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Didn't get too much this week, just bought two books.  So, let's see what I got.

Confessions of a Serial Kisser by Wendelin Van Draanen.  I just finished reading The Running Dream ( look for a review soon ) and I loved it.  This book was at Big Lots on Friday when we went for three dollars.  I couldn't pass it up.

Where I Belong by Gwedolyn Heasly.  Yes, I got it!  I'm so excited to read this book.  Basically, I can't wait to read it, but it will probably sit on my bookcase for a few months because A. I get too many library books out and B. I want to read it so bad that I'm not going to want to read it because once I'm done reading it, I won't be excited to read it.  Get it?

So, I was a little bit late with this week's IMM.  Why, you ask?  Because I spent my weekend, or Saturday anyway, putting this together.

My brand new bookcase, also bought at Big Lots.  It was my Valentine's Day present from my parents and it's AMAZING!  I've been wanting a new bookcase for a while because I hardly had any room left for any books.  This one is a good amount bigger, so I have more room.  It was also only thirty dollars, so my mom didn't argue too much when my dad found it for me.

And this is Love Bug, Bug for short, being bad and kinda laying in the bookcase while I was in the middle of getting all my books into it.

Tada!  I love it so, so much!  No, not all of my books fit this one, either, but they fit much better than before.  I'm still super excited about it.  And my IMM is late because yesterday I just kind of died from putting this together ( it was harder than it looks! ) and today I finished cleaning up my room. 

So that's all I got this week, but I think it was a pretty good haul.  What did you get?

PS. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, MY LOVELIES!

Random Tunes Tuesday! ( 4 )

This week's song is Better Life by Keith Urban.

Someday baby

You and I are gonna be the ones

Good luck's gonna shine

Someday baby

You and I are gonna be the ones

So hold on

We're headed for a better life

So I know I mostly use country songs, but it can't really be helped when it's my favorite genre.  Anyway, I chose Keith Urban's Better Life because it's a really catchy love song.  It's something you can dance to.  I also chose it because I'm pretty sure it's my absolute favorite music video.  The music video depicts the relationship of a young couple and it's just perfect.  It's the kind of couple I want to read about, write about.  It's the kind of relationship I want to have, simply because it's so beautiful.  I just love it.  Always have.

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Review: The Ruby Oliver Series by E. Lockhart

I don't have synopsis for all four books rolled into one, so you're just going to have to trust me, or this post would be very, very long.

I cannot even begin to say how much I absolutely adore this series.  Everything about it was perfect- The titles ( The Boyfriend List * 15 guys, 11 shrink appointments, 4 ceramic frogs, and me, Ruby Oliver; The Boy Book ( a study of habits and behaviors, plus techniques for taming them); The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon-and me, Ruby Oliver; Real Live Boyfriends * yes, boyfriends, plural. if my life weren't complicated-I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver. ), the terms ( Ag, roly-poly, Reginald, Mocha Latte ), the boys ( Finn, Hutch, Noel, Gideon, and Jackson ), the best friends and terrible wenches, Dr. Z, her parents, and of course, Ruby Oliver herself.

I started reading this series on Wednesday and I just finished the fourth, and hopefully not final but newest, five minutes ago.  It's 1 am on Sunday morning.  They're not long books, but it was still faster than normal reading.

That's because I love, love, loved these books!  They were so real, with so much feeling that you almost believe you're actually sitting in the room with Roo while she's telling you all about her high school debacles.

Through the whole series, I laughed and cringed and gagged and groaned and sympathized and even cried a little, which really isn't a normal occurrence for me.

What I'm trying to say is that it doesn't matter who you are, you won't regret it if you pick up this whole series RIGHT NOW. ( and this isn't being posted at 1 am, but even if it was 1 am, I still mean RIGHT NOW! ) Just be sure you don't download this book for free because that really sucks.  If people illegally download it, there won't be anymore books and I really want another book.  You wouldn't download a pizza, would you?  Okay, anyway, don't download it.

These books are perfect.  Read them.  Seriously.  NOW.

( Sorry about being a bully about this, but they are really that good. )

Favorite Line: ( One of, because out of four amazing books, I just can't put them all.  So this one is from Real Live Boyfriends. ) " "Ah, just you wait.  I'll have like Great Danes and pygmy goats and maybe even a baby panda living with me.  That's just what panic does to people if the attacks get bad enough." "

In My Mailbox ( 4 )

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Hello everyone, I hope you've had an awesome week!  I don't have any great excuse for not blogging this week, aside from reading.  So there it is.  I'm a slacker and I apologize.  Now onto all my new books!  I got quite a few this week!

Bought:

I went a little bit crazy on Friday with buying books.  I'm also feeling pretty guilty about it because I have to send a $300 deposit to school to hold my place and my room for September by May 1, aka my twenty-second birthday.  I've got one hundred saved and I was planning on saving another fifty this month, but I kind of spent it on books.  Like the Borders clerk said, "at least you're not buying three rows of coke" and I was like okay, that's true.  Because I spent fifty bucks on three books.  I just about passed out.

Anyway, onward!

I Remember You by Harriet Evans.  I've read one of Harriet's books before and I bought it because the cover had glitter on it.  It was gorgeous.  It wasn't the best book ever, but I did enjoy it, so a few months ago, I got her other two books.  This is her newest book and I think it came out in August or September?  I'm not sure.  It was two dollars at Half Price Books, so I'm feeling pretty awesome about this one.

Delirium by Lauren Oliver.  I wasn't going to buy this book.  I was actually looking for another book because I had a gift card for Barnes and Noble for Christmas and I was totally saving it for Where I Belong by Gwedolyn Heasly.  Well, I've been saving that gift card for forever and I couldn't.  Delirium wasn't with the YA books like I thought it would be, which was so weird.  I thought they hadn't gotten it and at that point, I was thinking our Barnes and Noble sucked.  Anyway, I loved Before I Fall and when I did see it, I had to get it.  Oh and the reason I wasn't going to?  I'd ordered it from the library already.  But I figured, there's a bunch of other people wanting it and I won't get it for months.  I came home to cancel it and it was in transit to my library for me.  Just my luck.

Love, Inc by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout.  I couldn't resist this book.  I've been waiting for the library to get it in since I heard about it and we just haven't.  I had to get it.  It just looks absolutely adorable.  Right now, it's on my bookshelf, right next to Anna and the French Kiss.  I figured they belonged together with how cute they both look.

Trapped by Michael Northrop.  I felt like I had to get this book because of the Contemps Challenge.  The only book from that challenge that's out that I don't own is The Duff, which is incredible, by the way, because I read it before I even heard of the challenge.  So I got it because of that.  I kind of resent how short it is for eighteen dollars, but I really hope it's worth it.

Across the Universe by Beth Revis.  This book is literally everywhere.  I see it everywhere in the bookstores.  This is the one I bought completely impulsively.  This one, I really don't think I'd ever get from the library.  But, really, I hear it's supposed to be awesome, so hopefully I like it.

Library:

Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors.  When I was able to actually contain myself from buying every book I saw a few weeks ago, I came home and ordered this book from the library.  They only have one copy in the system and it was checked out, but I was the only person to hold it, so I waited it out.  I just started reading it this morning and, so far, it's really good.  It's got Cupid in it, so that's a little different, but interesting anyway.

Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John.  I never really knew anything about this book before I saw we had it at my library.  It sounds super interesting.  It's about this girl who has to try and get this band a gig at her school, but it's hard for anyone to trust that they're good because she is deaf.  I've never read a book where the main character was deaf, so I'm really looking forward to this one.

That's all the books I got this week.  Okay, I got a bunch but I am still feeling slightly guilty.  I'll live, especially when I'm reading them.

Last week, I posted a video of my cat, Lorelai, and I realized that it's actually very hard to see her, do to the fact that she's under my sheet for all but a second of the video, so I decided to post a picture of her for you guys to get a better look at her.

I accidentally cut off her ears in the picture.  She was being hard to photograph, though, so this was the best I could get.  So yeah, that's my pookie bear!

Have a great Sunday, root for the Steelers tonight, and happy reading!

What did you guys get this week?

In My Mailbox ( 3 )

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So I didn't get too much this week and, again, it was all from the library, but it definitely deserves to be showcased!

It's the Ruby Oliver series by E. Lockhart!  I heard that these books are hilarious and they seem like quick reads, so I ordered them.  I think I'm going to read The Boyfriend List as soon as I'm done with Nevermore, which I'm reading right now.

Also, here's a video of my cat from this morning when I was trying to put clean sheets on my bed.  Cats are just an awesome part of life.

Okay, so that's all!  I may post my review for Hold Still by Nina LaCour sometime today.  I've had it written for a while, but haven't typed it up!

Random Tunes Tuesday! ( 3 )

Hello everyone and welcome to the third edition of Random Tunes Tuesday.  I have the most perfect song for today!

Here We Go by Roger Woods ( 2011 version )

Here we go/

Here we go/

Here we go/

Steelers, here we go/

Pittsburgh's going to the super bowl!

The main reason I didn't have my IMM up on Sunday night was because I was going nuts over the football game.  I even lost a little bit of my voice from screaming, even though I understand very little about football.  I just know that the Steelers are a common bond for almost everyone in Pittsburgh.  We're all nuts about getting into the Super Bowl, so I thought this would be the perfect song.  Okay, so it's not going to inspire any fiction writing, but it was just too perfect to pass up.  What kind of Pittsburgher would I be if I didn't post this?

From my aunt's facebook:

Good evening, Jets passengers. This is your Flight Captain Mike Tomlin speaking. Due to an FAA Advisory & rough conditions, your flight to Dallas has been cancelled. As you de-plane, please see an agent for your return ticket to NYC Courtesy of the Steelers. We thank you for flying AFC Championship Airlines and hope you enjoyed your trip to Dahntown Pittsburgh. Yinz come back now, yinz hear?

Looooove it!

Youtube | I couldn't find it to download.

Have a good day, everyone! 

In My Mailbox ( 2 )

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Okay, so I'm not so good at doing this on the actual day that I want to do it, but here it is, anyway!

I didn't buy anything this week, but I got a bunch of goodies at the library!

Nevermore by Kelly Creagh.  One my friends from Goodreads, who also got me to read The Summer of Skinny Dipping kept ranting about this book, so I ordered it right away.

The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen.  I don't know what made me order this book.  I saw it on The Story Siren's IMM and decided to request it.  I'm pretty excited about reading it!

Psych Major Syndrome by Alicia Thompson.  When I'm really bored, I surf through other blogs to pick random books to read, and I saw this.  I love psych things, so I thought this would be good.  I'm currently reading it and it's awesome so far!

For Keeps by Natasha Friend.  I started reading this book in June, but I didn't finish it.  I honestly have no idea why I didn't finish it!  I still remember little parts of it and it's driving me nuts that I didn't finish it!  So I figured I'd try it again.

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson.  I actually owned this book.  I sold it because I couldn't get into it the day I started reading it.  But now I see so much positive feedback on it that I just have no other choice but to give it another chance!

Life, After by Sarah Darer Littman.  This author is awesome.  I read Purge last week and loved it.  She has another book coming out soon and it's part of the Contemps Challenge, which I am participating in.  I'm excited to read it!

Choker by Elizabeth Woods.  Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!  I actually finished this book yesterday and I loved it.  So good.  Must read.

How to Kill a Rock Star by Tiffanie Debartolo.  This was another book I saw on a blog.  They actually featured little excerpts and I liked them, so I got it out.

Last but not least, I got an awesome surprise when I opened Dirty Little Secrets to read on Wednesday. 

Yes!  There's an autograph from the author to all the Pittsburgh library readers.  It's just too awesome not to share!

Okay, so that's it!  I shall be back next week with more exciting books.  What have you guys gotten recently that you're excited about?  Have a good day!