Hey, hi, hello! Long time no see! I have been neglecting my blog since I finally started my youtube channel, so I’m just gonna make this quick. These past few months have been pretty successful reading months for me. I read quite a few books in June…it was definitely the month of novellas and new adult for me! And I rated most of them pretty high, so lots of good books = happy Katie! I’ll also include my pretty ambitious July TBR. It’s a little less ambitious than my original TBR from June, but I’m feeling pretty confident about it! I also have a late blog post coming explaining how I adjusted my June TBR to be successful. Check that out if you’re interested in a long ramble about changing TBRs! Thanks for sticking with me while I figure out my crazy b/vlogging schedule!
June Wrap-Up:
1. Lover Enshrined - J. R. Ward
2. Father Mine - J. R. Ward
3. Finding It - Cora Carmack
4. Fallen Too Far - Abbi Glines
5. Keeping Her - Cora Carmack
6. Rapture - Lauren Kate
7. Inking Him - Cora Carmack
8. Never Too Far - Abbi Glines
9. The Gathering - Kelley Armstrong
10. The Assassin’s Blade - Sarah J. Maas
11. Seeking Her - Cora Carmack
July TBR:
1. Between the Lines - Jodi Picoult
2. Off the Page - Jodi Picoult
3. Talon - Julie Kagawa
4. Ugly Love - Colleen Hoover
5. Clockwork Prince - Cassandra Clare
6. Lover Avenged - J. R. Ward
7. Twisted Perfection - Abbi Glines
8. Forever Too Far - Abbi Glines
9. Simple Perfection - Abbi Glines
10. Rush Too Far - Abbi Glines
11. Sweet Evil - Wendy Higgins
12. Half-Blood - Jennifer L. Armentrout
Also! You guys should be proud of me, I started cleaning out my Goodreads to read list! This is probably way more work than it should’ve been, but I made a spreadsheet of every book on my list by author and marked the series & number in the series (if it was a series) and included a box to check whether I read it or not and whether I owned the book or not. THEN. I went through and crossed off all books I either wasn't interested in anymore, or books where I had an entire series on my list and hadn’t even read the first book yet (crossing off the rest of the books and leaving the first if I was still interested). Now I get to go through the list on the actual Goodreads and cross them off to make room for books I’m actually interested in. It’s going to feel so good to see what that number goes down to from 504 :)
Q of the blog: What is the book on your TBR list that you are most excited to read?
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Changing TBRs/Current Reads Ramble
**I typed this in June and it's super late, but I figured I'd post it anyway to explain my June Wrap-Up! But it's here if anyone is interested.
So. I somehow knew this would happen with my TBR this month. I think it happens to everyone. No one ever really sticks exactly to their TBRs for the month. Sometimes we don’t have time to read everything, sometimes we finish everything early on in the month, sometimes we decide there’s other things we want to read, sometimes we aren’t really feeling the books we originally put on the list. There are so many factors. Mine was a little bit of everything…except finishing everything early. That did not happen.
I did decide to put two books on the top of my June TBR away for now—The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (which I wasn’t really into in the first place, but just wanted to finish) and Red Rising (which I am really interested in reading, but I’m just not feeling it right at this current moment). SO. Those two I returned to the library and they’ll sit there taking up space for a little bit on my Currently Reading shelf on goodreads (annoying) until I finish some of the books I’m really wanting to read right now.
So thats two books that are sitting on my currently reading shelf on goodreads, even though I’m not actively reading them at the moment. Along with Between Shades of Grey which has been on there since Fall semester of my junior year…oops. I do wanna finish it I swear!
Now, the other two reasons I talked about: having too many books on my list for the month and deciding there’s other things I want to read. If you guys remember, I had A TON of books on my TBR for this month. A ton. More than I read in May and I read a lot for me in May. And a lot of them were decently sized books (400 pages is a lot for me). I still have a lot on there because I’ve replaced the books I took off with others, but some of the ones I replaced are short, so that’s not too bad! Heres’ the reason behind that, if you don’t mind my rambling.
So, I started Rapture by Lauren Kate first, which is the last book in the Fallen series. That series was just average for me. Not a favorite, I didn’t really love it, it was just okay for me. But I was interested and invested enough to keep reading and I wanted to know what happened in the end. I’m currently, as I’m writing this, about 100-150 pages from the end and I just feel really meh about it. It’s okay, but I’m not really enjoying it enough to read more than 20 pages at a time, 50 max when I force myself. I read the last page so I know I’m gonna be disappointed in the ending. But I still wanna finish it because I read the whole series already so I’m gonna do this. I also hate DNFing books because you never know what the end will be like. So between reading 3-50 pages a day, I picked up Lover Enshrined and Father Mine from the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J. R. Ward, which is a new favorite series of mine, so I fly through these books. Lover Enshrined is the 6th book in the series and Father Mine is technically 6.5 since it’s a novella. Both 5 stars as usual, loved them, obsessed over them for days, did not want to go back to Rapture, but kept trying because I want it to be over. I felt myself slumping. I didn’t read for a few days and when I tried to pick up a different book from my TBR list to try and remedy that, I felt like there wasn’t anything on that list I was remotely interested in. SO. I put Rapture down for the time being, haven’t picked it back up yet, and picked up Finding It, the third book in the Losing It companion trilogy by Cora Carmack, which I LOVE. Cora Carmack is a new favorite author of mine. I was afraid this book wouldn't help, because the main character it followed I wasn’t super interested in, but it ended up being my favorite of the series! Funny how that works. So that definitely helped with the slump. Not only that, but I decided to grab the next book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series (although I’m not starting it quite yet), which I originally wanted to take a break from so I don’t catch all the way up and have to start waiting a year between for each book to come out. Along with that, I grabbed another new adult series to start—Rosemary Beach by Abbi Glines. So I’m reading Fallen Too Far right now and I’m really enjoying it so far! I grabbed the second book from the library too in case I wanted to go right to the next one (because I know these actually continue every few books vs a new main character each book), which I think will definitely happen. Along with that, I’ve kept a few of the original books on my list and added a few more, which I’ll note down below. So that’s been my system these past two weeks. Between my family in town for my joint grad party with my sister and going back to work, I’ve been a little busy.
So. Here’s my updated June TBR. I probably still won’t get to everything (because I’m pretty sure my list is longer now), but that is okay! I’ll carry over what I’m still feeling at the end of the month and go from there :)
Thanks for reading my rambling!
Updated June TBR:
Rapture - Lauren Kate
Lover Enshrined - J. R. Ward
Father Mine - J. R. Ward
Finding It - Cora Carmack
Keeping Her - Cora Carmack
Fallen Too Far - Abbli Glines
Never Too Far - Abbi Glines
Lover Avenged - J. R. Ward
Clockwork Prince - Cassandra Clare
Talon - Julie Kagawa
The Assassin’s Blade - Sarah J. Maas
Miss Mayhem - Rachel Hawkins (may remove)
The Gathering - Kelley Armstrong (may remove)
So. I somehow knew this would happen with my TBR this month. I think it happens to everyone. No one ever really sticks exactly to their TBRs for the month. Sometimes we don’t have time to read everything, sometimes we finish everything early on in the month, sometimes we decide there’s other things we want to read, sometimes we aren’t really feeling the books we originally put on the list. There are so many factors. Mine was a little bit of everything…except finishing everything early. That did not happen.
I did decide to put two books on the top of my June TBR away for now—The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (which I wasn’t really into in the first place, but just wanted to finish) and Red Rising (which I am really interested in reading, but I’m just not feeling it right at this current moment). SO. Those two I returned to the library and they’ll sit there taking up space for a little bit on my Currently Reading shelf on goodreads (annoying) until I finish some of the books I’m really wanting to read right now.
So thats two books that are sitting on my currently reading shelf on goodreads, even though I’m not actively reading them at the moment. Along with Between Shades of Grey which has been on there since Fall semester of my junior year…oops. I do wanna finish it I swear!
Now, the other two reasons I talked about: having too many books on my list for the month and deciding there’s other things I want to read. If you guys remember, I had A TON of books on my TBR for this month. A ton. More than I read in May and I read a lot for me in May. And a lot of them were decently sized books (400 pages is a lot for me). I still have a lot on there because I’ve replaced the books I took off with others, but some of the ones I replaced are short, so that’s not too bad! Heres’ the reason behind that, if you don’t mind my rambling.
So, I started Rapture by Lauren Kate first, which is the last book in the Fallen series. That series was just average for me. Not a favorite, I didn’t really love it, it was just okay for me. But I was interested and invested enough to keep reading and I wanted to know what happened in the end. I’m currently, as I’m writing this, about 100-150 pages from the end and I just feel really meh about it. It’s okay, but I’m not really enjoying it enough to read more than 20 pages at a time, 50 max when I force myself. I read the last page so I know I’m gonna be disappointed in the ending. But I still wanna finish it because I read the whole series already so I’m gonna do this. I also hate DNFing books because you never know what the end will be like. So between reading 3-50 pages a day, I picked up Lover Enshrined and Father Mine from the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J. R. Ward, which is a new favorite series of mine, so I fly through these books. Lover Enshrined is the 6th book in the series and Father Mine is technically 6.5 since it’s a novella. Both 5 stars as usual, loved them, obsessed over them for days, did not want to go back to Rapture, but kept trying because I want it to be over. I felt myself slumping. I didn’t read for a few days and when I tried to pick up a different book from my TBR list to try and remedy that, I felt like there wasn’t anything on that list I was remotely interested in. SO. I put Rapture down for the time being, haven’t picked it back up yet, and picked up Finding It, the third book in the Losing It companion trilogy by Cora Carmack, which I LOVE. Cora Carmack is a new favorite author of mine. I was afraid this book wouldn't help, because the main character it followed I wasn’t super interested in, but it ended up being my favorite of the series! Funny how that works. So that definitely helped with the slump. Not only that, but I decided to grab the next book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series (although I’m not starting it quite yet), which I originally wanted to take a break from so I don’t catch all the way up and have to start waiting a year between for each book to come out. Along with that, I grabbed another new adult series to start—Rosemary Beach by Abbi Glines. So I’m reading Fallen Too Far right now and I’m really enjoying it so far! I grabbed the second book from the library too in case I wanted to go right to the next one (because I know these actually continue every few books vs a new main character each book), which I think will definitely happen. Along with that, I’ve kept a few of the original books on my list and added a few more, which I’ll note down below. So that’s been my system these past two weeks. Between my family in town for my joint grad party with my sister and going back to work, I’ve been a little busy.
So. Here’s my updated June TBR. I probably still won’t get to everything (because I’m pretty sure my list is longer now), but that is okay! I’ll carry over what I’m still feeling at the end of the month and go from there :)
Thanks for reading my rambling!
Updated June TBR:
Rapture - Lauren Kate
Lover Enshrined - J. R. Ward
Father Mine - J. R. Ward
Finding It - Cora Carmack
Keeping Her - Cora Carmack
Fallen Too Far - Abbli Glines
Never Too Far - Abbi Glines
Lover Avenged - J. R. Ward
Clockwork Prince - Cassandra Clare
Talon - Julie Kagawa
The Assassin’s Blade - Sarah J. Maas
Miss Mayhem - Rachel Hawkins (may remove)
The Gathering - Kelley Armstrong (may remove)
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