Book Edition & Mega Haul(Part Two!) #12 | & Father's Day♥

Mid-monthly News is a recap at Feminist Reflections of two weeks showcasing upcoming posts, recap, books I have read, book haul and other news!

It's inspired from Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews, and the Sunday Post hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

It will be a combination of book haul and my personal reflections.

• Hello June! It's been three weeks since I last updated with my mid-monthly posts, I can't always post them every week because I'm too busy these days..  The posts will too much so I will just highlight what were the most popular posts this June. Lots of books these past three weeks - I've already read some of these so I'll try including an update about the actual content of the book as well! Happy reading :)
• My birthday was on June 5, I turned 22 years old! No more forever 21 which is rather depressing. My mother surprised me in bed by singing "Happy Birthday" and giving me balloons. I spent the later of the day with family at home where I cut my ice cream cake. I would have taken pictures of the balloons, but they have almost died out now. 
• My older sister's birthday was this June as well, I would reveal her age but it's impolite to do that so let's just skip that. We're both Gemini's! We went by the lake and then to the Afghan restaurant that we all love. Our car actually broke down because my mother unintentionally left the headlights on which caused the battery to die, but later on we jump start it and it was fine. (LOL what a birthday!)
• I'm kind of in a blogging slump for the past week, I have tons of amazing ideas of reviews and discussion, but I just took a break from my laptop. It was more relaxing time for me, since I feel overwhelmed with all the review copy deadlines and college work. I'm much better now though & oh, yeah I'm still coughing. Now that much anymore, but it's still there.
• Happy father's day to all the amazing fathers out there as well as mine :)
• Ramadan has started on my end! Happy Ramadan Mubarak to those who are celebrating it - Ramadan is an 30 day fast that lasts a month. It starts with the dawn prayer at 3:45 a.m and it ends at 7:31 p.m. The timings change according to the sunrise and sunset. We're not allowed to eat, drink, abstain from music, sexual activity, profanity, and so on. The idea behind Ramadan is to keep our bodies pure and keep our minds humble when we fast, but also when the fast ends we shouldn't forget what we been doing - we also give a lot to charity, and the humbling part comes in when we realize the importance of simply water and food. We realize how the poor must feel and we thank Allah for everything he has blessed us with. It's a beautiful month, and it does reward you in the end with the Muslim Holiday Eid-Ul-Fitur and later Eid-Ul-Adha. We dress in our prettiest traditional clothes, in the morning we attend Eid prayers at the mosque. I find it really beautiful that 200 people bow down at the same time and pray together. Later, we go out with family and friends and stuff ourselves with the finest of the food at a hotel/restaurant. Our gatherings usually involve around 200 people, and trust me, the food is very diverse and delicious. We also hold rafflecopter giveaways and prizes and we don't play music there. There is a fee, but it depends. Sometimes the indvidual pays, other times the organizer does. It's not only for Muslims, if you have a non-Muslim friend who wants to come - they can. This is probably the day we binge eat because we've been abstaining from food and drinking for so long. 

6/28 Feminist Reflections Discussion: Book Dual of Similar concepts
1/4 Feminist Reflections Discussion: Underrated Books
1/6 Ten Mini Reviews
1/9 Book Tour: Hello, I Love You & Giveaway
1/11 Feminist Reflections Discussion: Want vs Need.
1/12 Broken Skies by Theresa Kay Review

6/22 P.S I Still Love You by Jenny Han
6/25 Feminist Reflections Discussion Topic
6/26 #Eight Mini Reviews Damage Done, Everything Everything, Delicate Monsters, I've Got Your Number, Devoted, Remembering Us, The Shattered Court, and Brutal Youth.

Thank you to St. Martins Press/Griffin, Kate Publicity, Penguin Teen, Amazon SKyscape, Abram Books, Soho Teen, HarperTeen, Luxury Reading, Simon & Schuster Teen, BloomHill Books, Albert Whitman Teen for the review copies! These are just so many to add the links for goodreads individually. I'll do the tags only for the ones I have read so far.

• Broken Skies: A treasure that is really underrated, I would really recommend. 4/5.
• More Happy Than Not: Yay to diversity in young adult books, a well-written book on LGBT.
• P.S I still Love You: I loved this one much more than the first one, although the concept of this four square is very cliche. 4.5/5
• Delicate Monsters: I'm not sure if I even understood this book, it wasn't for me. 2.5/5
• Damage Done: Well, this was one was amazing.. recommends for fans of Dangerous Girls.

Twenty-two books from my older sister on my 22nd birthday. She's the best! She actually wanted to buy me a professional canan/nikon camera that costed more than $500, but I asked for books instead. I love photography, I really do but I have no need for a super expensive camera as of right now - I will let her get that for me next year. Hey atleast, she was getting a bargain - the total for these books came out to be $150. The 22 books was really unintentional, she wanted me to buy 25 books, but I was taking forever to narrow it down and I chose 22 instead. (Ignore the bad quality of this picture). I've only read two of these books yet, I've Got Your Number(5/5) and The Shattered Court(2/5).

I borrowed these books below from the library actually, I have to do a separate tag for them later, feeling lazy right now. I have read most of these already, I tend to read library books faster than any other books.

• Pivot Point: Kasie West has done it again, the covers are gorgeous for this series, and I really liked the paranormal aspect of this book. 4.5/5
• Daughter of Smoke & Bone: I renewed this again, since I didn't get to finish it the last time.
• Princess of Thorns: So disappointed in this one when I loved the author's previous work. I'm quite fed up with the girl pretending to be a boy, please stop copying Mulan. 1/5
• Beauty Queens: I heard so much about this book, but it's just so weird, I didn't like any of the characters. 1/5
• The Orphan Queen: Defo.. not for me. It was very boring, and it offered nothing new. 1/5
• Fairest: The writing bored me.. It wasn't for me. 1/5
• Alienated Cliche, cliche cliche. SOO disappointed. Beautiful cover though. 1/5
• Obsidian: I'm not sure why people like the idea of a cocky, judgmental alien who thinks he "knows how you are" at first meeting.. I didn't like any of the characters at all. 1/5
• Graceling: I can't get into this series, it's very boring.
• Cinder: I just cannot get into this series, I DNF the first time, but then I tried it again and read more than halfway, and it's still a DNF. It's just boring for me, and it has nothing like the Cinderella concept. A Mechanical Cinderella? That's different, but the writing bores me. Pretty cover though. 1/5
• The Jewel: The first half was amazing, but in the second half, the insta love annoyed me and the romance was a disaster. 3.5/5

 The best book I've read this month would be I've Got Your Number, and the worst book I've read this month would be Obsidian. 

The series Shatter Me has been optioned for tv.. [Yikes! More action, less romance please]
Elizabeth Banks is directing the movie Red Queen.. (oh why please I hated RQ??)
Ellen DeGeneres will produce Uprooted(Omg yes yes! I love them both)
Christian Grey has his own book! I admit, I have a bit curious now.
Faye @ The Social Potato shares a hilarious Vampire Academy review with bubbles.
Amir @ Not So Literary discusses plagiarism is not a game and what's on her kindle(hilarious!)
Heidi @ Rainy Day Ramblings discusses what makes a memorable read?
Cait @ Paper Fury wants to guess what style of book cover do you love?
Jeann @ Hapy Indulgence Books wants a social media off button.
Lola @ Lola Reviews discusses what influences your enjoyment in books.
Jillian @ Jillian's Books shares new spotlight features including one on underrated books.
Mel @ The Daily Prophecy shares unpopular opinion tag.

What about you guys? What books did you get? 

Have you read any of these before?

Thank you for reading this! Have an amazing month of June - Leave your blog links in the comments & I'll be sure to check them out & drop by :) Stay in tuned pretty creatures..

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” —Nora Ephron 

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