I think I once again did very well in terms of reading this month! I aimed for seven and read six – not all of them were on my TBR, but all in all I am VERY happy with the outcome. Tomorrow’s TBR will be massive and probably not realistically conquerable, but I will try anyway. So, here is what I went for last month!
- The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness (3.4 stars)
(Read with Marie @Drizzle and Hurricane Books) - Lock & Mori by Heather W. Petty (5 stars)
- Trial by Fire by Josephine Angelini (4.5 stars)
- Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray (5 stars)
(Also read with Marie) - Did I Mention I Need You? by Estelle Maskame (4 stars)
(Read with Cristina @My Tiny Obsessions) Anything You Want by Geoff Herbach
This book didn’t have priority this month. It won’t be released for a while longer, so I am not even sure I will put it in the TBR for next month, even though it does sound interesting!S. by J.J. Abrams/Doug Dorst
As I’ve mentioned a couple times now, this book will remain on my TBR as a filler inbetween books, or to cleanse my emotional palette, as I like to call it.
Additionally, I have also read:
- Morning Star by Pierce Brown (5 stars)
As always, click on the titles above to get to the reviews (or on the name of the people I read the books with, to get to their reviews) and on the covers to be redirected to Goodreads!
So, I’ve been at my new job for a month now! Jobiversary! I was surprised by how few books we have, but whatever! I am less tempted to buy them and that’s a good thing. We do, however, have a ginormous collection of magazines and I am still not familiar with all that we have on stock. Generally, I am starting to get the hang of it (as I should after a month), but I am still anxious whenever I close up alone or have to answer questions by customers I don’t know the answer to. Also, handling money is kind of scary hahaha But all is well! My mum keeps telling me that it is just a job, and not my life and therefore I shouldn’t put too much importance on it. I know that! Now my brain needs to catch up …
Some of you may already know this, but I went to a concert this month! What, me? YES! I used to hate concerts – all the people, the constant noise, the sweat, the pushing – I get queezy just thinking about it. I get that you want to move to the music, listen to it on full volume, see the artist up close. All that I understand utterly and completely, but I don’t like all the other people being there as well. Does that make sense? But my mum got me seat tickets for Hozier with Rhodes as opening act and it was pure perfection! You can head over to my Instagram account for blurry pictures and short snippets of the songs!
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Howwas your month? What books did you read and which ones did you love the most? You can surely expect my March TBR tomorrow!
as time goes by, you’ll feel less anxious about that stuff on your job ;-). Also, happy jobiversary!? 😛
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Yeah … I’d hope so! Otherwise this won’t be fun for long … not that it is really “fun” now. That’s definitely the wrong word.
Yeah … jobiversary probably isn’t a word, but whataver 😛
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🙂 do you like your colleagues?
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Yep, they are all really nice! And they always let me bombard them with questions. But there are like 7 shops on the airport and I am always nervous whenever I am at a new one.
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have you done them all?
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You mean, have I been to all the shops? I visited all of them, but it’s different when you are there alone and have to close at night. I will have to close 2 more that I don’t know before staying at my designated shop.
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i was asking if you had worked in all of them. after that you’ll be fixed?
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It’s not for sure, but yes, most likely I’ll stay in the same shop after that.
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that will suck less 😛
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Congratulations on your job!
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Thank you 😀
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Happy Jobiversary!
I really want to read Trail by Fire and Ten Thousand Skies above you, hopefully soon, it looks like you really enjoyed them 🙂
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Thank you!
I loved Trial by Fire! It was a little strange in the beginning, but then I just thought “Why isn’t everyone talking about this series?”
And I loved Ten Thousand Skies Above You more than the first book. It was so action packed!
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Awesome! I cant wait to check them out 🙂
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Lock and Mori has an interesting cover and the ones for Firebird trilogy or what it is that are amazing. I’ve been wanting to read A Thousand Pieces of You for a long time. Ohhh congrats in your job!!
My wrap up is coming out tomorrow and there I talk a bit about the books I read 🙂
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Lock and Mori was awesome! It was a teenage version of Sherlock with a female Moriarty as narrator. Very cool in my opinion!
A Thousand Pieces of You was at first a little disappointing, because it wasn’t really what the blurb had said, but I still liked it. Ten Thousand Skies Above You was even better though!
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How do you like the Firebird series? I’m reading the first book this month
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The first book was good, but I was a little disappointed that it wasn’t as much of a revenge story as the blurb hinted at. It was way more romanc-y than that. But I really liked the second book. Sometimes it lacks a little with explanations, but it was action-packed and fun to read!
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Sounds interesting, I’m looking forward to reading it and seeing how I like it
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I hope you enjoy it 😀
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Yay — thanks for keeping the Burrito Bowl Book Tag alive! I need to create another tag along those lines to keep the foodies happy…
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Sure! Foodie book tags are the best 😀 it would be awesome if you created another one!
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SOOO many books, you read a lot, despite work, that’s awesome. And YAY for our buddy reads, once again, loved it! 😀 I don’t know how you manage to keep up posting that constantly while working, it’s crazy, it’s awesome, but crazy, haha :p
And happy jobiversary!! It’s the beginning, but it’s great if you’re finding it okay! How are your collegues? I hope you’ll feel less stressed about everything, but it’s normal not to know all of the books and magazines and stuff, it’s IMPOSSIBLE to do so, and I tried both times I interned at bookshops, haha! 🙂
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I loved the buddy reads too! I hope we’ll be able to do that soon again. Not in March though. My TBR is otherworldy hahaha
I don’t know how I read so much and kept up with the posting. I think I only missed 2 or 3 days! I will admit that a lot of scheduling was involved though!
Thank you! I never intended for this job to last forever, so I am totally cool with it. My colleagues are super nice and they accept me bombarding them with questions, without even blinking hahaha
I know it’s impossible, but unfortunately we don’t have like a computer program where I could look it up, sooo hahaha it often ends up with me having to say no, even though I am not 100% sure if we have it or not hahaha
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I’d love that! Yes, not in March, this month’s waaay too hectic for me between weekends away and work and everything, ahah. But yes let’s plan that for April, and afterwards 😀
Scheduling really is the BEST, I don’t know how I’d do without that, haha, I wouldn’t be able to blog, at all!
That’s so great then, it’s always nice to work in a friendly environment, 😀 Oh no, really? That’s too bad, and a bit complicated if you don’t have a computer program to help… Well, you’ll learn to know everything after a few months maybe 😉
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YES! Let’s definitely plan something in the upcoming months 😀
Yeah … my blog would be empty half the time if it weren’t for the scheduling function hahaha
I’ll get used to it at some point. It all just takes time.
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YES let’s! Beware, I have tons of ideas already, hahaha, I’m crazy. Sorry.
Haha, it does take so many time. When I realize how much time I spend doing my blog -posting, commenting, scheduling and everything-, I just realize how much I love it, because, well, that’s A LOT of my time ahah :p
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That’s okay! I feel a little blank in my mind now anyway, so it’s good that one of us has all the ideas hahaha
I feel like blogging is a legit part-time job by now. Just one that doesn’t get paid.
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Haha, well I’m sure we’ll perfectly complete each other 🙂
It really is a part time job, ahah. That’s too bad, would be my dream!
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Mine too! OR becoming a full time author! That would be even greater!
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Ohhh, that would be the real dream ❤
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Right? One day, some day, I hope that we will both end up getting published.
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Yes, I hope so, too! ❤ Then we'll become famous writers and just write a crazy collaboration story about twin sisters in mind that never met each other, something like that hahaha
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I WOULD LOVE THAT SO MUCH!
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We’ll do that around the year 2025, ahahha :p (I’m predicting our future :p)
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Okay! I’ll mark it in my calendar 😉
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Happy Jobiversary! 😀 It would have been a Jobiversary for me too but I had to quit when I realized I was being treated as a slave and the boss was gonna put me through hell to try and not pay my wages –‘
Your reading went very well despite work, congrats! 🙂
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Thank you!! And that sucks … I am sorry to hear about your boss being that way. I’ve had some difficulties with that in the past as well.
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Hahahaha just thinking about handling money while people are staring at you is making me nervous! I’m sure you will get use to it though.
I’ve read Splintered a while a go and I really liked it, I should really get back into that trilogy.
There’s not a lot of Maven in Glass Sword but the plot twist at the end makes it worth it 🙂
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LOOL I just combined me thoughts while reading your March TBR and your Wrap Up! Oh well, I’ll walk away in shame now :p
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Totally okay! I got it!
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There’s Maven in the beginning and I feel like my heart just freezes over every time he engages with them. I want him to be good again 😦
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I know right! That must be the big BIG twist of the series (that Maven was good) cuz I have a love-hate relationship with evil Maven.
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I hope so! I want him redeemed so badly!
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Right with you on that!
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This is great! I’ve been debating whether to get Trial By Fire, but this post reminded me of your review and now I’m totally up for it!
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YAY! I hope you’ll like it. It’s definitely an underrated book in my opinion.
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