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Book Review: The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Night Parade Author: Kathryn Tanquary Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: January 5, 2016 Source: NetGalley / Publisher ————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy vivid magical adventures in new lands! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes “I thought you might sleep through it.” The creature smiled.Saki’s voice was little more than a whisper. “Sleep through what?” It leaned over. She stared into its will-o’-the-wisp eyes.“The Night Parade, of course.” The last thing Saki Yamamoto wants to do for…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary
Good morning ladies, and gents! Are you ready for the first book spotlight of the year? I’m really excited about this one, particularly because it’s a Middle Grade book and we all know I love those. So, without further ado, I give you The Night Parade. In the shadow of the forest, the Night Parade marches on… The last thing Saki Yamamoto wants to do for her summer vacation is trade in exciting Tokyo for the antiquated rituals and bad cell reception of her grandmother’s remote mountain village. Preparing for the Obon ceremony is boring. Then the local kids take…
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Book Review: Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Zeroboxer Author: Fonda Lee Publisher: Flux Pages: Paperback; 362 Release Date: April 1, 2015 Source: NetGalley ————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books centering around sports, with Science Fiction tied in. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes A rising star in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, Carr “the Raptor” Luka dreams of winning the championship title. Recognizing his talent, the Zero Gravity Fighting Association assigns Risha, an ambitious and beautiful Martian colonist, to be his brandhelm––a personal marketing strategist.…
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BookLikes Weekly Recap (1/3/2016)
Happy Sunday, dear bookish friends! I’m hoping that your weekend was fabulous, seeing as how the majority of you probably had a long weekend like I did. New year, new books. What’s not to love? I thought I’d kick off the year by trying my best to tie together the two locations where most of my bookish musings go. For those of you who don’t know, BookLikes is my other home. It’s the one where I post half composed musings on in progress books. The one where I put terrible book puns. Also, the one where I review every book…
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Graphic Novel Review: Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Vol 1
Title: Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Vol 1 Author(s): James Roberts Illustrator(s): Alex Milne, Nick Roach Publisher: IDW Pages: TPB; 145 Recommended Age Group: 16+ Release Date: June 13, 2012 Source: Comixology (Purchased) Issues 1-3, plus the on-shot Death of Optimus Prime. Transformers saga begins here! More Than Meets The Eye reunites the fan-favorite creative team behind Last Stand of the Wreckers and sends the Transformers on an epic quest to the farthest reaches of the Transformers Universe and beyond! Also includes the one-shot Death of Optimus Prime. What a good way to kick off the year it was!…
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2015 In Review and Excitement for 2016!
Good morning ladies and gents! It’s officially the new year, and I will be honest in saying that I’m pretty excited for it! There are a lot of things that I’m looking forward to this year. Buying a home, kicking butt at my still relatively new full time job, and (best of all) reading way more books! Here’s some stats from 2015: You’ve already seen my goals for 2016 reading, and I’m seriously ready to get started! This is going to be a great year.
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Gearing up for 2016
I’ve been debating for a while on whether I wanted to do a “best of” list this year, but the truth is that I’d rather just spend the time that I’d be working on that, reading! It’s been an odd year here at HDB headquarters. It was a little stressful, a little surprising, and a lot amazing. I think it’s been overwhelming enough that I just don’t have it in me to sit and try to analyze it. Heck, I’m surprised at how many things I rated 5 stars this year! So, there will be a wrap up post coming,…
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Book Review: Fremont Rosenbloom: Party Assassin for Hire by Michael Bast
Media Type: Ebook Title: Fremont Rosenbloom: Party Assassin for Hire Author: Michael Bast Publisher: St. John’s House Pages: Paperback; 413 Release Date: September 22, 2015 Source: Author ——————————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy characters with a lot of heart, and a wit to match! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Fans of James Dashner and Richard Paul Evans will love Fremont Rosenbloom’s crazy adventures! At first, you won’t like Fremont Rosenbloom. What he does for a living is rather detestable. Let’s say you have an ex-husband getting…
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Book Review: Guy in Real Life by Steve Brezenoff
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Guy In Real Life Author: Steve Brezenoff Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 400 Release Date: May 27, 2014 Source: NetGalley —————————————— Content Screening: Video Game Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories about gamer culture! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes From the acclaimed author of Brooklyn, Burning comes Guy in Real Life, an achingly real and profoundly moving love story about two teens that National Book Award–finalist Sara Zarr has called “wholly original and instantly classic.” It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and…
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2016 Reading Challenges
This year I chose to skip the Audiobook Challenge, and I honestly missed it. There were so many great recommendations for narrators that I received while participating, and so I’m excited to start again in 2016! I’m going to go for the Binge Listener level. 20 – 30 ebooks shall be listened to! Books will go here: 1. Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi 2. The Wednesday Group by Sylvia True 3. The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCully 4. Low Town by Daniel Polansky 5. Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell 6. Miss Mayhem (Rebel Belle #2) by Rachel Hawkins 7. Wizard’s First Rule (The Sword…