This Week in Review – Oct. 10
…and had all our relatives over for a housewarming party (finally)! Check out the beautiful cookie tray my mom made:
Oh! And I saw Gone Girl with my book club. LOVED it. Have you guys seen it yet?
links i loved
Raise Your Hand If You Were A BOOK IT! Kid
Me!!! Pizza Hut’s Book It program is back — alums can sign up and get a personal pan pizza like in the golden olden days. You know I was a kid who read read read, so I was all about this.
Did you see the SNL parody of The Fault in Our Stars? Hilarious!
An Articles Club
Our book club passed around this post about an articles club another group of girls started. It’s a great idea, and this part reminded me why I love my book club so darn much:
The fascinating thing about an articles club is how close you get to—and how much you learn about—the women in the group. The conversations get intimate pretty quickly—we’ve talked about marriage, breakups, parenting, career goals, what success means, the saddest and happiest times in our lives, depression, body image, aging, feminism, religion, everything under the sun. I’ve learned things about my friends that I hadn’t known after years and years of friendship, since we end up talking about such specific, deep topics. It’s wonderful.
And last but not least, this is Judy Blume’s house for sale. Let’s all pitch in and buy it together and summer there and read books and pretend we’re Judy. Who’s in?
books i added to my shelves
Many thanks to my friends at Delacorte Press, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Poppy, Balzer Bray, Henry Holt and Co. for these books for my Kindle:
For Real by Allison Cherry
The Darkest Park of the Forest by Holly Black
Love, Lucy by April Linder
The Pretty App by Katie Sise
Finding Mr. Brightside by Jay Clark
I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
Loop by Karen Akins
And thanks to Feiwel & Friends, Henry Holt and Co., Macmillan, Harper, Bloomsbury, Swoon Reads and Farrar, Straus and Giroux for sending me these goodies in the mail:
The Queen of Bright & Shiny Things by Ann Aguirre
Dream a Little Dream by Kerstin Gier
Skandal by Lindsay Smith (Sektret #2)
Boys Don’t Know by T.S. Easton
Endgame: The Calling by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton
Positive: A Memoir by Paige Rawl with Ali Benjamin
Clariel by Garth Nix
Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
And the sequel, In a Handful of Dust
Soulprint by Megan Miranda
The Boy Next Door by Katie Van Ark
The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski (The Winner’s Trilogy #2 OMGGGG)
The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver
Ahhh. So MANY. Are you looking forward to reading any of these?
books i read
These three books are coming up in reviews soon — keep an eye out:
Not in the Script by Amy Finnegan
The Fine Art of Pretending by Rachel Harris
Famous in Love by Rebecca Searle
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