Sunday Post. The Chaotic-ness is Back

Sunday Post is a meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviews.

Hello bookworms! How are you doing? I know, I know: long time, no see. Once again, life has been chaotic. However, this time, life has been chaotic in a good way. I spent the last three days attending a conference, as speaker and staff. It was busy and tumultuous and, in the end, I felt exhausted, but I got to meet an American professor/researcher that also studies YA dystopias and it was so exciting! 😄

This week in my life:

🌻 Last Friday, I presented my paper about YA Frankenstein retellings. I discussed Cadaver & Queen by Alisa Kwitney and The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White. I did receive some good feedback, but I'm still unsure about my presentation.
🌻 I'll be defending my thesis in sixty days time. *freaking out*

🌻 I haven't been binge watching any series as of late. Any recommendations?
🌻 I started reading The Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean and, so far, I'm quite enjoying the world building. 💛    

🌻 Something great happened this week, but I don't want to share it yet, because I still can't believe it has happened and I don't want to jinx it.

• Due to having such a turbulent week, my blog hasn't been updated. I posted my last discussion post in May and I shared with you things that I do for self care. This was my final post (for now) regarding my mental health awareness month series.

Again, I didn't have much time to blog hop, but here some discussion posts that I caught my attention (even if I've yet to drop a comment): 

• @Beware of the Reader discussed do and don't in Young Adult fiction.

• Nicole @Feed Your Fiction Addiction wonders if books have ruined films for her.

• Norrie @Reading Under the Blankie questions what happened to creativity regarding book covers. 

 

 

This was unexpected. I mean, I requested The Resurrectionist of Caligo by Wendy Trimbole and Alicia Zaloga many weeks ago. I no longer had hopes for my NetGalley request to be approved and this week, while I was attending the conference, I received an e-mail approving my request. Of course, I could not do my happy dance. 😜 This book seems to unlikely from anything I've read before, so I'm very excited about it.

How was your bookish week?

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