I’ve decided to give up on the Romance genre. It’s just not for me. I like a drop of romance as a flavour to the rest of the story, but reading solely about people trying to come to terms with their feelings for each other just makes me tired. I spend too much time yelling, “JUST FUCKING TALK TO EACH OTHER LIKE ADULTS!” and it drops me out of the story. Also, frankly, I’m not often wowed by capital-R Romance writers’ actual writing style, and life is too short for bad books.<\/p>\n
This month, my new thing was nonfic interior design & decor books. I felt dangerously inspired. In other news, the layout of my lounge has changed for the better, and I’m starting to actually make this rental feel like home.<\/p>\n
I also tried an eBook, kind of. “8 Hour Sleep Affirmations” starts with a guided visualisation that helps you relax your muscles enough to fall asleep, and then uses soft, calming music to help you drift off. Half way through, the narrator’s voice slowly ramps up again to utter positive affirmations, before subsiding into music. It’s ridiculously relaxing, and seems to be working to improve my mood, so I’ve introduced it as a nightly ritual. My spouse is very open minded, and he has come to quite enjoy the soothing sounds.<\/p>\n
Under My Hat<\/em> by Jonathon Strahan 18 in total. Thanks to Amanda for the Fleur Beale rec – it’s very good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve decided to give up on the Romance genre. It’s just not for me. I like a drop of romance as a flavour to the rest of the story, but reading solely about people trying to come to terms with their feelings for each other just makes me tired. I spend too much time yelling, … Continue reading “Reading List 2018 – May”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,7,5],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-6","tag-books","tag-reading-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWorld of Warcraft: Chronicle Vol. 2<\/em> by Chris Metzen and Matt Burns
\nI Am Not Esther<\/em> by Fleur Beale
\nThe Best Man to Die<\/em> by Ruth Rendell
\nA Guilty Thing Surprised<\/em> by Ruth Rendell
\nA Murder is Announced<\/em> by Agatha Christie
\n8 Hour Sleep Affirmations: Anxiety & Depression Self Help<\/em> by Joel Thielke
\nGoldenhand<\/em> by Garth Nix
\nThe Journals of Sylvia Plath<\/em> by Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes
\nCollected Poems<\/em> by Adrienne Rich
\nNo More Dying Then<\/em> by Ruth Rendell
\nThe Missing Ones<\/em> by Patricia Gibney
\nThe New Bohemians<\/em> by Justina Blakeney
\nThe Kinfolk Home<\/em> by Nathan Williams
\nThe Great Interior Design Challenge Sourcebook<\/em> by Tom Dyckhoff
\nThe Slaughter Man<\/em> by Tony Parsons
\nReaper Man<\/em> by Terry Pratchett
\nDangerously Bad<\/em> by Eden Bradley<\/p>\n