I may be one day late with my wrap-up but for once I actually stuck exactly to my planned TBR … which is neither very good nor bad. I read 6 books, not necessarily in the order shown below, but I was so slow sometimes, I feel like I should have been able to do more. Either way, here’s what I read:
- The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson (4 stars)
Read with Cátia! - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand/Brodi Ashton/Jodi Meadows (5 stars)
- The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (4.5 stars)
- The Crown by Kiera Cass (3 stars)
- You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour/David Levithan (5 stars)
- Unhinged by A.G. Howard (3 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 if they are up yet) and on the covers to be redirected to Goodreads!
I’ve been trying to be active on other people’s blogs, but quite honestly I know that I have been slipping up lately and been rather absent. My posts got fewer too and I am sorry about that, but mostly I am just lacking the energy to do anything more than the bare minimum. I hope to be back in full spirits as soon as the summer season at the airport is over and it won’t be as stressful anymore.
On to more happier thoughts: I got Harry Potter and the Cursed Child a day early! Whooop! Don’t ask me how, it’s a secret that must never be told – but I didn’t steal it, just making sure that’s clear. As a non-Harry-Potter-reader this is going to be an interesting experience. I am probably not as eager to read it as some of you are, but I am still excited and will turn to it soon. I really enjoy stories written like movie or theater scripts, so that’s already a good start.
Life and Other Disasters is SO CLOSE to 700 Followers and my birthday is coming up on Wednesday, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that we can make it until then maybe? If not, that’s totally cool, but I can still have a bit of wishful thinking, right? Either way I am excited for Wednesday, because it means new books!
Update on book subscription boxes: So, as you know, I got my second OwlCrate box in July and I was thinking about trying out something different in August, but due to payment confusion, I am sticking to OwlCrate for August but I have already ordered FairyLoot for September. I am super excited for that! Depending on the theme of OwlCrate in September though, I might get two boxes that month. Which boxes would you suggest I check out? Now you at least know where all my birthday money is going to go to.
TOP TEN TUESDAY
- Things Books Made Me Want to Do
- Books Set Outside the US
- Facts About Me, Myself and I
- Books with Less Than 2000 Ratings
TOP 5 WEDNESDAY
- Most Unlikable Characters
- Recent Wishlist Additions
- Books that Could Have Gone on Forever
- Books Out of My Comfort Zone
TRAILERS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
ALL KIND OF TAGS AND OTHER POSTS
How was your month? Tell me all about it!
Oh my gosh that’s so exciting!! I’m going to try and see if I can help you get to 700 followers before your birthday 😛 Also you had a pretty good reading month with your lowest rating being 3 stars! ^-^
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Thank you, thank you, thank you <3!!!
And yep, it could have been so much worse! But I think I have had a solid reading year so far with only very few books below 3 stars at all. I got lucky it seems.
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Ooh that is lucky! Hopefully it stays that way 🙂
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Definitely keeping my fingers crossed 😀
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Haha you’re also late 😂 nice wrap up ! I need to buy My Lady Jane I think !
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Thanks! I seem to be late with all my blogging these days hahaha
And yes! Go and read My Lady Jane, it’s positively hilarious!
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Me too ! Life is taking too much time ! 😂 and I can’t say to my friends :sorry I can’t go out I need to blog tonight hahaha
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Yeah, mine don’t seem to accept that as a reason either.
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We’re poor misunderstood bookbloggers haha
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Oh yes, poor us!!!
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😂😂😂
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Ahh good luck and happy birthday in advance! That’s cool about getting cursed child a day early- I’m especially interested to read your thoughts cos you said you’re a non-harry-potter reader and I’m also not a potterhead- so it’ll be good to hear a more objective view! (have to say I probably won’t read it anyway cos I don’t really like reading plays)
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Thank you :D!
And since I was at film school and we always had to analyse scripts, I quite enjoy that kind of style. I still often download the scripts for Oscar nominated movies and such.
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Ahh that makes a lot of sense. I did read plays uni too- but I just don’t see this in the same light as reading Shakespeare or Oscar Wilde or Beckett. They have to be of a certain calibre for me to not mind
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Hahaha well, I didn’t read classic plays like that. I read movie scripts for Bridesmaids or some Ryan Gosling movie. I think my standards were really different than yours hahaha
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Ahh well that’s good in a different way- I really enjoyed that movie 😉
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Oooh Kat I can’t wait to read your opinions on Cursed Child! As a script lover and a non-Potterhead it should be so interesting. Personally as a Potterhead (but also as a book) I was disappointed, but we’ll see. Also early congratulations on 700 (I know you’ll get there) and a happy early birthday! 😊
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! And I am really looking forward to the Cursed Child. It will be weird to finally read something HP related after all these years hahaha Maybe I will like it more because I don’t have this deep Potter-connection already.
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Perhaps so! Are you planning on reading the main series after Cursed Child at some point?
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Maybe. I have the weird idea of reading them to my kids one day (which I don’t have yet, so who knows)
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Aw that would be adorable, though.
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I loved the Splintered series and he covers are beautiful too!!
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That’s a shame – but each to their own! The covers a beautiful though!
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oh i know what you mean about lacking energy. I’m finding it difficult just to get out of bed! it’s exhausting!!! You’re read some really great books btw.
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Yes, sometimes the getting up is already one of the most difficult parts.
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I LOVED my Lady Jane! & have been thinking of picking up The Unexpected Everything along with You Know Me Well. Happy Potter reading 🙂
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YES! READ ALL THE BOOKS 😀
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I keep hearing great things about My Lady Jane but I’ve been burned by one of the authors that wrote it and have read nothing of the author two and I’m really apprehensive
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I hear you. I can only say that I really enjoyed Lady Midnight. It does not go in depth on the characters AT ALL, that’s probably something that should be mentioned. It is, however, hilarious!
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Lady Midnight or My Lady Jane? Hahaha
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Oh boy, I meant My Lady Jane hahaha
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The Serpent King was so good! Definitely one of my favorites of the year so far. I can’t wait to pick up The Unexpected Everything and You Know Me Well!
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YAS! The Serpent King was SO good!
And I hope you get to read those other ones. I really enjoyed them.
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I hope work isn’t too exhausting, I get it, just being at an airport makes me tired, I can’t even imagine for those people just like you working there. Best of luck for the summer season ❤
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Thank so much! ❤ I just hope it will get better after August.
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I hope so! But with summer and holidays, everyone’s really travelling, so there’s that, hopefully it will settle down at the end of the month 🙂
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