As you may have noticed, I was pretty scarce last week. I did pop in to comment back every night (I tried to at least), but I didn’t have much time for roaming around the blogosphere. This was because I was at Disney World in Florida and disconnected from the internet! Day One I woke […]
Welcome to Paper to Popcorn! Paper to Popcorn is not be your typical book vs. movie comparison. The focus is on retellings, although there will be some features of movie vs. the source material. Each chosen book/movie combo will battle it out in a showdown to prove which one is the best on its own […]
Title: Insylum Author: Z. Rider Publication Date: June 9, 2015Publisher: Dark Ride Publishing Pages: 122 Add to Goodreads Purchase on Amazon The Last Ones In…Never Come Out A.J. changed in boot camp, coming out all straight-backed and short-haired. His best friend Nate hardly recognizes him anymore, especially when it comes to the way he acts. […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Unquiet by Mikaela Everett Publication Date: September 22, 2015 For most of her life, Lirael has been training to kill—and replace—a duplicate version of herself on a parallel Earth. She is the perfect sleeper-soldier. But she’s beginning to suspect she is not […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books That Would Be On Your Syllabus If You Taught YA Dystopia101 YA Dystopia is one of my absolute favorite genres!! If you’re not a dystopia reader and you want to be, any of these series would be a fantastic place to start! An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir […]
Title: End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days #3) Author: Susan Ee Publication Date: May 12, 2015 Publisher: Skyscape Pages: 331 Add to Goodreads Purchase on Amazon Reviews for book 1 & book 2 End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee’s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After […]
My Super Exciting Life This week was basically spent in preparation for today because… as you’re reading this I’m on the road to Disney World!! Finally! But other than that… Slasher Girls and Monster Boys came out this week so yay!! I ordered a copy but I’m waiting on it to get to me and […]
We’ve all been there, giving out the dreaded one star ratings that we know will cause heartache for the author who happens to come across it. But sometimes it has to be done! Not every book can be a five star work of art. It breaks my heart every single time I have to write […]
Title: Talon (Talon #1) Author: Julie Kagawa Narrator: Caitlin Davies, MacLeod Andrews, Chris Patton Publication Date: October 28, 2014 Publisher: Harlequin TeenAdd to Goodreads Reviews for book 2 and book 3 Long ago, dragons were hunted to near extinction by the Order of St. George, a legendary society of dragon slayers. Hiding in human form and […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Marvels by Brian Selznick Publication Date: September 15, 2015 Caldecott Award winner and bookmaking trailblazer Brian Selznick once again plays with the form he invented and takes readers on a voyage! Two seemingly unrelated stories–one in words, the other in pictures–come together. […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Auto-buy Authors Today is the day when I am shocked at my own pickiness. I ALMOST could not come up with 10 authors I would auto-buy books from. A few months ago there might have been a couple more on this list, but then their newly released books let me down […]
Title: Reawakened Author: Colleen Houck Publication Date: August 11, 2015 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: 400 Add to Goodreads When seventeen-year-old Lilliana Young enters the Metropolitan Museum of Art one morning during spring break, the last thing she expects to find is a live Egyptian prince with godlike powers, who has been reawakened after a thousand […]
My Super Exciting Life First of all… SEVEN DAYS UNTIL DISNEY!! I’m about to lose it, guys! It’s everything I can do not to go ahead and pack and sit on my suitcase in front of the door for the next week. It will be a strange trip since I’m driving down by myself. It […]
Welcome to the Cornerfolds First Annual End of Summer Giveaway!! (Don’t you like how I say that as if I’m sure it’s going to happen again next year?) As sad as it seems, the summer is coming to a very abrupt end. Many of you are out purchasing boring books for school and buying new […]
//DISCLAIMER: JK Rowling is no longer reviewed or promoted by Cornerfolds.com following her repeated transphobia// Welcome to Paper to Popcorn! Paper to Popcorn is not be your typical book vs. movie comparison. The focus is on retellings, although there will be some features of movie vs. the source material. Each chosen book/movie combo will battle […]
Title: The Creeping Author: Alexandra Sirowy Publication Date: August 18, 2015 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Pages: 400 Add to Goodreads Twelve years ago Stella and Jeanie vanished while picking strawberries. Stella returned minutes later, with no memory of what happened. Jeanie was never seen or heard from again. Now Stella is seventeen, and she’s over it. […]
//Thank you to Bookcase for providing a free box for review// A couple months ago I found out about Bookcase, a new subscription box that specializes in sending out hand-picked books to readers! I’ve always been wary of book subscription boxes since they’re never personalized and there’s no way of knowing what you might get, […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender Publication Date: August 25, 2015 Asylum meets Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, in this riveting tale of ghosts, secrets, and family, from master of suspense Katie Alender. Delia’s new house isn’t just a […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Authors I’ve Read The Most Books From This list might be a little surprising… I know it was to me! I don’t read many “adult” books these days. But when I was a teenager I binged series by authors I found and enjoyed. I don’t like change… Catherine Coulter Charlaine […]
Title: The Winner’s Crime (The Winner’s Trilogy #2) Author: Marie Rutkoski Narrator: Justine Eyre Publication Date: March 3, 2015 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 Book two of the dazzling Winner’s Trilogy is a fight to the death as Kestrel risks betrayal of country for love. The […]
My Super Exciting Life Well, this was a fairly calm week until yesterday when I got a Book Depository order in the mail. Yesterday was extremely annoying. Let me fill you in on my Book Depository drama. On July 11th I placed my first order through Book Depository for two Harry Potter books with UK […]
Title: The Mold Series Author: Jess (helpmenosleep, AlanPWtf, valnercupid) Posted on: July 2013 – present Location: Reddit I originally posted about this series last July as one of my very first Spine Tingling Saturdays! Since then the story has come to be known as The Mold and has continued to grow and gain something of a cult following […]
Okay, lady readers. Let’s talk about our fictional counterparts – the women who we spend inordinate amounts of time reading about. Over the last couple years I’ve come to understand that my entire enjoyment of a book is hinged upon my enjoyment of the characters. Annoying characters can completely ruin my reading experience! However, the […]
Title: Caught in Us (Lost #3) Author: Layla Hagen Publication Date: August 3, 2015 Publisher: Amazon Digital Services Pages: 256 Add to Goodreads I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. Dani Cohen knows Damon is trouble the second he walks in during senior year. He has bad boy written […]
