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http://www.stuckinbooks.com/2011/12/gift-card-giveaway-hop.html
Runs from Dec. 9th to Dec. 13th
Run on over for a chance to win!
http://www.stuckinbooks.com/2011/12/gift-card-giveaway-hop.html
Runs from Dec. 9th to Dec. 13th
Run on over for a chance to win!
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 (2) "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, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers
"Forever" by Maggie StiefvaterPage 179
"Outside the window, Shelby stood for a long moment, staring at the house. I felt, uncannily, that she was looking at us in the kitchen, though we had to be just motionless silhouettes to her, if we were anything."
Hello everyone, I am so sorry for my long absence. I had school stuff to deal with and then I had life stuff to deal with. I have missed posting here. I had a burst of reading through the summer but have slowed down recently. I have been working on my cross stitching a lot and have not been in the reading mood.
Just to let you know here's a list of the books I've read since I last posted:
~ "The Lightening Thief" by Rick Riordan
~ "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
~ "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
~ "Waking Up With the Duke" by Lorraine Heath (it had been a long time since I read a romance novel so I had to give in to the guilty pleasure lol)
~ "The Iron King" by Julie Kagawa
~ "The Iron Daughter" by Juilie Kagawa
~ "The Iron Queen" by Julie Kagawa (I enjoyed this series...can't wait for "The Iron Knight")
~ "Unearthly" by Cynthia Hand
~ "Shiver" by Maggie Stiefvater
~ "Linger" by Maggie Stiefvater
Which brings my total to 37 books read this year. I guess that's not to bad. It's the closest I've gotten to my goal of 50.
I am currently reading "Forever" by Maggie Stiefvater.....and it is taking me FOREVER to read! I've been trying to read it for at least a month.
I guess that's all for now. I will try to keep posting more often.
Just to let you know here's a list of the books I've read since I last posted:
~ "The Lightening Thief" by Rick Riordan
~ "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
~ "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
~ "Waking Up With the Duke" by Lorraine Heath (it had been a long time since I read a romance novel so I had to give in to the guilty pleasure lol)
~ "The Iron King" by Julie Kagawa
~ "The Iron Daughter" by Juilie Kagawa
~ "The Iron Queen" by Julie Kagawa (I enjoyed this series...can't wait for "The Iron Knight")
~ "Unearthly" by Cynthia Hand
~ "Shiver" by Maggie Stiefvater
~ "Linger" by Maggie Stiefvater
Which brings my total to 37 books read this year. I guess that's not to bad. It's the closest I've gotten to my goal of 50.
I am currently reading "Forever" by Maggie Stiefvater.....and it is taking me FOREVER to read! I've been trying to read it for at least a month.
I guess that's all for now. I will try to keep posting more often.
I am so sorry I haven't posted in so long. I was trying to get things together for my College Graduation(!!!) and now I'm looking for a job. Also, I haven't been in a reading mood lately.
I'm still reading The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison. It so sad...I've haven't turned a page in a month!
I have managed to get though The Vespertine (3/5), Die For Me (4/5), and Bumped (4/5) in the last few weeks.If you want an in depth review of any of these just let me know. I put a small one on my GoodReads.
I am starting to read Mercy by Rebecca Lim (I have 8 days to finsh it!).
Now, on to Teaser Tuesday!!
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 (2) "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, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
"I turn his plam over, and see that Carmen's small hand is lost in it, when the burning begins. Quickly it engulfs her left arm, her torso, all of her, until we are incandecent, rigid in fiery glory"
Page 176 - eCopy via NetGalley
Hopefully this will make more sense when I get to this point. lol
Summary via GoodReads:
A fallen angel haunted by her past. Yearning for her immortal beloved. Forever searching for answers. Who will show her Mercy? Mercy has lost herself. She can’t count how many times she’s “woken up” in a new body, and assumed a new life, only to move on again and again. During the day she survives in the human world on instinct and at night her dreams are haunted by him. Mercy’s heart would know him anywhere. But her memory refuses to cooperate.
But this time is different. When Mercy wakes up she meets Ryan, an eighteen year old reeling from the loss of his twin sister who was kidnapped two years ago. Everyone else has given up hope, but Ryan believes his sister is still alive. Using a power she doesn’t fully comprehend, Mercy realizes that Ryan is right. His sister is alive and together they can find her. For the first time since she can remember, Mercy has a purpose; she can help. So she doesn’t understand why the man in her dreams cautions her not to interfere. But as Ryan and Mercy come closer to solving the dark mystery of his sister’s disappearance, danger looms just one step behind.
Will Mercy be able to harness her true self and extraordinary power in time?
The first in a dazzling new series, Mercy masterfully weaves romance, mystery and the supernatural into a spell-binding tale.
Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it to Freda's blog.
It's that simple.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it to Freda's blog.
It's that simple.
Die For Me (Revenants #1)by Amy Plum
"Vincent opened the ornately carved door and lead me into an enormous entrance hall with a double staircase winding up either wall to a balcony overlooking the room. A crystal chandelier the size of a Volkswagen Beetle hung over our heads, and Persian rugs littered a marble floor inlaid with stones flowers and vines. What is this place? I thought."
Page 56
e-ARC via NetGalley
Summary via GoodReads:
DIE FOR ME is the first of three books about Kate, a sixteen-year-old American who moves to Paris after the death of her parents. It introduces a new version of the undead with revenants, beings who are fated to sacrifice themselves over and over again to save others’ lives. Kate finds herself falling for Vincent, who she discovers is not the typical French teenager he appears: he is something else entirely.
DIE FOR ME presents a new supernatural mythology presented in a city where dreams are sometimes the same as reality.
DIE FOR ME presents a new supernatural mythology presented in a city where dreams are sometimes the same as reality.
What Should I Read and Review Next?
(All of these are from NetGalley)
(All of these are from NetGalley)
Mercy by Rebecca Lim
A fallen angel haunted by her past. Yearning for her immortal beloved. Forever searching for answers. Who will show her Mercy?
Mercy has lost herself. She can’t count how many times she’s “woken up” in a new body, and assumed a new life, only to move on again and again. During the day she survives in the human world on instinct and at night her dreams are haunted by him. Mercy’s heart would know him anywhere. But her memory refuses to cooperate.
But this time is different. When Mercy wakes up she meets Ryan, an eighteen year old reeling from the loss of his twin sister who was kidnapped two years ago. Everyone else has given up hope, but Ryan believes his sister is still alive. Using a power she doesn’t fully comprehend, Mercy realizes that Ryan is right. His sister is alive and together they can find her. For the first time since she can remember, Mercy has a purpose; she can help. So she doesn’t understand why the man in her dreams cautions her not to interfere. But as Ryan and Mercy come closer to solving the dark mystery of his sister’s disappearance, danger looms just one step behind.
Will Mercy be able to harness her true self and extraordinary power in time?
The first in a dazzling new series, Mercy masterfully weaves romance, mystery and the supernatural into a spell-binding tale.
Mercy has lost herself. She can’t count how many times she’s “woken up” in a new body, and assumed a new life, only to move on again and again. During the day she survives in the human world on instinct and at night her dreams are haunted by him. Mercy’s heart would know him anywhere. But her memory refuses to cooperate.
But this time is different. When Mercy wakes up she meets Ryan, an eighteen year old reeling from the loss of his twin sister who was kidnapped two years ago. Everyone else has given up hope, but Ryan believes his sister is still alive. Using a power she doesn’t fully comprehend, Mercy realizes that Ryan is right. His sister is alive and together they can find her. For the first time since she can remember, Mercy has a purpose; she can help. So she doesn’t understand why the man in her dreams cautions her not to interfere. But as Ryan and Mercy come closer to solving the dark mystery of his sister’s disappearance, danger looms just one step behind.
Will Mercy be able to harness her true self and extraordinary power in time?
The first in a dazzling new series, Mercy masterfully weaves romance, mystery and the supernatural into a spell-binding tale.
Bumped by Megan McCafferty
When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents are forced to pay teen girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the most prized members of society.
Sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated at birth and had never met until the day Harmony shows up on Melody’s doorstep. Until now, the twins have followed completely opposite paths. Melody has scored an enviable conception contract with a couple called the Jaydens. While they are searching for the perfect partner for Melody to bump with, she is fighting her attraction to her best friend Zen, who is way too short for the job.
Harmony has spent her whole life in religious Goodside, preparing to be a wife and mother. She believes her calling is to bring Melody back to Goodside and convince her that “pregging” for profit is a sin. But Harmony has secrets of her own that she is running from.
When Melody is finally matched with the world-famous, genetically flawless Jondoe, both girls’ lives are changed forever. A case of mistaken identity takes them on a journey neither could have ever imagined, one that makes Melody and Harmony realize they have so much more than just DNA in common.
15 year old Savannah Grey has never felt she's belonged. She keeps her distance, so she's surprised by her attraction to the new boy Reece. Then strange things begin to happen: nature, it seems, is exerting an overpowering force on the world. Birds behave strangely; gusts of wind blow leaves so fiercely they seem to lure people away. And Savannah learns she has supernatural powers. Nature has a purpose for Savannah and her friends. For they are on course to meet the vile and evil Orcrassa, who wants to destroy the world by corrupting nature. And it wants Savannah Grey to help realise its savage intent.
As her freshman classmates move into dorms at Cornell University, Olivia Somerset suffers a nervous breakdown. When months of coaxing and analyzing fail to rouse Olivia from her stupor, big sister Miranda decides the sisters should fly off to Barcelona for some "vacation therapy."
When a mistake at their Barcelona hostel leaves the Somersets in a large co-ed dorm room, Olivia and Miranda are saved by kindly Mr. Brown and his son Greg, who happily volunteer to surrender their private room. But while Olivia feels an instant connection with brooding Greg Brown, Miranda sides with fellow guest and cocky American travel writer Lenny:
The Browns are just plain weird, and must be avoided at all costs.
In the midst of urbane Peruvian priests-in-training and Scottish soccer fans, from the shops of La Rambla to the waters of the Mediterranean to the soaring heights of Montjuic, Miranda works to protect her still-fragile sister while Olivia struggles to understand her burgeoning adulthood, her feelings for Greg, and the fear that makes the next step in her life so impossible to take.
Inspired by E. M. Forster's classic novel A Room with a View, debut author Hannah Sternberg's Queens of All the Earth is a poetic journey of young love and self-awakening set against the beauty of Catalonia. Teenagers and adults alike will be riveted and moved by this coming-of-age novel about the conflicting hearts and minds of two very different sisters.
Please let me know which book you would like me to read and review in the comments. I will read the books in order from most votes to least. Thank you!!
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 (2) "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, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
The Vespertine by Saudra Mitchell
"The row of houses had a curious effect on the wind - when it twisted between the brick narrows, it cried. How eerie a day so bright could be; how thoroughly I had ruined it trying only to help."
Page 61
e-ARC via NetGalley
"It's Monday! What Are You Reading?" is hosted by One Person's Journey Through a World of Books. Each week I will spotlight the books I am reading, planning on reading, or just finished reading.Finished:
Torment by Lauren Kate {Review}
Currently Reading:
Currently Reading:
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison
&
The Vespertine
by Saundra Mitchell
Yeah, it's been a slow reading week for me.
Up Next:
Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison
So, what are you reading this week?
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