The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. Blog Tour Sign-up! – I’d love to have more tour hosts for the upcoming Scars of the Bifrost blog tour! There will be a $25 gift card giveaway (as well as copies of the book to be given […]
Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! This is a blog hop that allows bloggers to gain new followers and find some awesome new blogs to follow themselves! The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host has a blog that they feature each week! So, if you’re a blogger, come join in on the fun! Here’s today’s question […]
Title: Point of Retreat Series: Slammed #2 Author: Colleen Hoover Release Date: February, 2012 Pages: 302, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4.38 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-16? (Some sexual situations, but no sex shown) Summary from Goodreads: Hardships and heartache brought them together…now it will tear them apart. Layken and Will have proved their love can get them through anything; until someone from Will’s past re-emerges, leaving Layken questioning the very foundation on which their relationship was built. Will is forced to […]
I won a copy of You Are Mine in a giveaway and was really excited to read it! SO glad I did! This is an intense book that will make you want to scream in frustration and horror at some points (in a good way) and will delight you in others. I absolutely LOVED it! The story follows Serena, a 17-year-old girl who has just come of age – the age at which she can be sold […]
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights the upcoming releases that we’re most looking forward to. Here are my picks – books that are coming out soon! This book has gotten rave reviews (some people have said it’s the best book they’ve read all year!). I requested it from Edelwieiss and am crossing my fingers that I won’t have to wait until January to read it! Cruel Beauty Rosamund HodgeRelease date: January […]
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten Books That Should be Required Reading I started out taking this list semi-seriously (semi is the key word here) and then moved on to just plain silly: You Are Mine by Janeal Falor – I just read this book (review is coming soon) and I think that students could actually get a lot out of reading it! It would teach about gender discrimination and xenophobia and would spark great discussions about how society’s norms […]
Best of the Bunch is a book blog hop hosted over at Always Lost in Stories on the last day of each month, where we can look back over the books we have read over this past month and give a Best of the Bunch award to our favorite book of that month. This is my first time participating in this hop. I just couldn’t resist – it seems like such a great idea!! August […]
It’s time for my September Random Read (a fun meme hosted by I’m Loving Books). The idea is to pick one random book out of your Goodreads To-Read list (using Random.org) to read within the month. As I mention every month, I am in love with this meme! This is such a great way to make sure that I actually read some of those books that have been in my TBR list for eons. Last month’s random pick was Inside […]
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. Blog Tour Sign-up! – I’d love to have more tour hosts for the upcoming Scars of the Bifrost blog tour! There will be a $25 gift card giveaway (as well as copies of the book to be given […]
Title: The Hallowed Ones Series: The Hallowed Ones #1 Author: Laura Bickle Release Date: Sept, 2012 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 311, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4.03 stars My Rating: 4.5/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-16? (Some pretty grisly violence, sexual situations, but not much is really shown) Summary from Goodreads: Katie is on the verge of her Rumspringa, the time in Amish life when teenagers can get a taste of the real world. But the real world comes to her in this dystopian tale […]