The Weekend Update - 6.7.14

So, since my end-of-the-week post isn't just about what I got in my mailbox or on my Kindle each week -- though that is a big part of it, I won't lie -- I decided to change up the title and intro a bit.  I might tweak the format a bit over the next few weeks, but for the most part, it'll contain the same stuff: stuff I got, stuff I did, and stuff that's coming up on the blog.  Plus, I get to use the awesome GIF you see here and blow kisses to all the people who sent me lovely books and bookish things.  Oh, and I've started linking up to Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga's Reviews since I'm not using a specific meme title anymore.  April's also doing her own Stacking the Shelves posts on Sundays.  Stop by and say hi!  =)

Katie graduated Kindergarten yesterday! My baby isn't such a baby anymore! Waaaaaahhhh. It was almost as hard on me watching that assembly as dropping her off that first day of school. Big moments leave me an emotional wreck, but I'm recovering. I'm sure I'll be ready to drop her off for 1st grade by the end of summer. =D

Mr. Starry-Eyed and I will probably be working quite a bit this summer, but I'm hoping to talk him into a road trip, even if it's just across the state of Texas. It's a pretty big state, after all. And I want to see all the sights I've never spied with my little eye, like Cadillac Ranch and the true desert, and places Katie's never been to but that I loved as a kid, like Dinosaur Valley State Park. We realize that we have precious few years where our kid will still actually want to hang out with us, so we need to make the most of it, lol.

We've also got our garden in, but it's really small and nothing compared to the garden April puts in each year. Maybe once we move we'll have a better spot. ;0) I'll post some pictures next week of our progress with it, though.

Anyway, here's what I scored this week:

For Review:


Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen - via Netgalley
Jackaby by William Ritter - via Edelweiss
I Want It That Way by Ann Aguirre - ARC from author

Thanks, publishers and authors!!!

Library, Freebies & Deals:

To All the Boys I've Loved Before was on sale last week for $2.99 for Kindle, and I couldn't pass that up. Now, thanks to April's recs, I've got FOUR Jenny Han books to read this summer. =)

Love, in English by Karina Halle - Thanks to April for sharing that this was on sale for $0.99. I've never read a Karina Halle novel, but April swears by them, so I had to pick it up. Now let's see how long it takes for me to actually read it, lol.

Love & Leftovers by Sarah Tregay - Just happened to catch this one on sale yesterday and I had to grab it. It sounds perfectly adorable and just right for the light summer reading I plan to be doing soon. :D

So, that's my haul. How about you? What did you get this week?

The Week in Review:

Reviews:

• To All the Boys I've Loved Before (April)
• Midnight Thief (Jen)
• What I Thought Was True (Jen)
• How to Love (April)
• Since You've Been Gone (April & Jen)

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I'll be finishing up Between the Spark and the Burn this weekend, and then I'll post a Review in a GIFfy of it sometime next week. Haven't decided on my next read, though. Maybe Wild or Alias Hook, both of which are retellings and sound phenomenal. 

I probably shouldn't be listening to this right now since I do have plans to go see The Fault in Our Stars this weekend and I already know that movie's going to leave me a sobbing, blubbering mess, but the audio was available and a girl needs a good cry every once in awhile, right? Plus, after We Were Liars, I needed a story where I was likely to connect and actually like the characters.

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