Welcome to my home library!

Welcome to my home library! I have a few more books on my desk and the shelf attached to it, but it's far too messy to show you guys. I tried to get the best picture possible, but my bed is directly in front of my bookshelves, so this was the best I could get. It's a bit disorganized, as I'm definitely running out of room for books, but I love it nonetheless. 

Quick life update before I get into the books. As you may be able to see on my bookshelf, my roommate Jackie sent me a corgi birthday card. 1. because I'm obsessed with corgis and 2. it's my 21st birthday on Wednesday. Yes, April Fools Day, because my life is a joke! Turning 21 at my parent's house under strict social distancing isn't ideal, I won't lie. When I pictured my 21st birthday, it definitely wasn't that, but I guess a celebratory, very cautious trip to the liquor store will have to suffice! I'm healthy and my family is healthy, so I'm trying to stay positive. It could be so much worse. 

I haven't left my house in days. I've spent many hours laying in my bed reading school reading, all while longing for time to read the beautiful books sitting in front of me on my shelves. My time is coming, I have Summer I off from school because my Dialogue was cancelled, so plenty of time to read is coming. Not as cool as going to Ireland for a month, but I'm excited. 

So, I think I'm going to use this blog post to make a little TBR (To be read) list in preparation for the summer, which will probably still be full of social distancing with the way things are going. 

Back over Christmas break I read the first two books in Rebel of the Sands series by Alwyn Hamilton. These first two books in the trilogy were pretty good, and I'm interested in finishing the series with the third book, Hero at the Fall. This book is definitely towards the top of my list. We also have House of Earth and Blood, which is the book by Sarah J. Maas that I wrote a post about a few weeks ago. I am about 100 pages in, so that is going to be the first book I finish hopefully. 

For the longest time I've been meaning to read Brandon Sanderson's Way of Kings, which is very ambitious because it is almost 1000 pages of high fantasy. I had heard so many things about this legendary book, and I really need to commit to reading it. No better time than during a pandemic! Another book I've been wanting to read but never really got down to it is Red Rising by Pierce Brown, I've heard a lot of good things about this series as well. 

Maybe one day I'll just have my mom pick a random book off my shelf and I'll read it. I feel like sometimes I get too caught up in TBRs and choosing the perfect book to read. I have so little time I never want to waste it reading a bad book, when another amazing one could be sitting there gathering dust on my bookshelf. Does anybody else sometimes stress out about what book to read next, especially if a good portion of your library is unread? Maybe I'm just crazy.

So yeah, lots of reading ahead of me. One good thing about being home indefinitely is I have access to the full powers of my home library, which is exciting. I hope everyone is staying safe and getting more reading done than I ever do!