Top Ten Tuesday #13: Hard to read books

Today's Topic:  Top Ten Books That Were  Hard For Me To Read Today I'm going to be talking about books that I just could not get through. While this can happen for a number of reasons and I'm not going to try to narrow it down. As always, here they are in alphabetical order! A.I. Apocalypse by William Hertling This book was on Amazon for free (or maybe $0.99) and I was super excited by the description. Ever since my first college philosophy course I've been fascinated by the possibility of AI taking over. Well, this book was not what I wanted. It was way too technical and I found myself skipping entire pages. [my review]  Beautiful...

Book Review: Suspicion by Alexandra Monir

Title: Suspicion Author: Alexandra Monir Publication Date: December 9, 2014 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: 368 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Mysterious. Magnificent. Creepy. Welcome to Rockford Manor. "There's something hidden in the Maze." Seventeen-year-old Imogen has never forgotten the last words her father said to her seven years ago, before the blazing fire that consumed him, her mother, and the gardens of her family's English country manor. Haunted by her parents' deaths, Imogen moves to New York City with her new guardians. But when a letter arrives with the...

Feature and Follow Friday #17

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:  Book character(s) you'd like to see with their own Twitter page. This is such a weird question... I do enjoy following a couple movie characters though. So, book characters? I think I'd like to see a Twitter feed by Alex from Ashfall. His life is so completely insane and I have a totally unhealthy obsession with post-apocalyptic scenarios. If you haven't already, please answer my poll! Humor...

Before I Blogged Book Review: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Title: Obsidian (Lux #1) Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout Publication Date: May 8, 2012 Publisher: Entangled Teen Pages: 335 Add to Goodreads Starting over sucks. When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring... until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up. And then he opened his mouth. Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well,...

Book Blitz: Orenda by Ruth Silver

Title: Orenda Author: Ruth Silver Publication Date: April 13, 2014 Publisher: Patchwork Press Pages: 232 Add to Goodreads Join forces with a parallel universe. Dark forces, magical creatures, and the world Lil thought she knew collide when a dream transports her to the strange world of Orenda. Stunned and terrified, Lil comes face to face with her doppelganger, Willow, who possesses the ability to travel between the two worlds. Everything Lil knows logically says that Orenda can’t exist, but a small clue may be proof that it was more than an ordinary dream. With the threat of her sister in danger, Lil crosses dimensions but it may cost...

Waiting on Wednesday #16: Neil Patrick Harris Autobiography

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week's "can't wait to read" is:  Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris Publication Date: October 14, 2014 Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened? Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the “u” back in “aUtobiography”? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! In this revolutionary, Joycean experiment in light celebrity narrative, actor/personality/carbon-based life-form Neil Patrick Harris lets...

Top Ten Tuesday #12: Fall reading list

Today's Topic:  Top Ten Books On My  Fall To-Be-Read list Bird Box by Josh Malerman  Most people ignored the outrageous reports on the news. But they became too frequent, they became too real. And soon, they began happening down the street. Then the Internet died. The television and radio went silent. The phones stopped ringing. And we couldn't look outside anymore. Malorie raises the children the only way she can; indoors. The house is quiet. The doors are locked, the curtains are closed, mattresses are nailed over the windows. They are out there. She might let them in. The children sleep in the bedroom across the hall....

Audiobook Review: The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Title: The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #2) Author: Michelle Hodkin Narrator: Christy Romano Publication Date: October 23, 2012 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past. She can’t. She used to think her problems were all in her head. They aren’t. She couldn’t imagine that after everything she’s been through, the boy she loves would still be keeping secrets. She’s wrong. In this gripping sequel to The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, the truth evolves and choices prove deadly. What will become of Mara Dyer next? Okay, so after reading The...

Feature & Follow Friday #16

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:  Blogger pet peeves? When I finish an entry, schedule the post date, hit "publish," and, for whatever reason, it posts immediately. Then I have to scramble to delete the post before anyone has a chance to see it. Other bloggers who do not include a link to the book they're writing about somewhere on the page. Then I have to open a new window and search for it. Half the time I forget and then...

Why TV shows are almost as good as books

Over the last three days of suffering from what has become known as the "Carolina Plague" at UNC (also known as what is, most likely, the common cold) I have spent every possible moment in my recliner with Netflix. More specifically, I've been binging season three of Once Upon a Time. If you don't watch it, you should - especially as a lover of stories! Most importantly though, you should watch it for Captain Hook. Okay, seriously though... I've also been suffering through boring non-fiction and studying for tests... but mostly Netflix. You see, I'm one of "those" people. You know the ones. As much as I adore books and love to get...