My Super Exciting Life This week started low and ended on a high note! I had jury duty on Monday and didn’t end up getting picked. I ended up reading and playing online for seven hours and I guess I’ll get paid $15 later… For the rest of the week I worked and watched Breaking […]
Fun fact about me: I love audiobooks! I have loved them for years and can be found listening to audiobooks pretty much any time I don’t have the TV on. I listen to audiobooks in the car, while cooking, and getting ready for bed. I listen to audiobooks while walking around theme parks and while […]
Title: Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) Author: Leigh Bardugo Publication Date: September 29, 2015 Publisher: Henry Holt and CompanyPages: 465Add to Goodreads Review for book 2 Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz […]
So… as you may know, I’m absolutely TERRIBLE at read-a-thons, but I’m going to try to do better and I think this time I will. Why? Because I kind of have to. I was super lucky in getting to go to ALA this year, but I came away with a ton of ARCs I need […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Five Books That Made Me Want to Know More I have a horrible time reading books with factual information inside because I’m constantly running to Google to learn more! The worst books are historical fiction and books about natural disasters. These are five of the books that I’ve had to take a break […]
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 […]
My Super Exciting Life First, the blog has gotten a makeover this week! It has been a long time coming and I played around with my old design a lot before finally taking the plunge. If you have my button displayed on your blog (I love you!!) please change it to the new one if […]
Title: Tiger Lily Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson Narrator: Cassandra Morris Publication Date: July 3, 2012Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books Add to Goodreads Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair… Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily doesn’t believe in love stories or happy endings. Then she meets the alluring […]
Title: Star Trek Beyond Release Date: July 22, 2016 Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban Director: Justin Lin Runtime: 120 minutes Rated: PG-13 View on IMDb Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise encounter an alien warrior race when marooned on a distant planet after the destruction of their spaceship in this thrilling sequel directed by Fast & Furious director […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Timekeeper by Tara Sim Publication Date: November 1, 2016 Two o’clock was missing. In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture time—and a destroyed one can stop it completely. It’s a truth that seventeen-year-old clock mechanic Danny […]
Today’s Topic: Ten Six Books Set Outside The US Well, as it turns out I don’t read many books that are set outside of the US that aren’t set in fantasy worlds, so… Some are still fantasy, but set in the real world… and I could only come up with six! And I Darken by […]
Title: Ice Like Fire (Snow Like Ashes #2) Author: Sara Raasch Publication Date: October 13, 2015 Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: 479 Add to Goodreads Review for book 1 It’s been three months since the Winterians were freed and Spring’s king, Angra, disappeared—thanks largely to the help of Cordell. Meira just wants her people to […]
My Super Exciting Life This has been a difficult week, so I want to apologize for being a little slow about commenting back and blog hopping. There has been a lot going on that I’ve had to deal with and it hasn’t left a whole lot of time for blogging, but that is mostly taken […]
Welcome back to Disney for the Weekend! Last week I shared my top five favorite Disney sequels! This week I’m back with the five sequels I will never touch. Ever. I’ve already been burned by a few! I watched Pocahontas 2: Journey to the New World and Atlantis: Milo Returns recently and… never again. Some things […]
Title: Trial By Fire (The Worldwalker Trilogy #1) Author: Josephine Angelini Narrator: Emma Galvin Publication Date: September 2, 2014 Publisher: Feiwel & FriendsAdd to Goodreads The exhilaratingly seductive new series from the author of the bestselling Starcrossed series Love burns. Worlds collide. Magic reigns. This world is trying to kill Lily Proctor. Her life-threatening allergies keep […]
Yesterday one of my favorite authors of all time made a pretty huge announcement: there will be a ton of new books in her two current series. How many is a ton? Well. Eight. Way back in the day, as far as I know, Throne of Glass was planned as a trilogy. This is when […]
Today’s Topic: Ten Five Bookish Facts About Me 1) I didn’t start reading YA… until I was 25 because I didn’t really know it existed. I read a lot of Phillipa Gregory, Anne Rice, and Charlaine Harris. 2) Three years before I started blogging… I won some random ARCs on Goodreads. I had no idea how Goodreads […]
Title: Burnt Offerings Author: Robert Marasco Narrator: R.C. Bray Publication Date: 1973 Publisher: Valancourt Books Add to Goodreads Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire summer for only $900, […]
My Super Exciting Life Okay, first of all, can we talk about the fact that it’s July 10th? It’s true what they say about time going faster the older you get! Not too much has happened this week, which is totally fine with me. I got my signed pre-order of And I Darken, which is […]
Welcome to month seven of the 2016 Dystopia Reading Challenge! I hope everyone has met all their goals so far! If you’re new to the challenge, you can see the guidelines and sign up here! Link-up Rules Link up your May book reviews under “Review Link-up” as follows: Name of book @ Your blog name, Goodreads, […]
Welcome back to Disney for the Weekend! I’ve spent a couple topics talking about Disney movies in the last several months. I shared my favorite Disney Channel movies and top underrated Disney movies! Today I want to go in a different direction: sequels. I feel like sequels are something that a lot of people avoid because […]
Title: Serafina and the Twisted Staff (Serafina #2) Author: Robert Beatty Publication Date: July 12, 2016 Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: 384 Add to Goodreads Review for book 1 //This book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Serafina’s defeat of the Man in the Black Cloak has brought her out of the […]
Title: The Legend of Tarzan Release Date: July 1, 2016 Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson Director: David Yates Runtime: 110 minutes Rated: PG-13 View on IMDb It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton […]
Welcome to the seventh month of the 2016 Horror Reading Challenge! I hope everyone is meeting their goals so far! Please share your horror book reviews for the month of July in the link-up below using the format Your Name @ Your Blog (Book Name). If you’re new to the challenge, you can see the […]
