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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Book Girls Don’t Cry: My Reading Life

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Inspired by Book Buzzers, Book Girls Don’t Cry is a weekly feature where we each discuss/vent/advise on the chosen weekly bookish topic. Don’t miss Jenni on Mondays, and Amy on Saturdays:
 

This week’s topic was suggested by from Siiri of Little Pieces of Imagination

The Life of a Book Addict



This week we’ll be showing you our reading habits – as you can guess (if you know me at all) mine will include a lot of food and coffee… and well yeah who needs anything else? >.< Also, it will be brought to you mostly via pictures – brace yourselves! ๐Ÿ˜‰

I do the most of my reading in the morning right after I ship the lil one to daycare and before the rest of the world is awake and emailing me – aka my workday. So at 7am EST I’m found lounging on this couch in my sunny living room with a book and a coffee:

Although this table is not usually so empty. So how about we add the necessities:

And…

Yup. I love candy. I even wear it (and I was, in fact, reading in this picture):

But don’t worry, I indulge in healthy snacks once in a while:

But mostly this is what happens when I try for healthy:

 For when coffee just isn’t enough:

I also usually have cute, cuddly company:

And I wish I could say I read a lot outside (I love the outdoors), I actually don’t very much. We don’t have a gazebo and bugs love me for some reason. But I do go down to my mother’s once in a while and enjoy reading in her backyard:

 However that can only happen for 2-3 months in the year, because I’m in Canada. Meaning:

 Sometimes I read in the evenings too, but usually I’m preoccupied by the cuteness:

Or if he’s in bed, books on TV!

And once in a while, I do work and stuff:

(but even then I have the necessities of life)

So that’s my reading habits/life in a nutshell! 
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Book Girls Don’t Cry: Zombiefied!

Book Girls Don’t Cry: Zombiefied!

Posted by on 06/20/2013 • 34 Comments

Inspired by Book Buzzers, Book Girls Don’t Cry is a weekly feature where we each discuss/vent/advise on the chosen weekly bookish topic. Don’t miss Jenni on Mondays, and Amy on Saturdays:  

Must Reads – For the Zombie Fans!

This week we decided to take a favorite genre or ours and do a top list. So, of course, you know me and my zombies! So if you love zombie books as much as I do maybe you’ll find some more to add to your lists, and leave me some recs in the comments, too! ๐Ÿ™‚ FYI – these are not really in order, because that would be too hard >.<

—The Last Bastion of the Living by Rhiannon Frater—

This is definitely one of my all time favorite…

Book Girl Don’t Cry… Except When They Do

Book Girl Don’t Cry… Except When They Do

Posted by on 05/30/2013 • 32 Comments

Inspired by Book Buzzers, Book Girls Don’t Cry is a weekly feature where we each discuss/vent/advise on the chosen weekly bookish topic. Don’t miss Jenni on Mondays, and Amy on Saturdays:   This week’s topic was suggested by Kathy from I Write, I Read, I Review.

ALL THE FEELS!

There are always books that get our emotions involved and this week we decided to feature some books that truly gutted us into oblivion (or tears… however dramatic you want to be ;).

       

Hopeless by Colleen Hoover        Hopeless is the most recent powerfully emotional book I read. It had me in tears for most of the book. This was also my first by Colleen Hoover and it will for sure not be my last. I…

Book Girls Don’t Cry: That Time I Was the Black Sheep

Book Girls Don’t Cry: That Time I Was the Black Sheep

Posted by on 05/23/2013 • 41 Comments

Inspired by Book Buzzers, Book Girls Don’t Cry is a weekly feature where we each discuss/vent/advise on the chosen weekly bookish topic. Don’t miss Jenni on Mondays, and Amy on Saturdays:   This week’s topic was suggested by Ruby from Feed Me Books Now!!! 

I wanted to love you, but…

Sometimes there are books that you are just DYING to love either because it sounds exactly like you type of perfect read, all your friends highly recommended it, or it just has an epically awesome cover (pfft yeah I just by the cover! Sue me!), BUT they don’t always pan out. So this week we’re talking about books we wanted to love but we just…. didn’t. Then the black sheep was born. BAAAAAA. (that was a sheep…. fyi).

Note that…

Book Girls Don’t Cry: Best of 2013

Posted by on 05/16/2013 • 32 Comments

Inspired by Book Buzzers, Book Girls Don’t Cry is a weekly feature where we each discuss/vent/advise on the chosen weekly bookish topic. Don’t miss Jenni on Mondays, and Amy on Saturdays:  

Best of 2013 (so far)

Since we’re hitting the half year mark very soon, we decided to do up a list of the best books we’ve read so far this year, and the top ones we’re excited for that are releasing before the year ends.

Let’s start with my top 5 books of 2013 so far:

Sins & Needles (The Artists Trilogy #1) by Karina Halle 

Ellie Watt is used to starting over. The daughter of a grifting team, Ellie spent her childhood being used as a pawn in her parents’ latest scam. Now sheโ€™s…

Book Girls Don’t Cry… They Vent on Pet Peeves

Book Girls Don’t Cry… They Vent on Pet Peeves

Posted by on 05/09/2013 • 43 Comments

Inspired by Book Buzzers, Book Girls Don’t Cry is a weekly feature where we each discuss/vent/advise on the chosen weekly bookish topic. Don’t miss Jenni on Mondays, and Amy on Saturdays:  

Bookish Pet Peeves!

We are talking pet peeves today! I’m sure you will all have some to share as well and this is my favorite thing to discuss in books so gimme all you got in the comments, loves! I’ve grown to have very many pet peeves through the years so I will just list the ones that are the most annoying for me.

Insta-Love Oh hell to the no (and really who doesn’t have this as a pet peeve by now?)! What more can I even say about it? Insta-love sucks. An instant attraction is ok, insta-lust…

Book Girls Don’t Cry: Genres – From Hot to Not

Book Girls Don’t Cry: Genres – From Hot to Not

Posted by on 05/02/2013 • 50 Comments

Inspired by Book Buzzers, Book Girls Don’t Cry is a weekly feature where we each discuss/vent/advise on the chosen weekly bookish topic. Don’t miss Jenni on Mondays, and Amy on Saturdays:  

From Hot to Not Anymore!

Book trends! From insta-love to love triangles to vampire romance; trends are vicious, but today we’re talking book genres! We want to know what you’re tired of, what you can’t seem to get enough of, and what you think the future holds!

Tiresome genres are not unheard of. How about dystopias? Anyone? Personally, I am so very tired of this genre, now. I was the biggest fan of dystopias when I began my blog not even 2 years ago, even now I get excited when I hear of a new one coming out…

Book Girls Don’t Cry: Blogging Schedules

Posted by on 04/25/2013 • 40 Comments

Inspired by Book Buzzers, Book Girls Don’t Cry is a weekly feature where we each discuss/vent/advise on the chosen weekly bookish topic. Don’t miss Jenni on Mondays, and Amy on Saturdays: ย 

Planning is half the battle!

When you start a blog most people go in with absolutely no clue what it entails, nor how much organization goes into running one–especially if you want good constant content AND respect what publishers ask as far as reviewing the books they send to you on time.

My first few months of blogging were craz-ay! I was not using anything to keep track and just going about it with the flow, and it got pretty unorganized. I would forget tours I had signed up for, and I lost track of what was due…