In Progress: Daily and Yearly Challenges, Week 3

Yesterday was an emotionally hellish day, so I completely forgot to do my weekly write up for my 101 in 1001. But what's one day late, right? At least I'm getting it written up eventually.

Thanks to audio books, I've been able to keep up on my reading. Also, thanks to both of my graphic novel book clubs having their meetings this past week. I was able to finish Moon Over Soho, which was a wonderful next outing for Peter Grant. I've got the ebook out for Whispers Under Ground, but I'm waiting for the audio book to come in. Some books I love reading the written word, some just work better as audio books. For me, this is one of the later. Of course, it also doesn't help that I have about 30 things happening at the same time which makes listening a lot easier.

I also read Beauty by Robin McKinley. It's one that had been on my TBR for awhile and, thanks to my friend Gwen, actually got a read finally! I enjoyed it immensely, and I loved the recognizing bits and pieces from the different stories about Beauty and the Beast that I'd heard. Along with it, I also read The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos, Vol 1 by Tate Brombel and James Tynion IV. This was for my virtual graphic novel book club and it fit in well with the other Tynions that I've read. For my in person graphic novel book club, I read The Marble Queen by Anna Kopp. I wasn't sure what I was expecting, but that wasn't it. Not that it was bad. The story was actually quite wonderful and kept me interested through it all. It's definitely higher up on my recommendation pile.

Today, I finished listening to You Better Watch Out by James S Murray and Darren Wearmouth. I think, if I'd paid more attention, it's probably a book that I wouldn't have taken out. I'm not much for slasher reads/watches. But I did finish the book and I'm kinda glad I did. While some of the scenes were particularly gory, the story itself kept pulling me in. I just had to turn it off to get some distance every once in awhile.

My writing has been a bit on the iffier side. A lot of days, my writing is a couple lines on a message board, or a little writing on Facebook. There've been a couple days that I haven't kept up like I should. Both with it and with my no fast food. The amount I'm eating is far down from what it had been - I think I've eaten fast food once in the last week, and that's because I was driving my youngest in to school. But like I said last week, its not important that I stumble, it's important that I get back up. And I'm trying to do just that.

As usual, my pictures have been fairly well kept up. Sometimes it's a picture when I'm lying in bed because I remembered it at the last minute, but I did get that picture taken. And in some of them, I think I'm looking particularly cute.