Thank you so much! I feel bad that it took you so long to send it though.

I'll take the Light Green hazelnut wings if you don't mind, and could I also get Usagiko and Maddie Hatter the wild knuffels too? I forgot to look at those yesterday. No problem!

I'm glad to hear you're doing better. I've been doing pretty good. Thank you for asking.

Don't, I'm super happy I could send out this many items It's just the trading system that makes it really long, without any 'send in bulk' option

I sent you the trade from Asherin with the knuffels and the wings in Light Green

Glad you're doing good *hugs*

Ok, I'm glad I could help. I've been having fun making outfits.

Thank you!

*hugs* Me too. XD

Did Ash already read the books you got him for Christmas?

I'm sure, there's a lot to have fun with

He's still reading the first one, but he says it's great although not a smooth read. Which tells me he must be content with it, he likes to be challenged. At least I hope XD

Yeah. XD

I'm sure he likes it. It took me a long time to realize that most writers don't master the smooth read. I've gotten to be a lazy reader and I prefer smooth reads but they can be hard to find.

It's a reportage kind of book, so it makes sense that's it's not that smooth. Ash doesn't really like quasi-historical books so I'm glad I found something that might actually give him some facts about the Native Americans. He tells me a quick fact he just read once in a while, so I take it he's happy with the book.

At first I wrote "fun fact" but the last one I recall him telling me was something about a ritual su**ide so... not that fun Interesting nonetheless, I wouldn't have thought... Kind of morbid tho

I've been struggling with reading lately. I haven't read a page this month. I last read on a bus sometime in January. Idk.
What are you currently reading?

I'd say he is. *nods*

Very morbid but interesting. Some of them did some strange things but it was their way of life.

I've been struggling with reading too! The Bible is the only thing I'm reading right now. I finished reading it a few months ago and now I'm going back through it slowly. It's funny how some things didn't pop out at me until the second time I read it. There's a lot to absorb though. XD I think I read so much years ago that I burnt myself out. It's hard for me to find a book that doesn't just remind me of a hundred other books I've read. *shrugs*

Are you burnt out too?

A very weird way of life in some cases, but who am I to judge

Oh, do you read it with some explanatory commentary? I don't think I'd understand all the innuendos and hidden meanings. Although maybe it's good to read without the commentary, so you'd have your own opinion? hm... That's interesting read. I want to read the whole thing some day but it'll probably take forever before I start.

I think I might be, or maybe I just didn't read for so long that it's out of my system. Or I'm just too tired to think while reading, because I'm trying to read that book about HSPs still and there's a lot of going back through memories and stuff. And that on top of psychotherapy is kind of much. I wonder if I pick up some fiction then maybe that would be easier to digest. Because in a span of two months I read half of a chapter If it was indeed a half of it, it's actually just my speculation because I'm too tired and lazy rn to go to my bedroom and see how much it in fact was. That is, if I can recall where I started then... I've had a hectic day at work so I might be too intellectually tired, haha, is that burnout already?

I'm sure they thought we were weird too. XD

I do. My Bible has a study guide at the bottom. I find the explanations helpful and informative, but I don't always agree with them. XD Sometimes I feel it means something different. I think it's important to try to understand it on our own. I usually read the bottom portion only after I've read it for myself first. I know what you mean. I've always wanted to do this but it took a pandemic to make me do it. XD

I think you're finding it too boring to finish. Whenever I find myself having trouble reading something, I just quit reading it. I either don't find it interesting enough, or I'm just too busy. Usually, it's because it doesn't hold my interest. I have that problem a lot with the "classics". I try to read them and like them but they're torture. XD Well, most of them. I've read Wuthering Heights three times. I just don't feel I have anything to prove at this point but I used to think I did. I've read some difficult reads, read some extremely long books, and read thousands of books I'm sure (never kept count). At this point, I just want to enjoy reading and if I don't, I won't make myself. XD Maybe. XD I don't know. I think fiction may be what you need to cure your burnout.

Right, they probably did XD

Lol, I don't own the Bible so even pandemic won't make me But some day I want to. I'm especially interested in the Old Testament because the New one is kind of like that part of the book that everyone knows because it made it to the movie, lol. Is it blasphemus to compare the Scripture to "books vs movies"? If yes, I meant no harm Anyways, I feel the New Testament is pretty well known in general (although a memory refresh probably wouldn't hurt) but the Old Testament is pushed into like 4 or 5 stories and that's it, after that they don't teach you anything else, because the part with Jesus is more important. At least that's what I remember from my education.

I wuldn't say it's boring, every time I read it, I discover something new about myself. I'd say it's kind of a loaded material though. My brain doesn't stop thinking while reading it and maybe that's why I get so tired of it for that long. I might be in need of a break, something more recreational instead of educational. So I'm definitely burnt out on some level then
I'll give that book a try tonight and will check in with myself whether I feel bored or just tired. In any case I should probably start a lighter read alongside this one

I forgot to mention about reading books that all somehow are the same, I'm the same, it's all been done before and there's little room for new stuff. Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone were something fresh for me, but the characters are still kind of generic. The quiet mouse, the rebel, the loyal prince, the hardworker, then forbidden love between the rebel & the prince and the quiet mouse & the hardworker and there's kind of too much of that love. It's interesting nonetheless, because the culture is an added value that wasn't really done before but dang, some things get real cliche I began noticing these things even more since I took so many creative writing courses and workshops and then editing and proofreading course and now I'm very easy to get sidetracked during reading by the most miniscule issues like typos, nevermind the plotholes I've become extremely critical, although I forgive a lot of things if the storyline is good.