ARC Review: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

Title: Everything, Everything Author: Nicola Yoon Publication Date: September 1, 2015 Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: 320 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review// This innovative, heartfelt debut novel tells the story of a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she’s ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more. My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t...

Weekly Recap: 8/23 - 8/29

My Super Exciting Life  This has been a pretty fantastic week, if I'm being honest! As you may know, it began with a long, 9 hour drive to Disney World on Sunday. I was there for three days, driving home on Thursday, and had a fantastic time! You can read about the first two days here! I met some new friends and ate some great food and just really did not want to come home. Luckily, I may be moving to the area soon!! I was dying to get back to my furbabies though. Thursday night my mom stayed with me so that I could give her a ride to the airport on Friday morning. We spent the night hanging out on the couch and then I thought...

Disney World Trip Report: Days 1 & 2

As you may have noticed, I was pretty scarce last week. I did pop in to comment back every night (I tried to at least), but I didn't have much time for roaming around the blogosphere. This was because I was at Disney World in Florida and disconnected from the internet! Day One I woke up early and got on the road around 8:30am. The drive was about 9 hours and was relatively painless. There was some pretty heavy rain (check out that line in the sky!), but it was over quickly. I listened to Crown of Midnight on the way!! I really enjoyed the second book in the Throne of Glass series more than the first, but I'll be posting a full review of...

Paper to Popcorn #4: Crane vs. Sleepy Hollow

Welcome to Paper to Popcorn! Paper to Popcorn is not be your typical book vs. movie comparison. The focus is on retellings, although there will be some features of movie vs. the source material. Each chosen book/movie combo will battle it out in a showdown to prove which one is the best on its own merits. Posts will feature reviews of both the film and book, rating scales, a brief outline of differences between the two, and characters, and ultimately a victor will be chosen. This week I'm featuring two very different retellings of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Crane by Stacey Rourke and Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. The Book Title: Crane...

Mini Book Reviews: Insylum by Z. Rider & A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan

Title: Insylum Author: Z. Rider Publication Date: June 9, 2015Publisher: Dark Ride Publishing Pages: 122 Add to Goodreads Purchase on Amazon The Last Ones In...Never Come Out A.J. changed in boot camp, coming out all straight-backed and short-haired. His best friend Nate hardly recognizes him anymore, especially when it comes to the way he acts. His priorities. Now he’s about to ship out to Afghanistan, and despite the rift growing between them, the two decide to have one last hurrah—at Insylum, the extreme traveling funhouse they’ve been waiting for a chance at for years. They're last in line on the last night of the show. They are...

Waiting on Wednesday #64: The Unquiet by Mikaela Everett

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week's "can't wait to read" is: The Unquiet by Mikaela Everett Publication Date: September 22, 2015 For most of her life, Lirael has been training to kill—and replace—a duplicate version of herself on a parallel Earth. She is the perfect sleeper-soldier. But she’s beginning to suspect she is not a good person. The two Earths are identical in almost every way. Two copies of every city, every building, even every person. But the people from the second Earth know something their duplicates do not—two versions of the same thing cannot exist....

Top Ten Tuesday #58: YA Dystopia 101

Today's Topic:  Top Ten Books That Would Be On  Your Syllabus If You Taught YA Dystopia101 YA Dystopia is one of my absolute favorite genres!! If you're not a dystopia reader and you want to be, any of these series would be a fantastic place to start!          An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Angelfall by Susan Ee Cinder by Marissa Meyer The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau Divergent by Veronica Roth          Enclave by Ann Aguirre The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Of Metal...

Book Review: End of Days by Susan Ee

Title: End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days #3)  Author: Susan Ee Publication Date: May 12, 2015 Publisher: Skyscape Pages: 331 Add to Goodreads Purchase on Amazon Reviews for book 1 & book 2 End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee’s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After a daring escape from the angels, Penryn and Raffe are on the run. They’re both desperate to find a doctor who can reverse the twisted changes inflicted by the angels on Raffe and Penryn’s sister. As they set off in search of answers, a startling revelation about Raffe’s past unleashes dark forces that threaten them all. When...

Weekly Recap: 8/16 - 8/22

My Super Exciting Life  This week was basically spent in preparation for today because... as you're reading this I'm on the road to Disney World!! Finally! But other than that... Slasher Girls and Monster Boys came out this week so yay!! I ordered a copy but I'm waiting on it to get to me and who knows how long that will take. We also celebrated my mom's birthday this week! We had cake and bread pudding and there were gifts and it was just a great time! Grace at Rebel Mommy Book Blog also reviewed one of my candles this week, so thank you Grace for being awesome! I'll be here throughout the week commenting and saying hi, but...