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Hey guys. It’s time for The Sunday Post, a weekly meme created and hosted by Kimba @ The Caffeinated Book Reviewer. Every week bloggers are welcomed to link up and share their past and upcoming blogging weeks, you can do so here.
I’ll also be sharing my Stacking The Shelves for this week. Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme created and hosted at Tynga’s Reviews. I went a bit crazy at the library, which is bad because I still have almost all those books from last week’s STS to read. Oh well. 🙂
~Last Week on YA Indulgences~
~This Week on YA Indulgences~
The Sunday Post (#13) + Stacking The Shelves (#9)
Top Ten Tuesday
Review: The Chance You Won’t Return by Annie Cardi
Wondrous Covers Wednesday
Waiting On Wednesday
Review: Kiss of Broken Glass by Madeieine Kuderick
Amber’s Rambles
Featured Fairytale Friday
~Reading Wise~
I began Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mass. So far I really love it. Caelana reminds me of Katniss a little in her smart aleck, determined, goal oriented, awesome personality.
In the middle of reading that, I began Free To Fall by Lauren Miller which I really love. The whole idea is really fascinating to me. I love books involving boarding school, dorms and classes. Plus there’s a secret society and a bit of mystery, so I’m in love.
~Around The Blogosphere~
Erin @ The Hardcover Lover finally joins Facebook!
The ladies @ YA[Escape] From Reality A Young Adult Blog discuss disappointing series conclusions.
~Stacking The Shelves~
~Borrowed from Library~
Parallel by Lauren Miller
The Perfectionists (#1) by Sara Shepard
~Bought~
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Hey everyone! It’s Sunday which means it’s time for another Sunday Post. The Sunday Post is a meme created and hosted by Kimba at Caffeinated Book Reviewer This meme is to tell about your past and upcoming week blogging wise. For more information, you can go here. To join in and link up, you can click here.
I’ll also be partaking in Stacking The Shelves, a meme created and hosted at Tynga’s Reviews to show off all the books you’ve bought, borrowed, or obtained, illegally or not. 😉 Just kidding. You can link up here.
I’m back! Finally. I took an unfortunate internet hiatus hiatus from October 14th to technically the 22nd, doing only a couple occasional posts at the library. I’m so glad to finally be back and regularly blogging and interacting again. Over the past couple weeks I have read, bought and borrowed a ton of books which I’m so excited to tell you all about in Stacking The Shelves.
I’ll be doing a sort of compilation of my posts since my last Sunday Post entry. 🙂
~The Last Couple of Weeks on YA Indulgences~
~This Week on YA Indulgences~
Musical Monday #4 (Musical)
Top Ten Tuesday – Top Ten Books/Movies To Read Or Watch To Get In The Halloween Spirit OR Top Ten Characters Who I Would Totally Want To Be For Halloween
Review: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Waiting on Wednesday (I just found my choice for this week and I can’t wait to gush about it)
Wondrous Covers Wednesday (Themed week, I’ve been waiting forever for the final perfect cover and I’ve finally found it!)
Review: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
The Sunday Post (#13)
~Reading Wise~
I Completed
I Started
~Blogging Changes~
While browsing Jamie’s amazing, and I do mean absolutely amazing, blog, The Perpetual Page-Turner, I saw a couple features I was sort of inspired by her Most Wanted and Monthly Rewind features. Thus, I thought I would do my own versions of them.
There will be a monthly feature that will be posted on the first of every month where I discuss all the upcoming books I’m looking forward to the following month. I’m still working on a name for this feature though. Maybe it will just be something simple like Upcoming Releases.
My second monthly feature will just be called Monthly Recap and will be done on the last day of each month, I’ll discuss everything that’s been going on over the past month, new (or returning) music, books, movies, and shows I’ve discovered or love, include some latest obsessions, and blogging information (like stats or most viewed posts). So keep an eye out for those. 🙂
~Around The Blogosphere~
~Stacking The Shelves~
~Bought~
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
~Borrowed~
~Weekly Quotes~
“I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn’t get–and never would get.”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
If you have read any of these books, bought or borrowed any cool books or saw any awesome discussion posts I missed, please let me know in the comments! Have a great week. 🙂
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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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Hey everyone. I hope you all have had a great week. The Sunday Post is a weekly meme created and hosted by Kimba at The Caffeinated Book Reviewer. In The Sunday Post, you can share your past and upcoming week blog-wise and not, feel free to personalize it. 🙂 To link up and look at other bloggers posts’ you can go here.
If you read my Stacking The Shelves post for this week, you would know that I got the last of my books this week! Yay! Feel free to check that out, I’m so excited all of them.
I barely got a review out this week. I originally planned to review The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu on Tuesday, then review We Were Liars by E. Lockhart on Thursday, but I just didn’t have the energy and the words weren’t coming. 😦
I finally, finally, made my first review for the Mental Health and Suicide Awareness Theme Read going on by Rachel at RachelIsReading this month. It’s kind of sad since I’d been wanting to write a review every Saturday for it but….I don’t know what happened.
I think I’ll begin just reviewing the books for the Theme Read whenever I finish them.
~Last Week on YA Indulgences~
I went way overboard on last week’s Top Ten Tuesday. Haha… I kind of had three lists…
I ended up completely missing Wondrous Covers Wednesday and Waiting On Wednesday due to figuring I’d do those that night after Life Group, but then I kind of didn’t get home from Life Group until….after midnight.
I have no excuse for not doing Featured Fairytale Friday other than I didn’t feel like reading a fairytale and commenting on it. Which is ridiculous.
Last week’s Amber’s Ramble was on breaking blogging schedules. It was originally going to be on something else, but with my Sunday post being late, my Top Ten Tuesday post being late and then entirely skipping Wednesday’s posts, I felt the need to write about breaking schedules.
~This Week on YA Indulgences~
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The Sunday Post
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Review: The Truth About Alice (Monday or Tuesday)
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Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart(Tuesday or Thursday)
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Top Ten Tuesday
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Waiting on Wednesdays
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Wondrous Covers Wednesdays
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Amber’s Rambles
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Featured Fairytale Friday
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Review: The Chance You Won’t Return by Annie Cardi (Saturday)
~Possibilities~
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Review: Cut by Patricia McCormick
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Review: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
I may save these two reviews for next week.
~Reading Wise~
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I finished We Were Liars! Oh my gosh, that book….
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I started Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas which I’m really looking forward to, minus the huge spoiler I read about it….I hope to finish that this week.
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I’ve also started Just Listen by Sarah Dessen because I needed something light to read after Falling Into Place, I’m thinking of putting in on hold now that I’ve recuperated.
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I’m still in the middle of The Chance You Won’t Return by Annie Cardi, but I’ll be reading that today.
~Weekly Quote(s)~
If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces. (We Were Liars)
~Weekly Poem~
Alone by Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
Have a great week. 🙂
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba at Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is where book bloggers can share their past week and what’s coming up this week, blog-wise or not. 🙂
~Last Week on YA Indulgences~
This is a day late and I hate it! I don’t like breaking my “routine”. 😦 Future Reference: Write posts beforehand if you must.
~This Week on YA Indulgences~
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The Sunday Post (Albeit late) (#9)
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Musical Monday – Bare: A Pop Opera
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Top Ten Tuesday
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Review: The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
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Waiting on Wednesdays (#9)
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Wondrous Covers Wednesday (#7)
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Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
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Amber’s Rambles (#4) – Book Sales
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Featured Fairytale (#7)
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Stacking The Shelves (#5)
~Reading Wise~
I’m in the middle of Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang, The Chance You Won’t Return by Annie Cardi and We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. i’m taking forever to read Falling Into Place, I know, I know. I need to just read it and get it done. I keep wanting to read other books.
~Everything Else~
Oh gosh, this week. Let’s see… I received four packages in the mail this week full of books. I went to the Friends of The Library book sale Friday night and Saturday afternoon. I had way too much fun there. 🙂 You can find out what I purchased at my Stacking The Shelves post. Yes, it actually deserved it’s own post this week. I bought that many books.
Barnes and Noble never did call me back. 😦 But I called them again today and the manager said the assistant managers were choosing the final couple of people to interview and he’d have them look over my application so…there’s still hope. And if I don’t get a call back, I will be calling again Monday. I want this job. I need this job.
I went to the library and paid off my…dues. Then I checked out five books! You can check those out, again, at my Stacking The Shelves (#4) post from last week.
Wednesday night, I went to my church Life Group then last night we all hung out at the pastor and his wife’s house for a bonfire and such. 🙂
~Weekly Quote(s)~
I really can’t handle talking about this for too long because it hurts too much, but I want to say that there is one thing I’ve learned about people, they don’t get that mean and nasty overnight. It’s not human nature. If you give people enough time, eventually they’ll do the most heartbreaking stuff in the world.
It seems that Julia may have arrived just in time to see all of her fears come true.
Her expression softened so that for a second it seemed like the most natural thing in the world for her to say.
We do not discuss our problems in restaurants. We do not believe in displays of distress. Our upper lips are stiff, and it is possible people are curious about us because we do not show them our hearts.
~Weekly Poem~
Part I.
On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And thro’ the field the road runs by
To many-tower’d Camelot;
And up and down the people go,
Gazing where the lilies blow
Round an island there below,
The island of Shalott.
This is only part of a poem but I wanted to share anyway.
That’s it for this week, I hope everyone’s week is well. 🙂
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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 created and hosted by Kimba at Caffeinated Book Reviewer. The Sunday Post is a weekly meme every Sunday to share what’s gone on this past week in your life, on your blog and what’s coming up this week.
Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme created and hosted at Tynga’s Reviews. Stacking The Shelves is a post to share all the books you’ve purchased, borrowed, or won this week. 🙂
~The Sunday Post~
Non-Blogging Life
This past week week I got a new kitten! She’s calico and possibly two months old, I think. Her name (as far as I’m concerned) is Eponine. 🙂 Named after Eponine from Les Miserables. She has so much energy. And she enjoys sleeping right by my face every night. I’m trying to make her stop that.
Blogging Related
Last Week on YA Indulgences
I shared my Top Ten Tuesday list for characters who would sit at my lunch table.
Reading Related:
I read Every Day by David Levithan. I started an Abundance of Katherines by John Green and Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
This Week on YA Indulgences:
Musical Monday #2 (Storytelling Songs)
Top Ten Tuesday
Review: Every Day by David Levithan
Review: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Waiting on Wednesday
Wondrous Covers Wednesday
Amber’s Rambles
Friday’s Featured Fairytale
The Sunday Post (#8)
Possibilities:
I’ll also try to have Perks of Being A Wallflower review up for the Suicide and Mental Illness Theme read. I was supposed to post it Saturday, but I kind of got caught up. So be on look out for that possibly tomorrow or Thursday.
Reading Related:
I intend on finishing up An Abundance of Katherines and Perks of Being A Wallflower tomorrow. After that I’ll be starting Catcher In The Rye (finally) by J.D. Salinger. I really want to post Catcher In The Rye’s review along with Perks of Being A Wallflower because of their themes and similarities. Hopefully that happens.
~Stacking The Shelves~
Purchased:
None
Borrowed:
None
Won:
Falling Into Place ARC from Epic Reads giveaway (Thank you Epic Reads!)
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han with necklace (Thank you Lola!)
~Weekly Quote(s)~
“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
–Every Day by David Levithan
“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
–Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
No weekly poem this week, I haven’t had a chance to find one I wished to share so… I hope everyone has a good week. 🙂
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Hey guys, it’s time for another The Sunday Post edition. TSP is a weekly meme created by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. The Sunday Post is for sharing your past and upcoming week blog wise as well as anything else book related. Or unrelated. 🙂 You can find full details here.
~Reading Wise~
I can happily say that I read not one but TWO books this week. I read Looking For Alaska by John Green late Sunday to Tuesday. Then I read If I Stay by Gayle Forman on Saturday. Yes, I finished If I Stay in five hours and immediately started Where She Went. In the morning I might add. I read it from 4ish to 9ish. I’m only maybe 15 pages into it though. I’ve been trying to finish Lola and The Boy Next Door and I only have 33 pages left. I’ll probably finish it when I’m done posting here.
~New Features~
I created a couple new features this week too. I believe I am addicted, but I think that’s okay as long as I can keep up with them. The first one is Amber’s Rambles, yes, that is a slant rhyme. Amber’s Rambles is a weekly feature, it is my take on discussion posts. The name popped in my head before I even started my blog last month. I’ve been waiting to put it into action and here it is. 🙂 Depending on how often I come up with discussions, I may do Amber’s Rambles twice a week. The discussions will all be related to books, reading or book blogging somehow. There may be the occasional non-book related post though.
Let me also add that a couple times when writing out this post, I said “Ambles Rambles”. Haha. Yeah…
Okay, the second feature I created this week is Featured Fairytale Friday. This feature will share and discuss a “featured” fairytale of the week and list any book adaptions. Featured Fairytale Friday came to me sometime early last week. I thought it would be nice to kind of share and discuss fairytales since I really do love them.
With Musical Monday and Featured Fairytale Fridays, you can kind of tell my book blog is more than just books. I think both features are close enough though to reading related to pass.
Now on to what I actually posted last week and what’s coming up.
Last Week on YA Indulgences:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
This Week on YA Indulgences:
Monday:
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
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Feature: Musical Monday – Musical (#2)
Tuesday:
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Top Ten Tuesday – Top Ten Books I Really Want To Read But Don’t Own Yet
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Review: Anna and The French Kiss
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Review: If I Stay
Wednesday:
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Waiting On Wednesday
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Feature: Wondrous Wednesday Covers (#3)
Thursday:
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Review: Lola and The Boy Next Door by Gayle Forman
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Review: Where She Went by Gayle Forman
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Feature: Amber’s Rambles (#2)
Friday:
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Feature: Featured Fairy Tale Friday (#2)
Sunday:
I wanted to share this post about Suicide and Mental Illness Awareness Theme Read hosted at Resistance Is Futile by Rachel. This theme read is to help raise your own and other’s awareness about suicide and mental illness through book or movie reviews. This all takes place from September to October, but you can join in anytime.
I will be participating by posting either a book or movie review every weekend in September and October. I will create a page later to link all my reviews at.
You can find out more information and informally sign up at the link above. 🙂
Before I go, here are my weekly quotes and weekly poem. I hope everyone has a great week.
Weekly Quote(s):
I apologize in advance for the lack of page numbers on almost all of these.
“Sometimes I don’t get you,’ I said.
She didn’t even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, ‘You never get me. That’s the whole point.” (Looking For Alaska)
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“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use your future to escape the present. (p. 54, Looking For Alaska)
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“Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I’ve heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind. If that’s what dying is like, I wouldn’t mind that at all.” (If I Stay by Gayle Forman)
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“I don’t really care. I shouldn’t have to care. I shouldn’t have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.” (If I Stay by Gayle Forman)
Weekly Poem:
Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
And Immortality.
We slowly drove—He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility—
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess—in the Ring—
We passed the fields of Gazing Grain—
We passed the Setting Sun—
Or rather—He passed Us—
The Dews drew quivering and chill—
For only Gossamer, my Gown—
My Tippet—only Tulle—
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground—
The Roof was scarcely visible—
The Cornice—in the Ground—
Since then—’tis Centuries—and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses’ Heads
Were toward Eternity—
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It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for The Sunday Post, a meme created by Caffeinated Book . This weekly meme is for talking about your past and upcoming week blog-wise or not. 🙂 You can find out more here.
Last week I posted:
I attempted to finish Lola and The Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins a few times this week. I just can’t get through it. 😦 This makes me very unhappy because I wanted to like it. I did in the beginning, but now I’m just a little over 200 pages and…I had to stop.
I started Looking For Alaska by John Green though, that one is really easy to read. I figured maybe a break from Lola would be good,
In non blogging related news, I went to my friend Aleesha’s wedding yesterday. 🙂 She looked gorgeous and I’m really happy for her.
This upcoming week:
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The Sunday Post
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
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Top Ten Tuesday
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Waiting on Wednesday
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Wednesday’s Wondrous Covers (formerly “Cover Wednesday)
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Review: Anna and The French Kiss
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Thursday or Friday: Discussion Post — Book Sales
I know I’ve been I’ll post the Anna and The French Kiss review for around two weeks now, but I promise, this week it will be up.
Now I leave you with a book quote and poem. 🙂
~Book Quote Of The Week~
It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations. (p. 11 Looking For Alaska by John Green)
In honor of Robin Williams death this past week, I chose this poem.
~Poem of The Week~
O Captain! My Captain
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up–for you the flag is flung–for you the bugle trills; 10
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths–for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; 20
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
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Hello everyone. Welcome to The Sunday Post, a weekly meme created and hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This meme is for talking about your past week and the upcoming week. 🙂 You can read more about it here on her blog.
I was nowhere near as active on here as I hoped to be this past week. I wanted to schedule a post to come out Thursday, but by then I was too tired to write it. 😦 I guess next time I know I’m going to be busy, I’ll have to actually schedule and write my posts a week in advance.
I finished Anna and The French Kiss very early Monday morning. I didn’t finish anything new unfortunately. It pains me to say that. I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump. I read a bit of Lola and The Boy Next Door, but so far I’m not as into it as I was with Anna. That may change though as aI read more.
Let’s see what I did do over the week.
Non Blogging Related
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I helped out at VBS Monday-Friday, which is why I didn’t post very much other than the memes, one of which I posted late. VBS went pretty well, minus a lot of workers being sick the last day or two.
Blogging Related
This Week
Since I won’t be very busy at all this week. I will be posting:
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The Sunday Post
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
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Musical Mondays (#1.5, Song Portion)
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Top Ten Tuesdays
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Waiting On Wednesday
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Library Book Haul
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The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
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Anna and The French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins review
I will also hopefully finish reading Lola and The Boy Next Door, If I Stay and This Is What Happy Looks Like. I’m totally lacking in the reading department. 😦 That’s not good if I want to buy books next month. I have to at least make a dent in my recently purchased books. Wish me luck. Have a good week.
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