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Week In Review

May 16 – 30

Hello! I didn’t post last Sunday because I was at a post-wedding brunch for my best friend’s wedding! It was a long weekend last weekend, and I was at my BFF’s wedding on Saturday. It was such a wonderful day for an outdoor wedding! The bride was beautiful, the ceremony was lovely (I only cried a little bit), and the reception was so much fun: the food was beyond amazing, the music was great, and the bugs stayed away!

So there are a lot of new books to share from the past couple of weeks, courtesy of birthday gift cards, generous bookish friends, and some ARCs/e-ARCs:

Borrowed ARCs

First up is a fabulous Β prize pack that I received from Raincoast books, containing a bunch of goodies and a copy ofΒ Heartless, by Marissa Meyer;

You Know Me Well, Nina LaCour and David Levithan (ARC from Raincoast);

The Lovely Reckless, by Kami Garcia (borrowed ARC);

Places No One Knows, by Brenna Yovanoff (borrowed ARC);

Kiss Kill Vanish, by Jessica Martinez (borrowed ARC);

Maybe in Another Life, Taylor Jenkins Reid (purchased);

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, Stephanie Oakes (purchased e-book);

The Witch Hunter, Virginia Boecker (purchased e-book);

Summer Days and Summer Nights, Stephanie Perkins (purchased e-book);

The Best of Enemies, Jen LancasterΒ (purchased e-book);

Sweetbitter, Stephanie DanlerΒ (purchased e-book);

The Great American Whatever, Tim FederleΒ (purchased e-book);

I Saw a Man, Owen SheersΒ (purchased e-book);

Wolf Winter, Cecilia EkbackΒ (purchased e-book);

Reconstructing Amelia, Kimberly McCreightΒ (purchased e-book);

The Cabin, Natasha Preston (e-ARC via Edelweiss);

Rose and Thorn, Sarah PrineasΒ (e-ARC via Edelweiss);

Avenged, E.E. Cooper (e-ARC via Edelweiss);

The Fixes, Owen Matthews (e-ARC via Edelweiss); and

The Thousandth Floor, Katharine McGee (e-ARC via Edelweiss).

Phew! So many books! Thank you to the publishers and to my generous friends!

Despite being pretty busy these last couple of weeks, I managed to read four books:

Exit, Pursued By a Bear, E.K. Johnston;

Return to the Dark House (Dark House #2), Laurie Faria Stolarz;

A Murder in Time, Julie McElwain; and

The Merciless II: The Exorcism of Sofia Flores (ARC), Danielle Vega.

As for my current reads, I’m kind of all over the place, still reading a few books:

Into the Dim, Janet B. Taylor;

Queen of Shadows, Sarah J. Maas;

Red Velvet Cupcake Murder, Joanne Fluke; and

Even in Paradise, Chelsey Philpot (I’ve just barely started this one but it feels like a good summer read).

So it seems that I’m out of my reading slump, and getting out of my blogging slump. I posted four reviews these past couple of weeks:

The Unexpected Everything, Morgan Matson;

Burn Baby Burn, Meg Medina;

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall, Katie Alender; and

All In, Jennifer Lynn Barnes.

Coming up this week are my reviews of The Outliers, by Kimberly McCreight, andΒ Exit, Pursued by a Bear.

That’s it for me! Time to grab some coffee and try to finish one of the books I’m currently reading. Happy Sunday!

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