Welcome to Paper to Popcorn! Paper to Popcorn is not be your typical book vs. movie comparison. The focus is on retellings, although there will be some features of movie vs. the source material. Each chosen book/movie combo will battle it out in a showdown to prove which one is the best on its own […]
Title: The Mirk and Midnight Hour Author: Jane Nickerson Narrator: Dorothy Dillingham Blue Publication Date: March 11, 2014 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Add to Goodreads A Southern girl. A wounded soldier. A chilling force deep in the forest. All collide at night’s darkest hour. Seventeen-year-old Violet Dancey has been left at home in […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Monster by C.J. Skuse Publication Date: September 24, 2015 At sixteen Nash thought that the fight to become Head Girl of prestigious boarding school Bathory would be the biggest battle she’d face. Until her brother’s disappearance leads to Nash being trapped at the […]
Today’s Topic: Ten Characters Who Are Fellow Book Nerds This week I went with a mix of books from middle grade to adult… because holy crap this was a hard topic. I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out why this was such a difficult topic to pick books for and honestly I’m not quite […]
All samples & prizing are provided by Disney-Hyperion! This is a book I have been super excited about since I featured it in a Waiting on Wednesday post back in January (before the cover was even confirmed)! I am so thrilled to be featuring this book and it’s creative team today along with hosting an […]
Title: Throne of Glass Author: Sarah J. Maas Publication Date: August 7, 2012Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 404 Add to Goodreads “Nothing is a coincidence. Everything has a purpose. You were meant to come to this castle, just as you were meant to be an assassin.” When magic has gone from the world, and a vicious king […]
My Super Exciting Life This has been the week of back-to-high-school obsession. In high school I had a couple major obsessions: The Lord of the Rings and (starting in 2004) The Phantom of the Opera. I have been totally re-hooked by The Phantom of the Opera. This began when I read Of Metal and Wishes […]
Author: _Illuminati_ Posted on: March 26, 2015 I first read this story back when it was originally posted on Reddit and have re-read it a couple times since then. As you probably know, I am a huge Disney nerd (HUGE)! At the same time, I love the “dark side” of Disney. The book by that title really […]
Every now and again we get wind of an author doing something awesome, and we just found out that Stormy Smith is celebrating Bound by Duty’s first birthday by making it FREE, which has never happened before! Bound by Duty only recently became available on all platforms, and that means that you should be able […]
Hi, my name is Tracy and I’m a book addict. Assuming most book bloggers have similar addictions, we all need to discuss something. The problem of lack of space. In the last year I’ve gone from having about one and a half full bookshelves (the other half being full of movies) to having three completely […]
Title: The Crossing Author: Mandy Hager Publication Date: January 8, 2013Publisher: Pyr Pages: 280Add to Goodreads The Crossing is the first book in a stunning new trilogy that follows the fate of Maryam and her unlikely companions – Joseph, Ruth and Lazarus. This is fast, suspenseful drama underpinned by a powerful and moving story about […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Of Dreams and Rust by Sarah Fine Publication Date: August 4, 2015 War erupts in this bittersweet sequel to “Of Metal and Wishes”, inspired by The Phantom of the Opera and called “relentlessly engrossing” by The Romantic Times. In the year since the […]
Today’s Topic: Ten Books That Celebrate Diversity/Diverse Characters I learned something about myself today. I don’t read many diverse books! And I don’t -not- read them on purpose! I just haven’t gotten much exposure to diversity in fiction, I suppose. So here are 5 of my favorite diverse books followed by 5 on my TBR […]
Title: After the End Author: Amy Plum Narrator: Emily Rankin & Graham Hamilton Publication Date: May 6, 2014 Publisher: HarperTeen Add to Goodreads She’s searching for answers to her past. They’re hunting her to save their future. World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan […]
My Super Exciting Life A couple actual exciting things have happened this week! Well, exciting for me… I’m kind of a boring person. Number one is that I started a new feature on the blog! It’s called Paper to Popcorn and it will be either a bi-weekly or monthly feature (I haven’t quite decided) that […]
//DISCLAIMER: JK Rowling is no longer reviewed or promoted by Cornerfolds.com following her repeated transphobia// Welcome to a brand new Cornerfolds feature! Paper to Popcorn will not be your typical book vs. movie comparison, or at least that is not all it will be. Each featured book/movie combo will battle it out in a showdown […]
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: If you had the money what would your own personal library look like? I totally and completely plan to have […]
Title: Welcome to the Dark House Author: Laurie Faria Stolarz Publication Date: July 22, 2014 Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: 357 Add to Goodreads What’s your worst nightmare? For Ivy Jensen, it’s the eyes of a killer that haunt her nights. For Parker Bradley, it’s bloodthirsty sea serpents that slither in his dreams. And for seven essay […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Never Never by Brianna R. Shrum Publication Date: September 22, 2015 James Hook is a child who only wants to grow up. When he meets Peter Pan, a boy who loves to pretend and is intent on never becoming a man, James decides […]
Today’s Topic: Last Ten Non-YA Books That Came Into My Possession I read A LOT of YA books as you probably know. It’s not often I acquire non-YA books, but here are the ten most recent! The Abominable by Dan Simmons Bliss House by Laura Benedict The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin […]
Title: Steam (Legends Saga #3) Author: Stacey Rourke Publication Date: September 14, 2015 Publisher: Anchor Group Publishing Add to Goodreads Time passes, sins forgotten. The bodies of the victims long since rotten. Trapped within the essence of the Headless Horseman by the guilt of slaughtering her best friend, Ireland Crane follows the father of science fiction, HG Wells, in […]
Title: The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly Author: Stephanie Oakes Publication Date: June 9, 2015 Publisher: Dial Books Pages: 400 Add to Goodreads A hard-hitting and hopeful story about the dangers of blind faith—and the power of having faith in yourself The Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, […]
My Super Exciting Life Not too surprisingly, Camp NaNoWriMo is off to a slow start. I got quite a bit done on Sunday and Monday… and then progress slowed. A lot. I felt really icky for part of it and for the other part I was just a little lazy. But I’ll get back to […]
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my rating system. It has literally kept me up at night more than once! Currently I employ the same rating system as Goodreads, just because I use it so religiously. But in the last few months I’ve wondered (a lot) whether or not a simple five […]
