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? I haven’t managed to get through a lot of books lately. READ MORE
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TOP TEN TUESDAY | 2014 RELEASES I CAN’T WAIT TO READ
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is all about the future. The future of book releases in 2014, that is. Let’s see what I can come up with (in no particular order except my memory)! 1. City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare – Expected release date: May 27, 2014 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 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.
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
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 | 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
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
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
BOOK REVIEW | THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING – ROBYN SCHNEIDER
Golden boy Ezra Faulkner believes everyone has a tragedy waiting for them—a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. His particular tragedy waited until he was primed to lose it all: in one spectacular night, a reckless driver shatters Ezra’s knee, his athletic career, and his social life. No longer a READ MORE
24-HOUR READ-A-THON STARTING IN T-5 HOURS!
OMG, you guys, I just found out about this and it made my day. No, it made my whole goddamn week. So here’s the story. Dewey’s Read-a-thon takes place twice a year, in October and April. On each of the two selected days, hundreds of book bloggers and reading enthusiasts sign up to read READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | THIS SONG WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE – LEILA SALES
Making friends has never been Elise Dembowski’s strong suit. All throughout her life, she’s been the butt of every joke and the outsider in every conversation. When a final attempt at popularity fails, Elise nearly gives up. Then she stumbles upon a warehouse party where she meets Vicky, a girl in a band READ MORE
BOOKS ON THE WEB | THE BEST READS OF SEPTEMBER, BARE IT FOR BOOKS, SECRET PASSAGE BOOKSHELVES… AND MORE!
So much booky goodness on the interwebs this week! Here’s some of it: 10 Awesome Secret Passage Book Shelves. Because what book lover hasn’t dreamed about having one of these? (Or a bunch…) Bare It For Books. So remember that movie Calendar Girls? Where the women’s auxiliary posed naked doing crafty things for a READ MORE
CELEBRATE BANNED BOOKS WEEK. READ SOMETHING DIRTY.
It’s Banned Books Week, which has gotten me thinking about which books have been banned, where, when and most of all, why? I always used to imagine books that were banned were banned because they contained things that were completely shocking and anti-social at the time of publication. Things used to be different, and READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | THE BEST SEQUELS EVER
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is all about sequels. THE BEST SEQUELS EVER, to be precise. Now, this is gonna be tough. I don’t read a lot of series, and when I do the books tend to blend together. If I make it to ten it’ll eventually READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | AUSTENLAND – SHANNON HALE
Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret. Her obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life: no real man can compare. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English READ MORE
BOOKS ON THE WEB | JK ROWLING’S BIG NEWS, SYMPATHETIC VILLAINS, WHAT YOUR BOOKS WOULD TELL YOU… AND MORE!
I keep coming across awesome book-related images, posts and articles and I figure maybe I’ll keep track of them and share them with you guys occasionally. Here are some of the things that caught my interest recently: JK Rowling to Write New Film Series Based in the World of Harry Potter. I can hear READ MORE