Top Ten Tuesday #40: Characters I’d like to check in with

Today’s Topic:   Top Ten Characters You’d Like To Check In With. For anyone wondering, this is the clarification that was given for today’s prompt: The book or series is over and you so just wish you could peek in on the “life” you imagine they are leading years down the line after the story ends. […]

Audiobook Review: Asylum by Madeleine Roux

Title: Asylum Author: Madeleine Roux Publication Date: August 20, 2013 Publisher: Harper Teen Pages: 313 Add to Goodreads For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Prep is more than a summer program—it’s a lifeline. An outcast at his high school, Dan is excited to finally make some friends in his last summer before college. But […]

Weekly Recap: 3/29 – 4/4

My Super Exciting Life  Happy chocolate bunny day, fellow book bloggers! This week has been relatively uneventful, although I have been a bundle of nerves getting ready for my husband to come home on Wednesday! I’ve been much more on my game about getting homework done in anticipation of much less free time in the […]

The curse of being a mood reader

If you’ve been following my blog for awhile, you may have noticed that I tend to post reviews long after I actually read the book. Or maybe you haven’t if you aren’t a stalker… In any case, I do this for a reason. That reason is that I have the Mood Reader Curse. What’s the […]

Feature & Follow #42: Dreams

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week’s Question:  Have you ever had a reoccurring dream?  What was it?  I can’t say I have had any recurrent dreams. But […]

YA Shaming: the lack of YA representation at my university

Okay, I’ll admit the title may be a little overdramatic, but that’s the in thing to do now, right? I’ve been a student at the University of North Carolina for nearly two years and am graduating in May. Despite this, I haven’t spent much time in the campus bookstore. If you’re wondering why, it’s because […]

Waiting on Wednesday #43: The House by Christina Lauren

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The HouseChristina Lauren Publication Date: October 27, 2015 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 find that […]

Top Ten Tuesday #39: Most recent TBR

Today’s Topic:   Ten Books You Recently Added  To Your To-Be-Read List Okay, I’m just going to go into Goodreads and pull the last ten I added. I have literally no idea what I will find there, so we’re both in for a surprise! (I skipped multiples from the same author.)          The Raven Boys by […]

Book Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry

Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Publication Date: April 26, 1993 Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books Pages: 179 Add to Goodreads In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community’s Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders […]

Weekly Recap: 3/22 – 3/28

My Super Exciting Life  Well… it’s been a little boring this week, which I’m certainly not complaining about! On Tuesday I met up with my parents and brother for dinner, so that was basically the highlight… Haha! I went to Toys R Us to look around because I’m five and found a gorgeous Cinderella doll, […]

Feature & Follow Friday #41: BEA

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week’s Question:  Have you ever been to BEA?  If not, what’s stopping you?  I haven’t been to BEA! I’m almost a year […]

Horror Reading Challenge: First Quarter Update

Aaaaand we’ve made it! Welcome to the official update post for the first quarter of the Horror Reading Challenge! This is the first challenge I have ever hosted and I am super excited to have 20 participants joining us! I realized after making the original post (like, kind of a long time after making the […]

Waiting on Wednesday #42: Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Their Fractured Lightby Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner Publication Date: December 29, 2015 A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say […]

Top Ten Tuesday #38: Favorite Teen Reads

Today’s Topic:   Top 10 Books From My Teen Years That I Would Love To Revisit When I was a teenager, Goodreads was not a thing. At least not until very late in my teen years. As you can imagine, by the time there was a rating system for the books I’d read, it had been […]

Book Tour Review: Bound by Spells by Stormy Smith

Title: Bound by Spells (Bound #2) Author: Stormy Smith Publication Date: March 19, 2015 Publisher: Perfect Storm Publishing Pages: 472 Add to Goodreads Review for book 1 Aidan Montgomery hadn’t been prepared for Amelia Bradbury to walk in and then out of his life. He also hadn’t expected to find the powerful magic hidden deep […]

Weekly Recap: 3/15 – 3/21

My Super Exciting Life  Although Spring Break has ended, this was a pretty good week! It was a fairly easy week as far as school went – just a lot of showing up and listening. On Sunday I saw Cinderella with my mom and it was amazing! I am absolutely in love with this new […]

Author Spotlight & Interview: Catherine Coulter

If you follow my blog regularly, you are most likely aware that the vast majority of the books I read and review are Young Adult books. But before I read YA, I shopped library book sales to score my next read (or reads for the next year, rather). That is how I came upon Catherine […]

Feature & Follow Friday #40: Fictional Inspiration

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week’s Question:  Have you ever been inspired by  a book character to do something?  Who was the character and what was it? […]

Waiting on Wednesday #41: Reawakened by Colleen Houck

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Reawakenedby Colleen Houck Publication Date: August 25, 2015 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 […]

Top Ten Tuesday #37: Spring TBR list

Today’s Topic:   Top Ten Books On  My Spring TBR List I love this topic because it gives me a chance to set some real reading goals! I’m a mood readers, so my TBR lists usually change really quickly. Here are the top five new books I want to read and the top five re-reads I’d […]

Book Review: World After by Susan Ee

Title: World After (Penryn and the End of Days #2) Author: Susan Ee (Penryn & the End of Days #2) Publication Date: November 19, 2013 Publisher: Skyscape Pages: 314 Add to Goodreads Review for #1 In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together […]

Weekly Recap: 3/8 – 3/14

My Super Exciting Life  This week was Spring Break!! Finally! I needed some time off. I did absolutely nothing exciting, but I did Netflix/Hulu binge CW’s Beauty and the Beast and ABC’s Once Upon a Time! I was somewhat productive, though. I’ve started training for a race this November at Disney World, which I plan […]

Feature & Follow Friday #39: Blog features

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week’s Question:  Have you come up with any special memes or features on your blog that you’d  like people to visit more? […]

Pre-Release Event: Bound by Spells by Stormy Smith

Title: Bound By Spells (Bound #2) Author: Stormy Smith Publication Date: March 19, 2015 Publisher: Perfect Storm Publishing  Pages: 470 Add to Goodreads Aidan Montgomery hadn’t been prepared for Amelia Bradbury to walk in and then out of his life. He also hadn’t expected to find the powerful magic hidden deep within him for the last nineteen years, but he’s embracing […]