Fulfilling Friday is a feature where I talk about the happenings of the week, focusing on the positives, and plan for the upcoming days- on a Friday, of course!
And this has been quite a week.
The Passing
It is the first week of a three-week semester break, in which I faced the death of a relative, which, although expected- due to her advanced stage of cancer- was still quite a blow to the family. It doesn't help that she's barely 50 years old, which is... really young. Almost my mother's age.
Death drives home the ephemeral state of life, and the permanence of non-existence. It grounds the fact that we will all cease to exist one day- if you still believe in the Big Bang theory, and the theory of Creationism. It drove me to a mini-crisis of existentialism for a day or two, which I fended off with some more reading and reviewing and good ol' sleeping.
We will always miss her and continue to remember her in our fondest memories.
The TBR Pile(s)
I am rather excited for this month's TBR- or was, before the above-mentioned event came to pass. Nevertheless, I will post my TBR pile for this month of March and strike through those I have already read by the time this post is finished. Bear in mind I will probably read more, if things go my way.
- The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill - IN PROGRESS
- This Star Won't Go Out by Esther Earl - IN PROGRESS
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Seraphina by Rachel Hartman - IN PROGRESS
- Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Daughter of Smoke and Bone #3) by Laini Taylor - IN PROGRESS
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins - IN PROGRESS
- The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus #5) by Rick Riordan
- Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
Apprentice (The Black Mage #2) by Rachel E. CarterDIAgnosis2 [Bahasa Melayu book] by various authors
Yes, I have the tendency to read multiple books at once. I have no idea why this works for me and why it does not get confusing, because it really doesn't. In this case it really is necessary, because two of the books in progress are really very slow reads for me and I need to punctuate the rather humdrum pace by interspersing it with more face-paced reads. They are my rewards for finishing a certain chapter of a slower book.
Of course, my other TBR pile- the TO BE REVIEWED pile- is stacking up like nobody's business.
Nobody's business but mine.
I would be more sad about it, if I'm not so excited. It's rather unbelievable how excited one can be about things that are not supposed to be exciting when one has nothing else to worry about.
Plans
This weekend will be filled with reading and reviewing, of course. I am also finishing up an actual letter to send to my high school friend (currently in Canada) and will be sending that next week- whenever I will be headed back a bit in the southerly direction.
There is a Sushi King bonanza next week (all sushi plates at RM 3 each!) which I will definitely splurge on. And I plan to watch at least two movies in the cinema, since I haven't watched a movie in the cinema since the last installment of The Hobbit.
I think I better start planning on some revision and cleaning up too, for the rest of the break.
Last but not least, try to restrict the impulse to keep ordering books online- for which a post is due within the next two weeks.
What have you fulfilled this week? :)
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