• Ramblings

    NaBloPoMo in November

    Consider this a heads-up, but I’m planning on participating in NaBloPoMo in November! Most everyone knows about NaNoWriMo and the cheering squads that help make writing less of a burden for all of those people out there who need some motivation. I was happy to find out that there’s the same type of thing for bloggers! Let’s be honest. Blogging is great. It’s also exhausting, and time consuming. Sometimes ruts are fallen into. It happens. I need something to pull me out, and I’m hoping that participating in this will do just that! So expect next month to not be entirely…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Hardwired by Trisha Leaver and Lindsay Currie

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Hardwired Author: Trisha Leaver and Lindsay Currie Publisher: Flux Pages: paperback; 240 Release Date: November 8, 2015 Source: Publisher/Netgalley ———————————————– Genre: Teens/YA Suspense Content Screening:  Some violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a strong male lead in a not so distant dystopian future. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes When Lucas tested positive for the warrior gene—a genetic abnormality believed to predispose humans to violence—he was shipped off to the Bake Shop, an impregnable government facility. There, he underwent a battery of psychological tests aimed at making him crack. Now, labeled safe to return to normal life, he’s ready to…

  • Ramblings

    Here’s to a bookish Halloween!

    Halloween approaches! I won’t lie. Halloween is one of my all time favorite holidays. Although it’s still second to Christmas in my heart, it’s still a holiday that makes me get all wiggly and excited. The thing that these two holidays share is a sense of whimsy. An excuse for adults to be kids again, just for a bit. I LOVE that! As a bookish person, one of the ways I love to celebrate is with some spooky reads. I get a lot of recommendations every year, and I actually have a list of reads I reserve just for the…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Lumiere by Jacqueline Garlick

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Lumiere Author: Jacqueline Garlick Series: The Illumination Paradox #1 Publisher: Skyscape Pages: Kindle; 402 Release Date: August 11, 2015 Source: NetGalley ————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy steampunk adventures and mystery stories. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Even in a land of eternal twilight, secrets can’t stay in the dark forever. Seventeen-year-old Eyelet Elsworth has only one hope left: finding her late father’s most prized invention, the Illuminator. It’s been missing since the day of the mysterious flash—a day that saw…

  • Ramblings

    Rain, rain. Stay?

    It seems I’ve been musing a lot about weather lately. The sad fact is that in my part of Southern California, we don’t really have a whole lot of “weather”. Sometimes it rains, a bit. Sometimes it’s windy, a bit. Most of the time it’s still and warm. I joke about it a lot on Twitter, but we in this area get very excited when there’s actual weather to be had! It’s currently raining, and I’ve opened up every window and door we have. The adorable part is that every other person who is currently home in our apartment building…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head by H.C. Chester and Lauren Oliver

    Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head    Series: Curiosity House #1 Author (s): Lauren Oliver; H.C. Chester Publisher: Harper Collin’s Children’s Books Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: September 29, 2015 Source: Publisher ——————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love vivid characters, settings that come to life, and a great mystery. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes What you will find in this book: – A rather attractive bearded lady – Several scandalous murders – A deliciously disgusting Amazonian shrunken head – Four extraordinary…

  • Book Blitzes/Promo Posts

    Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Dream On, Amber by Emma Shevah

    As promised, I have another book spotlight for you! My favorite part of book spotlights is the fact that I get to draw your attention to books of all different age levels and genres. Sometimes my reviews get a little trapped in one area for a while, but with spotlights I can show you things that are on my radar. Even if I haven’t gotten to them yet. Are you ready for some Middle Grade goodness? I hope so! My name is Ambra Alessandra Leola Kimiko Miyamoto. But call me Amber. I have no idea why my parents gave me…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Meditations in Wonderland by Anna Patrick

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Meditations in Wonderland Author: Anna Patrick Publisher: River Grove Books Pages: Ebook; 225 Release Date: October 6, 2015 Source: Author ———————————————– Genre: Contemporary / Retelling HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a darker look at Wonderland, and the parallels to our own minds. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Follow Elizabeth down the rabbit hole—and meet a whole new Alice. Elizabeth, a twenty-four-year-old interior designer living in Brooklyn, New York, encounters a little more than mental static when she sits down for her morning meditation, feeling disconnected from…

  • Book Blitzes/Promo Posts

    Book Spotlight: I Don’t Know How the Story Ends by J.B. Cheaney

    I promised you book spotlights, and I aim to deliver! The best part about today’s, is that this book not only looks absolutely amazing but there’s also a giveaway attached just for you! Don’t you feel special? Take a look at all the buzz below. I can tell you right now, it was the prospect of being lost in an early Hollywood that really caught me up. Perhaps it’ll do the same for you. Our story begins in a dusty little town in California, a bustling place called Hollywood… Isobel Ransom is feeling anxious. Her father is away treating wounded…

  • Book Blitzes/Promo Posts

    Book Spotlight: Meditations in Wonderland by Anna Patrick

    I hope you’re ready for another book spotlight! I know I fell off the face of the map for a bit. Sorry friends. About once every 5 or 6 years I get really really sick. You know how most people get the flu and are out cold for a week? I pretty much never get sick longer than 3 days. EXCEPT… once every 5 or 6 years. This year, was that year. I got knocked on my behind by a virus very similar to strep throat, and I’m only just better. Let’s just say that blogging was the last thing…