• Feature Posts/Weekly Memes

    It’s Monday! What Are You Reading (Jan 30)

    Special thanks to Book Journey for hosting! To join in, click the button! This was a slow reading week. I finished what I set out to, nothing more and nothing less. I need to catch up on reviews too, but the one review that I did write was for a book that I loved! Please check it out :). Finished Reading: Illumine by Alvia Anders (4/5 Rating) – Review to come. Death Drop by Sean Allen (5/5 Rating) – Review to come. Everneath by Brodi Ashton (5/5 Rating and OMG READ THIS BOOK!) – Review Currently Reading: I am loving…

  • Ramblings

    Extending sign ups for the Secret Cupid Swap!

    If you haven’t already had a chance to sign up, I’m extending the sign ups until January 31st! That way people still have plenty of time to shop and mail. If you want to join in, spread a smile, and get some goodies, sign up now! Here’s the original post: https://www.hopelessbibliophile.com/2012/01/secret-cupid-swap.html

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Everneath

    Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Everneath (Everneath #1) Author: Brodi Ashton Publisher: Harper Collins / Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 370 Release Date: January 24, 2012 Source: Teen Book Scene / Publisher ——————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ——————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Everyone. Really. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she’s returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before…

  • Ramblings

    Beat those reading slumps!

    Let’s face it, we bibliophiles, we readers of mountainous piles of books, all of us at some point have hit a reading slump. You stare at your shelves upon shelves up books with love and adoration. You carefully skim over each one to see what you’ll read. (Although not necessarily with an umbrella…) Image credit to We Heart It! You pick that faithful next book, you read it ravenously, you finish it with a huge smile, and then…a reading slump occurs. NOTHING seems to take the place of that last book. You pick up and throw down 3 or 4…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: The Butterfly Clues

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Butterfly Clues Author: Kate Ellison Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: February 14, 2012 Source: NetGalley ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild language; Mild violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who want a thrilling mystery, but can also put up with the character’s OCD tendencies. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad’s consulting job means she’s grown up moving from one rundown city to the next, and she’s learned…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Fracture

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Fracture Author: Megan Miranda Publisher: Walker & Company Pages: Hardcover; 264 Release Date: January 27, 2012 Source: NetGalley ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language ———————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for something a bit different. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet…

  • Ramblings

    A call for recommendations!

    Since you are some of the most bookish people I know dear readers, I come to you with a call for help! I work in an after school program with kindergartners. Our library of books for them is sadly lacking, since this is the first year we’ve had a kindergarten program. It’s so sad! Oh to be surrounded by wonderful books. Anyhow I’m looking for book recommendations for two things: 1) Books that have repetition, so I can read them with the kids and then they can read them themselves later on during Independent Reading Time. 2) Fabulous picture books…

  • Feature Posts/Weekly Memes

    It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (Jan 23)

    A huge thank you to Book Journey for hosting! Click the button to join in! This post recaps two weeks instead of one! Last weekend I was so busy being the center of engagement party attention, that I didn’t even think of doing one of these :). So bear with me. I got to read and review quite a few awesome books these past two weeks! Finished Reading:  Blood and Bullets by James R. Tuck (3/5 Rating) – Review International Kissing Club by Ivy Adams (3/5 Rating) – Review to come (WIN THIS!) The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: How to Make a Golem and Terrify People

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: How to Make a Golem and Terrify People Author: Alette Willis Publisher: Floris Books Pages: Paperback; 224 Release Date: November 17, 2011 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade Content Screening: Nothing of note ——————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Middle grade readers who love adventures, and older readers who love a good story. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / Librarything “You think you’re a fairy godmother or something?” I asked.  “Or something,” Michael agreed.  Edda is tired of her nickname, ‘Mouse’, and wants to be braver.…

  • Ramblings

    On writing reviews.

    (Sometimes that evil blinking cursor just mocks me.) Lately I’ve been pondering the best way to write reviews. Any of you who also write a book blog probably have gone through this same thing. You give your opinion, you read it over, and then you second guess yourself. Is your review too short? Too long? Are there spoilers? Will people understand what you are talking about? Or maybe it’s just me and I’m over thinking it. Anyway I’ve finally decided that, for me, the best way to write reviews is just to write! I just sit down and type out…