Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Books I've read in 2015

It's no doubt 2015 started off a slooooooow reading year for me. On top of everything, I graduated and reading was put on the backburner. Never thought that would happen. I always like to have something to read especially when I get stressed and need a break. Despite all that, starting off the year by skipping TWO months and reading kind of slow, I'm happy with all the books I read this year because I enjoyed them. And that's a goal all itself.

It's been a tough year and a struggle to stay consistent in my reading. The months that are missing, I didn't read any books. 

MARCH
She Went All the Way by Meg Cabot 

APRIL 
Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan*
 Pines by Blake Crouch* 

MAY
Wayward by Blake Crouch* 
The Last Town by Blake Crouch**


*Very highly recommend
**I recommend only if you've gotten two books in to the Wayward Pines series 

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

New Year, New Post

Here we are again for another --let's face it-- post of excuses to why I haven't been posting. 

To be honest 2015 was the beginning of the end. In January I was in my final semester of my final year of school. I had a lot of writing to do and when I wasn't writing I wasn't reading because I was relaxing until I had to start writing again. Over the summer I got an internship to read scripts and as 2015 continued I got another internship where I read scripts. And here in the beginning of 2016 I'm reading scripts at both internships. So I've replaced reading books with reading scripts. It's not what I wanted to happen but it did. 

Since my last post I finally finished Room by Emma Donoghue, saw the film and got my hands on the script. Hopefully there will be a Novel Adaptation post about it. I'm not going to say in the near future because I don't think it will be in the near future. I'm debating whether I should post the books I've read in 2015 as reading last year was a bust for me. This year I'm hoping to do better and with one book done and dusted I think I will. 

Lately I've been really enjoying shows that SyFy is producing. I only ever watched the channel for The Twilight Zone marathons, but I watched a couple of their shows on Netflix and really liked them. While I was watching The Twilight Zone marathon on New Years the same promo for the show The Magicians kept playing. I was hooked by the third time I'd seen the third version of the promo. It looks high quality like SyFy shows are getting these days and funny. Somehow --I don't remember how; probably during my research of the show-- I discovered the show is based off a trilogy of books by Lev Grossman. And that trilogy is what I'm reading now. There's no way I'll be able to finish the first book let alone the trilogy before the show premieres as it premiered last night at 9pm. But I don't mind reading the books along side watching the show. I'm eighteen pages into The Magicians and I'm curious so far. Hopefully this trilogy will take me into February and after that who knows what I'll read or where all be. Just know I'll be somewhere feeling just the right amount of bad about not posting on here consistently. But you, you keep reading and let me know what you're reading at pulledfromthebookshelf@gmail.com. 

Should we take bets on when I'll post next?