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Hey everyone. It’s time for The Sunday Post and Stacking The Shelves.
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme created and hosted by Kimba at Caffeinated Book Reviewer. The Sunday Post is a place to share your past and upcoming blogging week. Feel free to make it your own. For more information you can go here and to link up, here.
~Last Week on YA Indulgences~
~This Week on YA Indulgences~
The Sunday Post (#11)
Musical Monday Part 2 (#3.5) – Five Storytelling Songs
Top Ten Tuesday – Ten Books For Readers Who Like Character Driven Novels
Review: Cut by Patricia McCormick
Waiting on Wednesday
Wondrous Covers Wednesday – Music Theme
Amber’s Rambles (#6) – Book Buying Binges
Review: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
Featured Fairytale Friday (#8)
Review: The Chance You Won’t Return by Annie Cardi
~Possibilities~
Review: Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid (Thursday or Friday)
~Reading Wise~
I finished Cut by Patricia McCormick, I’m almost finished with The Chance You Won’t Return by Annie Cardi, and I’ve started Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid.
I’m putting Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas on hold. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen is still placed on hold for the time being.
~Everything Else~
Well my mom’s birthday was this past week, on the third. 🙂 It went pretty okay. My birthday’s on Saturday, the 11th! I’ll be 23. Like the past five years, I can’t believe it. Time’s flying by, but I never feel any older. I don’t really want much for my birthday, minus books, because, I always want books…But my parents never buy me books since I always have so many to read… It’s not my fault. I’d really like copies of Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar”, “Ariel”, “The Unabridged Journals” and “The Collected Poems”…Like really like them…
Oh, bookshelves would be great too! Because I don’t have any, all my books are spread through out the house, the ones in my room are in a variety of stacks.
Sleeping Beauty and The Fault In Our Stars would be nice to receive.
Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted at Tynga’s Reviews where bloggers can share what they have bought, borrowed, won or received book wise that week. 🙂 You can link up here.
This week wasn’t too eventful. I won Don’t Touch by Rachel M. Wilson from Pam at Strong In The Broken Places by participating a ton! Ah, now if only I had done that with my college classes, one of my grades would have been a lot better. 😉 Anyway, I’m so excited to read this!
Goodreads (Abridged) Summary:
Step on a crack, break your mother’s back. Touch another person’s skin, and Dad’s gone for good.
Caddie can’t stop thinking that if she keeps from touching another person’s skin, her parents might get back together… which is why she wears full-length gloves to school and covers every inch of her skin.
It seems harmless at first, but Caddie’s obsession soon threatens her ambitions as an actress. She desperately wants to play Ophelia in her school’s production of Hamlet. But that would mean touching Peter, who’s auditioning for the title role—and kissing him. Part of Caddie would love nothing more than to kiss Peter—but the other part isn’t sure she’s brave enough to let herself fall.
Goodreads Summary:
There are three rules in the Walled City: Run fast. Trust no one. Always carry your knife. Right now, my life depends completely on the first. Run, run, run.
Jin, Mei Yee, and Dai all live in the Walled City, a lawless labyrinth run by crime lords and overrun by street gangs. Teens there run drugs or work in brothels—or, like Jin, hide under the radar. But when Dai offers Jin a chance to find her lost sister, Mei Yee, she begins a breathtaking race against the clock to escape the Walled City itself.
This reminds me of The Maze Runner, which I haven’t read, in the whole, running aspect and the escaping aspect. Other than that, it sounds pretty different. I love the gang aspect it has, that’s rare. It sounds really fascinating and I can’t wait to read it.
~Weekly Quote(s)~
“Well, everyone needs at least one long road trip in their lives,” (Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid)
~Weekly Poem~
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan’s men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I fancied you’d return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
I hope everyone has a great week. 🙂
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Here is this week’s Sunday Post and Stacking The Shelves. The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is where book bloggers can share their past week and what’s coming up this week blog-wise or not. 🙂
Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted at Tynga’s Reviews. This is where you share books you’ve bought, borrowed, won, or been given.
This week has been pretty tame. I applied for Barnes and Noble on Tuesday after not recognizing employees and figured out they were hiring. 🙂 I’m going to call there tomorrow morning and find out if my application has been reviewed. The only thing I’m slightly worried about is the lack of work experience and lack of professional references, but I figured the skills I put down were pretty good. At the least, I hope to get an interview despite both of those things.
~Last Week on YA Indulgences~
I didn’t manage to get online to do Amber’s Rambles on Thursday unfortunately, so sorry about that. 😦 I had a post planned, but never actually got it typed out. This week though, for sure. I have just the right topic. 🙂
~This Week on YA Indulgences~
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? Meme
Top Ten Tuesday
Review: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Waiting On Wednesday (#8)
Wondrous Covers Wednesday (#6)
Review: Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Amber’s Rambles
Featured Fairytale Friday
Review: ARC of Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang
~Reading Wise~
I hope to read a lot more this week than I did last week. I started off well enough, I sort of faltered through there though due to not being very interested in the book. This week though I plan on finishing (re-reading) Perks of Being A Wallflower. I’m going to finish An Abundance of Katherines tonight as it finally caught my interest with less than 70 pages to go, I believe. I also really want to read Falling Into Place so I’ll be doing that tomorrow.
~Stacking The Shelves~
Okay, so I completely forgot I DID add something to my “shelf” this week. I just remembered as I was checking my email. So this post is now being updated.
I added one book to my e-shelf. 🙂 Remember by Eileen Cook. This book reminds me of Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind, a movie I loved. Edelweiss writes
A thrilling tale about what a girl will do to get back a memory she lost…or remove what she wants to forget.
Harper is used to her family being hounded by protestors. Her father runs the company that trademarked the “Memtex” procedure to wipe away sad memories, and plenty of people think it shouldn’t be legal. Then a new demonstrator crosses her path, Neil, who’s as persistent as he is hot. Not that Harper’s noticing, since she already has a boyfriend.When Harper suffers a loss, she’s shocked her father won’t allow her to get the treatment, so she finds a way to get it without his approval. Soon afterward, she’s plagued with strange symptoms, including hallucinations of a woman who is somehow both a stranger, yet incredibly familiar. Harper begins to wonder if she is delusional, or if these are somehow memories.Together with Neil, who insists he has his own reasons for needing answers about the real dangers of Memtex, Harper begins her search for the truth. What she finds could uproot all she’s ever believed about her life…
I am so excited to check this ARC out. It sounds fascinating if not a little tiny bit predictable but that’s not always bad, right? 🙂
I also made quite a few book haul purchases this week so be on the look out for those over the next month.
~Everything Else~
Let’s see, after calling Barnes and Noble and finding something out there, I’m going to apply by a nearby bank. Then Tuesday I plan on going to the library to go pay off…debt for an overdue book.
~Weekly Quote~
Think about it: boys, basically, want to kiss girls. Guys want to make out. Always. Hassan aside, there’s rarely a time when a boy is thinking, “Eh, I think I’d rather not kiss a girl today.” Maybe if a guy is actually, literally on fire, he won’t be thinking about hooking up. But that’s about it. Whereas girls are very fickle about the business of kissing. Sometimes they want to make out; sometimes they don’t. They’re an impenetrable fortress of unknowability, really.
Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, and (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.
-An Abundance of Katherines
~Weekly Poem~
If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.
If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.
If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.
But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.
I hope everyone has a great week and share how your week’s gone with me. 😉
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The Sunday Post is a lovely weekly meme created by @Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a post to talk about the past week on your blog or what your upcoming week will contain. 🙂
You can read more about it here.
I will be participating in this meme weekly.
Oh gosh, it’s my one week anniversary. I can’t believe it. I’ve already gotten a great response with commenters, followers and participating a bit. Well I haven’t had too much of an eventful week on my blog. It is only the first week though so maybe it can be forgiven. 😉 Although now I wish I’d participated in some memes.
I guess technically I should have posted a blog last Sunday too, but I only had my introduction post up. Eh, no big deal.
Onto my past week:
I started this blog and created my introduction post.
I posted part one (Amazon) of two parts of a June/July book haul.
I’ll be honest right off the bat. I edited my Eleanor and Park review. By this I mean, I moved a paragraph around, added information to elaborate pre-established points, posted the first line, and adjusted the text to go around the picture.
I also intended on editing my book haul post to consist of Goodread summaries (Because we all love those, right?) and the reason why I purchased those specific books.
The editing blog posts won’t be a habit though. It was just a two time thing. 🙂
As for yesterday, I went to Bag Day at my library. Here’s the gist, you pay five dollars and get a big paperboy paper bag* that you can fill with all the books you want as long as it doesn’t overflow. I’ll post more about this in a future discussion post though which may appear this week. Overall I added nine books from this sale to my collection and I’m really excited to read them all.
Just as soon as I read my other June/July purchases.
*sighs* The life of a book hoarder. Haha.
Other than that, I started revising my unpublished and unfinished Love Letters To The Dead by Ava Dellaira review today. It will not be up tonight though because of jumbled musings and writer’s block. I know, those two phrases don’t really go together, but you would be surprised.
Onto this week.
Week Two Upcoming!:
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? Hosted by: Book Journey
Love Letters To The Dead by Ava Dellaira review
The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight by Stephanie Perkins review
Part 2: Amazon/Book Store Book Haul
Discussion Post
Weekly book covers I really love
Stacking The Shelves Hosted by: Tynga’s Reviews
Weekly quote from the book I’m reading or just another quote I really like. This may be an addition to my Sunday Posts though.
Weekly Poem I like. This may also be an addition to my Sunday Posts though.
Over ambitious? Maybe. Excited? Definitely.
I’m so glad I made this blog and I just want to thank everyone who’s following me (that doesn’t sound creepy at all, ha) or commented on my blog. It means so much to me. I look forward to more interactions with everyone.
*Edited: Note to self: Always re-read post three times. 🙂
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