Feature & Follow Friday #13

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week's Question:  Tell us about a book character you’d trade places with. I thought about this question for about thirty seconds before the lightbulb went off. If there is one character I would trade places with, it's Elena Gilbert. I'm probably cheating here because, while I started reading the first book, I didn't finish it. That being said, I am a huge fan of The Vampire Diaries TV show, so I feel like I'm at...

(School) Book Review: Land of Lincoln by Andrew Ferguson

Title: Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America Author: Andrew Ferguson Publication Date: June 10, 2007 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pages: 288 Add to Goodreads Before he grew up and became one of Washington’s most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff — with the photos hung on his bedroom wall to prove it. Decades later, Ferguson’s latent buffdom is reignited. In Land of Lincoln , he embarks on a curiosity-fueled coast-to-coast journey through contemporary Lincoln Nation, encountering everything from hatred to adoration to opportunism and all manner of reaction in between. He attends...

Waiting on Wednesday #12: The Vault of Dreamers

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week's "can't wait to read" is:  The Vault of Dreamers by Caragh M. O'Brien Publication Date: September 16, 2014 From the author of the Birthmarked trilogy comes a fast-paced, psychologically thrilling novel about what happens when your dreams are not your own. The Forge School is the most prestigious arts school in the country. The secret to its success:  every moment of the students' lives is televised as part of the insanely popular Forge Show, and the students' schedule includes twelve hours of induced sleep meant to enhance creativity. But when first...

Top Ten Tuesday #8: TBR books I don't own yet

Today's Topic:   Top Ten Books I Really Want  To Read But Don't Own Yet With so many amazing books coming out in the next few months, my TBR shelf is overflowing. There are so many books that I really want to get my hands on! Not to mention those that have been out for awhile (maybe even years), but I haven't been able to purchase or haven't had time for... So here they are in order from newest to oldest (because I felt like I needed some kind of order). Creed (November 2014) When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through a winter storm to take refuge in a nearby town called...

Book Review and Movie Tie-in: Horns by Joe Hill

Title: Horns Author: Joe Hill (Joseph King) Publication Date: March 1, 2010 Publisher: William Morrow Pages: 368 Add to Goodreads Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples. At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural...

Spine-Tingling Saturday and Interview #6: Spire in the Woods

Title: The Spire in the Woods Author: TheBoyInTheClock Posted on: October 2013 Location: Reddit This ten part series was one of the first I fell in love with. Prior to The Spire in the Woods, I read mostly short stories that I could finish within a few minutes. But then I found this. And I read for hours. This story was truly spine-tingling. Like, I was legitimately freaked out, especially considering I have a fear of dolls. The Spire in the Woods is a story about a guy who finds a strange (you guessed it) spire in the woods. He quickly becomes a little obsessed with the spire and its stories. And things start to happen......

Feature & Follow Friday #12

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week's Question:  What book/series do you think would make a better TV show than a movie? I think almost any long book series would make a better TV show than a movie. One that immediately springs to mind are The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. Two of the books have already been made into movies and, while Interview with the Vampire was well-received, Queen of the Damned was not. With the announcement of a new...

School Reads: Suffer With Me

Today marked the first day of my last year of school. Finally, after four years in the military followed by about a million years of school, I'm going to graduate (in two semesters). This semester is one of the most intensive yet, including a 400 and 600 level course, among some lower level classes. Here are a few I have to read that might not be terrible. He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history...

Waiting on Wednesday #11: MARY: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week's "can't wait to read" is:  MARY: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan Publication Date: September 2, 2014 There is a right way and a wrong way to summon her. Jess had done the research. Success requires precision: a dark room, a mirror, a candle, salt, and four teenage girls. Each of them--Jess, Shauna, Kitty, and Anna--must link hands, follow the rules . . . and never let go. A thrilling fear spins around the room the first time Jess calls her name: "Bloody Mary. Bloody Mary. BLOODY MARY." A ripple of terror follows when a shadowy silhouette emerges through the...

Top Ten Tuesday #7: Books Others Recommend

Today's Topic:   Top Ten Books People Want Me To Read So I hate it when people are like, "OMG you totally HAVE to read this right now seriously read it!" I mean, I'm cool with recommendations. In fact, I enjoy recommendations! I've found some really good books that way! But seriously, guys, chill out. I can't take all your energy. The Fault in Our Stars I see this book EVERYWHERE. It has been recommended to me by no less than fifteen people and none of them have been family members since I can't think of any female relatives that read. I broke down and saw the movie with my mom and... well, I'm not disappointed that...

Book Review: Adam's List by Jennifer Ann

Title: Adam's List (NYC Love #1) Author: Jennifer Ann Publication Date: June 17, 2014 Publisher: Treetop Fantasies Pages: 374 Add to Goodreads I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review!  This review contains possible 18+ elements. She's ready to give up on life, hiding her depression with sarcasm and booze. He's got a secret and quit college, with few friends to lean on. When they discover each other, the sexual attraction is undeniable. So why does it seem impossible for them to be together? Everyone wanted to be Jewels Peterson in high school. Naturally beautiful, exceptionally smart, talented...

Feature & Follow Friday #11

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week's Question:  Suggest a question! We need questions of the week for future FFs. Any ideas? Okay, so truth time. I'm really bad at stuff like this. I cannot come up with stuff off the top of my head. But I'll try. I enjoy participating in F&F each week. I apologize for the boring nature of the questions that will follow.  1. Who is your favorite superhero? How did you come to love him/her?2. What's...

Casting for Splintered: The Movie

Confession: I'm having a really hard time letting go of A.G. Howard's Splintered series until Ensnared graces our shelves next year. I found the series late and blew threw Splintered and Unhinged and now I don't know what to do (maybe it's not quite that serious). I thought I'd have a little bit of fun and cast some of the characters for the movie that is going to happen (because if they can make a Twilight they HAVE to make this). Emilie de Ravin as Ivory In my head, Ivory is a gorgeous, platinum blonde, innocent-faced woman. That is what I went looking for and that's what I found in Emilie de Ravin (come on, she played Belle). This...

Book Blitz & Giveaway: Dream Boy by Madelyn Rosenberg & Mary Crockett

Title: Dream Boy Author: Madelyn Rosenberg & Mary Crockett Publication Date: July 2, 2014 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Pages: 336 Add to Goodreads Annabelle Manning feels like she’s doing time at her high school in Chilton, Virginia. She has her friends at her lunchtime table of nobodies. What she doesn’t have are possibilities. Or a date for Homecoming. Things get more interesting at night, when she spends time with the boy of her dreams. But the blue-eyed boy with the fairytale smile is just that—a dream. Until the Friday afternoon he walks into her chemistry class. One of friends suspects...