Show me your R.A.K

Alright this is my first time particiapting in this, and I'm really looking forward to it because I love going to the bookstores and being able to find books that people like/want and getting them. (Honest you can ask one of my friends. I recently bought her 5 books just because she didn't have them and I read them and liked them or they've gotten really good reviews)


So on to the.....
Rules:• Sign up each month you'd like to participate in.

• Show off your participation! Grab one of the buttons available :)

• Create a wish list and post it in the Google Doc located in each R.A.K post for the month.
{Post on your blog, Amazon, where ever as long as there's a link to it.}

• If you choose to do a R.A.K for someone, check out their wish list and contact that blogger for their address.

• At the end of the month, SHOW US YOUR R.A.K!
Make a post saying 'Thank You' to whoever granted one of your wishes and share it with us :)

OPEN TO EVERYONE!
Let's keep our International bloggers in mind and in our hearts.
Remember, there's always the Book Depository and they offer FREE shipping!

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Here is my R.A.K Wishlist

I got a Domain Name! (and other stuff)

BOOKAHOLICS ANNOYMOUS ONLINE
http://www.bookaholicsanonymousonline.com/

So if you read one of my earlier posts then you know I was contemplating the idea of getting a domain name. I actually was looking around, and a bunch of them were really expensive, and to be honest I didn't want to completely leave blogger. I'm so accustom to it and I know how to use most things on it. As i was searching I figured Kristi's site would maybe help. It did! I was able to stay with blogger and still have a domain name. YEA! It was actually really easy. How much did it cost you ask? Only 10 dollars a year. You can't get much better then that I don't think. I'm soooo excited. I don't have to transfer anything. It all just stays the same. :)

Since I did this I'll probably be trying to make it a little more organized. I'm still trying to figure out the stupid drop down menu. (I can't for the life of me figure it out) I've found a couple of sites that help with it, but still I fail. So if anyone has some suggestions on that let me know.

As you may have notice I've been kind of slacking off a bit. I didn't do hardly anything this past week on my blog. I guess mainly because I've been in one of those funks. Do you ever get that way? I didn't do the IMM, followfriday/blog hop...nothing. I will definitely try to do more this week if possible. I have 2 reviews I need to work on and put up for All About Daisy and The Candidates. Both very good books I might add. :) I just got Demonglass (Hex Hall #2) by Rachel Hawkins so I'm currently reading that. I stopped the other book I was reading because I was ready for this one. Poor...The forest of hand and teeth I keep putting it off although I've gotten past the 100 page mark. :)

Onto other stuff-----
OHHH guess what MONDAY is.....go on guess...okay well if you haven't read the about me section or aren't a friend on facebook. (because that'll tell you) it's April 4th which is............... MY birthday...yuup. another year the wiser. Okay not really but still. I actually have to work that evening. I guess that's fine though truthfully I'm not going to do anything. The only person I would actually do stuff with I haven't spoken to in 4 months. (I'm curious to see if she'll txt me or anything) So what are you going to get me? Suggestion...hummm..books perhaps? I'm kidding. I actually told my mom that if she would just take me to the bookstore and let me pick some books out I'd be totally happy with that. After this b-day just 5 more years til 30..oh no...

Well that is all for now I will see you later this week.

Ashley

In my mailbox 21

This is in my mailbox hosted by Kristi of the Story Siren

So these are all books from last week I just didn't do an IMM Sunday actually I haven't really done anything on the site this past week. Just been in one of those moods. :) I'm BACK though! I actaully have 3 reviews I need to write and put as well. Oh and in my defense 5 books were for a friend. :)

HPB
Balefire by Cate Tiernan
Ballad by Maggie S.
Lament by Maggie S.
Gone by Michael Grant
Naomi and Ely's No kiss list by Rachel Cohen and David Levithan
Forbidden by
Ash by Malinda Jo
Elixir by Hilary Duff
Kiss in the Dark by
Kiss of life by Daniel Waters
Swoon by Nina
Before I fall by Lauren Oliver
Leverage by Joshua Cohen
The Univited by Tim Wynne-Jones

 For friend
Bad girls don't die by Katie Alendar
Strange angels by Lili St Crow
Betrayals by Lili St Crow
Jealousy by Lili St Crow
(So apparently defiance isn't the last book in the SA series)

Review: Shadow Hills

AUTHOR: Anastasia Hopcus PUBLISHER: Egmont
PAGES: 391
SERIES/STAND ALONE: Series I believe

OUTLINE:
After her sister Athena's tragic death, it's obvious that grief-stricken Persephone "Phe" Archer no longer belongs in Los Angeles. Hoping to make sense of her sister's sudden demise and the cryptic dreams following it, Phe abandons her bubbly LA life to attend an uptight East Coast preparatory school in Shadow Hills, MA — a school which her sister mysteriously mentioned in her last diary entry before she died.

Once there, Phe quickly realizes that something is deeply amiss in her new town. Not only does Shadow Hills' history boast an unexplained epidemic that decimated hundreds of its citizens in the 1700s, but its modern townies also seem eerily psychic, with the bizarre ability to bend metal. Even Zach — the gorgeous stranger Phe meets and immediately begins to lust after — seems as if he is hiding something serious. Phe is determined to get to the bottom of it. The longer she stays there, the more she suspects that her sister's untimely death and her own destiny are intricately linked to those who reside in Shadow Hills.

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MY THOUGHTS:

Discussion Time: Domains/BBC/Ereaders

I have been dying to go to some kind of Book convention this year, and use it as a vacation. I'm actaully a little afraid of going by myself to an unknown city or state for that matter. I don't have any friends really interested in reading like I do. I wanted to go to the convention down in Austin (in April kind of like a birthday present to myself but I'm carless) but it looks like that probably won't happen so I'm thinking the next couple of ones are the dark days of supernatural which looks like it's coming to Texas in June? I'm guessing here. Or the bigger one which is the Book Blogger Con convention in New York. I'm interested to know if anyone is going to that. I think if I have some idea what it would be like then I could make myself save money for that (plane, food and hotel wise) I guess really I'm just curious. Any thoughts/ideas?

So I've been thinking also about getting a domain name. I've wanted one for a very, VERY long time now. I was just curious as to what everyone thinks. For those of you who have domain names where did you end up getting them from? How much? Is it easy to do?

One more question. Those who have E-readers: Kindle and Nook. Why do you like the one you have? Once I get my income tax check I was planning on getting myself one at first I wanted the Kindle, but now I'm thinking Nook. The only problem with the nook is I'm more of an amazon person then the other. Any thoughts?

This is my desk yet all I have on it are books. :0 That shelf is kind of bending in the middle I might have to change and put paperbacks up there.

Another picture of my desk with more added books.

This was just a random picture I decided to take. I decided that instead of just leaving everything I got in a box I would put it on the board and hang the board in my room. I'm weird I know. :)

So this is what my books and their shelf has come down to.

:( Very small compared what I did have with the built in bookshelves.

Follow Friday (23) Blog Hop (22)

BOOK BLOG HOP
If you could physically put yourself into a book or series…which one would it be and why?
Okay, if you've read any of my blog, or know me then you would have to know the answer to this question! Anyone? Vampire Academy....duh!  I ab-so-lute-ly love the VA series and everything about it. I know it's ended, but still who wouldn't want to be in a world with Rose, Lissa, Dimitri, Adrian, and Christian.

FOLLOW FRIDAY

Q. Inspired by the inane twitter trend of #100factsaboutme, give us five BOOK RELATED silly facts about you.

Hosted by Parajunkee

Five silly book facts huh?

1. I'm a bath tub reader. I've come very close to losing my darling books to the dreadful water. I always save them in the end though. :) You would think I'd learn by now.

2. If I find a book I already have that has a different cover I don't I usually get it.  Like last week I found the Uk cover of the Hunger Games, and got it.

3.I have a different ways of arranging my books. Now I have one shelf paperback the next hardback and so on..Flip flopping from paperback to hardback.

4. If it has a pretty cover the more interesting it becomes for me. It's the little things that fascinate me really.

5.No matter what I think Paranormal Ya will always be my number 1. I  try reading other things, but I always go back to the paranorm. :)

Thoughts: Vegas Dazzle and other stuff

Alright so the first part of this is pretty much what's going on witht the Vegas Dazzle book that I keep talking about the interview, giveaway, and all. I'm so far behind on things. I'm sorry!

The second part is the books that I had gotten in December that I really don't want. If no one wants them by the end of this month or middle of April I'm just going to take them to a used bookstore. I'd rather see them go to a home. :) While I was cleaning my old apt I noticed I had some more boxes of books that the book club had sent me I didn't want either. I was going to return them, but never got around to it. Now it's to late so I'll have to see what they are, and put them up here to see if anyone wants them.

(not in video)
So I went to the bookstore today, and spent way over my normal amount. I did get some interesting books though. (They'll be next weeks IMM) I have to say though I bought like 5 for a friend. Two of which I have read, and loved so I thought she needed to read them. :) One is a series so I bought all three, and the fourth comes out in April. Which is perfect because she doesn't read them until the series is finished.

That's all for now!

Happy Reading and Blogging.
Ash