Books o' the Week!

I've got a couple books to list here! The week of August 20th, I read A Woman's Passionate Pursuit of God, by Karol Ladd. The following week (the holiday week), I read Aria of the Sea. This week, I am reading One Thousand Gifts, by Ann Voskamp. I started reading it last year, but never finished it. No time like the present!

I've got a few more things to add, but I'm going to make a separate post shortly!

Book of the week: Four

Last week's book o' the week was Four,  by Veronica Roth. Final book from the Divergent series, and I thought it was okay. Definitely a chick book!

Book of the week: Freefall

This one was a re-read. It's an oldie!

Book of the week: Catching Moondrops

This week's book! 

I'm going to start labeling the book of the week posts really obviously, starting now. That way it'll be easier for me to check to be sure I'm keeping on track!

Book of the Week: Fifties Night

This week's book of the week is a cheesy teen romance novel set in the 50s at a Laguna Beach jukebox diner. It is SO cheesy and cute! And what better way is there to read it than to the tune of The Platters' pandora station? :)

Good night!

Cardboard and duct tape and bubble wrap, oh my!

I really am almost officially done packing! *insert enormous sigh of relief* Wahoo!!! For the last week, I've only had a few things to pack and they've been buried behind remodeling materials. Tonight, I bit the bullet and moved everything out of the way so I could get to the last of my household items, which, thanks to some wobbly cardboard boxes and a lot of tape and bubble wrap, are now safe and secure in a giant stack of crap in the basement. For the next two and a half weeks, that is. And then they'll be in our new apartment!!! Oh em gee, I still can't be calm about this! So excited!

Anywho, so about my life list- I've scrapped the book list just for now. I've decided that I'd prefer to just read fun books of my choosing, at least for the rest of the summer. 

This week's book was called The American Heiress. I swiped it from my mom after she finished reading it, and I didn't put a whole lot of thought or research into it beforehand. It reminded me slightly of Downton Abbey (just noticed the cover actually mentions Downton Abbey), but only in that there were multiple protagonists, all in different stations, so things were written from the perspective of the gentry and the servants, alike. It made for a pretty fun read!

I've taken a (hopefully short) hiatus from running, what with all of the packing and family visiting, and I've also been feeling a bit crummy, probably from stress. Now that I'm done packing and all of my wonderful family has returned to their respective homes, hopefully I'll also be able to calm myself a bit and get rid of that stress. And then it's off to the races for me! Or, back to the turtle-speed laps around my country block. ;)