Monthly Recap: September ’15

Posted October 1, 2015 by Amber in Monthly Recap / 0 Comments

~My Life~

It has been a very long and hard month for me. Mostly due to home circumstances.

Some of the highlights though?:

Seeing Three Days Grace for the third time. <3 I went with a friend from college, her boyfriend and then their friend. I however, didn’t know it wasn’t just going to be us two until two hours before she got to my house. Ha. So a little headsup would have been nice, but it’s whatever. The concert was super good. Even with the new lead singer (</3). I was less than five feet from the barricade and then only two feet away towards the end of the concert. So that was really fun.
Going to the Friends of The Library book sale on the 18th. <3 It was a bit complicated getting home, ha, which took away from the bit of the fun, but overall I had a nice time looking at all the books. 🙂 Oh and I was also over-charged, the same thing happened last year. 🙁 But I still didn’t pay too much…I guess.
All the new music that came out! I’ll be talking about this down below but oh my gosh, it has been such a great music month.
I received my first unsolicited ARC (ever) from St. Martin’s Press! It was. . .

I had taken a picture of it after receiving it, but haha, I didn’t notice until after I uploaded it that I hadn’t shown the title. Lol. It’s so pretty. It’s so, so pretty. Hopefully it’s good and I like it.

~Stats~

WordPress Followers: 172

BlogLovin’ Followers: 115 (When did this happen? <3)

# of Views/Visitors: 2,995/2,357

# of Blog Posts: 5. 🙁

# of Reviews: 0 🙁

# of Likes: 12

# of Comments: 20

Most Viewed Review: Where She Went by Gayle Forman (1,254 views)

~Book Stats~

Books Read:

I finished Romancing The Dark In The City of Light, finally. That one took a while since I kept putting it off. I liked t though. I had a super good book month! Okay, so I only technically read four books and finished Romancing, but still! I really liked them all. My favorite? My favorite. . . drum roll

The non-fiction, memoir-esque, essay ridden book by Sara Bareilles! No, I’m not biased at ALL. JUST because I love her doesn’t mean that I was biased in my decision for picking this as my favorite book.

Books Bought:

Physical:

Kindle:

Books For Review:

Physical:

After The Woods is for a giveaway, but I think I’m going to read it beforehand to review, then give it away. 🙂

Thank you Farrar, Straus and Giroux and St. Martin’s Press<3

e-ARC:

Thank you HarperCollins and Sourcebooks Fire.<3

~What I Posted~

Features:

Wondrous Covers Wednesday – White Face Covers (That sounds so bad. . .)

Memes:

Top Ten Books on My Fall TBR

Favorite Post

My discussion with Holly about Fangirl! It’s good stuff.

~How Did I Do With My Challenges?~

I read three e-ARCs for the NG/EW challenge!

~Music Recap~

It was a month of cover albums, none of which I listened to, all of which, I need to. 🙂

Ryan Adams put his spin on Taylor Swift’s 1989. How great is that cover? It’s gorgeous. Okay, this is probably the only way I’ll ever hear Taylor Swift’s album without actually hearing her voice or buying it.
There was Bleachers’ album, Strange Desires, retitled Terrible Thrills vol. 2 featuring amazing female singers on all their songs. IT’S AMAZING. IT HAS SIA AND CARLY RAE JEPSEN AND TINASHE AND SARA BAREILLES AND CHARLI XCX AND ELLE KING AND JUST GO LISTEN TO IT. GO. IT’S ON SPOTIFY. RUN. It’s also available for FREE on Google Play if you are in the U.S. You will have to have a google account and some type of card to put on the account (I used a debit card). Oh gosh, that totally sound all infomercially, didn’t it? I didn’t mean to! Just listen to the album.
Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes and the band Toy came together for an eclectic collection of songs from various countries.

Now for what I DID listen to. Here’s my Spotify playlist for September.

~What I Listened To~

~Favorite Songs~

What Are The Chances? by Duran Duran
Make Them Gold by Chvrches
Here’s To Mars by Coheed and Cambria

~Songs That Represented Me and My Month~

Restless by New Order
She Used To Be Mine by Sara Bareilles
Alive by Sia
She’s Humming A Tune by a-ha

~Favorite Albums~

a-ha Cast In Steel (This particular album saved me many times this past month, I highly, highly recommend it.)
New Order Music Complete
Chvrches Every Eye Open
Kaskade Automatic
Disclosure Caracal
Bleachers Terrible Thrills vol. 2

~Albums I Wish I Listened To A Bit More~

Low Ones and Zeroes (I streamed this when it was up on NPR the week of it’s release and was pretty into it, I bought it the day after it came out and never managed to listen to it really. :()
Stereophonics- I was crazy about this album, at least, the idea of the album. I love Stereophonics so I had to buy this album the day after it’s released (along with Low’s), but then I got caught up with a-ha’s album and…yeah. 😉