TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! It has been another hectic week in Florida! Between dog sitting and candlemaking, I’m booked! I did find time one day this week to go to Universal Studios and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, though! I was only there for about three hours (I went to get […]
It has been a few weeks since I shared a recap of what I’ve been watching, and I’ve been watching so much TV that I’ve decided to expand this to TV instead of just film. TV season is coming up, after all! The Handmaid’s Tale and Westworld are back! THIS WEEK IN SCREEN TIME Girls […]
Title: The Falconer (The Falconer #1)Author: Elizabeth May Publication Date: September 19, 2013Publisher: Chronicle BooksPages: 378Add to Goodreads One girl’s nightmare is this girl’s faery tale She’s a stunner. Edinburgh, 1844. Eighteen-year-old Lady Aileana Kameron, the only daughter of the Marquess of Douglas, has everything a girl could dream of: brains, charm, wealth, a title—and drop-dead […]
Love triangles, we all love to hate them, but is it possible that sometimes they actually (rarely) work? I’ll admit, when a love triangle is extremely well-written, I actually can enjoy them. Sadly, that hardly ever happens. Most of the time love triangles are written into YA books as garbage plot devices that don’t make […]
Title: King’s Cage (Red Queen #3) Author: Victoria Aveyard Publication Date: February 7, 2017 Publisher: HarperTeenPages: Way too Many 507Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 2 In this breathless third installment to Victoria Aveyard’s bestselling Red Queen series, allegiances are tested on every side. And when the Lightning Girl’s spark is gone, […]
Today’s Topic: Frequently Used Words in YA Fantasy Today’s post actually took some digging! When I started noticing trends in the fantasy books I have shelved as read or to-read on Goodreads, I realized a common theme between them. Now I’m wondering what this says about the people who write and read these books… xD […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi, everyone! This has been a busy, but fun week! My mom was here for the whole week visiting for my birthday and she watched Harry Potter all the way through for the first time (after ten years of trying to talk her into it)! On Tuesday we went to […]
Title: Bookish Boyfriends (Bookish Boyfriends #1)Author: Tiffany Schmidt Publication Date: May 1, 2018 Publisher: Amulet BooksPages: 400Add to Goodreads Boys are so much better in books. At least according to Merrilee Campbell, 15, who thinks real-life chivalry is dead and there’d be nothing more romantic than having a guy woo her like the heroes in […]
I’ve been reading for as long as I can remember. There was a point that I went through a stage where I would only read horse books, but thankfully I got introduced to YA novels. While I read a ton of books as a kid here are a few that have really stuck with me […]
Title: The Bone Witch (The Bone Witch #1) Author: Rin Chupeco Publication Date: March 7, 2017 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Pages: 432 Add to Goodreads In the captivating start to a new, darkly lyrical fantasy series for readers of Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir, Tea can raise the dead, but resurrection comes at a price… Let […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Covers My Mom Hates For today’s freebie I decided to talk about things I hate instead of things I love. Then I started looking at covers and was struck with inspiration! Since my mom is visiting, I got her to look through Goodreads and find ten covers she hated with absolutely […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Yesterday was my birthday!! I think I might be officially old now, but I’m honestly not sure. I spent this cleaning and getting my guest room ready for my mom to visit and she’ll be here for about a week. I didn’t have time for much outside of that! I […]
Title: Winter Glass (Spindle Fire #2) Author: Lexa Hillyer Publication Date: April 10, 2018 Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 352 Add to Goodreads Review for book 1 //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// A curse comes undone. A kingdom shatters. But some bonds can’t be broken. Princess Aurora, torn from […]
One of the questions I hear most as a book blogger is, “How do you get ARCs?” In the last few weeks, I’ve noticed a lot of people discussing ARCs more (and in a different way) than normal. Convention season is upon us and, with ALA Midwinter and TLA just behind us and several others […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books I Loved and MIGHT Re-read Today’s topic, if done as stated, would have literally been a list of my top ten books because I never re-read books. Instead, I decided to do the top ten books I loved and actually might re-read! A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! It has been a busy, stressful week here, but not a bad one! I did a bit of dog sitting while also working to get our April candle box ready to ship. We also posted our rep search this week and there’s a blogiversary giveaway happening here on […]
Here we are again! It’s kind of amazing how fast time goes by. It seems like I was just posting about my third blogiversary a few months ago, but here I am talking about my blog turning four! I honestly can’t imagine my life without this blog and all of you amazing people. Every year […]
Title: The Valiant (The Valiant #1)Author: Lesley Livingston Publication Date: February 14, 2017Publisher: RazorbillPages: 372 Add to Goodreads Princess. Captive. Gladiator. Fallon is the daughter of a proud Celtic king, the sister of the legendary warrior Sorcha, and the sworn enemy of Julius Caesar. When Fallon was a child, Caesar’s armies invaded her homeland, and […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Eight Characters I Liked From Books I Disliked I wasn’t quite sure which way to go with this week’s topic but I decided to share characters I still liked when I didn’t enjoy a book. As it turns out, if I dislike a book, I usually don’t like any of the characters, so […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! This week was pretty uneventful, which means I don’t have much to report. I discovered the show Girls this week (a few years late) and have absolutely been binge watching for a few days. I love it so much! I started watching for Kylo Ren and got hooked. […]
