Unboxing: Uppercase Box August 2015

How to attach a ribbon bookmark to your book

Recently I received a custom ribbon bookmark designed to match the cover of Rebel Mechanics. I love how much it resembles its inspiration from the cover and I wished it was actually attached to the book. It got me thinking...how hard would it be to actually attach it? I discovered that it wasn't that hard at all!

Bookish Accessories: Frostbeard Studio Candles

Ask any of my friends - I have a strange obsession with smells. The moment I get a new book, I smell it. Not in a normal way...according to one of my friends it's almost obscene the way I smell books. I also have a "mild" obsession with candles. I have them all over my library. If I'm in there, there's a candle going. I've always said that somebody needs to make a candle that smells like new books (more specifically, new textbooks - best smell ever). While I still can't find a "new textbook" candle, I did come across Frostbeard Studio and their impressive catalog of other bookish smells.

Autumn Bookish Bingo

Welcome to Autumn Bookish Bingo! This card will be in play from September 1st through November 30th. If you'd like to play with us, either sign up in the comments or join our Goodreads group. The prize for this month is any September, October, or November new release.

Social Media Book Tag

Top 5 Required Reading

It's that time of the week again! Top 5 Wednesdays is the brain-child of gingerreadslainey. If you'd like to learn a bit more about Top 5 Wednesday, you can check out her Goodreads group and take a look at everybody who participates!

This week's topic is "top 5 favorite required reading". Required reading is a book that you were assigned to read while you were in school. The images I selected below are the actual editions of the books I read and not the current editions. These are the covers that I associate with these books.

BookTubeAThon Wrap Up

For as behind as I thought I was during this read-a-thon, I didn't do all that badly!

BookTubeAThon Update: Day 4

Day 4 went better than day 3! But I'm still not very good at this "read-a-thon" thing!

BookTubeAThon Update: Day 3

Well Day 3 didn't go well for me /shame.

BookTubeAThon Update: Day 2

Now that day 2 is over, my TBR is looking a bit smaller! I wonder if I'll be able to complete it!

BookTubeAThon Update: Day 1

Day 1 of BookTubeAThon is over and I feel like I got nothing accomplished!

Book Review: Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

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Title: Finding Audrey
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Series: none
Genre: YA - Contemporary
Original Release Date: June 9, 2015
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Pages: 304
Source: Uppercase Box
Rating: ★★★☆☆

Monthly TBR: August 2015

Apparently I'm not very good at monthly TBRs. I read one book from last month's TBR list. One. It's not like I didn't read, either. I managed to read 14 books in the month of July. So this month I'm going to go about my monthly TBR a bit differently.

Monthly Wrap-Up: July 2015

July was kind of a bittersweet month. I started out really strong in the beginning of the month, but then I hit a reading slump toward the end of the month. I must have started and put down 3 different books in the last week and a half.