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- Grace SlickEmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-27242473873988394582011-09-28T17:04:00.004-05:002011-09-29T17:49:37.604-05:00Iron Knight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Title: The Iron Knight<br />
Author: Julie Kagawa<br />
Publisher: Harlequin<br />
Release Date: October 25, 2011<br />
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Summery: My name—my True Name—is Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn.<br />
I am the last remaining son of Mab, Queen of the Unseelie Court. And I am dead to her.<br />
My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl…Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-64327928428752454432011-09-28T16:56:00.001-05:002011-09-28T16:59:13.283-05:00The Eternal Ones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publication Date: August 10, 2011</span><br />
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<u>Review:</u> I read this one awhile ago and I'm not exactly sure how well I remember it. I'll try my best to give you guys a good accurate review though. Personally I really quite enjoyed this book. It was a different twist on the whole paranormal thingy. For me when I think of paranormal books I think of vampires, ghosts, faeries and stuff like that. This is kind of ghosty, but more of the whole past life stuff more. It was interesting story, that was quite unique. I liked it because it wasn't the stereo typical story. I have read over and over again the same type of books with the same type of story line about the same type of thing. Personally I thought this was kind of a refreshing book it read. I know that some complain about it lacking in the romance departement, but I personally needed a break from all that stuff and I liked that it wasn't as heavy on the romance and focused a lot on the mystery plot developement.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Jeri Smith-Ready</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA, Fantasy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Simon Pulse</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publication Date: May 4, 2010</span><br />
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Best. Birthday. Ever. At least, it was supposed to be. With Logan's band playing a critical gig and Aura's plans for an intimate after-party, Aura knows it will be the most memorable night of her boyfriend's life. She never thought it would be his last.</div>
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Logan's sudden death leaves Aura devastated. He's gone.</div>
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Some stagehands come out and stop Ren from pulling the head off. They say something about editing this out of the show and how they quickly went to break. Everything goes back to normal. At least as normal as it can be with Ren and Bo glaring at each other. I wonder who Bo really is. (Ren). AHHH! That was soo close! I can't believe he almost found out I'm Bo(Kyoko). The two of them were so deep in thought that they didn't realize that the show came back from commercial. After a couple of awkward seconds the host quickly continued…<br />
Finally the show was wrapping up. Kyoko and Ren actually began to enjoy it after the initial problems. That is until the end. The host says "Well thank you Bo, and Tsuruga Ren we certainly enjoyed having you on our show today. It was interesting to say the leat. Now ladies and gentleman we have Fo Shuwa here today to perform his newest song." Lots of clapping and noise coming from the audience. Ren and Bo were glaring again, this time not at each other. They were staring at the singer Fo Shuwa. The hate waves coming off the two of them caused the room's temperature to drop suddenly…<br />
After the show wrapped up Kyoko rushed into her dressing room to change. Ren still wanting to know who Bo really was ended up finding her in her dressing room while she was getting out of the Bo suite. "Kyoko?" Ren was really surprised. I can't believe that she knows how I feel. Meanwhile Kyoko was on the floor apologizing. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to deceive you. I just wanted to help and you seemed so depressed those times. Please forgive me your lowly kohai." Ren was stunned. Did he have to spell it out for her? It seems that she still hasn't caught on that Ren is in love with her. "Kyoko do you need a ride home?" Ren asked…<br />
That night there were two people who couldn't seem to go to sleep. Kyoko was up all night thinking of earlier. Ren said that he wasn't mad, but he sure seemed like it. She was thinking of the ride home. Ren barely talked at all to her. I knew it. He's mad. Maybe I'll apologize again in the morning. Around 2 am Kyoko was finally able to fall asleep. Meanwhile Ren was up thinking about Kyoko. He was surprised and quite annoyed that she still hasn't figured out that he loves even though he made it really clear. That night he fell asleep worried about what the next day would bring…<br />
Kyoko woke up early this morning. She was still half asleep when she made it downstairs and was about to leave for LME. Kyoko was surprised to find Ren waiting outside for. "Do you need a ride?" "No, I'm fine." Kyoko replied. "Kyoko." Ren said while giving her his scary smile. "Are you going to get in?" Kyoko scrambled in while saying hello to Yashiro. She really gets freaked out by that smile. Ren felt bad, but he didn't feel arguing with he right not. The car ride was relatively quite except for Kyoko and Yashiro trying to start a conversation. When they arrived at LME Kyoko jumped out of the car. "Thank you so much Ren. I've gotta go bye." Kyoko bowed and quickly left. "Ren your face is slipping again." Yashiro warned him.<br />
Later in the President's office, Ren and the President were discussing his parents. Apparently they want to visit, but Ren is not very happy. "What if they give the secret away? I came here to make a name for myself and something is bound to go wrong. I want Kyoko to know the truth at least before they come." Ren argued. "Ren, they will respect your wishes, but their your parents. And concerning Kyoko you should just tell her." "I know, I just don't want her to get scared and run away from me, or hate me." Ren frowns falling into a state of depression no one would ever expect to see of Japan's Number 1 Most Desirable Man. "Don't worry Ren she'll come around." Ren stands up and leaves.<br />
A Couple of Days later<br />
Kyoko was out of breath after rushing to the airport. I am so late. I can't believe I lost track of time again like this. When she see Kuu Hizuri she suddenly perks up. "Otou-san!" she screams and runs up to give him a hug. A bunch of people lookup to see a crazy looking girl run up to Kuu Hizuri. All of them are wondering why she is referring to him as otou-san. When giving Kuu a hug Julie steps out from behind them. Kyoko steps back and looks surprise. Julie takes a step forward and gives her other "son" a hug. "Hello I am so happy to finally meet you, Kyoko. You can call be Okaa-san or Julie." Kyoko is still frozen is shock. When she comes back around she smiles and returns the hug. "Okay. Hi Julie."<br />
The three of them get into the limo and drive to the hotel.Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-27757467940305092172011-03-07T16:26:00.001-06:002011-09-28T16:43:01.574-05:00Gray Wolf Throne Cover Reveal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1299443132l/9409469.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1299443132l/9409469.jpg" width="212" /></a></div>First I would like to say sorry. I really haven't had enough time to keep up with this blog. I have been busy lately and I will try to keep up better from now on. I know this may be old news, but I thought I would share it anyways.<br />
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<b>The Gray Wolf Throne</b><br />
by Cinda Williams Chima<br />
Genre: YA, Fantasy<br />
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH<br />
Release Date: September 20, 2011<br />
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Oh I forgot to mention. If I forget to post regularly you can always go to my tumblr site to see a couple of reviews. Or just some random things having to do with music, books, short stories, friends, everyday life, etc. Here's the link <a href="http://kittykitkat2397.tumblr.com/">http://kittykitkat2397.tumblr.com/</a>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-64915225274751751722011-02-26T22:26:00.001-06:002011-02-27T09:17:19.699-06:00FANFIC!<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am so sorry that I haven't posted recently. I've been really busy with school and what not. Also I have found the wonders of Fan Fiction. I also wrote the first chapter of my first fanfic. I thought that I would share ti with you guys. Well here it is and please don't judge me harshly I don't really have any idea what I am doing. Plus I do not own Skip Beat! which this fanfic is based off of. Oh and some of the characters are out of context. I just liked them better this way. </span></div><a href="http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz98/Aurel29/Skip%20Beat/Minitokyo_Skip_Beat_Group_Scans_391.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz98/Aurel29/Skip%20Beat/Minitokyo_Skip_Beat_Group_Scans_391.jpg" width="199" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Hello ladies and gentleman, and welcome back. Here we have Japan's most desirable man, Tsuruga Ren! So please tell us, I'm sure we all want to know, is there a special someone in your life right now? We all know that you don't really date around, at least no one knows if you do. But everyone has that special somebody, right? So, who's yours?" <b>Ugh, why is it every time I do an interview they ask these questions (Ren). </b>"Well as you guys all know I am very busy. It is hard to really find time to date around. What with all the work I do. So no I do not have that special somebody." Ren gives her his very fake smile. The host clearly trying to get it together. "Well I guess that makes sense." <b>I KNOW!(Host)</b> The host smiles dangerously. "Well then. I know after all these years this might have crossed some people's minds. No one ever hears about your private life. It seems as if you haven't ever had a girlfriend, which is a surprise considering who you are. Could it be possible, are you gay?" Collective gasp from the audience. <b>Image of sweet Kyoko comes to mind. Where do they come up with these ideas.(Ren) </b>The host is slightly uncomfortable. <b>Maybe I shouldn't have said anything. NO! It's not that big a deal. I can ask whatever.(Host) </b>" I mean it certainly seems like it. What about that guy who follows you around everywhere?"</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other side of Tokyo. A sweet young woman is staring at the TV. <b>Could it be possible? Is Tsuruga-san GAY? </b>Of course not she mutters. He wouldn't talk to Bo about the high school girl if he was.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back on the show. Tsuruga Ren is trying it keep his annoyance from showing. "Of course not! Just because I don't want to share my private life with the rest of the world doesn't mean that I am gay." The host smiles. She has scented a great story and she won't let is get away. "Well then, why don't prove it. Tell us, is there anyone who has the luck to have caught your eye?" <b>OOOOH! This is going to be BIG!(Host) </b>"I guess I can tell you a little." Cocks his head. "But you have to promise one thing." The host lights up, "What?". Ren smiles, "That will be decided afterwards. So you want to know who I have my sights on?" The host is trying her best to calm down. "YES!"</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back to Kyoko. I wonder who she is. Whoever she is, she is one lucky girl. Kyoko stops as loses herself in fairyland. Someone bumps into her. "WTH are you doing!" Sho yells. Then he realizes it's Kyoko. Kyoko yells something unintelligible, slaps him, and runs off. Sho is left there seething in anger. <b>HOW DARE SHE!(Sho)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Okay then. I'll tell you three things. I will not tell you guys her name though. First she has no idea that I am totally in love with her. I guess that is part of the reasons I like her. She is really dense and though it is frustrating, it is also quite cute and adorable." The host freaking out! "OMG. So THE Tsuruga Ren can't get the girl that he likes to notice him." Ren clearly annoyed. "I never said that she doesn't notice me. I only said that she doesn't realize that I am in love with her. I have been for about a year." The host totally caught by surprise. "So the most desirable man in Japan is has trouble in the romance department?" Shakes her head. <b>Who would have ever thought that?(host). </b>Ren clearly uncomfortable and trying to get it together sends the host his most bright scary smile. "Okay moving on then. The second thing is that she hates all things having to do with love. I'm not talking about the family type love, or the loving your friends. She has sworn off love forever." The host nods. "Now it makes more sense. One would think that she would realize if YOU were in love with her. Except it makes sense if she doesn't want to fall in love." Looks at Ren sympathetically. "Well that sucks for you. Go on, what's the third thing?" Ren sighs, he just wants to get this over with. "Fine, the third thing is that I have been getting advice from three different people about my "relationship" problems." Totally caught off guard. "Tsuruga Ren, seriously, you of all people are having to get advice from others to woo the girl you love." Shakes her head. This is soo confusing.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kyoko jumps on her bike and races to her next job. WAHHH! I'm going be late! I can't believe I lost track of time like that. Stupid Sho-baka. This is all your fault. She stops and almost falls over. She runs into the studio to put on her Bo suite. <b>Why do they need to me to dress up as Bo? It's not even for the regular show. I can't believe I'm doing this for this stupid talk show.(Kyoko)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>These interviews are so annoying.(Ren) </b>" Not all of the advice is needed or wanted. My manager is one of the three people always trying to give me advice. Sometimes I swear he acts like a teenage girl." <b>Sorry Yashiro.(Ren)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"He is also the guy that you mentioned saying that I might be interested in. May I make it clear that he is also NOT gay. He has a thing for Kanea. At least I think so." <b>OOOH! Sweet revenge.(Ren)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After Kyoko gets dressed in the Bo costume a stagehand comes into the dressing room. She says, "Bo are you ready for your surprise appearance". Kyoko looks up and nods. The stagehand gives her directions. "So he waves to you, you run out there and do what your normally do. Kay?" Kyoko smiles and rushes to her place.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After waiting for the crowd to settle down the host continues. "So who are the other people giving you advice on your love life?" Ren reluctantly continues. "Well everyone knows how the President of LME is. He loves to play love simulation games and all that. He also really enjoys playing around with his actor and actresses' love lives. Boss has been trying really hard to get us together. He loves to give us "missions" and such. Often times they end up putting us in awkward situations. Sometimes I think he does more harm than good. <b>Sorry president. It's the truth. (Ren)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kyoko! Get ready; it's almost your time to go on. In 1, 2, 3…</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The host ponders over this new information. Hmm… "Okay so then who is the third person giving you love advice?" <b>This outta be good, considering everything else he has told us. This is gonna make my career.(Host)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ren sighs. "This is actually really embarrassing, but I have been getting advice from a chicken." Everyone laughs their heads off. Who would've thought that Japan's number 1 most desirable man would get advice from a chicken. Still trying to stop laughing the host says, "Hahaha, sorry, so you go to a chicken when you need love advice?" <b>I knew I shouldn't have said anything. (Ren) </b>"Hmph, they aren't just any normal chicken. I go to Bo the chicken from the<i>Kimagure Rock</i> show." The host still laughing, "Oh, so how'd you guys meet?" Ren chuckles, "Actually I met Bo when I was sulking in the hall way. Don't ask about it, because I won't answer. Anyways Bo helped me out, and then told me that he/she hated me." OH! "So we kept bumping into each other and we kind of became friends.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">KYOKO! It's time! GO GO GO.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The host gets her signal. "Oh well this is a surprise. We weren't expecting this. We actually invited Bo the chicken to come here and help out. So say hi to your friend there Tsuruga Ren." Totally surprised Ren says, "Hi"</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bo comes skidding out and totally bewildered. <b>AWWW MAN! I didn't realize that this was the same talk show. What am I going to do! Calm down Kyoko you can do this.(Kyoko) </b>Breathing heavily Bo comes and sits down next to Ren. The host is overjoyed at the turn of events. "So Ren, do you even know the identity of Bo here, and if you do will you please enlighten us." Hmm… moment of awkward silence. "Actually I don't know who my friend Bo really. I would really like to find out though." Ren turns around and tries to take Bo's head off. Kyoko freaks out and starts pecking him. Yelling, "STOP IT!" Then suddenly the hat on Bo's head comes off. It is really similar to the time with the chef hat. Bo starts to freak out. Ren is laughing and tries to apologize while laughing. The whole atmosphere is lighter now. Ren puts the hat back on and tries again the take the head off…</span></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-80789877420066988832011-02-16T15:50:00.000-06:002011-02-16T15:50:56.413-06:00Waiting on Wednesday (7)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5a4e42; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1296441749l/10025305.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1296441749l/10025305.jpg" width="215" /></a></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><b>Clockwork Prince</b></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">by Cassandra Clare</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Genre: YA, Fantasy</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Publisher: Simon & Schuster</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Release Date: August 30, 2011</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><u>Summary:</u> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;">The Infernal Devices is a series of prequels to The Mortal Instruments series, set in 19’th century London. The story concerns 16-year-old orphan Tessa Gray, whose quiet life is thrown into turmoil when her older brother Nathaniel suddenly vanishes, leaving her alone. Her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London’s dangerous supernatural underworld, where warlocks throw masked balls for half-demon Downworlders. When Tessa discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must come to trust her natural enemies, the demon-killing Shadowhunters, if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother. Torn between the beautiful Will, a Shadowhunter who isn’t what he seems, and the devoted Jem, whose own deadly secret is slowly destroying him, Tessa must draw on all her strength to save her brother and keep herself alive in this deadly new world.</span></i></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Sorry that I don't have the actual cover.</span></span></div></div></div></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-34239663746916045222011-02-09T16:04:00.000-06:002011-02-09T16:04:22.446-06:00Bloodlines Cover Revealed!<div style="text-align: center;">YAY! Here is the cover of Bloodlines by Richelle Mead which is a spin off series from The Vampire Academy:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1297199431l/8709527.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1297199431l/8709527.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Bloodlines </b></div><div style="text-align: left;">by Richelle Mead</div><div style="text-align: left;">Genre: YA, Fantasy</div><div style="text-align: left;">Publisher: Razorbill</div><div style="text-align: left;">Release Date: August 23, 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-12717654953133794182011-02-09T16:00:00.000-06:002011-02-09T16:00:07.139-06:00Waiting on Wednesday (6)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-Qm49cDOJMk/TKHju5oQlsI/AAAAAAAABnU/PEy28LTg3YU/s1600/New+WoW.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-Qm49cDOJMk/TKHju5oQlsI/AAAAAAAABnU/PEy28LTg3YU/s1600/New+WoW.JPG" style="cursor: move;" /></span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by <a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/">Breaking the Spine</a>, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><u><i>Summary:</i></u></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;">After an unexpected transfer to the States for her senior year, Suranne's new friends give her just one instruction: stay away from Kane Richards. According to everyone, he's a heartless playboy concerned only for himself.<br />
With one glance, it's easy to see why he gets away with it. But things aren't always what they seem- especially when he sets his sights on her and whispers that she's "different."<br />
Despite all the red flags, Suranne considers whether or not his intentions are genuine or if she's simply another name on his list.<br />
In the process, she may just uncover the real Kane Richards. But, when it comes down to it, the real Kane Richards may not want to be found. Filled with raw emotion, <em>Kane Richards Must Die,</em> explores relationships, trust, love, and what can happen when life takes an unexpected turn.</span></i></span></div></div></div></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-78377313539162941372011-02-07T17:56:00.000-06:002011-02-07T17:56:53.524-06:00Thirteen Reasons Why<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181958465l/1217100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181958465l/1217100.jpg" width="210" /></span></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thirteen Reasons Why</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Jay Asher</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Razorbill</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publication Date: October 18, 2007</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><u>Summary:</u> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;">Jay Asher's brilliant first novel is a moving, highly original story that focuses on a set of audiotapes made by a girl before she committed suicide, and which explain to 13 people the reasons why she decided to end her life. Told in a highly effective duel narrative -- alternating between the girl s voice and the thoughts of a boy who is listening -- this honest, poignant story reveals how other people's actions shape, and by extension can ruin, an individual's faith in people. Intensely powerful and painfully real, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;">Thirteen Reasons Why</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"> reveals how brutal high school can be, the consequences of spreading rumors, and the lasting effects of suicide on those left behind.</span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thirteen Reasons Why is a pretty serious book. The whole idea is something that shouldn't be taken lightly. One girl, Hannah, commits suicide due to the actions of people in her life. They might not have realized it, but their actions effected her life more than they expected.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though this book is all about suicide and quite depressing stuff, I liked it. Thirteen Reasons Why was a breath of fresh air for me. I should probably start reading more books that aren't fantasy. Anyways, when I was reading this book I swear it felt real. The writing was really well done and the whole story seems like it really is something that happened. The whole story had a really serious tone to it. And it really focuses on some stuff that should be talked about more. Like suicide and how your actions can effect people in ways that you would never expect. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay so I should probably be talking more about the actual book, right. Oh well, I tend to get sidetracked easily. Anyways I really liked the whole concept. It was well executed as well. I really liked the characters as well. Even though Hannah was dead and all that, I thought that her character was well done. It was kinda cool how she was able to get her message across even after she took her own life. I guess cool isn't the right word, but I can't think of any other words right now. Overall a really good book, that I'm pretty sure most people will enjoy. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Rating:</u> A</span>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-87990789154210976562011-02-05T09:40:00.005-06:002011-02-05T20:27:23.767-06:00The Iron Witch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1277231036l/6930002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1277231036l/6930002.jpg" width="207" /></span></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Iron Witch</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Karen Mahoney</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA, Fantasy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Flux</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publication Date: January 20, 2011</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><u>Summary:</u> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;">Freak. That's what her classmates call seventeen-year-old Donna Underwood. When she was seven, a horrific fey attack killed her father and drove her mother mad. Donna's own nearly fatal injuries from the assault were fixed by magic—the iron tattoos branding her hands and arms. The child of alchemists, Donna feels cursed by the magical heritage that destroyed her parents and any chance she had for a normal life. The only thing that keeps her sane and grounded is her relationship with her best friend, Navin Sharma.</span></i></span><br />
<div style="color: #181818; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When the darkest outcasts of Faerie—the vicious wood elves—abduct Navin, Donna finally has to accept her role in the centuries old war between the humans and the fey. Assisted by Xan, a gorgeous half-fey dropout with secrets of his own, Donna races to save her friend—even if it means betraying everything her parents and the alchemist community fought to the death to protect.</i></span></div><div style="color: #181818; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Book Review:</u></span></div><div style="color: #181818; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love it when a book really brings you right into the middle of the story. To make me feel connected with it. There are few books that do this well. I also love it when a book has believable characters. The ending was satisfying in a way, but it also makes me want to know more at the same time. The Iron Witch had one of my favorite endings.</span></div><div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;">I loved Donna. She had her faults, but that just made her more believable. I don't know why, but I enjoy reading about characters who have faults opposed to those who are "perfect". Anyways I thought that as a character she really brought me into the story. She is the type to be able to kick your butt. But at the same time she is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">fiercely</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"> loyal, a good friend, and is a little naive or innocent in some ways. Over the course of the book I came to admire Donna and relate to her. Donna is different from everyone else. Even those who are part of her world. Throughout the book she becomes more and more confident in being her self, with the help of Xan that is. </span></span></span></div><div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;">There are so many different books that have love triangles, so I think that it is hard to write a love triangle that stands out from the rest. This one does. First of all there is Navin. He is the best friend. Yeah most love triangles have the best friend for life in them, but I felt that this one was kinda different. Anyways, Navin is an amazing character in that not only is he Donna's best friend for years, but he keeps her grounded. He is the one that makes her feel normal, which is pretty important to Donna. Then there is Xan. In most love triangles the this guy would be perfect. They would come in and sweep the main character off their feet. This is totally not so in The Iron Witch. Xan, just like Navin and Donna, has his faults. Yeah he is cute and all that, but there is actual depth to him. I hope that the author will reveal more about his character because in this book he is kind of a mysterious character. </span></span></span></div><div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">In the end I thought that The Iron Witch was a pretty good book. Though I liked it, I have to say I have read better. Not that this isn't worth reading. It definitely is. I just liked other books a little bit more. Also it was a little short. I felt that the story its self was a little rushed because of this. Either way I will be looking forward to the next book.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><u>Rating:</u> B </span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;"><a class="actionLinkLite" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6930002-the-iron-witch#" style="color: #215625; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;"></a></span><a class="actionLinkLite" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6930002-the-iron-witch#" style="color: #215625; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;"></a>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-35055084892590550302011-02-04T17:39:00.000-06:002011-02-04T17:39:34.691-06:00I Totally Splurged!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'M SOO HAPPY IT'S FRIDAY!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, so today after school I headed straight for the bookstore. Since I haven't been there in awhile I found that I was really behind in getting the newest books. Or books that I have been trying to get around to reading. These are the books:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181958465l/1217100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181958465l/1217100.jpg" width="210" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thirteen Reasons Why</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Jay Asher</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Razorbill</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publication Date: October 18, 2007</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Summary: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;">Jay Asher's brilliant first novel is a moving, highly original story that focuses on a set of audiotapes made by a girl before she committed suicide, and which explain to 13 people the reasons why she decided to end her life. Told in a highly effective duel narrative -- alternating between the girl s voice and the thoughts of a boy who is listening -- this honest, poignant story reveals how other people's actions shape, and by extension can ruin, an individual's faith in people. Intensely powerful and painfully real, <em>Thirteen Reasons Why</em> reveals how </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;">brutal high school can be, the consequences of spreading rumors, and the lasting effects of suicide on those left behind.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vF3ruOfuL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vF3ruOfuL.jpg" width="211" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;"><b>I Am Number Four</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;">by Pittacus Lore</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;">Genre: YA,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;">Publisher: Harper Collins </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;">Publication Date: August 3, 2010</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;"><i><u>Summary:</u> </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books—but we are real. </i></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><br />
Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. we have lived among you without you knowing.<br />
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But they know.<br />
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They caught Number One in Malaysia.<br />
Number Two in England.<br />
And Number Three in Kenya.<br />
They killed them all.<br />
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I am Number Four.<br />
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I am next.</span></i></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1293421977l/3777732.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1293421977l/3777732.jpg" width="210" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>City of Glass</b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Cassandra Clare</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;">Genre: YA, Fantasy</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;">Publisher: Margret K. McElderry</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;">Publication Date: March 24, 2009</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;"><i><u>Summary:</u> </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><i>To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters -- never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight. </i></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>As Clary uncovers more about her family's past, she finds an ally in mysterious Shadow-hunter Sebastian. With Valentine mustering the full force of his power to destroy all Shadow-hunters forever, their only chance to defeat him is to fight alongside their eternal enemies. But can Downworlders and Shadowhunters put aside their hatred to work together? While Jace realizes exactly how much he's willing to risk for Clary, can she harness her new found powers to help save the Glass City -- whatever the cost?<br />
Love is a mortal sin and the secrets of the past prove deadly as Clary and Jace face down Valentine in the final installment of the New York Timesbestselling trilogy The Mortal Instruments.</i></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1277231036l/6930002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1277231036l/6930002.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Iron Witch</b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Karen Mahoney</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA, Fantasy</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Flux</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publication Date: January 20, 2011</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><u>Summary:</u> </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Freak. That's what her classmates call seventeen-year-old Donna Underwood. When she was seven, a horrific fey attack killed her father and drove her mother mad. Donna's own nearly fatal injuries from the assault were fixed by magic—the iron tattoos branding her hands and arms. The child of alchemists, Donna feels cursed by the magical heritage that destroyed her parents and any chance she had for a normal life. The only thing that keeps her sane and grounded is her relationship with her best friend, Navin Sharma.</i></span></span></div><div style="color: #181818; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When the darkest outcasts of Faerie—the vicious wood elves—abduct Navin, Donna finally has to accept her role in the centuries old war between the humans and the fey. Assisted by Xan, a gorgeous half-fey dropout with secrets of his own, Donna races to save her friend—even if it means betraying everything her parents and the alchemist community fought to the death to protect.</i></span></div><div style="color: #181818; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br />
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</i></span></div><div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;">You guys can </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">definitely expect the reviews for these books to be coming soon.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span></span></span></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-70362416835464019222011-02-02T09:31:00.004-06:002011-02-02T09:36:01.968-06:00Waiting on Wednesday (5)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-Qm49cDOJMk/TKHju5oQlsI/AAAAAAAABnU/PEy28LTg3YU/s1600/New+WoW.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-Qm49cDOJMk/TKHju5oQlsI/AAAAAAAABnU/PEy28LTg3YU/s1600/New+WoW.JPG" /></span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by <a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/">Breaking the Spine</a>, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sc1pvXRzlAg/TRlYUeIo1vI/AAAAAAAADB0/eNRKyAxA7p8/s320/The-Iron-Thorn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sc1pvXRzlAg/TRlYUeIo1vI/AAAAAAAADB0/eNRKyAxA7p8/s320/The-Iron-Thorn.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Iron Thron</b></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Caitlin Kittredge</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA, Fantasy</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Delacorte Books For Young Readers</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Release Date: February 22, 2011</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Summary: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;">In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical—born of the belief in magic and witchcraft. And for Aoife Grayson, her time is growing shorter by the day.</span></i></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> Aoife Grayson's family is unique, in the worst way—every one of them, including her mother and her elder brother Conrad, has gone mad on their 16th birthday. And now, a ward of the state, and one of the only female students at the School of Engines, she is trying to pretend that her fate can be different.</i></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kIzb8K2zjtM/TROSRvOQiLI/AAAAAAAAAe4/PAX0gJvUlaU/s1600/The+Demon+Trapper%2527s+Daughter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kIzb8K2zjtM/TROSRvOQiLI/AAAAAAAAAe4/PAX0gJvUlaU/s320/The+Demon+Trapper%2527s+Daughter.jpg" width="213" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Demon Trapper's Daughter</span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Jana Oliver</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Summary: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 13px;">Riley Blackthorne just needs a chance to prove herself – and that’s exactly what the demons are counting on…</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seventeen-year-old Riley, the only daughter of legendary Demon Trapper, Paul Blackthorne, has always dreamed of following in her father's footsteps. The good news is, with human society seriously disrupted by economic upheaval and Lucifer increasing the number of demons in all major cities, Atlanta’s local Trappers’ Guild needs all the help they can get – even from a girl. When she’s not keeping up with her homework or trying to manage her growing crush on fellow apprentice, Simon, Riley’s out saving distressed citizens from foul-mouthed little devils – Grade One Hellspawn only, of course, per the strict rules of the Guild. Life’s about as normal as can be for the average demon-trapping teen.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Summary: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 9px;">Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that once love - the deliria - blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy. </span></span><br />
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But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.</span></span></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-44813609094134309852011-02-01T10:27:00.001-06:002011-02-01T10:30:45.512-06:00The Outsiders<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1268110155l/7840334.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1268110155l/7840334.jpg" width="181" /></span></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Outsiders</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by S.E. Hinton</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Speak</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publication Date: November 1, 1997</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Original Publication Date: 1967</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 13px;">According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser. </span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to read this book for school about a year ago. It was the first book that we read as a class that year. I was in 7th grade and I loved it. Almost everyone in my grade enjoyed reading it. We spent a lot of time talking about the meaning and themes of this book. It was my favorite book that I read in school that year. Even though we read several other really good books. The story was amazing. Even though I only had to read a couple of chapters a night I couldn't help, but finish it in almost one sitting. From the first chapter I was entranced. It was one of those books that you can't put down. I also liked that the meaning of this book was deeper than most books that I read. It was a refreshing break. We read a lot of books that had heavier meaning to them, but this one really got to me. I loved most of the characters and they were the most believable characters I have ever read about. You can really relate to them whether or not you are like them or not. S.E Hinton is an amazing writer and I am happy that I read this book.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">"I lie to myself all the time, but I never believe me." </span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;"><i>"Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold." </i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;"><i>"Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see." </i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;"><i>"It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset." </i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;"><i>"They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong." </i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;"><i>"Things are rough all over."</i></span></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyways to my real point of this post. I have just found the joy of reading japanese manga and watching japanese anime. Lately I have been watching as much as I can. I am sad to say though, that I haven't been focusing on reading as much during this time. I also was just wondering if any of you guys know any good manga or anime. I have really fallen in love with it, but I don't know a lot about it either. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Some of the Japanese anime or manga that I have watched or read are:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I know that t isn't that much, but it takes a lot of time plus I just started a week or so ago.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-34474642976488214892011-01-28T16:59:00.001-06:002011-01-28T17:04:04.923-06:00Angelfire<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Txrzw-9f2KA/TR5MUyEBUfI/AAAAAAAABPw/03QV4oKr25g/s1600/7285498.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Txrzw-9f2KA/TR5MUyEBUfI/AAAAAAAABPw/03QV4oKr25g/s320/7285498.jpg" width="223" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Angelfire</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Courtney Allison Moulton</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA, Fantasy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Harper Collins</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Release Date: February 15, 2011</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><u>Summary:</u> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 13px;">When seventeen-year-old Ellie starts seeing reapers - monstrous creatures who devour humans and send their souls to Hell - she finds herself on the front lines of a supernatural war between archangels and the Fallen and faced with the possible destruction of her soul. </span></i></span><br />
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A mysterious boy named Will reveals she is the reincarnation of an ancient warrior, the only one capable of wielding swords of angelfire to fight the reapers, and he is an immortal sworn to protect her in battle. Now that Ellie's powers have been awakened, a powerful reaper called Bastian has come forward to challenge her. He has employed a fierce assassin to eliminate her - an assassin who has already killed her once.<br />
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While balancing her dwindling social life and reaper-hunting duties, she and Will discover Bastian is searching for a dormant creature believed to be a true soul reaper. Bastian plans to use this weapon to ignite the End of Days and to destroy Ellie's soul, ending her rebirth cycle forever. Now, she must face an army of Bastian's most frightening reapers, prevent the soul reaper from consuming her soul, and uncover the secrets of her past lives - including truths that may be too frightening to remember.</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><u>Rating:</u> B+</span></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-79766312744017828052011-01-26T16:32:00.001-06:002011-01-27T16:44:07.954-06:00Waiting on Wednesday (4)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-Qm49cDOJMk/TKHju5oQlsI/AAAAAAAABnU/PEy28LTg3YU/s1600/New+WoW.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-Qm49cDOJMk/TKHju5oQlsI/AAAAAAAABnU/PEy28LTg3YU/s1600/New+WoW.JPG" style="cursor: move;" /></span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by <a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/">Breaking the Spine</a>, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.</span></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Summary: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ashline Wilde never received an instruction manual on how to be a 16-year-old Polynesian volcano goddess. If she had, it might have contained helpful warnings such as: </span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
• Dreaming about your (thankfully) mortal boyfriend may cause your bed to spontaneously combust<br />
• Oven mitts should be worn at all times during heavy make-out sessions<br />
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Instead, Ash has to learn these life lessons the hard way as her dormant powers erupt at the most awkward times. In the wake of a hometown tragedy, Ash transfers to Blackwood Academy, a boarding school nestled in California’s redwoods, where a group of fellow gods-on-earth have mysteriously convened. As if sophomore year couldn’t get any worse, her storm goddess older sister, the wild and unpredictable Eve, resurfaces to haunt Ashline. With a war between the gods looming over Blackwood, Ash must master the fire smoldering within her before she clashes with her sister one final time, which leads us to life-lesson #3:<br />
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• When warm and cold fronts collide, there’s guaranteed to be a storm. </span></span></div></div><span id="goog_1052563301"></span><span id="goog_1052563302"></span>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-75473867905560521032011-01-25T16:04:00.001-06:002011-01-25T16:05:10.969-06:00ARC (3)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1280553740l/7686667.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1280553740l/7686667.jpg" width="211" /></span></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Delirium </span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By Lauren Oliver</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Harper Teen</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Release Date: February 1, 2011</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Summary: </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 13px;"><i>Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that once love - the deliria - blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy. </i></span></span><br />
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But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.</i></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><i>Summary:</i></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When seventeen-year-old Ellie starts seeing reapers - monstrous creatures who devour humans and send their souls to Hell - she finds herself on the front lines of a supernatural war between archangels and the Fallen and faced with the possible destruction of her soul.<br />
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A mysterious boy named Will reveals she is the reincarnation of an ancient warrior, the only one capable of wielding swords of angelfire to fight the reapers, and he is an immortal sworn to protect her in battle. Now that Ellie's powers have been awakened, a powerful reaper called Bastian has come forward to challenge her. He has employed a fierce assassin to eliminate her - an assassin who has already killed her once.<br />
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><i>While balancing her dwindling social life and reaper-hunting duties, she and Will discover Bastian is searching for a dormant creature believed to be a true soul reaper. Bastian plans to use this weapon to ignite the End of Days and to destroy Ellie's soul, ending her rebirth cycle forever. Now, she must face an army of Bastian's most frightening reapers, prevent the soul reaper from consuming her soul, and uncover the secrets of her past lives - including truths that may be too frightening to remember.</i> </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Tara Hudson</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA, Fantasy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Harper Teen</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Release Date: June 7, 2011</span><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can there truly be love after death?</span></i></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. With no recollection of her past life—or her actual death—she's trapped alone in a nightmarish existence. All of this changes when she tries to rescue a boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river. As a ghost, she can do nothing but <em>will</em> him to live. Yet in an unforgettable moment of connection, she helps him survive.</span></i></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amelia and Joshua grow ever closer as they begin to uncover the strange circumstances of her death and the secrets of the dark river that held her captive for so long. But even while they struggle to keep their bond hidden from the living world, a frightening spirit named Eli is doing everything in his power to destroy their newfound happiness and drag Amelia back into the ghost world . . . forever.</span></i></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SOOO CUTE! You'd think that since it was a ghost story that it would be a little darker. It was basically a Romance book for teens. I liked it, but it was mushy. I like some of books where there is romance and I don't like others. I don't know why this is. I guess it has something to do with the writing skills of the author. Well anyways I liked this book. It was another short quick read, and it was light. I mainly wanted to read it because it had a pretty cover. I know that I shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, but I couldn't help myself. As for the story I really liked it. It isn't one of those books that I will read over and over, and never forget, but it was pretty good. I liked the idea that a ghost could still fall in love. Plus I liked the part that Eli played. Normally I'm into series. For some reason I tend not to like books that aren't part of a series. This is definitely an exception. If your looking for a book that is mainly just romance, and is a quick read then this book is for you. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Amy Plum</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA, Fantasy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Harper Teen</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Release Date: May 10, 2011</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><i>DIE FOR ME is the first of three books about Kate, a sixteen-year-old American who moves to Paris after the death of her parents. She finds herself falling for Vincent, who she discovers is not the typical French teenager he appears: he is something else entirely.<br />
DIE FOR ME presents a new supernatural mythology presented in a city where dreams are sometimes the same as reality.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;">Another paranormal, Young Adult novel. That is all it is. There really isn't that much about it that stands out. I think I'll try and take a break from Paranormal type books. Anyways I liked the story thought. I thought that the idea that some people who die trying to save another's life will come back to life. I also liked the idea that the same thing happens to those who are evil. I read this book mainly because of the idea of the book, but I also read it because I liked the cover. I don't know why, but I thought that this book would be deeper. For me it felt light. There wasn't really any depth. Plus the relationship in between Kate and Vincent was too mushy. That's my personal opinion at least. Either way I liked it. Another book that isn't memorable. It's not one of those books that I will never forget. The characters were okay. Nothing out of the ordinary. Kate was just another sweet girl. Vincent just another mysterious guy. Overall just okay.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-13021091063670765642011-01-22T12:48:00.000-06:002011-01-23T12:49:28.250-06:00The Ghost and the Goth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nhteQqUzS9M/TSElBmheBfI/AAAAAAAAAp4/sBfZamLsrcc/s1600/The+Ghost+and+the+Goth+by+Stacey+Kade.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nhteQqUzS9M/TSElBmheBfI/AAAAAAAAAp4/sBfZamLsrcc/s1600/The+Ghost+and+the+Goth+by+Stacey+Kade.png" /></a></div><b><br />
The Ghost and the Goth</b><br />
by Stacey Kade<br />
Genre: YA, Fantasy<br />
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH<br />
Publication Date: June 29, 2010<br />
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<i><u>Summary:</u></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13px;"><i>Alona Dare–Senior in high school, co-captain of the cheerleading squad, Homecoming Queen three years in a row, voted most likely to marry a movie star… and newly dead.<br />
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I’m the girl you hated in high school. Is it my fault I was born with it all-good looks, silky blond hair, a hot bod, and a keen sense of what everyone else should not be wearing? But my life isn’t perfect, especially since I died. Run over by a bus of band geeks—is there anything more humiliating? As it turns out, yes—watching your boyfriend and friends move on with life, only days after your funeral. And you wouldn’t believe what they’re saying about me now that they think I can’t hear them. To top it off, I’m starting to disappear, flickering in and out of existence. I don’t know where I go when I’m gone, but it’s not good. Where is that freaking white light already?<br />
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Will Killian–Senior in high school, outcast, dubbed “Will Kill” by the popular crowd for the unearthly aura around him, voted most likely to rob a bank…and a ghost-talker.<br />
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I can see, hear, and touch the dead. Unfortunately, they can also see, hear and touch me. Yeah, because surviving high school isn’t hard enough already. I’ve done my best to hide my “gift.” After all, my dad, who shared my ability, killed himself because of it when I was fifteen. But lately, pretending to be normal has gotten a lot harder. A new ghost—an anonymous, seething cloud of negative energy with the capacity to throw me around—is pursuing me with a vengeance. My mom, who knows nothing about what I can do, is worrying about the increase in odd incidents, my shrink is tossing around terms like “temporary confinement for psychiatric evaluation,” and my principal, who thinks I’m a disruption and a faker, is searching for every way possible to get rid of me. How many weeks until graduation?</i></span><br />
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<u>Book Review:</u><br />
I loved this book. Though it's not one of my favorites I have to say that it was cute. This isn't one of those deep books. It is what it is. The storyline is very straightforward and predictable. I guess if I really wanted to I could find a bunch of little faults throughout the book. Though I do not want to do this. When I review books I just like to say my personal opinion. So my personal opinion on this book is that it is really good. Even though, like I said earlier, the book is predictable I loved it. I really can't wait for the next book in the series Queen of the Dead. I think that this series really has potential. There isn't really much else to day about this book.<br />
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<u>Rating:</u> B+Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-48996075130949417902011-01-21T09:15:00.004-06:002011-01-22T10:37:04.611-06:00Friday Fantasize (1)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_F99b9BMWDc0/TSciOiNnBJI/AAAAAAAAAVM/zmPZ1E5AbII/s320/Friday+Fantasize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_F99b9BMWDc0/TSciOiNnBJI/AAAAAAAAAVM/zmPZ1E5AbII/s320/Friday+Fantasize.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friday Fantasize is a weekly event hosted by Misha over at </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.books-love-affair.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">My Love Affair With Books</a> where you list 3 books (released/unreleased, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">new/old) on your wishlist, every week :)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1281544710l/8101452.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1281544710l/8101452.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Synopsis: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;">When high school junior Natalie--or Dr. Aphrodite, as she calls herself when writing the relationship column for her school paper--is accused of knowing nothing about guys and giving girls bad relationship advice, she decides to investigate what guys really think and want. But the guys in her class won't give her straight or serious answers. The only solution? Disguising herself as a guy and spending a week at Underwood Academy, the private all-boy boarding school in town. There she learns a lot about guys <em>and</em> girls in ways she never expected--especially when she falls for her dreamy roommate, Emilio. How can she show him she likes him without blowing her cover?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1289235798l/8562565.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1289235798l/8562565.jpg" width="198" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Synopsis: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;">Nikki Glass thinks of herself as an ordinary person, although her skills as a private investigator sometimes verge on the uncanny. But whatever Nikki might think of herself, she is far from ordinary, as she discovers one life-altering night when she loses control of her car on an icy road, accidentally killing a man who appears out of nowhere. The man Nikki struck with her car was an immortal who wanted to die—and she has now inadvertently stolen his immortality. As a descendant of the Greek goddess Artemis, Nikki’s talents have reached supernatural proportions. Of course, before she was an immortal, there wasn’t anyone who wanted her dead….</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fPCVLyfEL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fPCVLyfEL.jpg" width="214" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Synopsis: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;">When secrets and old histories come to light, Frannie realizes that nobody is who she thought they were. Hell won’t give up and Heaven won’t give in. Some are willing to hurt anyone close to Frannie in order to get what they want. It will take everything she has and then some to stay out of Hell's grasp. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And not everyone will get out of it alive.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758519788401524936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094992438160976319.post-90930672419884686952011-01-20T09:09:00.002-06:002011-01-20T15:40:51.631-06:00ARC (2)<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of days ago I just got a couple more ARCs. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here they are:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Publisher: Harper Teen </span></span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Release Date: June 7, 2011 </span></span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Die for Me</span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By Amy Plum</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA, Fantasy</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Harper Teen</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Release Date: May 10, 2011</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Summary of Hereafter: </span></u></i></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 13px;">Can there truly be love after death?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 13px;">Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. With no recollection of her past life—or her actual death—she's trapped alone in a nightmarish existence. All of this changes when she tries to rescue a boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river. As a ghost, she can do nothing but will him to live. Yet in an unforgettable moment of connection, she helps him survive.</span></span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 13px;"><i>Amelia and Joshua grow ever closer as they begin to uncover the strange circumstances of her death and the secrets of the dark river that held her captive for so long. But even while they struggle to keep their bond hidden from the living world, a frightening spirit named Eli is doing everything in his power to destroy their newfound happiness and drag Amelia back into the ghost world . . . forever.</i></span> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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DIE FOR ME presents a new supernatural mythology presented in a city where dreams are sometimes the same as reality.</span></span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by L.A. Weatherly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: YA Fantasy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Candlewick</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Release Date: May 2011</span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Summary:</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><i>Willow knows she’s different from other girls, and not just because she loves tinkering with cars. Willow has a gift. She can look into the future and know people’s dreams and hopes, their sorrows and regrets, just by touching them. She has no idea where this power comes from. But the assassin, Alex, does. Gorgeous, mysterious Alex knows more about Willow that Willow herself. He knows that her powers link to dark and dangerous forces, and that he’s one of the few humans left who can fight them. When Alex finds himself falling in love with his sworn enemy, he discovers that nothing is as it seems, least of all good and evil. In the first book in an action-packed romantic trilogy, L. A. Weatherly sends listeners on a thrill ride of a road trip – and depicts the human race at the brink of a future as catastrophic as it is deceptively beautiful.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;">Personally I liked it. I had never heard of it until a couple of days ago. The whole idea of the book was really interesting. And the execution was fairly well done. I loved the characters. Though with Alex I was thinking ooh stalker. There wasn't really that much to explain their relationship either. Plus the book is totally surrounded on their relationship, what I have to say is the weakest part of the book. Remember this is my personal opinion so if you don't like what I'm saying then you don't have to read it. Anyways when I read books I don't really like it when they get all mushy and stuff. Well this one definitely had it's share of mushy moments. I don't mind it when a book is mushy if the rest of it isn't totally revolving around the relationship of the two main characters. Also if the two main characters are going to have a relationship I want to feel like they really love each other. In this book that was kinda lacking. Though overall I have to say I kinda enjoyed it. With all it's faults it was fun to read. Though quite forgettable.</span></span></span><br />
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