TGIF at GReads (1) and Weekly Recap

This Friday blog hop is run by Ginger at GReads! Each week she posts a question and we answer and recap our weeks. Click the button to join in!

This week's question was too good to pass up. Ginger got a bunch of us So You Think You Can Dance fans tweet chatting (twittering? tweeting? chatting?) this week at #SYTYCDBloggers and when shortly after the results show she tweeted this week's TGIF topic, I decided to join the cool kids' table at Thanksgiving.

Summer Love: Where's your ideal place to take a summer vacation & get lost in a book?

OH RIGHT. I did that already.

Okay, okay. So technically it wasn't summer, but you wouldn't have known it from the weather and view! Regular readers will recognize the pic I snapped from our resort balcony in Daytona Beach while attending a wedding back in March.

I spent an entire Saturday afternoon on that balcony by myself reading Wicked Lovely and sipping coffee and Diet Coke while dear husband was off doing his Best Man duties. I threw on comfy clothes, a bathrobe, and put my feet up. I got to listen to the ocean pounding without getting a sunburn.

Nobody complained that I wasn't being social (I never am, which is somehow always a disappointment) and yet I could still glance up and see miles of beach and scan the pool below to spy on wave at friends.

I learned an important thing about my vacation needs from this trip. I need beaches and sunshine!

What's your ideal vacation reading spot?

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If you're a first time visitor, or just didn't get the chance to stop by this week, here's what you missed:

Features
Point Counterpoint
Announcing a new feature! I'm recruiting anyone who wants to argue/discuss books with me.

Memes
Top Ten Tuesday
A list of the reasons I love book blogging.

Events
Spring into Summer Readathon
My progress in a readathon on Friday and Saturday.

Reviews
LOVER AWAKENED by J. R. Ward
5/5 stars
Black Dagger Brotherhood Challenge and Book Club

FOREVER by Maggie Stiefvater
3/5 stars
YA Series Challenge
Shifter Challenge

Giveaways
June Giveaway and Guest Post Announcements
I'm giving away a signed copy of DIVERGENT and a copy of CASCADE this month. I also did a guest post and am giving away a copy of WATCHERS by Dean Koontz as part of the My Favorite Things event at My Bookish Ways.

Enjoy your weekend everybody!


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