I'm kind of lukewarm on both the books this week, and I can't tell if that's because I just generally wasn't into them, or if it's because I'm approaching burnout (due to work, not this, but it spills into every sector unfortunately). I hope it's not the latter - is it the end of March yet??

Wow, two months already! How is it that I'm doing this challenge, and yet I still feel horribly behind in terms of "books I want to read"? Is it the gigantic pile of paperbacks in my living room? It is, isn't it? Oh god, is it behind me??

The list of Nebula Award nominees came out yesterday. I haven't looked at them yet, but probably expect to see some of them on this blog eventually. Also, if you like books, I'm working on a not-very-secret book-related project.

Onto this week's reads! It's super cool that this week they're both queer ownvoices works!

So, uh, some weird ones this week. By some odd coincidence, both books I chose this week are just weird. I want to try to read things in isolation as much as possible, but sometimes comparisons become necessary, especially when one book really worked for me, and one...really didn't. Let's get to it.