Top Ten Tuesday #39: Most recent TBR

Today’s Topic:   Ten Books You Recently Added  To Your To-Be-Read List Okay, I’m just going to go into Goodreads and pull the last ten I added. I have literally no idea what I will find there, so we’re both in for a surprise! (I skipped multiples from the same author.)          The Raven Boys by […]

Book Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry

Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Publication Date: April 26, 1993 Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books Pages: 179 Add to Goodreads In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community’s Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders […]

Weekly Recap: 3/22 – 3/28

My Super Exciting Life  Well… it’s been a little boring this week, which I’m certainly not complaining about! On Tuesday I met up with my parents and brother for dinner, so that was basically the highlight… Haha! I went to Toys R Us to look around because I’m five and found a gorgeous Cinderella doll, […]

Horror Reading Challenge: First Quarter Update

Aaaaand we’ve made it! Welcome to the official update post for the first quarter of the Horror Reading Challenge! This is the first challenge I have ever hosted and I am super excited to have 20 participants joining us! I realized after making the original post (like, kind of a long time after making the […]

Feature & Follow Friday #41: BEA

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:  Have you ever been to BEA?  If not, what’s stopping you?  I haven’t been to BEA! I’m almost a year […]

Waiting on Wednesday #42: Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Their Fractured Lightby Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner Publication Date: December 29, 2015 A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say […]

Top Ten Tuesday #38: Favorite Teen Reads

Today’s Topic:   Top 10 Books From My Teen Years That I Would Love To Revisit When I was a teenager, Goodreads was not a thing. At least not until very late in my teen years. As you can imagine, by the time there was a rating system for the books I’d read, it had been […]

Book Tour Review: Bound by Spells by Stormy Smith

Title: Bound by Spells (Bound #2) Author: Stormy Smith Publication Date: March 19, 2015 Publisher: Perfect Storm Publishing Pages: 472 Add to Goodreads Review for book 1 Aidan Montgomery hadn’t been prepared for Amelia Bradbury to walk in and then out of his life. He also hadn’t expected to find the powerful magic hidden deep […]

Weekly Recap: 3/15 – 3/21

My Super Exciting Life  Although Spring Break has ended, this was a pretty good week! It was a fairly easy week as far as school went – just a lot of showing up and listening. On Sunday I saw Cinderella with my mom and it was amazing! I am absolutely in love with this new […]

Author Spotlight & Interview: Catherine Coulter

If you follow my blog regularly, you are most likely aware that the vast majority of the books I read and review are Young Adult books. But before I read YA, I shopped library book sales to score my next read (or reads for the next year, rather). That is how I came upon Catherine […]

Feature & Follow Friday #40: Fictional Inspiration

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:  Have you ever been inspired by  a book character to do something?  Who was the character and what was it? […]

Waiting on Wednesday #41: Reawakened by Colleen Houck

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Reawakenedby Colleen Houck Publication Date: August 25, 2015 When seventeen-year-old Lilliana Young enters the Metropolitan Museum of Art one morning during spring break, the last thing she expects to find is a live Egyptian prince with godlike powers, who has been reawakened after […]

Top Ten Tuesday #37: Spring TBR list

Today’s Topic:   Top Ten Books On  My Spring TBR List I love this topic because it gives me a chance to set some real reading goals! I’m a mood readers, so my TBR lists usually change really quickly. Here are the top five new books I want to read and the top five re-reads I’d […]

Book Review: World After by Susan Ee

Title: World After (Penryn and the End of Days #2) Author: Susan Ee (Penryn & the End of Days #2) Publication Date: November 19, 2013 Publisher: Skyscape Pages: 314 Add to Goodreads Review for #1 In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together […]

Weekly Recap: 3/8 – 3/14

My Super Exciting Life  This week was Spring Break!! Finally! I needed some time off. I did absolutely nothing exciting, but I did Netflix/Hulu binge CW’s Beauty and the Beast and ABC’s Once Upon a Time! I was somewhat productive, though. I’ve started training for a race this November at Disney World, which I plan […]

Pre-Release Event: Bound by Spells by Stormy Smith

Title: Bound By Spells (Bound #2) Author: Stormy Smith Publication Date: March 19, 2015 Publisher: Perfect Storm Publishing  Pages: 470 Add to Goodreads Aidan Montgomery hadn’t been prepared for Amelia Bradbury to walk in and then out of his life. He also hadn’t expected to find the powerful magic hidden deep within him for the last nineteen years, but he’s embracing […]

Feature & Follow Friday #39: Blog features

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:  Have you come up with any special memes or features on your blog that you’d  like people to visit more? […]

Waiting on Wednesday #40: The Detour by S.A. Bodeen

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Detourby S.A. Bodeen Publication Date: October 6, 2015 On her way to a writer’s conference, a bestselling teenage author takes a detour that has been deliberately set up by her biggest fans—a mother and daughter who kidnap her. Livvy Flynn is a […]

Top Ten Tuesday #36: Best survival stories

Today’s Topic:   Ten Books For Readers  Who Like Survival Stories A good survival story is easily my favorite thing to read! I love dystopian survival stories, zombie survival stories, crazy people survival stories, shipwreck survival stories… I think you get the idea!          Angelfall by Susan Ee Ashfall by Mike Mullin Enclave by Ann Aguirre […]

Audiobook Review: Mortal Danger by Ann Aguirre

Title: Mortal Danger (Immortal Game #1) Author: Ann Aguirre Publication Date: August 5, 2014 Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Pages: 384 Add to Goodreads Revenge is a dish best served cold. Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four […]

Weekly Recap: 3/1 – 3/7

My Super Exciting Life  I do not have anymore snow to report this week, thank goodness! It did get really cold one day and they cancelled classes just in case it was too icy… Welcome to North Carolina! I’m super excited because this week was the last before Spring Break! All I have to do […]

Feature & Follow Friday #38: Furry friends

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:  Do you have any furry friends?  Share a picture! OMG!! This was my suggestion! 😛 And boy, do I have […]

Audiobook Review: Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan

Title: Lord of Chaos (The Wheel of Time #6) Author: Robert Jordan Narrator: Kate Reading & Michael Kramer Publication Date: November 15, 1995Publisher: Tor Fantasy Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 5 & book 7 In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Fires of Heaven, we plunge again into Robert Jordan’s extraordinarily rich, […]

Waiting on Wednesday #39: The V Girl by Mya Roberts

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The V Girlby Mya Roberts Publication Date: April 13, 2015 In post-apocalyptic North America, rape and sexual slavery are legal. Lila Velez, desperately wants to lose her virginity before the troops visit her town and can take it away by force. She makes […]