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Book Review: Wintergirls
Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies. But now Cassie is dead. Lia’s mother is busy saving people’s lives. Her father is away on business. Her stepmother is clueless. And the voice inside Lia’s head keeps telling her to remain in control, stay strong, lose more, weigh less. If she keeps on going this way – thin, thinner thinnest – maybe she’ll disappear altogether. –From the front book flap Cover Inspection: This cover is fantastic. Looking at the girl, trapped beneath this ice like substance, it completely goes with the title. First Thoughts: This is going…
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A little of this, a little of that!
First off, it’s Friday! That means it’s time for the Book Blogger Hop! This is a weekly event where book bloggers and readers can connect to find new blogs to read. It’s a great way to network with other bloggers and make new friends! To participate, head over to Crazy-for-Books and leave your link, then do some hopping! In other news, I finished Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson today. It was so hard. This put was put down at least 8 separate times, in which I had to run for another book to stop me from feeling so angry or…
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NetGalley – The Future of the ARC?
I promised a post on NetGalley did I not? Well, here it is! For those of you who have heard of this lovely website, please feel free to leave your comments. For those of you who have not, let me break it down for you a bit! *** What is NetGalley? NetGalley is a website that offers its readers “galleys” or essentially e-books of up and coming book releases! After a quick and easy sign up process, you can start requesting galleys that interest you, and the publishers will then consider your profile, approve you and allow you to view…
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Book Review: The Dark Divine
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Dark Divine * Series: The Dark Divine #1 Author: Bree Despain Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 372 Release Date: December 22, 2009 Source: Around the World Tours —————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence —————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a good, honest, and twisty paranormal romance. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Grace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared–the night she found her brother Jude collapsed on the…
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Library Loot (3)
Library Loot is a weekly meme co-hosted by Eva at A Striped Armchair and Marg at The Adventures of Intrepid Reader! Bloggers are encouraged to share the books they’ve checked out at the library and give a little insight into why they chose them :). *** Shiver by Maggie Steifvater So I think I am one of the only people that has not yet read this book! LOL. Linger is on it’s way out (July 2010!!!) and it sounded so amazing that I kept saying to myself, “I should read Shiver”. Yet, every time I went to the library I kept forgetting. This time?…
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Excitement!
If you could see me right now, you would know that I have a HUGE smile on my face :). I am in slight shock! This morning I signed up for NetGalley after hearing about it on Lifehacker and seeing it mentioned on a few other blogs. It looked promising! You can request e-galleys of books (.pdf files, e-books, etc.) for review and the list on there is growing! (NetGalley will be getting it’s own dedicated post Friday, so if you have comments or questions on it come back then for sure!) Anyhow, I happened to come upon Kersten Hamilton’s…
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Waiting On Wednesday (3)
“Waiting on” Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine where we share upcoming releases that we just cannot wait for! Paranormalcy by Kiersten White Sixteen-year-old Evie’s job is bagging and tagging paranormals. Possessing the strange ability to see through their glamours, she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency. But when someone–or something–starts taking out the vamps, werewolves, and other odd beasties she’s worked hard to help become productive members of society, she’s got to figure it out before they all disappear and the world becomes utterly normal. Normal is so overrated. Release Date: September 21, 2010 This sounds…
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Teaser Tuesdays (3)
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read. Open to a random page. Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! My Teaser: I told her how strong she was and…
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Book Review: Never After
There is no place like a dysfunctional home. Leaving everything behind for the Island was Ricky’s dream come true. When his happily ever after is not quite what it seems, he discovers that running away means running toward bigger problems. Trapped on the Island, Ricky must join together with the only people he can trust to help him face his fears and return home. But the only way off the Island is to confront the person who trapped Ricky and his friends in the first place. With countless enemies and true peril staring them down, Ricky’s mission to leave this…
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Oh happy day!
Hello hello to all my new readers! *gasp* Almost 50! I am SO excited! It’s nice to know someone wants to read my crazy rambling thoughts :). I have some news. The lovely Kirthi over at Pages blog interviewed me today! If you’d like to see my silly answers you can go to my interview and leave some love. In fact, I do believe some of you new readers came from over there so hi again and thanks a million to Kirthi! Also I helped out the sweet Susan over at her blog. She was having difficulty making a blog…