Thursday, October 31, 2013

For This is the Night - October 2013 in Full

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The picture is of a cosplayer, reading. Why a reading cosplayer? Because today is the last day of October and is Halloween night and this is a book blog! Although I do not participate in festivities like this... HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!
(This picture is not mine)

What did we do in October?

Reviews
The Rules of Dreaming by Bruce Hartman
The Sharing Moon by Christy Campbell
Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst

Cover Reveals
Strange and Ever After (Something Strange and Deadly #3) by Susan Dennard

Events/Segments
Teaser Tuesdays - October 15
Teaser Tuesdays - October 22
Fluent Fridays - Why Will I Read Thee? I
Teaser Tuesdays - October 29

What's Next?

More reviews, of course. 

Reviews
Fearless/Sam/Run by Franscine Pascal
Lombaro's Amulet (Relics & Wonders #1) by Kevin Mullikin
The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2) by Maggie Stiefvater
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer by Katie Alender

Events/Segments
Teaser Tuesdays
What the WHAT?!? Wednesdays
Fluent Fridays

Currently Reading - Soul Thief/Forbidden by Jana Oliver, Dance of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
Recently Finished - Fearless/Sam/Run by Franscine Pascal
To be Read - Lombaro's Amulet (Relics & Wonders #1) by Kevin Mullikin, The Forever Ones (The Iduna Project) by Marjorie DeLuca

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Teaser Tuesdays - October 29

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Teaser Tuesdays, a weekly bookish meme, is brought to you by Should Be Reading. This meme is where I will share two (2) random "teaser" sentences from a random page of whatever I'm currently reading and try to pull you guys in.

Want to play along?

  •     Grab your current read
  •     Open to a random page
  •     Share two sentences from somewhere on that page
  •     Be careful not to include spoilers
  •     Share the title, author, and page of the book

This week's book (the entire series, really) is published with two different names... which I think is unnecessary.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Fluent Fridays 1 - Why Will I Read Thee? I

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        Judging.
It's the thing of which most of us don't like to admit we're guilty. Why? We've always been told that it's "bad" for us, that we'll end up burning in the pits of hell or something if we do it. There are signs everywhere screaming "DON'T JUDGE!!!" I mean, we do it anyway and we know that every body else does it but we always act like we don't which is ridiculous. Well today, I have a confession to make...


The truth is, I judge a lot. Like, a lot; the amount of judging that demands the underlining of the words 'a lot'. If I didn't, there are a lot of books that I probably would have never read. Which brings me to ask the question - What motivates us to pick up certain books but not others?

For me, it's most often the cover of a book that's luring. It took me a while to realize that I judged books by their covers, though; It was such a shocking revelation! "What? I do this?!?!?" After contemplating whether or not to change this "bad" habit, I decided to pay more attention to it instead. What I found out was this:

I'm particularly fond of hardcover books with girls wearing flowing dresses featured on the cover. Which I find kind of weird... because it's so random? I don't know, it's just weird to me. What's weirder is the fact that more than half of every book I pick up was the same thing: girl, in flowing dress, flowing hair, dark atmosphere.

   


Furthermore, if there's a girl on the cover (or any body parts that suggests it's a girl), I will read it. No flowing anything required.
    

Seriously, my read list has been invaded by girls! Or more specifically, kick-ass chicks who don't know when to give up. And why am I so attracted to such covers? It's more than just "Oooh! It's so pretty!" (Although there is that, too). It's the power of femininity. I'm intrigued by it. I want to read about it and experience it every chance I get. We live on a world that's too crowded with males here and males there (I feel). We don't hear enough about women who did something that meant something even though they exist. And that, my friends, 'erks' me to the point where I have to go find such stories elsewhere.

Maybe it's a really unusual reason for deciding to read a book? But for me, this is how it starts: with the promise of the importance of a female role. And dresses. Lots and lots of dresses.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst

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Title - Vessel
Author - Sarah Beth Durst
SeriesNone
Release Date - September 11th, 2012
Publisher - Margaret K. McElderry
Format Acquired - Hardcover

Liyana has trained her entire life to be the vessel of a goddess. The goddess will inhabit Liyana's body and use magic to bring rain to the desert. But Liyana's goddess never comes. Abandoned by her angry tribe, Liyana expects to die in the desert. Until a boy walks out of the dust in search of her. Korbyn is a god inside his vessel, and a trickster god at that. He tells Liyana that five other gods are missing, and they set off across the desert in search of the other vessels. For the desert tribes cannot survive without the magic of their gods. But the journey is dangerous, even with a god's help. And not everyone is willing to believe the trickster god's tale. The closer she grows to Korbyn, the less Liyana wants to disappear to make way for her goddess. But she has no choice: She must die for her tribe to live. Unless a trickster god can help her to trick fate -- or a human girl can muster some magic of her own.


What really got me to pick this book up at the library was the cover. There's a girl on the cover who's in a beautiful ensemble and the colours are in-your-face... It was made specifically so that I could stare at it and not get bored.

I was not at all disappointed with this storyline. It is different and rich with foreign beliefs and cultures that may or may not be fictional. It deals with the concept of sacrificing oneself in order to save others and dealing with the baggage that comes with knowing that you have no future because you are not expected to live very long. Goodness! While I was reading this, I couldn't help but be impressed with the actions of the characters whose purpose in life is to die so that their clans can survive the Great Drought.

Liyana, the main main character is a very cool chick in my book. She keeps her cool and her head on at all times. "Oh, I'm about to be offered up as sacrifice? That is perfectly OK... You're leaving me in the desert to die a horrible death because the ceremony didn't work and you're blaming it on me? I'll catch you guys on the flip-side." What? Are you crazy, girl? Of course she's crying on the inside a little, but her sense of self sacrifice is so great that she'll really do anything to ensure the survival of her clan. "The goddess who was suppose to invade my body while I disappear into the Dreaming forever is missing? Let's find her." Not to mention that she's really good at almost everything.

Korbyn, the trickster god, is Liyana's main companion for most of their quest to rescue the missing deities. He's a big flirt (tries to impress Liyana at every turn), and he thinks he knows everything. His magic-using (he is a god after all) comes in handy a lot. I think he's a really fun guy. Fennik, for me, is one of those people who just exists; He was interesting for like, 20 seconds, but I don't mind that he's there and I wouldn't mind if he wasn't there... I feel like such a buttface, but it's the truth xD. Pia is one of those annoying "I'm popular so look at me" girls who are just, well, annoying. e.e And I'm not entirely sure what to think about Raan because, yes she's cool too, but I feel like she has no heart sometimes.

Ultimately, what really made me like this book was the concept behind it. I even wish I was the one that came up with it. There's a lot of interesting things that takes place in the midst of the story, but to reveal one would make me reveal that, then this, and so you'd think that I might as well copy and paste the entire book onto here.

My only regret was the fact that the book wasn't longer. There could have been more details somewhere in the middle to make it longer (which is just my opinion). I pretty much didn't want it to end because I wanted more, I wanted more, and dang it I WANT MORE!
Vessel
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Teaser Tuesdays - October 22

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Teaser Tuesdays, a weekly bookish meme, is brought to you by Should Be Reading. This meme is where I will share two (2) random "teaser" sentences from a random page of whatever I'm currently reading and try to pull you guys in.

Want to play along?

  •     Grab your current read
  •     Open to a random page
  •     Share two sentences from somewhere on that page
  •     Be careful not to include spoilers
  •     Share the title, author, and page of the book

Currently reading a really interesting and informational book that I wouldn't recommend to everyone, but...

Monday, October 21, 2013

Cover Reveal: Susan Dennard - Strange and Ever After

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The cover of the final book of the Something Strange and Deadly trilogy has surfaced!~ This title will be published by Harper Teen and will be on shelves available on July 22nd, 2014.

So, are you ready to see it?

Sunday, October 20, 2013

The Sharing Moon by Christy Campbell

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Title - The Sharing Moon
Author - Christy Campbell
Series - None
Release Date - September 2nd, 2013
Publisher - CreateSpace
Format Acquired - eBook via Amazon

Elijah is different. He's confused. And he used to be alive. When eighteen year old Elijah Solomon dies, so do all of his memories.  A mysterious message sends his lost soul back to change the life of one girl, and relive a very intriguing world. It isn't easy having a second chance, Elijah soon realizes. Dreams reveal clues from his past he isn't prepared for. Seraphina Adams lives with her emotionally distant mother and battles the darkness in her own mind. After the loss of her father, Sera finds that opening up and learning to trust can be the hardest things to grasp. Until she meets Elijah, the most beautiful boy she's ever seen.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The Rules of Dreaming by Bruce Hartman

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Title - The Rules of Dreaming
Author - Bruce Hartman
Series - None
Release Date - May 23rd, 2013
Publisher - Swallow Tail Press
Format Acquired - eBook via Amazon

Nicole P. is a beautiful Irish graduate student pursuing a doctorate in literary theory. She checks herself in to the Palmer Institute (a private mental hospital in upstate New York), seeking help with anxiety and disorientation triggered by a recent breakup and her quest for a dissertation topic. But by the time she’s discharged two weeks later, her life has become dangerously entangled with those of her psychiatrist, who has fallen in love with her, and two schizophrenic patients, Hunter and Antonia Morgan, 21-year-old twins whose mother, the opera singer Maria Morgan, committed suicide seven years earlier on the eve of her debut at the Met. Nicole becomes convinced that the opera Maria Morgan was rehearsing — Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann” — is taking over the lives of her psychiatrist, of Hunter and Antonia Morgan, and of everyone who crosses their paths, until all are enmeshed in a world of deception and delusion, of madness and ultimately of evil and death. She discovers that she too has been assigned a role in the drama, and along with a blackmailer named Dubin she sets out to solve the mystery of Maria Morgan’s death and its uncanny consequences.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Teaser Tuedays - October 15

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Teaser Tuesdays, a weekly bookish meme, is brought to you by Should Be Reading. This meme is where I will share two (2) random "teaser" sentences from a random page of whatever I'm currently reading and try to pull you guys in.

Want to play along?

  •     Grab your current read
  •     Open to a random page
  •     Share two sentences from somewhere on that page
  •     Be careful not to include spoilers
  •     Share the title, author, and page of the book

This week, my teaser is coming straight from a giant book fill with different stories from my college English class. x3 Enjoy!

Monday, October 14, 2013

And I'm Back

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The last two weeks have been all over the place; something that I somehow knew would happen and braced myself for it. But the rush is over now. Phew! And the best part is...

I'm back!! Yay! *Throws a party for myself*

I have somehow managed to change the entire look of the site. And it's beautiful, if I do say so myself. (; This new look is simpler and cleaner than the last (I was getting annoyed), and it will hopefully stay for a long time.

What do you guys think?


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