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Charmaine Lim

Reader | Writer | Chai Drinker

2021 reads

Review: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Review: The Other Man by Farhad J. Dadyburjor

the art of running away

Review: The Art of Running Away by Sabrina Kleckner

Charmaine holding an ebook copy of Welcome Descent next to her face while she smiles

Review: Welcome Descent by Cam Wolfe

the shadow of the wind laying flat on a bookshelf

Review: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafón

a phone featuring the cover of cultish by amanda montell held against a wall of bookshelves

Review: Cultish by Amanda Montell

a copy of "the sun down motel" being held up next to a laptop screen that shows a scene from the "motel california" episode of Teen Wolf

Review: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

a phone with the cover of "the seven husbands of evelyn hugo" propped up. around it are different makeup products

Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

a phone with the cover of six crimson cranes lays on top of an open reading journal. there are six paper cranes with red crowns surrounding the phone and journal

Review: Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

the kingdom of back against sheet music on the floor

Review: The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

Review: The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

Review: Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

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Honestly how dare they? #BookishReel #BookishHumo

Honestly how dare they?

#BookishReel #BookishHumor #ReaderHumor #Bibliophile #FictionalMen #FictionalBoyfriend #BookReel

Where are your bookshelves? Throwback to my old s

Where are your bookshelves?

Throwback to my old shelves in my old room, where I had fairy lights set up.

I was thinking about them the other night because I might tackle the small project up putting up my lights again. It’d be great if I could figure out a way to make them go all the way around my room but I’d be happy with just having my shelves lit up again.

#Shelfie #Bookshelfie #MyBookshelves

Poly-reading or mono-reading? To be honest, I don

Poly-reading or mono-reading?

To be honest, I don’t even know if “mono-reading” is a term but “monogamous reading” sounded so weird that I just went with it.

I’ve always been the type to read one book at a time but now I’ve found myself at the beginning of three books, all different genres. How did I end up here? I needed something as a break while I get started on my next work review book and then my colleague passed me his copy of Dirty Old Media Men, which I read 50 pages of at my desk because all the speculation around it has me curious.

• Juice - a post-apocalyptic novel following a man and young girl and they struggle to survive on their own, only to realize they might not be alone after all (work)
• The New Couple In 5B - a mystery novel following a writer and her husband after they move into an expensive but death-filled apartment left by her uncle-in-law (leisure)
• Dirty Old Media Men - a fictional autobiography from someone claiming to be a journalist in Singapore telling the tales how they were subjected to workplace se*ual h*rrassm*nt and who they did end up sleeping with (nosiness)

#CurrentlyReading #CurrentReads #TheNewCoupleIn5B #DirtyOldMediaMen #SingLit #Juice #PostApocalypticFiction

What did you read this weekend? I read a few chap

What did you read this weekend?

I read a few chapters of The New Couple in 5B, but mostly spend the weekend cleaning my room. I put on a long playlist of a gamer I like playing through Stardew Valley to keep me company as I didn’t think I could focus on an audiobook and I was right.

While I didn’t read as much as I hoped, I feel really good about the decision to clean and reorganize. I mentioned in my stories that my mental health hasn’t been great and that has led to my room being in various stages of disarray for months, so the cleaning session was very much necessary and helpful for me.

This is the cleanest my room has been in months, maybe since I moved in. I told my boyfriend last night that it was weird to see so much of my room floor because I really haven’t seen this much of it…I can’t even remember if it had ever been this clear. My room feels fresh, clean, and more spacious as a result of sweating my butt off this weekend.

But I’m glad I did this instead of reading because it made a bigger difference that I can feel immediately.

#KindlePaperwhite #WeekendReading #ReadingPlans #ReadingUpdate

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