Top Ten Tuesday #39: Most recent TBR

Today's Topic:   Ten Books You Recently Added  To Your To-Be-Read List Okay, I'm just going to go into Goodreads and pull the last ten I added. I have literally no idea what I will find there, so we're both in for a surprise! (I skipped multiples from the same author.)          The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Mr. Hands by Gary A. Braunbeck Phoenix Island by John Dixon The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood The Detour by S.A. Bodeen          Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz Beneath by Roland Smith The Novice by Taran Matharu Patient...

Book Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry

Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Publication Date: April 26, 1993 Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books Pages: 179 Add to Goodreads In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Brave New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create...

Weekly Recap: 3/22 - 3/28

My Super Exciting Life  Well... it's been a little boring this week, which I'm certainly not complaining about! On Tuesday I met up with my parents and brother for dinner, so that was basically the highlight... Haha! I went to Toys R Us to look around because I'm five and found a gorgeous Cinderella doll, which led me to search DisneyStore.com for their version, which is OMG gorgeous! Unfortunately it's sold out at the moment, but it isn't limited edition so I'm hoping they stock more!! There was a graduation fair on Thursday, but it was over a mile from where my classes are held and it looked like it was going to pour rain, so...

Feature & Follow Friday #41: BEA

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:  Have you ever been to BEA?  If not, what's stopping you?  I haven't been to BEA! I'm almost a year into blogging and I only recently found out it! I'm dying to go, but schedule and location are currently stopping me. I'm definitely hoping to go one day!! ...

Horror Reading Challenge: First Quarter Update

Aaaaand we've made it! Welcome to the official update post for the first quarter of the Horror Reading Challenge! This is the first challenge I have ever hosted and I am super excited to have 20 participants joining us! I realized after making the original post (like, kind of a long time after making the post) that I had forgotten to include the link up for your reviews. Here it is!  I've also posted it on the original challenge page to make it less confusing. Sorry! Please make sure to add your links so everyone can see your progress. I can't wait to hear how everyone is doing! Here is what I've read so far: The Madman's Daughter (review) The...

Waiting on Wednesday #42: Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week's "can't wait to read" is: Their Fractured Lightby Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner Publication Date: December 29, 2015 A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say Flynn’s a madman, others whisper about conspiracies. Nobody knows the truth. A year before that, Tarver Merendsen and Lilac LaRoux were rescued from a terrible shipwreck—now, they live a public life in front of the cameras, and a secret life away from the world’s...

Top Ten Tuesday #38: Favorite Teen Reads

Today's Topic:   Top 10 Books From My Teen Years That I Would Love To Revisit When I was a teenager, Goodreads was not a thing. At least not until very late in my teen years. As you can imagine, by the time there was a rating system for the books I'd read, it had been quite a long time since I'd read all of the books on today's list. For that reason, they are all ranked as four or five star books on my Goodreads account. However... I have a tendency to remember things as a lot better than they actually were. That's why I'd love to revisit all of these to find out if they were really that awesome, or if my brain just romanticized...

Book Tour Review: Bound by Spells by Stormy Smith

Title: Bound by Spells (Bound #2) Author: Stormy Smith Publication Date: March 19, 2015 Publisher: Perfect Storm Publishing Pages: 472 Add to Goodreads Review for book 1 Aidan Montgomery hadn’t been prepared for Amelia Bradbury to walk in and then out of his life. He also hadn’t expected to find the powerful magic hidden deep within him for the last nineteen years, but he’s embracing it — finding more control and more answers every day. Now, with the help of Amelia’s best friend, Bethany, Aidan is on a quest to understand his destiny and find Amelia. Amelia decided to stand by her duty, which meant walking away from her first chance...

Weekly Recap: 3/15 - 3/21

My Super Exciting Life  Although Spring Break has ended, this was a pretty good week! It was a fairly easy week as far as school went - just a lot of showing up and listening. On Sunday I saw Cinderella with my mom and it was amazing! I am absolutely in love with this new live-action version, even though it's basically an exact copy of the animated Cinderella. Continuing the movie trend, my mom and I watched Divergent Sunday night and, of course, she loved it. That was when I came to the realization that Divergent is one of my favorite movies. There are very, very few films that I can watch multiple times, but apparently this is one...

Author Spotlight & Interview: Catherine Coulter

If you follow my blog regularly, you are most likely aware that the vast majority of the books I read and review are Young Adult books. But before I read YA, I shopped library book sales to score my next read (or reads for the next year, rather). That is how I came upon Catherine Coulter in what was probably my sophomore year of high school.  I had never really been a fan of romance novels. But I recall the moment when I picked up Warrior's Song and looked at the cover, not quite sure what it would be about. I read the back and realized it was a romance novel, but ultimately decided to take a chance on it. Keep in mind that this was...

Feature & Follow Friday #40: Fictional Inspiration

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:  Have you ever been inspired by  a book character to do something?  Who was the character and what was it? What a great question!! I really had to think long and hard about this one, but my answer is ultimately YES! I have been inspired by more than one character and as far as I can tell, they have inspired me in some more serious areas of life. For example, Catherine from Into the...

Waiting on Wednesday #41: Reawakened by Colleen Houck

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week's "can't wait to read" is: Reawakenedby Colleen Houck Publication Date: August 25, 2015 When seventeen-year-old Lilliana Young enters the Metropolitan Museum of Art one morning during spring break, the last thing she expects to find is a live Egyptian prince with godlike powers, who has been reawakened after a thousand years of mummification. And she really can't imagine being chosen to aid him in an epic quest that will lead them across the globe to find his brothers and complete a grand ceremony that will save mankind. But fate has taken hold of Lily,...