I can't decide if time is moving faster or slower in quarantine. On one hand, it feels like every day takes so long to happen, but on the other hand, how is it already halfway through April?? When did that happen? Anyway apparently it's Friday so I've got some books for you.

I didn't intentionally pick two books this week by Black authors, it just kind of happened that way, but whatever! If you haven't figured it out yet, I don't exactly plan out this schedule; it's based entirely around whether or not something I had at the library has come due or not (and if I've had a book sitting around for too long).

Apparently it's April! I think I'm glad we're no longer in March - if I trust that the dates have actually proceeded as usual. But! I'm not engaging in rampant fear-mongering because I know that spikes MY anxiety and probably many other people's too.

Let's talk about books!!!

Well, the world continues to be weird, huh? At least I'm properly working from home now, that's nice. And my contract job ends this week, so soon I'll have much more time to read! And will be doing so! Inside!!!

(Maybe I should drag a chair onto the fire escape?)

Well, the name of the game is self-isolation, and you know what that means! More time for reading! Just ignore the fact that as of this writing, I'm still having to go into work. Boooooo.

Hot damn y'all, we're up to 20 books! Also, I only have a couple weeks left at the very exhausting job, which is excellent news!

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.