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WWW Wednesday 16 Oct 2013 (Find out what I am reading this week)

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

What are you currently reading?

  

What did you recently finish reading?

The Shining by Stephen King

Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot

What do you think you’ll read next?

It by Stephen King

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

Happy Reading and Happy Wednesday!

 

Friday Finds for 11 Oct 2013

     

     

FRIDAY FINDS showcases the books you ‘found’ and added to your To Be Read (TBR) list… whether you found them online, or in a bookstore, or in the library — wherever! (they aren’t necessarily books you purchased).

My finds:

The Brokenhearted by Amelia Kahaney
Resist (Breathe #2)by Sarah Crossan
Desert Tales: A Wicked Lovely Companion Novel (Wicked Lovely)by Melissa Marr
No Angel by Helen Keeble
Tease by Amanda Maciel
Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill

Happy Reading, Happy October, and Happy Friday!

 

Monday Mashups for 07 Oct 2013

Monday Mashups are a collection of interesting book-related items that I’ve found recently.

Download LeVar Burton’s reading app for your kids
First Look: Pretty Little Liars Halloween Episode Sneak Peek
Meet this week’s authors at Author Buzz
I Just Keep It Simple: Tell the D*mn Story (RIP Tom Clancy)
2014 Writer’s Market Deluxe Edition is available
The Thirtysomething Teen: An Adult YA Addict Comes Clean

Friday Reads for 04 Oct 2013

   

   

Well, it’s been quite a while, so I figured I should just right in and get all of my bookish things updated now that it’s October. As you can see, I’ve been on a Halloween-centric horror/suspense kick, and I’ve found some pretty good books for the occasion. (I really should do a Halloween special post, now that I think of it.) Anyway, I was on vacation, and now that I’ve retrieved some American books over my birthday, I have a list for you:

FRIDAY FINDS showcases the books you ‘found’ and added to your To Be Read (TBR) list… whether you found them online, or in a bookstore, or in the library — wherever! (they aren’t necessarily books you purchased).

My finds:

Seconds Away by Harlan Coben – This is the latest suggestion from the Orange County Public Library’s Teen Book Club.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke – I was searching writing advice for horror young adult literature authors, and came across this.
Bound to You by Christopher Pike – more than likely I read this at some point in my life, but with the new cover, I’m not sure.
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King – I got this for my birthday. It’s release was two days before, and we made a specific trip to Target to grab it.
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell – I may have mentioned this book before, since it’s being talked about so much lately. It was another birthday book.
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake – I’m trying to find good young adult horror, and this one came up in my search.

 

Also, I’ve been reading The Shining and Princess in the Spotlight. Two totally different types of books, I know. I needed to mix it up a bit. I’m really into the King book, but The Princess Diaries books are going to be my new guilty pleasure, right along with my Pretty Little Liars books.

Happy Reading, Happy October, and Happy Friday!

Friday Reads for 23 Aug 2013

       

FRIDAY FINDS showcases the books you ‘found’ and added to your To Be Read (TBR) list… whether you found them online, or in a bookstore, or in the library — wherever! (they aren’t necessarily books you purchased).

My finds:

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Going Dark by Robinson Wells
Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
After Iris by Natasha Farrant
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Happy Reading and Happy Friday!

WWW Wednesday 7 Aug 2013 (Find out what I am reading this week)

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

What are you currently reading?

Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins.

I started reading this now that the second movie is coming out. I bought the set before I moved here in 2011, and after all the reviews of how it’s not as great as the other two, I put it aside. I still like Collins’s voice in the story. Aside from the whole bunch of characters that I have a hard time keeping up with, Katniss is a good, strong female. It’s not that I can really relate to her, it’s just written so I can feel as if I’m part of the story. That’s the kind of writing I think we all strive to create.

Also, I love how my phone wants to add “Collins” after I type out my name.

What did you recently finish reading?

Carrie by Stephen King

I still have to write my review for that, but heck, I still didn’t write my review for Divergent that I finished months ago.

What do you think you’ll read next?

I honestly have no idea what I’ll read next. I just pick up the ton of books I have and find one that catches my attention. I can say I’m going to read any number of books, but it will more than likely end up being something completely different.

Happy Reading and Happy Wednesday!

 

Friday Reads for 2 Aug 2013

      

FRIDAY FINDS showcases the books you ‘found’ and added to your To Be Read (TBR) list… whether you found them online, or in a bookstore, or in the library — wherever! (they aren’t necessarily books you purchased).

My finds:

Replica by Jenna Black
NPR’s 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels
Brooklyn Girls by Gemma Burgess
The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant by Joanna Wiebe
Reclaimed by Sarah Guillory
Panic by Lauren Oliver
Over You by Amy Reed
Hold Still by Nina LaCour
Savvy by Ingrid Law

Happy Reading and Happy Friday!

WWW Wednesday 31 Jul 2013 (Find out what I am reading this week)

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

What are you currently reading?

I decided to read Carrie by Stephen King again for about the third time. It’s a great story, though I sort of don’t like the story as a historical account, but it makes sense. It needs that element of other people telling the story, so you can understand what Carrie’s going through. She’s not capable of explaining how weird her mother is because she has nothing else to compare it to. I’m almost finished. I put it down last night right as things were kicking off at the prom.

What did you recently finish reading?

I still am only half way through with Stunning. I read chapters here and there, but I’m not sucked in like I use to be (especially because now the mystery’s been solved, basically.)

What do you think you’ll read next?

Until the End: Final Friends Trilogy: The Party, The Dance, and The Graduation by Christopher Pike. I would really love to say that I’m going to read through all three of these books again. I’ve had it since my first trip back to Florida in 2011 and I just recently started rereading the first book. I absolutely loved Christopher Pike novels when I was in high school, and I distinctly remember this series to be more detailed and engaging as a young adult novel than the shorter books. I wanted to rekindle that excitement in reading for myself again. I want to remember what made me love a book when I was 15 years old.

By the way, the covers looked like this when I read them in the 90s:

   

Happy Reading and Happy Wednesday!

Friday Reads for 12 Jul 2013

It’s a week until Summer Break in the U.K., so I’ve made a list of books that will get us started on our holiday reading.

           

FRIDAY FINDS showcases the books you ‘found’ and added to your To Be Read (TBR) list… whether you found them online, or in a bookstore, or in the library — wherever! (they aren’t necessarily books you purchased).

My finds:

Buried Above Ground by Leah Cypress
My Sister’s Reaper by Dorothy Dreyer
Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher
The Au Pairs (Book #1) by Melissa de la Cruz
Pilgrims Don’t Wear Pink by Stephanie Kate Strohm
Jersey Angel by Beth Ann Bauman
Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland
The Year of Luminous Love by Lurlene McDaniel

Happy Reading and Happy Friday!

Friday Finds for 28 Jun 2013

This weekend I’ll be reading Deenie by (the great) Judy Blume. I am in a reading and writing funk, so I need to rekindle my tween-aged love of books this weekend. I absolutely adored this one. Read it so many times, and always think about it when I see Natalie Wood in Spendor in the Grass.

FRIDAY FINDS showcases the books you ‘found’ and added to your To Be Read (TBR) list… whether you found them online, or in a bookstore, or in the library — wherever! (they aren’t necessarily books you purchased).

My finds:

Shug by Jenny Han
To All The Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han
The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Movement of Stars by Amy Brill
Rush (The Game #1) by Eve Silver
Camp Boyfriend (Camp Boyfriend #1) by J.K. Rock

Happy Reading and Happy Friday!