Friday, December 28, 2018

Book Issue [14] - Audiobooks are a Whole New World

I created this to basically ramble about any problem related to books that I have and that maybe you do too. Hope you like reading the following issue...

Book Issue #14 - Audiobooks are a Whole New World

When it comes to audiobooks, sometimes I feel like a horrible parent that is always forgetting that they have a kid. In the deep of my mind, I know they are out there, but I feel like not caring until I remember and think they are a good idea to have. The circle goes on and on.

Thursday, December 27, 2018

Thursday Tracks [118]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays are dedicated to music thanks to this feature! Created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. 
Now, this week song is...

DEEP WATER

Artist: American Authors


favorite part of the lyrics: When it pulls me under, will you make me stronger? Will you be my breath through the deep, deep water? Take me farther, give me one day longer, will you be my breath through the deep, deep water?

Hear me next Thursday!

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Waiting on Wednesday [173]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

THE GILDED WOLVES

by: Roshani Chokshi
Publication Date: January 15th, 2018

 

Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. But when the all-powerful society, the Order of Babel, seeks him out for help, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance.

To find the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin will need help from a band of experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian who can't yet go home. A dancer with a sinister past. And a brother in all but blood, who might care too much.

Together, they'll have to use their wits and knowledge to hunt the artifact through the dark and glittering heart of Paris. What they find might change the world, but only if they can stay alive.

What are you waiting on?

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Thursday Tracks [117]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays are dedicated to music thanks to this feature! Created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. 
Now, this week song is...

LOST IN JAPAN (REMIX)

Artist: Shawn Mendes ft. Zedd


favorite part of the lyrics: I'm a couple hundred miles from Japan, and I was thinking I could fly to your hotel tonight 'cause I can't get you off my mind.

Hear me next Thursday!

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Waiting on Wednesday [172]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

WATCHING YOU

by: Lisa Jewel
Publication Date: December 26th, 2018

 

Tom Fitzwilliam, the magnetic headmaster who saved the local school and effectively brought the suburban community of Melville together, is beloved by everyone. His wife worships him, his students moon over him, and his next-door neighbor is just about obsessed with him. But it seems that Tom isn’t without his enemies. For only a year after his arrival in Melville, Tom Fitzwilliam is found stabbed to death in the school parking lot.

Six months earlier, Joey Mullen, recently returned to Melville after years of working in Spain, cannot get her new neighbor Tom Fitzwilliam off her mind. Joey thinks her crush is a secret, but Tom’s teenage son Freddie is a child genius with aspirations of working as a spy for MI5, who spends his free time building dossiers on the locals. And he has evidence of Joey doing some odd things.

Across town, sixteen-year-old Jenna Tripp lives with her delusional mother, Frankie. Frankie’s convinced that she’s being stalked—and that Tom is behind it. Jenna humors her mother’s delusions while grasping at some semblance of normality. But then she realizes that her mother is right about one thing: They have met Tom before…and it was under very strange circumstances. Not to mention that something seems to be going on between the headmaster and Jenna’s friend Bess, and his weird son keeps spying on them from his bedroom window. Soon, Jenna can’t help but think that perfect Mr. Fitzwilliam might not be all that he seems.

And now that he’s dead, the entire town is consumed by the questions: Who knows something they shouldn’t? What was Tom hiding? And who would want him dead?

What are you waiting on?

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Thursday Tracks [116]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays are dedicated to music thanks to this feature! Created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. 
Now, this week song is...

EASTSIDE

Artist: benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid


favorite part of the lyrics: We can do anything if we put our minds to it take your whole life then you put a line through it. My love is yours if you're willing to take it, give me your heart 'cause I ain't gonna break it.

Hear me next Thursday!

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Waiting on Wednesday [171]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

KISS COLLECTOR

by: Wendy Higgins
Publication Date: December 18th, 2018

 

When seventeen-year-old Zae Monroe gets cheated on by the only guy she’s ever loved, then watches her parents' marriage crumble, she decides to forget about relationships and turn the tables on the boys of the world. It’s time to take what she wants, and what she wants are kisses. Athletes, musicians, poets, and bad boys—their lips are all on her agenda, and it's time to collect.

Zae proposes a contest with her friends to see who can kiss the most boys during spring break. But what starts as a harmless competition leads to a downward spiral she can’t seem to break free of. As family, academic, friend, and guy drama come to a head, Zae is forced to face the reasons behind her boy angst, and starts to wonder if she was wrong about the male race...or at least some of them.

What are you waiting on?

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Thursday Tracks [115]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays are dedicated to music thanks to this feature! Created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. 
Now, this week song is...

WITHOUT ME

Artist: Halsey


favorite part of the lyrics: Tell me how's it feel sittin' up there feeling so high but too far away to hold me you know I'm the one who put you up there.

Hear me next Thursday!

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Waiting on Wednesday [170]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:
Unearthed #2

UNDYING

by: Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
Publication Date: January 8th, 2018

  

Trapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from what they've learned there, scavenger Mia and academic Jules are plunged into a desperate race to warn their home planet of the danger humanity's greed has unleashed. From the mountains of Spain to the streets of Prague, the sequel to Unearthed is a white-knuckle ride that will send readers hurtling back to earth, and leave them breathless until the last page.

The earth's fate rests in Mia and Jules's hands in the epic conclusion to New York Times best-selling authors Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner's tomb-raiding sci-fi duology.

What are you waiting on?

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Thursday Tracks [114]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays are dedicated to music thanks to this feature! Created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. 
Now, this week song is...

EXPECTATIONS

Artist: MAGIC!


favorite songs: Expectations, and Motions.

Hear me next Thursday!

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Waiting on Wednesday [169]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:
The Dark Artifices #3

QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS

by: Cassandra Clare
Publication Date: December 4th, 2018

 

What if damnation is the price of true love?

Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall, the sacred stronghold of the Shadowhunters. In the wake of the tragic death of Livia Blackthorn, the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war. One fragment of the Blackthorn family flees to Los Angeles, seeking to discover the source of the blight that is destroying the race of warlocks.

Meanwhile, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and undertake a perilous mission to Faerie to retrieve the Black Volume of the Dead. What they find in the Courts is a secret that may tear the Shadow World asunder and open a dark path into a future they could never have imagined. Caught in a race against time, Emma and Julian must save the world of Shadowhunters before the deadly power of the parabatai curse destroys them and everyone they love.

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Thursday Tracks [113]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays are dedicated to music thanks to this feature! Created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. 
Now, this week song is...

LADY (HEAR ME TONIGHT)

Artist: Modjo


favorite part of the lyrics: I just feel like I won't get you out of my mind. I feel loved for the first time and I know that it's true, I can tell by the look in your eyes.

Hear me next Thursday!

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Waiting on Wednesday [168]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

VERITY

by: Colleen Hoover
Publication Date: December 18th, 2018

 

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.

Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.

Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.

What are you waiting on?

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Top Ten Tuesday [81]

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookis in June 2010 and moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join! This week Top Ten is...

Top Ten Books That I'm Grateful For

*not in order*

 

 

ANY BOOK FROM JENNY LAWSON

ANY BOOK FROM KRISTEN ASHLEY

 

 

How about you?