Weekly Round Up (02.10.13)
These were my 5 most listened to tunes from the last week, according to last.fm: 1. Let’s Try by Nolita Knights 2. Distance Kills by Nolita Knights 3. All You Need by Nolita Knights 4. Just Too Used To...
View ArticleWeekly Round Up (02.17.13)
These were my 5 most listened to tunes from the last week, according to last.fm: 1. The Mother We Share by CHVRCHES 2. Shell Suite by Chad Valley 3. Midnight City by M83 4. Rock You Like A Hurricane by...
View Article2012 Clean Up: Snippet Thoughts (Adult Smorgasbord)
Naked Heat by Richard Castle I really enjoyed the first Castle book, Heat Wave, because it felt like reading an episode of “Castle.” This one also felt like reading an episode of the show, but for some...
View ArticleWeekly Round Up (02.24.13)
These were my 5 most listened to tunes from the last week, according to last.fm: 1. Shell Suite by Chad Valley 2. Night Wolves by Farewell J.R 3. Midnight City by M83 4. Closer by Tegan and Sara 5. The...
View ArticleOut of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys (thoughts)
From the author’s website: Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan to get out, but a mysterious death...
View ArticleReading Plan: March 2013
photo credit Another month, another reading plan. February’s Reading Plan Book club: The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson Short stories: Sleight of Hand by Peter S. Beagle (round two) Review 1: Out...
View ArticleWeekly Round Up (03.03.13)
These were my 5 most listened to tunes from the last week, according to last.fm: 1. Be The Song by Foy Vance 2. Dark by Luke Sital-Singh 3. Little Numbers by BOY 4. Shell Suite by Chad Valley 5. Night...
View ArticleWarm Bodies by Isaac Marion (book and movie thoughts)
From the author’s website: R is a young man with an existential crisis–he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by war, social collapse, and the mindless hunger of his undead comrades,...
View ArticleWeekly Round Up (03.17.13)
These were my 5 most listened to tunes from the last week, according to last.fm: 1. The Country Where I Came From by Mike Edel (a pretty folky song that makes me nostalgic for the prairies.) 2....
View ArticleSnippet Thoughts: Madness Underneath, Cinder, This Is What Happy…, Cinders &...
The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson The only other Maureen Johnson books I’ve read are the Little Blue Envelope ones, which I thought were okay. But the Shades of London books feel much more like...
View ArticleWeekly Round Up (03.31.13)
These were my 5 most listened to tunes from the last week, according to last.fm: 1. Falling by Haim (3 sisters + 80s inspired = awesome) 2. Forever by Haim 3. Overdose by Little Daylight 4. Hold on to...
View ArticleSpring 2013 Read-a-thon Updates
I’ve said it before and I’m gonna have to say it again: if there’s one thing that can force me out of a blogging hiatus, it’s the 24 Readathon. I’ll be updating this post with my progress, so if...
View ArticleSiege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo (thoughts)
The highly anticipated follow up to Shadow and Bone! I enjoyed the first book much more than I expected, mostly because I expected not to like it at all. And one of the reasons I really liked it was...
View ArticleRaincoast Books Teen Reads Winter Preview
Oh hello there. Remember me? It’s been a little while, and honestly, I wasn’t sure if I’d ever be back. But the wonderful people at Raincoast Books have inspired me to give blogging another go. This...
View ArticleFall 2013 Readathon Updates
5:00am – Hour 1 (The ‘Am I Wake Yet?’ Edition) IT’S READATHON DAY! IT’S READATHON DAY! While I am feeling extremely unprepared for this readathon, I assure you have I been looking forward to it for...
View ArticleFav Books and Tunes of 2013!
Hi strangers! I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time remembering the details of any book I’ve read more than, say, a week ago. Blogging really helped with that problem – having to think through...
View ArticleFall 2015 Readathon Updates
Hiya! Time to dust off the ol’ blog for another 24hr readathon – which, let’s be honest, is usually closer to a 14hr readathon in my case. I haven’t been able to participate in a readathon for two...
View ArticleLet’s try this again
Remember when I used to blog regularly – joining weekly memes, online events, IRL events, and even hosting my own events? HA HA me neither. It was so long ago, it almost seems like it was a different...
View ArticleShudder by Courtney Alameda
Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat—a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to...
View ArticleSoundtrack Saturday – I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
From the author’s website: If seventeen-year-old Skyler Evans were a typical Creek View girl, her future would involve a double-wide trailer, a baby on her hip, and the graveyard shift at Taco Bell....
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