The Best Reader + weekend

This week was a little anti-climatic after last week — although I am now 22 instead of 21 (BTW — Thanks everyone for the Birthday Wishes!). But starting tomorrow my book life should perk up, Momma and Poppa Remmers are leaving town for the week so I'll have nothing to distract me. It's also my last week home — I leave for school on the 15th. Very excited to start my senior year and see all my friends again, but I know that with school my blogging and reading life will be reduced a bit (which makes me sad).

This week I finished Eclipse, Benny and Shrimp, My Name is Will, and Dancing with Ana. I received a rocking award from Gofita's Pages! I am also hosting (is that the right word) my first poll! Look in the left sidebar and read this post to find out more. I went from nine followers to fourteen over the weekend! Very exciting — welcome everybody to my little world of madness! And I, once again, joined Twitter — add me @google. If you are at all interested why, find out here.

Be sure to check out my giveaway for My Name is Will by Jess Winfield! This week I sent "Elemental Shaman" off to Nicole and "A Vengeful Spirit" to Wanda. On Monday I will send a the copy of "Benny and Shrimp" to Sharon!

I also have THREE more books to giveaway. A brand spanking new copy of Barry Lyga's "Boy Toy" and two copies (one brand new and one 'once read' ARC) of "Dancing with Ana". And sometime this week, Nicole Barker (author of "Dancing with Ana"), will be stopping by for an interview! So a big week coming up!

And I'm all caught up with posting and scheduling my Guest Reviews! Every Wednesday until the middle of September has a scheduled Guest Review — isn't that awesome! I am very excited! If you're interested in submitting a Guest Review — please find out how.

Sadly — I'll be skipping this week's Monday Musings. This week's question: "Do you have a favourite publishing house — one that puts out books that you constantly find yourself wanting to read? If so, who? And, what books have they published that you’ve loved? (question courtesy of MizB) " I don't really have an opinion on publishing houses — so there's no point in me posting a Monday Musings with a simple no comment. I am sad though, it's one of the three meme's I participate in and I really look forward to it. But oh well — always next week.

Like I said, this is my last week of 'freedom'. Especially literary freedom. I am working on my literature specialization this semester so I'll be getting my fill of Milton, Chaucer, and J.K Rowling (YES! I am taking a class on Harry Potter! This is of course more for the fun of it than anything else!). But I do have a huge stack of books I want to get read before I leave. I need to read Breaking Dawn, Eighth Grade Bites, Ninth Grade Slays, The Imposter's Daughter, and Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict. So all those reviews and a couple new contests coming your way this week!

Happy Sunday everyone!

What did you finish this week?