ChiMakwa

Burnt my hands twice today. I am in the middle of opening my own pizzeria / chip stand with my family and we just got our oven delivered today, so I spent about half of the day cleaning and making sure things would work fine on this used oven and then we made some test pizzas. On that test, I burnt my hands twice opening the new oven because we had it on the ground so it opened awkwardly. Needless to say, we're having a table built so I don't have to risk burning my hands again.

I am sat here today wondering to myself, what book should I start?

I think I am in the mood for an unabashedly ambitious main character in the morally grey category, of course it would have to be within my tastes in settings, like Sci-Fi or Fantasy. I for the life of me cannot enjoy stories that get too close to reality, so modern settings are out for me, something about mundane living breaks the immersion of stories for me.

Anyway, I'm on the look out for stories within that category I listed. Right now I got the Dune series I'm making my way through.

Finished all of the secret projects by Brandon Sanderson. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter was probably my favourite out of them, followed by The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England. My least favourite of them is probably the Sunlit Man, which wasn't bad, just not as good as the others I think.

Been awhile since a game consumed me. Got 175 hours in Baldur's Gate.

It's my little brother's first birthday today. I got to hear him try to sing and dance, doing his best to copy our grandfather.

It's funny and incredibly unfortunate that I read more when I have work to do. When I'm working I always finish my day off by taking like 3 hours after work to read, but I don't do that when I haven't worked... meaning my days have been incredibly boring these past few weeks I've been off work. I've gone from reading about 4 books a month to only 1 so far. It sucks that I can't get in the mood to read, because it's probably my longest time passer and without it my days are filled with me literally doing nothing because there's nothing to do around my house because chores are done, and nothing to do around my community.

Finished RWBY volume 9 last night. Slept on it and I think I can say that I like it more than volumes 7 and 8 which were beginning to catch my attention again. I really liked RWBY, but I can't say that I enjoyed the experience watching them since volume 3. It stumbled a lot, had good moments, but it couldn't stay consistently good. I can say that I think volume 9 kept my attention through all of it, despite me putting off watching it for a long time.

13 novels (12 Brandon Sanderson novels and 1 Erin M. Evans novel) 25 light novels (Ascendance of a Bookworm and started Spice and Wolf), and 3 novellas from Brandon Sanderson. I've been able to afford my reading obsession recently and I still haven't found my fill of it and I'm running out of stories I know I like.

I've started and finished about 10 novels and 20+ novellas since the beginning of the year. A lot of the novellas were Light Novels from one series called Ascendence of a Bookworm. The novels were all western books ranging from more Star Wars, some Sci-Fi novels and recently, my biggest kick I've had, a bunch of fantasy novels from Brandon Sanderson. I've just about got through all his books, just reading Elantris now before I go through all his novellas.

Just started and finished the first book in the Star Wars High Republic series, "Light of the Jedi". It was surprisingly good, they sold it to me in a way that just didn't come off as fun, but it was a good Star Wars book. I love Star Wars.

Spider Man No Way Home was pretty good, one of the bests of the movies, both MCU and Spiderman I think... I think I like Spiderman 2 more still.

Spiderman has graduated from my second favourite superhero to sharing the number one spot with Superman.