Weekly Wrap-Up #24

Weekly Wrap-Up is a post I share with you guys every Friday, in which I highlight all things bookish that I did in the past week — the books I read, the books I bought, books that I got from the library, and great posts that I found on other people’s blogs.

 

What’s Happening With Me This Week:

I bought a new purse! Every year around this time, I buy a new purse…and then I use it for the WHOLE YEAR. I ended up going with this one — it’ll fit all of my stuff (including a giant water bottle and a book, of course!) and it’s black so it’ll last through all four seasons without looking weird (unlike the mint green one I almost got). How often do you buy a new purse?

Books I Finished This Week:

I didn’t read as much as I wanted to this week…I’ve been kind of in a reading slump Hopefully I’ll snap out of it soon!

• Bad Girls by Alex McAulay
• A Christmas Maggie (Original Sinners #3.2) by Tiffany Reisz
• Wither (Chemical Garden Trilogy #1) by Lauren Destefano
• The Mistress Files (Original Sinners #3.5) by Tiffany Reisz

 

Awesome Posts From Other Book Bloggers This Week:

Reading & Characters:

• Why I Love YA from Brianna’s Bookish Confessions
• Novel Heartbeat tells us why being a picky reader sucks
• YA Relationships That Don’t Follow the “Insta” Trend from Books, Tea & Me
• Here There Be Books shares a list of the best fictional cats
• How Many Books Do You Read At Once? from The Quiet Concert
• The Moonlight Library discusses abandoning a series
• The Likability of Characters from Blue Sky Bookshelf
• The Day-Dreaming, Candy-Eating, Red-Headed Bookworm tweets as if she were Katniss Everdeen
• Cliches in Romance from Loving Lit
• Winter Grrl Reads sometimes gets nervous about starting a new series

Books & Authors: 

• Books vs. Ebooks from Book Munchies
• Spun With Words discusses novellas
• The Writing Life: Gendered Names from The Thousand Lives
• Gypsy Reviews explains why we keep seeing instalove everywhere
• Authors Behaving Badly from The Starry-Eyed Revue
• Books and Cake wants to know how you feel about faces on book covers
• Adult vs. Young Adult Books from The Reading Shelf
• Snuggly Oranges talks about hardcover cover design underneath the dust jacket
• Story Soundtrack: Faking Normal from Stay Bookish
• The Thousand Lives admits that she has some strange bookish habits
• Writing In Your Books: Engagement or Literary Treason? from Book-alicious Mama
• Book-alicious Mama highlights 9 books by authors under the age of 30
• Retellings vs. Fanfiction from Book Munchies
• Spun With Words wants to know if you like to re-read books
• Does Hype Turn You Off? from Singing and Reading in the Rain

Blogging & Reviewing:

• How Do You Subscribe? from Utterly Bookish
• The Art of Escapism is having trouble with the pressures of blogging and discussion posts
• Blogger & Non-Blogger Survey from Cuddlebuggery
• The Mile-Long Bookshelf discusses plagiarism and what to do if it happens to you
• How to Properly Spoil a Book, Part II from Dudette Reads
• Paper Breathers explains why my book ratings should come with error bars
• When Authors, Tour Hosts, Or Bloggers Add You to a Mailing List Without Your Permission from Nose Graze
• Fighting Dreamer discusses reviews vs. discussion posts
• The Newbie’s Guide to Book Blogging: Book Events from Bo-ok Nerd
• Novel Bliss reminds us that there is no right or wrong way to blog
• I Don’t Have Publisher or Author Contacts from Nose Graze
• Bitches with Books admits that yes I read your posts (but I suck at commenting)
• Do You Review Every Book You Read? from Blog of a Bookaholic

Other:

• How to Cure Your Instalove from A Novel Idea
• Nose Graze wants to know how your organize your Goodreads shelves
• The Difference Between Inspiration and Copying from Gypsy Reviews
• Natflix & Books convinces us why the 90s were the best
• Fairytale Survey from The Daily Prophecy
• Books and Cake tells us: to each their own
• Singing and Reading in the Rain explains why she loves Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball song