Busy Days ; Lovely Books ; June Book Pile

Hello~

It's been a good month since I last posted, so you can tell I've been very busy! Busier than ever and working as hard as I can.

Book-wise, I would like to say that I have made a substantial success in reordering my books: filtering the books that I want to give away and ensuring that all my favorites are accounted for and sitting prettily in my shelf. Because I'm the type of reader who doesn't give away the books after I'm done reading, I always have a couple of stacks of books around my bed, my table, my dresser and cabinet, and even in various places in our house :)

My novels stacked high, my artbooks haphazard among my stuffed toys

I've been compiling some books that I also want to sell, and I've been doing a good deal of trading (the "selling my books so I can save up enough to buy different ones" kind of trading XD ) at Blink.com.ph so if you want to catch some of my titles and to some different sellers, you can definitely have a good look. I myself am spending a lot of my time just browsing around

And below is a quick lineup of the books I am willing to part ways with~ They are pretty amazing and I've read them throughout the years!

"Read us, too! :)"

I know that I haven't even followed my April reading list for the same reason as my intro~ haaa~ I am really really busy! I can only squeeze readings after my work#1 (day job) ends and before work#2 (writing gigs) starts! I only recently finished 1Q84 by Murakami and it is so intense that I can't even finish the Review/Impression post for that. In other news, here are some of my June reads:

A Tanizaki novel that I got from Blink.com.ph. My first Tanizaki novel!

I have added this to my to-be read pile as you can see below. These are the books that have been given to me, as well as a Kenzaburo Oe novel I've always wanted to finish for so long.

Some of my recent acquisitions

As June turns the tides, HarperCollins Publishing house sent me a new batch of books for review! I hope I can do more for them. They are very generous, and the books they send me are just amazing, I can't wait to read them.

Thank you for sticking by ~
I hope you have a very fun month ahead :)

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