May Recap + Looking Forward To: June

The monthly recap is one of my favorite posts to do even though it’s a bit time consuming. Every month I recap my life, my blog, and talk about music, movies, Broadway and book news as well. 🙂 I hope you enjoy it.

Looking Forward To is a monthly feature that I do at the beginning of every month and talk about things I’m looking forward to.

~Stats~

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Facebook Likes: 26

# of Views/Visitors: 4,162/2,786

# of Blog Posts: 26

# of Reviews: 1

# of Likes: 116

# of Comments: 254

Most Viewed Post: Review:

~Book Stats~

# of Books Read: Finished 2; Read 3

Finished:  

Read:

# of Books Started: Four

# of Books Bought: 0

# of Books For Review: 3

Thank you HarperCollins and Scholastic!

# of Books Won: Five

I won Every Last Word, Time Between Us and Time After Time by Tamara Ireland Stone from Lisa at Read Breathe Relax<3

I won an arc of Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen from Meghann @ Becoming Books on Twitter. ❤

I won a book of my choice from Katie @ Polished Page on Twitter

~Favorite Book I Read~

Because You’ll Never Meet Me was everything I always wanted.<3

I also loved loved loved Fans of The Impossible Life❤

And Anything Could Happen was the unrequited love story I’d always hoped for.

More Happy Than Not is super super super fantastic.

Yes I’m cheating, no I don’t care. 🙂

~What I Posted Last Month~

Features:

Musical Monday: Will Walton guest post

Wondrous Covers Wednesday #33

All The Summer-y Covers (Wondrous Covers Wednesday #34)

Wondrous Covers Wednesday #35

Reviews:

ARC Review: Making Pretty by Corey Ann Haydu (Five Stars)

Other Posts:

Looking Forward To: May ’15

Bout of Books #13

The Time I Interviewed Corey Ann Haydu

My Sophomore Life Soundtrack (RRWC May Challenge #1)

Bookspine Poetry (RRWC May Challenge #2)

Musical Book Tag

I Read The Fault In Our Stars In A Strip Club

Armchair BEA: Introduction

Armchair BEA: Part 2 – Visual Expression + Social Media 

Armchair BEA: Part 3 – Characters

Armchair BEA: Part 4 – Movie Adaptations

Memes:

I Am Never Ever Ever Reading You (Like, Ever) (TTT)

All The Authors I Want To Meet (TTT)

All The Movies I Want To…Read? (TTT)

Great Beach Reads (TTT)

~Favorite Posts~

This has been a month of favorite posts for me, strangely enough. 🙂

Basically anything I posted this past week I really love.

Musical Monday: Guest Playlist by Will Walton for his book Anything Could Happen

Things To Do Instead of BEA

All About The Character Love (and Hate)

My interview with Corey Ann Haydu<3

Musical Book Tag!

~Blogosphere Participation~

I did Bout of Books (#13) for the second time this year! It was fun again even though I didn’t do complete my goal. I still need to update my progress page here for it.

I participated (a bit too much, oops) in the #YAParty Twitter giveaways! Haha. So funny story, I originally thought you could only post once per prize, so I posted only once, then half an hour later, someone messaged me saying you COULD post more than once per prize, and this was quoted from a host’s tweet. So then I went tweet crazy. (Sorry about that).

THEN I heard from other hosts that only ONE tweet would be counted for each prize so…I spammed a ton of you for no reason. Lol. Sorry!

Besides that, I participated in Armchair BEA and I had fun doing it! That lead to a few of my favorite posts for this past month. ❤

~How Did I  Do With My Blogging/Reading Resolutions and Challenges?~

I’ve read a few books for the EW/NG reading challenge.

~TV News~

Game of Thrones finally had an epic episode last night. Winter is here. I think.

Pretty Little Liars returns TOMORROW!!!! I’m SO SO SO excited.

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES HAD A SERIOUS ENDING FOR THE SEASON FINALE AND OMG. I’M SAD.

~Movie News~

I learned 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson has been optioned.  

The potential We Were Liars movie has a writer now.

Steven Spielberg’s Company to Adapt Brave New World for SyFy 

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before has been optioned by Overbrook to be a movie.

Vicious by Victoria Schwab was optioned to Scott Free Productions and Story Mining and Supply.

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is to come out in March 2016.

13 Reasons Why and Before I Fall are both in development for filming.

~Broadway News~

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME will launch a national tour in 2016: 

~Fantastic Videos~

I have been waiting for this video for like a month and a half and I was so happy to finally see it. ❤

I found this amazing and important and real video on depression. 

I died watching this video. 

I loved this video and this video and this video. 

~Music I’ve Loved~

I have been playing The DUFF soundtrack over and over. Haha. I’m also back into Rent, because sometimes I just need Rent.

I listened to Brandon Flowers’ “The Desired Effect” and I liked it a ton. Lonely Town finally clicked with me.

I discovered I like Elliot Smith’s Either/Or a lot too. I was always under the impression I didn’t care for it.

I rediscovered this cover of Crush from Glee. I love it.

~New/Discovered Music~

King by Years and Years 

No Words by Erik Hassle

Preach by M.O. 

Fire Under My Feet by Leona Lewis

All About You by MYYRA (Album out june 9th)

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Looking Forward To: June

And now for what I’m looking forward to this month in books and movies.

Albums:

Florence + The Machine “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” (June 1)

Young Guns “Ones and Zeroes”  (June 6)

Muse “Drones” (June 9th)

Of Monsters and Men “Beneath The Skin” (June 9th)

Adam Lambert “The Original High” (June 12th)

Hilary Duff “Breathe in. Breathe Out.” (June 16th)

Third Eye Blind “Dopamine” (June 16th)

Breaking Benjamin “Dark Before Dawn” (June 23rd)

Carly Rae Jepsen “E-MO-TION” (June 24)

I am absolutely dying for Hilary Duff’s and Breaking Benjamin’s albums. As well as Florence + The Machines’, but the other two are number one. ❤

Books:

~June 2nd~

Like It Never Happened by Emily Adrien

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler

The Devil You Know by Trish Dollar

Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu

Joyride by Anna Banks

The Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker

Skyscraping by Leah Thomas

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas

~June 9th~

Last Year’s Mistake by Gina Ciocca

Even When You Lie To Me by Jessica Alcott

~June 16th~

The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi

Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

Get Dirty (Don’t Get Mad) by Gretchen McNeil

The Revenge Playbook by Rachael Allen

~June 30th~

Under The Lights (#2) by Dahlia Adler

Faking Perfect by Rebecca Phillips

June 2nd is insane! And it’s tomorrow, EVERYONE GO BUY BECAUSE YOU’LL NEVER MEET ME AND MORE HAPPY THAN NOT! DO IT. DO IT NOW. Or pre-order them in the meantime. I left off a few of the books I have for review so…sorry about that. 🙂 I had Because You’ll Never Meet Me and More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera which you all know I have loved/am loving. 🙂

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Let me know how your past month has been or what you’re looking forward to this upcoming month. 🙂 I want to know all about it.