Week in Review: July 1

This week on the blog you can check out:

• Six Impossible Things: A Review
• Wildlife: A Chick Lit Wednesday Review
• Uppercase June 2017 Box Review
• Booklist: Pride Month Reading (This Month at YALSA’s Hub)
• July 2017 Reading Tracker

Office is still in disarray but it has given me the opportunity to eat lunch a few times at the park nearby which is pretty nice all things considered. I’ve been having an excellent week in Pokemon Go with some gym triumphs and hatching a Chansey.

This week I read Landscape with Invisible Hand (I need more people to talk to about this), Roar (feelings: mixed), and started The Reluctant Queen (omg it’s amazing).

Here’s my latest from Instagram:

The lilies are in bloom! Unfortunately it's been too hot and muggy to sit on the terrace and enjoy them. Shown: red tiger lillies, yellow day lillies, and the last photo has white hosta buds. #latergram #nofilter #flowers #lillies #daylillies #garden #newyork #redandyellow #hosta #terrace #containergarden #summer

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Loving my first @uppercasebox! 💨 June's package includes Song of the Current by @sarahtolcser which I have been excited to read for a while. (Side bar one of my best friends wrote the review for School Library Journal which is quoted on the hardcover!) I'm very curious about the reading experience bookmark and am thrilled to have the map for the book too. I have always loved the Uppercase pouches and have plans to use this one to carry books on my commute to work. 💨 This month's box also includes a Reading is the Ultimate Adventure tote designed by @allisoncoleillustration (exclusive) and a Book Nerd enamel pin by @jublyumph (exclusive). 💨 I love everything and can't wait to have time to read the book! Have you tried Uppercase or another subscription box service? I like that Uppercase let's you pre-pay and am already trying to guess what might be included in the other two packages I'll be getting. 💨 #bookstagram #goodreads #instabook #instareads #bibliophile #books #reading #currentlyreading #amreading #bookworm #bookish #bookgram #booktography #bookblogging #bookblogger #bookphotography #books #bookstagramit #yalit #uppercasebox #bookbox #subscriptionbox #subscriptionaddiction #booksubscriptionbox #songofthecurrent #sarahtolcser #jublyumph #allisoncoleillustration #map #totebag

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(You can get my more detailed thoughts on the June 2017 Uppercase in my review (link above in the posts from this week.)

If you you want to see how my month in reading is shaking out be sure to check out my July Reading Tracker.

How was your week? What are you reading?

Let’s talk in the comments.

July 2017 Reading Tracker

You can also see what I read in June.

Books Read:

1. Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw
2. Moxie by Jennifer Matthieu (Sept.)
3. Jonesy Vol. 2 by Sam Humphries
4. Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser
5. The Unnaturalists by Tiffany Trent
6. All’s Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson
7. One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
8. Knife’s Edge by Hope Larson
9. Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
10. The Appearance of Annie Van Sinderen by Katherine Howe
11. The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag
12. A Million Junes by Emily Henry
13. Death Sworn by Leah Cypress
14. Who’s That Girl by Blair Thornbough
15. Genuine Fraud by E. Lockheart
16. The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy
17. Invictus by Ryan Graudin

Books On Deck:

I’m re-instating my book rotation strategy: Review (vine/publisher), BEA, long-term owned/backlist

1. In Some Other Life by Jessica Brody (Aug. 29)
2. Berserker by Emmy Laybourne (Oct.)

Books Bought:

1. Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone (Prime Day deal)

ARCs Received: 0!

July 17: Although I have been reading a lot this month I wasn’t doing a great job of tracking it here. I loved Moxie as much as I expected to and was pleasantly surprised by One of Us is Lying. All’s Faire in Middle School was a lot of fun while Knife’s Edge was disappointing. I’m not in the mood to read anything specific and I’ve been putting off dealing with sorting my BookExpo ARCs because they’re a disaster so instead I am trying to pull things that have been at home on my shelves for a while and deciding if I 1. want to read them and 2. want to keep them. So far given the mood I’m in, I’ve been getting rid of a lot of books.

July 24: I’ve been on a reading tear. Owned books down to 294 and to read list down to 137!

July 26: This month is really wringing me out. The Disappearances was quite good. Not at all what I was expecting.