Before we do ANYTHING, let’s stack some shelves.
Stacking the Shelves is a book meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews. It’s all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual.
The Books
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The lighting is a little bit dodgy, so bear with me.
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill – EVERYONE recommended this, so when I saw it at the library, I yoinked it.
The Selection by Kiera Cass – I really liked The Jewel, so hopefully I’ll enjoy this one.
The Program by Suzanne Young – It’s like a treatment for depression or something? I don’t know.
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake – Already read this one. Wasn’t very scary.
Cooper Bartholomew is Dead by Rebecca James – Because everyone in the Aussie blogging world is raving about it, and I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS. Ahem.
My goals for October were to…
Read at least 8 books. (check! I read fourteen)
– Read at least 2 books by Aussie authors (check! I read both the Pandora books, as well as Between the Lives and Corruption by Jessica Shirvington)
– Review at least 8 books (check! I reviewed 9 books)
(you can click on the covers to go to my reviews!)
– Finish this draft of The Daisy List (well…no. But that’s because I’m changing a LOT and it’s taking a while. But I’m up to 20k, at least!)
– Decide if I’m doing NaNo or not – if so, write an outline. (I am INDEED doing NaNoWriMo, and I’m at about 5000 words at the time of writing this post…but you can keep up to date with the widget on the sidebar!)
And also, here is an excerpt. WARNING. This has quite a lot of swearing (I mean, it IS Australian)
– HAVE A FRABJOUS BLOGOVERSARY. It was frabjous. Mission accomplished.
Gif of the Month
Preach it, John.
Books of the Month
The Assassin’s Blade is the clear winner here. North Child is a close second, even though it’s a reread. But I DID still have quite a few four-star reads, like the wonderful Golden.
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7 reasons you shouldn’t read YA books
I talked about my NaNo novel, Grizzly
20 Things You Might Not Know About Me
Things That Happened in October
– I did some dancing
– I did some reading
– I did a bit of freaking out when I realised I was in year twelve
– I decided to do NaNoWriMo, which is possibly going to be a very bad decision
– It was Halloween and I read a “scary” book that was a bit underwhelming
– I browsed through Goodreads and made a 2015-releases shelf, which already has more than 30 books that I’m really excited for
– I had a blogoversary – winner of the giveaway will be announced soon!
Goals for November!
– Read at least 6 books (it’s NaNo, so I won’t have much time for reading!)
– Review at least 6 books
– Write 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo
– Get through my first lost of HSC assessments alive
– Try not to die in the heat
The Loony Teen Writer 
Oh my god that excerpt was so funny!!!! I literally laughed out loud. If you ever need a beta reader for it, I’m here for you.
My novel has some swearing too. [It’s not Australian.] It’s the first novel/story I’ve written with swearing, so it’ll be interesting. 😛
Yay, thank you so much! It’s weird, I don’t say the F word in real life (except for in drama) but I feel the character needs to, you know? 🙂
You can do NaNoWriMo! I believe in you!
Lucy
P.S. I love the mini preview of your NaNoWriMo novel.
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YAY THANK YOU LUCY! I’m glad you liked it 🙂
You use so many Supernatural gifs I’m beginning to think you secretly watch the show on the side. *whispers* It is glorious, by the way, probably my favourite thing to watch in the entire universe. JUST SO YOU KNOW.
But I digress.
Yaaay for awesome Octobers! And NaNo! I’m having a silent race with Kara at the moment, but I’m not sure she actually knows. MWAHHAHA. I get way too competitive. Someone sit on me.
OMG I LOVE YOUR EXCERPT. I would snatch up an entire book and read it just based on that. You are the best. My book is so soooo bad atm. I need to slow down and think some scenes through but blaaahh, my dialogue is NOT coming out how I wanted it to, which makes me frustrated. >.>
I really want to read All Our Yesterdays!! I’m totally keen to see what you think! ^-^
I WISH, CAIT. I WISH. I think Supernatural is going to be my next TV-watching project.
HAHA. I saw that on Twitter. I’m interested to see who will win. I can’t wait til the weekend so I can attempt a 10k day 🙂
OH MY GOSH CAIT THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤ but yeah, my first drafts are awful too. Last year for NaNo I wrote about a girl who gets homeschooled by her granny. So freaking weird. Although I think this first draft is one of my best. Still awful, but not AS awful 😛
You’ve got some great reads ahead of you Emily – especially with Cooper Bartholomew Is Dead! Rebecca James is the Aussie queen of YA psychological thrillers. The excerpt you shared is great and realistic, so I’m sure the rest of your work in progress is going to be fantastic 🙂 I’m with you when it comes to getting through the first lot of HSC assessments while still surviving from the a) workload and b) heat with the warmer weather coming on. Best wishes for the month ahead and happy reading!
I KNOW RIGHT. CB Is Dead looks amazing. And now I have two books by her so I reeeeally should start. Oh, my NaNo novel is going downhill already, but I reamin optimistic. Good luck for your first HSC assessments as well!!
I can’t wait for more reviews! ^_^
Yay! I like writing them too 😀
You and Cait are just fantastic you know? You’re both wonderful writers and I honestly would LOVE to read more of your writing, it’s just so down to earth, hilarious and really really enjoyable, even in small amounts, and I think you should totally let me Beta read your work, right? Righto. Well done for all the books, 14 is great, I wowed myself this month too and SO glad you had a nice celebration, blogging is tough, so two years is quite the accomplishment. Good luck for November Emily! 😀
We totally are, of course. Haha. I’m glad you’d like to read more! I’ll keep you in mind if I ever need a reader 😀 Thanks Amanda, have a lovely November!
OMG I love your excerpt! 😀 I think I’m going to just start NaNo after my big exam on Thursday, I might not get to 50,000 words, but I’m going to try but it is hard when you have a year 12 exam AND then 5 other year 11 exams.
and OMG didn’t you just LOVE Jessica Shirvington’s work? 😀 I can’t wait to see what she writes next! And I can’t wait for The Bane Chronicles either. 😀
Thank you! A year 12 exam and 5 other year 11 exams??? THat’s crazy. Good luck with that.
Ohhhhh yes Jessica SHirvington is so good ❤
I REALLY hope you like The Selection. I literally finished The One two minutes ago, and it was spectacular.
I really hope so too! I think I will like it. I have a good feeling 🙂
I REALLY want to read All Our Yesterdays as well, AND THE PROGRAM! I should probably make my own 2015 releases shelf, that sounds like a great idea.
AND THAT NANO STORY. WOW IT’S REALLY COMING ALONG. I LOVE IT. 😀 😀
SAME. I’ve heard so many things about them both. And the 2015 releases shelf is so useful – although it makes me really impatient haha.
THANK YOU 😀 😀
YOUR NANOWRIMO STORY SOUNDS AWESOME SO FAR.
And oooooh, you have a very nice pile of books there. 😀 All Our Yesterdays = Awesome. The Selection = I loved this book even though there are sooo many mixed reviews about it. The Program = This one surprised me! I didn’t expect to love it as much as I did. Anna Dressed in Blood = Quite creepily awesome. Cooper B is Dead = Enjoyed, but a little underwhelming — I’m particularity interested to see what you’ll think of that one.
Good luck with your first lot of HSC exams. SCARY.
THANKS KARA 😀
I always have lovely piles of books. Libraries + publishers + Book Depository = very nice to me. Oooh, wow, you’ve read all of them! I’m excited 😀 The Program looks really good.
SO MUCH YES TO ALL OUR YESTERDAYS. I can’t wait for you to read that one!! Can I just say, your NaNo story has encapsulated the Aus colloquialism PERFECTLY, or at the least one most commonly found on the playground. The story is going to turn out fantastically!
Take a deep breath with the first lot of HSC thingys. Remember, they’re the least in weighting so it isn’t the end of the world 🙂 You’ve got the holidays to reevaluate!
I’VE HEARD IT’S AMAZING. And yeah, lol, these Aussies are extremely Aussie 😛
Thanks for the advice, Jess! That’s actually really helpful. And I’ll be reevaluating in England, which will help 😛
Giiirrrll, you’re doing NaNo and HSC at the same time?! You cray! Although I’m sure you’ll do absolutely fine. Your story is coming along really well! Best of luck. 😀
I know. I don’t know who decided that was a good idea 😛 LOL and four major works for school as well O_O
Ello!!! Hows it going? I see you are ridiculously busy and stuff… the John GIF is probably my most second favorite GIF ever (the first one is the ones with the “ungodly” things.. I forget what it looks like).
I wish you all the fabulousness in NaNoWriMo, that thing is difficult.
Also, you’re reading THE SELECTION?!! Finally. See I never read any other books in that series but that one was pretty good 🙂
Have a wonderful month and succeed in all your goals!!!
It’s going EXCELLENTLY. Haha. That gif is great, right? My best find ever. NaNoWriMo IS difficult, but it’s getting easier every year. I’m so pumped for The Selection!!
All Our Yesterdays was definitely good. I really enjoyed the Selection too. Hope you enjoy your new goodies! 🙂
YAY. I’m getting more and more excited for these books. They all seem amazing!
I love the excerpt! Everything needs to be said with cake. I demand you keep going with this one. While you’re busy with that, I’ll just snatch Wanderland while you’re distracted.
I’ve read every one of those in your haul this week and I must say, I totally approve. Cooper first though. You’ll absolutely LOVE it! Gosh, you’ve read a crapload of books last month. I must be getting slower in my old age.
Have a fabulous week poppet ❤
Cake is the best form of communication, obviously. HAHA. I don’t even want to look at Wanderland for a good long while. Cooper B looks amaaazing. I actually just won a copy from Allen and Unwin, so that should be arriving soon! EEK 😀
Hope you have a wonderful November and you achieve your writing goals for Nano! I really did enjoy All Our Yesterdays, such a great condensed and action packed time travel story. I am so glad you picked up Cooper Bartholomew as well, it’s a great mystery 😀 Enjoy Emily!
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