Top Ten Tuesday is a feature run by the lovely crew at The Broke and The Bookish Top Ten Best Books I Read in 2015 I had to split my top books up into a few categories. I just couldn’t limit myself to ten! Even doing so I still have eleven contemporary books. I read so… Read more »
2015 Blogging Year in Review + 2016 Goals 2015 Review: This is the first year I’ve made blogging goals and actually stuck to most of them! Go me! First, I was much better about tracking my YA reading (Goal 2). I’m sure I missed recording one or two. I’m still terrible about marking down the non-YA… Read more »
Each year I like to make a list of all the bookish things I’m dreaming of. I love finding bookish items for my house and seeing what other people love! This year I’m super late with this post but I still wanted to share some of the things I’ve had my eye on 🙂 You can… Read more »
My Thoughts: This book doesn’t come out until April so normally I would have waited a bit to read it. However, when I got an email about a pre-pub blog tour I was happy to move it up. I liked the cover and the tagline and the blurbs. I figured I’d give it a go…. Read more »
Oh yes. You read that right! Not one but two, TWO extra advanced copies of Truthwitch by Susan Dennard have come into my possession. (Nefarious measures may have been taken. I admit to nothing.) We are just about a month from it’s release and I AM ALL EXCITEMENT!!! (I have no idea why they’re two different sizes…. Read more »
This fall has not been great for me reading my TBR pile. I did read 5 or 6 of the books I had listed but I didn’t read any backlist or finish series this month. I was busier than usual but still… I decided to do something totally different for December. I’ve really done a poor job… Read more »
I’m so pleased to have a giveaway today for one of my most anticipated reads, Passenger by ALexandra Bracken! The book is in stores January 5, 2016. About the Book: In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda,… Read more »
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending a screening of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2. I feel like I’ve been waiting for this movie forever! I like to joke with my students that I’m a Hunger Games hipster… I read The Hunger Games back in 2008, the month it came out. I immediately fell in love and… Read more »
When I got an email from Irish Banana Blog Tours about Lost Stars, Claudia Gray’s YA book set in the Star Wars universe, you had better believe I was all over that one!!! I mean, STAR WARS!! And YA BOOK!!! And CLAUDIA GRAY!!! Yes, yes, yes!!! Obviously I’m super excited for the movie. And the… Read more »
My Thoughts: I’ve heard so many great things about Leila Sales’ books so I figured it was time I finally read one! I decided to start with this one for a few reasons. There’s a road trip, a night in NYC, and one of the characters keeps a blog… these are all things that peaked my interest! Overall,… Read more »
