Sunday Funday: Week in Review [7]

Sunday Funday: Week in Review [7]

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! July 7-July 14, 2014 150 Followers! This week I reached 150 followers! I know that this isn’t a huge amount for many bloggers, but for me it’s an exciting milestone in my blogging progress. I’ve found the book blogging community to be so welcoming and supportive and I’m excited to keep growing. So thank you so much to everyone who reads and follows! I just received a copy of Allegiant today, […]


The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater- Review in Which I Rave About Everything in this Book

Posted July 12, 2014 in Books, Five Star Reads, Reviews / 15 Comments
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater- Review in Which I Rave About Everything in this Book

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater My rating: 5/5 Stars! Publisher: Scholastic (2012) Length: 409 pgs Series: The Raven Cycle, #1 Format: Paperback, purchased from Amazon Goodreads Synopsis: “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers […]


Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira- Review

Posted July 9, 2014 in Books, Reviews / 8 Comments
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira- Review

Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira My rating: 3.8(ish)/5 Stars Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan)(April 2014) Length: 327 pgs Format: Hardcover, checked out from my local library Goodreads Synopsis: It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more; though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about […]


Top Ten Blogging Confessions

Top Ten Blogging Confessions

Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly feature hosted by the fantastic blog, The Broke and The Bookish. This week’s topic is “Top Ten Blogging Confessions,” a change from the usually more book-centric themes! Although my confessions will probably be more book oriented since it’s the inspiration for the blog…so read on and let me know if any of these apply to you! I set realistic reading goals for myself. Before I started blogging, I used to be proud that I read 30-40 books a year. Now I’ve seen that this is hardly a third of what many book bloggers […]


Sunday Funday: Week in Review [6]

Sunday Funday: Week in Review [6]

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! June 30-July 6, 2014 As most of you know, I just got back from Hawaii this week! I got home in time to celebrate the fourth of July with my family and boyfriend, and yesterday we saw The Fault In Our Stars movie (which was quite faithful to the book, and I’ll give more of my thoughts on it later this week) and ate at my favorite Japanese restaurant (we have […]


Aloha, Aulani! Hawaiian Graduation Vacation Recap

Posted July 5, 2014 in Travel / 6 Comments
Aloha, Aulani! Hawaiian Graduation Vacation Recap

Hello lovely readers! This past week things have been quiet around here, but as most of you know, I had the amazing opportunity to spend most of this week in Hawaii! The trip was a graduation gift from my amazing Aunt (also the one who took me to the Scholastic Warehouse Book Sale a few weeks ago- she’s great!) and it was truly an incredible experience, filled with history, relaxation, and of course, reading! Waikiki We started off our time on the island with a night in Waikiki, the first time I had ever been to the island of Oahu! […]


Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor- Review

Posted July 2, 2014 in Books, Reviews / 1 Comment
Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor- Review

Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor My rating: 4.5/5 Stars Publisher: Little, Brown & Co (April 2014) Length: 613 pgs Series: Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3 Format: Hardcover, purchased Barnes & Noble (online) Goodreads Synopsis: By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz. Common enemy, common cause. When Jael’s brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou […]


Sunday Funday: A Hawaiian Hiatus [5]

Sunday Funday: A Hawaiian Hiatus [5]

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! June 23-June 29, 2014 This week I wanted to let everyone know that I’m going to be gone until about next weekend to Hawaii! I’m lucky enough to have received this trip as a graduation present from my Aunt, and we are going to be staying at a couple of different resorts throughout the week, seeing the sights, and doing a lot of reading by the pool! I have a few […]


Stacking the Shelves [2]

Stacking the Shelves [2]

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! So a bunch of books I had requested came in all at once at the local library (funny how they always seem to come in at once, huh?) I’ve really been anticipating Love Letters to the Dead due to a couple of factors: 1) The cover is absolutely gorgeous and 2) Stephen Chbosky, author of the Perks of Being a Wallflower, has spoken so highly about it. I’m about a […]


The Chapel Wars by Lindsey Leavitt- Review

Posted June 25, 2014 in Books, Reviews / 6 Comments
The Chapel Wars by Lindsey Leavitt- Review

The Chapel Wars by Lindsey Leavitt My rating: 2/5 Stars Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (2014) Length: 304 pgs Format: Hardcover, checked out from my local library Goodreads Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Holly wants to remember her Grandpa forever, but she’d rather forget what he left her in his will: his wedding chapel on the Las Vegas strip. Whatever happened to gold watches, savings bonds, or some normal inheritance? And then there’s Grandpa’s letter. Not only is Holly running the business with her recently divorced parents, but she needs to make some serious money—fast. Grandpa also insists Holly reach out to Dax, the grandson […]