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The thing is I'm new to the whole Romance genre so I've only really ventured into Paranormal and Contemporary. I'll have to look into firemen .... ;)Thank you for the ideas Sans!
Off Kilter was very cute, I had to review it for www.nocturnereads.com. If you want I can send Off Kilter to you, I don't think I'm going to read it again and it's not an ARC. Stormwalker I haven't read yet but I read a review of it awhile back and it seemed very interesting. Plus I was reading the Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine and this seemed to have the same type of elements.
I changed the rating system to hearts and I made them as big as possible at the end of the review. If you guys still have trouble seeing things, or if it's awkward please let me know! Thanks guys! I really appreciate all the advice, and support!
I really need a Daredevil... any ideas??
Kellyflower wrote: "
and 
are ready for me to pick up on Monday.*Erika & Sashana - a lot of people HATED [book:The Forest of Hands and Teet..."
Paper Towns is a great, great book!! I loved it, I also read Looking for Alaska by John Green and it was good as well! I highly recommend it if you end up liking Paper Towns.
I'm changing the rating system, and I changed the background.
I understand what you mean, I was wondering if anyone would have trouble reading it. I'm probably going to change it. I'm glad you liked the top 5, I'll probably do that for 2011 (so obviously posted at the end of the year).
Tai wrote: "If you're like me and purchasing books by the dozens.... NEVER...I repeat NEVER look at the total you spend on books on a given year. Let's just say my jaw drop at the total I spent in 2010 and whi..."I decided that this year I was going to keep track of how much I spend on books. Now I don't have a job, I do get unemployment but that goes to bills. I get financial aid for school and that leaves a huge expendable income. So far, I've added up everything I've purchased and as of today I have spent $238 (give or take a few dollars) on books. I don't see that as so bad since school text books cost be about $350 this semester but I still have the rest of the year to go. I do know that I won't be spending that much on book every month (I just don't have the budget for it). I am still shocked that I spent that much! I know I have an addiction and when I go into a book store I feel like I HAVE to buy something. Especially if they have deals (like Borders right now has the Romance novels buy 4, get 5th free) I've gone to Borders three times and did that. I went today to exchange a book (I thought I bought the first in the series turns out it was the third) and I almost bought 4 again! I think I'm going insane haha. But I tell myself that I do have an addiction and that it could be sooooo much worse. My fiance just laughs at me.
Added two posts today :) My top 5 books and a review for The Iron King by Julie Kagawa! Let me know what you think!!
145.Dawnkeepers by Jessica Andersen147.Reckless by Anne Stuart
148.First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost
149.Kiss of Eternal Darkness by Jeaniene Frost
150.A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole
151.Strange Angels by Lili ST. Crow
152.The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
153.The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
154.Delirium by Lauren Oliver
155.Nevermore by Kelly Creagh
156.13 to Life by Shannon Delany
157.Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs
158.Two-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
159.The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
160.Deadly Little Secrets by Laurie Faria Stolarz
161.The Iron Hunt by Marjorie M. Liu
162.Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
163.The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa
164.Frostbite by Richelle Mead
165.Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
166.Blood Promise by Richelle Mead
167.Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead
168.Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead
169.The Fallen: Volume 1 by Thomas E. Sniegoski
170.Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
171.My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent
You know I didn't think of that and now that you mention it, it would probably look better! Thanks Lisarenee!And thanks Rollie for following me! :)
Erika wrote: "I'm glad I could help :) Writing reviews has actually really improved my own writing and boosted my confidence a lot. Hopefully you'll have a great experience too :)Also, if you're feeling overwh..."
I guess I just feel like this is a great idea for me to do especially because I want to pursue some kind of career in the book industry (not exactly sure what). I want to do it well and I think I have high expectations for myself. I will probably have to do one like every two weeks to start unless I feel more comfortable doing it every week. It just depends on how my school work load goes.
Sashana wrote: "Yes, I was talking about the Goodreads reviews. I say just take it slow and easy. You're just starting out so no one expects you to be cranking the reviews out. Do you know how many books you'll re..."I'm going to try to review the news books I can. As many as possible probably, I haven't decided on a set amount yet. The genres will probably be mostly Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, and YA. Although if I read another book that I think is worth sharing that isn't in those genres I'll probably write a review for it. But lately I've been stuck in those three genres and I can't get enough! haha
Sashana wrote: "Sarah, have you thought about posting your GR reviews to blog?"Are you talking about goodreads reviews? I haven't written any reviews on goodreads. :( I was thinking of linking to my previous reviews on Nocturne Reads but I haven't decided yet.
I was concerned about how I should portray myself through the reviews but I've heard from a few people to just be myself so that's what I'm going to try to do. I also write reviews for nocturnereads.com so some of my reviews will be linked there but those are going to be limited on what I can say because they have a strict policy and a certain way of rating the books. Unfortunately, I can't write separate reviews for the same books (it's against their policy). I really want to improve my comfort level with my writing and I'm hoping reviewing books will help. Also, I read tons and tons of books so I thought with my reading experience I could maybe have enough experience for reviewing.
Erika wrote: "Nice! I like the style and the name and subtitle of your blog...Well, I don't know if you should be taking advice from me or not but here goes:
Pay attention to what other bloggers are doing and..."
Thank you for the advice Erika, I appreciate it! And thank you for following me! I'm hoping to get a review up in the next couple days. This is the second week of
the start of the semester at my school so it's pretty hectic right now but once I get a handle on everything I'm hoping to get back into reading quicker. I used to read about 5-6 books a week and right now I'm at 2 sort of haha because of the load of school work.
Susan wrote: "There! I'm one of your first followers. Pretty layout and good objective to blog. Once you start reviewing, you'll get more followers, I'm sure.It's interesting because I'm at the other end of the..."
Thank you Susan!
Sashana wrote: "Sarah, it was a really exciting experience even though I didn't get to finish it. I think I found about it a few days before the start date so I didn't get to do much planning. I based my 'book' on..."That actually a really interesting idea especially because of the twists and changes that happen in each song and the way they could pull a plot forward. :) But at least you attempted it, that's something to be proud of! I understand school being time consuming!
I'm interested to know what you guys wrote about! :) I didn't participate this past year and I probably wont' be able to participate this year because school is too time consuming. How did you guys enjoy the experience? Would you do it again?
I just want to share my blog with you. I just started it today and I don't have any reviews up yet but in case anyone wants to check it out or has any advice for keeping a blog let me know :)www.biblioconfessions.blogspot.com
