Landrover Discovery- nice! I think you can live in those things. :) I always kinda laugh when I see some booktubers or Youtube people and they've got like the whole studio thing going- I've seen cable shows that are less equipped ha ha!

Spontaneous combustion rampage- that sounds fun. Yes sometimes the reading gets sidetracked, just gotta go with it lol. Enjoy your long weekend!

Happy Easter - you get Monday off? How exciting! I hope you enjoy it. I'm glad you are enjoying Joe Hill's latest. I can't wait to read it!

-Lauren
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Happy Birthday to your daughter! I love it when books are so good they take over. Happy Easter! Have a great week and happy reading!

Laura @ http://a-reader-lives-a-thousand-lives.blogspot.co.uk

I have The Dead and the Dying on the tbr waiting for me, and I'm trying to find Amy Cross Mass Extinction Event series free somewhere-no luck yet! You can never have too many monster books...! Have a good week!

Access to a shit load of chocolate??? LOL yeaaah life is GOOD

I also got a new car that is OMG also BIGGER THAN LIFE. My hubby convinced me because now I'm always driving around with a bunch of little critters (AKA kids :) ) but I'm not sure I like it LOL

How cool that your daughter is obsessed with space though??? I like anything space related :)

COME ON!!! post that review of the Golden Son!!! LOL my review of Red Rising is coming up soon! :) ISN'T THIS SERIES OUT OF THIS FRICKING WORLD???? :)

I don't know how I feel about instagram yet. It is like an alternate reality for me at this point :)

Wow! Impressive on the restraint with the new books! That's awesome that your daughter is obsessed with space! My husband is an aerospace engineer and I worked on the Space Station for a long time (only as an analyst not an engineer) so it's a big part of our lives. I can sympathize with the big vehicle. I have a mammoth SUV from the days when we had a lot of kids but now that we're down to just one as the others have moved out I'm itching to get something smaller. Have a great week!

I kinda feel the same way about Instagram. I don't have like an hour to set up props and whip out my $400 camera for social media. I don't spend more than 10 minutes on a photo for there. Yea, my quality isn't on par with some people, but I got tons of other tings to do with my life. Don't feel bad, you.
I am looking forward to reading your review for Golden Son, so get to it!

Happy Easter! And sounds like you had a full week with your car getting fixed and your daughter her birthday. I really want to watch Zootropolis, it sounds like a fun movie!

I hope your good blogging mood will stay around for a while. It's nice to feel in the zone like that!

And that's nice on the not buying any new books this week! Have a great week!

Mmmmm...shitloads of chocolate...*drools* :D I want to see Zootropolis, but the kids haven't expressed any interest. I may have to wait until it hits Redbox, Amazon or Netflix.

That's so cool your daughter has a star named after her :D I'm hoping to go see Zootopia soon, so it's good to hear it's worth seeing - I didn't realise it was called Zootropolis outside of the US!

Also I laughed so much about the instagram "issues" - I find the same thing lol! I see lots of props in other people's pictures, in mine I tend to just plonk the books on the carpet, or bedsheet lol! Oh well. Hehe.

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Wow! So cool to have your own star. I also had to take my car in to get work (routine). I hope you had a great Easter!

No new books bought by me this week either! *high fives* I will definitely be back for the Golden Son review. Let the chocolate eating begin! Have a wonderful week. :)

That's a freaking amazing gift! Can I have one lol
I really want to start reading Red Rising. I have it as ebook but I want the physical copy so I'm holding off on reading it until I buy the copy.
Happy birthday to your daughter!!

I can't imagine having to drive a monster car like that. :O I'm a bit shorter than you and I would be so scared to drive it, haha.

Instagram can swallow you up whole. So I know what you mean. Since the pregnancy I don't post quite as often as before. I can't quite be bothered to place everything nicely and try and take 50 pics to get the perfect shot. XD

You do seem extra bubbly and spirited in this post, like you're having a good week or maybe just on a sugar high from all the chocolate ;-)

I get what you're saying about instagram though. I just don't have all those props or perfect lighting or the motivation or time or energy to put into taking photos of books that I'm not even going to get paid for. Not that I ever get paid for photos, but you get what I'm saying lol. Some of them are still nice to look at though!

My daughter loved Zootopia! It s all she talks about and we have the stuffed animals and all the tsums tsums from the movie too. My son wants to watch the Good Dinosaur so we will have to get that soon. Have a great week!!

Congratulations with your eldest daughter’s birthday. A telescope?? Wow.. she is one lucky girl. I’ve always wanted to have one. When we have a new home I’m definitely getting one!

I hope you had a great Easter.. with all that chocolate is must be good! LOL!!

Happy Reading ;)

Another redhead here! My experience with Instagram is definitely similar to yours! I don't have the props, I don't have the time...
Good job on not buying books! It sounds like it's a rare occurrence for you as well :)
I hope you had a lovely lay in today!

I was on the #bookstagram obsessions for a few weeks too, it is hard to not look at all the amazing photos! Yay on not buying any books this week I think that takes a lot of power not to purchase any! Have a great week!

I'm jealous of your time off! Though, I guess I really shouldn't be because I'm only working three days this week. Haha. I'm with you on the Instagram posts. At first, I found myself fascinated with the bookstagrammer posts, but sometime in the last few weeks I've realized I'm starting to find a lot of them eye-rolling. It's like "Oh, look at that... a red pencil because the book cover is red. Isn't that clever?" *eye roll* Too snarky? *shrug* I wish I had that kind of time to waste on Instagram photos. I don't. I'm lucky if I can get through my real life stuff and find time to read and blog afterwards. But oh well. To each their own, I suppose. There are some lovely photos out there... and then there are some I find ridiculous.

I got a little long-winded there. Haha. Hope you have a great week!

Sounds like a good week! That's awesome that your daughter is so interested in astronomy. Robin was too, for a long time; she still likes it but didn't want to pursue it academically.

I know exactly what you mean about bookstagram even though I'm not on it -- I see a lot of the same sort of thing on booklr (Tumblr) and it's frustrating. It's not just the props -- where do people get the time?! I can't find enough time to keep up with all the books I want to read, let alone review, let alone all the blogs I love to follow! Someone needs to invent a time-turner.

Sounds like you had a great week! Zootopia is one my daughter really wants to see, so hopefully we get to it in the next few weeks. Have a great week. :)

I could use a long weekend, but I'll settle for the chocolate. :-) Happy Birthday to your daughter! What a great gift! I've always wanted a telescope. Instead I got a microscope. You make me want to drop everything and start on The Fireman. Have a great week!

Glad to hear you had a lovely Easter. I know exactly what you mean about the props in folks Instagram posts. It's bananas! I don't even try to compete. Sometimes I'm in a situation that I think will make a cute Instagram photo, and I take it, but who has time for all that? Not me! I can't wait to read your Golden Son review. I wonder if you felt the same as I did when I read it.

I am glad to hear that you had such a good Easter weekend and managed to get so much done as well! And I never thought there was such a thing as too much chocolate until the end of this week. I literally don't even want to see it anymore ahaha :D

Sounds like a pretty good week! I love instagram. It's one of my favorite things but I don't follow any accounts like that. I just do it for fun and take actual real life pics instead of staged ones like that :/