So I’ve decided to take the $30 bucks a month I normally spend on comics/graphic novels, and spend it on an Owlcrate each month. But I have a friend who will love a cute little octopus notepad! So not a total loss after all!Įspecially in comparison to Loot Crate - where I’ve gotten more than one thing I didn’t like in their boxes! November’s box almost made me cancel – Thank God December was the GALAXY box with Han Fucking Solo as a Funko Pop! (There was more that I liked but, Han Solo FTW!) The only thing that is a miss for me is the little “To Do” notepad. “Books that you want to read this year”). I loved the What I Read notebook so much that I’ve already started answering questions in it (ex. OMG THIS CANDLE! It’s called Reading at the Cafe, and it smells just like coffee and chocolate! (Moca Latte?) The card also has a discount for a candle on the back, and Frostbeard Studio also has a store on Etsy! It’s The Little Prince and the fox! So adorable! Sandra Vargas does amazing work – I had a card of hers for a long time back in the day – and am pleased to find out she has a shop on Etsy! I will be ordering something soon! Speaking of magnets, the box also came with this cute magnet: (Actually, I think its a booster set I got it from the thrift store ages ago, and it came on that magnetized board someome made themselves.) The new ones are on top that set below is one I’ve had since forever of the original set of Poetry Magnets.

I’ve already been inspired to play with them this morning: This is a good sign.Īnd look! Magnets! Poetry magnets that relate to the book! I started reading a little bit last night, and I’m already loving the heroine, Ginevra de’ Benci. (I really need to write about Historial Eras that I’m obsessed with.) OMG the book! I’ve never heard of Da Vinci’s Tiger before, but it’s set in the court of Lorenzo de Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent), AND THAT’S ANOTHER OF MY FAVE HISTORICAL PERIODS! OMG OMG OMG LOOKEE AT ALL THE CUTE STUFF! AND A BOOK! SQUEEEELELVENTY!!! Then I remembered I had a credit from Ebay for a package the seller never sent, and I decided to use that money towards the $29.99 + TAX box. So when I read the article about Owlcrate, I was hesitant to subsrcibe to it, even with the neat swag that comes with each crate - I mean, tea? candles? tiny notebooks to write in? I was champing at the bit, yet still hesitant to make a committment. (I must write about my favorite Restoration movies/novels/television shows sometime this year.)Īnd that book turned my thoughts around about YA this past fall, and I’ve resolved to try and find some more YA books that I will love. Even the one who has the “girliest” ambition of wanting to get married, has way more depth and development to her than even most female characters in mainstream novels. Mainly because I’m obsessed with Restoration England, and it pretty much got the historical characters spot on, and I LOVED the heroines. (Seen The Hunger Games movies though.)īut I’ve decided to read more YA novels after thoroughly enjoying a YA novel called Ladies in Waiting by Laura L. I read The Hunger Games and I loved it but it didn’t inspire me to run out read Divergent let alone the rest of its own series. And here I thought it was Harry finally growing a pair and becoming less passive. HP and the Order of the Phoenix is actually my fave of the entire series, because to me, CAPSLOCK!Harry was actually realistic - until Rowling said he was acting that way because Voldemort was possessing him. HP and the Half-Blood Prince, I’m looking at you. Harry Potter was good when it was a Juvenile novel, but the minute it turned YA, it started sucking hard. No thanks give me science fiction and (adult) romance novels!Īnd this was pretty much my attitude into adult times. When I was a teenager back in the 80s, YA novels meant endless books on high school shit problems - and why did I want to read those when I was dealing with high school problems in real life? I was reading an article on BuzzFeed about “the geekiest subscription boxes” and Owlcrate caught my eye.

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