-
It’s Kersten Hamilton Week!
In honor of my first ever author interview, I officially declare this week Kersten Hamilton week here on A Fanatics Book Blog! Release Date: November 15, 2010 Here are the events for the week: * Monday 5/10 – Intro Post (you’re looking at it!) * Tuesday 5/11 – Author Interview * Wednesday 5/12 – Tyger, Tyger Review * Thursday 5/13 – A Look Back… Kersten Hamilton’s past books * Friday 5/14 – GIVEAWAY! Two lucky winners will get a pre-order copy of Tyger, Tyger paid for by me! ***Some helpful hints: Giveaway entries will include snagging the widget to the…
-
Book Review: Howl’s Moving Castle
In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter. After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing dark smoke from its four thin turrets, appeared on the horizon, everyone thought it was the Witch. The castle, however, belonged to Wizard Howl, who, it was said, liked to suck the souls of young girls. The Hatter sisters–Sophie, Lettie, and Martha–and all the other girls were warned not to…
-
In My Mailbox (3)
In My Mailbox is a weekly post created by The Story Siren and inspired by Alea of Pop Culture Junkie. IMM explores the weekly contents of our mailboxes, as well as books we might have bought this week! This was a pretty great week for my “mailbox”! I put this in quotes because two of these lovely books are actually the galleys from NetGalley. Don’t know what NetGalley is? Read my post. Books for review: The Mermaid’s Mirror by L.K. Madigan Tyger, Tyger by Kersten Hamilton The Dark Divine by Bree Despain (Review) That’s it for me! I’m waiting on…
-
Disqus and a big THANK YOU!
First off, a HUGE thank you to all my followers! My blog has been officially in existence for about 3 weeks and I was so worried no one would want to read what I had to say. Yet, you came, you saw, you followed. YOU ALL ROCK! I know I still have my other giveaway running, but as soon as that one is over I plan to open a giveaway for $15 at The Book Depository to spend on anything your heart desires! That’s my way of saying hey, ya’ll make me smile. Without you, I wouldn’t blog. True fact.…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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?…
-
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…