Title: Return to the Dark House (Dark House #2) Author: Laurie Faria Stolarz Publication Date: July 21, 2015 Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: 368 Add to Goodreads Review for book 1 Ivy Jensen survived the Dark House once, but can she make it out a second time? Two months have passed since Ivy narrowly escaped the Nightmare […]
My Super Exciting Life Man, what a weird week! It’s always so strange when you come home from vacation and have to reenter the real world. I’ve spend the entire week moping around my apartment and watching crap TV. I have no excuse for myself! Haha! I started reading several books this week, but have […]
Welcome back to my Disney World trip report! Make sure to catch up with days 1 & 2 if you haven’t already! Day Three On day three I slept in a little later and didn’t make it to the Magic Kingdom until 12:30! But that’s half the fun of vacation, right? Getting to sleep in! As […]
Several weeks ago I started reading the Harry Potter series for the second time as part of my Paper to Popcorn feature. You can check out my reviews of The Philosopher’s Stone and The Chamber of Secrets if you’re interested! When I started this time I decided to read in conjunction with Pottermore. The site […]
Title: Alive Author: Scott Sigler Narrator: Emma Galvin Publication Date: July 14, 2015 Publisher: Del Rey Add to Goodreads From New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler comes something utterly new: a gripping sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner. A group of young adults awake in […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson Publication Date: September 22, 2015 In LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, Jenny Lawson baffled readers with stories about growing up the daughter of a taxidermist. In her new book, FURIOUSLY HAPPY, Jenny explores her lifelong battle with mental […]
Today’s Topic: Ten Characters You Just Didn’t Click With (images link to goodreads; titles link to reviews) Fair warning: all of these characters come from books I gave 1 or 2 star ratings (and even a couple DNFs). Sometimes you just meet characters you can’t stand. At all. These are mine. I’ve also included -why- […]
Title: Everything, Everything Author: Nicola Yoon Publication Date: September 1, 2015 Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: 320 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review// This innovative, heartfelt debut novel tells the story of a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world. When a new […]
My Super Exciting Life This has been a pretty fantastic week, if I’m being honest! As you may know, it began with a long, 9 hour drive to Disney World on Sunday. I was there for three days, driving home on Thursday, and had a fantastic time! You can read about the first two days […]
As you may have noticed, I was pretty scarce last week. I did pop in to comment back every night (I tried to at least), but I didn’t have much time for roaming around the blogosphere. This was because I was at Disney World in Florida and disconnected from the internet! Day One I woke […]
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: Insylum Author: Z. Rider Publication Date: June 9, 2015Publisher: Dark Ride Publishing Pages: 122 Add to Goodreads Purchase on Amazon The Last Ones In…Never Come Out A.J. changed in boot camp, coming out all straight-backed and short-haired. His best friend Nate hardly recognizes him anymore, especially when it comes to the way he acts. […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Unquiet by Mikaela Everett Publication Date: September 22, 2015 For most of her life, Lirael has been training to kill—and replace—a duplicate version of herself on a parallel Earth. She is the perfect sleeper-soldier. But she’s beginning to suspect she is not […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books That Would Be On Your Syllabus If You Taught YA Dystopia101 YA Dystopia is one of my absolute favorite genres!! If you’re not a dystopia reader and you want to be, any of these series would be a fantastic place to start! An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir […]
Title: End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days #3) Author: Susan Ee Publication Date: May 12, 2015 Publisher: Skyscape Pages: 331 Add to Goodreads Purchase on Amazon Reviews for book 1 & book 2 End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee’s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After […]
My Super Exciting Life This week was basically spent in preparation for today because… as you’re reading this I’m on the road to Disney World!! Finally! But other than that… Slasher Girls and Monster Boys came out this week so yay!! I ordered a copy but I’m waiting on it to get to me and […]
We’ve all been there, giving out the dreaded one star ratings that we know will cause heartache for the author who happens to come across it. But sometimes it has to be done! Not every book can be a five star work of art. It breaks my heart every single time I have to write […]
Title: Talon (Talon #1) Author: Julie Kagawa Narrator: Caitlin Davies, MacLeod Andrews, Chris Patton Publication Date: October 28, 2014 Publisher: Harlequin TeenAdd to Goodreads Reviews for book 2 and book 3 Long ago, dragons were hunted to near extinction by the Order of St. George, a legendary society of dragon slayers. Hiding in human form and […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Marvels by Brian Selznick Publication Date: September 15, 2015 Caldecott Award winner and bookmaking trailblazer Brian Selznick once again plays with the form he invented and takes readers on a voyage! Two seemingly unrelated stories–one in words, the other in pictures–come together. […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Auto-buy Authors Today is the day when I am shocked at my own pickiness. I ALMOST could not come up with 10 authors I would auto-buy books from. A few months ago there might have been a couple more on this list, but then their newly released books let me down […]
Title: Reawakened Author: Colleen Houck Publication Date: August 11, 2015 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: 400 Add to Goodreads 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 a thousand […]
My Super Exciting Life First of all… SEVEN DAYS UNTIL DISNEY!! I’m about to lose it, guys! It’s everything I can do not to go ahead and pack and sit on my suitcase in front of the door for the next week. It will be a strange trip since I’m driving down by myself. It […]
Welcome to the Cornerfolds First Annual End of Summer Giveaway!! (Don’t you like how I say that as if I’m sure it’s going to happen again next year?) As sad as it seems, the summer is coming to a very abrupt end. Many of you are out purchasing boring books for school and buying new […]
//DISCLAIMER: JK Rowling is no longer reviewed or promoted by Cornerfolds.com following her repeated transphobia// 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 […]
