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The Monthly Recap: June 2021

Posted July 6, 2021 by Rowena in Features | 4 Comments

The Monthly Recap posts are a way for me to take a look back and reflect on my previous month in books, movies, and Korean dramas. From what I read, what I watched, what I got, and the books, shows, and movies that I need to get to. I always lose track of what I have, what I need to read, what I want to watch and I need these posts to keep me honest with my damn self because I be forgetting shit.

June was a busy month, as seems to be the norm for me these days. Brenna quit her job, interviewed to work with me at my job, and got the job so I’ve been training her since her first day. We made a long weekend trip to L.A. to see my Dad and hang out with my siblings for Father’s Day and Bren’s been here in Las Vegas with me for the last three weeks. My niece graduated from high school as well but I wasn’t able to make it out for her graduation and that bummed me out a little bit but I was able to see her and hang with her while I was in L.A. so that made me feel a little better.

I also found out that my sister is selling her house and downsizing since all of her kids have moved out so when I went out to L.A. I got to see all of the upgrades she’s done to her house and the house looks great. It’s going to be weird going to L.A. and not going to my sister’s house since that was the house that everyone congregated to. I’m sure we’ll all fill up the new place once she moves so the future is changing. Still, I’m happy for her.

I did manage to consume loads of things though so here’s a look at the month that was June, for me.

Monthly Stats

Books

Books Read: 7 | Books DNF’d: 0
Books Purchased: 0 | Books Received for Review: 2 | Reviews Posted: 2
Highest Grade: Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas | Lowest Grade: To Sir, with Love by Lauren Layne

Dramas

Dramas Watched: 2 | Dramas DNF’d: 1
Dramas Reviewed: 0 | Boyfriend of the Month: Han Joon Hwi
Favorite Drama: Law School | Least Favorite Drama: –

Movies

Movies Watched: 8 | Movies DNF’d: 0
Movies Reviewed: 0 | Boyfriend of the Month: –
Favorite Movie: The Curse of La Llorona | Least Favorite Movie: Annabelle

What I Read

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Volume 12 (Print) | 4.75 out of 5
To Sir, with Love by Lauren Layne (e-ARC) | 3.5 out of 5
Devil in Disguise (The Ravenels #7) by Lisa Kleypas (e-ARC) | 4.75 out of 5
Lord of Scoundrels (Scoundrels #3) by Loretta Chase (e-Book) | 4 out of 5
Worth Any Price (Bow Street Runners #3) by Lisa Kleypas (e-Book) | 4.25 out of 5
The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary (e-ARC) | 4.25 out of 5
So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park (e-ARC) | 4 out of 5

My favorite read of the month goes to Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas. It was pretty much everything that I hoped it would be and I really enjoyed diving back into the The Ravenels series. It was also good to see some familiar faces from The Wallflowers series. Lots of fun. My least favorite read of the month goes to To Sir, with Love by Lauren Layne. Not because I didn’t enjoy it, I just didn’t enjoy it as much as the other books that I read.

What Movies I Watched

Last month, I watched The Conjuring series with my best friend, Theresa. We made a weekend of it and though she didn’t finish (or did you, Tita?), I did. My favorite movie of the bunch would have to be The Curse of La Llorona. Sure, the characters drove me crazy but I liked the story behind everything and the characters in this movie didn’t drive me nearly as crazy as the characters in the other movies. My least favorite of the bunch goes straight to Annabelle. The movie was just okay. Sure, I jumped from time to time but for the most part, I just wasn’t that interested in what was going on. Meh.

What Dramas I Watched

Law School (2021) | 4 out of 5
Doom at Your Service (2021) | 3.5 out of 5
Nevertheless (2021) | DNF

I didn’t finish a bunch of dramas last month and that was mostly because I’m watching a bunch of shows as they’re airing instead of watching shows that have already finished. Of the shows that I finished, my favorite was Law School and my least favorite goes to the show that I didn’t even finish the second episode for, Nevertheless. I wasn’t in the mood for that so I think I’m going to skip it for now.

What I Posted

The Weekly Recap (168)
The Monthly Recap: May 2021
My TBR Pile: June 2021
Eye Candy Friday: Kim Do Ki
The Weekly Recap (169)

What I Reviewed

The BTS Listen: RM
The BTS Listen: Agust D

Wicked Fox (Gumiho #1) by Kat Cho | 4 out of 5
The Intimacy Experiment (The Roommate #2) by Rosie Danan | 4.25 out of 5

How was your month in all the things? Did you read or watch anything good (or bad)? Share in the comments, I’d love to catch up!

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The Monthly Recap: May 2021

Posted June 8, 2021 by Rowena in Features | 12 Comments

My sister in Colorado came out to Vegas for a week in May for her son’s volleyball tournament so I was able to hang with her and attend my nephew’s volleyball games. Games that I normally would have watched on Facebook Watch so it was good to see Kainoa in action. He played well and even though he got beaned in the face so hard that it knocked him off his feet, he survived and is alive to tell the tale so alls well on that end. Helen came with her daughter, Genna and I spent most of that week with Genna. Helen stayed at the hotel and attended team dinners and what not but not Genna. Genna stayed with me the entire time that she was here. She’s almost 12 years old and we fought like sisters and made up like only sisters could but the best thing about us being together for that entire week was Genna is hella Army now.

So Kainoa had three games each day of the tournament. To keep Genna busy (she gets bored easily and didn’t really want to go to the games), we listened to music on my phone. We switched off picking the songs that we listened to so she would listen to a song and I would listen to a song. Every single song that I chose was a BTS song. On Friday, all of Genna’s songs were by Olivia Rodrigo, Shawn Mendes, and Ariana Grande. By Sunday, all of her songs were BTS songs. She spent a lot of time over the weekend, watching the easy lyrics videos to learn the songs herself. Her favorite songs are Save Me, Anpanman, and Butter. She was here when Butter debuted and we had a successful comeback weekend. I knew I raised my little Army right because, by the end of the weekend, she knew how to stream Butter correctly to make sure that her streams counted toward the chart numbers. I was so proud. LOL.

She fell completely down the BTS rabbit hole too. Not only was she listening to BTS music, but she was also watching BTS music videos, Run BTS episodes, the funny compilation videos on YouTube, and she chose a bias as well. It was funny because she woke up one morning and came to my room, turned on the Butter video on my TV and said, “Aunty Wena, I found my bias. It’s JK. I just really like him.” I was so happy that I sent her home with some BTS posters, a promise to help her build up her own BTS merch shelf and everything. Seriously, I was so proud.

Here’s what my month in May looked like…