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:

I finally had a chance to watch Red, White & Royal Blue this week (more than once) and I loved it! I don’t always love adaptations, but they did a good job with this one. There are some definite plot shifts and some significant characters missing, but they kept the heart of the story. There have been a few movies over the course of my life that have made a huge and immediate impact and I feel the need to watch them over and over again. This is one of those movies for me.

This week has been a little rough because I’m detoxing from caffeine. I don’t drink coffee, but I drink soda every day, and now that I’ve run out of soda, I’ll be waiting until my first paycheck until I can buy it again. This means I’ve been headachy and exhausted most of the week, so my productivity is a bit off- I’ve been doing the bare minimum of everything, including reading. Thankfully heat has not been a factor though, it’s been in the 80’s, low 90’s most of the week. It doesn’t help that I think I’ve caught a summer cold as well.

All that lack of productivity and watching of RW&RB means that, while I did my minimum reading each day, I didn’t do any extra reading or finish anything this week, so my reading lists haven’t changed below. Again, that means I should finish several reads next week though. Unfortunately 2 of my library books weren’t able to be renewed and I have to wait through holds for them again before I can finish them. That doesn’t happen too often, but every once in a while I’m not able to finish a book quick enough and I have to wait in the middle of reading it.

That’s pretty much it this week. New job starts Tuesday.

Posts from the 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

Coming Next Week:

Where Happiness Comes From
Review~ The Luster of Lost Things
Top Ten Tuesday~ Water Vibes
Updating My TBR Jars
Review~ Wildfire by Carrie Mac
Friday Memes

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
You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao
Glory in Death by Nora Roberts
Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Weekly Stats:

Audio Hours completed: 12
Physical Chapters completed: 39
eBook Chapters completed: 17

Books Finished:

None!

Next Up:

The One by Kiera Cass
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
The Book of Whispers by Kimberly Starr

From the Blogosphere:

Reviews:

ChickLit Central is spotlighting Kissing Kosher, with a giveaway
The Baking Bookworm reviewed Pageboy.

Discussions:

Lifehack talks about the importance of motivation
Tiny Buddha discusses healing from rejection

Covers link to Goodreads