Saturday Showcase is a weekly event hosted here at The In-Between Place which features books that you wish more people had read (or, at least, heard about). This week’s featured book is The Bully Book by Eric Kahn Gale. The rules governing middle school are often a mystery, but for Eric Haskins, they’re a mystery he needs to...
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Friday Finds (September 5)
Friday Finds is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, where you discuss books that you’ve discovered and added to your to-read list over the course of the week. These books don’t have to be ones that you’ve purchased – they can be books that you’ve borrowed, found online, heard about from a friend, etc. As always, if...
Thoughts from Books (#2)
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” It’s funny how much your life can change in a matter of a few months, both for better and for worse. The former is quite easy to deal with. For the latter, it is important to realize that change is a natural and necessary part of life; we...
This Month in Books: September 2014
September is here, which means that fall is finally upon us! I personally cannot wait to curl up in my coziest sweater with hot chocolate and many of these new releases (but most importantly, Heir of Fire). As always, if you’re interested in one of the books, click on its cover image to be taken to its Goodreads...
Book Review: Guy in Real Life by Steve Brezenoff
An achingly real and profoundly moving love story about two Minnesota teens whose lives become intertwined through school, role-playing games, and a chance two-a.m. bike accident. It is Labor Day weekend in St. Paul, Minnesota, and boy and girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning: Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and...
Book Review: Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal...
Thoughts from Books (#1)
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” This is a quote that has resonated with me since the first time that I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower. We are our biggest critics, and often don’t realize how truly beautiful and incredible we are. We have a hard time accepting the love and encouragement that our family,...
Waiting on Wednesday (August 27)
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly book meme hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week, I’m waiting on Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang, which has an expected release date of September 9, 2014. On the day Liz Emerson tries to die, they had reviewed Newton’s laws of motion in physics...
Top Ten Books I Want to Read But Don’t Own Yet
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week, she posts an idea relating to books and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own top ten lists. This week’s topic is “top ten books I really want to read but don’t own yet.” Here are ten 2015 releases...
Book Blitz + Giveaway: Dead Girl Walking by Ruth Silver
Today, I’m very excited to be participating in the blog tour for Ruth Silver’s newest book, Dead Girl Walking! Genre: YA Paranormal Release date: April 25th 2014Series: Royal Reaper #1 Publisher: Patchwork Press Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository Princess Ophelia Dacre sneaks out of the castle to visit her boyfriend in secret. A perfect night cut short when she’s brutally murdered. Ophelia is...