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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (Feb 6)
As always, a huge thank you to Book Journey for hosting! Click the button to participate. Once again I finished exactly what I set out to this week. It’s been a bit harder finding time to read, what with work, my new found Star Wars: The Old Republic obsession, and spending quality time with the fiance :). Still, it’s nice to know that I’m still finding that time! Away we go. This Week’s Reviews: Death Drop by Sean Allen (5/5) – A stunning science fiction adventure, complete with new races! Illumine by Alivia Anders (3/5) – Paranormal romance with just…
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Book Review: Graffiti Moon
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Graffiti Moon Author: Cath Crowley Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 272 Release Date: February 14, 2012 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ——————————————— HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who swoon worthy moments and wonderfully rendered characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Senior year is over, and Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight, she’s going to find Shadow, the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. He’s out there somewhere—spraying color, spraying birds…
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Book Review: Illumine
Media Type: Ebook Title: Illumine Author: Alivia Anders Publisher: Self-published Release Date: January 7, 2012 Source: Purchased via Kindle ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence; Mild Language ———————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of paranormal fiction, and those who can stomach a little violence while setting off on an epic adventure! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon For the past five months Essallie Hanley has been trying to forget about the frightening murder of her boyfriend. Haunted by vivid nightmares and hallucinations of the event she does anything she can…
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Evergreen has a cover!
A kingdom on the brink of war. A king on the fringes of insanity. A family running for their lives. Ash and Fin’s only desire is to be together and dive into their happily ever after, though their conflicting worlds work to pull them apart. Neither is ready to convert to the other’s life: become a human or a mer. Little do they know that somewhere in Natatoria a secret holds the fine fabric of everyone’s lives together. If the truth is discovered, Ash and Fin will no longer have the luxury of waiting. They’ll be forced to choose. But…
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January Wrap Up
Can you believe January is already over? It left so fast that this post is already a day behind. Let’s face it though, I’ve got to keep organized. Here is what my reading month looked like! Keep in mind that books reviewed in January weren’t necessarily all read in January. The books with a * next to them are books that count towards my reading goal in 2012. Books reviewed in January: Feyland by Anthea Sharp – Review (5/5) The Next Shakespeare by Wanda Ernstberger – Review (4/5) Cinder by Marissa Meyer – Review (4/5) * Heavenly by Jennifer Laurens – Review (3/5) *…
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Book Review: Death Drop
Media Type: Ebook Title: Death Drop (The D-Evolution #1) Author: Sean Allen Publisher: Vintage Six Media Pages: Paperback; 560 Release Date: October 1, 2011 Source: Publisher ————————————- Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of epic Sci Fi adventures! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In a time when a live Human specimen would fetch a king’s ransom on the black market, being a smuggler seemed like the perfect front to search for her people. But the cost of Dezmara Strykar’s operation has forced her to win each smuggling run…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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…