Thursday, February 25, 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine to post books that you have been really wanting for a long time.
Title: Suffer Love
Author: Ashley Herring Blake
Series: N/A
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Release Date: May 3rd 2016
Hadley St. Clair's life changed the day she came home to a front door covered in slips of paper, each of them revealing the ugly truth about her father. Now as her family falls apart in the wake of his year-long affair, Hadley wants everyone-her dad most of all-to leave her alone.
Then she meets Sam Bennett, a cute new boy who inexplicably "feels like home" to Hadley. Hadley and Sam's connection is undeniable, but Sam has a secret about his family that could ruin everything.
Funny and passionate, Suffer Love is a story about first love, family dysfunction, and the fickle hand of fate.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine to post books that you have been really wanting for a long time.
Title: It Wasn't Always Like This
Author: Joy Preble
Series: N/A
Publisher: Soho Teen
Release Date: May 17th 2016
In 1916, Emma O’Neill is frozen in time. After sampling an experimental polio vaccine brewed on a remote island off St. Augustine, Florida, she and her family stop aging—as do the Ryans, her family’s business partners. In a way, this suits Emma fine because she’s in love with Charlie Ryan. Being seventeen forever with him is a dream. But soon a group of religious fanatics, the Church of Light, takes note. Drinking the elixir has made the O’Neills and Ryans impervious to aging, but not to murder. When their families are massacred, Emma and Charlie are the only ones who escape with their lives.
On the run, Emma is tragically separated from Charlie. For the next hundred years, she plays a cat-and-mouse game with the Church of Light and their descendants. She becomes a private investigator when a series of murders—whose victims all bear more than a passing resemblance to her—indicate that her enemies are closing in. Yet as the danger grows, so does Emma’s hope for finding the boy she’s certain is still out there . . .
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine to post books that you have been really wanting for a long time.
Title: Modern Lovers
Author: Emma Straub
Series: N/A
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Release Date: May 31st 2016
From the New York Times‒bestselling author of The Vacationers, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college—their own kids now going to college—and what it means to finally grow up well after adulthood has set in.
Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to suddenly pass the torch (of sexuality, independence, and the ineffable alchemy of cool) to their own offspring.
Back in the band's heyday, Elizabeth put on a snarl over her Midwestern smile, Andrew let his unwashed hair grow past his chin, and Zoe was the lesbian all the straight women wanted to sleep with. Now nearing fifty, they all live within shouting distance in the same neighborhood deep in gentrified Brooklyn, and the trappings of the adult world seem to have arrived with ease. But the summer that their children reach maturity (and start sleeping together), the fabric of the adults' lives suddenly begins to unravel, and the secrets and revelations that are finally let loose—about themselves, and about the famous fourth band member who soared and fell without them—can never be reclaimed.
Straub packs wisdom and insight and humor together in a satisfying book about neighbors and nosiness, ambition and pleasure, the excitement of youth, the shock of middle age, and the fact that our passions—be they food, or friendship, or music—never go away, they just evolve and grow along with us.
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Here's the books I read in the month of January.
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined (Twilight #5) by Stephenie Meyer ★★★★
The Walking Dead (Vol. 24: Life and Death) by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Stefano Gaudiano & Cliff Rathburn ★★★★
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews ★★★★
Saga (Saga# 32) by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples ★★★★
The Walking Dead (Vol. 25: No Turning Back) by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard & Stefano Gaudiano ★★★★
Losing It (Losing It #1) by Cora Carmack ★★★
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness ★★★
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave #1) by Rick Yancey ★★★★★
January book of the month was:
Challenge Progress:
2016 TBR Pile: 1/11-20
Debut: 0/12-15
Dystopia: 3/13-18
Retelling: 0/5-9
New Release: 0/15
Re-read: 0/10-15
Goodreads: 8/100
Re-read: 0/10-15
Goodreads: 8/100
February TBR:
Passenger (Passenger #1) by Alexandra Bracken
Hurricane Kiss by Deborah Blumenthal
Faking It (Losing It #2) by Cora Carmack
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern ~Re-read~
The Distance from A to Z by Natalie Blitt
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine to post books that you have been really wanting for a long time.
Title: Ivory and Bone
Author: Julie Eshbaugh
Series: N/A
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: June 14th 2016
The only life seventeen-year-old Kol knows is hunting at the foot of the Great Ice with his brothers. But food is becoming scarce, and without another clan to align with, Kol, his family, and their entire group are facing an uncertain future.
Traveling from the south, Mya and her family arrive at Kol’s camp with a trail of hurt and loss behind them, and hope for a new beginning. When Kol meets Mya, her strength, independence, and beauty instantly captivate him, igniting a desire for much more than survival.
Then on a hunt, Kol makes a grave mistake that jeopardizes the relationship that he and Mya have only just started to build. Mya was guarded to begin with—and for good reason—but no apology or gesture is enough for her to forgive him. Soon after, another clan arrives on their shores. And when Mya spots Lo, a daughter of this new clan, her anger intensifies, adding to the already simmering tension between families. After befriending Lo, Kol learns of a dark history between Lo and Mya that is rooted in the tangle of their pasts.
When violence erupts, Kol is forced to choose between fighting alongside Mya or trusting Lo’s claims. And when things quickly turn deadly, it becomes clear that this was a war that one of them had been planning all along.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine to post books that you have been really wanting for a long time.
Title: The Assassin Game
Author: Kirsty McKay
Series: N/A
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Release Date: April 1st 2016
At Cate's elite prep school, it's kill or be killed—literally
At Cate's isolated boarding school, Killer is more than a game—it's an elite secret society. Members must avoid being "killed" during a series of thrilling pranks, and only the Grand Master knows who the "killer" is. When Cate's finally invited to join the Assassins' Guild, she knows it's her ticket to finally feeling like she belongs at Umfraville Hall.
But when the Game becomes all too real, the school threatens to shut it down. Cate will do anything to keep playing and save the Guild, but can she find the real assassin before she's the next target?
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