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October 24, 2013
Feature & Follow Friday: October 25, 2013
Feature and Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read.
This Week's Question: Bookagram, Photograph your fave read in a funny place
My favorite book, Pride and Prejudice in my apartment freezer.
Today's Features:
I prefer:
October 23, 2013
Thursday Quotables #3
Thursday Quotables is a weekly meme featured on Bookshelf Fantasies. It's "the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage discovered during your reading each week. Whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, or just really beautifully written."
This Week’s Thursday Quotable “I wish I had a gun that worked," Vick said. "I'd blow everyone on those air ships away. Pieces of them would come down like fireworks."
― Ally Condie, "Crossed"
That's What HE said Thursday - October 24, 2013
Every Thursday, Chapter Break is hosting a brand new meme called:That’s what HE said Thursday. For more info on what this meme is all about click here.
“I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."
Four to Tris Prior in Veronica Roth's Divergent
I just think this was the cutest way to tell someone that you love them. H...
Movie Review: About Time (2013)
About Time
Director: 
At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.
ReviewWhen I got the invitation to see a free pre-screening of this movie, I had never even seen a trailer for it. Getting the opportuni...
October 22, 2013
Cover Reveal: Girls Are Players by Ingrid Seymour
Through Xpresso Book Tours, I'm helping Ingrid Seymour reveal the cover of her book, Girls Are Players.
Girls Are Players
Series: G.A.P. #2
Author: Ingrid Seymour
Publication Date: December 4th 2013
Genres: New Adult, Romance
Wessica Norton is a villain in the body of a gorgeous, rich, college girl. She cheats, lies, plays with people’s feelings, and purposely breaks unsuspecting hearts to avenge a personal loss. She’s the kind of girl people love to hate—even if it’s just beca...
WWW Wednesday (Oct. 23)
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'm reading Crossed by Ally Condie. My big sister gave me this book to read. So far, I think it's a good series. I don't think this book will let me down.
• What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished reading Matched by Ally Condie.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
I will pr...
Waiting On Wednesday: Allegiant
Allegiant
Author: Veronica Roth
Series: Divergent #3
Expected Release Date:October 22, 2013
One choice will define you.
What if your whole world was a lie?
What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything?
What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past...
October 21, 2013
Teaser Tuesday (Oct. 22)
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 read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE 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 t...
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Character Names I Love
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish in which they post a Top Ten list of bookish things and invite you to share your own top ten.
Top Ten Character Names I Love
From Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter and Chronicles of Nick series. His story was featured in Acheron
From Sherrilyn Kenyon's Time Untime
aka Ven; from Alyssa Day's Warriors of Poseidon series.
From Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series.
From Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampi...
Review: Matched by Ally Condie
Matched
Author: Ally Condie
Series: Matched #1
SummaryCassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.
The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on...
