In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue–Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote READ MORE
Month: November 2013
WWW WEDNESDAYS | NOVEMBER 27, 2013
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? This week may be just a little bit boring… because READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | THINGS I’M THANKFUL FOR
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is a seasonal feature since it’s Thanksgiving for those lucky bastards folks south of the border. So TBatB wants to know ten things we bloggers are thankful for. They said it could be bookish or not, but I mean really. Who do they READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | THE NATURALS – JENNIFER LYNN BARNES
Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold READ MORE
BOOK MEMES & PICS | JUST ONE MORE CHAPTER BEFORE BED….
So I’m reading Insurgent, the second book in Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy. I’m definitely suffering from this today. I have a feeling I will be until I’ve finished the series. But it’s totally worth it.
WWW WEDNESDAYS | NOVEMBER 19, 2013
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? This week may be just a little bit boring… READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I’D RECOMMEND TO A YOUNG ADULT NEWBIE
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is sort of a choose-your-own-adventure. I get to pick ten books I’d recommend to a particular person or type of person. Given that I’ve been reading a lot of Young Adult books this year, I figured it was a good place to start. Ao READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | THE SURVIVAL GIRLS – MING HOLDEN
In the summer of 2011, writer, artist, and development worker Ming Holden journeyed to Kenya with the goal of creating a performance with refugee girls for World Refugee Day. At the end of her seven weeks there, she had founded the Survival Girls, a theater group comprised of six Congolese refugee women ages 18-23 READ MORE
LET’S TALK | BOOKS THAT YOU VALUE THE MOST
This week’s topic on I Swim for Oceans’ weekly “Let’s Talk” link up is: Books That You Value the Most. Buckle up, this could be a very long, long post! There are books I value for their content, for the escape they offered me at a time in my life when I sorely READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | CUPCAKES, TRINKETS, AND OTHER DEADLY MAGIC – MEGHAN CIANA DOIDGE
If you’d asked me a week ago, I would have told you that the best cupcakes were dark chocolate with chocolate cream cheese icing, that dancing in a crowd of magic wielders — the Adept — was better than sex, and that my life was peaceful and uneventful. Just the way I liked it. READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | THE GRAVEYARD BOOK – NEIL GAIMAN
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling READ MORE
Score! What I Got in the BD 25-Hour Sale
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… Book Depository sale time!!! I can’t even tell you how excited I get. I’m like a kid on Christmas morning. Only even more excited! Here’s what I scored in the sale: I hadn’t ever heard of this, but man, I’m so excited! Vampires! Steampunk! Jack the Ripper! READ MORE
WWW WEDNESDAYS | NOVEMBER 6, 2013
This a new link-up (for me, obvs) but I think it’s more my speed than Waiting on Wednesday, because I don’t tend to watch for upcoming titles closely enough to have a new one every single week! This is hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up READ MORE
BOOK DEPOSITORY’S 25-HOUR SALE IS BACK ON NOVEMBER 7TH!
It’s back! One of my favourite online bookstores is having their epic 25 hours of deals, with a new book deal posted every 30 minutes, starting at 7:00 EST (I think that makes it 4:00 PST) on Thursday! This sale is fantastic, you guys. They have awesome books for as little as a READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | SEQUELS I CAN’T WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is Top Ten Sequels I Can’t Wait to Get My Hands On. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t really do series all that often. I’m more of a stand-alone book girl. But I have gotten sucked into a few. I’m going to include READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | AGENT 21: CODEBREAKER – CHRIS RYAN
Secret agent Zac Darke is back for his third mission – and the stakes have never been higher. An unknown bomber is conducting a terror campaign in London. After an explosion on the tube leaves someone dead, Zac and his team are brought in to try and work out how this terror cell READ MORE