Becoming a Bookworm

Reading for leisure and I have always had a very love/hate relationship.

Like the rockiest of rocky relationships... I taught myself how to read when I was three, so you'd think I would have at least been a bookworm when I was younger. Actually, I was the opposite. I was forever the teacher's nightmare having the highest AR level in the class paired with an overall distaste for reading. I didn't really have a distaste for reading as much as I had a distaste for being forced to read. In fifth grade, I found Harry Potter, which led me to a summer of nonstop reading until I finished the series. Middle school summers were filled with Nicholas Sparks romances and stereotypical teen books that really seem to all have the same story. Recently though, I haven't picked up a book except for the occasional "want to read it before I see the movie". But I really want to change that! 

I'm always too stressed and have "too much to do" for reading. But somehow I find the time to sit for hours staring at my computer screen. I feel like the times that I do read a lot are some of the chillest times of my life, though. And right now is pretty chill. The warp speed part of senior year is over and we can all just calm down for our last two weeks together. Today, I got a craving to go to the bookstore. Usually I steer clear of bookstores, along with office supply stores, because I spend way too much money. Nerd alert! But today I had an uncontrollable book craving. Here's what I picked up!

We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach

From Amazon-"Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth in this contemporary novel.

They always say that high school is the best time of your life.

Peter, the star basketball player at his school, is worried “they” might actually be right. Meanwhile Eliza can’t wait to escape Seattle—and her reputation—and perfect-on-paper Anita wonders if admission to Princeton is worth the price of abandoning her real dreams. Andy, for his part, doesn’t understand all the fuss about college and career—the future can wait.

Or can it? Because it turns out the future is hurtling through space with the potential to wipe out life on Earth. As these four seniors—along with the rest of the planet—wait to see what damage an asteroid will cause, they must abandon all thoughts of the future and decide how they’re going to spend what remains of the present."

They say don't judge a book by it's cover but I'm so guilty of this. Honestly I was drawn to this book because it looks like a group of friends just like mine. It was on the New Arrivals table and it just looked so familiar. I was iffy about buying it because I thought it looked like a cliche Breakfast Club remake, but I had a weird feeling that I should buy it. I looked online and it seems like this is a lot more than a Breakfast Club remake and I have a feeling I will be seeing it in theaters sometime. I can't wait to start reading this one!

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

From Amazon- "On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?"

I'm not a big movie girl, so there are so many movies I say look good and never see. This happens to be one of them. I've seen this book everywhere recently, including in the hands of some of my best friends, so I've been eyeing it for a while! This is what I originally went in for and ended up finding We All Looked Up on the way.

Can't wait to read these and share my thoughts about them with y'all! What are your favorite books currently?

P.S. Found the cutest new brand at Ulta today! I've never heard of Whish before but the little mini shaving cream in the checkout line was too cute to resist. Have any of you tried their products before?