Whew! It’s been a bit, hasn’t it? We were on vacation last week, though, so I decided to take a full break with the blog. And I think it was a good thing – I definitely feel refreshed!
Unfortunately, I didn’t get much reading done last week, though I did do a fair amount of it the week before last. Still, productivity-wise, I didn’t really get much of anything done last week.
Anyway, without further ado, let’s get on with the weekly wrap-up!
Wednesday 5/28: Can’t-Wait Wednesday
On Wednesday May 28th, I did another Can’t-Wait Wednesday. Four weeks in a row! That’s like a straight month!
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme currently hosted by Tressa @ Wishful Endings. It focuses on books you’re looking forward to reading, usually new releases.
Saturday 5/31: Bewitching Book Covers
On Saturday May 31st, I posted another Bewitching Book Covers for the first time in a month and a half. Wow, that’s a while. I definitely didn’t intend to do that!
Anyway, Bewitching Book Covers (formerly known as Majestic Mondays and Tasteful Tuesdays), is when I gush over a book cover that I like as well as analyze it (sometimes). I also typically give the book covers funny rating systems – not the usual blank out of five stars kind of thing.
Sunday 6/1 to Sunday 6/8: Vacation!!
As I mentioned above, my spouse and I took a vacation last week. We’d been planning it for several weeks and had been looking forward to it. And yeah, it was originally planned to be a staycation. We just wanted to stay home and relax, as well as go to a few places around the city-county we live in there we hadn’t been to before. And it was all really nice.
We actually started off the vacation helping one of my close family members move into a new house though. It ended up being kind of fun actually, and we got a bunch of exercise! We didn’t have a lot of time to chat though, cuz of the whole moving stuff thing, but it was nice to see the other family members that helped out.
The places that we visited were an aquarium we hadn’t been to before, as well as a state park that we’d been meaning to visit for years, but hadn’t been able to get around to until now. The aquarium was cool, and walking around the state park was really fun.
My spouse and I also spent a great deal of time playing Clair Obscure: Expedition 33, a new RPG developed by Sandfall Interactive, a French indie developer. It’s absolutely fantastic in pretty much every way – it’s part of the reason we spent so much of our staycation playing it. We’re still enjoying it, in fact, as we didn’t actually finish the whole game last week, haha.
But yeah, the story is incredible; we actually experienced the story through watching another playthrough first, but the story was no less exceptional the second time, and the characters are also awesome. The game itself is also completely gorgeous, and the gameplay is fun and unique. My favorite thing about the game, however, is definitely Clair Obscur’s absolutely phenomenal soundtrack. The OST is some of the most incredible music I’ve ever heard, and it’s one of the best soundtracks ever created, period. If anything, I encourage everyone to find the OST and give it a listen. You won’t regret it.
Books I Read in the Last Two Weeks
💖🎁 Wrapping It All Up 💖🎁
So yeah, because of taking a vacation last week – or staycation as it were – I didn’t really get anything done at all. I didn’t get much done the week before, either, and I don’t have an excuse for that one, haha. I also got quite a late start this week, which I’m kind of annoyed at myself about, but it is what it is. I’m planning on getting at least a couple of other posts out this week besides this one, though.
Regarding specific blog stuff I want to do this week… Well, I definitely want to get my Most Interesting Looking New Books of June 2025 out, even though it’s already a decent way into the month. I also want to do an additional post or two aside from Most Interesting Looking Books, though I’m still debating over what one(s). I also definitely want to read a book this week, though again, I’m still deciding which one I wanna do.
Concerning other things, even though I didn’t get anything else done for the blog last week, I did redo a few thumbnails/featured images. It bothered me that January didn’t really match the rest of the year, so I decided to change up the featured images of my weekly wrap-ups for the first month of the year. I’m pretty happy with it, and am very glad I finally got around to it (I’ve been considering doing this for a while, actually).
Anyway, I’ve gone on for more than long enough here. This weekly wrap-up covered two weeks though – one of which was a vacation – so I guess it makes sense that I’d have a lot to say.
But yeah, as always thank you for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful day/night!
See ya ~Mar