Day: May 31, 2015

2015 May Wrap-Up

Analee @ Book Snacks16 Comments

Hi there! It is the last day of May, so that means a little re-cap of this month! This will be in a more different format than my last wrap-up (similar to Poulami’s format)!

Books I’ve read this month (Link to Goodreads):

Yep, that’s it for my education. My grades are going down the drain…

Books I’ve reviewed this month: 13

Comparing this with the books I’ve read… *winces* oops! I’ve been quite behind with my reviewing! I’ll make that my next goal… hopefully I’ll be able to have all the books I’ve read this month reviews at least by the end of August, or mid-September at the most. (I doubt I’ll reach that goal, but I’m setting it!)

Tags I did this month: 5

Awards that I have been nominated for:

I forgot how long these awards have been sitting in my drafts folder, but I know it’s been a long time. I’ll get to these soon, I promise! Thank you so much to the wonderful bloggers who nominated me, I haven’t forgotten you! ❤ It means a lot to me that you would consider me and my little Book Snacks for a blog award!

‘Shadowhunters’ TV Show Casting Updates & Thoughts:

Other Book News:

Reading Challenge Updates:

Top 10 Tuesday

  • #4: May 5th (Books I will Probably Never Read-Didn’t participate)
  • #5: May 12th (Authors I REALLY Want to Meet)
  • #6: May 19th (Freebie: Greek Mythology books)
  • #7: May 26th (Beach Reads I Plan to Read this Summer)

Teaser Tuesday

WWW Wednesday

That’s What He Said Thursday

Friday Finds

Exploring My Bookshelves

Shelf Candy Saturday

No longer participating due to my discovery of it being a personal meme.

Discussion Posts/ABEA 2015

So there we have it! My May 2015 Wrap-up. Do like this format? Or would you rather the older format? Let me know in the comments below, your opinion matters! 🙂 How was your May reading? Don’t forget to also let me know below.

-A

Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern (AKA Where Rainbows End) | Book Review

Analee @ Book Snacks20 Comments

(Stand-Alone)

Published: February 1st 2005

Synopsis:

 Sometimes you have to look at life in a whole new way…

From the bestselling author of PS, I Love You comes a delightfully enchanting novel about what happens when two people who are meant to be together just can’t seem to get it right.

Rosie and Alex are destined for one another, and everyone seems to know it but them. Best friends since childhood, their relationship gets closer by the day, until Alex gets the news that his family is leaving Dublin and moving to Boston. At 17, Rosie and Alex have just started to see each other in a more romantic light. Devastated, the two make plans for Rosie to apply to colleges in the U.S.

She gets into Boston University, Alex gets into Harvard, and everything is falling into place, when on the eve of her departure, Rosie gets news that will change their lives forever: She’s pregnant by a boy she’d gone out with while on the rebound from Alex.

Her dreams for college, Alex, and a glamorous career dashed, Rosie stays in Dublin to become a single mother, while Alex pursues a medical career and a new love in Boston. But destiny is a funny thing, and in this novel, structured as a series of clever e-mails, letters, notes, and a trail of missed opportunities, Alex and Rosie find out that fate isn’t done with them yet.

From the gifted author of PS, I Love You comes this charming, romantic, addictively page-turning novel that will keep readers laughing and guessing until the very last page.

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My Rating: 4.5 Stars 4.5/5 (Amazing)

Book Information

Publisher: Hyperion

Genre(s): Young-adult fiction, romance

Format: e-book

Hi there! Like all my pending reviews, this is way overdue, but oh well. At least it’s here now. Anyway, I absolutely loved this book! There’s nothing more to say. It was amazing. (The featured image is the book cover for Where Rainbows End, before it was renamed Love, Rosie. I just thought the cover looked prettier.) 🙂

Quick summary

Rosie & Alex have been best friends since forever, and when they got older they start to see eachother in a more romantic light. But when a mistake causes Rosie to become pregnant with a rebound guy, Rosie’s hopes and dreams are crushed as she becomes a single mother. On the other hand, Alex is on his way to a successful future and a new love. But fate has something different planned for the two best friends…Read More »

May 2015 Book Haul

Analee @ Book Snacks23 Comments

Yay! Book haul! These are books I’ve accumulated throughout this month. (Excluding the books I hauled in my Mini May Book Haul) Press the images for a bigger view. All titles link to Goodreads.

Bookbub e-books I added to my Kobo

Bought e-books I added to my Kobo

Physical copies

So excited for all these! ❤ Especially P.S. I Still Love You! Finally got my copy.

So that’s it for this month’s book haul! I got most of these at great prices, so I suppose it was a pretty good haul—except for the fact that I’m now out of money to buy books, while there are a ton of books I want to buy next month. *Sigh.*

-A