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 […]
Title: Bad Romance Author: Heather Demetrios Publication Date: June 13, 2017 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.Pages: 368Add to Goodreads Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt off the floors. Out of her California town, too small to contain her […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic week. I returned home on Tuesday and have been enjoying spending time with my husband and puppies! New puppy is all done with day school and has learned a little, I guess? We still have to practice with him on leash […]
Title: Royal Bastards Author: Andrew Shvarts Publication Date: May 30, 2017Publisher: Disney-HyperionPages: 352Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Being a bastard blows. Tilla would know. Her father, Lord Kent of the Western Province, loved her as a child, but cast her aside as soon as […]
Happy Monday, everyone! We all know that Mondays are crap and mine is worse than normal this week, but I thought I’d try to make it fun anyway with a tag! I saw this in a pretty old post on Dreamland Book Blog and thought I’d bring it back. If you’re reading this, I tag […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Happy weekend! I don’t have much to report this week since it’s been a bit of a whirlwind. I spent most of the week working on candles and shuttling my puppy to obedience school and back. Yesterday I had to make an unexpected trip to North Carolina for my grandfather’s […]
Title: The Gauntlet (The Cage #3) Author: Megan Shepherd Publication Date: May 23, 2017Publisher: HarperCollinsPages: 393Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 2 The Maze Runner meets Scott Westerfeld in the final novel in the gripping and romantic Cage series, about teens abducted from Earth by an otherworldly race. Cora and her friends have […]
Hi everyone, and welcome to the EIGHTH month of the 2017 Dystopia Reading Challenge! I hope everyone is on track with meeting their goals! I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize for not keeping this challenge as up to date as I’ve promised to. If you’ve been following my blog, then you know I’ve […]
Title: Liesl & Po Author: Lauren Oliver Publication Date: October 4, 2011 Publisher: HarperCollinsPages: 307Add to Goodreads Liesl lives in a tiny attic bedroom, locked away by her cruel stepmother. Her only friends are the shadows and the mice,until one night a ghost appears from the darkness. It is Po, who comes from the Other […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books Everyone Says I MUST Read (But I Still Haven’t) Happy Tuesday, everyone! I’m back again today with another topic from the archives as we wait impatiently for Top Ten to return! This week I’m sharing ten books everyone tells me I need to read but I still haven’t gotten around […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG This week the puppy’s training adventure continued. He learned a little, but the trainers are still having a bit of trouble because of his short attention span. We actually ended up at the vet for another issue and left with medication to help calm him down so he can focus. […]
Title: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings #1) Author: Mackenzi Lee Publication Date: June 27, 2017Publisher: Katherine Tegen BooksPages: 513Add to Goodreads Review for book 2 Henry “Monty” Montague was born and bred to be a gentleman, but he was never one to be tamed. The finest boarding schools in England and the […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Glass Spare by Lauren Destefano Publication Date: October 24, 2017 A banished princess. A deadly curse. A kingdom at war. Wil Heidle, the only daughter of the king of the world’s wealthiest nation, has grown up in the shadows. Kept hidden from […]
Title: The Magicians (The Magicians #1) Author: Lev Grossman Publication Date: August 11, 2009Publisher: VikingPages: 402Add to Goodreads Like everyone else, precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater assumes that magic isn’t real, until he finds himself admitted to a very secretive and exclusive college of magic in upstate New York. There he indulges in joys […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG The puppy has completed his first week of school!! He can walk on a leash like a normal dog, come when you call him (on leash), and sometimes he can lay down. That’s, um… that’s about it. His trainers want to keep him for an extra week since he has […]
Happy Friday, friends!! The week is ALMOST over and we can all breathe a sigh of relief! Today I’m bringing back a super old tag that I found on Youtube from way back in 2012. (Honestly, can you believe 2012 was five years ago?) I’ve been having a bit of an embarrassing Twilight movie binge […]
Title: A Madness So Discreet Author: Mindy McGinnis Publication Date: October 6, 2015Publisher: Katherine Tegen BooksPages: 376Add to Goodreads Grace Mae knows madness. She keeps it locked away, along with her voice, trapped deep inside a brilliant mind that cannot forget horrific family secrets. Those secrets, along with the bulge in her belly, land her […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Origin by Dan Brown Publication Date: October 3, 2017 Bilbao, Spain Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science […]
Title: The Library of Fates Author: Aditi Khorana Publication Date: July 18, 2017 Publisher: RazorbillPages: 354Add to Goodreads A romantic coming-of-age fantasy tale steeped in Indian folklore, perfect for fans of The Star-Touched Queen and The Wrath and the Dawn No one is entirely certain what brings the Emperor Sikander to Shalingar. Until now, the […]
