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Monthly Recap: August

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August was really busy and then not so much busy?

LIST OF NEWSWORTHY

I seriously suck at taking photos of anything that aren’t books.
Lakeside reading // Obsessed with paint blocks // All I want to say is BADLANDS was well worth the wait
(Also, notice the fade to white in each of the photos, heh.)

Slowing Down
Well, there were visitors and they finally left so that’s gives me less to do for which I’m definitely glad. However, it was a weird month because I had to choose what I wanted to do with my free time and sometimes I ended up doing pretty much nothing. It’s a hard life, I know.

#RRSciFiMonth
Yes, it’s happening this year and I signed up so fast. Very excited especially because I’m currently on a sci-fi high so I’m hoping to come up with lots of interesting posts for November and get out of this blogging slump.

TV WATCH

I tried to watch…things.
I love this show so much // Daria
Suits – Suits is getting better for sure but, I could definitely do without having to look at Daniel Hardman, srsly. Also, I can’t believe the last episode was the summer finale. This show is crazy!
Daria – I’ve been making progress extremely slowly in that I only watched a few episodes. It’s just that I love it so much and don’t want it to end. This is me when there are forty-seven episodes left to watch. Go figure.
Heroes – I watched eight episodes and I honestly couldn’t remember if I had already watched them years ago. Heroes is the first ever show I started watching right around the time it came out, but when it just got more and more meh, I just got tired and abandoned it somewhere during season three. Now that Heroes: Reborn is happening soon, I want to finish watching it.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – I finished season one. Safe to say I’m still fuming over Ward and he’s officially number one on my character hatelist.
The X-Files – And I managed to watch one episode. Err.
Daredevil – I watched the pilot and it’s good!

MOVIE WATCH

Gipsy Danger is my fave // Pacific Rim

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (8/10) -The first movie is my favorite because everything is hilarious and awesome (except Kiera Knightley as Elizabeth and Orlando Bloom as Turner, of course).
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (7/10) -It was great but the tentacles of Davy Jones kinda creeped me out a bit.
Pacific Rim (10/10) – This movie is my favorite in the world (rewatch).
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (7/10) – I really liked it and the setting was pretty amazing!
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (6/10) – My least favorite movie out of the four because just urgh, Cruz and the mermaid plot and the wounded puppy look on Sam Claflin.

LIST OF READS

All things considered, I’m just happy I got to finish the books I did this month.

Currently in love with reading chunky books!

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray
The Fade Out, Vol. 1: Act One by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Elizabeth Breitweiser
FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics Vol. 1: The Paradigm Shift by Simon Oliver, Robbi Rodriguez
A-Force #3 by G. Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, Jorge Molina
Mind the Gap, Vol. 1: Intimate Strangers by Jim McCann, Adrian Alphona, Rodin Esquejo, Sonia Oback

Loki: Agent of Asgard, Vol. 1: Trust Me by Al Ewing, Lee Garbett
Kinslayer by Jay Kristoff
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Nuevel

LIST OF BLOGPOSTS

The year long blog slump continues.

I posted my review of The Fade Out, Vol. 1: Act One by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
I posted my review of The Diviners by Libba Bray

LIST OF BOOK BUYS

Impulsive book shopper right here.

I didn’t plan any of these book buys except Night Film which I think is about damn time I bought.

Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
Mockingbird by Chuck Wendig
Night Film by Marisha Pressl
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
A-Force #3 by G. Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, Jorge Molina
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman (thank you, HMH!)
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Nuevel (thank you, Del Rey!)
Fire by Kristin Cashore
Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig (thank you, Greenwillow Books!)

PLAYLIST

I can’t believe I’ve forty songs on my playlist this month, heee.

This album is so good! // I love upbeat music and this song is it. // Fucking awesome album!

How was your August?

Review: The Diviners by Libba Bray

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The Diviners by Libba Bray
young adult historical paranormal fantasy published by Little, Brown on September 18th, 2012
first book in The Diviners series

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us?

Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City–and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfield girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her Uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.

Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.

As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened….

Review: The Fade Out, Vol. 1: Act One by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The Fade Out, Vol. 1: Act One by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Elizabeth Breitweiser
historical noir fiction comics published by Image Comics on March 10th, 2015
first volume in The Fade Out comic series

Brubaker and Phillips’ newest hit series, The Fade Out, is an epic noir set in the world of noir itself, the backlots and bars of Hollywood at the end of its Golden Era. A movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from the war and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star and the lookalike hired to replace her. Nothing is what it seems in the place where only lies are true. The Fade Out is Brubaker and Phillips’ most ambitious project yet!

Collects The Fade Out issues #1 to #4.

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Monthly Recap: July

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Is it bad that all I remember about July is crying over Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking and social anxiety? I hope not. Why do summers gotta be the busiest, though?

LIST OF NEWSWORTHY

newsworthyJuly2015
Loving the weather! // Channeling Adam Parrish // Eid and a photography session

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Review: Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Red Rising by Pierce Brown
young adult fantasy space science fiction dystopia published by Del Rey on January 28th, 2014
first book in Red Rising trilogy

The Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough precious elements to one day tame the surface of the planet and allow humans to live on it. The Reds are humanity’s last hope.

Or so it appears, until the day Darrow discovers it’s all a lie. That Mars has been habitable – and inhabited – for generations, by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. A class of people who look down on Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought.

Until the day that Darrow, with the help of a mysterious group of rebels, disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors from the inside. But the command school is a battlefield – and Darrow isn’t the only student with an agenda.

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