Today’s Topic: Ten Books I’ve Added To My To-Be-Read List Lately This week was super easy to put together! I just went to my Goodreads TBR and grabbed the most recent ten books I’d added. It ended up being a mix of new and old, fantasy, contemporary, and dystopia. I hope to read all of […]
Title: Heartless Author: Marissa Meyer Publication Date: November 8, 2016 Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Pages: 464 Add to Goodreads Long before she was the terror of Wonderland—the infamous Queen of Hearts—she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who […]
Happenings Off the Blog… This week has been delightfully uneventful! I went to work, I came home, I watched Netflix or read… and it was amazing. The one thing of note that did happen this week was going to a used bookstore I’d heard about. That was not amazing. The bookstore had a very weird […]
Sometimes I look through my Goodreads history and I just stop to wonder what the heck all these books are even doing here. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my memory does strange things. I actually started this blog because I have a very strange ability to completely forget books and movies […]
Welcome to the first ever #ReadIndie challenge! This event was created to promote indie authors who we think are amazing! What is this challenge, you ask? #ReadIndie is a two week time span in December during which we will only be reviewing and promoting indie titles. My co-host for this event is Christina from Books […]
Welcome to the eleventh 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 November 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 […]
Welcome to month eleven of the 2016 Dystopia Reading Challenge! IT’S ALMOST OVER! 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 book reviews under “Review Link-up” as follows: Name of book @ Your blog […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books To Read If Your Book Club Likes Books With a Gothic Flair My go-to topic is usually retellings, but I decided to switch it up this week and feature my top ten favorite YA gothic novels (and a couple NA). These books span from contemporary to retelling to steampunk to horror, […]
Title: Timekeeper (Timekeeper #1) Author: Tara Sim Publication Date: November 8, 2016 Publisher: Sky Pony Press Pages: 368 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review// Two o’clock was missing. In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture time—and a destroyed one […]
Happenings Off the Blog… This week has been rough, but I got some reading done so yay! I ended up being sick for the entire week, but I’m finally feeling over it. I also had to work quite a bit this week, which didn’t help anything, but at least it made the time go by, […]
If you have been on Twitter in the last couple hours, chances are you’ve probably seen a lot of news and speculation regarding BEA as well as the distribution of advance reading copies. A lot of people are having a lot of feelings about this on Twitter, but that really isn’t my forte so I’m […]
Title: Coraline Author: Neil Gaiman Narrator: Neil Gaiman Publication Date: August 4, 2002 Publisher: HarperCollins Add to Goodreads Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house–a house so huge that other people live in it, too… round, old former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers […]
With Halloween in just a few days I want to continue the horror of yesterday’s top scariest books by talking about some of my absolute favorite horror films! This topic could have gone a lot of ways. There are horror movies that are creepy, but not terrifying. There are movies that are more mind blowing […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Seven Halloween Reads I love Halloween, but I’m also really hard to please when it comes to horror books. Although I read quite a few, there aren’t many that I actually love. These are seven that blew me away for being super terrifying, having awesome twists, or just being really great […]
Title: Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #2) Author: Leigh Bardugo Publication Date: September 27, 2016 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 536 Add to Goodreads Review for book 1 When you can’t beat the odds, change the game. Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn’t think […]
Happenings Off the Blog… Well, this has officially been the worst blogging week of the last two and a half years. My inlaws were in town and, while I anticipated having plenty of time during their visit to read and blog, we ended up doing things from the time we woke up until we went […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Characters I’d Name A Dog After I had so much fun with this topic! I always say that I need more pets to name because I there are so many awesome names out there, and some are hilarious. For example, my 10lb toy fox terrier’s registered name is Bella the Beast. […]
Title: Gemina (The Illuminae Files #2) Author: Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Publication Date: October 18, 2016 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: 608 Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 //I received this book from ALA in exchange for an honest review// Moving to a space station at the edge of the […]
Happenings Off the Blog… This week was pretty busy leading up to family visiting. I had a little time to read, which was great! I also got a few new ones to add to the ever-growing TBR. On Thursday evening my in-laws arrived to spend a little over a week with us. We went to […]
Today I want to talk about a topic that I’ve been thinking about a lot for the last few months. A while back there were a lot of posts floating around the interwebs discussing the discrepancies between men and women authors in the young adult world. I saw people talking about how men have better […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books I Read Because People Told Me To What I learned about myself this week: I don’t actually read a whole lot of books based on recommendations from others. I tend to read what I feel like based on what’s coming out and what sounds good at the time. That being said, […]
Title: Uprooted Author: Naomi Novik Publication Date: May 19, 2015Publisher: Del Rey Pages: 438 Add to Goodreads “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a […]
Happenings Off the Blog… Wow, what a week! Monday started off slow with some work and some hanging out around the house. My husband and I are preparing for our family to visit for 9 days, so we actually do have a lot to get ready for! All of that had to be put on […]
As you may know, I’m in Orlando and I’m gearing up to ride out Hurricane Matthew at home with my husband and our two dogs. There’s water in the tub, a camping stove on standby, and everything is unplugged. Matthew has us all understandably nervous, being the biggest storm anticipated to make landfall in over […]
