[Flashback Friday] - #35

Flashback Friday is a weekly event, hosted here, that highlights a past released that we're dying to get our hands on...See something you like here?Click the book title to add it to your Goodreads TBR List!Title: So Close to You   Author: Rachel Carter   Release Date: July 10th, 2012     Lydia Bentley doesn’t believe the rumors about the Montauk Project, that there’s some sort of government conspiracy involving people vanishing and tortured children. But her grandfather is sure that the Project is behind his father’s disappearance more than si

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[Cover Reveal] - Cover Reveal Series: #1

     I wanted to post these earlier, but I figured I would let Epic Reads show their lineup and what they had, and I would delay my post for a week or so before passing the information on as well. They have released more book covers that make my mouth water, but I am going to show just some of my favorite books and what I'm looking forward to. There won't be any discussion on why or whatever, I am just going to show the book and give the link to Goodreads and allow you to follow and keep track of the book as well. So without waiting any longer:If You would like to see the full

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[Waiting on Wednesday] - #33

     Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted over at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.See something you like here?Click the book title to add it to your Goodreads TBR List!Title: Raven Flight   Author: Juliet Marillier   Release Date: July 9th, 2013     Neryn has finally found the rebel group at Shadowfell, and now her task is to seek out the elusive Guardians, vital to her training as a Caller. These four powerful beings have been increasingly at odds with human k

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[Book Review] - Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

Title: Unearthly   Author: Cynthia Hand   Series: #1 - Unearthly   Format: Hardback   Release Date: January 4th, 2011   My Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0     In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees . . . .Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this e

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[Stacking the Shelves] - #35

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and is all about sharing the books you are adding to your bookshelf, be it the physical one or your digital one!      I know this is a bit late for a Mailbox Monday, and while I have been trying to maintain a normal schedule and last week I had one of my best weeks. It just pains me as well to release one this late, but I guess it's better late than never right. I did get some time to get out to go to Barnes and Noble, and look around at other bookstores. In the process I did pick up a few books, see if you can guess the theme i

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[Flashback Friday] - #34

Flashback Friday is a weekly event, hosted here, that highlights a past released that we're dying to get our hands on...See something you like here?Click the book title to add it to your Goodreads TBR List!Title: The Book Thief   Author: Markus Zusak   Release Date: March 14th, 2006     A New York Times bestseller for seven years running that's soon to be a major motion picture, this Printz Honor book by the author of I Am the Messenger is an unforgettable tale about the ability of books to feed the soul.     Set during World Wa

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[Featured Discussion] - Review Questions

This is a new segment, Featured Discussion. Where, I am looking at heading with this segment is more of a opinion based discussion. There is some that will be true and fact, but for the main part I want a good discussion, and I want people to chime in and talk. I will make my opinion and comments known as well. However please, PLEASE do not insult or degrade anyone else.Featured Discussion:     I have always been looking to try to improve my blog, improve the review process and overall give people a better understanding with just why I enjoyed a book I read. The issue was I was

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[Waiting on Wednesday] - #32

     Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted over at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.See something you like here?Click the book title to add it to your Goodreads TBR List!Title: Vortex   Author: S.J. Kincaid   Release Date: July 2nd, 2013     The impossible was just the beginning. Now in their second year as superhuman government weapons-in-training at the Pentagonal Spire, Tom Raines and his friends are mid-level cadets in the elite combat corps known as the Intr

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[Book Review] - Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

Title: Out of the Easy   Author: Ruta Sepetys   Format: Hardback   Release Date: February 12th, 2013   My Rating: 5.0 out of 5.0     It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer.      She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangl

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[Stacking the Shelves] - #34

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and is all about sharing the books you are adding to your bookshelf, be it the physical one or your digital one!      Well what I had planned to do last partially got done, I will be working on the Signed Books page tomorrow and get it arranged and around, it'll take longer than what I thought; I will make it work though. I have a few weeks before my parents go on vacation for a few weeks, and I'll have the house to myself. Guess what I'll be doing (aside work) during that time. I may take those weeks off and read, or do somethi

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[Flashback Friday] - #33

Flashback Friday is a weekly event, hosted here, that highlights a past released that we're dying to get our hands on...See something you like here?Click the book title to add it to your Goodreads TBR List!Title: Starters   Author: Lissa Price   Release Date: March 13th, 2012     HER WORLD IS CHANGED FOREVER     Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and fighting off renega

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[Featured Discussion] - What's With Genres?

This is a new segment, Featured Discussion. Where, I am looking at heading with this segment is more of a opinion based discussion. There is some that will be true and fact, but for the main part I want a good discussion, and I want people to chime in and talk. I will make my opinion and comments known as well. However please, PLEASE do not insult or degrade anyone else.Featured Discussion:     Last week I spoke about a common issue in everyone's mind, How OLD is too OLD? But in it I spoke directly to a specific style or genre of book, Young Adult. This week I wanted to segment

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[Waiting on Wednesday] - #31

     Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted over at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.See something you like here?Click the book title to add it to your Goodreads TBR List!Title: Star Cursed   Author: Jessica Spotswood   Release Date: June 18th, 2013     With the Brotherhood persecuting witches like never before, a divided Sisterhood desperately needs Cate to come into her Prophesied powers. And after Cate's friend Sachi is arrested for using magic, a war-thirsty S

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[Book Review] - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd

Title: A Monster Calls   Author: Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd   Format: Paperback   Release Date: September 27th, 2011   My Rating: 5.0 out of 5.0     The monster showed up after midnight. As they do.     But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...     This monster is some

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[Stacking the Shelves] - #33

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and is all about sharing the books you are adding to your bookshelf, be it the physical one or your digital one!      Sorry for the delay this week, I had such a great week last week that it pains me to be making this one so late. I apologize for being late, but on the good note, it's done and I can focus on other aspects that need updating. I hope to get the links added into the Signed Books section sometime this week, maybe around the middle. As well I meant to do a segment on a movie, we'll see if I get around to it this

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