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[Flashback Friday] - #69

Flashback Friday is a weekly event, hosted here, that highlights a past release 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: Stolen Author: Lucy Christopher Release Date: May 1st, 2010 Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty - rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar - pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. An

Featured Discussion is a random discussion, hosted here, that highlights different book topics, random ideas, and overall point of view of the young adult community...Want to join in?Feel free to make a post and post a link back to it here.Featured Discussion: So I have been trying out different avenues of buying books. Half-Price Books, BookOutlet, and even the marketplaces on Barnes & Noble and Amazon (be careful with those because they aren't as reliable as the main place of business). So what I was surprised to find out is they all have a different form of rating th

Title: These Broken Stars Author: Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner Series: #1 - Starbound Format: Hardcover Release Date: February 11th, 2014 My Rating: 3.5 out of 5.0 It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tar

If I Stay by Gayle FormanTitle: If I Stay Director: R.J. Cutler Author: Gayle Forman Release Date: August 22nd, 2014 Rating: 8.5 Out of 10 Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-of-body experience, she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had imagined.From the Book: Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit

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: Trial by Fire Author: Josephine Angelini Format: Hardcover Release Date: September 2nd, 2014 This world is trying to kill Lily Proctor. Her life-threatening allergies keep her from enjoying experiences that others in her hometown of Salem take for granted, which is why

Title: Three Author: Kristen Simmons Series: #3 - Article 5 Format: Hardcover Release Date: February 11th, 204 My Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0 Ember Miller and Chase Jennings are ready to stop running. After weeks spent in hiding as two of the Bureau of Reformation’s most wanted criminals, they have finally arrived at the safe house, where they hope to live a safe and quiet existence. And all that’s left is smoking ruins. Devastated by the demolition of

Hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.Take your Current Read.Grab 2 Teaser sentences from the book (please be sure to avoid spoilers)Post it on your blog with the title and author, so other Teasing Tuesday participants can add it to their To Be Read list.When visiting other Teasing Tuesday participants, leave a link with your current TT in their comments.Title: Asylum Author: Madeleine Roux Release Date: August 20th, 2013 Quote: " 'Look-this one burned down his own house with his family still inside,' Abby said. &n

Book Haul is an event in which Bloggers and Readers alike showcase their weeks/months pickups and purchases. This showcases new books and older books alike. Feel free to share your books with viewers alike by posting in the comment section with your video or blog. Thanks!Half-Price BooksVarious Dept. StoresVarious PlacesHalf-Price Books - Book Haul: Various Depart. Stores - Book Haul: Various Places - Book Haul:

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! So I had plans for the weekend and didn't think I would be in the best of health to get around to posting anything for Monday. However those fell through and I am here posting. I will have a review on the movie If I Stay sometime this week, it was soo good. I am not sure on the rating, but it's on par with The Fault in Our Stars. I loved it and will get more into it later. I took some time to myself and than went

Flashback Friday is a weekly event, hosted here, that highlights a past release 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: A Great and Terrible Beauty Author: Libba Bray Release Date: December 9th, 2003 A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy--jumble them all together and you have this complicated and unusual first novel. Sixteen-y

Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Director: Jonathan Liebesman Release Date: August 8th, 2014 Rating: 4.0 Out of 10 A group of mutated warriors face off against an evil kingpin who wants to take over New York.Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a rather insult the franchise. Micheal Bay should be shook and beaten for this movie in general. Frankly taking the liberties with the lore and changing some of the sacred childhood story that everyone was used to just wasn't necessary. The action scene

Title: Cruel Beauty Author: Rosamund Hodge Format: Hardcover Release Date: January 28th, 2014 My Rating: 5.0 out of 5.0 Graceling meets Beauty and the Beast in this sweeping fantasy about one girl's journey to fulfill her destiny and the monster who gets in her way-by stealing her heart. Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny. Since birth, Nyx has been b

The Giver by Lois LowryTitle: The Giver Director: Phillip Noyce Author: Lois Lowry Release Date: November 27th, 2013 Rating: 7.5 Out of 10 In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.From the Book: Jonas' world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the

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: I Want It That Way Author: Ann Aguirre Format: Paperback Release Date: August 26th, 2014 Nadia Conrad has big dreams, and she's determined to make them come true—for her parents' sake as well as her own. But between maintaining her college scholarship and working at the

Title: Evermore Author: Alyson Noel Series: #1 - The Immortals Format: Paperback Release Date: February 3rd, 2009 My Rating: 2.0 out of 5.0 The first book in Alyson Noël's extraordinary new Immortals series. Enter an enchanting new world, where true love never dies... After a horrible accident claims the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see people's auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone's entire life story by touching them. Going out of he

Hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.Take your Current Read.Grab 2 Teaser sentences from the book (please be sure to avoid spoilers)Post it on your blog with the title and author, so other Teasing Tuesday participants can add it to their To Be Read list.When visiting other Teasing Tuesday participants, leave a link with your current TT in their comments.Title: Salvage Author: Alexandra Duncan Release Date: April 1st, 2014 Quote: "Earthside. I lean forward and try to push myself to my feet, but my legs give out. I slump back against

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 have been trying to keep busy with everything this week. I have two movie reviews this week (The Giver and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), which won't come at the cost of a book review this week. I have been looking for another discussion topic, even though they don't seem to be much of a discussion. I may look at retiring that section, and I'm not sure if I will. It's just one of those sections that allows me to

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