Sunday Funday is a weekly(ish) post I’ve started to recap the bookish (and sometimes not-so-bookish) happenings in my life the past week! Feel free to participate, just link back!
February 2-8, 2015
Life
This week I had a whirlwind mini-vacation to the coast where it was unseasonably sunny and beautiful. I was able to reconnect with a lot of my college friends and professors and had an absolutely wonderful time soaking up the sunshine and doing some tourist-y activities! I toured some really cool historic ships in the harbor, tried a lot of new food thanks to my best friends (I can’t believe I’ve been missing hummus in my life for so long!) and talked to one of my favorite professors about co-writing an academic article! It was also my best friend’s birthday a week ago so I got to have a belated birthday celebration dinner with him! (And gave him the gift that keeps on giving- YA novels of course). We also talked about how we’ll be buddy reading the Game of Thrones in the future!
Books
This week was a pretty successful reading week for me considering I was gone for half of it, and didn’t have much time to read (I usually can’t read on planes because of motion sickness). I finished The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black (review will be up on Monday) and inhaled Fairest by Marissa Meyer in just a little over a day! This weekend I started Damsel Distressed by Kelsey Macke and I’m really excited about the psychological themes, as well as being excited about using the new bookmarks I treated myself to that I can use to keep notes while I read!
Blog
This week marked my one year blogiversary! I celebrated by joining the Instagram world and hosting a giveaway!
Posts I Liked This Week:
Asti @ Oh, The Books! discusses her incredibly creative feature Bookish Mail.
Mel @ The Daily Prophecy declares Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard a must read.
Ashley @ Nosegraze discusses that it’s OK to want to grow your blog.
Tara @ The Librarian Who Doesn’t Say Shh gives extra credit to her experience at ALAN.
Lauren @ Bookmarklit launches two new features: Read-Bait and Inside & Out.
How was your week? Are you daydreaming of sunny skies or still enjoying the winter chill? Planning any upcoming vacations? Have you read any fairy-tale retellings in 2015 yet? Let me know in the comments!
I WANT THE SUN. Connecticut has over two feet of snow on the ground at the moment… with up to another foot on the way tonight. I can’t deal with it anymore.
Oh geez! What time of the year does the snow usually let up for you?
That is a gorgeous photo of the sunset over the boats. It looks like a lovely trip. Also, happy (belated) blogiversay! One year is the biggest hurdle because many people don’t make it this far. Cheers to many more years of blogging!
Thank you so much! I hope to continue blogging for many years to come!