In My Life
This week I remembered the difference between semi-sweet and non-sweetened chocolate when baking. I meant to bake brownies for my sister because she asked me to bake a batch. Generally, I reduce the sugar content for all the recipes I use. Now, the recipe that I referred to didn’t state non-sweetened chocolate. Smart as I was, I still went ahead to reduce the sugar content by half. I ended up with something that is much more akin to very dark chocolate squares. Thankfully I poured chocolate chips into the batter, so my non-brownies still ended up balanced. Nonetheless, I think the recipe I ended up with is not for anyone who has a cocoa content threshold level below 75%.
Besides spending time in the kitchen for my baking adventures, I also went to the library to pick up a some of the more recent releases. I usually wait about two months before hunting for the newer books. This time round I decided to check the database for all the books on my TBR list that have already been published. Thankfully I did because some books came in much earlier than I expected, so I am very excited about my library book haul!
Lastest library book haul! Left: 2014 standalone releases. Right: 2014 sequel releases.
As with most weekends, I also had floorball training yesterday and a league hockey match today. If you’re curious about floorball, you can read more about it at Read Me Away where Ana interviewed me for her Bloggers Beyond Books feature this week.
On the Blog
Reviews
Blog Posts
- [13 May] In Response to #WeNeedDiverseBooks
- [14 May] My Love for Floorball
- [15 May] Relating to the ‘I’: Readers and First-Person Narratives
- [18 May] Retrospect #20: May 18th
Around the Blogosphere
Bloggers & Blogging
- Chiara @ Books for a Delicate Eternity raves about fan fiction.
- Asti @ Oh, the Books! encourages bloggers to try out new features to figure out what works for them.
Books
- Jennifer @ Live to Read, Love to Read wonders about a possible addiction to buying books.
- Marianne @ Boricuan Bookworms shares why she loves audiobooks.
- Shannelle @ The Art of Escapism wonders what bestseller lists and book covers would look like if gender bias didn’t exist.
Reading
- Alexa @ Alexa Loves Books talks about not finishing books because life is too short. She’d rather move on to another book that she’ll enjoy.
Rating & Reviews
- Jenna @ Rather Be Reading YA considers the place for spoilers in reviews.
- Asti @ Oh, the Books! defends readers’ rights to their opinions in reviews. Don’t apologise for not liking a book that so many others loved, and don’t put down others who don’t share your opinions on a book.
- Mel @ The Daily Prophecy is curious book ratings reflect the enjoyment level of having read a particular book.
Haha, just had to make a tweet about your and Tabitha’s comments of finding each other through our recap posts. We’re bringing the blogosphere together. Heck yeah! ;)
Thank you for linking to us, by the way! I know you generally do anyways since I helped inspired your little recaps, but the extra shout outs to our individual articles is also sweet. We appreciate it! (Or I do. I don’t know about the other two bloggers. But they’re not special like me so who cares? haha. Just kidding. Don’t tell them I said that >.>)
And yay for an awesome library book haul!
OH WAIT! I JUST NOW NOTICED THIS POST SAYS MAY 18TH. How the heck did that happen? I literally just went through our ping backs on the blog and it said you linked us within the last week and took me here. HOW STRANGE. Ah well, I already typed this comment out so enjoy it!
Oh oh wait, I think I know what happened. It’s because of the new blog name and stuff. It probably pinged us back for all the links and yet this is the latest one that appeared or something. Doh. Still, was worth it to see your and Tabitha’s bonding :P
haha you gotta love it when a plan comes together – hence me using Oh the Books recap posts to find new people. Maybe that’s how you found me? muuwhahah
Yep, it’s indeed all thanks to Oh, the Books! :)
I still need to freaking read The Archived – this year I SWEAR!!
I love recap and around the blog o verse posts cause yah I’m too lazy to do one myself!
You are right, Tabitha! YOU MUST READ THE ARCHIVED! :D
Haha. Yeah, I always love discovering new blogs through recaps. That’s how I found your blog too ;)
Hi! Thanks for mentioning my blog here! I see a lot of books here that I’m dying to read! Enjoy them all! :)
Gladly mentioned it! :) And I’m sure I will!
Ohhh I see Open Road Summer!!! I really hope you enjoy it; it was one of my favorites from this year so far :) And I haven’t read The Treatment yet, but I can’t wait to see your opinions!
7 books stand between me and Open Road Summer. Hahaha. I wasn’t really planning on reading it because I keep seeing the title pop up on Twitter and on my RSS feed but then it was staring right at me at the library, and I figured, I might as well. It’s new, it’s shiny and apparently a lot of people/bloggers loved it. I didn’t even read the synopsis. Lol. So I’ll be in for a surprise :)
I’m a little lukewarm about The Treatment. I thought The Program was alright but could’ve been better. But we’ll see. Maybe I’ll enjoy the sequel better.