February 2012
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I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill...
Title: I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You
Series: Gallagher Girls (Book #1)
Author: Ally Carter
Pages: 284
Rating: ★★★★★
Summary: The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is a fairly typical all-girls school, that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE, the latest in chemical warfare in science; and students received extra credit for breaking CIA...
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Fallen (Review)
Title: Fallen
Series: Fallen (Book #1)
Author: Lauren Kate
Pages: 452
Rating: ★★★★
Summary: There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.
Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the...
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Challenge Complete!
I finished my February Challenge 2012 #3 last night. Woo hoo! Considering how many challenges I have in comparison to the number complete, I’d doing really lamely, hahah. These are more like leisure challenges, am I right? (:
captivation-is-key-to-madness asked: Hey, saw your link on Goodreads and I LOvE your blog! How did you get some of the goodreads things on your sidebar?
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New Books of the Week
Hello everybody! This week was actually pretty packed in terms of getting books, although I bought almost nothing!
In giveaways, I won: A Sound Among the Trees by Susan Meissner Protection for Hire by Camy Tang** The Royal Sheikh by Katheryn Lang (ebook) No Where Girl by AJ Paquette** Winging It by Deborah Cooke** Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel (audiobook)** Must’ve Done Something Good by...
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Choker (Review)
Title: Choker
Series: N/A
Author: Elizabeth Woods
Pages: 233
Rating: ★
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Cara Lange has been a loner ever since she moved away from her best and only friend, Zoe, years ago. She eats lunch with the other girls from the track team, but they’re not really her friends. Mostly she spends her time watching Ethan Gray from a distance, wishing he would finally notice her,...
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Eragon (Review)
Title: Eragon
Series: Inheritance (Book #1)
Author: Christopher Paolini
Pages: 497 (without pronunciation/translation guides)
Rating: ★★★
Summary: When young Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his adopted family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon realizes he has...
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“We’re all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we...”
– Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)
Defensive reading.
Definition: jumping into a book, when the world becomes too much to handle.
Reading Hurts
treesquirrrel:
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
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Happy Valentine's Day!
I hope you all have a beautiful day, regardless of whether you have a “valentine” or not! (:
And in honor of Valentine’s Day, Auntie Spinelli Reads is hosting a giveaway for “Single Awareness Day”! Be sure to check it out. (:
http://geobobspinelli.blogspot.com/2012/02/happy-singles-awareness-day-giveaway.html
EDIT: I have an update for another giveaway! There are...
“You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of...”
– Elif Shafak (The Bastard of Istanbul)
If I could just stay locked in my room and read...
“Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural...”
– Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree (via excessivebookshelf)
awritershigh asked: awesome blog! i love seeing another book nerd on here =D have a great day!
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New Books of the Week!
Again, trying to stick with the New Books of the Week feature! (: This week was a little boring; I didn’t actually order anything or something like that.
BUT! I did get my copy of Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins in the mail! AND! I got a signed copy of A Need So Beautiful by Suzanne Young in the mail, from a giveway I’d won! It was very exciting to open the mailbox and see it there!...
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“There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends,...”
– Christopher Paolini (Eragon)
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