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Weekly Round Up (01.08.12)

January 8, 2012

These were my 5 most listened to tunes from the last week, according to last.fm:

1. Carwars by Funeral Party
2. Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) by Gotye (have you seen this lovely cover? Or this mind blowing one?)
3. Shuffle by Bombay Bicycle Club
4. Lights Out, Words Gone by Bombay Bicycle Club
5. Beg (Bonus Track) by Bombay Bicycle Club

Starbucks | iTunes Pick of the Week: The Sound of Your Life by Jason Bajada. This song was very quickly added to my Mellow playlist (that I mostly listen to while reading). It’s a lovely little song along the lines of William Fitzsimmons or Iron & Wine.

“It’s Monday What Are You Reading” is a weekly event hosted by Sheila that lets you share books you’ve read over the past week and books you have coming up.

I haven’t done one of these posts since the middle of December (which I’ve just realized was dated as November in the title – whoops), so this is what you might have missed since then.

Finished:
Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle
The Magician’s Nephew by CS Lewis

Posted:
2011 Favs & 2012 Goals
Christmas Cheer & Bookish Goodies!
Cleaning up: Unreviewed books of 2011 Pt.1
Snippet Reviews: Vacation Reading

Currently Reading:
Harbringer by Sara Wilson Etienne
The Ruby in the Stone by Philip Pullman

Up Next: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

What are you reading and listening to? Did any new books find their way into your possession?

15 Comments leave one →
  1. Esme permalink
    January 8, 2012 9:06 pm

    I have always wanted to read CS Lewis’ other books.

  2. January 8, 2012 9:17 pm

    I’ve got Paper Town by John Green but haven’t read it. Have a great week and happy reading :)

  3. January 8, 2012 9:48 pm

    Not my genre but I do hope you enjoy them all.

  4. January 8, 2012 11:01 pm

    Happy New Year! My post reflects two weeks of reading. Please come see what I’m reading now.

  5. January 8, 2012 11:22 pm

    How are you liking A Ruby in the Stone? The tv movie that was made a few years back was enjoyable, but I’ve not tried the books for this series.

    I’m fixing to start Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close this week as well. Magician’s Nephew was fun. I read it after the recent Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe movie and got great joy imagining Tilda Swinton with the carriage

  6. January 9, 2012 12:39 am

    I can’t wait for your next review. I’ve very curious about that story.

  7. Rachel permalink
    January 9, 2012 5:10 am

    I have heard good and bad things about Will Grayson, Will Grayson. Interested to see what you thought.

    My Monday list: http://rachelreader.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-13.html

  8. January 9, 2012 5:38 am

    I have come across Will Grayson Will Grayson on a lot of book blogs now. I must look that one up. I loved the Narnia series. Are these a re-read? Hope you enjoy the rest of your week.

  9. January 9, 2012 7:28 am

    I hope you enjoyed The Magician’s Nephew. I really need to real all of Lewis’ books one day!

    It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

  10. January 9, 2012 7:29 am

    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is on my radar…thanks for sharing and enjoy your reads.

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  11. January 9, 2012 11:27 am

    Happy reading! We watched The Dawn Treader (Narnia) the other day and it was surprisingly good. Hope you enjoy The Magician’s Nephew!

  12. January 9, 2012 3:24 pm

    I can’t wait to see what you think of Harbringer. I think it looks so good!

  13. January 9, 2012 6:14 pm

    I have CS Lewis on my re-read list for this year. Can’t wait to visit those books again.

  14. January 9, 2012 8:41 pm

    Hope you have a wonderful week of reading!

    Here’s my post

  15. January 14, 2012 6:33 am

    Hi, I’m a new follower! *waves* Found you via a LibraryThing review.

    It’s strange, I was thinking about rereading the Narnia books just last week. The film was on TV and it was awful, so it kind of made me miss the proper versions. I know I’ve read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe hundreds of times but I can barely remember the others.

    I have Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close on my TBR – I bought it pretty much because I wanted to read it before the film comes out but I’ve kind of lost interest (mainly because I can’t quite remember what it’s meant to be about…).

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