Goodbye, October {a look back}

Oh wow look at this, Abby's writing a wrap-up.

SO. October is over.



Does anyone else feel like 2018 just started and it's already almost over?



Anyway...

Today we're looking back at October, which, to be honest, was a great month for me. 

What Happened:
~ We competed in another feis and it went really well!
~ My little sister turned 18 and I feel old.
~ We had like... three days of BEAUTIFUL WEATHER.  I wore a long-sleeved shirt!  With leggings!  What!!
~ We (my sister and I) started babysitting!  There's a lady who teaches pilates for parents at our dance studio so we watch her son and some other kids while that's going on and it's been really fun! When they're not screaming.  Yeah.
~ Uhhh… I don't know what else to tell you?  OH we put up our Christmas tree last weekend.  I know.  We're weird.


What I Read:

I read 8 books in October!!!  And they were all so good!!!

You can click right here to go to my Goodreads shelf, if you want a closer look at any of them.

(also, in a few weeks I'll have full reviews up for them on Goodreads but I'm way behind right now so I'm basically in a constant state of

with my Goodreads "rtc" shelf, lol)

~ The Summer We Got Saved ~
Wow.  I still don't know how to process this book and it's been a month.  It was extremely powerful, a story of family, determination, and hope in a time of such terrible prejudice.  It was one of those books that almost hurt to read but was so worth it.  It deeply affected me.  {I still haven't given this a rating, and I don't know if I will, tbh... it doesn't feel rate-able.}

~ Hangman's Curse ~
This was a re-read for me, but it was so worth it!  It only took me six hours to read, which is pretty great for me.  It was just as good as I remembered.  But I can't recommend the movie.  ALSO the cover GLOWS IN THE DARK!!! Which I didn't know until I turned the lights out one night to go to bed and was like "what is glowing" and it was the HARDCOVER OF THIS BOOK. WHAT.  {4 stars}

~ The Red Pyramid ~
Another re-read, and I loved it.  Ahh this series is so good.  Carter and Sadie are my kids, I've adopted them, it's done.  {5 stars}

~ A Certain Sort of Madness ~
AHHH THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING.  Seriously I found so many new faves this month!  This was one of them!  It was excellent, and my Goodreads review is pretty long, lol.  {5 stars}

~ The Storm Runner ~
This. book. was so funny.  Like, I laughed out loud so many times.  Zane is a good pure boy whom I love with all of my heart, Brooks is such a sassy queen, I learned so much about Mayan mythology and I just... I loved it a lot and I cannot wait for book 2.  Also the audiobook is fantastic, highly recommend! {5 stars}

~ Beyond Her Calling ~
THE CUTEST FLUFFIEST BOOK EVER. I LOVED IT SO MUCH.  {5 stars}

~ My Plain Jane ~
I loved this so much.  It was fun, it was funny, it had the perfect amount of spook and mystery, and tbh I liked it more than the first one.  So.  There's that.  But yeah, again, I loved all of the characters so much, and I loved seeing Jane Eyre turned on its head like this.  It was really great.  {5 stars}

~ The Screaming Staircase ~
Okay.  I finished this last night and was up 'til like... three in the morning because I needed to know what happened.  AH it was so good!  Lucy and Lockwood and George were such fascinating characters and I'm totally going to read the rest of the books because I loved it SO much.  {5 stars}

So, as you can see, I had a great reading month and I'm really happy about it. 




What I Listened To:

This was an eclectic month of music for me.  Basically if something randomly popped into my head, I put it on this playlist, lol! 


What I Posted:
I promise, guys, I'm going to try to get better about posting.  It's been hard.  But I have a few blog tours coming up so those, at least, are guaranteed :D  (not like that isn't all I've been posting lately hehehehe)
But this month I posted two book reviews/blog tours, for:
A Certain Sort of Madness
Beyond Her Calling

And that's about all from me!  Look, I did a wrap-up!  Who's proud?  I'm proud.



((I said this line to myself ironically last night and it seemed appropriate lolol))

~ Abby