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Monthly Recap: February

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February turned out to be a…complicated month for me.

LIST OF NEWSWORTHY


The Neverland of Thesis
Population: 1.
Why can’t I be done and over with it? Ugh.

Rollercoaster Ride
I procrastinated at the beginning of February by listening to tons of music, reading books and bing-watching Orphan Black. The middle of February was filled with love-a-thon-ness. But the end of February took a complete one-eighty on me. I wallopped in a state of distress, was unable to finish RDR’s Virtual Book Club pick and failed my comment-on-at-least-one-blog-every-day goal. Sigh. I’m much better now, though.

TV WATCH

TV in February turned out to be pretty sporadic.

I finished the first season of Orphan Black. Watch it if you haven’t, you’ll not be disappointed.
The pilot episode of Veronica Mars was too good.
New Girl and Brooklyn Nine-Nine still making Tuesdays worth it.
I just want for How I Met Your Mother to be over.

The pilot of The Mindy Project was just…okay. Or maybe I’m not in the mood for it.
I continued Teen Wolf this month and got to the middle of the second season. I’m pretty much just watching it for Stiles.

MOVIE WATCH

I haven’t been watching as many movies as I used to. I want to but then I don’t want to. Err.

Frozen (8/10) – I liked it a lot. I still do but I also feel like there’s room for improvement.
The Kids Are All Right (7/10) – Annette Bening is such a good actress. The movie gets points for spontaneity.

LIST OF READS

Still ahead on my Goodreads challenge this month. I feel weird about it. Then I think that it’s probably because of the few novellas I read in between the eight books.

Proxy by Mindee Arnett
Avalon by Mindee Arnett
Neverfall by Brodi Ashton
Everbound by Brodi Ashton
Evertrue by Brodi Ashton
Scarlet by A. C. Gaughen
I Am Pusheen the Cat by Claire Belton
All That Glows by Ryan Graudin
Split Second by Kasie West
The Last Best Kiss by Claire LeZebnik

LIST OF BLOGPOSTS

I started a new feature and posted about absent mothers and female bildungsroman in YA.
I started another new feature and talked about serial distress.
I took part in Love-a-Thon.
I posted my review of All That Glows by Ryan Graudin.

LIST OF BOOK BUYS

I’ve a lot of ARCs to get to and series to finish so I didn’t buy much books this month.

Split Second by Kasie West
Lady Thief by A. C. Gaughen

PLAYLIST

I listened to a lot of music this month and came to certain conclusions:

CHVRCHES is my new favorite band and all because of Cee.
I’m in love with Jessie Ware‘s Wildest Moments.
Best discovery of this month goes to of Verona.


How was your February?

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Comments

  1. I haven't heard of Orphan Black before, but we have quite a similar taste in TV shows, so I will check it out! I can't wait to read my copy of Lady Thief, it's going to be epic <3 Happy reading!

  2. Orphan Black is so good! I'm excited for the second season that'll come out in April. I checked out the Veronica Mars pilot this month too but didn't like it that much 🙁

  3. OH MY GOD YES ORPHAN BLACK. I absolutely love that show and am also kind of proud of it as a Canadian that it's garnered so many positive reviews – no surprise bc it's amazing and Tatiana is the best. And yep, who doesn't watch Teen Wolf for Stiles? Seriously, I just can't even with him. And if only New Girl was on a Monday! That would give me way more motivation to get through the week. Love your playlist, will be checking out Verona. Also, on a side ntoe, do you have any idea how to pronounce CHVRCHES? I've never actually heard it said and I'm so scared to refer to it until I know 100% how to say it.

  4. I take full credit for your CHVRCHES obsession. I am fill with joy that you are loving them. They are FABULOUUUSSS.

  5. CHVRCHES is pronounced exactly like it looks — "churches." 🙂

  7. I don't watch much TV, but I've heard good things about Orphan Black.

    They just released Pokemon on Netflix though, so I can see me being…distracted for a while haha

  8. Orphan Black is great, isn't it? 😀 I'm so excited for Season Two, although I'm definitely going to need to rewatch. Mostly for the Sarah and [insert guy's name here]'s sexy scenes. Also *CRIES OVER VERONICA MARS* YESSSSSS AND IT ONLY GETS BETTER. It's fine, I'm calm. Calmmmmm. *CRIES OVER STILES*

  11. I thought I'd be all original and comment on Orphan Black but it looks like that's not the case! I was watching it on demand, but didn't get to finish like the last two episodes in the series before it was taken away! I'm going to have to figure out a different way to catch up!