Post Reading Slump TBR

Hello all! I hope this post finds you well. If you haven't noticed, I haven't had many posts up on the blog. The last one was a scheduled post, but I hope to get back into posting more soon!

Anyway, I've had a major reading slump that has lasted about a month. I think I read one-ish books in May and picked up and put down two others. However, I am finally pulling out of my slump. So, I thought I would post a TBR if you are curious what I'm planning on reading for the rest of June.

So, I'm currently reading The Heir by Kiera Cass. I find that Edlyn is less annoying than America, and she handles the Selection process a lot better than her mother and father. I'm currently 200 pages in and am loving it so far (I just got it today :P).

I'm also planning on reading Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mass. Its one of the books that I picked up in May and then put down. But it was really good.

Other than that, I'm planning on picking up Dorothy Must Die and possibly Shadow and Bone.

I have one more week in my class, and then I have a week off before I start my next set. So, I hope I'll have a mini Read-A-Thon during that week. We shall see.

But, I will keep you posted!!!

Type at you later!

Shea

Beginning of the Week Update/March Wrap Up/April TBR

Hello all! This post was meant to go up yesterday, but I had a whole lot of things to do that I couldn't miss and then when the day was over, I had to do homework. And then after that, I just wanted to sleep!

Anyway, here is my Beginning of the week reading update.

So, over the weekend, I didn't actually get much reading done. I've managed to get to about page 175 in Wicked. It's finally picking up speed a little bit. The beginning was so slow, and at this point, I'm not sure if we needed all of that background information. But, I still have a chunk of reading left to go, so we shall see.

Since this post is so short, I also wanted to include my March Wrap-Up. As you know, I read all seven of the Harry Potter books this past month. Let me just say that it was AWESOME! I had forgotten a bunch of the smaller details that they didn't include in the movies. It was great to see Peeves again and more of Dobby and Kreatcher. I really wish they had included Kreatcher in the movies. His character arc is one of the best of minor characters I think there is. He goes from practically hating Harry, Ron, and Hermione to thinking that they are okay people. He even manages to stop calling Hermione a "mudblood".

One of the biggest things I think I'd forgotten was Phineious Nigellous Black (I know that's not spelled correctly, but I'm too lazy to look it up! :P). Even though he was such a minor character, he was rather important in the final book. When Hermione took his portrait down and put it in the beaded bag and then blindfolded him, I realized how important this was to the story.

If you want, I can create a separate post for my feelings on each book.

And as for the end of the month, I started Wicked by Gregory Mcguire. As you can see from above, I've only read about 175 pages so far.

As for a TBR for April, I'm not really sure what I'm going to read. I don't have a "Spring Break" at my High School, but we do get an extended weekend for Easter, so I'm hoping to be able to finish at least Wicked if I haven't before then.

I was able to pick out the books I wanted in my Easter Basket so, I think I will read some of those (I will have a proper haul up when I actually receive the books, because I've forgotten what some of them are!).

One of the books was Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman, I know that for sure. I want to read that before the new season is released on Netflix in June, so that's on my TBR for this month. I'd also like to start the Throne of Glass series as well as finally get to Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick and Dead Girls Detective Agency by Suzy Cox. And of course finish Wicked. I'll keep you posted through my weekly updates and end of the month wrap up.

I hope you guys are having a great start to your week. It's snowing here again......... So much for Spring.

But anyway,

I'll type at you later!

Shea

Why Project TBR and Not #0by16?

Well, the reason is simple. I'm a mood reader and I love my local library. Also, I have books that are sequels that I ordered thinking they were the first in a series. Ooopsies!

I currently own 139 books that I have not read. I have organized them all on to a goodreads shelf (which you can see here). It would be grand if I could finish them all by 2016, but as I have mentioned in previous posts, I am coming out of a HUGE reading slump. Also, I have my last semester of High School and my first semester of College this year and I don't know how that will affect my reading.

With me participating in Project TBR, I have a goal in sight. But the goal of finishing my ENTIRE TBR pile that I own this year is quite impossible. I have a goodreads goal set for 50 books, which I'm pretty sure I can surpass because I set the same goal last year and didn't start reading until May and I still managed to surpass it. I'm thinking with a few extra months of reading thrown in there, I will be able to read more than 50 books.

But, as I am planning to read adult books and it takes me quite a while to read them, it may stay at 50 books. We will see.

I will frequently be updating this blog on how I am doing on project TBR and you can see what books I've read this year for Project TBR in that same link above.

I look forward to discussing more books with you guys in the coming months. I will have a video up on my YouTube channel soon with my monthly wrap-up. But I like to do them on the first day of the next month because my reading patterns are very unpredictable.

I will talk to you soon!

Until then,

Shea