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Today's post is one of my favorite posts to write: a content roundup!  I love watching people's YouTube videos and read people's blog posts about what they've been loving, and it's been so fun rating and keeping track of everything I am reading and watching.  So here is an update on what I've consumed the past few months, and hope you all enjoy! BOOKS "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid: 10/10 //  This is in my top 10 reads of the year so far.  It is so incredible and I was pretty much glued to my iPad throughout the book.  It's about a writer who is tasked with writing a memoir about a very prominent and private actress, Evelyn Hugo.  There was even a HUGE twist at the end of the book that I was not expecting at all, and it was just so so incredible.  Highly recommend! "In Five Years" by Rebecca Serle: 10/10 //  This is another top 5 read for the year!  This is about a girl who just got engaged and has her whole li...

Another month, another post about all of the content I've consumed in the past few weeks!  This month I've been in more of a Netflix/Hulu mood than reading mood, but this month has honestly been a winner in all categories! BOOKS The Testaments  by Margaret Atwood: 10/10 // I read The Handmaid's Tale  a few years ago before the TV show came out on Hulu.  I loved that book and was so excited when I heard there was a sequel!  It finally became available as an e-book through my library and I devoured  it.  It's told from 3 different women's perspectives 15 years after Offred's story ends.  It's incredibly interesting and genuinely could not put it down.  Highly recommend if you're a fan of the first book or the show on Hulu! Before We Were Strangers  by Renee Carlino: 8/10 // This was the first April read for The Readheads Book Club.  It's about 2 people who were in love in college, grew apart afterwards, and then found each o...

A lot of the podcasts I listen to, YouTubers I watch, and blogs I read talk about what they have watched, listened to, read, etc.  I always love getting new recommendations for things to consume, so I thought that I would start tracking mine monthly.  So here are the movies, books, and TV shows from the past month and what I though of them! BOOKS Winter in Paradise  by Elin Hilderbrand: 7.5/10 This was my first read of 2020.  I love a good chick lit read every once in awhile, and her books are juicy and easy to read.  This book is about a woman whose husband dies while on a "work trip", and she finds out that he has a whole other family that she didn't know about in the Bahamas.  I enjoyed this book and it was a quick and easy read, but it wasn't my favorite of hers that I've read.  But you bet I'll be reading the sequel in the near future! Park Avenue Summer  by Renee Rosen: 9/10  This is a book that has been on my "Want to Read" ...

2019 was one of my better years of reading!  I actually accomplished my reading goal for the year, which was 25 books, and the books I read I genuinely enjoyed, even the ones that had lower ratings.  So today, I am listing all 25 of the books that I read last year with their ratings.  I seriously love reading and am excited to accomplish my 2020 reading goal of 30 books.  I am already two books in for the year and can't read to conquer some more! So without further ado, here is everything I read last year, and let me know some of your favorite books that you read lately! Girl Wash Your Face  by Rachel Hollis: 4/5 To All The Boys I've Loved Before  by Jenny Han: 4/5 P.S. I Still Love You  by Jenny Han: 3/5 Always and Forever, Lara Jean  by Jenny Han: 4/5 Smothered  by Autumn Chiklis: 3/5 Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury  by Lesley-Ann Jones: 4/5 The Stranger Beside Me   by Anne Rule: 5/5 Ghosted ...

Before we get into the post, I want to apologize for my all over the place schedule right after I said I was going to start posting every Tuesday and Friday!  I've been in a little bit of a lazy/unproductive funk since I got back from vacation.  I honestly have not felt like writing, and I do apologize for it.  I'm feeling a little more productive now and ready to get back to my creative outlet, and there will be some good posts coming up during the regularly scheduled Tuesdays and Fridays!  So, we are going to start out those really good posts with what I read in July! I read some pretty awesome books this past month, and I am so excited to share them with you!  I gave all of these really high ratings on Good Reads and highly recommend them if any of you want to read them.  So, let's just jump right in to what I read this month! GIRL STOP APOLOGIZING  by RACHEL HOLLIS // 3.5 out of 5 stars I read Rachel Hollis's first book,  Girl Wash Yo...

I seriously can not believe that it is already July!  This summer has flown  by and it is already time for another favorites post.  There is definitely a lot of products and more that I have been loving this past month, so let's get right to it! This picture is actually from my favorite day of the year: the Blues Stanley Cup Championship parade!  Seriously the best day with my parents and with the team! ONE // Wildflower Phone Case I have an iPhone 8+, and the silicone case I had was getting pretty banged up because I had had it for quite awhile.  I watch Brooke Miccio on YouTube, and I had seen her phone case but could never figure out where it was from.  Well, after browsing Wildflower Cases, I stumbled upon it and immediately purchased this phone case !  It is so cute, I love the border around the phone, and it feels very protective for my phone.  It is currently in low stock, so I suggest getting it quick if you have an iPhone 8+! T...

Honestly, I've been doing way better on my reading goal so far than I thought I would.  I've already knocked off a few books from my list on GoodReads, and usually end up reading more than just one chapter every day.  The last week of break, one of the books that I checked off my list was To All the Boys I've Loved Before  by Jenny Han.  I had kind of half-watched the movie on Netflix with my roommate last year, but I didn't really pay attention or know what was going on so I basically took in nothing from it.  But everyone loved and raved about the movie so much that I decided to add the book to my reading list. Well after reading the first book, I decided to read the next two in the series, even though I wasn't originally planning on it.  And, to be honest with you, the first book in the series was actually my least favorite.  And my favorite book in the series was the last one, Always and Forever, Lara Jean .  I literally stayed up until ...

Reading is something that I have always loved to do, but unfortunately I don't get a lot of time to read for pleasure during the school year.  Now that it's summer, I'm trying to make a dent in my "To Read" list on Goodreads! The other day I finished my first book of the summer: What Alice Forgot  by Liane Moriarty.  She is also the author of Big Little Lies  which I read last summer and absolutely loved, and this book was just as good!  After reading these two, I definitely need to read more from her! This book is about a girl named Alice who is newly married, pregnant with her first child, and the next thing she knows, it's 10 years in the future.  She doesn't remember the last 10 years of her life, and she tries to figure out who she is in this new life that she knows nothing about. I was sucked into this book right away.  As a reader, you are just as clueless as Alice is about her new life, and learning everything along with her as she goe...

One of my New Year's Goals was to try and start reading more.  I absolutely love reading, but I never can fit in the time to read when I'm at school.  I use the app "Goodreads" ( highly  recommend by the way) and set a goal to read 20 books for the year of 2018.  I haven't been doing too well so far, but I read a lot during the summer, so I'm ready to meet my goal! I recently finished the book You Are A Badass  by Jen Sincero as part of my reading goal, and to kind of see what all of the hype for the book was about. Let me tell you, I loved  this book!  I've been in a mindset throughout 2018 to start doing things for myself and to do what makes me happy, and to not care what other people think about that.  This book preaches this mindset.  It made me even more motivated to get in touch with my "inner self", and gave some great tips for how to keep in that mindset, because sometimes it can be a struggle. It gave some great advice abou...