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November 02, 2011

WWW Wednesday #4

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Should be Reading, found it through My Cute Bookshelf.
To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
* What are you currently reading?
* What did you recently finish reading?
* What do you think you’ll read next?

My answers:

What are you currently reading?
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia
Finally finished the first book. Now I'm in page 3 in this book, got at least 9 other books I should finish this month so I better start reading a little faster!

What did you recently finish reading?
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
Just finished it about two hours ago.

What do you think you'll read next?
Pure Dead Magic by Debi Gliori
Still haven't read Nevermore. I just decided that I need some really quick read for a change, so this will be next!

Waiting on Wednesday #3

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

My pick this week is:

The Sharp Time by Mary O'Connell
Release date November 8th 2011

Sandinista Jones is a high school senior with a punk rock name and a broken heart. The death of her single mother has left Sandinista alone in the world, subject to the random vulnerability of everyday life. When the school system lets her down, her grief and instability intensify, and she ponders a violent act of revenge.
Still, in the midst of her crisis, she gets a job at The Pale Circus, a funky vintage clothing shop, and finds friendship and camaraderie with her coworker, a boy struggling with his own secrets.
Even as Sandinista sees the failures of those with power and authority, she's offered the chance to survive through the redemptive power of friendship. Now she must choose between faith and forgiveness or violence and vengeance.

Why: Yet again, the cover got my attention.

Monthly Recap: October

My first Monthly Recap! I thought I hadn't finish any books this month, but I was proven wrong.

Read in October

Silence (Hush, Hush #3) by Becca Fitzpatrick
Blood Magic (The Blood Journals #1) by Tessa Gratton
Million Dollar Mates (Million Dollar Mates #1) by Cathy Hopkins
Fallen (Fallen #1) by Lauren Kate
My Soul to Take (Soul Screamers #1) by Rachel Vincent
If I Stay (If I Stay #1) by Gayle Forman

Best Read

My favorite was probably "My Soul to Take" by Rachel Vincent. Or Blood Magic. These all were actually pretty good, so it's a tough pick.

November 01, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays #2

And yet another meme by Should Be Reading!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:

I felt a small, warm hand on my chest. The warmth radiated out from the hand, through my body, and the room stopped spinning, and I could breathe again, and I opened my eyes.
p. 278, Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

October 31, 2011

Cover Crazy #8

Yet another Cover Crazy, Hosted by The Book Worms.

Babe in Boyland by Jody Gehrman

When high school junior Natalie - or Dr. Aphrodite, as she calls herself when writing the relationship column for her school paper - is accused of knowing nothing about guys and giving girls bad relationship advice, she decides to investigate what guys really think and want. But the guys in her class won't give her straight or serious answers. The only solution? Disguising herself as a guy and spending a week at Underwood Academy, the private all-boy boarding school in town. There she learns a lot about guys and girls in ways she never expected - especially when she falls for her dreamy roommate, Emilio. How can she show him she likes him without blowing her cover?

Love, love, love, love this!

I love this cover because :
* Huge big eyes, so cute
* Love the mustaches, so cute and funny!

Dislike?
* Huge lips with nude lipstick. I have a problem with nude lipstick!

Week Schedule!

I finally made some sort of week schedule, hopefully I will be able to keep it!

friday

saturday

On My Wishlist

sunday

From Book to TV
Review
In My Mailbox

Musing Mondays #2

A meme hosted by Should Be Reading!

This week’s musing asks…

Would you say that you read about the same amount now as when you were younger? More? Less? Why?

That depends on which time you compare to.

When I was younger, I read all the time. I read 5 Nancy Drews per day! I sat everyday in the library and borrowed few bags of books per week. And I had few stacks of books just waiting to be read.

Then I became a real teenager and mostly hang out with my friends. I still read few books now and then, though mostly horror and autobiographies. Even though I read very little when compared to my earlier ages, I still read more than my friends compared. Actually, I was the only one, who had ever finished more than two books in my circle of friends! I truly thought that was odd. And they thought I was freak, 'cause it's much more fun to get drunk and do stupid stuff than to read! Of course, I still didn't stop reading, just thought my friends were more freaks than me, I mean, who doesn't read books?? One of my friends read one book her whole life, and that was only because her teacher made her. So weird.

Then I moved, met my future husband, who is a bookworm. After that, I kind of found my love for books again. So, now I read less than I did when I was around 13 years old, since I occasionally have to work, take care of the house and kid. But I definitely read now more than when I was a teenager. So I guess I have to say more, the same and less? But now my books are thicker and mostly in English, so let's say more, right? :)

October 30, 2011

On My Wishlist #3

Meme hosted by Book Chick City! And since I didn't get any books this week (ZERO), I missed In My Mailbox. And that is why I'm gonna make this a big one.

Starcrossed (Starcrossed #1)

Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
From Goodreads:

Set on the island of Nantucket, STARCROSSED tells the tale of Helen Hamilton, a young woman whose destiny is forever altered when she meets Lucas Delos and tries to kill him in front of her entire high school. Which is terribly inconvenient, not only because Lucas is the most beautiful boy on the island, but also because Helen is so achingly shy she suffers physical pain whenever she is given too much attention.

Making matters worse, Helen is beginning to suspect she’s going crazy. Whenever she’s near Lucas or any member of his family she sees the ghostly apparitions of three women weeping bloody tears, and suffers the burden of an intense and irrational hate. She soon learns that she and Lucas are destined to play the leading roles in a Greek tragedy that the Three Fates insist on repeating over and over again throughout history. Like her namesake, Helen of Troy, she’s destined to start a war by falling in love. But even though Lucas and Helen can see their own star-crossed destiny, they’re still powerfully attracted to each other. Will they give up their personal happiness for the greater good, or risk it all to be together?

Babe in Boyland

Babe in Boyland by Jody Gehrman
From Goodreads:

When high school junior Natalie - or Dr. Aphrodite, as she calls herself when writing the relationship column for her school paper - is accused of knowing nothing about guys and giving girls bad relationship advice, she decides to investigate what guys really think and want. But the guys in her class won't give her straight or serious answers. The only solution? Disguising herself as a guy and spending a week at Underwood Academy, the private all-boy boarding school in town. There she learns a lot about guys and girls in ways she never expected - especially when she falls for her dreamy roommate, Emilio. How can she show him she likes him without blowing her cover?

The Lying Game (The Lying Game #1)

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard
From Goodreads:

I had a life anyone would kill for.

Then someone did.

The worst part of being dead is that there’s nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It’s enough to kill a girl all over again. But I’m about to get something no one else does—an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin sister I never even got to meet.

Now Emma’s desperate to know what happened to me. And the only way to figure it out is to be me—to slip into my old life and piece it all together. But can she laugh at inside jokes with my best friends? Convince my boyfriend she’s the girl he fell in love with? Pretend to be a happy, carefree daughter when she hugs my parents good night? And can she keep up the charade, even after she realizes my murderer is watching her every move?

From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, comes a riveting new series about secrets, lies, and killer consequences.

Let the lying game begin.

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #1)

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
From Goodreads:

Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.

It can.

She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.

There is.

She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love.

She's wrong.

The Turning (Blood Ties #1)

The Turning by Jennifer Armintrout
From Goodreads:

I'm no coward. I want to make that perfectly clear. But after my life turned into a horror movie, I take fear a lot more seriously now. I finally became Dr. Carrie Ames just eight months ago. Then I was attacked in the hospital morgue by a vampire. Just my luck.
So now I'm a vampire, and it turns out I have a blood tie to the monster who sired me. The tie works like an invisible leash and I'm bound to him no matter what I do. And of course he's one of the most evil vampires on earth. With my sire hell-bent on turning me into a soulless killer and his sworn enemy set to exterminate me, things couldn't get much worse -- except I'm attracted to them both.

Drinking blood, living as an immortal demon and being a pawn between two warring vampire factions isn't exactly how I'd imagined my future. But as my father used to say, the only way to conquer fear is to face it. So that's what I'll do. Fangs bared.

From Book to TV #1

First, a warning: If you hate tv shows/ movies based on books, skip this one!

I have this habit to watch any tv show/ movie based on book. Many times, they're just crab, but I haven't let that stop me! So I'd like to introduce some of those tv shows/ movies! If you'd like to participate, just leave a comment and a link to your own blog post!

I decided to pick a new show, only the first episode has been aired, which I just finished.

grimm

is a new drama series inspired by the classic Grimm's Fairy Tales.Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli, "Turn The Beat Around") discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of the world.

As he tries to hide the dangers of his new found calling from his fiancé, Juliette Silverton, (Bitsie Tulloch, "quarterlife"), and his partner, Hank Griffin (Russell Hornsby, "Lincoln Heights"), he becomes ever more entrenched in the ancient rivalries and alliances of the Grimm world.

With help from his confidant, Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell, "Prison Break"), a reformed Grimm creature himself, Nick must navigate through the forces of a larger-than-life mythology, facing off with Hexenbiests, Blutbads and all manner of ancient evils, including royal lines dating back to the original profilers themselves, The Grimm Brothers. Reggie Lee ("Persons Unknown") and Sasha Roiz ("Caprica") also star.

Drama/Horror/Supernatural

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thoughts

As you can probably guess, this show is based on Grimms' Fairy Tales. As we all know, originally these fairytales aren't really the Disney- type, but gory and scary. I started to read these when I was age 8 or 9, and I had bad dreams for a long time. But I still had to read every story I could get my hands on.

I really enjoyed this first episode. It starts off with Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" playing on the background and I turned the volume up in my headset, so I could really enjoy the music.
Of course, I should've known that soon I would be scared shi.. I mean, speechless. Which is only suitable, knowing the original stories. This episode included parts of "Little Red Riding Hood" brought to modern life.
I liked when the main character met the first "Big Bad Wolf", and it turned out, that he actually wasn't so bad, thanks to diet, drugs and pilates! If there's any humor included, I'm usually fan right away! I'm easy that way.

Definitely will be watching the episode 2, "Bears Will Be Bears", which will be aired November 4th, less than a week to go!