Senior Year Update

Long time no see! Sorry for the complete lack of updates or reviews. I'm going to try and change that, but honestly going from summer time to school time is a big adjustment—especially since it's my senior year. I'll try to use my weekends for reading and reviewing, but overall things will just be a lot slower. Oh, the curse of education—I can't do the things I love because I'm trying to earn a degree that will hopefully allow me to earn money doing the things I love. It's a little twisted, but that's life. I'll be posting one review this weekend thanks to Labor Day break, and then things will take off a little from there. Hope you all have a relaxing holiday! Or if you're not in the US, then I hope you still have some time to relax.

Nikki

Photo Challenge Update

Thanks to a vacation with barely any wifi, I got way off track for the challenge, so I've decided to scrap it for this month. I did manage to read 3 books on vacation, however, so I should have some more reviews posted soon!

Nikki

New Challenge

Happy July! Since this month will be a pretty chill and awesome one since my birthday is soon, I thought I would try something new. There are challenges that go around the internet that often revolve around literature: reading challenges, writing challenges, one word challenges, ect. The one that caught my eye, however, involved both literature and visual art. The popular book blog, Books & Cupcakes, hosts a Book Photo Challenge every month. Every day has a prompt for a photo to take, and I find that very fun and artistic. So, I decided to join! To try and not clog up the page too much, I'm going to post my photos every five days. My first set will be posted soon, and I hope it can serve as a kind of mini recommendation/about me thing since it will feature books old and new from my collection. Here's to new challenges!

Nikki

Joining a Book Club

Hey, guys! Just wanted to post an update that could be beneficial to some people if they're interested in joining a book club.

If you didn't know already, Tumblr has a large book community (which they call booklr), and they host lots of readings and clubs. The one that attracted my interest is Summer Reading Book Club. It's hosted by four people, and they each pick a book to read for an allotted time. You can read just one of the books from their picks or maybe all four--it's up to you! They're currently reading The Girl on the Train, Obsidian, Snow Like Ashes, and Gone. I'm a bit late to join the party since this set is done June 14th, but I think I'll use it as a way to finally get my hands on Snow Like Ashes. Since I'm already behind, and I've already read Gone a couple years ago, I'm going to just stick to reading that one.

So, to anyone looking for something to inspire them to start reading, here's an idea! They have voting open right now for what books will be in the next set, so you can always vote now and wait for what's next.

Check it out if you have time and/or are interested! Hopefully I'll have a review for Snow Like Ashes out in the next week.

Nikki