A hint of Recovery Road, a sample of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and a cut of Juno. A Really Awesome Mess is a laugh-out-loud, gut-wrenching/heart-warming story of two teenagers struggling to find love and themselves. Two teenagers. Two very bumpy roads taken that lead to Heartland Academy. Justin was just having fun, but when his dad walked...
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Top Ten Most Intimidating Books
We all have them. Books that have been sitting on our to-read lists for ages or untouched on our shelves. We plan on getting around to them eventually, of course, but there’s just something about them that makes it easier to ignore these intimidating books until we’re completely out of reading material. These books are just so long...
Teaser Tuesday (July 2)
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 Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. “It was a rainy winter, with days as gray as lead, and I read Great Expectations about...
ARC Review: Souls of the Stones Omnibus by Kelly Walker
Souls of the Stones follows Emariya Warren as she navigates the three divided lands of her world, as well as the three families striving for control. The series incorporates traditional fantasy elements such as prophecy and magic with a love story that transcends genre and time. When Emariya Warren learns enemy forces have captured her father, she’ll do...
ARC Review: Sworn to Raise by Terah Edun
Seventeen-year-old Ciardis has grown up in poverty, a cleaner in a small vale on the outskirts of the kingdom. But beneath her kingdom’s seemingly idyllic surface lies a hidden secret. Whispers of an inept crown Prince are growing ever louder—intensified by the five year anniversary of the soulbond initiations. Amidst scandalous whispers, Ciardis finds herself chosen to train...
2013 Reading Challenge
This year, I decided to participate in the Goodreads Reading Challenge for the first time. I figured that challenging myself to read 100 books would be acceptable since I only really had a specific window in which I could read for pleasure: over Christmas vacation, during Reading Week (while taking a break from studying for midterms, of course)...
Friday Finds (June 28)
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. Books I...
Book Review: The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to center stage of her own life – and, despite her nonexistent history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two. Toby...
Waiting on Wednesday (June 26)
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 Indelible by Dawn Metcalf, which has an expected publication date of July 30. Some things are permanent. Indelible. And they cannot be changed back. Joy Malone learns this...
WWW Wednesday (June 26)
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? Currently Reading: I received an ARC of Mrs. Poe from a Goodreads First Reads giveaway. It’s really interesting so...