Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black Publication Date: January 13, 2015 Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books That Were Hard For Me To Read Today I’m going to be talking about books that I just could not get through. While this can happen for a number of reasons and I’m not going to try to narrow it down. As always, here they are in alphabetical order! A.I. […]
Title: Suspicion Author: Alexandra Monir Publication Date: December 9, 2014 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: 368 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Mysterious. Magnificent. Creepy. Welcome to Rockford Manor. “There’s something hidden in the Maze.” Seventeen-year-old Imogen has never forgotten the last words her father said […]
Title: Obsidian (Lux #1) Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout Publication Date: May 8, 2012 Publisher: Entangled Teen Pages: 335 Add to Goodreads Starting over sucks. When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I’d pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring… until I spotted my hot neighbor, […]
Title: Orenda Author: Ruth Silver Publication Date: April 13, 2014 Publisher: Patchwork Press Pages: 232 Add to Goodreads Join forces with a parallel universe. Dark forces, magical creatures, and the world Lil thought she knew collide when a dream transports her to the strange world of Orenda. Stunned and terrified, Lil comes face to face […]
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: Book character(s) you’d like to see with their own Twitter page. This is such a weird question… I do enjoy […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris Publication Date: October 14, 2014 Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened? Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books On My Fall To-Be-Read list Bird Box by Josh Malerman Most people ignored the outrageous reports on the news. But they became too frequent, they became too real. And soon, they began happening down the street. Then the Internet died. The television and radio went silent. The phones stopped ringing. […]
Title: The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #2) Author: Michelle Hodkin Narrator: Christy Romano Publication Date: October 23, 2012 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past. She can’t. She used to think her problems were all in her head. […]
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: Blogger pet peeves? When I finish an entry, schedule the post date, hit “publish,” and, for whatever reason, it posts […]
Over the last three days of suffering from what has become known as the “Carolina Plague” at UNC (also known as what is, most likely, the common cold) I have spent every possible moment in my recliner with Netflix. More specifically, I’ve been binging season three of Once Upon a Time. If you don’t watch […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Revival by Stephen King Publication Date: November 11, 2014 In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. […]
Today’s Topic: Top Authors I’ve Only Read One Book From But NEED to Read More I had kind of a hard time finding authors to talk about for this topic. My usual M.O. if I find an author I love is to dig up everything he or she has written and devour it within a […]
Title: Spartacus: Swords and Ashes Author: J.M. Clements Publication Date: January 3, 2012 Publisher: Titan Books Pages: 320 Add to Goodreads Betrayed by the Romans. Forced into slavery. Reborn as a Gladiator. The classic tale of the Republic’s most infamous rebel comes alive in the graphic and visceral Starz tv show, Spartacus. Torn from his […]
Title: Had to be You Author: Juliet Chatham Publication Date: August 5, 2014 Publisher: Swoon Romance Pages: 360 Add to Goodreads Buy at Amazon When Rory Finn first left behind the familiarity of her quiet, picturesque hometown to pursue a professional career in the city after college, her intention was to focus on the future—until […]
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: Before blogging (dark times people!) how would you find out about new books or did you? Before I started blogging […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Shutter by Courtney Alameda Publication Date: February 3, 2015 Horror has a new name: introducing Courtney Alameda. Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat—a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Underrated Authors or Books in the YA genre. I really had to think about this topic, to be honest. One thing I’ve realized this week is that I read a lot of mainstream fiction – especially since I’ve broken into book blogging. Back in the day I found books through different […]
Title: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #1) Author: Michelle Hodkin Narrator: Christy Romano Publication Date: September 27, 2011 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 2 & book 3 Mara Dyer believes life can’t get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It […]
Title: The weirdness that’s happening… Author: polarbearsfortea / David Sharrock Posted on: January – February 2014 Location: Reddit This story… holy crap. I wish I had something to compare it to, but I really don’t. Maybe Prometheus… but not? In this story, the main character, Bára works in a remote settlement but then strange things start […]
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: Are you also a writer and what genre or did you ever consider writing? Little known fact: I used to […]
Last night confirmed something for me: I am not an academic or a scholar. Heck, maybe I’m not even as smart as I thought I was. Or maybe I just don’t fit well into the confines of higher education. Or maybe I’m just not a history major. Yep, it’s probably that one. Sitting around a […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Endgame: The Calling by James Frey & Nils Johnson-Shelton Publication Date: October 7, 2014 Twelve thousand years ago, they came. They descended from the sky amid smoke and fire, and created humanity and gave us rules to live by. They needed gold and […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Book Characters That Would Be Sitting At My Lunch Table This topic is a little strange to me since I’ve never sat at the “cool” table. My table was (I guess) what you could call the “outcast” table. We were the nerds, the goths, the weird ones, the JROTC kids… We were the […]
