Alli the Book Giraffe

Hello readers! Welcome to my first Sunday Post of July. I apoligize for the chaos on this post. I had a crazy week.

My schedule is super packed this month for posts. If I do WWW Wednesday, I’ll have a post every single day in July. I’m just feeling very motivated to blog lately.

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Personal Life

Well, it has been one crazy week. I am writing this at 4am right now. I lost power on Thursday, when this giant storm came through with 80 mph winds. I got this emergency notice on my phone 5 minutes before it happened, so we had no time to prepare at all. I was without power for almost 60 hours! In my 29 years on this earth, I haven’t gone more than 24 hours without power.

That wasn’t even the worst part! I also have a well, so I had no water for 60 hours either. Additionally, most people’s phones went out where I live. I couldn’t use the data on my phone, call, or even text people until Saturday evening.

Y’all would not believe how fast I jumped out of bed at 230 am when my power came on. I was asleep and jumped up so dang fast. My house was 80 to 90 degrees for almost the whole time and I felt disgusting without a shower for that long while I was constantly sweating. I spent most of my time fanning the dogs because they were suffering the absolute worst.

On the Blog Last Week

Monday – Down the TBR Hole

Tuesday – Tell Me Something Tuesday

Wednesday – July TBR

Thursday – Never Have I Ever Book Tag

Friday – Let’s Talk Bookish

Saturday – New Release Saturday

Coming Up This Week

Monday is my June Wrap Up, Tuesday is the first of three posts discussing books I was required to read in school, Thursday is the In or Out book tag, Friday is a Let’s Talk Bookish posts, and Saturday is a New Release Saturday.

Reading Update

I haven’t read much this week. I started A Court of Silver Flames! However, I only read 2 chapters. I was so miserably hot that I couldn’t focus much on it.

Before my power went out, I was reading What Happened to Rachel Riley. This is a middle grade book about a girl named Anna who attends a new school. Everyone there hates Rachel and she is investigating why.

There is a scene in this where a boy snaps the bra strap of a girl and that unlocked some memories from middle school for me. This entire book is about sexual harassment in middle school and how normalized it is. I forgot any of that happened to girls around me!

On My Shelf This Week

On Libby, the only other book I have is End of Watch. I have one other book I want to get to before reading it, but it’s coming up soon on the TBR.

What I Watched This Week

Before the power went out, I was still watching Naruto Shippuden with my husband. We were watching Naruto when the power went out. I think we are on season 5 at this point. I also started watching Sailor Moon. I never got into it as a kid and I’m making up for it now! I want to start watching an episode or two each night until I finish it.

The last thing I started was Summer Baking Championship. I’m so happy they made a summer version! Does anyone watch those shows? I really don’t care for the Halloween one, but I am caught up on all the others.

New Releases Coming Out This Week

If you didn’t see my post, yesterday I started a new series called New Release Saturday. It’s where I talk about new releases on Saturday that come out in the next week. Most of you guys voted last week that you wanted a unique post of new releases and I’m going to deliver for you!

As a result, this segment will no longer be in The Sunday Post!

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