Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog Happy Super Bowl Sunday! I’m not sure what that means for everyone else, but for me it means that I get to go shopping with virtually no crowds. Hurray! This has been an incredibly slow week for me. I read The Star-Touched Queen (finally) at the beginning of the week […]
Welcome to the second link-up of the 2017 Dystopia Reading Challenge! I hope everyone had a great first month and that you’re all right on track! Each month we will be posting a link-up for all of your Dystopia Challenge reviews as a way to keep up with your challenge as well as to give […]
Title: Frostblood (Frostblood Saga #1) Author: Elly Blake Publication Date: January 10, 2017Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 367Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// The frost king will burn. Seventeen-year-old Ruby is a Fireblood who has concealed her powers of heat and flame […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Eight Favorite Manga & Graphic Novels I don’t read a ton of manga or graphic novels but there was a time when I read quite a few! In all the ones I had the chance to read, these are my favorites. I’ll totally admit that I haven’t finished most of these series yet, […]
Title: Wintersong Author: S. Jae-Jones Publication Date: February 7, 2017 Publisher: Thomas DunnePages: 448 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// 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 […]
Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog This week’s recap is going to be short because I’m really, really exhausted and there’s a new BBC show waiting on my TV! This week was largely recovering from ALA, which was a lot of fun, but very hectic. I spent the first few days of the week unpacking books […]
Before I blogged I picked 99% of the books I read on a whim. I’d walk through the library or the bookstore and pick up whatever looked good. Sure, it took me hours to decide on my next read, but I had no one to blame when I hated it except myself. These days I […]
Title: Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) Author: Marissa Meyer Narrator: Rebecca Soler Publication Date: February 5, 2013 Publisher: Feiwel and Friends Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1, book 3, book 3.5, & book 4 Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out […]
Today’s Topic: Ten ALAMW Books I Can’t Wait To Read I’m back from ALA Midwinter! It has been a crazy weekend and I got a lot of amazing things, so I decided to use my haul for this week’s top ten freebie! Since I haven’t fully unpacked and looked at what I brought home, I’m not calling […]
Title: Gilded Cage (Dark Gifts #1) Author: Vic James Publication Date: February 14, 2017 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pages: 368 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Not all are free. Not all are equal. Not all will be saved. Our world belongs to the Equals […]
Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog We’re at ALA! As you’re reading this, I am probably wandering around somewhere in Atlanta, although our trip is coming to a close soon. This week was pretty much all preparing for ALA, so there isn’t much to tell. I had to find a dog sitter, stop stressing over leaving […]
Title: Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1) Author: Marissa Meyer Narrator: Rebecca Soler Publication Date: January 3, 2012Publisher: Feiwel and Friends Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 2, book 3, book 3.5, & book 4 Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, […]
Today’s Topic: Ten Eight Underrated Books I’ve Read In The Past Year Or So Although there are a ton of underrated books out there, I haven’t found very many of them in the last year! These are the eight that I feel are either literally underrated or just under-hyped. I can’t wait to see what all […]
Title: Caraval (Caraval #1) Author: Stephanie Garber Publication Date: January 31, 2017 Publisher: Flatiron Books Pages: 416 Add to Goodreads Review for book 2 Before you enter the world of Caraval, you must remember that it’s all a game . . . Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, […]
Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog Well, this has (thankfully) been a pretty low key week. I spent some of it catching up on Supernatural (I just got to the season 11 reveal!). Unfortunately, I didn’t feel great for part of the week, but I seem to be over whatever it was, thank goodness. I got […]
Title: Blair Witch Release Date: September 16, 2016 Starring: James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez Director: Adam Wingard Runtime: 1hr 29min Rating: R View on IMDB A young man and his friends venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mystery surrounding his missing sister. Many believe her disappearance 20 years earlier is […]
Ahh movies, my loves. There are so many great ones based on books that I couldn’t fit them all into one post! Last week I shared with you my favorite movies based on kids’ books. This week, as promised, I’m back with my favorite movies based on adult (non-kid?) books! While I haven’t actually read all […]
Title: The Girl From Everywhere (The Girl From Everywhere #1) Author: Heidi Heilig Publication Date: February 16, 2016Publisher: Greenwillow BooksPages: 464Add to Goodreads //I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review// Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father’s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten 2016 Releases I Meant To Read But Didn’t Get To (But TOTALLY plan to) This was a surprisingly difficult list to put together! As it turns out, I read almost everything I wanted to get to in 2016, although I did miss a few. This list mostly consists of books in […]
Title: Reign of Shadows (Reign of Shadows #1) Author: Sophie Jordan Narrator: Phoebe Strole, James Fouhey Publication Date: February 9, 2016 Publisher: Harper TeenAdd to Goodreads Seventeen years ago, an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, […]
Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog This week my brother went back home to North Carolina and I saw Rogue One twice. Excellent movie, by the way. I enjoyed it much more than The Force Awakens! I was able to get a little reading done and finally started on the Falling Kingdoms series, which I am […]
Welcome to the first link-up of the 2017 Dystopia Reading Challenge! I hope everyone had a great New Year and is excited for some awesome dystopian books! Each month we will be posting a link-up for all of your Dystopia Challenge reviews as a way to keep up with your challenge as well as to […]
Although books are one of the great loves of my life, movies rank right up next to them. I really couldn’t say which I would miss more… One of the best things ever is when a really great book BECOMES a really great movie! Even better, when you realize a favorite movie was a book […]
Title: The Bear and the Nightingale Author: Katherine Arden Publication Date: January 10, 2017Publisher: Del Rey Pages: 336Add to Goodreads At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire […]
