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’m currently reading Gone by Michael Grant. It’s been on my to-read list...
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Waiting On Wednesday (July 10)
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 The Princess in the Opal Mask by Jenny Lundquist, which has an expected publication date of October 22. One Legend Determines the Fate of Two Lives In the...
Book Review: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn’t remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really...
Book Review: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and...
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: The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an extraordinary future. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, Alex hasn’t had the easiest childhood. But when he meets curmudgeonly widower Mr. Peterson, he finds an unlikely friend. Someone who teaches him that...
Book Review: Every Day by David Levithan
Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl. There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere. It’s all fine...
Book Review: Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
Once there was a Postman who fell in love with a Raven. So begins the tale of a postman who encounters a fledgling raven while on the edge of his route and decides to bring her home. The unlikely couple falls in love and conceives a child — an extraordinary raven girl trapped in a human body....