Two birds one stone - I stumbled upon The Sunday Post Meme hosted by the lovely Caffinated Book Reviewer & the Stacking The Shelves meme hosted by the awesome Tynga's Reviews! It is quite similar to what I'm doing here with my Sunday musings - recapping the week in book blogging universe as well as letting you guys know about what books I bought or received.
Review: The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight By Jennifer E. Smith
A week after being on vacation is hard - my body and my mind are still trying to adjust back into my normal routine! As we leave May behind and enter June, my daily schedule is about to get more complicated! I decided early February this year that I wanted to fast-track a little with my university courses and so I enrolled in summer school! For the month of June I will be taking an intensive Observational Painting course at OCADu here in Toronto. I'm super excited and super nervous about the course mainly because I'm not sure where I stand amongst the group of painters I'll be around. I am officially in the Illustration program at my University but the Observational Painting course I'm taking is in the Drawing & Painting department. I hope the adjustment is not too dramatic and nothing I can't handle!
I guess I should mention here briefly what my focus is with illustration. There are three things I love to do and they are: to draw&paint, to read and to write. I had a dream once where I got the chance to paint the things I read and so born, was my goal of becoming a book cover artist. Still haven't worked out the nitty gritty on becoming 'successful' in this goal of mine but in the mean time I'm enjoying an education in something I love. If anyone wants a portrait painted of them - shoot me an email! If anyone's interested a link to my in progress online portfolio could be found HERE.
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This past week was the week of Book Expo America in New York City and yes I am kicking myself each day that goes by because I'm not there and couldn't plan my New York trip to coincide with the expo and con. I'll cross my fingers and pray that I make it NEXT year. For now I'll settle with reading all the awesome tweets about what's happening and seeing all the epic author photos going around Instagram and Twitter!
Did any of you guys attend Book Con? Did anyone meet Jesse Eisenberg? Any books that I should be made aware of and add to my TBR?
Posts From The Past Week:
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Final week photos of my #monthofmaybookchallenge on my Instagram:
24. Blue Books , 25. Books You Regret Buying
26. Books From the Past , 27. Book & Coffee
28. Book You Want to Live In , 29. Character You Envy
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I kind of splurged a little this week and bought this book beauty -
The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley By Jeremy Massey
I found this one first on a Waiting on Wednesday post a couple weeks back and I was so caught up with the synopsis. Definitely recommend checking this one out if you like mystery thriller fiction!
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That's it for now lovelies♥ Let me know how your week went in the comments below ;)
AS ALWAYS,
HAPPY READING &SUNDAY!
-SHERRY
It sucks that you couldn't get to NYC for all of the amazing bookish events! I was dying to go too, but oh well. There is a big YA festival happening in SC later in the year that I'm hoping to make it to! I hope you have a great week! :)
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I think it was on every book lover's radar to be there this week! Cheers to all those who couldn't make it there - we were there in the blogsphere ;P Thanks for stopping by lovely!
DeleteI'm also incredibly envious of Harry Potter and many of the characters in that series - oh to be a wizard. Your class sounds really interesting, I hope it's fun for you!
ReplyDeleteJust the life that he leads through the series - such adventure and self discovery! And being a wizard has got to be badass! Much thanks you kind lady! ♥
DeleteI wish I could go, fingers crossed for next year for me as well. Enjoy your course it sounds fantastic!
ReplyDeleteIf we both make it there next year - definitely should hit up some signings! & thank you for the kind words ;)
DeleteBEA was a lot of fun- I'm sorry you couldn't make it. It will be in Chicago next year, so hopefully it will work out for you. I think being a book cover artist would be amazing. Have you thought about doing covers for indie authors, to kind of get started/earn some money?
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p.s. thanks for visiting my blog! I always come and comment on your blog in return. :)
I would love to make it to Chicago next year - hopefully I do and get to meet some awesome bloggers like yourself! I just started looking at doing cover art for indie authors! I'm currently trying to read up on all of it! any suggestions ;)?
DeleteMuch thanks & love Lauren ♥