This is the post where I recap what I’ve been doing throughout the week and share what I plan to post about next week. I will be linking up Kim @ Caffeinated Reviewer and her weekly Sunday Post feature and Kathryn @ The Book Date for It’s Monday, What Are You Reading?

What Went Down This Week:

Notes from a Life:

The heat definitely found us this week, with temps ranging from 101* to 106*. And when you don’t have air conditioning, it’s brutal. Especially when you get a rolling black out during the peak temps on the hottest day. I did not enjoy it and felt significantly less productive, everything seemed to take twice as long as normal and I was almost constantly covered in sweat. I have an indoor thermometer in my room, and it got up to 91* inside and was still high 80’s at 2am. I have issues with always being hot anyway, so I was not feeling my best this week.

There are also wildfires not too far away that are sending a ton of smoke our way. They aren’t close enough to be an evacuation threat, but definitely affecting air quality. High heat, no A/C and a lot of smoke, does not make for a very fun week. I was extremely happy when the temps dropped on Thursday to mid-90’s and then into the 80’s on Friday.

I also had an interview this week for a local LGBTQIA2S+ organization. They’re relatively new and just getting things off the ground, so the position is really more of a “jack of all trades” kind of a situation. But there’s a lot of potential there. It’s part time, but the hours are perfect and I’ll be making enough to cover groceries and everything. I got the position but don’t start until the end of the month, so that will give me time to wrap up some projects before then. I already have some ideas for what I want to do, including a library of LGBTQIA2S+ friendly books. I’ll be posting something on Instagram soon to see if I can get some books donated.

Posts from the Week:

Project Check-In
Review~ Wider Than the Sky
Top Ten Tuesday~ Pairs from Different Worlds
Slaying the Series
Review~ Second Acts
Is Vlogging Still a Thing?

Coming Next Week:

Job Search Update
Review~ Junk Magic and Guitar Dreams
Top Ten Tuesday~ Magical Romance
Updating My Shelves
Review~ 100 Days of Sunlight
Reader Confessions

Reading:

Current Books:

Early Departures by Jason Reynolds
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Here to Stay by Adriana Herrera
Breathless by Jennifer Niven
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

Close Enough to Touch by Colleen Oakley
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
Always Never Yours by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

November 9 by Colleen Hoover
I Spy the Boy Next Door by Samantha Armstrong
A Year By the Sea by Joan Anderson
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
Bonjour Shanghai by Isabelle LaFleche

The Truth Is by NoNieqa Ramos
Miss Mary’s Book of Dreams by Sophie Nicholls

Weekly Stats:

Audio Hours completed: 22
Physical Chapters completed: 31
eBook Chapters completed: 30

Books Finished:

Summoned to Thirteenth Grave by Darynda Jones *****
Champion by Marie Lu *****
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare ****
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins ****

Next Up:

You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao
Glory in Death by Nora Roberts
Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June

From the Blogosphere:

Reviews:

Reading the Paranomal reviews The Gravedigger’s Son
Silver’s Reviews talks about The Lost Ticket
All the Books I Can Read looks at The Party Crasher
Leah’s Books reviews Love, Theoretically
The Baking Bookworm shares Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail and Delilah Green Doesn’t Care
Foxes and Fairy Tales reviews Donick Walsh and the Reset Button

Discussions:

Kim at Caffeinated Reviewer is celebrating her 12 year Blogoversary!
The next round of Bout of Books is coming soon!
Modern Mrs. Darcy discusses what makes a “real reader”
From Our Bookshelves talks about reading multiple books at one time
Tiny Buddha discusses creating a daily meditation habit

Covers link to Goodreads