{"id":3648,"date":"2019-07-21T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2021-05-29T13:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T17:42:32","slug":"weekly-wrap-up-july-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/weekly-wrap-up-july-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap Up | July 21, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my Weekly Wrap Up post! I link these posts up with <strong>The Sunday Post<\/strong>, hosted by Kimberly over at <a href=\"https:\/\/caffeinatedbookreviewer.com\/category\/sunday-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caffeinated Reviewer,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Stacking the Shelves<\/strong>, hosted by Tynga at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tyngasreviews.com\/search\/label\/Stacking%20The%20Shelves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tynga\u2019s Reviews<\/a>\u00a0and Marlene at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingreality.net\/category\/stacking-the-shelves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reading Reality.<\/a>\u00a0 For my Weekly Wrap Ups, I&#8217;ll recap what I posted, read, and watched this week, plus I&#8217;ll let you know about any current giveaways I have up. I&#8217;ll also tell you about recent updates on my TBR and new books I received and\/or bought. Okay, time to see what happened this week!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3505 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-this-week-on-kait-plus-books-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-this-week-on-kait-plus-books-002.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-this-week-on-kait-plus-books-002-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-this-week-on-kait-plus-books-002-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>On the Blog<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t post last week&#8217;s wrap up (thanks endo), or really any other posts that weren&#8217;t already scheduled. But this week I will do better! So this week is a recap of the last two weeks. Probably the most noticeable thing on the blog is that I changed parts of the design! (again!) The colors are more obvious in all of the posts (and they have gradients!!!), I changed my canva image (seriously, love <a href=\"http:\/\/canva.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">canva<\/a>), I made my own post divider!!!, and I added a second layer behind all the typography so it ~pops~ more! Let me know what you think of everything in the comments!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-just-my-luck-jennifer-honeybourn-interview-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interview with Jennifer Honeybourn, author of <em>Just My Luck (<\/em><strong>+Giveaway!<\/strong><em>)<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/top-ten-tuesday-july-16-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY<\/strong> aka Kait&#8217;s Auto Buy Authors (<em>Top Ten Tuesday<\/em>)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/cant-wait-wednesday-july-17-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>GIVE ME ALL THE BOOKS<\/strong> (<em>Can&#8217;t Wait Wednesday<\/em>)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/magical-readathon-2019-tbr-august-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magical Readathon 2019: N.E.W.T.s #TBR <em>(which is already wrong, so at least I&#8217;m on theme?)<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/cover-reveal-deadly-little-scandals-by-jennifer-lynn-barnes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cover (Redesign) Reveals for <em>Deadly Little Scandals<\/em> and <em>Little White Lies<\/em> by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (<strong>+Giveaway!<\/strong>)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/24in48-readathon-tbr-updates-july-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#24in48 Readathon (which is still happening when this post goes up, so keep reading for more updates!)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/pagmwu-KY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interview with Sarah Henning, author of <em>Sea Witch Rising<\/em> (<strong>+Giveaway!<\/strong>)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Off the Blog<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>IT&#8217;S SO HOT OUT I CAN&#8217;T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS LIKE BEFORE THIS OMG.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of StarKid, which is hard because it makes me think about a person who is no longer in my life, but I love the music and the people behind it so much I&#8217;ve been listening anyway?<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s literally been my whole week. Like I&#8217;ve gone to work, read, and listened to Starkid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-currently-reading-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-currently-reading-002.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-currently-reading-002-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-currently-reading-002-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Currently Reading\/Listening To:<\/strong> <em>No Place Like Here<\/em> by Christina June. MY REVIEW IS GOING UP ON THURSDAY AND I STILL (as of late Saturday night) HAVEN&#8217;T FINISHED READING THIS BOOK. oops. The weirdest part is that I LOVE what I&#8217;ve read so far?? So I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m not just finishing this book. Ugh. Hopefully I&#8217;ll finish this weekend with the readathon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Currently Listening To:<\/strong>\u00a0<i>Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Ship of the Dead <\/i>by Rick Riordan, read by Michael Crouch. I&#8217;ve been chronicling my feelings towards the narrators on goodreads, but basically this is the third book and he&#8217;s definitely my second favorite out of the three.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-just-finished-001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-just-finished-001.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-just-finished-001-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-just-finished-001-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just Finished Reading:<\/strong> There continues to be nothing to put here this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Just Finished Listening To:<\/strong>\u00a0<i>Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor <\/i>by Rick Riordan, read by Kieran Culkin. This was definitely my favorite narration of all three books!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-up-next-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-up-next-002.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-up-next-002-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-up-next-002-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Books:<\/strong> <em>Hello Girls<\/em> by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry is the next book on my list! Hopefully I&#8217;ll finish <em>No Place Like Here<\/em> this weekend and then I can read this before August and N.E.W.T.s time!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audiobooks:<\/strong> I&#8217;m already on the third Magnus Chase book, so I figure I&#8217;ll be all done with these in a week or two. I have no idea what I&#8217;ll listen to next!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-stacking-the-shelves-001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-stacking-the-shelves-001.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-stacking-the-shelves-001-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-stacking-the-shelves-001-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Recent ARCs<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3665 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-arcs-002-1024x514.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-arcs-002-1024x514.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-arcs-002-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-arcs-002-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/july-arcs-002.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<strong>Diamond City<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/francesca-flores\/\">Francesca Flores<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/series\/diamond-city\/\">Diamond City #1<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  January 28, 2020 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/wednesday-books\/\">Wednesday Books<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/fantasy\/\">Fantasy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 400 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/41721210-diamond-city\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p><b>Welcome to Diamond City, where secret magic could save your life or get you killed.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Aina Sol\u00eds, whose wit is as sharp as her blade.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At twelve years old, Aina Sol\u00eds was pulled off of the streets she slept on and trained to be one of the most feared assassins in Sumerand, a kingdom founded by immigrants and built by magic\u2015and in recent years transformed by an industrial revolution. When Aina is given the most lucrative and dangerous job of her career\u2015killing a wealthy industrialist named Kouta\u2015she knows it\u2019s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to leave her impoverished roots in her past once-and-for-all: the payout is enough to free her from under her boss Kohl\u2019s thumb. But when the job goes wrong and Kouta escapes, she is left without a penny to her name and in the crosshairs of Kohl, who is eager to show the world what happens to those that fail him.<\/p>\n<p>With Kohl on her heels, Aina is running out of time to find Kouta and finish what she started. But the closer she gets to killing him, the more she begins to ask the questions assassins are never meant to ask: who wants Kouta dead? And why? In a city full of half-constructed subway tunnels, hidden magical dens, secret weapons markets, and wolf-sized spiders, Aina discovers a conspiracy that could rewrite her city\u2019s history and\u2015if it isn\u2019t stopped\u2015sink her country into a catastrophic war.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2019-07-21T11:00:01+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Welcome to my Weekly Wrap Up post! 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While the Spell Walkers and other celestials are born with powers, specters take them, violently stealing the essence of endangered magical creatures.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton wishes he had a power so he could join the fray. Emil just wants the fighting to stop. The cycle of violence has taken a toll, making it harder for anyone with a power to live peacefully and openly. In this climate of fear, a gang of specters has been growing bolder by the day.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in a brawl after a protest, Emil manifests a power of his own\u2014one that puts him right at the heart of the conflict and sets him up to be the heroic Spell Walker Brighton always wanted to be.<\/p>\n<p>Brotherhood, love, and loyalty will be put to the test, and no one will escape the fight unscathed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2019-07-21T11:00:01+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Welcome to my Weekly Wrap Up post! 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When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.<\/p>\n<p>But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship\u2019s hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family.<\/p>\n<p>To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she\u2019s built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2019-07-21T11:00:01+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Welcome to my Weekly Wrap Up post! 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It's inevitable\u2014each of her relationships starts with the perfect guy and ends with him falling in love . . . with someone else. But instead of feeling sorry for herself, Megan focuses on pursuing her next fling, directing theater, and fulfilling her dream college's acting requirement in the smallest role possible.<\/p>\n<p>So when she\u2019s cast as Juliet (yes, <i>that<\/i> Juliet) in her high school\u2019s production, it\u2019s a complete nightmare. Megan\u2019s not an actress, and she\u2019s used to being upstaged\u2014both in and out of the theater. In fact, with her mom off in Texas and her dad remarried and on to baby #2 with his new wife, Megan worries that, just like her exes, her family is moving on without her.<\/p>\n<p>Then she meets Owen Okita, an aspiring playwright inspired by Rosaline from Shakespeare's <i>R+J<\/i>. A character who, like Megan, knows a thing or two about short-lived relationships. Megan agrees to help Owen with his play in exchange for help catching the eye of a sexy stagehand\/potential new boyfriend. Yet Megan finds herself growing closer to Owen, and wonders if he could be the Romeo she never expected.<\/p>\n<p>In their fresh and funny debut, Emily Wibberly and Austin Siegemund-Broka break down the high school drama to find there's always room for familial love, romantic love, and\u2014most importantly\u2014self-love.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2019-07-21T11:00:01+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Welcome to my Weekly Wrap Up post! 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It\u2019s no surprise she\u2019s queen bee at her private L.A. high school\u2014she\u2019s beautiful, talented, and notorious for her cutting and brutal honesty. So when she puts her foot in her mouth in front of her crush, Andrew, she fears she may have lost him for good. <\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to win him over, Cameron resolves to \u201ctame\u201d herself, much like Katherine in Shakespeare\u2019s The Taming of the Shrew. First, she\u2019ll have to make amends with those she\u2019s wronged, which leads her to Brendan, the guy she labelled with an unfortunate nickname back in the sixth grade. At first, Brendan isn\u2019t all that receptive to Cameron\u2019s ploy. But slowly, he warms up to her when they connect over the computer game he\u2019s developing. Now if only Andrew would notice\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But the closer Cameron gets to Brendan, the more she sees he appreciates her personality\u2014honesty and all\u2014and wonders if she\u2019s compromising who she is for the guy she doesn\u2019t even want.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2019-07-21T11:00:01+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Welcome to my Weekly Wrap Up post! 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While they're at it, they helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know about, from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes. With equal doses of humor and delight, they invite us to see the universe as a vast expanse of mostly uncharted territory that's still ours to explore.This entertaining illustrated science primer is the perfect book for anyone who's curious about all the big questions physicists are still trying to answer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2019-07-21T11:00:01+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Welcome to my Weekly Wrap Up post! 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What have you been up to this week? Anything important happen?\u00a0Did you have any posts that didn\u2019t get a lot of attention this week? I\u2019d love to check them out! 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