It’s August already? How did this even happen?! I didn’t post my wrap up in June because I was so busy in July and didn’t want to half ass it because I love doing these wrap ups so here is a two month review 😛
June was SOOO busy so of course I didn’t get a lot of reading done. The most exciting thing that happened in both months was that my sister came to visit. I haven’t seen her in two freaking years so it was THRILLING. We shopped and lazed around, decorated my house a bit and just had fun. I miss her
Other than that, I’ve just been busy working, decorating and unpacking/organizing and that is basically my life. Luckily I am back to reading at my normal pace which is fantastic so I hope to keep that up for the remainder of the year.
Honestly, I have nothing to chitchat about, haha, so on to the wrap up …
*Click for review. Non reviewed reads link to Goodreads.
Wicked Games by Sean Olin ★★★★
Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern ★★★★★
Better When He’s Bad by Jay Crownover ★★★
On the Fence by Kasie West ★★★★
What Happens to Men When They Move to Manhattan? by Jill Knapp ★★★★
Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore ★★★★
*Reread* A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness ★★★★★
Dissonance by Erica O’Rourke ★★★★
Descendant by Lesley Livingston ★★★★
Mine to Tarnish by Janeal Falour ★★★★
Goodreads Challenge: I have read 47/100 books for my challenge. I’m 10 books behind. I don’t feel great about this but what can I do? My reading decreased significantly due to moving, visitors, LIFE … so hopefully I can get this completed for 2014! *shrugs*
2014 Debut Author Challenge: I accomplished nothing in two months. Fail :/
2014 TBR Pile Challenge: YES! I read something from my TBR finally: Descendant! And I loved it so that just goes to show there are books that I NEED to get to!
2014 Review Pile Reading Challenge: I’m making fantastic progress on this challenge. 7 out of the 10 books read were review copies, whoop!
2014 Series Challenge: Nothing really here because I didn’t complete any, but I’m making progress with some series so hopefully there will be some numbers against this challenge soon.
2014 Prequel and Sequel Challenge: Also making progress here as well, in fact I am almost complete 🙂 YAYYY!!!
I posted my picks in the Countdown Survey hosted by Christy’s Book Addiction. It was so fun doing it … I always love making bookish lists <3
I participated in quite a few Top Ten Tuesday’s: Top Ten Books I’ve Read So Far This Year, Books On My Summer TBR, Favorite TV Shows, and Authors I Own The Most Books From.
I posted my review for The Art of Lainey which I ADORED. I cannot speak enough about this book really, it’s definitely one of my favorites of 2014. Took me totally by surprise, and one that I was actually not even going to READ! Ah, the thought hurts me!!
I got an absolute ton of books… June 01st, June 21st, July 05th, and July 19th.
Books & Reading
- Do You Read the Accomplishments? at [YA] Escape from Reality
- The Great Series Debate at Reading in Winter
- 10 Things Every Bookworm Worries About at Pivot Book Reviews
- I’m Sometimes Afraid When You Take My Suggestions at Boricuan Bookworms
- Every Books Is Not the Hunger Games at The Librarian Who Doesn’t Say Shhh!
- Love triangles, insta-love, and other love-related things that irk me in YA at Reading in Winter
- How Do You Picture Characters? at Tempest Reviews
- I Can’t Read Used Books at Oh, The Books!
- Do endings change your feelings on a book/series? at Happy Indulgence
- Is Kindle Unlimited Worth It? A Young Adult Book Blogger’s Perspective at Loving the Language of Literacy
- Reading TOO Fast & Reader’s Resentment at NYX Book Reviews
- How many books at once? at Student Spyglass
- I Miss Libraries at NYX Book Reviews
- Browsing for Books as a Book Blogger at Late Nights with Good Books
- Hardcover vs. Paperback at Fiktshun
- Is Reading Too Much a Bad Thing? at Oh, The Books!
- Diversifying Reading vs Being a Diverse Reader at The Book Addict’s Guide
- Reading Pace & Rating a Book at Book Rock Betty
- Bookish Guides: Steampunk at Oh, The Books!
- Summer Showcase: Cute Contemporaries at The Book Addict`s
- The Issues of Book Hype at Lit Up Review
- A Reading Slump in GIFs at Lauren Reads YA
- Perfecting the Art of Going in Blind at Oh, The Books!
- Why DNFs Are Not a Bad Thing at The Book Addict`s Guide
- I Like Big Books and I Cannot—Wait, I’m Lying at The Overstuffed Bookcase
- Multiple Editions at Reading is Fun Again
- 10 Awesome New Adult Books that Aren’t “Just Sex” at Tempest Books
- Book Buying Bans, NetGalley and Edelweiss, and the Deadly Kindle Daily Deals at The Library Canary
- 5 Things You Could Do To Piss Me Off As A Reader at The Perpetual Page-Turner
- I Will Not Be Shamed for Reading YA at The Bawdy Book Blog
- We should ban all books at The Daily Prophecy
- To Reread or Not to Reread? at The Thousand Lives
- When The Well Rounded Reader Suddenly Finds Herself Not So Well Rounded at The Perpetual Page-Turner
- How Blogging Has Impacted Me as a Reader at Word Revel
- Me and the Hype Machine at Read and Reviewed
- I Side-Eye Long Books at Book.Blog.Bake
- What Makes a Successful Standalone at The Library Canary
- Can You Multitask While Reading? at Tempest Books
- Not so Solitary: Reading Is Social at Word Revel
- I’m a Forgiving Reader at The Thousand Lives
- Shout or Secret at So Obsessed With
- Changing Expectations Across Book Formats at Christina Reads YA
- Pairing Books With Places at Books With Cass
- How Do YOU Define A Spoiler? at The Perpetual Page-Turner
- Spoilers by The Daily Prophecy
- Killing Off Characters & Why It’s Not ALWAYS a Bad Thing at Feed Me Books Now
- Authors Who Venture into Other Age Groups at These Paper Hearts
- Ebooks at Rinn Reads
- I love my ebooks but… at Starlight Book Reviews
Blogging Help & Design Posts
- Goodreads Reviews Can Outrank Your Blog Reviews at Nose Graze
- Free Half Year Organizer Just for Book Bloggers at Parajunkee
- 10 Free Photoshop Brushes for Design & Painting at Nose Graze
- How To Run Giveaways With Rafflecopter at Notebook Sisters
- Do You Need to Worry about Failed Login Attempts? (iThemes Security) at Nose Graze
- Understanding the Read More Link at These Paper Hearts
- Where to Find High Quality Book Cover Images at Nose Graze
- How to Create Your Own Social Media Icons at Nose Graze
- Book Review Cheat Sheet at Parajunkee
- How to Not Get Locked Out of Your Blog (iThemes Security) at Nose Graze
- Mobile Themes & Responsive Blog Designs at Nose Graze
- 5 Ways to Protect Your Blog on Blogger at The Mile Long Bookshelf
- Do GIFs Infringe on Copyrights? at Nose Graze
- 37 Fonts I Love at Nose Graze
- Email 101 at Parajunkee
- Automated Review Archives, Resizing Images, & Sending Followup Emails to Publishers at Nose Graze
- Your RSS Feed Isn’t Broken – It’s Supposed to Look Like Code at Nose Graze
- Staying Organized at Starlight Book Reviews
- 11 Tips to becoming a Book Blogging Master at Parajunkee
- Transitioning Link Colors at These Paper Hearts
- How to Make Anchor Links at The Book Wheel
- The Designer’s Handbook: Add to Goodreads Button at These Paper Hearts
- Edelweiss 101: A Guide for New Users at Stacked
- How Best to Configure the WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin at Nose Graze
Blogging & Reviews
- Book Blogger Integrity and Conflicts of Interest at Bibliodaze
- Why I Typically Don’t Request ARCS at Bookmark to Blog
- Keeping Organized with Multiple Bloggers at Oh, The Books!
- ARC Requesting Ban at AYA M. Productions
- Blogger FAIL at Jenna Does Books
- How Goodreads calculates Top Reviewer Rankings at Not Yet Read
- Reviewing in Retrospect at Lili’s Reflections
- Getting Free Books From Publishers – What’s Your Opinion? at Books, Bones & Buffy
- My Issue with Amazon and Goodreads Reviews at AYA M. Productions
- ARCs – What’s acceptable to do with them? – The feedback from Publicists at Not Yet Read
- Why I’m Done With Blog Tours at The Leading Librarian
- What if ARCs Didn’t Exist? at Readers in Wonderland
- Whatever You Do… Don’t Look Back! (Thoughts on Old Reviews) at The Book Addict’s Guide
- Keeping Book Reviews Fresh at Pages Unbound
- How Do You Blog? at Fiktshun
- Why Book Reviews Are Not Going Anywhere at Pages Unbound
- “In Exchange For An Honest Review” at There Were Books Involved…
- Do You Read Reviews of Books You Haven`t Read Yet? at Tempest Books
- Quoting ARCs in Reviews at Tempest Books
- Cross-posting Reviews at The Library Canary
- Reviewing ARCs at Rinn Reads
- How Often to Post at The Library Canary
- The Three C’s of the Changing Book Blogging World at Stacked
- We Don’t Deserve ARC’s at Me, My Shelf and I
- For Review vs. Review Consideration at On Starships and Dragonwings
- Reading and Reviewing Books Months Before Release at The Library Canary
Bookish Fun & Misc
- Would You Survive The Bookish Games (As a Townie)? at Oh, The Books!
- How To Clean Bookshelves And Care For Books at Housewife How-To’s
- Which YA Fantasy Heroine Archetype Are You? at Oh, The Books!
- Swaggy Idea for Your Shoebox Swag! at Pivot Book Reviews
- The Epic Reads Glossary at Epic Reads
- 49 Signs You’re Addicted To Reading at Thought Catalog
- 5 Reasons Why You Need Death Note in Your Life at Oh, The Books!
- Could You Be a Dissonance Walker? at Oh, The Books!
- What Library Resource Are You? at Pages Unbound
- Harry Potter Name Etymology at Feed Me Books Now
- When Is It Okay to See the Movie/Show First? at The Library Canary
- On Finding Bargains and Book Sales at Books with Cass
- Blogger Anonymous: Fifty Shades of Book Shaming at The Irish Banana
Social Media, Commenting & Misc Blogging Related Posts
- When Commenting Becomes A Chore at Sporadic Reads
- Are Short Comments Okay? at Notebook Sisters
- Social Media Tips – Facebook Organic Reach at Parajunkee
- WordPress thinks book tours are spam at Parajunkee
- On Filming & Editing Vlogs at Alexa Loves Books
- Social Media at Nite Lite Book Reviews
- Behind the Scenes: On Organization at Alexa Loves Books
- The Publisher Effect at Blogger Heart Books
Phew! There was a lot of posts over the past two months… hopefully I never have to do two months in one again!! How was your July? How is your summer going so far? Link up your monthly wrap ups please 🙂
I’m thinking of doing a wrap-up too instead of Stacking the Shelves. 😛
Wrap ups are fun, they are probably one of my favorite post types 🙂 I will still continue to do stacking the shelves because if I added books to my wrap up that would just get crazy but I will be doing these wrap ups for a while to come I think 🙂 I hope you do the wrap ups too Bieke, I love reading them!!!
Thanks for mentioning my blog here! Don’t worry about your GR reading challenge. I challenged myself to 150, and I’m 10 books behind as well! You can do it! 🙂
Your welcome 🙂 We will do it, your right !!! Or atleast it’s better to keep saying that so it keeps the mood in the right place haha.
What a great list of links there are definitely quite a few I need to check out. Looks like you had a lucky month in the books ratings dept!
I definitely did Tabitha!! I was shocked that I wasn’t disappointed with any books but it thrills me because that’s such a crap feeling 😛