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TOUCH Blog Tour Stop!

Today I am more than excited to be a stop on the blog tour for Jus Accardo's YA debut, TOUCH. This is an awesome book that I know everyone is going to love, so I'm happy I got to read it early!

Make sure to visit the official tour page at YA Bound, where you can check all the tour stops and follow along. Visit and comment on each post to be entered in the GRAND PRIZE GIVEAWAY--an ebook of TOUCH and a secret gift from Jus herself! So make sure you comment on every tour stop with your name and...

TGIF over at GReads!

The awesomeness that is Ginger (or G, as I like to call her) over at GReads! has created a great meme that is tons of fun. Each Friday, she poses a question for anyone to answer. Go check her out and join in!

This Friday's Question:

Love-Hate Relationship:

Which characters
from a book do you
love to hate?


Excellent question--and not an easy one to answer! I may be the odd man out on this one, but my favorite characters often times are the baddies. Those who are...

Waiting on Wednesday: SHINE!

The lovely Jill (a fellow Alabamian!) over at Breaking the Spine created the Waiting on Wednesday meme for us bloggers to showcase books we're waiting on.

After a nice conversation on Twitter yesterday with a couple of friends (hi Mandie and Jess!) about the awesome SHADE and SHIFT, I just had to choose the third book in this awesome series for today's WoW. Don't you agree?


SHINE
by Jeri Smith-Ready
pub date: 5/1/2012

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No other love has burned so bright



Life...

TGIF over at GReads!

The awesomeness that is Ginger (or G, as I like to call her) over at GReads! has created a great meme that is tons of fun. Each Friday, she poses a question for anyone to answer. Go check her out and join in!

This Friday's Question:

Gateway Books:

Which particular books
opened you up
to a new genre?

Well G, you know my answer to this one all too well...since you're the face behind the book that brought me over to the contemp side! And since November is Just...

It's Contemp Time!

For the month of November, the awesome Ashley at Books from Bleh to Basically Amazing and Shanyn at Chick Loves Lit have teamed up to bring us Just Contemporary--a month-long tribute to the awesome world of Contemporary novels! (yay them!)

[image error] Now, I will admit that I'm not a contemporary reader per say, but since a couple of friends (Hi G! Hi MB!) kept kicking me in the pancreas till I read some Jennifer Echols books (which were awesome, btw!), I can now say that I'm a fan! Contemporaries (or Con...

Waiting on Wednesday: THE ONE THAT I WANT!

The lovely Jill (a fellow Alabamian!) over at Breaking the Spine created the Waiting on Wednesday meme for us bloggers to showcase books we're waiting on.

This week I have chosen one of my new favorite authors and her newest release. It doesn't come out till next year, so unfortunately we have a long wait...fortunately, I have two more of hers to keep me company till then! So please, check out...

The One That I Want
by Jennifer Echols
pub date: 12/6/11 ebook
2/7/1...

Teaser Tuesday!

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current readOpen to a random pageShare two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that pageBE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!(make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!






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Monday Must Reads...TOUCH!

Monday Must Reads! is a feature I created to showcase books that I think you, well, Must Read! (ha!).

By the time you read this post, I will have finished reading today's selection. But even as I'm writing this, I am in love with this book! The two main characters are so well-written and fun and great, that all I wanna do is stop toiling away at the day job and read! If you haven't already, be sure to add to your TBR lists today's pick...



TOUCH
by Jus Accardo

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TGIF over at GReads!

The awesomeness that is Ginger (or G, as I like to call her) over at GReads! has created a great meme that is tons of fun. Each Friday, she poses a question for anyone to answer. Go check her out and join in!

This Friday's Question:

Spooktacular Reads:

Which books do you consider
festive Halloween reads?
Which stories have chilled you
to the bone?

Excellent question, G! And how fitting that it's the Friday before Halloween. Did you plan that, G? ;) So, a list of scary...

Waiting on Wednesday: SPELLCASTER

[image error] The lovely Jill (a fellow Alabamian!) over at Breaking the Spine created the Waiting on Wednesday meme for us bloggers to showcase books we're waiting on.

This week's choice is a sequel to a YA book that came out this past summer, and I cannot wait to read it! I love the cover, and the way it ties in to the first one, and the synopsis sounds so good! Please check out...



Spellcaster
by Cara Lynn Shultz
pub date 3/27/2012

product description from goodreads.com


Finding your eternal soulmate - easy.



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