made the vaccine doable and the varied elements that meant I used to be capable of get mine.
I don’t know what’s coming subsequent and issues aren’t good, however there’s a lot to be pleased about proper now.
How are you doing, my darlings? Are you having fun with a little bit of a “return to normalcy”? Do you even have conflicting emotions about the place all of us are proper now? Have you ever learn something good just lately?
xoxo,
Becky
What I’m studying:
Rosemary And Rue by Seanan McGuire (October Daye collection): Indiebound/Amazon.
I discovered this collection by way of an writer’s Twitter suggestions and I’m obsessed. It’s City Fantasy centered across the lifetime of October Daye, a San Francisco Non-public Investigator who simply occurs to be half-fae, which suggests she focuses on mysteries that have an effect on each the supernatural and human communities. Fantasy with a little bit of thriller is precisely what I would like proper now. It’s a vivid, gorgeously plotted, completely absorbing collection with complicated, attention-grabbing characters and elaborate mythology. I’m on e-book 10 and nonetheless enthralled. The primary e-book is a bit of gradual, however by e-book three I knew I used to be studying a brand new favourite.
Contact The Darkish (Cassie Palmer collection) by Karen Likelihood: Indiebound/Amazon
One other City Fantasy collection I devoured just lately! Cassie Palmer’s story isn’t as good a match for me as October Daye, however I totally loved studying all of it. These books have a bit extra of a True Blood vibe: there’s fixed movement, because the heroine is catapulted from one dramatic blood-soaked state of affairs to a different, whereas often making time to have intercourse with attention-grabbing and sometimes supernatural males. There are nearly no quiet moments in your entire collection, each pause for breath is interrupted by an assault or plot twist. There are vampires, ghosts, psychics, demons, and historical gods. It’s very enjoyable, particularly while you’re seeking to bury your self in a distraction that has nothing to do with your individual life.
The Satan Comes Courting by Courtney Milan: Indiebound/Amazon
I’ve at all times loved Courtney Milan’s Historic Romance, however her current books (this one and the great The Duke Who Didn’t) have reached a complete new stage of heartwarming, squee-worthy delightfulness. Such an ideal mixture of intriguing historic materials, thoughtfulness, characters’ journeying to seek out their very own truest selves, and pure beautiful human connection. Milan’s current books have additionally targeted on mixed-race foremost characters and foremost characters of shade, which is all too uncommon within the Historic Romance style.
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