Cubique is a home screen with an optical texture that evoques isometric cubes. Can be used both for divide spaces or hanging accesories such as scarfs and ties. It was developed as a commissioned work for Revista Axxis, Colombia.
I have so many books on my May TBR it’s a bit ridiculous; I can already guarantee I’m not going to read them all. But these are the books I’m planning to prioritize this month!
Right off the bat, I’m going to rollover my January purchases from my April TBR that I didn’t quite make it to. They include Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams, and This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins.
The bulk of my TBR in May is books I purchased in February whose three-month deadlines are coming up this month. I’m disappointed in myself for buying way more than I could read in such a time frame, but I have cut back on buying books, and now I have a better idea of realistically how many I should allow myself to purchase in a month (ideally a maximum of five right now, I think).
I’ve heard so many amazing things about Pachinko, plus it was Roxane Gay’s favorite book of 2017! I’m really excited to read it, I just haven’t quite made it to it just yet. Hopefully putting it on this list will be the motivation I need.
Little Fires Everywhere is another book I keep hearing amazing things about and that was frequently named a favorite book of 2017, plus I’m pretty excited that Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington are planning to adapt it. And I really enjoy following Ng on Twitter, so I genuinely have no reason not to have already read this book!
My coworker really enjoyed The Late Show and gave me her copy to read because she thought I’d like it too. I don’t think it’s something I would normally pick up, but since a large part of my reading goals are to read outside my comfort zone, I’m excited to check it out!
I found a lot of books by researching for the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge, and When Breath Becomes Air is one of them that popped up repeatedly for the challenge of reading a book published posthumously. While I’ve technically already completed that challenge, I have no problem doubling up with what everyone seems to swear is a life-changing read.
I’ve been meaning to read Between the World and Me for ages, and I finally bought a copy during a sale in February. For some reason I just haven’t gotten around to picking it up just yet, but I’m really hoping to get to it this month.
Not going to lie, I kind of regret buying The Belles and getting it signed. For whatever reason I have yet to be able to determine, I love going to book signings, even if I haven’t read the author’s works before. I try not to do that too often since I’ve been burned before and found myself with a signed copy of a book I really don’t like, but I was really excited to check out The Belles based on all the hype before its release and I didn’t have plans on the day of the signing, plus Adam Silvera was there and I wanted his signature, so I went and got a copy. I clearly didn’t read it right away, and since its release, I’ve heard a lot of lackluster reviews of The Belles. I feel like I’ll enjoy it overall, but I don’t think I’ll be wowed by it, and I probably wouldn’t be reading it if I didn’t have a signed copy. This is why I need to do better at not giving in to the hype!
Downtown Owl is another book I was gifted by a coworker! She knew I was from North Dakota and had just read this book, which is also set in North Dakota (the author is from there, too), so she figured I should check it out. It honestly doesn’t sound like something I would normally read, but again, I think it’s good to read outside my comfort zone, plus I love supporting North Dakota authors!
I picked It’s Hard Out Here for a Duke as the book that came with my ticket for Word’s Galentine’s Day event in February. It was a really fun event and I enjoyed getting the chance to speak a bit with the author, but I just haven’t picked it up yet. Definitely something I need to remedy soon!
I totally knew better than to buy The Demon King, as I clearly had plenty of books on my TBR already, but I’ve been wanting to read this book for a long time and it was super discounted, so I caved and bought it. I’ve been in the mood for some good fantasy lately, so hopefully this fits the bill!
I bought The Girl of Fire and Thorns at the same time as The Demon King because I’ve been wanting to read this one for a while, too, and clearly threw my plans not to buy books to the wind. I’m excited to finally dive into this series!
I really enjoyed the first two books in the Wayward Children series, and I’ve heard great things about the third book, Beneath the Sugar Sky, but like all of the other books on this list (seriously, I’m a broken record at this point), I just haven’t gotten to it yet.
Homegoing is another book I’ve heard nothing but amazing things about. Realistically, I knew when I bought this that I wouldn’t get to it for a while, but I 100 percent intend to read it this year (it’s on my list of 18 books to read in 2018) and I could only hold out for so long. So I got it, and I’m excited to finally read it!
In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have bought Autoboyography. I think it’s going to be a cute, fun read and I’m sure I’ll enjoy it, but I feel like there are a whole bunch of other books on my TBR that I’d rather read right now. This is exactly why I want to get to the point where I read books as I purchase them, so I don’t have a chance to lose my excitement about them and then never go back and read them!
You Bring the Distant Near is another book I probably shouldn’t have purchased. Again, I think it will be a really good read, but I’m just not super excited to pick it up right now.
I also want to give a shoutout to a few preorders I have coming in May. There is absolutely no way I’m not immediately reading A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas, so you know that’s going to be read in May! I also preordered the paperback of Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner, and I’m considering picking it up right away since I’ve been enjoying that series so much. I also have a preorder of Surpassing Certainty by Janet Mock coming in the mail, but I don’t think I’ll be reading that one right away. Oh, and Not That Bad edited by Roxane Gay is out in May. I don’t think I’ll buy a copy right away because I doubt I’ll be ready to read it just yet, but I definitely plan to get it later this year.
I’m torn about what to do for my goal of reading my 2017 purchases. Last month I figured I’d read ahead enough that I didn’t need to stick to my goal of reading four a month, but this month I’m thinking I ought to stick with it and just spread out my 2018 purchases a little longer. I mean, I’m already missing my three-month goal regardless, so there’s no sense in falling behind on two goals at once. Idk, we’ll see what I’m in the mood to read. I still really want to get to The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller, and I’m getting excited for Vicious by V.E. Schwab with the upcoming release of Vengeful.
As for my book club book, I actually won’t be able to make the June meeting since I’ll be at Book Con, so I’m not planning to read the pick. Ideally I would anyways, but since I have so many other books I want to get to this month (especially since I anticipate getting a bunch of new books at Book Expo), I don’t think I’ll read it.
May is also the last month that my reread of the A Court of Thorns and Roses trilogy is good for. Ideally I’d like to reread something this month anyways just to stay in the habit (I should really continue my Harry Potter reread with Order of the Phoenix), but again, I have a lot of new purchases I should get to! So there’s a good chance my reread will get pushed off until June.
So yeah, I wasn’t exaggerating when I said my TBR this month was a little excessive! This doesn’t even count a number of library loans that just came through or the box of books that Avon just sent me, so who knows how many of these I’ll really get to? Oh, and my friend is really talking up What Should be Wild by Julia Fine, so I will probably borrow that from him and read it this month. Plus I’m starting a new job in May, so I suspect my reading is going to be cut back a fair amount, unfortunately. So this entire list is absolutely not happening, but my fingers are crossed I’ll still be able to make a good dent!
Ooh, you have such a great tbr this month! Between the World and Me, Little Fires Everywhere, Homegoing, You Bring the Distant Near, Beneath the Sugar Sky, and Autoboyography were all 4.5- or 5-star reads for me. The Belles is my book club’s pick for this month, so hopefully I’ll be reading that one, as well (although, the past few months, I haven’t gotten to the book for book club. OOPS.). I have Pachinko on hold from my library, so I’m hoping it comes in soon! I’m dying to read that one. Happy reading in May! 🙂
I’m so excited for all of them! I really need to just stop time and do nothing but read so I can catch up on all the books I want to read. Good luck reading your book club book, and fingers crossed Pachinko comes for you soon!
Thanks! It’s a ridiculously long list, but I’m pretty excited to get to most of these books! And whatever I don’t get to this month will definitely be read in the near future.
Fingers crossed! I know sometimes there gets to be so much hype around a book that it’s disappointing when I finally get to it, but I’ve had some good luck so far reading books that other people listed in their favorites of 2017, so I think it will be a good read!
Good luck with the list! Hopefully you’ll enjoy The Belles – I thought it was really innovative and fun. I’ve definitely done that with signed books I ended up not liking..!
It’s no secret that I love, working with collage – and here the past few years mixed media, the use of other media, such as paint, in a collage.
Paper Collage has been my passion for as long as I can remember. I wrote about it for my art exam in when I became a teacher. The students who have been in my classes, they have all made AT LEAST one collage – a year.
Making a collage is inexpensive. So it is good for school projects, where resources are small. It is easy – and it is almost impossible to make mistakes – if you like it it’s super.
I also enjoy making collages on the computer. I can use all the possibilities MANY times. My biggest problem, when working with paper, is that I can only use the paper once. I sometimes doubt myself whether it is the right way I have made my collage if I don’t use printed/photocopied elements. And I don’t use printed/photocopied elements that much. There are so many fine advertising images, text in books and newspapers, photographs, handmade paper and plain paper … In this festive season, it will be cool to use scraps, Christmas stickers and so on.
If you’re feeling courageous, create a collage. Either a poster or start small with a Christmas card or even smaller with gift tags – it is going to be so much fun.
If you use elements from the web, remember to check the copyrights. It might not be the biggest problem if you make collages for yourself or your loved ones. But if you want to sell your collages – or give them away on the internet, it is a good idea to have everything in order. I googled “Free vector” many times, yet got hold of pictures with copyrights. So it is always a good idea to do a reverse google search for the image you are interested in.
If you are too busy – or want to save the collage making for later, I have made a Christmas poster for you. I hope that you like it. I might have one more, it is a lighter colour and it is not the light blue poster next to the Santa …
And if you’re wondering – Santa Claus was NOT free – I found out about it in time and I HAVE bought the picture. I changed the colours, so he fitted the “old school look” that I was looking and now he’s special. You can print free Christmas posters for your personal use, just don’t sell them. : D
I make “Sweet breadsticks – perfect for the lunch box“ If it must be half-healthy and filling. Otherwise, I make these Muesli cookies.
Yes, I know that this word is spelled in a great many ways muesli/müesli/granola – usually I write just MUESLI and “a rose by any other name…”
These cookies are primarily sweetened with fruit sugars from raisins, dates and bananas, and contains less white sugar, 50 grams to approximately 20 cookies. I make the cookies small. Because in my world, the fact that they are small makes it OK to take two – or more. You can easily make them larger.
I have experimented with MANY cereal bars and cookies and I like the muesli cookies/granola bars that are COMPLETELY crisp.
I am not alone in this family – Christian like the chewy muesli cookies/granola bars the best, so this is sort of a compromise.
Yes, you can make these as muesli bars, it’s just more time consuming. First, the mass is poured into a square form (buttered or with baking paper) and it bakes. When the cake is baked, remove it from the oven and let it cool until you can cut it without breaking the bars. Then you have to bake the muesli bars again – these cookies are only baked once. Besides, the cookies keeps their shape in the lunchbox.
Muesli cookies are best (and most brittle), when they are freshly baked. Or else keep them dry and place a piece of parchment paper between the cookies and enjoy a (small) sticky muesli cookie (or two) that is super tasty.
a friend of mine was excited about his new girlfriend. he’s 36, she’s 28. not a bad looking girl. i only recently found out about his new lady-friend. i was having a beer with him and he was telling me how they met, how he gets along with her daughter, how’s she’s got a great job, how she recently got divorced from her SECOND husband…..
he nodded and mentioned how she got married pretty young and she “grew apart” from her husband. i can let that one fly. she had her daughter with her first husband. the divorce was mutual, though there’s really no proving that. she decided to give it a another go when she was 24. lasted just over 3 years and she decided she wasn’t happy and divorced her second husband.
what ensued was a crash course over the current state of the SMP and i told him if he wanted to date her, fine. but i told him to pay VERY.CLOSE attention to how she speaks about her ex-husband and see if she’s collecting alimony. he immediately answered that she was. i asked him-
he stared back blankly. i replied, “wow, seems like a woman can make a career out of getting married every couple of years.” then i explained to him how the family court system rountinely ass rapes men in divorce settlement and they will basically award her whatever the hell she asks for. i told him to find out if there was any abuse in her second marriage and if there was a legitamate reason that she divorced him. then i told him, “i’ll give you my next 2 pay-checks if there were any abuse or legitamte reason for her to divorce him.”
he looked perplexed and i advised him to date her if he wants, but he’d be a fucking moron to marry her. personally, i think women (barring abuse or a legitimate reason) she’d be held to a 2 marriage rule. she should be denied (especially if she’s collecting alimony) marriage after she’s divorced more than 2 men.
it would be nice if the family court system would show some fucking logic and quit awarding a woman multiple alimonies, and yes, i know a woman who was once collected alimont from 2 ex husbands simultaneously. she was a waitress at my local. before that she worked as a cashier at a winn-dixie. i think that should tell you the quality of woman we’re dealing with.
must be nice to be a woman. you get married, pop out a kid, dump hubby and collect child support (where dad has NO say in how/what it’s spent on) and alimony; then go out, and get married again
i LOVE when people find out my age (especially women) then ask me when i plan on “settling down”? i tell them exactly what you’ve read above and 90% of the women tell me i can’t go into a marrige with that kind of mentality. then i inform them that they have the LUXURY of not having to think like that because in divorces they get everything.
then woman have the gall to bitch and moan about “where have all the good men gone?” when instead men should be asking this and this
interesting how young women typically agree with me on this, but when i suggest it to a woman +30 or that has been divorced twice, out come the claws and crys for my castration. sad. sorry toots, decisions have consequences.
It’s perfectly reasonable to count common-law as “marriage” as well, since the government does. Here in my province of British Columbia, it was declared just this past March that all common-law relationships are defacto 100% legal marriages after two years, subject under no uncertain circumstances to 100% of all marriage laws, unless a pre-common-law agreement has been formalized beforehand. (Guess who funded this legislation? Yup, the BC Law Society). This was always kinda sorta the rule here, but having a pre-common-law agreement was unadvisable because even simply having one indicated that you did indeed have a common-law relationship, whereas before there were a few loopholes you could still slip through. Now you’d better get one, or you’re fucked!
But, since the good Gov’t considers common-law to be 100% the same as a legal marriage, no ifs ands or buts, from now on, so do I. (Btw, way to go Tradcons! Not a fucking peep in defense of marriage or protest about this, yet this destroys the concept of marriage as much as, or more than, gay marriage. Boneheads! Since marriage is now anything, it is also nothing)
Been married twice? How many unmarried guys have you lived with that you weren’t married to? Three? Well… you’ve been married five times now and are shopping for your sixth husband. And you’re only forty? Hmmm… and Liz Taylor was only on her fourth marriage at forty…
game is the best defense. if a man wants a woman in his life, if has a strong red-pill foundation and game, access to sex is easy. i NEVER allow when too feel my house is theirs nor do treat her place as if it were mine.
My dad was 34 when he married my mom, a 38-year-old career woman and divorcee with an adult child from her first marriage. She had every red flag you read about in the manosphere. She quickly ballooned from 130 pounds to almost 300, and although the first 20 years of their marriage was great, she’s spent the past several years complaining of being unhaaaapy for vague reasons. They’re both pretty miserable now. What really sucks is that he’s already been through the ringer twice – his first wife cheated on him with the neighbor and took their daughter when she left, and his second wife got child custody and lifetime alimony despite the fact that the marriage ended because of her physical and emotional abuse. He ought to be the poster child for what happens to men who fail to heed red pill warnings about the true nature of women, and who marry women with baggage. A woman with two divorces under her belt should be out of the question.
Here’s my two bitcoins: I recommend to all men to SCREEN WOMEN HARD. For me personally, if she’s fat, tatted up, a single mom, blew up a marriage & family, or taking alimony, she’s done. In addition, all men should take time to think, sit down ,and write about what qualities they want in woman. Then go to the locations where she’ll be. Part slueth, part sniper.
Once you’ve crossed a line the first time (for anything in life) it’s easy to cross it the second time.
Why should any man settle for a divorcee? A divorce is an indication she wasn’t marriage material in the first place or doesn’t have enough common sense to understand what is (and isn’t) important in a husband (aka he was a nice guy; I loved him, but wasn’t in love with him).
My mom divorced my dad after 18 years of marriage. Dad was a nice guy who let my mom bitch and complain about various things without saying a peep. Drove my dad crazy.
To this day, my mom’s stubborn attitude kicks back to me, and I recently had enough of it that I scolded her. She demanded an apology from me, that I shouldn’t treat her that way because she’s my mom.
My sister went 2 years and divorced. Was engaged recently but broke it off. Next time I hear anything about her dating somebody, I’ll ask her why she’s doing it.
I think marriage for women is a 1-and-done deal. For men, 3-strikes-you’re-out. Save whatever assets you have left.
There was a guy that used to work with me that was on his 4th marriage. In each one, the woman dumped him. And for the record, this guy was the ultimate omega.
I forgot to mention – my mom’s attitude shifted tremendously after our dispute. The iron hammer slapped some sense I guess.
There’s another friend of mine – his last 2 girlfriends always accused him of cheating when he hung out with our group of friends (guy group).
Saw him at a party Sat night and it was the same shit going on with a new girl – but this new girl is preggers with their baby.
I’ll have to write about the night I got invited out and he was there. I was told it was just me and 2 other girls I worked with, and when I showed up he was there. I bounced after 20 minutes.
hah funny you bring that up. I had 2 female co-workers with me at a bar once when *sniff sniff* a bitter beta hit on one of them. I came over, took her hand and went to the other side of the bar. She gripped me back.
An hour later we went back to her place. Done deal. And if a bar is a sausagefest, expect this kind of shit to happen and be ready to protect your investment.