May + June Wrap Up

It's been a while since I posted a monthly wrap up As you may have noticed, I have been slowly trying to get back into blogging. There has been topics I wanted to post but missed out on during my absence. I may revisit some of the topics in the future bur for now I'm just trying to move forward. However, I still want to post reviews for some of the books I read while I was gone. I think this post may be long so I will just get into it.

New to My Shelves

I think I have accumulated quite a few books over these two months because let's be real, I have no self control. I have already posted a video of all the books I got in May. If you want you can check out those books here. I also posted a collective Book Outlet haul which was a few month's worth of purchases so feel free to check that out here. I decided to do a summer book haul at the end of August so I will post about the books I got in June later.

Books I Read in May

Food Wars Volume 2 (5 stars) | Food Wars Volume 3 (4.5 stars) | Food Wars Volume 4 (4 stars)

Food Wars Volume 5 (4.5 stars) | Highly Illogical Behavior ( 4 stars) | Nimona ( 4 stars)

Books I Read in June

Illuminae (5 stars) | Rat Queens Volume 2 (4.5 stars) | Rat Queens Volume 3 (2 stars)

2016 Reading Challenge

By the end of June I read a total of 37 books towards my Goodreads goal of 52 books I'm still ahead for this challenge. I 'm sure that I have complete some of the challenges for the Around the Year in 52 Books and the Finishing the Series but I need to look at them and update them. I think I may have even gotten a book for the Around the World challenge.

Quick July Update

July is over so I don't have anything about what's going to happen during the month. I will be doing a wrap up very soon for July so be looking out for that. I'm back and I'm going to do my best to stay consistent!

Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I Picked Up On A Whim

Happy Tuesday and welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday! As always this weekly feature/meme is hosted by the ladies of The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Ten Books I Picked Up On A Whim. I tend to pick up random books more when I make bigger purchases, especially from Book Outlet. I don't have a long paragraph to write this week so I'm just going into it.

Top Ten Tuesday: Websites (Sorta) I Love That Aren't About Books

If are reading this most likely you are like me and can spend hours on the internet searching book related things, especially since I discovered Book Outlet. I can spend 30 minutes just browsing through their selection. However, thanks to the ladies at The Broke and the Bookish I'm going to be talking about what I love to do on the internet when it isn't related to books. The topic was about the top website we love that aren't about books but since I don't spend a lot time on specific websites I'm going to split main categories and a miscellaneous one. This is going up late but I still wanted to get this up. Now that all the details are out of the way, let's get into it.

1. Pinterest: I'm sure this will probably make some other lists (depending on how people decide to do their list) but I had to include it on my own. I don't spend as much time on Pinterest as some other stuff but when I get on there I find myself scrolling for long periods of time.While I do enjoy searching for book related things I use Pinterest for a lot more than that. Here are just some of them:

- interior design ideas - photography/art - recipes - DIYs - hairstyles - inspirational quotes

2. Youtube: I think this where I spend most of my free time on the internet. Today you can pretty much find anything you want to watch. I'm going to share some of my favorite non-bookish creators.

• Alex Aiono - This is a new favorite of mine. He's an amazing serious and he covers songs from different genres and sometimes even mixes genres in covers.
• XUrbanSimsX - If you love the sims and don't think it's weird to watch other people play (my mom makes fun of me every time she sees me watching it) then I think you should check her out. She's my favorite person to watch right now because she puts so much thought into each family she creates and makes each video she posts a story instead of just playing.
• I am a self proclaimed foodie and I love to cook so these are some of my favorite cooking channels to watch that I know of: Rosanna Pansino, Brothers Green Eats, SORTEDfood, and Laura in the Kitchen

3. Miscellaneous

• The Sims 4 Forums: If you can't tell already I love the sims. Every now and then I like to go to the forums because they have a section where people post stories about their current family or they create stories to share with the community.
• Anything Buzzfeed: Whether it's their youtube channels or the actual website, this is something else I can spend hours on since they cover such a wide variety of topics.

What are some of your favorite non-bookish website?