Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Winter Glass by Lexa Hillyer Publication Date: April 10, 2017 A curse comes undone. A kingdom shatters. But some bonds can’t be broken. Princess Aurora, torn from the dream world, plots to assassinate the faerie queen Malfleur, only to confront temptations she never […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books that are Throwbacks to Another Time Happy Tuesday, everyone! This week’s topic was a Throwback Freebie, so I decided to list some of my favorite books that pay homage to a time in the past! Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco The Book Thief by Markus […]
Title: The Sandcastle Empire Author: Kayla Olson Publication Date: June 6, 2017Publisher: HarperCollinsPages: 464Add to Goodreads When all hope is gone, how do you survive? Before the war, Eden’s life was easy—air conditioning, ice cream, long days at the beach. Then the revolution happened, and everything changed. Now a powerful group called the Wolfpack controls […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hello, everyone! This week has been total and complete madness. You may already know this, but I live in central Florida. As I’m sure you’re aware, there’s a category 5 hurricane barreling towards the Florida coast at the moment and it’s currently projected to pass directly over my house. My […]
Welcome to month nine of the 2017 Dystopia Reading Challenge! I hope everyone is on track with meeting their goals as we close in on the end of our third quarter! 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 […]
Good afternoon dear Cornerfold readers! I’m Lili from Utopia State of Mind and I’m back again for another guest post. I’m not sure if you remember me, but I have been here before. (Thank you again for having me!) Today I’m talking about my favorite mother/daughter books. The whole topic of mothers and daughters is […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand Publication Date: October 24, 2017 On Christmas Eve five years ago, Holly was visited by three ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she’d become. They tried to convince her to mend her ways. […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Five Books I’ve Most Recently Put Down Happy Tuesday, everyone! Upon first seeing this week’s topic, I’d assumed it would be pretty simple! As it turns out, I don’t DNF nearly as many books as I think I do. These are the last five I’ve put down and I had to dig […]
Title: The Iron Trial (Magisterium #1)Author: Holly Black and Cassandra Clare Publication Date: September 9, 2014Publisher: Scholastic PressPages: 295 Add to Goodreads Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Happy weekend! I hope you’re all having a fantastic Sunday full of bookish things! I’ve spent the week with my family and friends, watching movies and going shopping and helping my dad go through bins in the attic. We found lots of old books to trade at the local used […]
Title: The Hummingbird Heart (Haunted Hearts Legacy #2) Author: A.G. Howard Publication Date: August 15, 2017Publisher: Golden Orb PressPages: 339Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 //I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review// Set 19 years after The Architect of Song. Shortly after escaping a circus tragedy, young […]
Title: Afar Author: Leila del Duca Illustrator: Kit Seaton Publication Date: March 29, 2017Publisher: Image ComicsPages: 152Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Boetema suddenly develops the ability to astrally project to other worlds, unintentionally possessing the bodies of people light years away. Inotu, her inquisitive […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Devils You Know by M.C. Atwood Publication Date: October 3, 2017 Plenty of legends surround the infamous Boulder House in Whispering Bluffs, Wisconsin, but nobody takes them seriously. Certainly nobody believes that the original owner, Maxwell Cartwright Jr., cursed its construction—or that […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Hidden Gem Horror & Fantasy Books Happy Tuesday, everyone! So yes, I am aware that horror and fantasy are two weird genres to put together. I did it because I’m worried that all of my top lists are too similar and I didn’t want to do the same old thing! I […]
Title: The Secret Horses of Briar Hill Author: Megan ShepherdPublication Date: October 11, 2016Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: 220Add to Goodreads There are winged horses that live in the mirrors of Briar Hill hospital. In the mirrors that line its grand hallways, which once belonged to a princess. In those that reflect the […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you’re all having a fantastic Sunday doing whatever it is you love! I’m currently spending time with friends and family while trying to catch up on some reading. I’m very impatiently waiting for the Game of Thrones Finale and trying to avoid spoilers like the […]
I received the First Second Sampler in the Fall Fierce Reads box and, I’ll admit, I wasn’t quite sure how to review it. How exactly does one review samples of multiple graphic novels? But I’ll do my best to tell you about this cute little sampler and the content inside! There are fifteen separate samplers […]
Title: Girls Made of Snow and Glass Author: Melissa Bashardoust Publication Date: September 5, 2017 Publisher: Flatiron BooksPages: 384Add to Goodreads Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale. At sixteen, Mina’s mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books I Wish I’d Read In School Happy Tuesday, everyone! This is a topic I actually feel somewhat strongly about. My school didn’t have very much required reading. I grew up in the American South and the only books I remember being assigned in high school were A Separate Peace, To […]
Title: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before #1) Author: Jenny Han Publication Date: April 15, 2014Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young ReadersPages: 355 Add to Goodreads What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! I hope you’re all having a fantastic weekend! Mine has been spent making final runs to various stores to make final preparations for my upcoming trip to Europe. I’m so excited, but also super nervous about all of our travel arrangements! Can anyone recommend a must-do bookstore near […]
You may or may not know that I am totally obsessed with The Lord of the Rings! I regret to inform you that my answers will revolve mostly around the LotR films instead of the books, because I love them the most. I originally saw this book tag on The Book Nut and knew I […]
Title: The Forgetting (The Forgetting #1) Author: Sharon Cameron Publication Date: September 13, 2016Publisher: Scholastic PressPages: 403Add to Goodreads What isn’t written, isn’t remembered. Even your crimes. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Warcross by Marie Lu Publication Date: September 12, 2017 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu—when a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths. For the millions who log in every […]
