It’s time for a weekly check-in!

Another week closer to autumn and cooler temps! We got some relief last week, but this week has been yucky and humid and way too hot again. I’m definitely looking forward to the cool evenings coming back, hopefully soon. 🤞

It’s been a very busy week in our household! I accidentally broke a tooth a few nights ago and it was awful. We just got dental insurance a few months ago for the first time in YEARS and I had to find a new dentist ASAP. Thankfully, I found an amazing office and they were able to fit me in really fast and got it fixed yesterday morning!

On a more exciting note, Terry (my spouse) and I are going to a Simple Plan/Sum 41/The Offspring concert in a few days! Simple Plan has been on my concert bucket list since I was a preteen and I can’t believe I’m finally seeing them! 🥳

This week’s reading was up and down, but the two big gems of the week were absolutely incredible. Gargoyles was SO cute and fun, and I can’t wait for book 2 and to continue buddy reading the series with Malli. House of Sky and Breath was exactly as incredible as I was hoping it would be. Book 3 feels SO far away right now! I’m so glad I got to buddy read it with Misty and Prachi and we were all left pretty stunned by that last page!

• Stinetinglers 2 // R.L. Stine → ⭐⭐⭐
• Nothing but the Rain // Naomi Salman → ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Getting it On With Gargoyles // Hazel Mack → ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• House of Sky and Breath // Sarah J. Maas → ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Long Walk // Stephen King → ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Paradise-1 // David Wellington → ❌ DNF ❌
• The Encounter: The Graphic Novel // K.A. Applegate & Chris Grine → ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

📚 current reads 📚

I finally made more progress in Dracula! I’m loving literally all of my other current reads, and my TBR is sobbing under the weight of how much I’ve added to it in the 24% of Sadie’s new book I’ve read so far. 😂 I meant to also start Never Whistle at Night earlier this week but it hasn’t happened yet, so I’m planning to start it today. You might notice The Jasad Heir is missing, and that’s just because I want to focus on a few other reads right now (mostly buddy/group reads) and then go back to it later this month.

• Dracula Daily // Matthew Kirkland & Bram Stoker → 33%
• King of Scars // Leigh Bardugo → 47%
• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror // Jordan Peele → 25%
• The Serpent and the Wings of Night // Carissa Broadbent → 16%
• 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered // Sadie Hartmann → 24%

I decided to give Bramble: The Mountain King a try on GamePass last week and absolutely LOVED it. I played through the whole thing in one sitting, and I couldn’t tell you the last time I did that, even with a short game. It’s a fantasy/horror game that revolves around a young boy rescuing his sister from Swedish mythological creatures and a wicked king, and I honestly haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since I finished it!

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What are you reading right now, or what did you recently finish? Is anything exciting happening in your life? Let me know in the comments!

— destiny ♥

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