Four books I'd love to read this Halloween

Tender lumplings everywhere. Life's no fun without a good scare! I mean, um... It's almost Halloween! As you may know, I'm a pretty big horror fanatic so Halloween is one of my favorite times of year! Every year I vow to read horror all month and every year I fail, but today I'm sharing my tentative TBR. These are the four books I would most love to read this October! Title: The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories Author: H.P. Lovecraft Publication Date: 1938 Add to Goodreads I have never read anything by H.P. Lovecraft and I'm kind of embarrassed about it! I play Elder Sign, a board game based on his stories. I also just purchased a...

Top Ten Tuesday #115: Fall TBR

Today's Topic:  Top Ten Books On My Fall TBR List There are so many amazing books coming out that it was honestly hard to narrow this down to ten! These are the ones I'm most excited about reading in the fall.   Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo Dark Matter by Blake Crouch The Diabolic S.J. Kincaid Heartless by Marissa Meyer Hunted by Meagan Spooner RoseBlood by A.G. Howard Stranded by Bracken Macleod The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon This Is Our Story by Ashley Elston Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish....

Book review: Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

Title: Glass Sword (Red Queen #2)  Author: Victoria Aveyard Publication Date: February 9, 2016Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 444Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different. Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by Maven,...

Weekly Recap: 9/18 - 9/24

Happenings Off the Blog... This week has been completely insane, honestly. I've had several extra clients all week, so that has taken up a lot of my time and energy! My husband and I also went to do some house-related stuff this week and then went to Halloween Horror Nights on Friday! I was kind of dragged there against my will, but I didn't totally hate it. I also made it all the way through the night without screaming so yay me! Yesterday we were able to make it to the Epcot Food and Wine Festival for a couple hours where we tried a hard orange cream float and some drinking chocolate! Today is definitely my day to catch up... New...

Audiobook review: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

Title: Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) Author: Sylvain Neuvel Narrator: Full Cast Publication Date: April 26, 2016 Publisher: Del Rey Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 2 & book 3 A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a gargantuan power. A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something...

Halloween mini-challenge: 16 (bookish) horror films in October '16

Welcome, horror junkies!  It's the most wonderful time of the year - Halloween! (Okay, honestly I love Christmas most but Halloween is a close second.) This is my second year hosting the Horror Reading Challenge, this year with Lilyn from Sci-Fi and Scary as my co-host! With the help of Michelle @ I Push Books, who came up with this brilliant idea, we are bringing you a brand new Halloween mini-challenge for the month of October!  The goal of this challenge is to watch 16 horror films in the month of October, but there's a catch! Each of the horror movies you watch for this challenge must be based on a book. Yes, there will...

Horror Reading Challenge: 3rd Quarter Update

We're 3/4 of the way through the 2016 Horror Challenge! Halloween is nearly here and hopefully that will give everyone the motivation they need to close the gap on their challenge goals with some creepy reads. If you aren't familiar with this challenge, check out all the details and (maybe) sign up here! Otherwise, congrats on hopefully meeting your goals so far! What I've Read So Far: 4.5 - 5 Star Books 3 - 4 Star Books 1.5 - 2 Star Books Share your progress document.write(''); var _rssimg = document.getElementById('wpImg664655'); if(_rssimg) { _rssimg.style.display='none';...

Top Ten Tuesday #114: books I wouldn't have finished without audio

Today's Topic:  Top Ten Books I Wouldn't Have Finished Without the Audio If you've spent much time around my blog you already know I'm a huge fan of audiobooks! Often I'll pick up books on audio that I don't think I would normally read in text format. For better or worse, these are ten books I never would have finished if I'd read the hard copy!  Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco The Cage by Megan Shepherd Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi Trial By Fire by Josephine Angelini The...

ARC Review: Bright Smoke, Cold Fire by Rosamund Hodge

Title: Bright Smoke, Cold Fire Author: Rosamund Hodge Publication Date: September 27, 2016 Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: 448 Add to Goodreads When the mysterious fog of the Ruining crept over the world, the living died and the dead rose. Only the walled city of Viyara was left untouched. The heirs of the city’s most powerful—and warring—families, Mahyanai Romeo and Juliet Catresou share a love deeper than duty, honor, even life itself. But the magic laid on Juliet at birth compels her to punish the enemies of her clan—and Romeo has just killed her cousin Tybalt. Which means he must die. Paris Catresou has always wanted to serve his family...

Weekly Recap: 9/11 - 9/17

My Super Exciting Life  This week was a lot of work, a lot of binging Survivor, and a little reading because I'm in the middle of a reading slump after finishing Sleeping Giants last week. Man, I hate slumps! I'm hoping I can pull myself out of it soon. It was an amazing week for book trades though! I found some incredible ARCs and finished copies. Some I've already read and some I can't wait to get to! I also had the chance to go to the local library book sale and grabbed a few new books. One series I'd never heard of, but I'm really hoping it's going to be good! New Books Trades (ARCs + Finished Copies): Library...