Feature & Follow Friday #46: Reading slump cure

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:  How do you cure a reading slump? Today I'm going to do something a little out of the ordinary. Instead of answering this question I'm asking because I honestly have no answer. I'm in the hugest slump right now! Between my husband coming home after four months away and trying to make it through finals I've been down in the reading dumps!! Help!!! ...

Waiting on Wednesday #47: The Shadow Revolution by Clay & Susan Griffith

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week's "can't wait to read" is: The Shadow RevolutionClay Griffith & Susan Griffith Publication Date: June 2, 2015 A thrilling new Victorian-era urban fantasy for fans of Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid Chronicles, the Showtime series Penny Dreadful, and the Sherlock Holmes movies featuring Robert Downey, Jr. They are the realm’s last, best defense against supernatural evil. But they’re going to need a lot more silver. As fog descends, obscuring the gas lamps of Victorian London, werewolves prowl the shadows of back alleys. But they have infiltrated...

Top Ten Tuesday #42: Characters with mad fighting skills

Today's Topic:   Top Ten Books Which Feature Characters  Who Have Mad Fighting Skills It's no secret that I love a good dystopian or survival story, but when it comes right down to it I really just love any story with a badass hero or heroine! These are some of my favorites that have mad fighting skills.          Acheron from... Acheron Achilles from The Song of Achilles Deuce from Enclave Katniss from The Hunger Games Kestrel from The Winner's Curse          Mara from The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Penryn from Angelfall Tarver...

Book Review: Her Dark Curiosity by Megan Shepherd

Title: Her Dark Curiosity (The Madman's Daughter #2) Author: Megan Shepherd Publication Date: January 28, 2014 Publisher: Balzer+Bray Pages: 420 Add to Goodreads Review for books 1 & 3 To defeat the darkness, she must first embrace it. Months have passed since Juliet Moreau returned to civilization after escaping her father's island—and the secrets she left behind. Now, back in London once more, she is rebuilding the life she once knew and trying to forget Dr. Moreau’s horrific legacy—though someone, or something, hasn’t forgotten her. As people close to Juliet fall victim one by one to a murderer who leaves a macabre calling...

One Year Blogiversary Giveaway!

Holy crap! I can't believe it's been a whole year already! I really can't express how grateful I am that all of you wonderful people have allowed me to become a part of your book blogging universe! I feel like I've learned so much about SO MUCH in the short time I've been here. I'm so much more in the know than I was before about new publications and I've even discovered some new favorite series that have been around forever! THANK YOU! To show my gratitude I'm hosting a giveaway to celebrate! You can gain entries in the rafflecopter below! Giveaway Rules: Three winners will receive one of the following prizes: Paranormal romance...

DNF Reviews: The Martian by Andy Weir & Nil by Lynne Matson

Title: The Martian Author: Andy Weir Publication Date: February 11, 2014 Publisher: Crown Pages: 384 Add to Goodreads Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him & forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded & completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—& even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving...

Feature & Follow Friday #45: What's in [my] name?

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:  How did you come up with your blog title and address?  Does it have a special meaning for you?  Well... I guess I'm about to give away my secret. I didn't come up with my blog name. So there I was, trying to come up with something super cute and creative to call my brand spankin' new blog and I was coming up empty. I knew that I wanted it to be in some way related to dog eared...

Book Tour Excerpt & Giveaway: Wolf's-own:Ghost by Carole Cummings

Title: Wolf's-own:Ghost Author: Carole Cummings Publication Date: November 4th 2014 Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages: 350 Add to Goodreads Dwelling in the land of Ada and defending magic users called the Jin, Fen Jacin-rei is a trained assassin and an Untouchable, one whose mind hosts the Voices of the Ancestors, spirits of long-dead magicians. His fate should be one of madness and solitude, yet Fen Jacin-rei desperately clings to his sanity and ferociously protects the family he loves. But how does Fen do it? Kamen Malick has every intention of finding out. When Malick and his own small band of...

Waiting on Wednesday #46: Undertow by Michael Buckley

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week's "can't wait to read" is: UndertowMichael Buckley Publication Date: May 5, 2015 Sixteen-year-old Lyric Walker’s life is forever changed when she witnesses the arrival of 30,000 Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors, on her beach in Coney Island. The world’s initial wonder and awe over the Alpha quickly turns ugly and paranoid and violent, and Lyric’s small town transforms into a military zone with humans on one side and Alpha on the other. When Lyric is recruited to help the crown prince, a boy named Fathom, assimilate, she begins...

Top Ten Tuesday #41: Favorite NA Romance Authors

Today's Topic:   Top Ten Five ALL TIME  Favorite (New Adult Romance) Authors This weeks topic actually felt a little repetitive... I feel like we've had this talk before. Not to worry! I've slightly tweaked this week's prompt in an attempt to make it not exactly the same as everyone else's post! No Rowling here this week!! Here are my top five new adult romance authors of all time and the book that won me over! (And by all time I really mean of the last two years because that's when I discovered NA...)          Abbi Glines, Fallen Too Far H.M. Ward, The Arrangement Layla...

Audiobook Review: This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

Title: This Shattered World (Starbound #2) Author: Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner  Publication Date: December 23, 2014 Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: 390 Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 The second installment in the epic Starbound trilogy introduces a new pair of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a bloody war. Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met. Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents. Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting...

Weekly Recap: 4/12 - 4/18

My Super Exciting Life  This week was back to the super boring. I went to class and came home. Rinse and repeat! Okay, that's not entirely true. On Thursday night my husband bought us tickets to an event at our local science museum called Cocktails and Cosmos. We tried a ton of great drinks (one with sweet potato!) and played with all the space-themed attractions. I also saw a presentation by one of the 33 US candidates to be a part of the first human settlement on Mars in 2027! How exciting!! We had dinner with my parents on Friday night and then on Saturday I made an awesome discovery... It's called Game for Dogs on the app store....

I don't think I know what YA is

A couple weeks ago I posted what has become one of my most popular discussions to date: YA Shaming. What I discovered is that this is not just an issue at my university. There are readers around the world and spanning age groups who feel embarrassed because of their enjoyment of YA books. This week I came across a couple Young Adult book lists on TIME.com that really surprised me. They surprised me because I'm really not sure what YA is after reading them. Now I really think one of the reasons readers of YA feel embarrassed is because people think we must be stupid (or at least stuck at an elementary school reading level). Let's take a look...