Category: Monthly Recap

Monthly Recap: July 2023

Monthly Recap: July 2023

Monthly Recap is a feature where I recap my life, share books I’ve read, borrowed, and purchased, blog posts you may have missed, shows I’ve watched and give an overall count of my reading progress and more.  Well, things have been okay lately. While getting things in order for my dad’s passing, I was off work from the 4th (holiday) through the 9th. My mom and I received my dad’s ashes and it feels weird. Everything pretty much feels weird right now. There are days when there’s so much grief and days when I don’t think a lot about it.   I’ve been frequenting the coffee shop a block away from my apartment and I’m pretty much a regular now. It’s where I’ve been doing most of my blogging, other than the library. I like the atmosphere a lot. There’s plants on tables, board games and the occasional book on shelves. […]

Posted August 7, 2023 by Amber in Monthly Recap / 0 Comments
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June Monthly Recap (2023)

June Monthly Recap (2023)

  It has been a while since I last posted. Here is my June monthly recap! Better late than never, right? My life is pretty hectic right now. Monthly Recap is a feature where I recap my life, books I’ve read, borrowed, and purchased, blog posts you may have missed, shows I’ve watched and give an overall count of my reading progress and more.  I have been saving up money for the past year to go to ALA with my mom and we finally went! After hopelessly missing (both emotionally and physically) ALA of 2020 and 2021, we made it there. I had a mostly great time that I’ll be discussing later this month. We spent a whole week in Chicago. Everything had started great. Well, not the month itself but Chicago at least! Until… Unfortunately, on the second day of ALA, my dad passed away at home. My dad […]

Posted July 24, 2023 by Amber in Monthly Recap / 2 Comments
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Monthly Recap: February ‘20

Monthly Recap: February ‘20

Monthly Recap is a bit of a self-explanatory feature where I recap my life, share blog posts you may have missed, give an overall count of my reading progress and more. To know what books I’ve read, shows I’ve watched and music I’ve listened to, you can check out my Entertainment Recap feature. It has been a huge bookish month for me regarding book sales, book signings, review books, signed books, book carts and recently ordered…book beaus.  It’s all books books books. If you take away all of the bookish stuff, well, I suppose it’s just another regular month. Oh, I did start a new Sunday School class where we meet a coffee shop. I love this because of the obvious…. coffee. It’s been nice so far. Other than that, I missed two panels at the library last Saturday which I am so upset about. I have learned to put […]

Posted February 29, 2020 by Amber in Monthly Recap / 544 Comments
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Monthly Recap: January ‘20

Monthly Recap: January ‘20

Monthly Recap is a bit of a self-explanatory feature where I recap my life, share blog posts you may have missed, give an overall count of my reading progress and more. It’s been forever since I’ve done a monthly recap. Literally two years ago. How am I supposed to know what’s happened the past two years if I don’t write it down!? Not much changes in my life however, ha, so this will be mostly blog related. As for my life, well, I saw L. L. McKinney, Megan Bannen and Sarah Henning at Barnes and Noble! It was super unexpected and exciting and I so would have missed it had Elle not tweeted about it. As well as Megan and Sarah who I hadn’t previously followed on Twitter. Other than that though, I am one month closer to going to ALA in Chicago and I could not be more excited […]

Posted January 31, 2020 by Amber in Monthly Recap / 0 Comments
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December Entertainment Recap

December Entertainment Recap

Entertainment Recap is where I break down all the books I’ve read, movies and shows I’ve watched and musicals I’ve become addicted to. Sometimes these things will be discussed further in other posts. It was a marathon of re-filling my creative well after finishing NaNo. Most months will not be like this. ? Books Read: 21 Audiobooks ~All-Time New Favorites~ * Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers * Dead Little Mean Girl by Eva Darrows * What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold ~Books That Were A Letdown~ * The Distance Between Us by Kasie West * Damsel by Elana K. Arnold * Moxie by Jennifer Matthieu It’s kind of funny that these were my least favorites while they’re all highly regarded.  I didn’t even dislike them! There were just certain aspects that made me put them on this list. I liked Damsel and Moxie a lot […]

Posted January 5, 2020 by Amber in Monthly Recap / 216 Comments
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Monthly Recap: July ’17

Monthly Recap: July ’17

Let’s see, what has been going on in my life lately. I’m working a bit, less than I would like. I’ve been checking books out a ton and reading a little. My month has been pretty okay. I can’t think of anything big that has happened though. WordPress Followers: 288 BlogLovin’ Followers: 202 I believer, after I transferred the followers to the new blog. # of Views/Visitors:  167/69 # of Blog Posts: 11 (Now 12) # of Reviews: 0 # of Likes: 20 # of Comments: 8 # of Books Read: # of Books Started:   # of Books For Review:      # of Books Bought: The Abyss Surrounds Us Royal Wedding (A Princess Diaries Novel) by Meg Cabot Loser by Jerry Spinelli Features A New Feature Debut: Bookish Lists Weekly TV Roundup (#1) – The Bold Type – Season 1, Episode 1 – Pilot Weekly TV Roundup (#2) – The […]

Posted July 31, 2017 by Amber in Monthly Recap / 302 Comments
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August ' 16 Recap

August ' 16 Recap

~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 […]

Posted September 19, 2016 by Amber in Monthly Recap / 212 Comments
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Monthly Recap: July '16

Monthly Recap: July '16

~My Life~ Hi everyone! Life is just, a lot, lately. I know, I’m being vague. Anyway, I thought I’d talk a little about my job. So I’ve been a little over a month and a half into my new job. It has a couple setbacks though: 1. I’ve had to miss almost every Bible study for this past “semester”. I’m really disappointed since I was really looking forward to it. 2. It’s getting to be a little expensive getting to and from work. This is because I generally only work four hours and if I work until after 5, I have to either  A. Get a cab or B. Find someone to pick me up. This is because buses stop running around 6. I’ve only had to take a cab once so far, but I’ll have to take one to work tomorrow, as buses don’t run on Sundays either. Then […]

Posted July 31, 2016 by Amber in Monthly Recap / 301 Comments
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My Super Late May Recap!

My Super Late May Recap!

Monthly Recap is basically a post where I recap my life, my blog, entertainment things, etc. 🙂 It will occasionally be joined with my other feature, Looking Forward To (LFT), where I discuss things I’m looking forward to. This post will not include LFT. Oh my gosh, this is so, so overdue. I got really caught up in May between BEA and well, post BEA, plus dealing with home and such. It was a really long month. BEA was great! I meant to do all of my BEA post last month but…what can I say? I haven’t had the energy or motivation to write them. Plus I’m kind of going in sane over my mini notebook that I lost, then found, then lost again. It had my BEA panel notes in it, not to mention a ton of other writing and omg. Pray I find it, okay guys? Or send […]

Posted June 11, 2016 by Amber in Monthly Recap, Uncategorized / 4458 Comments
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Monthly Recap: April + Looking Forward To: May

~Life~ This month has just been pretty much unbearable. Just seriously every single thing that has happened has just made me so, so done with this year. I’m going to go into detail about this a little bit regarding BEA in a later post, because that’s caused a huge amount of stress. We’re still dealing with a situation at home, so that’s…not fun. More stress there. I’ve been having a lot of anxiety as well just about everything this month, including BEA, so once again, not fun. Really, I’m just trying to keep myself in one piece. Haha. Due to all of this, I’ve gone on a hiatus since the 10th. Fortunately though, I think I’m back. I hope I’m back. I can’t go to BEA when I’m on a month long hiatus, that’s silly. Here’s hoping May gets better, but I have a feeling it’ll be getting a bit […]

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