Book Questionaires..

What are you reading right now?
Well I was reading The Hunger games, but I just can't make myself get into it.
Also finishing up my friends book that she wrote
I think I'm gonna put The Hunger Games away for awhile, and come back to it. So instead I started Bad Girls Don't Die. I'm liking it so far and I'm only on like the 5th chapter. Yeah.

Do you have any idea what youll read when youre done with that?
Hum does what I just wrote count as reading another one since technically I didn't finish the one I was reading.

What magazines do you have in your bathroom right now?
None, but I have the book Wicked. :)

Whats the worst thing you were ever forced to read?
I honestly couldn't tell you probably something when I was in school, but I try to forget those days.

Whats the one book you always recommend to just about everyone?
Vampire Academy all the way..

Admit it, the librarians at your library know you on a first name basis, don’t they?
No, I have yet to actually get myself a library card.

Is there a book you absolutely love, but for some reason, people never think it sounds interesting, or maybe they read it and dont like it at all?
Nope, not that I can recall.

Do you read books while you eat? While you bathe? While you watch movies or TV? While you listen to music? While youre on the computer? While youre having sex? While youre driving?
Yes, to all but the sex thing. On the driving things not actually when I'm litereally driving but if I'm in the passenger seat I take my book with me.

When you were little, did other children tease you about your reading habits?
No, I din't read alot back then

Whats the last thing you stayed up half the night reading because it was so good you couldnt put it down?
Vampire Academy the 5th one.
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1. Do you remember how you developed a love for reading?
I hate to say this but I think it started with the harry potter series and a few MHC books.
2. What are some books you read as a child?
A few nancy drew books, and the babysitters club (yeah I think that was my series growing up)

3. What is your favorite genre?
YA, but I'll try everything

4. Do you have a favourite novel?
Novel? Same as a book right? Why not just call it a book?

5. Where do you usually read?
In my bed or the tub, very relaxing

6. When do you usually read?
At night when all is quiet, or whenever I get a chance
7. Do you usually have more than one book you are reading at a time?
Yeah, it something I should probably work on because it takes my attention away from each other.

8. Do you read nonfiction in a different way or place than you read fiction?
Nope.

9. Do you buy most of the books you read, or borrow them, or check them out of the library?
Oh I buy them. I have a ever-growing book selection


10. Do you keep most of the books you buy?
Yeah pretty much


11. What are you reading now?
LIke my other post said it was the hunger games, but I switched to bad girls don't die


13. Do you keep a TBR (to be read) list?
Most def!

14. What's next?
I don't know I always have a hard time figuring what's next


15. What books would you like to reread?
I could re-read VA over and over again, but I'm thinking maybe the night world ones just bacuase I forgot what happened in them

16. Who are your favourite authors?
Oh goodness, honestly I like all the authors books I read or I wouldn't read them. :)


That is me in a bookshelf..Oh wait it's nutshell...:) So go ahead and taken the questionaires have fun and let me know if you do them.

Musing Monday (1)

Musing Mondays is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

About how many books (roughly) would you say you own? (If you don’t have a clue how many, do you care to know? Why, or why not?)

Ha, I know this is about 5 minutes late because it's Tuesday now, but still I'm going to answer. My book is at about 150 right now, I know this because I write down every book I have and buy in my notebook. (I like list I think) I always like to know what I have just for the fact that I'm strange. Seriously I have like a section in my notebook for each collection I have movies, books, cds, wii games, even beanie babies (yes I collected those) Oh totally off topic there. I predict that my collection will just keep growing (that just reminded me of Dory on Finding Nemo). I'm a little tired now. So have a nice and enjoyable night everyone.

Sometimes it pays to be a little un-ordinary. Leave me a line. I like lines.

Day wasn't a total waste

OK so my day didn't exactly go as planned, but it usually never does. I did sleep until noon, but I freakin' woke up with the worst congestion. Sucks! I couldn't breathe I was so stopped up. It's OK  after a few hours it kind of evaporated if that's even possible. I don't know. I read my friends book for awhile. I should probably finish it tonight when I get home from the movie. After, reading I hopped on my laptop just because I was bored. I looked up books, sites, and all the stuff I normally do. I spent a good what 4 hours on it. Don't judge I was off today and was relaxing. :) Notice I actually put up two reviews. I'm so proud of myself. LOL. I'm slowly but surely going to have them up. Finally I wanted to get out of the house and do something. that's never a good thing in my case, it always costs me money. This was no different, my mom and I (I made her go with me to HPB) went to Half Price Books *shameful look* where I spent maybe 45 minutes looking through the YA section. Which gave me plenty of time to gather a handful of books I made my mom carry. (I knew she was good for something. J/K I love her to death) I spent....drum roll please...40 dollars again. I found books I had just put on my want list last night. I was excited. I guess I'll keep what I got to myself until next Sunday for the mailbox seeing as how I already did this weeks. See day wasn't a total waste! :) Now I'm just waiting for 10pm to come so I can go see Paranormal Activity 2, and get scared. I might not be sleeping well tonight.

So did you have a good weekend? Let me know. I love comments.

Wake Review

AUTHOR: Lisa McMann
PUBLISHER: Simon and Pulse
PAGES:210
STAND ALONE/SERIES: Series (Dream Catcher 1 of 3)

OUTLINE:

Ever since she was eight years old, high school student Janie Hannagan has been uncontrollably drawn into other people's dreams, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power.

STARTED: August
FINISHED: End of August

MY THOUGHTS:
Well I bought this one awhile back when I had just begun my obsessive booking collecting. I got it because the back story on it sounded really interesting. I mean a girl who gets sucked into other peoples dreams. It makes you wonder what that's like for the person. After I bought the book it sat on my shelf for awhile. I finally decided that I would read it, and to be honest it took me awhile to read it. I liked the whole concept of the book, but the way it was written like journal entries wasn't really for me. I did manage to read it all, and I'm glad I did it was a good story.

I do have to say I wasn't pulled into liking Janie as the main Character though. I actually liked the guy she fell for. Yes, she fell for a guy. Don't they all? Cabel, to me was a more believable character his weird dreams he had about his father. He was that mysterious guy who hung out with the goth kids. You never actually got to know who he really is until almost the end of it. Half way through the book he starts to ignore Janie for the more popular girls, but is it what it seems? Do they resolve their issues? Questions that only you can answer by reading it.

Radiance Review

 

• AUTHOR: Alyson Noel
• PUBLISHER: Square Fish (2010)
• PAGES: 192

OUTLINE: Welcome to the Here & Now
Riley Bloom left her sister, Ever, in the world of the living and crossed the bridge into the afterlife—a place called Here, where time is always Now. Riley and her dog, Buttercup, have been reunited with her parents and are just settling into a nice, relaxing death when she's summoned before The Council. They let her in on a secret—the afterlife isn't just an eternity of leisure; Riley has to work. She's been assigned a job, Soul Catcher, and a teacher, Bodhi, a curious boy she can't quite figure out.
Riley, Bodhi, and Buttercup return to earth for her first assignment, a Radiant Boy who's been haunting a castle in England for centuries. Many Soul Catchers have tried to get him to cross the bridge and failed. But he's never met Riley...

MY THOUGHTS: This is a spin off from "The Immortal Series" that included Evermore, Blue Moon, Shadowland, Dark Flame, and Night Star (Coming In Nov) This new series follows Riley, Ever's little sister, whose dead.

She thinks that being dead is going to be a relaxing thing just being with her parents and her pup Buttercup. Well, little does she know that higher authority have other plans for her like Soul Catching. With this new job comes a teacher Riley would rather not have at the beginning, Bodhi, he's kinda the nerd. As the story goes on they go to a castle in England to try and get the "Radiant Boy" to cross over, but little do Riley and Bodhi know it's not that easy, and there's much more to the castle then just Radiant boy.Who else lurks in the castle?  Riley and Bodhi have a bet going that if Riley can get the boy to cross over she'll get Flying lessons. So this encourages her a little more. Riley goes through some stuff while at the castle trying to get the Radiant boy to do what she wants, and it's funny at times because she's dead and there's nothing that could hurt her. Yet she still has fears.

All in all I enjoyed this book very much. It's tiny and an easy read and the afterlife world that Noel creates is beautiful. I loved Riley as a character in the immortal series as a snobby little sister, and being able to see her in this series as her ownself and trying to find herself I guess you could say was great. She had a little bit of an attitude, but what kid doesn't.  I'm ready for the next book to be out, but sadly, I have to wait til next year.

I'm a sucker also for beautiful book covers and this one def is beautiful. I love the colors it has and how to me it looks like maybe what the author had in mind for the Here.

I did have one complaint though. It wasn't necessarily for the book, but I'm wondering why the pages were so uneven? I thought it was just that book, but they all were like that. :(  (I also noticed that's how the Nightshade books are too)

 

So tell me what you thought. Have you read the book? If so did you like it? Leave me some comments.

Sucks for now

I know I'm behind right now with reviews, and everything I feel bad. I will totally and completely spend tomorrow or today actually reviewing the books I've already had the pleasure of reading which are quite a few. That is after I get some much needed rest. I'm sure I'll be up early though seeing as how I'm spending the night at my moms and she gets up early. I suspect I'll be getting up early too. So the agenda for today
1. Sleep
2. Wake up
3. Possibly take a potty break :)
4. Eat (depending on the time)
5. Computer Check
6. Reviews
7. Read (I'm gonna finish The Hunger Games by the end of the week if not sooner) (also try and finish another I've been "reading" for quite sometime it got pushed to the back burner)
8. Possibly go to Walmart (I told my mom and her boyfriend I'd buy them a Ranger shirt and hat. Because after all Texas Rangers are in the W.S) What now Yankees...Sorry yankee fans!)
9. Computer play
10. Try and write in our story some. (I said try)
11. Review some more (perhaps)
12. Eat (if time is right)
13. Read
14. Possibly go home for awhile
15. Come 10pm go to see Paranormal Activity 2 with my bestest buddy.
16. Then sleep
Humm yes, that's sounds like a day to me. Now whether it 'll stay that way. We sha'll see!

Does your day sound exciting like mine? lol What are you up to on this fine Sunday? Leave me a holler. I shall holler back...on your blog that is...I doubt you'd hear me any other way. :)

In my mailbox (2)

In my mailbox is hosted by Kristi at www.thestorysiren.com

I was excited for this one to come up because like I said in a previous post I splurged Friday at HPB. So here goes....First of all my lovely stash I have

First my friend gave me a copy of her book that got published in Septemeber. Yeah it took me that long to get it from her. It's called Heinous Crimes, Immoral Minds by Aubrey Becker. It tell the story of Leyla whose step father, Richard murders her mom is sentenced to prison but gets out and stalks her and her brother, Cameron threatens Richard and gets in caught. After all that a few years go by and he calls Leyla to come take him to the hospital because his "Dying". What happens after that well why not check it out. It's an easy read.

Nightshade, I went out and bought Tuesday at walmart. I couldn't help myself. Beautiful cover and the reviews it's been getting are good. 

The Secret Scroll (Daughters of the moon series 4) by Lynne Ewing. I bought at HPB friday with a crap load of others.

The Sacrifice (Daughters of the Moon 5) by Lynne Ewing. Bought at HPB. These I got because I read the first book in the series and well I like to finish my series I start.

You're so undead to me by Stacey Jay. It has zombies in it. What more could you want?

If I stay by Gayle Forman. Bought from target. It sounded interesting, and I loved the cover.

In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeenyear- old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...

The Summoning by kelley armstrong. HPB. I've just been meaning to read this series.

Beautiful Darkness by Kami and Margaret. Target bought. I finally got around to finding it.

Willow by Julia Hoban. Target bought.
Seven months ago, on a rainy March night, sixteen year- old Willow’s parents died in a horrible car accident. Willow was driving. Now her older brother barely speaks to her, her new classmates know her as the killer orphan girl, and Willow is blocking the pain by secretly cutting herself. But when one boy—one sensitive, soulful boy—discovers Willow’s secret, it sparks an intense relationship that turns the “safe” world Willow has created for herself upside down.

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins. I bought this at HPB. I was so happy to see it because I wanted to get it. I think I'm liking the books dealing with other wordly Academies. *shrugs*

Eternal by Cynthia Smith. HPB bought. This was an impluse buy. I liked the cover and the back sounded interesting.

That is all

So what'd ya think? Did I catch your attention with any? Drop me a line! I comment back.