Month: December 2014

2014 Book Awards!

Posted December 31, 2014 in Fun Stuff / 16 Comments
2014 Book Awards!

As 2014 comes to a close, I wanted to share the stand-out reads that I’ve experienced this year with all of my followers. I already participated in The 5th Annual End of the Year Book Survey but I also wanted to showcase my thoughts in my own way by highlighting the books that make reading and blogging all worth it! The covers of the winning books will link to my review. Feel free to participate, just link back! Best Book Overall Best Series Overall Best Romance Best Dystopian Best Mystery/Ghost Story Best Fantasy Best Fairytale Retelling Best Seasonal Read Best […]


Top Ten Goals/Resolutions for 2015- Bookish, Blogging, and Otherwise!

Posted December 29, 2014 in Top Ten Tuesday, Weekly Features/Memes / 37 Comments
Top Ten Goals/Resolutions for 2015- Bookish, Blogging, and Otherwise!

As usual, Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fantastic blog The Broke and The Bookish. This last week of 2015 is all about reflecting, so below are some goals I’m hoping to implement in my reading and blogging life for 2015! 1) Read 70 books! This will be the highest reading challenge I’ve set for myself yet, but since I finished 67 this year (when my goal was 50) I’m confident I can do it! 2) Establish relationships with publishers. As this was my first year blogging, I was focused more on building my blog, integrating myself into the […]


2014 End of the Year Book Survey!

Posted December 29, 2014 in Fun Stuff / 12 Comments
2014 End of the Year Book Survey!

The 2014 End of Year Book Survey is hosted by Jamie at the Perpetual Page Turner! It’s a great way to organize your reading and blogging thoughts at the end of the year and reflect on your favorite books! This year is the 5th annual survey, but it’s my first time participating. 2014 Reading Stats Number of Books You Read: 67 Number of Re-Reads: 9 Genre You Read the Most From: YA Paranormal/Fantasy   Best in Books Best Book Read in 2014? Contemporary: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Paranormal/Fantasy: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin Book You Were Excited […]


Stacking the Shelves [14]- Christmas Edition!

Stacking the Shelves [14]- Christmas Edition!

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature hosted by  Tynga’s Reviews where bloggers share the books that they’ve added to their shelves this week, whether borrowed, bought, virtual, physical, etc! Christmas brought a few books I’ve really been eyeing as well as some fun surprises! The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult was a gift from my mom, as she remembered I used to be an avid Jodi fan back in high school and she came across this title and thought of me, which I thought was sweet. She also picked up I Am Pusheen the Cat (a fun surprise! I love […]


Why Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer Parodied My Expectations- Review

Posted December 26, 2014 in Books, Reviews / 8 Comments
Why Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer Parodied My Expectations- Review

Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer My rating: 2.5/5 Stars Publisher: Dutton Juvenile (2014) Length: 264 pgs Genre: YA Contemporary/Magical Realism Format: Hardcover, checked out from local library Goodreads Synopsis: If life were fair, Jam Gallahue would still be  at home in New Jersey with her sweet British  boyfriend, Reeve Maxfield. She’d be watching  old comedy sketches with him. She’d be kissing him in the library stacks. She certainly wouldn’t be at The Wooden Barn, a therapeutic boarding school in rural Vermont, living with a weird roommate, and signed up for an exclusive, mysterious class called Special Topics in English. But life isn’t fair, and Reeve […]


Book Buddies Review: My True Love Gave To Me

Posted December 25, 2014 in Book Buddies Reviews, Books, Reviews / 8 Comments
Book Buddies Review: My True Love Gave To Me

This month I’m partnering up with Lauren from Bookmarklit for Book Buddies, an every-other month feature where Lauren and I will choose a themed read to buddy read and then get together and discuss the things that stand out! You can see both of our opinions and discussions in the conversation review format, and is usually posted on the last Wednesday of the month (although for the month of December, we opted to post on Christmas!) This month’s read My True Love Gave To Me, a holiday anthology edited by Stephanie Perkins and containing short stories from twelve YA authors. […]


Top Ten Books I Wouldn’t Mind Santa Bringing This Year

Posted December 22, 2014 in Top Ten Tuesday, Weekly Features/Memes / 32 Comments
Top Ten Books I Wouldn’t Mind Santa Bringing This Year

Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly feature hosted by the fantastic blog The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic comes straight from my Christmas/birthday wish list, and for the most part is in no particular order. 1) Wicked– In this instance, Wicked IS the number one book on my wish list! JLA, paranormal happenings, and a New Orleans setting? Yes please! 2) These Broken Stars– Gorgeous cover that I must own for my shelves plus I hear this is a fantastic book that I’m really late to the party for! 3) Winterspell– I’ve heard mixed tings about this […]


Forever by Maggie Stiefvater- Reread Mini Review

Posted December 22, 2014 in Books, Reviews / 4 Comments
Forever by Maggie Stiefvater- Reread Mini Review

Forever by Maggie Stiefvater My rating: 3/5 Stars Publisher: Scholastic (2011) Length: 388 pgs Series: The Wolves of Mercy Falls (#3) Genre: YA Paranormal Fiction/Romance Format: Hardcover, purchased Goodreads Synopsis: then. When Sam met Grace, he was a wolf and she was a girl. Eventually he found a way to become a boy, and their loved moved from curious distance to the intense closeness of shared lives. now. That should have been the end of their story. But Grace was not meant to stay human. Now she is the wolf. And the wolves of Mercy Falls are about to be […]


Sunday Funday: Week in Review [20]

Posted December 21, 2014 in Sunday Funday, Weekly Features/Memes / 1 Comment
Sunday Funday: Week in Review [20]

Sunday Funday is a weekly(ish) post I’ve started to recap the bookish (and sometimes not-so-bookish) happenings in my life the past week! Feel free to participate, just link back! December 15-21, 2014 Life These past few weeks have been really busy! I spent Thanksgiving with my boyfriend’s family for the first time, which was lovely and on Black Friday we drove to the coast to explore the sights and shops. Then we braved Target to hunt for Black Friday deals *coughbookscough* and I scooped up a few new titles (which you can see in my STS post) and my boyfriend […]


Stacking the Shelves [13]

Stacking the Shelves [13]

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature hosted by  Tynga’s Reviews where bloggers share the books that they’ve added to their shelves this week, whether borrowed, bought, virtual, physical, etc! This is actually what I’ve accumulated over the past few weeks! I scooped up Dorothy Must Die and The One at Target on Black Friday (hardcover, both for under $10!) and was gifted The Book Thief by my aunt. I haven’t read any of these yet so I’m really excited to get around to them (probably not until after the holidays though!) I was also gifted my aunt’s collection of […]