Happy Saturday all my book blogging buddies!! I hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend! And just in case you don’t have enough going on, I have a little something to get the gears in your head going (because you obviously haven’t done enough thinking all week). You’re welcome! I’ve been thinking about something lately […]
Title: Siege and Storm (The Grisha #2) Author: Leigh Bardugo Narrator: Lauren Fortgang Publication Date: June 4, 2013Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 and book 3 Darkness never dies. Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Bright Smoke, Cold Fire by Rosamund Hodge Publication Date: September 27, 2016 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 […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Nine Book Boyfriends In honor of Valentine’s Day I have decided to share my top nine book boyfriends. You will see that I tend to go for the villains, although I’ve also been known to like a good guy or two in my day. I’m still not 100% sure whether I […]
Title: The Heart of Betrayal (The Remnant Chronicles #2) Author: Mary E. Pearson Publication Date: July 7, 2015Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 470 Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 Checlie’s Review Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save Lia’s […]
My Super Exciting Life This is the week that nothing exciting happened, truly. I took a short trip to Universal Studios on Monday, where I did nothing but walk and talk with a friend. No rides, just talks and ice cream! The rest of the week was even more uneventful, not that that’s a bad […]
Title: Island 731 Author: Jeremy Robinson Narrator: R. C. Bray Publication Date: March 26, 2013 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Add to Goodreads Mark Hawkins, former park ranger and expert tracker, is out of his element, working on board the Magellan, a research vessel studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But his work is interrupted when, […]
Title: Pines (Wayward Pines #1) Author: Blake Crouch Publication Date: January 1, 2012 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Pages: 305 Add to Goodreads Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson Publication Date: August 2, 2016 Lia and Rafe have escaped Venda and the path before them is winding and dangerous – what will happen now? This third and final book in The Remnant Chronicles is […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Five Futuristic Societies I’d Love to Visit I learned a thing this week. The thing that I learned is that most futuristic societies I’ve read about are not happy places that I would want to visit. This fact made my choices this week kind of hard, so I chose to do my top […]
Title: Shadow and Bone (The Grisha #1) Author: Leigh Bardugo Narrator: Lauren Fortgang Publication Date: June 5, 2012 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 2 and book 3 Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness […]
Welcome to the second month of the 2016 Dystopia Reading Challenge! I hope everyone has met all their January goals! If you’re new to the challenge, you can see the guidelines and sign up here! Link-up Rules Link up your February book reviews under “Review Link-up” and link up your discussion post under “Discussion Prompt Link-up” […]
Welcome to the second month of the 2016 Horror Reading Challenge! Please share your horror book reviews the month of February 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 guidelines and sign up here! February Review Link-up ‘);
My Super Exciting Life This week was, thankfully, mostly uneventful. I walked a few puppies, which was honestly so much fun. If I could walk dogs every day forever and get paid for it, I think I’d be happy. On Monday I headed over to Epcot for the afternoon and had lunch in Paris. After […]
It has recently come to my attention that either I am really confused about what qualifies as “dystopia” or a lot of other people are. Here’s what I think of when I picture dystopian fiction: Each of these books is sci-fi(ish), about people in the future dealing with crazy governments and dire situations, which is […]
Title: The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles #1) Author: Mary E. Pearson Publication Date: July 8, 2014 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 489 Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 2 & book 3 Checlie’s Review A princess must find her place in a reborn world. She flees on her wedding day. She steals ancient […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Publication Date: March 22, 2016 Reader, I murdered him. A darkly brilliant Gothic retelling of Jane Eyre from the Edgar-nominated author of The Gods of Gotham. Like the heroine of the novel she adores, Jane Steele suffers cruelly […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten YA Fantasies I REALLY need to read If you stop by my blog often, you may have noticed I’ve been on kind of a fantasy binge… But there are just SO MANY more out there that I need to read!! Here are the ten I want to get to first! […]
Title: The House Author: Christina Lauren Publication Date: October 6, 2015Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersPages: 384 Add to Goodreads Gavin tells Delilah he’s hers—completely—but whatever lives inside that house with him disagrees. After seven years tucked away at an East coast boarding school, Delilah Blue returns to her small Kansas hometown to […]
My Super Exciting Life Well, this has been an interesting week! I walked some dogs this week and that was super fun! I’m still in training at this new job, but I feel like I’m going to fit in just fine. I get to hang out with dogs! They get me. In other news, I […]
Happy Saturday, fellow book bloggers!! Today I’m doing something a little unusual on the blog and I’m pretty darned excited about it! I am unboxing my first ever Smuggler’s Bounty subscription box. If you don’t know anything Smuggler’s Bounty, it’s the official Star Wars subscription box by Funko. Unlike other subscription boxes, this one is […]
Last year I discovered something about myself: I am a polygamist reader. Yes, I’ll admit it. No, I’m not ashamed. I love to read multiple books at once. Sometimes I’ll read a hardcover book, an ebook, and listen to an audiobook, all at the same time. (Okay, well not at the exact same time, but […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas Publication Date: May 3, 2016 Feyre survived Amarantha’s clutches to return to the Spring Court–but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books I’ve Recently Added To My TBR So this was perhaps the easiest top ten topic I’ve ever had! For this week, I literally went to Goodreads and clicked on the most recent ten books I added to my “to read” list. I’ve switched them to alphabetical order, but here they are! […]
