July in Review

Another month gone, eek! Unfortunately I didn't get many reviews done this month, mainly because I spent two weeks trying to slog through A Romanov Fantasy by Frances Welch and didn't do any other reading in that time. It's not a bad book, but pretty slow going, and when I finally made it half way through I decided not to force the rest and instead pick it up here and there while I'm reading other books. I don't usually like to have more than one book going, but it's non-fiction so it makes it a little bit different, I suppose. Anyhoo, it's still been a busy month!

I read and reviewed...

• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (I also watched the 1939 and 1995 movie versions as part of the Books to Movies Challenge).
• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (My fave book of the month!).
• The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock.
• Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma.

I swooned over...

• Mr Darcy. 
• Etienne St Clair.
• Mr Thornton.
• Noah Calhoun.
• Cross Sugarman.
• The Vampire Academy boys.
• More hot vamps.
• My fave Jane Austen heroes.
• The Harry Potter guys.

The reading icons I admired were...

• Grace Kelly.
• James Dean.
• Judy Garland.
• Natalie Wood.
• Disney's Belle.

I listed my top five...

• Secondary Harry Potter characters.
• Living authors I'd love to meet.
• Love lessons from fictional boys and TV shows and movies that scared me as a kid in guests posts at The Uniblog.

Some bookish things I wanted to buy...

• True Blood goodies.
• Beautiful bookmarks.
• Harry Potter merch.
• Pretty prints.

Other fun stuff: I celebrated reaching 200 followers with my first giveaway (which is still open!); Got addicted to Tumblr; Had some hilarious incoming search terms; Compared the two upcoming Snow White adaptations; Loved Emma Stone in Vanity Fair and Entertainment Weekly and Mila Kunis with Justin Timberlake in Elle; and had Crystal from The Uniblog pop by for two guest posts on Batman (read part one here and part two here).

How was July for you?

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