Monday, December 15, 2014

Stacking The Shelves


This is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews where we share what books we have recently added to our physical or virtual shelves.

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Amazon had one of their lightning deals going on (while I was at work nonetheless) Daughter of Smoke and Bone box set. It's normally like $54 and they had it for $24. Yeah I had to have it. Well I needed that free shipping so I grabbed A Thousand Pieces of You. The cover....OMG! It's so much prettier in person. 


Books-A-Million



I was talked into Zodiac by Erin @ The Hardcover Lover and Tika @ faNGIRLconfessions . They were tweeting about it and it got me very interested in it. We were going on so much about that Romina Russell tweeted us! That was super cool and very unexpected to say the least. 

That is all for this weeks Stacking the Shelves! 






Friday, December 12, 2014

The Friday 56

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that's ok)
 *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grab you.
*Post it.







Then a dark blur knocked the man sideways. The two grappled on the pavement, swearing at each other. She heard the sickening sound of fists meeting flesh. The dark blur scrambled to his feet, glancing at her. It was Kurt. A cut under his eye dripped blood.

I haven't finished this book yet. But I think this is a pretty good paragraph from it. Enjoy! 



Thursday, December 11, 2014

Life of a Blogger: Freebie (Favorite Sports Teams)


This is my first time doing this meme. This week's topic is a freebie so I am doing a past one: Favorite Sports Teams


Football:

Yes I know!!! BUT we aren't the laughing stock of the NFL this year. Other teams have stepped up for that thankfully. I was pretty much raised a Cowboys fan. I did spend my younger years in Maryland right outside of Washington D.C. It's tough being a Cowboys fan in Redskins country that's for sure. 

NASCAR

Nope not a Jr. fan. I'm all Jeff Gordon baby. I'm as much a die hard Gordon fan as I am a Cowboys. My brother is a Redskins fan (I have no idea how that happened) and I don't fault him for that. Anyway he is a big NASCAR fan. It wasn't until one day he started screaming for someone to put that 24 car in the wall. This was way back in 1996 right in the middle of Gordon's reign. I'm a very competitive person so I had to pull for him out of spite that day. I have been a fan ever since. 




Book Review: Deadly Class by Rick Remender


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Title: Deadly Class Vol. 1

Author: Rick Remender

Publisher: Image Comics

Publication Date: July 16th, 2014

Synopsis:

It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can’t focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he's failing is “Dismemberment 101,” and his crush has a double-digit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world’s top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn’t always metaphorical. Collecting the first arc of the most critically acclaimed new series of 2014, by writer RICK REMENDER (BLACK SCIENCE, Fear Agent) and rising star artist WESLEY CRAIG (Batman). Experience the 1980s underground through the eyes of the world’s most damaged and dangerous teenagers.

 
This was my very first graphic novel. I had to learn how to read it. I quickly realized that you don't read it like a book. I knew it would be an easy and quick read for my Goodreads challenge. I loved that it was set in the 1980s. It had plenty of gory stuff in it. But I couldn't help but feel like it would be better as a tv show than a book (graphic novel to be exact). I feel like it moved way too fast for me. I guess I'm used to some character/world building. It had some great opportunity to go so much further than it did. I was just let down by the build up only to be let down in the end. Though all of this could be that I'm new to the world of the graphic novels. It's worth a read though.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Waiting on Wednesday



      
Red Queen
 by Victoria Aveyard
 Publication date: February 10, 2015





Tuesday, December 9, 2014

WWW Wednesday


What are you currently reading?  I am reading this lovely book. Sadly it's taking me forever to read it. Not because it isn't good but work is tough this time of the year. 










What did you recently finish? I finished this book a few days ago. It's my very first graphic novel. It's not for the faint of heart. 












What will you read next?  This is will be my first Colleen Hoover book.  I'm very excited to read this. I've heard nothing but great things about her books. 















Monday, December 8, 2014

Top Ten Tuesday


Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read In 2014

This was my first year of proactively reading i.e. towards a goal. Before the end of last year I wasn't much of a reader. For that reason pretty much every author that I read this year was a new-to-me author. I have read a little more than ten authors this year. There may be one or two that you may be shocked by. Yes that is J.K. Rowling on my list. They are not listed in any kind of order.

1. Cinder by Marissa Meyer

2. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

3. Mara Dyer Series by Michelle Hodkin

4. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

5. Divergent Series by Veronica Roth

6. Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

7. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

8. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

9. Ashfall by Mike Mullin

10. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

**These aren't listed in any kind of order. I typed what came to mind first.**


Sunday, December 7, 2014

Stacking The Shelves


This is a weekly meme where you post what books you have added to your shelves. I have added a ton of books recently.











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