Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Shutter by Courtney Alameda Publication Date: February 3, 2015 Horror has a new name: introducing Courtney Alameda. Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat—a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Underrated Authors or Books in the YA genre. I really had to think about this topic, to be honest. One thing I’ve realized this week is that I read a lot of mainstream fiction – especially since I’ve broken into book blogging. Back in the day I found books through different […]
Title: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #1) Author: Michelle Hodkin Narrator: Christy Romano Publication Date: September 27, 2011 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 2 & book 3 Mara Dyer believes life can’t get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It […]
Title: The weirdness that’s happening… Author: polarbearsfortea / David Sharrock Posted on: January – February 2014 Location: Reddit This story… holy crap. I wish I had something to compare it to, but I really don’t. Maybe Prometheus… but not? In this story, the main character, Bára works in a remote settlement but then strange things start […]
Last night confirmed something for me: I am not an academic or a scholar. Heck, maybe I’m not even as smart as I thought I was. Or maybe I just don’t fit well into the confines of higher education. Or maybe I’m just not a history major. Yep, it’s probably that one. Sitting around a […]
Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week’s Question: Are you also a writer and what genre or did you ever consider writing? Little known fact: I used to […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Endgame: The Calling by James Frey & Nils Johnson-Shelton Publication Date: October 7, 2014 Twelve thousand years ago, they came. They descended from the sky amid smoke and fire, and created humanity and gave us rules to live by. They needed gold and […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Book Characters That Would Be Sitting At My Lunch Table This topic is a little strange to me since I’ve never sat at the “cool” table. My table was (I guess) what you could call the “outcast” table. We were the nerds, the goths, the weird ones, the JROTC kids… We were the […]
Title: Winterkill (Winterkill #1) Author: Kate A. Boorman Publication Date: September 9, 2014 Publisher: Amulet Books Pages: 319 Add to Goodreads I received this book as an ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Emmeline knows she’s not supposed to explore the woods outside her settlement. The enemy that wiped out half her people […]
Title: Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America Author: Andrew Ferguson Publication Date: June 10, 2007 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pages: 288 Add to Goodreads Before he grew up and became one of Washington’s most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff — with the photos hung on his […]
Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week’s Question: Tell us about a book character you’d trade places with. I thought about this question for about thirty seconds before […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Vault of Dreamers by Caragh M. O’Brien Publication Date: September 16, 2014 From the author of the Birthmarked trilogy comes a fast-paced, psychologically thrilling novel about what happens when your dreams are not your own. The Forge School is the most prestigious […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books I Really Want To Read But Don’t Own Yet With so many amazing books coming out in the next few months, my TBR shelf is overflowing. There are so many books that I really want to get my hands on! Not to mention those that have been out for awhile […]
Title: Horns Author: Joe Hill (Joseph King) Publication Date: March 1, 2010 Publisher: William Morrow Pages: 368 Add to Goodreads Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples. […]
Title: The Spire in the Woods Author: TheBoyInTheClock Posted on: October 2013 Location: Reddit This ten part series was one of the first I fell in love with. Prior to The Spire in the Woods, I read mostly short stories that I could finish within a few minutes. But then I found this. And I read for hours. This […]
Today marked the first day of my last year of school. Finally, after four years in the military followed by about a million years of school, I’m going to graduate (in two semesters). This semester is one of the most intensive yet, including a 400 and 600 level course, among some lower level classes. Here […]
Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week’s Question: What book/series do you think would make a better TV show than a movie? I think almost any long book […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: MARY: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan Publication Date: September 2, 2014 There is a right way and a wrong way to summon her. Jess had done the research. Success requires precision: a dark room, a mirror, a candle, salt, and four teenage girls. […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books People Want Me To Read So I hate it when people are like, “OMG you totally HAVE to read this right now seriously read it!” I mean, I’m cool with recommendations. In fact, I enjoy recommendations! I’ve found some really good books that way! But seriously, guys, chill out. I […]
Title: Adam’s List (NYC Love #1) Author: Jennifer Ann Publication Date: June 17, 2014 Publisher: Treetop Fantasies Pages: 374 Add to Goodreads I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review! This review contains possible 18+ elements. She’s ready to give up on life, hiding her depression with sarcasm and booze. He’s got […]
Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week’s Question: Suggest a question! We need questions of the week for future FFs. Any ideas? Okay, so truth time. I’m really […]
Confession: I’m having a really hard time letting go of A.G. Howard’s Splintered series until Ensnared graces our shelves next year. I found the series late and blew threw Splintered and Unhinged and now I don’t know what to do (maybe it’s not quite that serious). I thought I’d have a little bit of fun […]
Title: Dream Boy Author: Madelyn Rosenberg & Mary Crockett Publication Date: July 2, 2014 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Pages: 336 Add to Goodreads Annabelle Manning feels like she’s doing time at her high school in Chilton, Virginia. She has her friends at her lunchtime table of nobodies. What she doesn’t have are possibilities. Or a date for Homecoming. […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Fall by Bethany Griffin Publication Date: October 7, 2014 Madeline Usher is doomed. She has spent her life fighting fate, and she thought she was succeeding. Until she woke up in a coffin. Ushers die young. Ushers are cursed. Ushers can never […]
