It’s Read Around the Rainbow time! I can’t believe how fast the months swish by. This post comes up on my to-do way more often than once a month (it doesn’t, it’s just a feeling). If you’ve missed the Read Around the Rainbow posts before, we’re a group of authors who get together and write a blog post on the same topic on the last Friday of every month. July’s topic is What’s on My TBR?
I don’t have a TBR.
Easy, don’t choke on your coffee 😆
This is arguable, okay? I have hundreds, probably thousands of books on various apps that I have yet to read. Some I will read, others… Let’s face it. If I’ve had them for over a decade and never felt a calling, it likely won’t happen.
I never plan what to read. I’m too much of a mood reader. I scroll through my books and pick something that looks good. I don’t have a numbered list or anything like that.
Sometimes I see social media posts where readers say “I’m gonna read these books in July” and then they have twenty covers orchestrated into a pretty post. Often when I see them, I think: Oh, I’m gonna do that! Then reality catches up with me.
I’m sick of reading my own books, but right now, it’s what I spend most time doing. Writing them, going through edits, proofreading, reading a story because I’m gonna write a sequel, and then we start all over again. I’ve written so much these last few months that when I’ve been away from my desk, I’ve put on podcasts about gardening or the pending apocalypse – hey, we all need something outside the world of books 😅
That being said! I’m looking forward to Something Wicked by Lily Morton. I’m regularly checking for news about Charlie Adhara because I need more of both Cooper and Oliver and Julen and Eli. And as soon as I’m on the other side of my pending deadlines, I’m gonna go looking for the fifth book in The Spectral Files series by S.E. Harmon. And I’m always looking for paranormal books by Louisa Masters. I’m behind on both her demons and the Ghostly Guardians series.
So yeah, when I feel like it and when I have the brain capacity to get through a book and enjoy it, it’ll most likely be one of them.
Or I’ll re-read an old favourite and allow my brain to rest 😊
In the winter, everything is cold and dark. I’m constantly tired, and I think we should hibernate. For me, there is a spark of excitement at New Year, but it has more to do with me drawing up new things in my bullet journal, new future logs and yearly spreads. I write down my goals for the coming year and so on.
Ofelia Grand 