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Monthly Recap : August 2015

September 1, 2015 No Comments

bye august! bye summer!

Happy September 1st. I can hear christmas bells and smell christmas cookies. Let’s start with some great things that happened in my life last August.

I’ll be getting my ID next week. We went to Ausländerbehörde for my residence permit and we’re happy because we didn’t have problems. That also means that I can now work.
We’ve started going to a different gym and we love the new ambiance.
We bought an action camera! We want to record simple events in our lives.
We went to Funeral for A Friend’s gig in MuzikZentrum. It was fun!
I updated my book blog! Yey!

I am satisfied because I’ve read more than 4 books (my maximum per month) and I was able to read the books on my TBR List. I think having a reading buddy helps me a lot! Thanks to Joyce.

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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie – 5 / 5 stars (My Review)
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han – 4 / 5 stars (My Review)
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris – 3.5 / 5 stars
Angelfall by Susan Ee – 4.5 / 5 stars
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer – 4 / 5 stars (My Review)
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin – 5 / 5 stars

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Mini Book Haul

August 19, 2015 4 Comments

These pretties came in the mail today, except my Gizmo, and I can’t help not to share them with you guys.

Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie

I’ve read And Then There Were None with Joyce few days ago and we both loved it. We’ve decided to start collecting Christie’s novels. This book was recommended to me by the majority of my bookish friends (one of them is Erika) as a second read from Christie.

Snow Like Ashes
by Sara Raasch

This is my book for this month’s “1HB a month”, a “thing” that Joyce and I started. We love hardbound books (Who doesn’t, right?) but they are quite expensive so we’ve decided to save some money (it’s our husband’s money, actually. Haha!) so we can buy one hardbound every month. I am reading a lot of good things about this book and I’m excited to read this.

Meanwhile..
I’m excited for Funeral for a Friend. They will be performing later at 9pm in MusikZentrum (Hannover) and it will be my first time watching them live. Yay! Last time I’ve been in a concert was in 2013 when Paramore performed live in Docks, Hamburg and it was epic.

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Mini Book Haul

August 7, 2015 No Comments

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline | Goodreads
I’ve been reading and hearing good things about this book. I know that being a gamer is an advantage on reading this and I’m lucky because my husband is a “gamer since birth”. I sometimes tease him that his twin brother is Super Mario. Other readers who’ve finished this book said that even if you don’t have a vague knowledge about games, you can still relate and enjoy this book. P.S. Armada is on my to-buy list.

Night Film by Marisha Peesl | Goodreads
This book was We The Book Dragons‘ book for the month of July and I wasn’t able to join the read-along. I’ve avoided reading the discussions because I still want to read this book but I cannot avoid to browse the pages. It has some pages with newspaper and internet clips. I can’t wait to read this.

I ordered these books from The Book Depository. Look how lovely the bookmarks are!

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Monthly Recap : July 2015

August 5, 2015 No Comments

What’s up fellow Book Lovers?! I’ve been MIA again and I’m sorry for that. I’m just loosing focus on blogging and I can’t bring myself to write some decent book reviews. Hopefully this will pass. So right now I want to share some of the highlights from last month. It was a great and memorable month for me.

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Clocks by Agatha Christi
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Angelfall by Susan Ee
Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern (4.5 out of 5 stars)

This book is magical! The characters are unique and interesting, the storyline is brilliant, and the author made me want to wish that Le Cirque des Rêves is real. I highly recommend this book. It may be a little slow in the beginning but just continue and I’m telling you, it’s worth it.

THE SELECTION by Kiera Cass (3.5 out of 5 stars)

The book’s cover made me buy it. I had no idea what this book is all about and I thought this is like an “American Idol” kind of story but it’s not. Maybe because America’s last name is Singer and she sings. The Selection is more like “The Bachelor”. I personally don’t like the idea of the competition (The Bachelor) so I was a little unsure of my feelings towards the story but I’m glad that I still ended up enjoying it. Full review.

July Highlight : July 24. 2015

We (finally) got married! We’ve been processing the papers since April last year and we’re so grateful that everything went well. We had a simple ceremony and celebration that day, just like what we’ve wanted. We are so happy that we are officially Mr and Mrs. ♥

Have a nice day everyone! 🙂

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Monthly Wrap-Up : May 2015

June 3, 2015 20 Comments

Hello June! I’m a bit late. How are you doing? Here is my May wrap-up and I will also include my Week 22.

• That’s me and B with our favorite book. That was also our entry for #booksarentdangerous campaign last week. One of his favorites is Krabat by Otfried Preußler.
• I won a limited edition tote bag from @I’veReadThat and I’m so excited to use it. Check out their website at ivereadthat.com and feel free to follow me.
• I’ve discovered through a friend in Instagram an awesome app called Steller. You can share your photos/videos as slideshows on this app. Here’s my account. (This app reminds me of VscoCam.)
• I would like to thank Isshie of Bookishmouie for featuring me (and my blog) on Venture Through Worlds, a blog where you can find Filipino bloggers all over the world. The blog is quite new so I’m calling out all the Filipino bloggers out there. Visit the blog for more info.

Some of my favorite authors with my instaxmini // My top fve tbr with Gizmo

Books Read

I’ve read a total of 6 books this month. And these are:

eBooks
• Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn – 4/5 stars (My review)
• Never Never : Part Two by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher – 4/5 stars (My review)
• Ugly People Beautiful Hearts by Marlen Komar – 4/5 stars (My review)

Books
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz – 4/5 stars
• Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira – 4/5 stars (My review)
• Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover – 4/5 stars

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Monthly Wrap-Up : November 2014

November 2, 2014 No Comments

I’ve read a total of 4 books (2 physical and 2 ebooks) just like last month.

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith – It’s my second time participating the Bookish Pinoys Read-Along and this our BOTM. I kinda like this book because it’s Mystery and just like Robin, I also want to be like a detective’s assistant/secretary. I can’t wait to read the next case of Strike. I rated this 4 out of 5 stars.
Every You, Every Me by David Levithan – The fourth book from David Levithan I’ve read. I just love this author. I rated this 4 out of 5 stars.
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell – I’ve decided to read this because I want to know why almost everyone is reading and recommending it. And now I know why. I rated this 4 out of 5 stars.
Spuntik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami – I also love this author. He’s just so talented and I can somehow relate to most of his characters. I rated this 4 out of 5 stars.