TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Before I start my actual recap, I’d like to ask everyone who has the time and inclination to fill out this super short, totally anonymous survey! Okay, now that’s out of the way. Thank you! My week has pretty much been the same old – mostly boring and uneventful. I […]
Title: Requiem (Delirium #3) Author: Lauren Oliver Publication Date: March 5, 2013Publisher: HarperTeenPages: 392Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 2 Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has transformed. The nascent rebellion that was underway in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston Publication Date: October 3, 2017 Set in a near-future world where the British Empire never fell and the United States never rose, That Inevitable Victorian Thing is a novel of love, duty, and the small moments […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books I Loved But Never Wrote A Review For Happy Tuesday! Since my favorite meme is officially on hiatus, I decided to take one from the vault that I didn’t have a chance to do! This week I’m sharing books I really enjoyed but didn’t get to review. Some of these […]
Happy Monday, everyone!! I hope your weekend was fantastic and that you’re having a great start to the week! (Okay, I’m just trying to hype up Mondays, but we know they all suck – go get yourself a cupcake!) WHAT WE’RE IN SEARCH OF I’m here to put out the call for guest posters for […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Happy Sunday, everyone!! I hope you all had a fantastic week and a great holiday to anyone who was celebrating. My week was fairly uneventful. I signed my pupper up for obedience school, which he’ll be starting in about a week (thankfully)! I can’t wait to send him off to […]
Recently I saw a post over at Bookavid about why you should really be doing more tags on your blog! Her post (and the fact that I love book tags) inspired me to find more tags to take part in. I found this tag on Spines and Covers, but it was originally created by Booktubers […]
Title: Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer #1) Author: Laini Taylor Publication Date: May 28, 2017 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersPages: 532Add to Goodreads The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Publication Date: January 30, 2018 Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the […]
Title: Now I Rise (The Conqueror’s Saga #2) Author: Kiersten White Publication Date: June 27, 2017Publisher: Delacorte PressPages: 496Add to Goodreads Review for book 1 //I received this book from ALA in exchange for an honest review// Lada Dracul has no allies. No throne. All she has is what she’s always had: herself. After failing […]
TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi again, everyone! In case you didn’t notice, MC and I have been taking a break from Cornerfolds. Why did I leave for a few weeks? Well, mostly because I was feeling extremely overwhelmed with life in general. A lot of new things have been happening with buying a new […]
Today I’m here to tell you something I never, ever thought I’d say: I’m going on hiatus. I’m sure you may have noticed that things have gotten pretty quiet around here. This blog has been my baby for over three years and I hold it to a high standard, but there has been a lot […]
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you’ve all had a fantastic week that was more productive than mine! My week was (shockingly) mostly consumed by a sick puppy. I ended up taking him to the vet and found out that the poor guy has kennel cough, despite having been vaccinated against it. :/ Luckily though, none […]
Title: The Shadow Queen Author: C.J. Redwine Narrator: Khristine Hvam Publication Date: February 16, 2016Publisher: Balzer + BrayAdd to Goodreads Lorelai Diederich, crown princess and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked queen who took both the Ravenspire throne and the life of her father. To do that, Lorelai needs to use the one […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Even the Darkest Stars by Heather Fawcett Publication Date: September 5, 2017 Set in a fictional Himalayan kingdom, this is the story of a girl enlisted by a legendary explorer to help him climb the kingdom’s deadliest mountain – only to discover that […]
Today’s Topic: Ten YA Fantasy Books That I’ve Recently Added To My TBR Lis Happy Tuesday! This week’s topic was surprisingly easy and I even managed to find ten that I didn’t include in last week’s anticipated list! I thought it was funny that almost half of them started had the word Beauty or Beast in […]
Welcome to the halfway point of the 2017 Dystopia Reading Challenge! I hope everyone is on track with meeting their goals! 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 other participants the opportunity to […]
Well, this has been yet another embarrassingly unproductive week here on the blog. I’ve been continuing to plan our trip for later this year, among other things. I have had almost no time to read between that and the puppy, who had a terrible reaction to K9 Advantix II this week. Head’s up: absolutely do […]
Title: Dreamfall (Dreamfall #1) Author: Amy Plum Narrator: Maria CabezasPublication Date: May 2, 2017Publisher: HarperTeenAdd to Goodreads Cata Cordova suffers from such debilitating insomnia that she agreed to take part in an experimental new procedure. She thought things couldn’t get any worse…but she was terribly wrong. Soon after the experiment begins, there’s a malfunction with […]
Title: Winterspell Author: Claire Legrand Publication Date: September 30, 2014Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Pages: 454 Add to Goodreads The clock chimes midnight, a curse breaks, and a girl meets a prince…but what follows is not all sweetness and sugarplums. New York City, 1899. Clara Stole, the mayor’s ever-proper daughter, leads a […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Most Anticipated Books For The Second Half of 2017 These are always my favorite topics to do because they’re always so easy! Which really works out because this almost didn’t get done due to a puppy emergency yesterday… But anyway. Here are my top ten most anticipated! And yes, this list […]
Well this week was insanely busy. First of all, I feel like I should apologize for being seriously awful at commenting back. :/ I hate when that happens and I promise to be better! My posts were also seriously lacking this week. As in, there weren’t many… But a few things were going on. First, […]
Title: 1984 Author: George Orwell Publication Date: June 8, 1949Publisher: Signet ClassicsPages: 328Add to Goodreads The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell’s prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of “negative utopia” -a startlingly original and haunting […]
Title: Pandemonium (Delirium #2) Author: Lauren Oliver Narrator: Sarah Drew Publication Date: February 28, 2012Publisher: HarperTeen Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 I’m pushing aside the memory of my nightmare, pushing aside thoughts of Alex, pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school, push, push, push, like Raven taught me […]
