Image From July
July In One Word
BEACH! (seriously 1 day beach trip, 4 day beach trip & week beach trip)
5 Things That Happened In July:
1. I spent the 4th of July at the beach with Will’s family.
2. Went on a book blogger beach trip for the day!
3. Went on vacation with MY family (still here!!)
4. Started our top secret Harry Potter project
5. Had an interview in a different city…but I didn’t get it. š BUT at least I had an interview!
6 Songs That Were Most Popular On My Ipod This Month:
I put all my Monthly Rewinds In a Spotify playlist so you can listen to them here now !
1. I Was An Island by Allison Weiss
2. Creep in a T-shirt by Portugal. The Man
3. Shadow by Wild Nothing
4. Ribbons by Ingrid Michaelson
5. Love Is Easy by The Mowgli’s
6. Overjoyed by Pompeii
Top 2 Books I Read This Month:
1. Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson
2. Just One Year by Gayle Forman
Most Popular Review This Month
Most Popular 5 Blog Posts Overall This Month
1. Being Married To A Non-Reader: It’s Not As Bad As You Might Think — I had so much fun with this post and I LOVED reading your responses about your experience/if it would be a deal breaker for you.
2. My Top Secret Project: Betty and I finally revealed our top secret project with a video.
3. Top Ten Phrases/Topics That Make Me NOT Pick Up A Book: This one was fun!
4. Top Ten Best/Worst Book To Movie Adaptations: SO subjective and it was fun to see your differing opinions!
5.Ā Top Ten Most Intimidating Books To Me: I’m glad some of you agreed with me on some of these or cheered me on with others!
3 New Obsessions In July
2 Things I’m Looking Forward To In August
Favorite Quote From A Book I Read In July
3 Most Anticipated Reads For September
Where Stars Still Shine by Trish Dollar
This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales
The Coldest Girl in ColdTown by Holly Black
I have all 3 of these and they are up next!!
What sort of things were noteworthy for you in July? New obsessions? Any new song recs?? Best books you read this month? Great posts I missed on your blog? Tell me! š
Tiffani says
I am OBSESSED with Lorde’s song Royals. That and Cedric Gervais’ mix of Lana Del Rey’s Summertime Sadness. It made me listen to her albums…and I’m obsessed.
Riley says
This post makes me want to go to the beach. Except… sand. I am not a big fan of sand.
AUGH YOU HAVE THIS SONG WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE. And the new Holly Black! *grabby hands*
Also your taste in music is pretty great! Wild Nothing opened at a concert I went to a couple years back, I haven’t listened to that much of their music but their song “Summer Holiday” is one of my favorite, uh, summer holiday songs for lazing around in my bedroom.
bookrockbetty says
um… i think we need an august beach trip.
Ashley says
I love these posts! Mostly cause I get new tunes! Not that I couldn’t email/tweet you and ask you. I know, crazy thoughts!
And I blame you for the pain I’m in from blogilates. As for posts I did I don’t think you missed anything but my new ALA post.
katy says
I have an ~obsession/interest post scheduled for tomorrow and one of them is the band Daughter. I’m obsessed with them/her. I love their song “Youth” and “Landfills” but they’re all so good! I’m going to check out these songs later!
Yay for new nieces! I have three nieces and it was always exciting! The youngest one is almost three and they’re all so cute and fun together.
I want to read all of those books! I’ve heard so many good things about This Song Will Save Your Life!
Andie says
I love cantaloupe! Let’s see I just stumbled on your other blog and tried on of your Top Ten lists. It was hard to limit to 10 but so fun. July was actually kinda sad since my sister moved away so I’ve been hiding in as many books as I can. My favorite read in July was Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon. It’s really funny, and I love Nick.
My latest obsession if the movie Pitch Perfect. I think I watched it at least 12 times in July on HBO. I finally just gave in and downloaded the soundtrack so I can sing along in the shower lol.
That’s about it for my July. Great post btw thanks š
Molli says
Jamie, THIS SONG is so freakin’ good. I really hope you love it like I did. Also STARS is pretty darned great, too.
Yay beach days, and interviews. You will get something awesome soon!
Candice @ The Grown-Up YA says
How did I miss this top secret thing? Gah Jamie I feel so behind on all your wonderful bloggy stuff! Seems like July was an amazingly fun month. Also, woohoo for a job interview!! That’s a good start! And for reals… a blogger beach trip? Yessss! š