Happenings Off the Blog… Well, this has officially been the worst blogging week of the last two and a half years. My inlaws were in town and, while I anticipated having plenty of time during their visit to read and blog, we ended up doing things from the time we woke up until we went […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Characters I’d Name A Dog After I had so much fun with this topic! I always say that I need more pets to name because I there are so many awesome names out there, and some are hilarious. For example, my 10lb toy fox terrier’s registered name is Bella the Beast. […]
Title: Gemina (The Illuminae Files #2) Author: Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Publication Date: October 18, 2016 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: 608 Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 //I received this book from ALA in exchange for an honest review// Moving to a space station at the edge of the […]
Happenings Off the Blog… This week was pretty busy leading up to family visiting. I had a little time to read, which was great! I also got a few new ones to add to the ever-growing TBR. On Thursday evening my in-laws arrived to spend a little over a week with us. We went to […]
Today I want to talk about a topic that I’ve been thinking about a lot for the last few months. A while back there were a lot of posts floating around the interwebs discussing the discrepancies between men and women authors in the young adult world. I saw people talking about how men have better […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books I Read Because People Told Me To What I learned about myself this week: I don’t actually read a whole lot of books based on recommendations from others. I tend to read what I feel like based on what’s coming out and what sounds good at the time. That being said, […]
Title: Uprooted Author: Naomi Novik Publication Date: May 19, 2015Publisher: Del Rey Pages: 438 Add to Goodreads “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a […]
Happenings Off the Blog… Wow, what a week! Monday started off slow with some work and some hanging out around the house. My husband and I are preparing for our family to visit for 9 days, so we actually do have a lot to get ready for! All of that had to be put on […]
As you may know, I’m in Orlando and I’m gearing up to ride out Hurricane Matthew at home with my husband and our two dogs. There’s water in the tub, a camping stove on standby, and everything is unplugged. Matthew has us all understandably nervous, being the biggest storm anticipated to make landfall in over […]
Welcome to month ten of the 2016 Dystopia Reading Challenge! I hope everyone has met all their goals so far! If you’re new to the challenge, you can see the guidelines and sign up here! Link-up Rules Link up your book reviews under “Review Link-up” as follows: Name of book @ Your blog name, Goodreads, Shelfari, […]
Welcome to the tenth month of the 2016 Horror Reading Challenge! I hope everyone is meeting their goals so far! Please share your horror book reviews for the month of October in the link-up below using the format Your Name @ Your Blog (Book Name). If you’re new to the challenge, you can see the […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Flame In the Mist by Renée Ahdieh Publication Date: May 2, 2017 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn, comes a sweeping, action-packed YA adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal Japan where Mulan meets Tamora […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Villains I (Shamelessly) Love This week’s topic speaks to me!! I love a good villain more than pretty much anything and there are quite a few, both in books and in movies (and TV) that I absolutely adore! Some are villains who aren’t all that bad and some really are that bad […]
Title: Beast Author: Brie Spangler Publication Date: October 11, 2016Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: 336Add to Goodreads //I received this book at ALA in exchange for an honest review// A witty, wise, and heart-wrenching novel that will appeal to fans of Rainbow Rowell and David Levithan. Tall, meaty, muscle-bound, and hairier than most […]
Happenings Off the Blog… Welcome to the slowest week in the history of forever! (Also known as the week that confirmed that I really need to queue up some posts for slow weeks.) I barely read anything and decided to re-read a book on audio instead of listening to something new that would make for […]
Tender lumplings everywhere. Life’s no fun without a good scare! I mean, um… It’s almost Halloween! As you may know, I’m a pretty big horror fanatic so Halloween is one of my favorite times of year! Every year I vow to read horror all month and every year I fail, but today I’m sharing my […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books On My Fall TBR List There are so many amazing books coming out that it was honestly hard to narrow this down to ten! These are the ones I’m most excited about reading in the fall. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo Dark Matter by Blake Crouch The Diabolic S.J. Kincaid […]
Title: Glass Sword (Red Queen #2) Author: Victoria Aveyard Publication Date: February 9, 2016Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 444Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different. Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned […]
Happenings Off the Blog… This week has been completely insane, honestly. I’ve had several extra clients all week, so that has taken up a lot of my time and energy! My husband and I also went to do some house-related stuff this week and then went to Halloween Horror Nights on Friday! I was kind […]
Title: Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) Author: Sylvain Neuvel Narrator: Full Cast Publication Date: April 26, 2016 Publisher: Del Rey Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 2 & book 3 A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a […]
Welcome, horror junkies! It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Halloween! (Okay, honestly I love Christmas most but Halloween is a close second.) This is my second year hosting the Horror Reading Challenge, this year with Lilyn from Sci-Fi and Scary as my co-host! With the help of Michelle @ I Push Books, […]
We’re 3/4 of the way through the 2016 Horror Challenge! Halloween is nearly here and hopefully that will give everyone the motivation they need to close the gap on their challenge goals with some creepy reads. If you aren’t familiar with this challenge, check out all the details and (maybe) sign up here! Otherwise, congrats on […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books I Wouldn’t Have Finished Without the Audio If you’ve spent much time around my blog you already know I’m a huge fan of audiobooks! Often I’ll pick up books on audio that I don’t think I would normally read in text format. For better or worse, these are ten books […]
Title: Bright Smoke, Cold Fire Author: Rosamund Hodge Publication Date: September 27, 2016 Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: 448 Add to Goodreads When the mysterious fog of the Ruining crept over the world, the living died and the dead rose. Only the walled city of Viyara was left untouched. The heirs of the city’s most […]
