BOOK HAUL (#8): AUGUST 2016

The one with the superhyped books.

BEST OF THE BUNCH (#1): JULY 2016

The three of them have 5 stars, but which one is going to be the best of the bunch?

WRAP-UP (#6): JULY 2016

This month was pretty good! 

Ok... So most of the books were pretty short and two of them were audiobooks, but I do what I can! Don't push me, damn it!

By the way, for now, I'm not going to do more tbrs 'cause my rebel heart doesn't want to follow them. 

What have you read this past month? Tell me in the comments!

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#10): BEST BOOK COVERS OF THE YEAR SO FAR

"Judging books by their covers is seriously underrated, and any book nerd who claims never to have done it is probably lying." 

Amy Smith, All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#6): SMILEY FACE

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." 

Dr. Seuss

CURRENTLY READING (#25): DRINK, SLAY, LOVE by SARAH BETH DURST

"Glaring at the unicorn silhouette, she decided she hated coincidences. Or cosmic signs. Whichever it was. She felt as if the universe were laughing at her."

BLOG WRAP-UP (#2): JULY 2016

1 Month,  25 Posts

MISC HAUL (#7): AUGUST 2016

The one where I buy stuff that I really really need, but that I actually don't need at all.

CURRENTLY READING (#24): SAY HER NAME by JAMES DAWSON

"Some people just shine a bit brighter than others and it's got nothing to do with what they look like."

CURRENTLY READING (#23): ZENITH by SASHA ALSBERG & LINDSAY CUMMINGS

"She had always loved the stars. But tonight, she felt as if they were watching her, waiting for her to fail."

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#5): FLAGS

"[The main road was] now teeming with people carrying torches, pitchforks, and rakes, and one very confused man who apparently had mistaken the mob for a parade and was marching around with a Swedish flag." 

Cuthbert Soup, Another Whole Nother Story

WHEDONVERSE COLLECTION (#4): NON FICTION & OTHERS

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." 

 Joss Whedon

BOOKISH GIFTS Vol. 4

What are you going to buy?

BOOK TRAVELING THURSDAYS (#3): BOOK WHERE FRIENDSHIPS MATTERS

"And, for what it’s worth, I’d pick you over a thousand ordinary and extraordinary friends. I think even if we just met on the street, even if I just saw you in passing, I’d know what you are." Nehemia

"An assassin?" Celaena

"The sister of my heart." Nehemia

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#6): MOST UNLIKABLE CHARACTERS

"Great fiction is fueled by bad decisions and human weakness."

 Kristen Lamb

CHARACTER DRESS UP (#2): ALICE

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

BOOKMARK MONDAY (#12): COLORING BOOKMARKS

"Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways."

Oscar Wilde

CURRENTLY READING (#22): A REAPER OF STONE & BROKEN BANNERS by MARK GELINEAU & JOE KING

"Forgive me, sir. I was hunting a rendworm."

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#4): SCHOOLS

"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed." 

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

CURRENTLY READING (#21): LE PETIT PRINCE by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."

HAUL (#6): JULY 2016 (Part II)

The one with the second hand books madness.

FEATURE & FOLLOW (#4): FAVORITE BOOK TO MOVIE (AND TV SHOW) ADAPTATIONS

"Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different."

Stephen King

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO (#6): YOU'RE NEVER WEIRD ON THE INTERNET (ALMOST) by FELICIA DAY

"The internet is amazing because it connects us with one another. But it’s also horrific because . . . it connects us with one another."

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#5): MOST RECENT ADDITIONS TO MY WISHLIST

"When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long." 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

HAUL (#5): JULY 2016

The one with the kick ass assassins, the sarcastic vampires and the fantasy novellas.

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO (#5): LET'S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED (A MOSTLY TRUE MEMOIR) by JENNY LAWSON

"I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains."

MONTHLY RECOMMENDATIONS (#1): EMPOWERING FEMALE CHARACTERS

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." 

Maya Angelou

BOOKMARK MONDAY (#11): DISNEY

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life." 

Walt Disney

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#3): BALCONIES

"The rose upon my balcony the morning air perfuming,
Was leafless all the winter time and pining for the spring;
You ask me why her breath is sweet, and why her cheek is blooming,
It is because the sun is out and birds begin to sing."

William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose Upon my Balcony

CHARACTER DRESS UP (#1): EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

"You know that mansion on top of the hill... Well... A long time ago, an inventor lived in that mansion."

FEATURE & FOLLOW (#3): BOOK COVERS IN MY FAVORITE COLOR

"Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning." 

Ally Condie, Matched

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#9): BOOKS UNDER 2000 RATINGS

“Books fall open, you fall in.” 

David T.W. McCord

THE MONDAY MUSTS (#1): HOW TO TALK TO A WIDOWER, GHOST & MY SO-CALLED LIFE

"Even betting against myself, I could always find a way to lose."

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#2): FEARTHERS

"A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers." 

Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

WRAP-UP (#5): MAY & JUNE 2016

After the reading debacle that was April, May wasn't that bad, was it? 

Spring, you know? You have your beautiful flowers, your annoying as all hell alergies, a too fucking hot weather that makes you think that you're gonna die when summer is in it's full force and a funcioning brain that finally decides to know how to read. 

Yeah... And then, June came. And it was shity again.

Anyway, what have you been reading? As always, tell me in the comments!

TBR (#4): JULY 2016

So, last month I didn't do a tbr (or a wrap-up) because last month was stupid. Or maybe I'm the stupid one, I'm not sure.

It doesn' matter now! 'Cause here's my July tbr list! One that I will probably fail at miserably! Again! (Everybody claps with pity)

What are you going to read this month? Tell me in the comments!

BLOG WRAP-UP (#1): JUNE 2016

1 Month, 17 Posts

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO (#4): FURIOUSLY HAPPY by JENNY LAWSON

"What I want you to know: Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. Clinical depression is no fucking picnic."

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#8): HILARIOUS BOOK TITLES

"Like fine wine and cheeses, the taste of semen is complex and dynamic."

BOOKMARK MONDAY (#10): SUMMER

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." 

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

CURRENTLY READING (#20): THE ASSASSIN'S BLADE by SARAH J. MAAS

"My name is Celaena Sardothien, and I will not be afraid."

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#1): LADDERS

"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong." 

Mae West

FEATURE & FOLLOW (#2): STANDALONE BOOKS THAT I WISH WERE SERIES

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." 

Stephen King

CURRENTLY READING (#WAYRW) (#19): CRUEL CROWN by VICTORIA AVEYARD

"Risk is part of the game."

BOOKMARK MONDAY (#9): EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

*Bookmark Monday was created by the awesome blog Guiltless Reading. Check it out and participate!

Kim: Hold me.

Edward: I can't.

WHEDONVERSE COLLECTION (#3): GUIDES

Willow: There's a Slayer handbook?
Buffy: Wait. Handbook? What handbook? How come I don't have a handbook?
Willow: Is there a T-shirt, too? 'Cause that would be cool...

BOOKISH GIFTS Vol. 3

Just buy all of them already.

HAUL (#4): JUNE 2016

The one with the novellas, the urban legends and the hackers.

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#7): MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASES FOR THE SECOND HALF OF 2016

*Top 10 Tuesday was created by the blog Broke and Bookish, if you want to see all the topics, past and future, you can go here.

There are soooooo many books I want that I just couldn't do 10.

There are probably some that I want more that some of the ones that made the list, but after spending too much time looking through my to be read list I just had to stop. I have to live my life, you know?

And also, some of them have been released a long time ago, but I try to wait for the paperback versions, 'cause I'm a cheap ass.

Anyway, which are your most anticipated releases? Do you want to read some of the books of my list? Tell me in the comments!

BOOKMARK MONDAY (#8): LOVE AND RAINBOWS

*Bookmark Monday was created by the awesome blog Guiltless Reading. Check it out and participate!

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." 

Martin Luther King Jr.