He’s Peetalicious.
I read The Hunger Games series for the first time last year and obvious fell in love with the books (*cough*Peeta!*cough*) immediately. However, I don’t think my husband realized the depth of my love for them (*cough*Peeta!*cough*) until recently. Here are a few sample conversations from around my house.
Minimalist posters → Peeta Mellark
“You’re a painter. You’re a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
This is only solidifying my already major Peeta love.
(Source: theeverlarks)
March Recap
Holy cow! How in the heck is it already April?! I don’t know where all the time goes, but it goes so quickly and there is NEVER ENOUGH. March went pretty well (although quickly, as we’ve already established), and I read 12ish books. The ish is because one was just a short story so it probably doesn’t count, but I’m counting it because I’m the boss of this blog and 12 sounds better than 11.
One of the big things I did on the blog this month was join The Classics Club. Hosted by Jillian at A Room of One’s Own, I’ve made it my goal to read 70 classics in the next five years. Check out my sign-up post or the page I added to find out more!
The other HUGE March event was…. THE HUNGER GAMES MOVIE. Seriously. I die. I saw it twice in one day, but I haven’t written anything about it yet because I just haven’t been able to collect all my thoughts. There was so much I loved about the movie, but I did have a few minor quibbles. I have a major book crush on Peeta, but felt that movie took away some of his complexity. So I’m going to direct you to THE MOST AWESOME AND SPOT ON post about Gale & Peeta by Sarah Enni. I mean, seriously y’all, she perfectly identified the problems with Movie Peeta. And her bestie Danielle had me LOLing with her Movie Gale observations.
March was a really good month for reading because I LOVED several of the books I read. Stephanie Perkins’ Lola and the Boy Next Door and Lauren Oliver’s Pandemonium would probably take top billing as new favorites, but I also re-read The Hunger Games trilogy and those are some of my old favorites.
“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.” - Ally Condie, Matched
Review: Birthmarked by Caragh O’Brien
The Summary (from Amazon)
In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the wall and those, like sixteen-year-old midwife, Gaia Stone, who live outside. Gaia has always believer it is her duty, with her mother, to hand over a small quota of babies to the Enclave. But when Gaia’s mother and father are arrested by the very people they so dutifully serve, Gaia is forced to question everything she has been taught to believe. Gaia’s choice is now simple: enter the world of the Enclave to rescue her parents, or die trying.
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.
David Quammen (via prettybooks)
The End & The Beginning
As you have probably noticed, I haven’t blogged in a very long time. I just haven’t felt inspired lately. I started this blog just for fun, but I never really had a clear vision for where I wanted to go with it. I had been contemplating starting over for the past few months, and I just took the plunge! I have created a new (and much improved!) blog on Blogger. I debated the transfer to Blogger but decided it just made more sense for me because it was easier for me to customize it. So, without further ado, click to check out my new blog, so obsessed with.
There are several easy ways to follow my new blog - you can click the button at the bottom of my site to follow it through Google or you can follow it on Bloglovin’. Whatever your method, I hope you’ll follow along and enjoy the changes I’ve made!
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” — Nicole Krauss
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“She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones because when tired of them, the former could be shut up… and the latter were less manageable.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
