Weekly Wrap-Up: March 14-18
Hello friends! Whew! What a busy week this was!
First of all, I had a BLAST at the SE-YA Book Festival! SO MUCH FUN!
Monday and Tuesday were our only 'normal' school days. Wednesday, our boys basketball team played in the state quarterfinals and WON, so our school let the kids (and some of us teachers!) out at 11:45 to head to the game. Thursday, we began this standardized testing mumbo jumbo, so I was stuck in the cafeteria for the first half of the day on supervision duty (aka grading papers and helping a teacher beat this Wordbrain level). The second half of the day I actually had to give a test, so no classes were really held. We had parent-teacher conferences that night too, so basically Thursday was the LONGEST. DAY. EVER. And today, our boys went back to compete the semifinals and I am bummed they lost 46-41! We did get to leave at 10 though, but we all had to be back by 2:15. (Yeah, the majority of the kids didn't bother to show. LOL)
But guess what?! Spring Break starts on Thursday at 3:45! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :) I'll be pretty busy getting some things done, but I'm hoping to get some good reading in as well!
Monday: The Monday Musts: Searching For Someday and Perfect, Zara Larsson, SE-YA books!
Tuesday: REVIEW: Hawke by Sawyer Bennett (3.5 stars)
Wednesday: W...W...W...Wednesday: Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry, Out of Frame by Megan Erickson, On an Edge of a Glass by Autumn Doughton
Friday: REVIEW: Out of Frame by Megan Erickson (4 stars)
MORE SE-YA BOOK FESTIVAL FUN
Adam Silvera and Lauren Oliver
(They were a great pairing. I loved them together!)
Lauren Oliver
Victoria Schwab
Victoria Schwab, Gwenda Bond, Beth Revis, Kristin Tubb
(OMG this panel was hilarious. Note to self- do not get invested in any of their characters just in case they kill them off. That's their thing, apparently!)
Bookish SQUEES! of the Week:
I have three this week because I am SO excited for them! Thank you Sourcebooks, Spencer Hill Press, and Nina Bocci for these!
16 comments
The book event sounds like it was a lot of fun and school sounds like it was busy busy busy! I'm excited for you to be on spring break already! :) You deserve that break.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like there were some great authors too at the event.
I hope you enjoy all your books this week!
Happy reading, Jess and have a good weekend!
The festival was great! I am so happy it was a success! And yes! School has been SO crazy! Next week isn't AS crazy, but still more so than I'd like. After that, we have spring break and things will settle down. I'm so excited for some R&R!
DeleteYAY for more bookish event fun :D This year I shall be living vicariously through everyone attending, since for the first time in 3 years, I won't be hitting up BEA. So keep 'em coming XD Happy weekend Jessica^^ x
ReplyDeleteI had so much fun Micheline! I'll be doing the same for people going to BEA! I'll be sad I'm missing everyone!
DeleteSchool sounds CRAZY busy! Congrats to the boys. That's super exciting. I loved how the whole school would rally around the teams when they were in playoffs. It's so much fun. All that school spirit! It's a bummer they didn't go further, but they should be really proud of their accomplishments regardless!
ReplyDeleteI have all THREE of the books you mentioned and I can't even tell you which I'm most excited about. I think the answer is ALL OF THEM!
Have a great week, lady!
OMG girl. You have no idea. I'm so exhausted. Mentally and physically! LOL. I love that we had the opportunity to play in the state tourney again, but it really does mess with getting work done. LOL. Oh well. We have no shot clock at the HS level, so the team we played Friday just held the ball forever, which caused the loss.
DeleteI hope we love all three of those books!!!!
Yes I can't wait for Defending Taylor and Paper Princess, too! The book festival is still so freaking awesome!! Glad you had such a great time!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Eva! I had a blast! I miss getting to go to bookish events! And I hope both Miranda and Elle/Jen's books are amazing!
DeleteThe festival looks so fun. I'd love to go to one if they ever hold it near my area. Yeah for spring break. I hope you have a blast!
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Thanks Laura! I'm so in need of a break. LOL. And yes! I love festivals. They are wonderful!
DeleteI love your Se-YA pics so so much. It looks like such a wonderful event! So many awesome authors!
ReplyDeleteThey did a great job of bringing some great authors in! I hope it's just as awesome next year!
DeleteOh boy... Gwenda and Victoria! I'm beyond jealous of you! I so want to meet Victoria one day!!
ReplyDeleteAnd hooray for spring break and some reading!!
Those two cracked me up! They worked SO WELL together! The whole panel did! And yes! Spring Break is going to be everything!
DeleteLooks like you had a fun and crazy week! And it looks like you had an amazing time! AH! So glad! I also need to pick up The Natural History of Us!
ReplyDeleteHappy reading
I had such a great week Magen! It was so fun but I am so happy that it's over. LOL. I'm so excited for another Rachel book!
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