Today’s Topic: Top Ten Unusual Beach Reads I Want To Read Eventually This topic… Every year I dread it. I hate “beach reads” so much that there’s no way I could put together a list of books that I liked. So this year I decided to go with books that are summer/ocean/island related that probably […]
Happy weekend, everyone! This week has been slightly easier with the puppy. He’s had fewer accidents in the house, although they haven’t completely stopped. I will be so happy when he’s fully house trained and I don’t have to clean up after him! The most exciting event of the week was previewing Pandora, the brand […]
Happy Saturday, everybody! It’s been a little while since I’ve brought some Disney for your weekend, but I have something exciting to share! You may or may not know that Disney is bringing Avatar’s Pandora to Animal Kingdom. Why? I haven’t the slightest clue, honestly. I have no idea why Disney thought a movie from […]
Title: Defy the Stars (Constellation #1) Author: Claudia Gray Publication Date: April 4, 2017 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 501 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Noemi Vidal is a teen soldier from the planet Genesis, once a colony of Earth that’s now […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios Publication Date: June 13, 2017 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 […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books With Absent Mothers Today’s topic was so hard! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I hate freebies! XD I looked and looked and I realized that I never remember anything about the moms in the books I read… Whoops! But I do remember the books where mothers […]
Title: Norse Mythology Author: Neil Gaiman Narrator: Neil Gaiman Publication Date: February 7, 2017 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Add to Goodreads Introducing an instant classic—master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths. Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his […]
Hi everyone! I would say I’m happy for the weekend, but really it’s the same as any other day now that I have a puppy who never sleeps past 6am. I hate to sound a bit whiney, but I can’t wait until he’s grown up a bit and can sleep in like my other two! […]
Title: Bone Gap Author: Laura Ruby Narrator: Dan Bittner Publication Date: March 3, 2016Publisher: Balzer + BrayAdd to Goodreads Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps—gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t surprised. After all, […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Hummingbird Heart by A.G. Howard Publication Date: August 15, 2017 Set 19 years after The Architect of Song. Shortly after escaping a circus tragedy, young Italian orphan, Willow Antoniette, seeks refuge at The Manor of Diversions—a holiday resort in England born of […]
Today’s Topic: Ten Five Things On My Reading Wishlist Okay, so I was actually scared of today’s topic. “Things on my reading wishlist” seemed super broad and I didn’t know where to start! Until i did and then I had a hard time stopping. :/ These are all things I absolutely adore in books and most […]
Title: A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses #3) Author: Sarah J. Maas Publication Date: May 2, 2017Publisher: BloomsburyPages: 699Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 and book 2 A nightmare, I’d told Tamlin. I was the nightmare. Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on […]
This week has been another hectic one, but there have been some exciting moments too! We started off by spending a night at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and going to the Wishes Dessert Party at the Magic Kingdom. Yesterday my brother graduated with his master’s degree and, although I wasn’t able to attend, it was still […]
Welcome to the fifth month 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 […]
Happy Friday, friends! The weekend is almost upon us! And with the weekend, as always, I’ll recap my week and tell you all about the slump I’ve been in and how horrible I feel for not meeting my blogging and reading goals (although I may actually have done a decent job on the reading part […]
Title: The Serpent King Author: Jeff Zetner Publication Date: March 8, 2016Publisher: Crown Books for Young ReadersPages: 384Add to Goodreads Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books With Gorgeous Dresses On The Cover Topics that ask me to be creative make me so nervous! Haha! I always worry that I won’t have an idea as creative as the next person’s. So here we are at one of my favorites – pretty dresses on book covers! Somehow I’ve […]
I really don’t have much to report this week, so this is going to be a rather boring recap! I haven’t been feeling particularly well and I’m also in what seems to be a never ending reading slump. I’m really hoping ACOWAR changes that when it arrives on Tuesday! This week I mostly played with […]
AM I A PURE-BLOOD, HALF-BLOOD, OR MUGGLEBORN? Tracy: I feel like a half-blood. My mom is probably the magical parent! MC: Probably Muggleborn, and jealous of everyone who grew up in the wizarding world. WHICH WAND CHOSE ME? Tracy: Black Walnut wood with a Phoenix feather core 11″ and Unyielding flexibility. MC: According to Pottermore, […]
Title: Saint Death Author: Marcus Sedgwick Publication Date: April 25, 2017 Publisher: Roaring Brook PressPages: 240 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// A propulsive, compelling, and unsparing novel set in the grimly violent world of the human and drug trade on the US-Mexican border. On […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Things That Will Make Me Instantly NOT Want To Read A Book After last week’s topic, I thought this would be a difficult topic to tackle, but surprisingly it wasn’t! (You know, I like complaining about things sometimes.) These are the top ten things that will make me NOT want to […]
Title: Falling Kingdoms (Falling Kingdoms #1) Author: Morgan Rhodes Publication Date: December 11, 2012Publisher: Razorbill Pages: 412 Add to Goodreads In the three kingdoms of Mytica, magic has long been forgotten. And while hard-won peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest now simmers below the surface. As the rulers of each kingdom grapple for […]
So… wow, this has been a pretty unproductive blogging week. I don’t know if you remember, but last Saturday I got a new puppy. This entire week has revolved around the little guy. I feel like this might be a fraction of what it’s like to have a human baby and I do not envy […]
Today I am excited to share an incredible giveaway for a #StrangetheDreamer prize pack thanks to @theNovl! This book has been on my radar since I first saw the gorgeous cover (and the author, honestly) and has been at the top of my must reads list! I’ve already heard so many amazing things about Strange […]
