HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas! My husband and I went out on Christmas Eve night to get Starbucks hot chocolate and see Christmas lights. There were some really amazing displays! That night we watched Elf because he had NEVER seen it before! Can you imagine? On […]
Title: The Girl Who Owned a City Authors: O.T. Nelson & Dan Jolley Illustrator: Joëlle Jones Publication Date: April 1, 2012Publisher: Graphic UniversePages: 125Add to Goodreads A DEADLY VIRUS KILLED EVERY ADULT ON EARTH, LEAVING ONLY US KIDS BEHIND. My parents are gone, so I’m responsible for my little brother Todd. I have to make sure […]
Hi everyone! Welcome to the last week of 2018! Can you believe another year has come and is almost gone? It’s true that time goes by faster as you get older. I was kind of hoping my parents had lied about that one! Today I’m sharing the reading challenges I’m participating in for 2019 as […]
Title: Scythe (Arc of a Scythe #1) Author: Neal Shusterman Publication Date: November 22, 2016Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young ReadersPages: 435Add to Goodreads Thou shalt kill. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Five Wishlist Books I Hope Santa Brought MERRY CHRISTMAS! So I actually rarely actually put books on my Christmas list. My family doesn’t seem to like buying them and most of the time I end up getting them for myself anyway. I did add a few this year though! They’re a little weird […]
HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! First of all, thank you all so much for sticking with me while I was away last week! I guess having content ready to be posted helps a lot too… Like I said in my last recap, I was away for a week on a cruise with my parents […]
Happy Saturday, everyone! I’ve watched a few movies since my last post, again mostly horror. I seem to be on a horror roll lately. More and more, I’ve been trying to go into them completely blind and it has really been a wild ride! Of course, I also had to throw in a Disney movie […]
Happy Friday, everyone! Today I’m sharing my 2018 reading challenges final update and looking back at what I’ve managed to accomplish this year. Last year was rough. I only signed up for three challenges and didn’t manage to complete a single one! In 2018 I was feeling a bit better and more determined to meet […]
Book tags are so much fun and I’m always on the lookout for a new one to tag myself in! (I’m a rule breaker.) I spotted this one at The Blacksheep Reader (originally created by Jenniely) and thought it looked way too fun not to do. If you’re reading this, I tag you to participate too! […]
Title: Out of the Easy Author: Ruta Sepetys Publication Date: February 12, 2013 Publisher: Philomel BooksPages: 348Add to Goodreads It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more […]
Today’s Topic: Winter 2018 TBR It’s almost winter and that means another round of seasonal TBR lists! Of course, I never actually stick to these, but there are a ton of Winter 2018/2019 releases that I can’t wait to get to. Not surprisingly, they’re mostly fantasy. I am super excited to see that many of […]
HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! You may have noticed that I’ve been missing from the blog this week, or at least not as active as normal. That’s because I’ve been on a cruise in the middle of the Caribbean! I’m actually writing this before I leave, so hopefully it’s accurate. This week in The […]
2018 READING STATS Number Of Books You Read: 81 (so far) Number of Re-Reads: 2 Genre You Read The Most From: YA Fantasy 1. Best Book You Read In 2018? Legendary by Stephanie Garber 2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t? Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan 3. […]
Title: The Compound (The Compound #1) Author: S.A. Bodeen Publication Date: April 29, 2008Publisher: Feiwel and FriendsPages: 256Add to Goodreads Eli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone, and they’ve become accustomed to their new life. Accustomed, but not happy. For Eli, no amount of […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books I Didn’t Love From Authors I Love This week I wanted to talk about something that always bums me out – when I don’t love books by authors I have LOVED in the past. Some of these are continuations of series that I loved previously, and others are new standalones […]
Hi everyone! I’m back to challenge hosting for 2019 after a year off. This year I’m so excited to be hosting a challenge based on my absolute favorite genre, retellings. Although my favorite retellings are based on fairy tales, there are amazing retellings from all kinds of classic stories and this challenge celebrates all of […]
HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! I have good news and bad news. The good news is my puppy is still alive. The bad news is I guess he just gets random, unexplained fevers now. He made it over a week without having another fever, then on Friday one spiked out of nowhere! We covered […]
Title: Snow & Rose Author: Emily Winfield Martin Publication Date: October 10, 2017Publisher: Random House Books for Young ReadersPages: 224Add to Goodreads Snow and Rose didn’t know they were in a fairy tale. People never do…. Once, they lived in a big house with spectacular gardens and an army of servants. Once, they had a father and […]
Hi everyone! This week I DESPERATELY need to get rid of books from my TBR because I accidentally added a ton of new ones recently. I don’t know what’s wrong with me! The Down the TBR Hole meme was started by Lost In a Story and it is the most perfect tool for cleaning off shelves that […]
Title: Sanity & Tallulah Author: Molly Brooks Publication Date: October 16, 2018 Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: 240Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Sanity Jones and Tallulah Vega are best friends on Wilnick, the dilapidated space station they call home at the end of the galaxy. So […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Wintery and Holiday Books I Want To Read Yay, finally a topic that isn’t super difficult! I feel like every year there are a ton of winter books that I want to get to, but never quite get around to reading. One of these I actually did make it about halfway […]
HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! Welcome to another edition of Tracy’s dog tries not to die! My puppy Kovu did fine for the first few days this week, then on Thursday his temperature had again shot up to over 105 degrees. He spent another two days at the vet, one to get his fever […]
Title: This World We Live In (Last Survivors #3) Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer Publication Date: April 1, 2010Publisher: Harcourt Children’s BooksPages: 256Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 2 It’s been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth’s climate. For Miranda Evans, life as she knew it no […]
Yesterday I was introduced to the latest Book Twitter controversy. Tomi Adeyemi, the author of Children and Blood and Bone, accused Nora Roberts of copying her book title and trying to profit off of her (Tomi’s) success. (Nora Roberts’ response, if you’re interested.) Some people called into question which book had been titled first and pointed […]
