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Happy Sunday everyone! This past week was full. I’ve been working on slowly packing the apartment up. I’ve got our office packed along with all our nonessential books (you know the ones we’ve already read ?). Yesterday a friend of ours stopped by and we gave them our son’s crib and baby stuff. We’d held onto all of it in case we got pregnant while we were here. Since we didn’t, neither of us wanted to haul all that stuff yet again. SO I’m so glad we could find someone to donate it to that needs it.
Reading wise it was a slow week this week. I only managed to read two books, one of which I forced myself to finish. Hoping this is a better reading week. I’ve enjoyed seeing everyone’s pictures from BEA! It looked like so much fun. I hope to join y’all next year ?
Currently Reading
I’m roughly half way through with Mike Mullin’s Ashen Winter and let me tell you it is just as good as the first! A little violent for my taste, but SO good! I started The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye last night. I have a feeling it will make up for my poor reading this past week.
Last Week on the Blog
- Cover Reveal: Driven Series by K. Bromberg
- Top Ten Tuesday #78 – Non-Book Blogs I Follow
- Book Blitz: The Undoer by Melissa J. Cunningham
- Waiting on Wednesday #51 – Frost Like Night by Sara Raasch
- Children’s Corner: The Jungle Book on the Big Screen
- Love is Come by Heather B. Moore ★★★★★
- Saven: Denial by Siobhan Davis ★★★★★
- The Girl from Summer Hill by Jude Deveraux ★★★★★
- Sunday Post #77 – Last Week of Preschool
Blog Ahead Mini-Challenge Complete
Today is the last day of the mini-challenge and while I didn’t get all my posts completed (32 is a lot!) I did managed to complete 28 posts and prep another 10. I am set for this summer!
Clean Sweep ARC Challenge Update
I don’t think I’ll be making my goal of 20 books this month. I should have known better than to challenge myself that many with the move coming up. I only managed to read 2 books this week:
- The Girl From Summer Hill by Jude Deveraux
- Admiral by Sean Danker
To keep up with my progress, follow my shelf on Goodreads!
Coming Up this Week
- Imdalind series by Rebecca Ethington – series blast and sale alert
- Top Ten Tuesday | “Ten Books I Picked Up On A Whim” via the Broke and the Bookish
- The Queen of All that Lives by Laura Thalassa – review
- Admiral by Sean Danker – review
- Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes – DNF review
- Weekend Reads | The Hero Agenda by Tera Lynn Childs and Tracy Deebs – series review
This Week’s Book Fix
What are you reading this week?
Little man’s last week of preschool is this week. I’m so proud (and amazed) of all he’s learned this year. At the start of the school year, he couldn’t write his name and hated to color. Now he loves arts and crafts, will sit for hours and color and can write anything you ask him to…you might have to spell it but he can do it. AND he’s starting to read a little on his own. Thursday is his little graduation ceremony for preschool. I have tissues packed and the camera charging as I write this. What are your plans this week?
I just bought The Crown’s Game last night!!! I can’t wait to start it now on the cruise. I hope you have a good week 🙂 (Sorry for the very quick and short reply. I should be getting ready to leave for the cruise, yet I’m here haha)
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Ashen Winter looks right up my alley. You’ve got lots of great books on here, thanks for sharing.
Well done on completing 32 posts for the challenge and good luck with the move!
Hope you have a fabulous week and thanks for stopping by.
I love the Ashfall series, it’s definitely one of my favorite post-apocalyptic series! I’m glad your son enjoyed his time in school. And great job on the Blog Ahead challenge!
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Oh, I hope the move goes well….moving is an anxious time.
Enjoy your new books…I’m curious about Random Acts of Crazy.
Congrats to your little one’s preschool completion, with all the successes he achieved. Enjoy the next year…and your reading week, too. Thanks for visiting my blog.
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Sounds like you are making great progress with the packing. Good luck with the move. I am glad you were able to find a good home for your son’s crib. We still have ours–in a sense. It’s now a full size bed, which she uses most of the time, but not always. Congratulations to your son on his graduation. 🙂 My daughter is finishing up preschool this week as well. She and her fellow classmates aren’t having any sort of formal graduation, but they are having a pizza party at a local establishment that has games and rides. It’s all my daughter can talk about. 🙂
I am sorry to see you weren’t able to finish Queen of Hearts. That doesn’t bode well for me who is planning to read it. I think you’re the second book blogger I’ve come across that hasn’t liked it.
I hope you have a great week!
Congrats to your daughter as well! It’s a big accomplishment and I’m sure she is proud of herself 🙂
Queen of Hearts just wasn’t for me. I tried SO hard to like it but just couldn’t. Hopefully it’s better for you.
Yay for preschool graduation!! I’m so happy to hear that he is loving things like reading and writing! That makes my teacher heart happy 🙂 Good luck with the move!
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Thank you! He really is loving school. I hope that love follows him into Kindergarten and beyond.
Wow, two books a week is already great, I think! 🙂 And good luck with the move, I’m going to move again soon as well, so, I feel you 🙂
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Thanks and good luck with your move as well. Only 6 weeks left til ours and I wish it was over already. Lol
Aw preschool graduation!! My little one starts her last year of preschool nect year and my littlest one starts his first year next year. Goes by too fast!! Good luck moving and have a great week!!
It makes me sad to see him grow up but oh so proud too 😀
So, kudos to you setting your goal to 20 books in one month. There is no way I could ever do that! So you can do it!
Yeah I think I aimed too high. Lol! We’re moving next month and I haven’t read near as much as usual.
Everyone is reading The Crown’s Game! Enjoy ♥
It’s great so far 😀
I have The Crown’s Game on my New Audiobook Releases post for this week. My plans for the week include having family come to town so we can go to my oldest nephew’s HIGH SCHOOL graduation. I can’t believe he’s that old.
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Congrats to your nephew! You must be proud 😀
I didn’t read a ton this week either, maybe next week will be better. 🙂 I’m curious what you thought of Admiral as I saw Kimba’s review last week and it looks interesting too.
Glad to hear Jungle Book was good, it looks so good visually and reviews have been good but I have’t had a chance to see it.
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I struggled with Admiral which was a real disappointment after reading Kimba’s review. Lot of potential just not my kind of read. Though the ending did make me want to keep reading the series. Think Star Trek crossed with Star Wars/Firefly.
I am liking the look of Ashen Winter, that might be something to look into when I get a chance for new reads. You have been busy this week, that’s for sure 🙂
It is SO good! The first book in the series is Ashfall, start with it 😉
I hope you will be able to join us at BEA next year!
I hope so too 😀
Glad to hear you are making progress with the packing. It is a trudge, isn’t it? No wonder you’re not able to read so much – I’m impressed you managed two books. Ah… Preschool graduation – I remember my granddaughter’s and yes – tissues are definitely a must! I did wonder how many people would find Dinah from Queen of Hearts too much to take. Sharp-edged heroines are something of a favourite of mine and I nearly stopped reading about halfway in. Best of luck this coming week with all that you have to do:)
I’ve been reading a lot but falling behind on my reviews. Guess it’s time to sit down and start writing. I spotted a few books here I need to check into. I hope you find some gems in your collection:)
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Good luck with all the packing, sounds like you’re making some good progress. Last time I moved I also packed the non essential books first. Packing your books is always a hard. And that’s great you got to make someone else happy with the baby stuff! And reading two books in an already busy week still sounds like a nice amount to me.
And wow you managed to get a lot of posts done for Blog Ahead! I managed to get 16 posts done in total, which was way more than I had expected so that was great. Enjoy your new books and have a great week!
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Sorry you didn’t have a very good reading week, but at least this one seems to be going better! I’ve been wanting to try the Ashfall series, so I’m glad to hear you’re enjoying it. Good luck with all your packing, and enjoy your books!
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Congrats on your daughter and preschool!! I teach 1st grade so I get genuinely excited about things like this lol and I can completely relate to a slow reading week. I just completed a readathon and didn’t quite meet my goal with work, etc requiring my attention.
Either way, enjoy your book and great recap! 🙂
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I love Mike Mullin’s series! And I just started The Crown’s Game myself! So far it has been good. It is one I was just going to read one chapter before bed, and then I was like just one more, and then one more. It’s good so far! I had to go grab a few of the free books you had listed above. Hope you have a good week! And thanks for stopping by my Sunday Post earlier!
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I’m having a hard time sitting The Crown’s Game down myself. I’m at the halfway point now, have no nails and have a feeling I won’t sleep so I can finish it. 😉
Great list of books. Enjoy them!
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I’m planning to go to BEA next year too and it will be my first time! Hopefully I’ll see you there! 😀 Have a great week!
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What a great mix of books. I hope the move goes well. We moved about six months ago and I have to say it was stressful, especially with a little one so you have my sympathy there but I know it’s exciting too, once all the boxes are packed at one end and unpacked at the other. Have a good week. Emma
The Crown’s Game really does sound interesting and it keeps on popping up on so many sites! Guess I’ll have to try to get it as soon as possible.
Broken Forest looks like a book I’d love! May have to check it out! Have a good week! 🙂
I used to teach pre-K and it sounds like your little one had a great year! 🙂 Enjoy your new books and have a great week!
I love that the little man is reading already. You have some great looking books and I couldn’t help but stop when I saw the cover for Broken Forest. Thanks so much for visiting my blog.
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I’m so curious about The Crown’s Game, but I haven’t bought it yet. And wow, 28 is such a great number for blog ahead. I managed to have 16 posts planned in, some prepped, and made a lot of post plans for the Summer. Hope you have a great reading week. 🙂
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The Crown’s Game was fantastic!!! I highly recommend it. Set in an alternate historical Russia 🙂