Rainy Day Library

It's probably not the answer you're expecting. For as long as I can remember, I've been a night owl. Part of it was growing up in a toxic and volatile home - night time was peaceful and quiet, and the only time I felt I could relax a little bit. The other part of it was that, no matter what time I went to bed, I just couldn't get up easily in the mornings. My mother called me lazy. My teachers always assumed I'd just stayed up all night playing video games or watching TV.  I always maintained, even as a kid, that not everyone is a morning person. I would be awoken every weekend day by my mother loudly blasting her "cleaning music" and the vacuum at about 6am. My brother and I would beg her to wait just a few more hours, to let us catch up on some sleep after a busy week. But she would always shout at us that by sleeping in, we were just being lazy layabouts. She'd tell us to go to bed earlier, but I couldn't go to bed any earlier than I already was...

I read two books in September. I've accepted that, at this point, I'm not going to meet my ambitious reading goal of sixty books this year, but that's okay. I'm currently at 27 books  and hope I can get to about 35-40. This is a reminder that your goals can be dynamic, and it's not a bad thing to change them!  Although I've been unemployed for most of this year, it hasn't led to my reading lots like I thought it would. Maybe it's the anxiety about money and finding a new job?  Overall, I enjoyed the two books I read this month, so here's a little recap.  The first book I finished was Sounds Like Love  by Ashley Poston. I'd previously read The Seven Year Slip , which quickly became one of my favourite contemporary romance books, so I was really excited to read another of hers. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy it as much, but it's still one of the better contemporary romances that I've read. It was a very average read for me, a nice enough...