The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news: a post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. Borrowed from Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
This weekend started out rather exciting! On Friday morning I was in a zero gravity chair….and stretched just a bit too far. But I also happened to be right near the edge of a deck. I managed to do a back flip off the edge of the deck. I saved my cell phone and managed not to hit the brand new car parked just a foot away. Scraped the hell out of my back, arm, and knee. I could laugh about it Friday but oh was I sore! I spent the rest of the weekend relaxing and reading.
June is going to be a pretty busy month. We are going to Chicago at the end of the month to attend ALA! This will be my third ALA (but second annual ALA). Plus Lex and I will be reunited for a few days!! I am super excited! I’ve started a small list of priority books. This year my goal is to talk with more of the publishing staff and only pick up books that are on my list. I say this now but when you get near that many books it gets awfully hard to resist!
Here’s what we’ve been up to on the blog this week:
Previously on Once Upon a Chapter:
- [4 Jun] The Sunday Post {6/4/17}
- [5 Jun] Once Upon a Plaid by Mia Marlowe ★★★★
- [6 Jun] Task It Tuesday {6/6/17}
- [7 Jun] Discussion: How Long is Too Long to Comment?
- [9 Jun] Foodie Friday: Breakfast Monte Cristo
- [10 Jun] Black & Blue by Candice Fox, James Patterson ★★★
I picked up a ton of freebies this week:
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- The Substitute by Denise Grover Swank
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- The Start of Us by Lauren Blakely
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- Taken by Love by Melissa Foster
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- Reasonable Doubt by Whitney G
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- One Perfect Night by Bella Andre
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- Betrayal by Aleatha Romig
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- A Demon’s Promise by Kristie Cook
This week has been a hard reading week and I haven’t read nearly as much as I wanted to. I’m about a third of the way through this and I’m really enjoying. Can’t wait for things to start happening! 🙂
Still holding out on at least getting this one started. It appears it is going to be a contemporary week for me.
Michelle @Because Reading
I have never done ALA. Not even sure If I know what it is. *googles ALA*
Oh I see now, can anyone do the conference or only librarians? I want to be a librarian so bad, I wish that was on option or at least I knew it was an option in school. I don’t know why I didn’t think it was an option lol.
Good Luck resisting, it’s very hard. 😉
Have a great week, Stephanie! Happy Reading! ox
Stephanie
Yep! They have a thing called an “Exhibit Floor Pass” for $75.00 that allows you access to the exhibit floor where all the publishers and other vendors have their booths. They also have a midwinter conference. Each year it’s in a different part of the country. I wanted to be a librarian so bad too but there’s the bachelor’s degree and then two more years for library science. That was never in the cards for me. 🙁
It’s very hard when you have very excited publishers!
Nadene
I am sorry to hear that your reading week did not go well. I see you have acquired a nice collection. I hope you enjoy them. Happy reading.
Stephanie
I did get a nice new collection thanks in large part to you! 🙂 Hopefully this week will go MUCH better!
kimbacaffeinate
Reasonable Doubt looks good. Have a good time in Chicago! Hopefully, you stick to your plan. Have a wonderful week!
Stephanie
I’m hoping so! ALA is always a good time. 🙂 I’m hoping to connect with a more bloggers this year. I’m hoping to stick to my goals. I’d like to send home only two boxes not four.
Samantha
Hope you have fun at ALA! Sounds so exciting! So sorry about your fall (although it sounds like it would have been a sight to see!). Hope you are feeling less sore!
Have a good week!
Stephanie
I’m planning on it! It was very much a sight to see. Lol. I don’t think I’ve ever done a back flip before but I have now! Definitely less sore than anticipated but i have a wicked bruise.
Jane @ Raincity Librarian
I’m so jealous!! I’ve only been to one ALA, and that was only a Midwinter conference, so not even the big one. Why must they all be so far away?!?!?! :'(
Stephanie
It does seem like they stick to the bigger cities. We live about 4 hours away from Chicago so we can just hop on the train. Hopefully they’ll be near a bigger city near you soon! I think they have through 2018 (maybe 2019?) scheduled out to where they’ll be for both Annual and MidWinter sessions.
Greg
ALA sounds like a lot of fun. Even though I’m not a librarian it seems like it would be an interesting conference to attend. And yikes about the fall- glad it wasn’t too serious. Good job saving the cell phone. 🙂
Have a great week!
Stephanie
It is SO much fun! I don’t actually attend the conference part though. We just are on the Exhibit Floor. It would be like BookCon of Book Expo America I imagine. I’ve never been but can’t say it would solidly be the same. Me too! All I can remember thinking is “This is gonna hurt!” mid flip. Lol! Thankfully not too bad. As dumb as it sounds to say I’m just glad it was only me that was hurt just a bit and I didn’t manage to take anything else out with me!
herding cats & burning soup
Oh my gosh. Ouch ouch ouch! Hope you’re feeling all mended really soon! How fun on ALA!
Stephanie
Right? My arm looks like someone dropped a bottle of ink on it but it doesn’t hurt. For the most part it’s just a really funny story to tell now! I’m pretty excited. Just about a week and a half before we leave!
Amanda Shofner
STEPHANIE. I WILL BE AT ALA FOR WORK! I fly in Friday, June 23rd, and am there through Sunday. You should stop by to see me!
Sorry to hear about your fall. Wishing you a speedy recovery!
Stephanie
THAT IS THE BEST NEWS I GOT ALL DAY!! I am definitely going to be sure to stop by and see you. 🙂
It was funny about 30 minutes after it happened and could have been so much worse. 🙂 Hopefully the bruise clears up soon. I think I know now that I wouldn’t like a tattoo on my bicep. 😉