Stuff I’ve Been Reading Lately #10

20200921_104732_0000

BOOKS READ:

  • Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
  • My Riot by Rick Spears
  • Kaguya-sama: Love is War Vol. 2 by Aka Akasaka
  • Beauty and the Beast: The Graphic Novel by Jessica Gunderson

BOOKS BOUGHT:

    • Paper Towns by John Green
    • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
    • Landline by Rainbow Rowell
    • The Last Star by Rick Yancey
    • Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 5 by Sui Ishida
    • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
    • The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
    • Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
    • The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
    • The Inheritance Trilogy (Omnibus Edition) by N.K. Jemisin
    • A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

BOOKS RECEIVED:

  • The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
  • Queens of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices, #3) by Cassandra Clare
  • The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl by Melissa Keil
  • A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck

ARCs:

  • My Riot by Rick Spears
  • Beauty and the Beast: The Graphic Novel by Jessica Gunderson
  • The Innocent Girls by B.R. Spangler

Continue reading

#Wikathon TBR

20200921_103836_0000
Hey, everyone! Cheese, it’s already the end of July — I can hardly believe it. Time is flying by way too fast even when most of us are stuck at home during this time, eh? Anyway, I hope all of you are doing well and are making the most out of all the time we have to spend indoors. In my side of the world, July 31 is a holiday, so I’ve spent the whole day catching up with the books that I’m reading, shoot my books, watched anime, and now I’m writing this blog post. Continue reading

Tier-Ranking All the Contemporary Books I’ve Ever Read

20200921_104006_0000

Hi, everyone! I’m back with another book list (sort of). Since I’ve been seeing a lot of people in the book community tier-ranking the books that they’ve read, I decided to do one for all the contemporary book that I have ever read. Continue reading

Book Review: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

20200921_104925_0000

Title: Sharp Objects

Author: Gillian Flynn

Date Published: September 26, 2006

Number of Pages: 396

Publisher: Crown Publishing Book

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Synopsis:

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming. Continue reading

Book Mail: My First Ever Fullybooked Online Purchase

20200921_103919_0000

Hi, everyone! I’m back with another book mail. These arrived along with the other books that I posted before but decided to post them separately because I bought them separately, too. Haha! It just so happened that I had them shipped to my boyfriend’s place and he had it delivered to me all at the same time.

To be honest, I think I’ve bought so many books this year than I ever did in my whole life. The quarantine keeps me feeling anxious and overthinking most of the time and my only escape is online shopping and looking forward to my parcels arriving. Most of my purchases are books (some skincare, of course, but only if I run out of stocks); books keep me so preoccupied which help me avoid overthinking. So without further adieu, here are the titles for this haul:
Continue reading

Best Books of 2020 So Far

Hi, everyone! I hope you are all doing okay and you are all able to cope up with the events happening worldwide recently. It’s been a tough year, generally speaking, but to get my mind off all the cruel things happening around us, I turned to my books for solace. Just like what I used to do when I was kid and so 2020 instantly became a great reading year for me so far. My Goodreads goal is to read 30 books this year and I’ve already read 22 books (so I will probably adjust my reading challenge to 40 or 50).

This “tag” is an annual bookish thing that has been going on around the bookish community which, to be honest, I haven’t done in a while. Since I did read a lot of books so far this year, I decided to do it again. Wow, I can’t even remember the last time I did this (and I can’t even remember if that particular post still exists in my blog since I migrated to WordPress from Tumblr just last year).
Continue reading

Stuff I’ve Been Reading Lately #9

20200921_104732_0000

BOOKS READ:

  • This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
  • Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1) by Angie Sage
  • Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Vol. 1 by Aka Akasaka
  • One-Punch Man Vol. 5 by ONE
  • One-Punch Man Vol. 6 by ONE

BOOKS BOUGHT:

  • Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
  • Teardrop by Lauren Kate
  • Passion by Lauren Kate
  • Rapture by Lauren Kate
  • Deception Point by Dan Brown
  • Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalo
  • One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
  • Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
  • For One More Day by Mitch Albom

BOOKS RECEIVED:

  • Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1) by Angie Sage
  • Flyte (Septimus Heap, #2) by Angie Sage
  • Physik (Septimus Heap, #3) by Angie Sage
  • Queste (Septimus Heap, #4) by Angie Sage
  • Syren (Septimus Heap, #5) by Angie Sage
  • Darke (Septimus Heap, #6) by Angie Sage
  • Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide by Rick Riordan
  • Gerald’s Game by Stephen King

Continue reading

Eureka! Moment #5: BeautyMNL

20200921_103936_0000

Hey, everyone! It’s that time of the month again where I feature some of the things that I discovered in the past month that I totally loved or that made my life a bit easier. So for this month, I’ll be talking about the beauty of shopping at BeautyMNL.

Since the quarantine started, it’s been really hard to buy some of the stuff that I need, especially some of my favorite skincare products. So after a while, once couriers were allowed to operate again, I started installing applications where I can buy the products that I use and BeautyMNL is one of them. What’s great is that some of the products that they are selling are discounted!

After a month of not being able to go outside, the stocks that I have of my favorite skincare products have ran really low. Here is my latest beauty haul:

image

I restocked my ultimate favorites:

  1. Innisfree Jeju Volcanic Cleansing Foam
  2. Nature Republic Aloe Vera 92% Soothing Gel

And bought some products that I’ve been seeing in the internet that looks so good:

  1. Mads Essentials Coffee Scrub
  2. RiRe All Kill Blackhead Remover Stick
  3. Skin Potions Watermelon Shocker

It’s my first time trying the last three products on my list and I am so in love with Mads Essential’s coffee scrub and RiRe’s All Kill Blackhead Remover Stick. The coffee scrub smells so good, like a combination of coffee and chocolate! The All-Kill Blackhead Remover Stick, on the other hand, is really effective. I’ve been using it for over three weeks now, and my blackheads are almost non-visible. As for the Watermelon Shocker, I personally think it’s pricey for its size. It smells really good, though.

Anyway, BeautyMNL offers a lot of other items, too. Like vitamins, organic food, etc. If you’re planning on purchasing from BeautyMNL any time soon, please be reminded that most of their products easily run out of stocks as a lot of people are buying from them, too. You can add the products on in your wishlist and wait for a notification that it has been restocked and make sure to check your notification regularly!

Are you familiar with the products that I’ve mentioned? How did it go for you? I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

Book Mail: Septimus Heap by Angie Sage + Percy Jackson & the Olympians

20200921_103919_0000

Another book mail that I received during the quarantine is the Septimus Heap series (minus the seventh book) by Angie Sage. My boyfriend bought it for me and sent it to me via Lalamove along with the other book orders that I had shipped at his place. Continue reading

JNVQ Diaries: A Love Letter

image

Babe,

Happy quarantine birthday! Who would’ve thought that this year would turn out this way? We have so many plans for this year, and I can still remember vividly how we’ve been arguing on how to spend my birthday before the quarantine was imposed. That was in March, it’s been three months and we’re now celebrating your birthday but we still haven’t seen each other since. It’s really frustrating because I miss you so bad. But as I’ve said in my birthday post, we have to be strong while being apart right now, so we can spend a lot of birthdays together in the future.

I know it’s hard celebrating at a time like this, but I hope you enjoy your cake and my not-so-surprise birthday gift that we’ve been talking about for weeks! Haha! I don’t like to be all that cheesy, but I want you to know that I will always love you and you will always be the best decision that I have made for my entire life. I am still happy that I’ve chosen to be with you and I will keep choosing you. I knew you were the right one because you never tolerated my immaturity during my red days even when we argue about it most of the time. I really do appreciate it because you are helping become a better version of myself.

image

I would also like to thank you for always being the stronger person in our relationship, I know that there are times when you also feel down because, hey, you’re also human. Yet, you always put me first by trying to appear strong for me and I will always appreciate you for that even if it may not look like so. I would also like you to know that I appreciate your patience and selflessness when it comes to understanding my overthinking, I know it’s also hard for you, but you always manage to help me through my episodes.

With all that, I wish you all the blessings that you deserve. I am looking forward to more adventures throughout the years with you. Thank you for making me feel the most alive I’ve been in 26 years. You are the greatest thrill and adventure of my life.

Thank you for your existence.

I love you.

Yours for always,
Lenn