Hourglass by Myra McEntire - Review

Hourglass by Myra McEntirePublisher: Egmont USARelease Date: June 14, 2011Source: Library BookMy rating: 4 of 5 stars"One hour to rewrite the past . . . For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back. So when her well-meaning brother...

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Top Ten Tuesday {6}

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and it features the top ten books that comes to your mind under a certain category announced each week. This week's category is:Top Ten Sites I Read That Aren't Book-RelatedThis is a fairly simple TTT this week! Here's ten other sites I visit that aren't about books:1. Facebook - Almost everyone has a Facebook! Although I will say I haven't been using it much lately. 2. AOL - I use AOL to read news and for checking my personal e-mail. :b3. Live/MSN - I use this to...

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Stacking the Shelves {3}

Hey Everyone! I'm here today with another Stacking the Shelves, hosted at Tynga's Reviews. This is where we share what we bought, received, or borrowed each week :).I actually only received one book this week, along with a signed Breathless tours poster I won. Slow week I suppose :).For Review:Changing Worlds by Donald E. DamboisSummaryDanielle Walkerman and her family are looking to spend quality time together at a log cabin in the woods, only to get disrupted when alone in the hills, she discovers a pale girl with white hair lying...

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TBR Pile Reading Challenge 2012

The 2012 TBR Pile Reading Challenge is a challenge where you try and read all or most of the books that have been sitting on your shelves for a long time! This is so that you can clean up your bookshelf and say that you read all the books on it! :) There's also some prizes!Only books released in 2011 and earlier! NO ARCs and 2012 fresh-off-the-press releases allowed!I am going for Level 3: A Sweet Kiss, which is 21-30 books. I will be posting a wrap-up post at the end of every month with the books I've read that month. These are the...

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Updates

Hey everyone! Next week is the last three days of school for me!! I can't wait! Unfortunately, that means that finals are coming up. I'm going to be studying really hard, so I have absolutely no time to read or blog. Because of this, I will be on a very very short hiatus, until May 23rd. I will try my best to get in at least one or two memes until then, but no reviews! ): I promise everything will be back to normal starting the 23rd! Thank you all for being loyal followers... I can't believe I'm already almost to 150 followers! I love...

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Teaser Tuesday {1}

Hey everyone! I've been wanting to do Teaser Tuesday for a long time but have never gotten around to it. I'm not really interested in doing this week's TTT, so I figured I would start Teasure Tuesday. :)Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:• Grab your current read• Open to a random page• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t...

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The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith - Review

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith Publisher: Poppy/Little BrownRelease Date: January 2, 2012Source: LibraryMy rating: 4 of 5 starsToday should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. She's stuck at JFK, late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon to be step-mother that Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's in seat 18C. Hadley's...

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Stacking the Shelves {2}

Hey Everyone! I'm here today with another Stacking the Shelves, hosted at Tynga's Reviews. This is where we share what we bought, received, or borrowed each week :).(Sorry about the obnoxious glare!)From the Library:I didn't receive that much this week, but I did receive Kill Me Softly by Sarah Cross! I'm excited to read that one c:. I'm also going to go get Hourglass tomorrow so that's why it's not in the pic ^^.Won:I never win anything. So you probably know how I felt when I was told I won a contest held by Rachel Caine herself! Although...

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Fracture by Megan Miranda - Review

Fracture by Megan MirandaPublisher: Walker ChildrensRelease Date: January 5, 2012Source: Library BookMy rating: 4 of 5 stars"Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow defied medical precedent to come back seemingly fine. Everyone wants Delaney to be all right, but she knows she's far from normal. Pulled by strange sensations she can't control or explain,...

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Waiting On Wednesday {4}

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that you're eagerly anticipating.My Life Next Door by Huntley FitzpatrickPublication Date: June 14, 2012A gorgeous debut about family, friendship, first romance, and how to be true to one person you love without betraying another“One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time.”The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, numerous, messy, affectionate. And...

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Top Ten Tuesday {5}

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and it features the top ten books that comes to your mind under a certain category announced each week. This week's category is:Top Ten Favorite Quotes from BooksScratch out what I said last week about the movie TTT being the best one yet... this one tops my charts. I LOVE quotes. I even made a page on here dedicated with quotes (which I really need to update by the way). Even though silly/funny quotes are super cool, I have to say the super deep meaning/analogy ones...

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Children's Books - Giveaway Hop

Hey Everyone! This is part of the Children's Book Week Giveaway Hop, hosted by I Am a Reader, Not a Writer. I recently just reached 50 followers, so I decided to host a little giveaway as a token of my thanks. I have some brand new books that my brother never touched, so I decided instead of selling it, I would give it away to a lucky follower of mine. :) Don't worry guys, I will be hosting an actual YA book giveaway in the near future, so stay tuned.Do you have a child, grandchild, nephew or niece, or any other young children who love...

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Babysitters Club Giveaway

I remember as a kid I was obsessed with the Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins. Now here's your chance to win some books of the series! Whether for you or a loved one, these make a great gift :) Enter below! Sorry, but US only! Also, check out my Goosebumps Giveawa...

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