Rose Tinted

A spread from several weeks ago!

The Zatanna cut out is from the December 2024 DC connect cover, as are the collage images behind her. I saw it and knew I needed to put her in my journal.

This is my first time reading an arc (advanced reader copy) and it's gonna be my first time doing a proper review as well, once I finish of course, so stay tuned!

Ice cream theme, of course! There were a lot more ice creams that I wanted to use, but I didn't wanna go overboard so I had room to actually write

For the known record, my themes nearly never corelate with what I write about! I just flip through my supplies until I find something that speaks to me (today it was that cookie monster ice cream, it was part of a flyer I "stole" from the shop my brother works at) and then go from there to decorate! After that I slap my thoughts and activities and feelings of the day down and call it a night

Nightly journal spread, I kept flipping between wanting to do something cutesy and something kinda antique-ish, but I remembered this gorgeous tissue paper I got a while ago, and decided it was time to use it!

While you guys are cool, you do not get to see what I write in my journal, hence the lack of words, my secrets will remain my own!

Actually, I finished it around a week and a half ago, and have since also finished another book, The Seven Husband's of Evelyn Hugo, but I digress.

I'm a bit of a journaler, and have really wanted to keep better track of my reads, so I started with one of the most aesthetically pleasing stories ever, in my personal opinion.

I've also taken to doodling when it gets slow, albeit that's not very often since it's tourist season. Here's a couple of my doodles that one of my coworkers hung behind the register :)

You can tell a lot about people from what their bookshelf looks like, and I think mine is very clear (homosexual from youth, this bitch gay as hell)

The funny part is that there's a lot more books that are just hiding in storage still, and once we get those out I'm gonna need to reorder everything again.

Little glimpses at the bookshop, the best job a girl can have, specifically my "specialty" section (as I think of it), YA and middle grade readers. Hopefully, with a lot more reading, I'll be able to know more about every section!

If you're thinking "why are the shelves so crowded? Why are the books arranged like that?" that's just how we do things here! It's a double edged sword, very mentally engaging, but an absolute nightmare for finding older titles, since they're hidden being stacks and down in corners.

We got in a huge shipment today, and box after box just had the same handful of children's series over and over again, one of which was the Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland.

If little me saw the sheer quantity of them, she would freak out, I loved this series as a kid! But grown me now is sighing over the fact that there's no where else to shelf these and they'll have to stay in the office as backstock.

And today's view

Since I started working at the bookstore last week, I figured I should get back into the habit of reading a lot more

I picked up this copy of Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones several months ago from a second-hand shop, and I finally have the time to sit down and read it!

The sun is completely unbearable, but the wind off the lake here in the boathouse is quite nice, along with the shade.