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Mid-Year Reading Recap

Now that June’s over it’s time to look upon our reading progress so far this year and share some book opinions!

Special thanks to @daniellesreadingnook for the tag!

1. Best book you read so far this year?

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

The Coffin Maker by Breeann Allison

Sea Witch by Sara Henning

Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton

The bottom two are kind of a cheat because they’re not out yet but I’m so excited for you guys to read them!

2. Worst book you read so far this year?

Beast a Tale of Love and Revenge by Lisa Jensen

Damsel by Elana K. Arnold

(stop romanticizing abusers 2k18)

3. Completed any series?

Yes! Illuminae, The Call duology, Rebel of the Sands and Insignia

4. What are your most anticipated books for the second half of the year?

Escaping From Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco

WildCard by Marie Lu

The Reckoning of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin

Vengeful by Victoria Schwab

5. Book that disappointed you this year?

Restore Me and The Invasion

6. How many books have you read this year?

140

7. Book that made you laugh?

Anything by Jana DeLeon and this year it was Change of Fortune

8. Estimated book count so far?

I don’t even know where to begin but I’m trying to do a book a day this year and grow from there so hopefully moving forward they’ll be plenty more to add to the official count!

no pressure only play if you want!

tagging: @yaseriesinsiders @michellehodkin @harunosss @noahtomyshaw

anyone else feel free to participate we’d love to see what you’ve been reading and what you’re looking forward to!

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Hi! I really love your blog 💖 I haven’t been on the bookblr scene in a while and I want to get started again! Do you have any follow recommendations? You could have any follow recommendations for people to follow on Instagram as well that would be great too. Much love 💖

Hey! Welcome back!

Some blogs that I really love: @lizziethereader @bookcub @thereadingchallengechallenge @magic-in-every-book @macrolit @emmasternerradley @immzies-adventures-through-books @foxingfae @bookmania @booksareperfection @amberthebooklion @alwaysbringabookwithyou @howlsmovinglibrary @thevajunglebook @darkestwings @bibliophilicwitch @bookaddict24-7 @reading-out-loud @redbookpanda @bibliophilecats @listentothepages @readaroundtherosie @read-and-be-merry @slytherin-bookworm-guy @youthbookreview @yaseriesinsiders

I’m forgetting A LOT of people. Guys, feel free to tag more people :)

As for instagram, if you look at who I’m following there, literally everyone has such gorgeous accounts.

Hugs!

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August Tag Game

Thanks to @coffeebooksorme for tagging me!

Go apple picking vs. Go on a hay ride

Scary vs. Sweet

Sweaters vs. Boots

Socks vs. Mittens

Bonfires vs. Football

Trick-or-treating vs. Watch scary movies

Bake pie vs. Bake cookies

Rain vs. Fog

Black cats vs. Owls

Ghosts vs. Wizards

Harry Potter vs. Halloweentown

Go hiking vs. Sleep in

Cinnamon vs. Nutmeg

Reading vs. Writing

Hot chocolate vs. Tea

Live in a cabin in a forest vs. Have it be fall 24/7

Candy apples vs. Caramel apples

Blankets vs. Pillows

Roasted marshmallows vs. Roasted chestnuts

Coffee vs. Apple cider

Red leaves vs. Orange leaves

Braids vs. Bows

Scented candles vs. The smell of fresh baked goods

Carve pumpkins vs. Make pumpkin pie

Pumpkin spice lattes vs. Chai tea lattes

Coats vs. Oversized sweaters

Beanies vs. Berets

Candy corn vs. Peanut butter cups

S'mores vs. Apple crisp

Jump in a pile of leaves vs. Swing on a tire

Corn maze vs. Haunted house

Bob for apples vs. Visit a pumpkin patch

Whipped cream on hot chocolate vs. Marshmallows on hot chocolate

I tag @superbibliophile @yaseriesinsiders @lgbtqreads @howlsmovinglibrary @penguinteen

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82 Truths

I was tagged by @onceuponabookblr Thanks for the tag!

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, write a post with 82 truths about yourself and then tag 25 people

My Favourites:

Animal: turtles

Colour: purple

Drink: dark chocolate lattes 

Food: anything potato!

Time of year: Summer (I’m a So Cal beachbum) 

Films: Back to the Future, The Matrix, Ghost, City of Angels, You’ve Got Mail, everything with Tom Hanks, more I can’t think of right now lol

Book: Oh man! Um. The Catcher in the Rye, Little Women, Everything by Sarah J Maas, Leigh Bardugo, John Green, and Sarah Dessen. Haha, this question isn’t fair for Booklrs! 

Subject in school: English

Flower: Tulips

Fruit: Pineapple

About Me:

I’m 38 and still play make believe, and climb trees, and roll down grass hills. I’ll never grow up

I work at a library and absolutely love my job!

I live in Southern California, and visit the beach almost daily

Though I finally got a BA in Journalism, my college years were the most traumatic having lost my mother to breast cancer, and I ended up changing majors 6 times in six years.

I was born in Manila, Philippines but raised in Long Beach, CA U.S.A.

As a result go that upbringing, I can understand Tagolog but can’t speak it.

I have one older brother but 7 step brothers and sisters.

I’m obsessed with folktales and mythologies from all over the world.

I have a teddy bear I love so much he travels everywhere with me and is now way more popular on Instagram than I will ever be LOL

33 is the magic number. It was the age my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and growing up I thought that was the age I would die. Now I’m living on borrowed time. 

Most recent:

Phone call: My best friend

Text: Also my best friend

Food: Langonisa and fried rice 

Drink: Coffee

Book: A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith

Purchase: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo 

Song I listened to: Despacito, because unfortunately its been playing every damn hour on the radio

Reason to be excited: I got one of my fave authors to agree to make a visit to the library I work at! 

TV show: Younger. OMG I swear I have thought about doing the same thing LOL

Obsession: Books!

Memories:

Happiest: About five years ago, I got to visit the Philippines for the first time since I was a child. I did so much sightseeing and island hopping. And I met over a dozen of my cousins that weren't even born when I left.  

Saddest: Nov. 20, 1999. Mom lost her fight with breast cancer. 

Strangest: I think this one comes from my dreams. I don’t dream vividly usually. I can never remember my dreams. But once in a blue moon, I dream in a way that I can recall it like a movie I watched. And I recently dreamed I was an alien superhero lol

Scariest: When I was 21, I fell into a bonfire pit at the beach, fire and coals and all. I ended up suffering 2nd and 3rd degree burns on the bottom of my feet. I thought I was never going to walk again. It took a long time and a lot of therapy but I can :)

Funniest: There’s a community in Long Beach referred to as Midget Town. It’s a closed community of little people. When my best friend and I were in high school, we drove all around Long Beach trying to find the entrance in the middle of the night. We never found it, but we were delirious with laughter the whole time. 

Exciting: I think the first time I went to an SCBWI conference in 2011. I was so inspired and in awe, and it was the first time I felt like I belonged somewhere. I had found my tribe, I was a writer after all. 

Proudest: When I finished writing my first ever YA novel. 

Boring: When I was a preteen (Can’t remember exact age), there was a day when I sat on my bed and stared at the wall all day, from waking to when I fell asleep. I don’t remember why I did it, but I remember that’s just what I wanted to do. 

Biggest Fears

Being in a car crash (IDK why it’s always on my mind)

Spiders!

Clowns

Drowning

Public Speaking lol

Excited for in Life:

Publishing my first book

Travelling

Finding “the one”

Becoming a mom

Learning new things (like surfing & archery)

Learning to cook lol

Reading great books and meeting more authors

I am always…

Checking my social media

Reading

Still playing Candy Crush...

Taking pictures of my teddy beat

Texting my BFF

Checking emails

Looking for something to snack on lol

Looking up book sites for book news

Stalking authors in twitter

Daydreaming...

I wish I was, and I eventually will be…

A published author

A decent cook lol

Confident and self-assured

Better at managing money

An archer

A wife and mom (hopefully)

A world traveller

A speaker of my native land’s language 

A ninja warrior (My latest obsession lol)

A homeowner 

Favourite Things about Myself:

I am a very positive person

I always try to look for the good in people

I am extremely inquisitive and love learning new things

Long hair, don’t care lol

I have an eye and appreciation for art

I am a very loyal and supportive friend

I will go above and beyond for my family and those I love

Once I care, I will never stop caring about you

I will never give up

Finally, my blog…

I wanted to find a blog where there were great inspirational and sometimes funny quotes from my fave YA books. So I created one myself. 

Probably needs more artistic posts of the books I’m reading, but creating those are harder than it looks man!

Is really just for me, but I truly hope you all enjoy it as well. 

Tagging booklrs I’d like to know more about. But anyone and everyone is welcome to post :) @readers-live-a-thousand-lifes @yaliteraturebookshelf @feysandsmut @teachingliteracy @quietya @tsundokusam @yabookers @yaseriesinsiders @aliteraryescape @dailyya

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Jocelyn Rish, is AYAP’s Interview Coordinator and YASI’s Interview Liaison. She corresponds with the wise and wonderful YA authors and facilitates their interviews on YASI and our various social media platforms. She also acts as our air-traffic controller, making sure incoming information flows to the correct members of our amazing crew. Jocelyn is a writer and filmmaker who prefers to be immersed in fictional worlds, whether it’s writing her own stories, reading books, or watching TV and movies. She lives in South Carolina with her two adorable dogs, and, yes, she’s one of those people who puts party hats on them and makes them ‘cakes’ for their birthdays. You can find her on Twitter at @JocelynRish and at her website JocelynRish.com.

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Want an extra chance to win an SLA snowflake charm? How about FOUR extra chances?

You might have seen some of my Tumblr/Twitter posts about a (super ridiculously cool) blog launching this Saturday -- the yaseriesinsiders! I've joined up with eleven other fabulous series authors to bring you the best insider secrets about your favorite authors and their glorious series.

To kick off our blog, this Saturday, November 23, we are coordinating a number of EPIC EPIC WOW giveaways -- the biggest one on our blog (follow link above), with even more scattered through other fabulous blogs who are helping spread the gospel of the YASeriesInsiders!

And just what will be given away this Saturday? Well, among dozens of books, boxed sets, jewelry, and FUN, I'm giving away FOUR SNOW LIKE ASHES snowflake charms. That's right -- you get four extra opportunities to Join the Blizzard without having to actually join the Blizzard!

So spread the word! Tell your friends! Squeal with joy! Because YASI is coming, and it is coming with PRIZES!! 

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Tag Thingy

These are fun!

Rules: Tag 20 followers you want to get to know better

Tagged by @readers-live-a-thousand-lifes thanks for the tag Hailey! 

Name: Pamela

Nickname: Pammy

Gender: female

Star Sign: Capricorn 

Height: 5′5″

Sexual Orientation: straight

Hogwarts house: Gryffindor 

Favorite Color: PURPLE 💜💜

Favorite animal: I love all animals! But my favorite pet was my turtle,  Micahaelangeo

Time right now: 12:28pm

Cat or Dog person: Dog

Favorite Fictional Character: that’s so not a fair question for booklrs! I’m just gonna say Rhys from ACTOR, because, well, Rhys 

Favorite Singer/Band: I’m not a huge music person. I don’t know if I really have a favorite 

Dream Trip: Is around the world an answer? LOL If not then Paris or anywhere in Italy

Dream Job: author (duh!) 

When was this blog created: Oh geez, idk, like 2 years ago

Current number of Followers: 854

What made you decide to make a Tumblr?: I’m a sucker for a good quote. And I find tons of amazing ones in the YA books I read. I figured I’d share :) 

Why did you pick your URL: Cuz it’s what I do LOL. I take a sentence or two that seem particularly great and quote it out of context of its story. 

Tagging: @yabooknerdlibrarian @books-cupcakes @bookavid @taylorreadsbooks @youthbookreview @yaseriesinsiders @youthbookreview @aliteraryescape @huamulan03 @heyteenbookshey @ireadyabooks @quietya @teachingliteracy and anyone else who wants to share :)

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Shelly is the interview Formatter over at AYAP and also helps us out at YASI, managing and organizing our special events! She also manages the AYAP Twitter, which you can follow at @ayaplit. When she's not formatting the lovely interviews hosted at AYAP or helping out here at YASI, she can be seen blogging at Read.Sleep.Repeat, reading, writing and goofing off on the internet. You can find her on twitter @shellysrambles. She is usually found yelling at her friends to read her favourite books and flaunting her Hufflepuff pride.

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Ashley, our blog manager, currently lives in a suburb of Chicago. She is a full-time student at DePaul University, studying anthropology and English. She spends a good chunk of her free time reading and maintaining her blogs on tumblr. When she's not doing that, she's working at an art studio and binge-watching TV shows. One day, she hopes to become an archaeologist and a writer, but we'll see where life takes her.

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Beth is one of our new YA Series Insiders Facebook Contributors!

Beth currently lives in Clanton, Alabama with her husband and their 8 year old son. She is a full time Mom, Reader, Reviewer, Blogger and also holds down a full-time job. Beth is an avid and dedicated reader and when she doesn't have her head in a book then she can be found watching movies or playing with her son. Currently her most prized possession that she has since beginning blogging is a Compulsion Tote Bag that she carries around with her everywhere. "I have a Compulsion for reading." She lives by that motto. 

She can be found at these sites:  curling-up-with-a-good-book.blogspot.com www.twitter.com/CurlUpWGoodBook www.facebook.com/CurlingUpWithAGoodBook

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Characters from the Lunar Chronicles. From top left to right: Cinder, Scarlett, Cress, Prince Kai, Wolf and Captain Thorne 

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