Audiobook review: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

Title: If I Was Your Girl Author: Meredith Russo Narrator: Samia MountsPublication Date: May 3, 2016Publisher: Flatiron Books Add to Goodreads Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school in Lambertville, Tennessee. Like any other girl, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret. There’s a reason […]

Top Ten Tuesday #112: favorite tv shows by decade

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Fifteen Favorite  TV Shows By Decade So this was legitimately the hardest top ten post I have ever done and I’m not sure what that says about me… As you can see, I couldn’t narrow it down to 10 so I decided to break it into decades. (Before you jump on me […]

ARC Review: Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco

Title: Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper #1) Author: Kerri Maniscalco Publication Date: September 20th, 2016 Publisher: Little, Brown & Company Pages: 336 Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 2 & book 3 Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord’s daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between […]

Weekly Recap: 8/28 – 9/3

My Super Exciting Life  This week has been pretty uneventful and that’s totally fine with me! It actually started with some Disney excitement when I visited Magic Kingdom with a friend for a few hours. Other than that I’ve worked, watched old seasons of Survivor, and done a lot of reading. It’s so nice to […]

Commenting back and why you should do it

Happy Saturday, friends! Today I want to talk about a topic that I haven’t discussed here before, but that is near and dear to my heart. (Possibly dramatic, just roll with it.) Comments are actually the best One of the best feelings in the world is waking up to an inbox full of blog comments. […]

Horror Reading Challenge: September Link-up

Welcome to the ninth 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 September 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 […]

Dystopia Reading Challenge: September Link-up

Welcome to month nine 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 book reviews under “Review Link-up” as follows: Name of book @ Your blog name, Goodreads, Shelfari, […]

Book Review: Between Shades of Gray

Title: Between Shades of Gray Author: Ruta Sepetys  Publication Date: March 22, 2011 Publisher: Philomel BooksPages: 344 Add to Goodreads Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the […]

Top Ten Tuesday #111: Best books school forced me to read

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Five Books That  School Forced Me To Read Like everyone else, I hated assigned reading in school. I don’t know why most teachers felt the need to force us to read the most boring books ever written, but there were a few times they picked something really interesting (that I thought I […]

Audiobook review: The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis

Title: The Wolf Road Author: Beth Lewis Narrator: Amy McFadden Publication Date: July 5, 2016 Publisher: Crown Add to Goodreads True Grit meets The Road in this postapocalyptic psychological thriller–narrated by a young girl who has just learned that her adopted father may be a serial killer, and that she may be his next victim. […]

Weekly Recap: 8/22 – 8/27

My Super Exciting Life  This week has been a little bit hectic, but I’ve also had a little time for fun! The house drama continues, but the good news is we’re over the first hurdle and now we’re to the hurry up and wait portion. My fingers are crossed that everything goes smoothly from here […]

#booksfortrade entitlement (and why it’s a problem)

I have been planning to do a post on this topic for a little while now, but had actually been saving it for next Wednesday. I’m sure I’ll wish I had some original content to post when next week gets here, but it seems like now is a very relevant time for this discussion.  What […]

Five times I shouldn’t have judged by the cover

Confession: I absolutely pick books based on their covers. Most of the time if a book is gorgeous it is 90% more likely that I will pick it up, even if the title is ridiculous. If the synopsis of a book doesn’t catch my attention, the cover is the saving grace. We all know the […]

Waiting on Wednesday #108: As I Descended by Robin Talley

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: As I Descended by Robin Talley Publication Date: September 6, 2016 Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school’s ultimate power couple—even if no one knows it but them. Only one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. […]

Top Ten Tuesday #110: my pre-blogging TBR

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Books That Have Been On My TBR Since Before  I Started Blogging That I STILL Haven’t Read Yet Before I started blogging I read significantly less than I do now. I also didn’t really understand Goodreads and got most of my book recommendations from the library so I often came away with […]

Audiobook review: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Title: Gone Girl Author: Gillian Flynn Narrator: Julia Whelan and Kirby Heyborne Publication Date: April 22, 2014Publisher: Broadway BooksAdd to Goodreads On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. […]

Weekly recap: 8/14 – 8/20

My Super Exciting Life  Well, this has been an unexpectedly busy week. My brother left on Monday and I expected a fairly relaxed few days, but it was not to be. Instead, my husband and I decided to start house hunting and everything has been a whirlwind ever since! Luckily, I think some of the […]

When life gets in the way of bookish things

Blogging and reading are two of my favorite things. To be honest, they’re kind of my life to the point that it’s sometimes a little embarrassing. Anyone: “What are you good at? What are your hobbies? What do you do all day?” Me: *blank stare* I like books. Nothing makes me sadder than life getting […]

Top Ten Tuesday #109: books set in space

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Five Books Set In Space I’m not quite sure why, but “space” immediately came to mind when I saw today’s topic. I actually don’t read that many sci-fi books, so it was pretty easy to put together my top five! All of these have a setting of different ships or planets […]

ARC Review: A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

Title: A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes #2) Author: Sabaa Tahir Publication Date: August 30, 2016 Publisher: Razorbill Pages: 464 Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 and book 3 A Torch Against the Night takes readers into the heart of the Empire as Laia and Elias fight their way north to liberate […]

Weekly Recap: 8/7 – 8/13

My Super Exciting Life  My brother visited this week and I accomplished basically nothing as far as my bookish life is concerned… whoops! I started reading a couple books and am currently working my way through Stalking Jack the Ripper. I had to put The Beauty of Darkness down for awhile when it started to […]

Book Review: Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

Title: Jane Steele Author: Lyndsay Faye Publication Date: March 22, 2016 Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Pages: 416Add to Goodreads “Reader, I murdered him.” A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to […]

Waiting on Wednesday #107: Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones Publication Date: February 7, 2017 Beware the goblin men and the wares they sell. All her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the […]

Top Ten Tuesday #108: books I wish I’d read as a kid

Today’s Topic:  Ten books I wish I read as a kid I actually did read a lot as a kid, but there were some that I never got around to that I wish I had! Redwall, for example, always looked interesting, but I was intimidated by the length of the series. Some of these I […]