What I’ve been up to in June ☀️ Internship, Finding a Master Thesis & Tackling my TBR

Hello fellow bookworms ☀️ We’ve officially reached the halfway point of the year 😱 June went by much quicker compared to May and didn’t feel as eventful, as I was mostly focused on my master thesis topic. We got some sunny weather after all, so I spend time outside and finally ate some ice cream 🍦

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🔁 = Reread 💌 = Library Books ⌛ = Digital Arc

📚 = #TackleYourTBR 📖 = #DevourYourTBR 😊 = Buddy Read 💕 = 12 Book Recs by Friends

I read 15 books in June – it was a really good reading month!! 🥳 I participated in #ClearUrSht, a month-long Readathon dedicated to reading your owned books and it was a lot of fun 💕 One of my goals this year was to get down my Owned TBR and this Readathon helped me give an extra push! I mostly read books I hauled this year, but that means that I have read around 70% of the books I got in 2022!! 😎 I also tackled two books that I have been putting of for years and I’m close to finishing the Shadow Game series. In total, I read 12 of my owned books! The rest were 2 library books and 1 reread. Audiobooks and lots of reading motivation helped me tackle many amazing books. I had 3 new 5-star reads this month!! 🥰

I read 9 books out of my comfort zone this month! I found books that I really enjoyed (including 2 nonfiction books) and 4 books that didn’t 100% convince me. Ace and The Quiet at the End of the World were definitely the highlights of this month 💕

• Ace (Angela Chen) ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 📖💌🎧
• A Court of Wings and Ruin (Sarah J. Maas) ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5📚🎧
• The Sun Down Motel (Simone St. James) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 📚
• Mediocre (Ijeoma Oluo) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 📚
• The Quiet at the End of the World (Lauren James) ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 📚📖

• A Gathering of Shadows (V.E. Schwab) ⭐⭐⭐.5 📚📖🎧
• A Conjuring of Light (V.E. Schwab) ⭐⭐⭐.5 📚📖🎧
• Love & Other Disasters (Anita Kelly) ⭐⭐.5 📚📖
• Across a Field of Starlight (Blue Delliquanti) ⭐⭐.5 📖💌

1. What’s Not to Love (Wibberley & Siegemund-Broka) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐📚

2. Between You, Me and the Honeybees (Amelia Diane Coombs) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐📚💕 {Recommended by Marie}

3. King of Fools (Amanda Foody) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐📚📖

4. A Court of Wings and Ruin (Sarah J. Maas) ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5📚🎧

5. Tokyo Ever After (Emiko Jean) ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5📚🎧

6. The Quiet at the End of the World (Lauren James) ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 📚📖

 

7. The Sun Down Motel (Simone St. James) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 📚

8. Mediocre (Ijeoma Oluo) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 📚

9. The Strangeworlds Travel Agency (L.D. Lapinski) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 📚

10. A Gathering of Shadows (V.E. Schwab) ⭐⭐⭐.5 📚📖🎧

11. A Conjuring of Light (V.E. Schwab) ⭐⭐⭐.5 📚📖🎧

12. Love & Other Disasters (Anita Kelly) ⭐⭐.5 📚📖

13. Ace of Shades (Amanda Foody) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🔁

14. Ace (Angela Chen) ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 📖💌🎧

15. Across a Field of Starlight (Blue Delliquanti) ⭐⭐.5 📖💌

Favorite Books 💕

📚 Bingo Board Update 📚

I participated in the Books out of the Blue Bingo (a 2-month-long Discord server challenge by Destiny) this month and here is my filled-out board! 🥰

What I’ve been up to in May 🌸 Internship, Thesis & Lots of Books ~ Recommendations for Pride Month 🌈 Romance, Fantasy & More 

Get to Know the Fantasy Reader Tag ✨ Recs & Origin Story ~ My Favorite Mangas 💕 feat. What’s On My TBR ~ Mid Year Book Freakout Tag ⭐ 2022 Edition

For this section of my wrapup I’m linking up with the Favorite Blog Posts of the Month Meme that has been created by Kristin @ kristinkravesbooks to showcase our favorite blogs of the month! 💗

• Let’s Talk! Pride Month Edition | Why we need more queernorm worlds & The Pride Month Megapost PART ONE | Where I list every queer book I’ve EVER read (Abi @ Scribbles and Stories)
• Top Ten Tuesday: Give Me More Books in These Universes! & Book Lists: Favorite Queer Books by Latinx Authors (Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense)
• Tag Time: The Last Book I… & June Hopefuls (including an exciting bingo TBR!) & Summer 2022 TBR (and a look back at my spring progress) [Top 10 Tuesday] (Destiny @ howlinglibraries)
• i woke up at 6̶A̶M̶ 7AM every day for a week + the first thing i did was read: an experiment *fail lol* (Ellyn @ allonsythornraxxbooks)
• 8 Must-Read Sapphic Books (Kal @ readervoracious)
• 9 Years of Blogging – some reflections and a Q&A! (Kat @ lifeandotherdisasters)
• my favorite (straight) fictional ships for dia dos namorados (Lais @ thebookishkies)
• Weekly Reading Update #7 – June 5, 2022 (Lay @ bookshelfsoliloquies)
• Unread Books I Own (Maria @ The Character Study)
• 10 YA Books Like The Summer I Turned Pretty To Read Next & Matching Your Summer Reads To Your Holidays (Or The Holidays You Want To Have) & 10 Underrated YA Books To Read For Pride Month & 10 Most Anticipated YA Books For The Second Half of 2022 (Marie @ drizzelandhurricanebooks)
• Mid Year Book Freakout Tag (Morgan @ morganisreadingagain)
• FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL & MAY RECAP // i’m back! ft. uni was a lot, many essays, new fave books, mental health updates & ST4 (Ruby @ rubyraereads)
• My Least Favorite Bookish Tropes & Reading and Reviewing Books With Low Average Ratings & Ten Years On My TBR: 2012 Releases & Sabrina’s 2022 Mid-Year Reading Goals Check In & Book Recommendations Based on My Favorite Fanfiction Tropes (Sabrina & Veronika @ wordyandwhimsical)
• recs: my favourite sapphic novels (Saima @ storieswithsaima)
• Stranger Things Book Tag | read if you’re searching for a manipulative villain or strange setting & My Anticipated Adult Books for July-December 2022 & My Anticipated Young Adult Books for July-December 2022 (Sophie @ Me and Ink)
• Underrated (<10k ratings) Queer Books that You Need to Read (Tasya @ theliteraryhuntress)

June went by so fast. It was mostly focused on getting my Master’s thesis topic, something that started last month and took literal ages 🙈 That made it a stressful experience, as I had different interviews and every department had different deadlines. The responsibility to find a topic was all on me and in the middle of the month, I finally got a concrete offer! It’s going to be an online study about movement and health, but I still don’t know the details. You work on the topics in small groups and since everyone else is still searching for topics (and hasn’t committed yet), I don’t know my teammates. A lot is up in the air, but I’ll probably know more in the coming months. It was a relief to finally have a topic and not have to worry! This was pretty much my focus this month 😅 I did some nice things like meeting friends, having a picnic, and spending some time outside though!

💫 What I Watched in June 💫

 

• Stranger Things (S4.1) ~ This might be an unpopular opinion, but I like the later seasons a lot more than the first one 😂 I really had a good time with the first part of season 4 and I cannot wait for the second part to come out tomorrow 🥳
• First Kill (S1) ~ Forbidden Love between a vampire and a vampire hunter – but make it sapphic!! This is a fantastic teen drama with lots of heart and I had such a good time watching it! It was well-written and I’m always here for more vampire content (especially with LGBTQ rep= 🥰
• As the Crow Flies (S1) ~ A Turkish Netflix Original about an intern at a newsroom who wants to take over the show and become famous. This was such an interesting drama full of twists and intrigue – nothing groundbreaking but fun to watch 😄

I cannot believe it’s already July! My internship will be ending soon and after that, it’s time to take some time off and relax 😊 I’ll be taking a week completely for myself and also have a short 4-day trip planned (visiting a German city at a lake) 🛍️ Apart from that I don’t have any big plans, there’s still more planning to be done for my thesis but idk when we’ll start with that, it depends on a lot of factors! Regardless, I’ll be making some use of the summer days ahead and of course read lots 😄

📚 #DevourYourTBR 📚

This month’s challenge is to read books about “journeys and adventures, vacations, and books that take place outside of your country“.

© DevourYourTBR

• The Roughest Draft (Wibberley & Siegemund-Broka) 📚
• Beach Read (Emily Henry) 💌🎧
• In Deeper Waters (F.T. Lukens) 💌

📚 Some Leftover June Reads 📚

• You’d Be Home Now (Kathleen Glasgow) 📚
• The Library of the Unwritten (A.J. Hackwith) 📚
• Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Elle Cosimano) 📚

What were you up to in June? What was your favorite book? How are you doing? 📚

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