February was such a busy month for us! Here are some of the highlights:
- We celebrated my mom's 60th birthday with a bunch of fun activities - a paint and sip class, some charity work with Project Linus, and a dinner out with the family. For her gift, we put together a photo album which contained some fun photos from our childhood and more recent ones with her grandkids, interspersed with 60 memories curated by my siblings and me. It was a big hit!
- We went to the movies twice: Maze Runner: The Death Cure and Black Panther.
- We celebrated a low-key Valentine's Day at home with takeout and Netflix.
- Tom and I visited the Book Art: A Novel Idea exhibit at the Morris Museum. The exhibit wasn't huge, but it was pretty cool to see what the artists had done with books that were going to be recycled. Here are a few photos from the exhibit:
The Books:
Sisters First (review to come) // Glitter // The Shadow Queen (review to come) // As You Wish (review to come)
Girls Made of Snow and Glass (review to come) // Water for Elephants // Ask An Astronaut (review to come) // The Space Between the Stars (review to come)
Paper Princess // The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper (review to come)
The Posts and Reviews:
Review: Wild Bird
TBR Book Tag
Mini-Reviews: Sister, Sister
Quotables #7: Love Is In The Air
Try It, You Might Like It #8: Science
Review: Miss You
5 Historical Fiction Books About First Ladies
TV Shows I'm Obsessed With Lately #5
5 Reasons Why You'll Love "Something Like Happy"
Why I Don't Really Talk About My Blog in Real Life
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Could Reread Over and Over and Over...
TBR Book Tag
Mini-Reviews: Sister, Sister
Quotables #7: Love Is In The Air
Try It, You Might Like It #8: Science
Review: Miss You
5 Historical Fiction Books About First Ladies
TV Shows I'm Obsessed With Lately #5
5 Reasons Why You'll Love "Something Like Happy"
Why I Don't Really Talk About My Blog in Real Life
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Could Reread Over and Over and Over...
The Posts I Loved:
Cam at Camillea Reads talks about social media and introverts
Aj at Read All The Things! lists all the weird things she's found in used books
Lindsey at Lindsey Reads discusses online friendships within the blogging community
Kristin at Kristin Kraves Books gives her thoughts on book endings
Marie at Drizzle and Hurricane Books talks about why and how you should support book bloggers
Anna at Read and Repeat ponders whether shorter reviews are better than longer ones
Jamie at The Perpetual Page-Turner talks about being a beginner
Aj at Read All The Things! lists all the weird things she's found in used books
Lindsey at Lindsey Reads discusses online friendships within the blogging community
Kristin at Kristin Kraves Books gives her thoughts on book endings
Marie at Drizzle and Hurricane Books talks about why and how you should support book bloggers
Anna at Read and Repeat ponders whether shorter reviews are better than longer ones
Jamie at The Perpetual Page-Turner talks about being a beginner
Did you do anything fun in February? What was your favorite book of the month?
Oooh wow that photo album sounds amazing!! Kudos to you and your family for putting that together!
ReplyDeleteAnd yay for lots of movies!! I'm dying to see Black Panther and Death Cure.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Water for Elephants and Paper Princess (I've heard really awful things about that one...). Can't wait for your reviews!
Amy @ A Magical World Of Words
That sounds like a busy month, but kudos to you and your family for putting that album together! That's an amazing present.
ReplyDeleteYay for movies! I'm dying to see Death Cure and Black Panther.
Looking forward to your reviews of Paper Princess and Water for Elephants. I enjoyed WFE, but I liked the movie more. And I've heard really bad things about Paper Princess...
Have a great month, Angela!
Amy @ A Magical World Of Words
Water for Elephants was a reread for me, and I really like it, although I had forgotten how gory it was! Paper Princess was...? It was a weird book.
DeleteIt does sound like a busy month! Love a paint and sip class. Looks like a great reading month too. Have a fabulous March!
ReplyDeleteThanks! My sister and I are kind of obsessed with paint and sip classes.
DeleteI absolutely love these posts and look forward to each one!
ReplyDeleteThank you! <3
DeleteWhat a nice thing to do for your mother! Bet she was thrilled with the memories. I love the pictures of the BookArt. I've seen something like that in a museum and thought it was so clever.
ReplyDeleteShe loved the album!
DeleteThe book art was so cool, especially the ones where they carved out the books.
That book art is cool. Thanks for giving my post a shout-out. I hope you have a great March!
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
Thanks, Aj!
DeleteThe photo album gift is such a good idea!
ReplyDeleteAww thanks for the shout-out :)
She really loved it!
DeleteYou're welcome!
oh I love the book art, so pretty , lovely work. It sounds like you had an exciting month both in books and out of it!
ReplyDeleteYes, the exhibit was really cool! It wasn't big, but I'm still glad we went to see it.
DeleteThat exhibit looks so freaking cool! :D
ReplyDeleteIt was really neat! Some of the work was so intricate, I was amazed!
DeleteOh I'm curious about the Space Between The Stars. What did you think of Maze?
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday to your mom!!
Thanks, Greg!
DeleteDeath Cure was ok; I have to admit, I didn't really want to see it, my in-laws did, so we went with them. I hadn't read the books and although I've seen the other movies, I felt like I didn't know what was going on!
You sure know how to celebrate birthdays! All those things sound like such fun.
ReplyDeleteHaha, well, we wanted to make it special for her! 60 is a big one! And she had a great time.
DeleteOooh! Thanks for sharing photos from the museum!! How fun!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It was a really cool exhibit.
DeleteHappy Birthday to your mom! I hope she enjoyed her day. I love those paint and sip classes. So much fun.
ReplyDeleteThat museum exhibit is pretty impressive too. Thanks for sharing pics!
I'm heading out to see Black Panther later today and am really looking forward to it.
Thanks, she had a great time!
DeleteYay, we loved Black Panther, hope you do, too!
Your mom's birthday sounds lovely! And the book are exhibit looks fascinating. I've seen photos of art similar to the two bottom photos before, but not the top two. It's amazing what people can do with an old, discarded book.
ReplyDeleteI know, some people are so creative!
DeleteSounds like a busy month for sure! I feel like photo albums are always a great gift so I'm happy to hear it went over so well. I love the photos from the museum! It looks like a cool exhibit.
ReplyDeleteIt was such a busy month, but it was all good stuff!
DeleteWhat a busy month other in and out of books. Sounds like it was mostly good though which is always a plus!
ReplyDeleteI see you did get to the Royals--I still need to write my review of that series and I can't wait to hear what you thought too.
Hope March is a fantastic month for you again!
Thanks, Di! Yes, it was a good month!
DeleteThe Royals was kind of a weird book for me - it didn't really have much of a plot?? And I found it hard to believe that those Royal boys were teenagers!
oh low-key valentine's days are the best :) It seems like you had a lovely month, that's awesome! <3 and I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Girls Made of Snow and Glass, I really enjoyed that one :)
ReplyDeleteI hope you're having a lovely March so far! <3
Thank you so much, Marie! I think I have that review coming up this week!
DeleteOh that photo album sounds so amazing and such a great idea! Definitely inspired me for a next gift idea for my mother so thanks :)
ReplyDeleteThe final Maze Runner and Black Panther are still on my to-watch list, hope you enjoyed them!
And thanks so much for featuring my post <3
Hope you'll have an amazing March!
We really loved Black Panther, another hit for Marvel!
DeleteYou're very welcome, it was a great post!
Thanks, Lindsey!
Oh, wow, those photos from the exhibition look really cool! Hope you have a great March.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Olivia!
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