August ' 16 Recap

Posted September 19, 2016 by Amber in Monthly Recap / 212 Comments

~My Life~

I am forever trying to figure out the balance between work and blogging. I mean to write posts on my day off, but I enjoy the break too much to do so. It’s a huge problem and I don’t like it. 🙁

~Stats~

WordPress Followers: N/A, I don’t know that information due to waiting so long to look.

BlogLovin’ Followers: N/A, same as the above.

# of Views/Visitors: 1,696/1,247

# of Blog Posts: Only 4. I’m so sad.

# of Reviews: N/A

# of Likes: 21

# of Comments: Roughly 30

Most Viewed Post: It’s My Second Blogoversary (130)

Most Viewed Review: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before review (338)

~Book Stats~

# of Books Read: 0

# of Books Started: 0

# of Books For Review: 7

Thanks go to St. Martin’s and Little Brown/Hachette.

# of Books Won: 2

I won an ARC of The Possibility of Somewhere from the author on Twitter before I received the above ARC.

I also received an ARC of It Started With Goodbye from the author on Twitter.

# of Books Traded/Given: 3

For trades, I received Still Life with Tornado from Sylvie and Unscripted Joss Byrd from Lena.

Winter was given to me by my fantastic Secret Sister.

~What I Posted~

Memes:

August 2: Top Ten Books I Would Buy With A Gift Card

August 9: Top Twelve Books I Never Reviewed

~Favorite Post~

I have so many posts to choose from, it’s such a hard decision…

I’ll go with Top Twelve Books I Never Reviewed

~Blogosphere Participation~

I tried and failed with Bout of Books. 🙁 I thought I’d be able to handle reading before and after work, but I should have known better. I was always so tired or worrying about other things to read.

I sent and received my first #OTSPSecretSister package for the month, which was really great. My SS picked a winter theme and I loved it.

~New Music~

~Favorite Album~

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~Album I Wish Had Gotten More Love~

Carly Rae Jepsen’s Side B

It deserves all the listens.

And I wish I had listened to Britney’s Glory.

~Musical News~

Anastasia releases its artwork for Broadway.

~TV News~

Pretty Little Liars is cancelled.

It’s a little sad but also not because that show’s long over-due. Though, it was one of the two-four shows I had left that I was regularly watching.

~Interesting Articles~

I saw these two articles being shared around Twitter and I really liked the insight. I think culture and mental health topics go really under the radar with as much attention they get.

As Suicide Rates For Black Children Rise, Protecting Emotional Health is Vital

I Don’t Need To Pray About It, I Need To Go To Therapy

~My Addictions~

Carly Rae Jepsen Side B

~Music Purchases~

Cry, Roses and Store by Carly Rae Jepsen

~TV Show/Movie Purchases~

I bought New York Minute, seasons 1-3 of Gilmore Girls, Awkward season 1 and completed my season 2 of Veronica Mars on Itunes.

Itunes also had season 2 of Black-Ish on sale so I picked that up as well.

~What I’ve Been Watching~

I started Inuyasha on the 7th and now I’m up to 74. I would be much higher, but I kind of took two weeks off watching it. And the website I watched it on has the videos messed up. 🙁 Sad.

I’m somewhat back to watching Buffy, which I’m enjoying after making it through that one episode that took three tries…