Contemporary Romance Reading Challenge: Monthly Topic [DEC]

Everything you need to know about this challenge is here & my progress in it is here!

FAVORITE CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE READ IN '17

  

  

Yours?

#AMONTHOFFAVES : December 1st

Hosted by Girlxoxo, Traveling with T and Estella’s Revenge. A month in where we look back at the year that was – sharing our fave experiences. They have every day of the event (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) planned out so you can join in anytime. There will also be a link-up on all of their blogs – put a link to your post so that everyone can stop by each and every post to leave comments, high fives, good vibes and well wishes.
Every day is a different "challenge" and I hope to do them all. *crossing my fingers*

#AMonthofFaves {The 2017 Favorites Edition}

My life changed 360 after I graduated from college, so my favorites now are simply not the same. I'm constantly adulting and finding out that it isn't as hard as I say it is. But I have to agree that having a degree under your belt feels damn good.

Moving to a whole new country. New lifestyle. New everything. It was softly hard, but there I went and now Killeen is my favorite city (restrictions apply).

So, yes, new country means new food. Food is bae. Steak 'N Shake is def my fave.

And I got a new pair of eyes, they are my fave so far. I can see soooo much better.

I also got a new laptop on black friday and it will arrive this week. I'm so excited. I'll love it forever (till it lives).

Thursday Tracks [67]

hosted by Gone with the Words

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays will become from now on... Thursday Tracks day! A feature created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. Now, this week song is...

MIDNIGHT

Artist: Jessie Ware

favorite lyrics: Maybe I love you. Maybe I want to. Maybe I need you.

Hear me next Thursday!

Waiting on Wednesday [117]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

PRETTY DEAD GIRLS

by: Monica Murphy
Release Date: January 2nd, 2018

Beautiful. Perfect. Dead.

They’re arranged in a particular way. Their faces turned at the most flattering angles, their designer clothes immaculate, as immaculate as their carefully made-up faces. Only the slash of blood across their necks mars the perfect surface. Only the vacant stare in their eyes indicates they’re dead.

The most popular girls in school are going down, and Penelope Malone is terrified she’s next. All the victims so far have been linked to Penelope—and to the mysterious loner boy from her physics class. The one with the lopsided smirk and intense stare that’s almost…cute? Even though she’s not sure she can trust him, she reluctantly agrees to work with him to figure out what’s happening. All while trying to stay one step ahead of the brutal serial killer on the loose.

But this killer won't be satisfied until every beautiful, popular girl in the senior class is dead—especially Penelope. And the killer is closer than she thinks...

 

Top Ten Tuesday [62]

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join! This week Top Ten is...

Top Ten Books In My Winter TBR

I hope I get to read them because whenever I do a list like this I never end up doing it.

 

 

 

 

 

What's your Winter TBR list? Are you going to stick to it?

Book to Movie [7]: Series of Unfortunate Events, Part 1

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

[BOOKS 1 TO 4 - SEASON 1]

Author: Lemony Snicket

Published: between Sept 30th, '99 to April 15th, '00

Read: between Oct 7th, '17 to Oct 24th, '17

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Released: January 13th, 2017

Seen: around the same time.

Someone recommend me this series on Netflix that recently come out (back in January) and I was bored, I thought "why not" and I saw it all in two days.

At the end of season one, I (obvs) discover that more seasons were coming, BUT I needed to know how these orphans were going to end. Back then, I was not interested in reading all those books. But now that I work in a children's library, I got real curious. I haven't read them all, but I read all the books that were in season one.

I need to start saying that the series is JUST like the book. In my opinion. There are some slight changes, but those are not my concern whatsoever. The series captures tiny details that are explained in the books. The series captures that mysterious narrator called Lemony Snicket (which is the author). The series makes you want to laugh more than the book that's where my thumbs up goes to.

The books are terribly sad. The series is sad, but it makes you laugh (a little). So, even though I saw the series before reading the books (which is a terrible idea), I enjoyed the series more than the books. I have to admit that both ways there were times that it was too boring, but overall it was a good series AND a good read.

I recommend both or if you want to pick one... the series for sure.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thursday Tracks [66]

hosted by Gone with the Words

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays will become from now on... Thursday Tracks day! A feature created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. Now, this week song is...

CHASING STARS

Artist: Philip Larue

favorite lyrics: There's still arrows in my heart. There's still time I fall apart. And all I am left with is why's. But then your love falls like a heavy rain and I don't feel the pain.

Hear me next Thursday!

Waiting on Wednesday [116]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

THE TRUTH BENEATH THE LIES

by: Amanda Searcy
Release Date: December 12th, 2017

Fight or Flight.

All Kayla Asher wants to do is run. Run from the government housing complex she calls home. Run from her unstable mother. Run from a desperate job at No Limit Foods. Run to a better, cleaner, safer life. Every day is one day closer to leaving.

All Betsy Hopewell wants to do is survive. Survive the burner phone hidden under her bed. Survive her new rules. Survive a new school with new classmates. Survive being watched. Every minute grants her another moment of life.

But when fate brings Kayla and Betsy together, only one girl will live.

 

Top Ten Tuesday [61]

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join! This week Top Ten is...

Top Ten Books That I'm Thankful For

No order.

 

any book from Jenny Lawson, for reals.

 

Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell
City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare

 

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky

 

Looking for Alaska, by John Green
The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins

 

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charley Davidson series, by Darynda Jones

Let me see your list!