Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, which asks you to grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences. This week’s teaser comes from Grasping at Eternity by Karen Amanda Hooper. Leave it to Maryah Woodsen to break the one rule that will screw up eternity: Never erase...
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Top Ten Beginnings/Endings
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme created and hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Every week she posts an idea for relating to books, and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own “top ten” list. This week’s topic is top ten beginnings/endings in books. Both of these are incredibly important: one is the...
Saturday Showcase (July 27)
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 A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1) by Libba Bray. A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique...
Friday Finds (July 26)
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,...
WWW Wednesday (July 24)
WWW Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading. To participate, answer the following three questions: 1. What are you currently reading? 2. What did you recently finish reading? 3. What do you think you’ll read next? Here are my answers: Currently Reading: I just started reading Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick. I...
Waiting On Wednesday (July 24)
Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week’s release that I’m (not so) patiently awaiting is All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill, which has an expected publication date of August 1. “You have to kill him.” Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military...
Teaser Tuesday (July 23)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, which asks you to grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences. This week’s teaser comes from The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey. These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now...
Top Ten Words/Topics That Make Me NOT Pick Up A Book
It’s Tuesday, which means that it’s time for Top Ten Tuesday, a book meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is top ten words/topics that make you NOT pick up a book. 1. Non-fiction I’m more than happy to read historical fiction, but for some reason, I just can’t get into non-fiction. Maybe because...
Saturday Showcase (July 20)
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 Eyes Like Stars (Théâtre Illuminata, #1) by Lisa Mantchev. All her world’s a stage Enter Stage Right Beatrice Shakespeare Smith (Bertie): Our heroine. Nate: A dashing...
Friday Finds (July 19)
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,...