Feature & Follow Friday #44: My next big purchase

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:  Here is $100,000. Buy something.  Anything at all! What would be the first  thing you choose, and why?  I’m sure […]

Book Blitz & Giveaway: The Ark by Laura Liddell Nolen

Title: The Ark Author: Laura Liddell Nolen Publication Date: March 26, 2015 Publisher: Harper Voyager Pages: 400 Add to Goodreads There’s a meteor headed for Earth, and there is only one way to survive. With her criminal record, sixteen-year-old Char is never going to get a place on an Ark, one of the five massive bioships designed to protect Earth’s […]

Waiting on Wednesday #45: Secret Brother by V.C. Andrews

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Secret BrotherV.C. Andrews Publication Date: May 26, 2015 The most unexpected Dollanganger story of them all, new from the author of Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind—both now major Lifetime movie events. A young boy suffers amnesia from a trauma […]

Book blitz & giveaway: Inhuman Interest by Eric Turowski

Title: Inhuman Interest Author: Eric Turowski Publication Date: April 8, 2015 Publisher: Booktrope Pages: 204 Add to Goodreads Thirteen words in a want-ad turn Tess Cooper’s world upside down after she signs on as a paranormal research assistant to the mysterious Davin Egypt. He reveals a world of grave robbing, clockworks artifacts in blue amber, antique revolvers that fire strange ammo, […]

Book Review: The Raft by S.A. Bodeen

Title: The Raft Author: S.A. Bodeen Publication Date: August 21, 2012 Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Pages: 231 Add to Goodreads Robie is an experienced traveler. She’s taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a […]

Weekly recap: 4/5-4/11

My Super Exciting Life  Well… this week my husband came home!! He’s been away for four months at work so it has been awesome to have him back! Because my birthday is coming up soon and I had two days off school, we spent Wednesday birthday shopping. I got a few new outfits, a new […]

Tips for mad commenting skills

Happy Saturday, fellow book bloggers!  I know I’ve only been part of your world for a little under a year, but here I am offering my humble opinion on how you can acquire what I would call mad commenting skills.  I’ve noticed over the last several months that there is a marked difference in commenting […]

Feature & Follow #43: Books I ended up hating

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 read a book you thought  you’d hate but loved? Or vice versa? I can’t say I’ve read […]

Waiting on Wednesday #44: Darkthaw by Kate A. Boorman

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: DarkthawKate A. Boorman Publication Date: October 13, 2015 For as long as Emmeline can remember, she’s longed to leave the isolated world of the settlement and explore the wilderness that calls to her in her dreams. And now that the Brotherhood has fallen, […]

Top Ten Tuesday #40: Characters I’d like to check in with

Today’s Topic:   Top Ten Characters You’d Like To Check In With. For anyone wondering, this is the clarification that was given for today’s prompt: The book or series is over and you so just wish you could peek in on the “life” you imagine they are leading years down the line after the story ends. […]

Audiobook Review: Asylum by Madeleine Roux

Title: Asylum Author: Madeleine Roux Publication Date: August 20, 2013 Publisher: Harper Teen Pages: 313 Add to Goodreads For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Prep is more than a summer program—it’s a lifeline. An outcast at his high school, Dan is excited to finally make some friends in his last summer before college. But […]

Weekly Recap: 3/29 – 4/4

My Super Exciting Life  Happy chocolate bunny day, fellow book bloggers! This week has been relatively uneventful, although I have been a bundle of nerves getting ready for my husband to come home on Wednesday! I’ve been much more on my game about getting homework done in anticipation of much less free time in the […]

The curse of being a mood reader

If you’ve been following my blog for awhile, you may have noticed that I tend to post reviews long after I actually read the book. Or maybe you haven’t if you aren’t a stalker… In any case, I do this for a reason. That reason is that I have the Mood Reader Curse. What’s the […]

YA Shaming: the lack of YA representation at my university

Okay, I’ll admit the title may be a little overdramatic, but that’s the in thing to do now, right? I’ve been a student at the University of North Carolina for nearly two years and am graduating in May. Despite this, I haven’t spent much time in the campus bookstore. If you’re wondering why, it’s because […]

Feature & Follow #42: Dreams

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 had a reoccurring dream?  What was it?  I can’t say I have had any recurrent dreams. But […]

Waiting on Wednesday #43: The House by Christina Lauren

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The HouseChristina Lauren Publication Date: October 27, 2015 Gavin tells Delilah he’s hers—completely—but whatever lives inside that house with him disagrees. After seven years tucked away at an East coast boarding school, Delilah Blue returns to her small Kansas hometown to find that […]

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 […]