The Art of Being Normal – The Argle Bargle

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news – a post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received, and share news about what is coming up on your blog in the week ahead. You can find the info here: Sunday Post Meme (But really we should be thanking Lila @ The Bookkeepers Secrets as it’s her Sunday Posts that got me to do one too)

This week wasn’t as interesting as I hoped it would be (yet again). But I did go and see some of my family because my cousin’s baby had her first birthday! I normally despise children with all their annoying, undeveloped ways but she was just so cute! She has these big blue eyes, teeny-tiny hands and a really cute laugh. I also had a nice day out at Shugborough Hall and managed to get some nice pictures of the flowers just after it rained and the sun came out.

Read:

I haven’t done very much reading this week so I’ve only managed to finish one book. ‘The Art Of Being Normal’ by Lisa Williamson was so good though, I’ll hopefully have my review live next week!

Currently Reading:

I’m not really enjoying this one, I’m only two chapters in and I’ve already got a list of problems I have with it. The two reviews that are already up on Goodreads seem to have the same problems but still loved it so I think I’ll still be pressing on with it.

Received / Brought / Borrowed:

I picked this one up today from a charity shop, mainly because the name but also because of its similarities between Rebecca Ray’s ‘A Certain Age’. I thoroughly enjoyed ‘A Certain Age’ so I’m hoping that this one will be good too.

Last week on the Blog:

I think I deserve a round of applause because not only did I manage to post, I managed to post more than once! Here is a round up of the posts that went live last week:

Next Week:

I’m planning on finishing my reviews for The Art Of Being Normal and Highly Illogical Behavior because I really loved those ones.

Let me know how your week was!

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
It’s a chance to share news – a post to recap the past week on your blog,
showcase books and things we have received, and share news about what is
coming up on your blog in the week ahead. You can find the info here:
Sunday Post Meme (But really we should be thanking Lila @ The Bookkeepers Secrets as it’s her Sunday Posts that got me to do one too)

Really this Sunday Post is going to be more of a ‘Mundane Post’ because this week I have been exceptionally lazy. I do have an excuse though – this was the first week of my summer holiday so I guess I can be excused? My plans before the week started included finishing a few of the reviews that are still mere drafts and starting the Summer Reading challenge. But, as you can see, that never happened. Next week though, I will be book blogging. Pinky promise.

Other personal news from this week includes the fact that I finally went to see The Secret Life Of Pets at the cinema. It was so good but still not quite as good as I was expecting? After seeing all the adverts for it I was expecting to love it so much that I’d have to go back again. But maybe I just set my expectations too high? I also went on a record binge today and brought 4 LPs. You can’t blame me for spending so much money those as above them was the one word that makes spending money OK – SALE. If you’re interested in what I treated myself to, I got LPs from FIDLAR, New Order, Sleaford Mods and Glass Animals (because having a genre specific music taste is so boring).

Read (reviews to follow)

The Bone Sparrow was perhaps one of the best and most important books I’ve read all year – I highly recommend you get yourself a copy of this once it’s out because it really is a captivating tale based on some pretty harsh truths.

Highly Illogical Behaviour — Highly Illogical Behavior – John Corey Whaley

Highly Illogical Behavior was also pretty good – I really liked the characters in this but was a little turned off by the narration, it was a bit blunt and heavy.

Currently Reading:

I’ve only been reading The Art of Being Normal for about a day and I have already been sucked in so far that I’m not sure I’ll be able to get out again. I cannot wait to see where this one is going.

Received / Brought / Borrowed:

I am feeling very smug right now because I actually managed not to gain anymore books this week! I am awful when it comes to buying books but this week I have somehow managed to withhold any desire to gain more. Can I get a cheer?

Next Week:

Whilst making promises on any content that will be live next week will be totally useless because, lets face it, I am pretty hopeless. So lets just pretend that we are in a perfect world where I’ll be posting a review Fraillon’s The Bone Sparrow and catching up on various other reviews. I will also (will is a strong word) be taking part in more memes so I can finally fully submerge myself in the wonderful world of book blogging!