Monday, August 31, 2015

It's Monday! (Week 36)

Happy Monday :D

Last night my son had a dance recital so i had to skip out on work to go watch that. He did really well for his first time on a real stage!


I finished 1 book this weekend.


I truly hated the girl MC in this book.
She was a total B.



This week i will be aiming low and only hope to finish 1 book.


I started it yesterday and am already about 100pgs in. I like it so far!


Here's what you missed from last week:
 Tuesday's New Releases  
Friday's Book Haul! 
Round 5 Voting for Cutting Down the TBR has Began!!

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Round 5: Cutting Down the TBR!

Round 5!
 
(Those new to my blog, look HERE to see what all i'm talking about)

I have almost given up on finishing the last book of the Grisha, i'm sorry, but it's dragging and i just can't get into it. I might try really hard to push through it tomorrow, but we'll see.


CHOICE #1!

 

THE BODY FINDER
Kimberly Derting

Short bio for book 1 of series:

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world... and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.



CHOICE #2!


ROSE GARDNER MYSTERIES
Denise Grover Swank

Short Bio From Book 1:

For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She’s had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone’s toilet’s overflowed, but she’s never seen one of herself before. When her overbearing momma winds up murdered on her sofa instead, two things are certain: There isn't enough hydrogen peroxide in the state of Arkansas to get that stain out, and Rose is the prime suspect.

Rose realizes she’s wasted twenty-four years of living and makes a list on the back of a Wal-Mart receipt: twenty-eight things she wants to accomplish before her vision comes true. She’s well on her way with the help of her next door neighbor Joe, who has no trouble teaching Rose the rules of drinking, but won’t help with number fifteen-- do more with a man. Joe’s new to town, but it doesn’t take a vision for Rose to realize he’s got plenty secrets of his own.




I just sent out the poll to my goodread's friends, so keep an eye out for that.
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Or you can vote HERE!!!

Or do both :D

Happy Reading!

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Out Today: August 25th

   

   


Insidious
The Twixt #3
Dawn Metcalf

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR PREVIOUS BOOK(S)

Joy Malone finally knows who she is, where she comes from and how to live in two worlds at once. And now she can introduce her family and friends to her mysterious boyfriend, Indelible Ink. But when Ink's twin sister, Invisible Inq, calls in a favor, Joy must accept a dangerous mission to find a forgotten door between worlds—a door hiding a secret that some will kill to keep.


The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall
Katie Alender

Delia's new house isn't just a house. It used to be an insane asylum, a place to lock up "troubled" young women long ago. And a restless, wicked spirit is still at play--and it doesn't want defiant girls like Delia to go anywhere.

So the house kills her.

Now Delia is a ghost, trapped in her creepy home forever. As she meets the other ghost girls who haunt the narrow hallways, as well as the handsome ghost boy on the grounds, she learns shocking truths about the house's history. Delia also realizes that her alive and grieving sister might be the house's next target. Can Delia unlock the mystery of the old asylum, save her sister, and free herself?

A Window Opens
Elisabeth Egan

Like her fictional forebears Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones, Alice plays many roles (which she never refers to as “wearing many hats” and wishes you wouldn’t, either). She is a mostly-happily married mother of three, an attentive daughter, an ambivalent dog-owner, a part-time editor, a loyal neighbor and a Zen commuter. She is not: a cook, a craftswoman, a decorator, an active PTA member, a natural caretaker or the breadwinner. But when her husband makes a radical career change, Alice is ready to lean in—and she knows exactly how lucky she is to land a job at Scroll, a hip young start-up which promises to be the future of reading, with its chain of chic literary lounges and dedication to beloved classics. The Holy Grail of working mothers―an intellectually satisfying job and a happy personal life―seems suddenly within reach.


Mechanica
Betsy Cornwell

But on her sixteenth birthday, Nicolette discovers a secret workshop in the cellar and begins to dare to imagine a new life for herself. Could the mysterious books and tools hidden there—and the mechanical menagerie, led by a tiny metal horse named Jules—be the key to escaping her dreary existence? With a technological exposition and royal ball on the horizon, the timing might just be perfect for Nicolette to earn her freedom at last.


Another Day
Every Day #2
David Levithan

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR PREVIOUS BOOK(S)

Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her life, convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental boyfriend, Justin, even established guidelines by which to live: Don’t be too needy. Avoid upsetting him. Never get your hopes up.

Until the morning everything changes. Justin seems to see her, to want to be with her for the first time, and they share a perfect day—a perfect day Justin doesn’t remember the next morning. Confused, depressed, and desperate for another day as great as that one, Rhiannon starts questioning everything. Then, one day, a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person . . . wasn’t Justin at all.


Lair of Dreams
The Diviners #2
Libba Bray

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR PREVIOUS BOOK(S)

After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. Now that the world knows of her ability to "read" objects, and therefore, read the past, she has become a media darling, earning the title, "America's Sweetheart Seer." But not everyone is so accepting of the Diviners' abilities...

Meanwhile, mysterious deaths have been turning up in the city, victims of an unknown sleeping sickness. Can the Diviners descend into the dreamworld and catch a killer?

Monday, August 24, 2015

It's Monday! (Week 35)

Another week in the books... :D

I finished 2 books this weekend!

  

Both were kinda Eh in my opinion.

This week i am working a 50hr week so i hope to get at least 2 books done!

  

I'm trying to finish Ruin and Rising so we can be done with Round 4 of CDtTBR but it's dragging.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday!


Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine. 
 
W.o.W is where you share a book that you are barely hanging on to your marbles patiently waiting on to be published :] 



My Pick This Week!



The Raven King
The Raven Cycle #4
Maggie Stiefvater
February 23rd 2016 by Scholastic Press
Add to Goodreads

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR PREVIOUS BOOK(S)

 All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.

 I can not wait for this book, please Maggie, write faster :D

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Random Presents :)


My boyfriend actually listens to me :)
Ive been discussing buying this with him for a few weeks, but due to lack of funds, i was sadden that i couldnt get it.
So what shows up in the mail?
Sometimes the boy knows how to make me feel super loved :)

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Out Today: August 11th

   

 



Reawakened

The Reawakened #1
Collen Houck

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, and she, along with her sun prince, Amon, must travel to the Valley of the Kings, raise his brothers, and stop an evil, shape-shifting god named Seth from taking over the world.


Fool's Quest

The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy #2
Robin Hobb

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR PREVIOUS BOOK(S)

After nearly killing his oldest friend, the Fool, and finding his daughter stolen away by those who were once targeting the Fool, FitzChivarly Farseer is out for blood. And who better to wreak havoc than a highly trained and deadly former royal assassin? Fitz might have let his skills go fallow over his years of peace, but such things, once learned, are not so easily forgotten. And nothing is more dangerous than a man who has nothing left to lose…


Black-Eyed Susans

Julia Heaberlin

As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving “Black-Eyed Susan,” the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa’s testimony about those tragic hours put a man on death row.

Now, almost two decades later, Tessa is an artist and single mother. In the desolate cold of February, she is shocked to discover a freshly planted patch of black-eyed susans—a summertime bloom—just outside her bedroom window. Terrified at the implications—that she sent the wrong man to prison and the real killer remains at large—Tessa turns to the lawyers working to exonerate the man awaiting execution. But the flowers alone are not proof enough, and the forensic investigation of the still-unidentified bones is progressing too slowly. An innocent life hangs in the balance. The legal team appeals to Tessa to undergo hypnosis to retrieve lost memories—and to share the drawings she produced as part of an experimental therapy shortly after her rescue.




You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)

Felicia Day

The Internet isn’t all cat videos. There’s also Felicia Day—violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer, hoagie specialist, and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become the ruler of a new world…or at least semi-influential in the world of Internet Geeks and Goodreads book clubs.

After growing up in the south where she was "homeschooled for hippie reasons", Felicia moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actress and was immediately typecast as a crazy cat-lady secretary. But Felicia’s misadventures in Hollywood led her to produce her own web series, own her own production company, and become an Internet star.


The Last Necromancer

The Ministry of Curiosities #1
C.J. Acrcher

Victorian London: For five years, Charlotte (Charlie) Holloway has lived as a boy in the slums. But when one theft too many gets her arrested, her only means of escape lies with a dead man. Charlie hasn't raised a spirit since she first discovered she could do so five years ago. That time, her father banished her. This time, she brings even more trouble upon herself.

People are now hunting Charlie all over London, but only one man succeeds in capturing her.

Monday, August 10, 2015

It's Monday!


I feel ya Alice, i really do.

I went camping this past weekend.
And i had to come in for overtime Sunday night!

This was my thought process all weekend. Why can't peeps just let me read!?!?

I finished a few books this weekend!

   &  


This week i'm gonna be a bit busy cleaning up the house since i was gone all weekend, but i'll try to get some reading in!

   and/or  


How was your weekend??

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

What Up Wednesday!


It's HUMP day :D

WHAT I'M READING!

Vanished
E.E. Cooper

WHAT I'M WATCHING!

Gravity Falls :D
This show cracks me up!

WHAT I'M LISTENING TO!


Wildest Dreams
Taylor Swift

TayTay just announced that her next single will be Wildest Dreams, and i'm uber pumped!