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2020 Dystopia Reading Challenge: January-June Link-Up

Welcome to the first half of the 2020 Dystopia Reading Challenge !! This will be the first of two bi-annual link-ups for your reviews! So this link-up will cover January, February, March, April, May & June! The link-up will always be easily accessible by hovering over Dystopia Reading Challenge tab and selecting Review Link-Up from the drop down menu. :) HELPFUL LINKS: Dystopian, (post-)apocalyptic and sci-fi YA of 2016 Best Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Best YA Dystopia Novels LINK-UP GUIDELINES: Link up your book reviews under "Review Link-up" as follows: Name of book @ Your blog name, Goodreads, Shelfari, Booklikes, etc. Make sure to use an email you check, because if you win the giveaway, I'll be using that email to contact you. Remember, each review you link up is an entry into the giveaway! :) Giveaway is open international as long as the Book Depository ships to you! :) Try and stop by some other reviews! Lets create a sense of community and get to t...
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Stacking The Shelves #116/Sunday Post #48

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality as a way to share all the books we got during the week!

The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. Its a weekly post to showcase what books you got, recap the week, and talk about what will be coming up this week on the blog!



So I've heard such great things about the Nevernight books and I've been dying to see why everyone likes them so much!! 

So yeah, you know, my plan was to only get the 3 Jay Kristoff books when I went to the library. Obviously I found 5 other books. I have no self control at the library and should not be trusted with my library card. LOL.

So it's been a slower week. I read Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake. That ending! I'm going to be buying One Dark Throne and Two Dark Reigns this weekend! I need to know what's happening next. Ahhh. I also finished the audiobook of A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. Really interesting!! Definitely can't wait to read more. I'm also working my way through Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor. Ahhh. So many interesting things happening. I should finish it this weekend. 

So since Thursday I've been taking part in #DEARathon (Drop Everything And READathon) on Twitter. It's a fun random readathon hosted by the booktubers Little Book Owl and Little Red Reader! Readathons are announced a few days or a week or so in advance. This one is from the 6th-8th. It's been so fun! I've been doing a bunch of the Twitter sprints and making good progress. It's also fun cuz the two hosts are actually reading Muse of Nightmares as well (they are ahead of me) so we've been talking a bit with each other about it. 

It's been a week guys. Like seriously. Maintenance and pest control requests to our apartment management that have gone ignored. We haven't had issues getting stuff done for a while now but all of a sudden now it's been a week and both have yet to be fulfilled despite them saying "we're on the list." Usually they get shit done in 2 days and I've seen the maintenance people doing bullshit that could easily wait since it doesn't help the PAYING tenants. Like doing something in the laundry room NO ONE USES (all apartments have washers and dryers now). Or going into empty apartments (cough above me cough) just to do something with a broom. Not sure how that trumps the paying tenants that need stuff done but whatever. Also spend Wednesday evening in the ER with Ana having hip pain from falling on it. She's ok, nothing broken or sprained. She just landed wrong on it and needed a few days of children's ibuprofen to help with the pain so it could heal. She's back to her normal self again. But I'm tired. We were at the ER til almost 10PM Wednesday. Not to mention I've been getting up early in case maintenance shows but since they haven't, it's been for nothing so far and I'm exhausted. It's been a long week.

But on the bright side, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY (the 8th, Saturday). WOOT WOOT! I'm officially 25! James got me a cake and a bunch of presents (a few surprises). And he's gonna take me out for dinner after work. I think it's gonna be a good birthday!!! :D 

  • 2018 Dystopia Reading Challenge: September Link-Up
  • Review: Shadow of the Fox (Shadow of the Fox #1) by Julie Kagawa
  • New Releases: Week of September 11, 2018
  • Review: Inferno (Talon #5) by Julie Kagawa
  • Review: P.S. I Still Love You (To All The Boys I've Loved Before #2) by Jenny Han

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Wordless Wednesday - Claire Thomas from Food for Thought

I got this recipe from Claire Thomas who hosts the TV Show Food for Thought . She is the cutest, sweetest and so far my favorite tv chef. Her recipes are so easy and she seems to have a talent for making every recipe seem doable. I actually set my alarm on Saturday mornings to get up in time to see her show (when I am not working). This past week, she featured her Australian Pasta which you should really visit her blog and read the back story to why it is named this. Funny!! I also got a wild hair and decided to make her Cream Scones . Here is the pasta sauce while it is simmering. Here is the final dish. Australian Pasta with strawberries (just finished cutting them for the week's snacks, so I threw a few in) and her scones (bc I didn't make bread). Also, Claire if you are reading this, QUESTION - On your blog recipe, you didn't specify searing the sausage and taking them out of the pan while the onions and garlic cook. But in your show, I distinctly remember you keeping t...
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