Top Ten Tuesday #140: shortest books I’ve read and enjoyed

Today’s Topic:   Top Ten Shortest Books I’ve Read (And Actually Liked) Happy Top Ten Tuesday everyone! This week I decided to go with the shortest books I’ve read. I weeded out all the ones I didn’t enjoy and kept the ten I rated 4+ stars. I’m excited about this week because I think all our […]

ARC Review: Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves

Title: Blood Rose Rebellion  Author: Rosalyn Eves Publication Date: March 28, 2017 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: 416 Add to Goodreads The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of Red Queen. In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, one girl has the […]

Weekly Recap: 3/12 – 3/18

I made it through the week! Good grief, what a whirlwind. We moved into our new house a little over a week ago and ever since then we’ve had people in and out of our house delivering, installing, and fixing things. I am so ready for things to settle down! I haven’t had many spare […]

The Beauty and the Beast Book Tag

GUYS! Beauty and the Beast is in theaters and I feel like I’ve waited my whole life for this! Confession: I probably won’t see it until next week because I prefer to avoid opening weekend crowds. But to help me get into the BatB mood, I’m participating in this glorious tag created by Amber @ Du […]

Audiobook Review: Champion by Marie Lu

Title: Champion (Legend #3)  Author: Marie Lu Narrator: Lise Ravn Publication Date: November 15, 2013Publisher: Putnam Juvenile Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 and book 2 He is a Legend. She is a Prodigy. Who will be Champion?  June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic—and each other—and now […]

Guest Book Review: City of Thieves by David Benioff

Hello Cornerfolds readers! I’m overjoyed to be coming to you as a guest blogger today! I’m fairly new to the book blogging community and it didn’t take long to realize that this community is filled with such friendly people! So when I heard that the lovely ladies from Cornerfolds were looking for help during a […]

Top Ten Tuesday #139: My Spring TBR

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Books On My Spring TBR Happy Tuesday! This week’s topic was all about Spring TBRs so I decided to choose ten books being published in Spring 2017 that I’m excited to read! I can’t wait to get to some of these ARCs and the rest when my preorders arrive!  A Court […]

ARC Review: Hunted by Meagan Spooner

Title: Hunted Author: Meagan Spooner Publication Date: March 14, 2017 Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 352 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old […]

Weekly Recap: 3/5 – 3/11

This week has been incredibly long and exhausting so this recap will be extremely short. We’ve moved into our new house, so yay! But we’ve been going non-stop trying to get everything in order. My Papa (grandpa, for those who aren’t from the South) passed away yesterday so I’ve been processing that. I’ll try to […]

Dystopia Reading Challenge: March Link-up

Welcome to the third link-up of the 2017 Dystopia Reading Challenge! Sorry for the delay! It’s been a crazy month! 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 […]

Audiobook Review: Prodigy by Marie Lu

Title: Prodigy (Legend #2)  Author: Marie Lu Narrator: Steven Kaplan Publication Date: January 29, 2013 Publisher: Putnam JuvenileAdd to Goodreads Review for book 1 Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his […]

Guest Post: Book Nerd Chelcie’s Top Ten Quotes

On any given day if you ask me what my favorite quote is you will get a different answer every time. I am constantly marking lines in books that mean a lot to me. Being a reader and a writer of words mean so much to me so it is not a surprise that there […]

Top Ten Tuesday #138 From the Archives: Books Still On My TBR

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Books I Just HAD To Buy…  But Are Still Sitting On My Bookshelf Happy Tuesday everyone! Since Top Ten Tuesday is still on hiatus, I’ve taken another topic from the Top Ten archives that I never got a chance to participate in. This week I’m sharing the top ten books that I […]

Get to know me: Who Am I? Blog Tag

This week I have decided to participate in another book tag! Was I tagged? Nope, but here I am anyway! (It’s kind of like when you invite yourself over to your friend’s house.) I originally saw this tag over at Molly’s Book Nook and I am inviting anyone who wants to participate to invite yourself […]

Top Ten Tuesday #137 From the Archives: Favorite Covers

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Favorite Covers Sadly… sadly, Top Ten Tuesday is on a short hiatus until March. But I can totally sympathize with needing a break! In the meantime, I’ve decided to take some from the Top Ten archives that I never got a chance to participate in. This week it’s my ten favorite […]

DNF ARC Review: 100 Hours by Rachel Vincent

Title: 100 Hours Author: Rachel Vincent Publication Date: March 28, 2017Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Pages: 368Add to Goodreads A decadent spring break getaway on an exotic beach becomes a terrifying survival story when six Miami teens are kidnapped and ransomed. Maddie is beyond done with her cousin Genesis’s entitled and shallow entourage. Genesis is so […]

Weekly Recap: 2/19 – 2/25

Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog What. A. Week. You may have noticed that things have been a bit quieter around the blog lately and that’s honestly just because there has been A LOT going on! Currently my husband and I are preparing to move to our new home in a couple weeks and as you […]

Audiobook Review: Legend by Marie Lu

Title: Legend (Legend #1) Author: Marie Lu Narrator: Mariel Stern Publication Date: November 29, 2011 Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Add to Goodreads What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of […]

The Disney Princess Book Tag

You may have noticed (or maybe you haven’t) that I’ve been a little scarce around the blog in the last week or so. I’ll admit I’ve been in a bit of a slump and a lot of it has to do with the insanity that has been my life lately. Today I’ve found a tag […]

Top Ten Tuesday #136: books I loved less than expected

Today’s Topic:  Ten Books I Loved Less Than I Thought I Would I am usually a pretty good judge of what I’ll like or not, but every now and then I’m surprised by how wrong I am! These are ten books I totally expected to love and ended up really not liking at all. The […]

Weekly Recap: 2/12 – 2/18

Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog This has been a fairly uneventful week. I got a little packing done for our upcoming move and started a new show on Netflix – Shameless! I don’t know if any of you have watched this but it’s gold. I’ve already blown through season one this week and I am […]

Why reading is basically the same as cardio

Running, I hate it. I used to get a little bit of pleasure (a little) from running long distances, years ago before I hurt my knee somehow. Now I can’t really do much running without that throbbing pain coming back to haunt me. Shockingly, I wasn’t all that devastated that I couldn’t run anymore! These […]

Audiobook Review: The 100 by Kass Morgan

Title: The 100 Author: Kass Morgan Narrator: Justin Torres & Phoebe Strole Publication Date: September 3, 2013Publisher: Little, Brown and CompanyAdd to Goodreads No one has set foot on Earth in centuries — until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth’s radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile […]

Top Ten #135: love triangles I really loved

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Love Triangles I Actually Really Enjoyed I hate love triangles as much as the next person… or so I thought. When I saw today’s topic I had no idea which way I would go with it. Then I looked at several Goodreads trope lists and realized there were actually quite a few […]