In My Mailbox (33)

Hi! Happy Sunday!

Hope your having a great non-sunburned weekend!

IMM is hosted by The Story Siren!

This week I got 2 books in the mail:

• The Eternal Sea by Angie Frazier! Which I promptly devoured upon arrival. It was simply amazing. I was tracking it online, just because, and the UPS man was 2 hours later than he should have been! Eek!
• The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross! This looks amazing! I can't wait to start it.
• A super duper amazing Eternal Sea postcard!

What did you get this week?

P.S. I also downloaded some galleys from Netgalley and Galleygrab, thanks to a friend. So while my problem is not fixed, I still can read some books!

Blog Happenings (24)

HI!
I'm not even going to say happy weekend, although know that I mean it, because it doesn't even feel like the weekend. All the days are just blending together. It is so nice not to have school. I get to read, and go to the pool. Or read and get this awful sunburn and MORE freckles. That is what happened yesterday. And it hurts. Like crazy. No more sun for me today.

BUT while this crazy sunburn was hurting and freckles were sprouting up all over my face, I did read a book. A book that is one of the best I've read in a really, really long time. It was crazy good. Does anyone know what this books is?? It is by the best author EVER.

YEP! Best book ever. EVER.

But enough of my craziness, you'll get a review soon. Like Monday.

I'm doing quite well on my 30 books in 30 days challenge. A friend came to the rescue, and I'm trying to read Possession by Elana Johnson on my Nook before it expires. And I need to finish it today. It is long. So I better get a reading!

I'm having difficulty trying to figure out what else I was going to tell you guys but I can't seem too!

Oh well, after Possession I'm going to read some more galleys and then some library books!

Bye! Read Everlasting if you haven't read The Eternal Sea yet. It is the first one in the series!!! SCREAM, It was so good. (Sorry)

Follow Friday (20)

Hi!
It's Friday! I'm enjoying my first Friday of freedom and I thought I'd get on early and do a Follow Friday!

Follow Friday is hosted by Parajunkee's View!

This week's question is:

What are you doing to prepare for an upcoming zombie apocalypse and/or the return of Mel Gibson to the silver screen? (Both of which could be terrifying.)

First of all, I didn't know that the zombie apocalypse was coming so soon! Was I the only one left in the dark about this? I guess I better start preparing. Maybe building a fort out of books, but then the books might get damaged...! Stinking zombies. I could try and dress up like a zombie and walk around all creepy like, then maybe they wouldn't know who I was...a human! And I would never go see Mel Gibson, I was scared for life when I saw the Patriot.

What about you guys??

Jinx by Meg Cabot

Title: Jinx
Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: Harper Teen
Publication Date: August 1, 2007
Source: Library

Summary: It's not easy being Jinx.


Jean Honeychurch hates her boring name (not Jean Marie, or Jeanette, just . . . Jean). What's worse? Her all-too-appropriate nickname, Jinx. Misfortune seems to follow her everywhere she goes even to New York City, where Jinx has moved to get away from the huge mess she caused in her small hometown. Her aunt and uncle welcome her to their Manhattan town house, but her beautiful cousin Tory isn't so thrilled. . .

In fact, Tory is hiding a dangerous secret one that could put them all in danger. Soon Jinx realizes it isn't just bad luck she's been running from . . . and that the curse she has lived under since the day she was born may be the only thing that can save her life.


Review: Jinx was my second Meg Cabot book. After I devoured Airhead I was so eager to read more by her. And when I saw that I could get an ebook of this from my library I jumped at the chance. Was it as good, as I though it would be? No not really. But it was still good.


One of my favorite things about Meg Cabot is that her books are funny, and thankfully that was no exception with this one. I laughed to myself a couple of times and found myself connecting nicely with the story and the characters. But there was something off.

And I still can't figure out what it was.

It was probably that I didn't quite get what was going on. Was there actually magic, or wasn't there? I couldn't quite tell, you never knew. Even at the end. I like my standalones wrapped up nicely and while this did, I would like to know for sure.

I did like Zach, the love interest. He was a nice change in main love interests. He was just a plain old good boy. Jinx, or Jean was a good main character. Some of the time. She could be annoying and just really weird.

I'm not sure if I'd recommend this to everyone, but it was still pretty good.

Rating:

Summer Reading

Hi Guys!
Like I said earlier, summer is here! Which means I have to dig out the annual summer reading list.
This year there are approximately 111 books, which I will by no means finish! I'll be lucky to finish 60!

If you are curious: Here is the Link.

I'm going to create a button. I'm tentatively going to say, I will set up some interviews for late summer. And possibly a scavenger hunt around the blog...This might be my last time blogging and I'd like to make it memorable.

There will be weekly updates, except in June they will be for the 30 days, 30 books Challenge!! The rest will just be me, being a crazy person!

WELCOME TO SUMMER!! (By the way, The Eternal Sea by Angie Frazier comes out!!!! Everlasting was my favorite book ever!!)

30 books in 30 days Challenge

Summer is here, and to kick it off I'm participating in a reading challenge hosted by Cait from The Cait Files!

To find out more info about the challenge head on over to The Cait Files, the link is above!

Here is my list, not that I'm going to finish them all...!

1. The Eternal Sea by Angie Frazier
2. Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
3. Possession by Elana Johsnon
4. The Liar Society by Lisa and Laura Roecker
5. Exile by Anne Osterlund
6. Boy Crazy by Hailey Abbot
7. Into The Gauntlet by Margret Peterson Haddix
8. The Other Boy by Hailey Abbott
9. I was Jane Austen's Best Friend by Cora Harrison
10. The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
11. You Wish by Mandy Hubbard
12. Moonglass by Jessi Kirby
13. Banished by Sophie Littlefield
14. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
15. Hourglass by Myra McEntire
16. Love Story by Jennifer Echols
17. Waterfall by Lisa T. Bergren
18. Tempest Rising by Tracey Deebs
19. Strings Attached by Judy Blundell
20. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
21. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
22. The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen
23. The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart
24. Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
25. Die For Me by Amy Plum
26. Bumped by Megan McCafferty
27. The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch
28. Sometimes it Happens by Lauren Barnholdt
29. Winterborne by Augusta Blythe
30. Forbidden Boy by Hailey Abbott

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I will update every couple of days, and I'll come back here with and update the list.

Expect and update with the books I'm reading this book soon!

Waiting on Wednesday (19)

Hi!
Stay tuned for news on summer reading, and a challenge I'm participating in!!

WoW is hosted by Breaking the Spine!

This week's pick is:

The Revenant by Sonia Gensler
June 14, 2011

When Willie arrives in Indian Territory, she knows only one thing: no one can find out who she really is. To escape a home she doesn't belong in anymore, she assumes the name of a former classmate and accepts a teaching job at the Cherokee Female Seminary.


Nothing prepares her for what she finds there. Her pupils are the daughters of the Cherokee elite—educated and more wealthy than she, and the school is cloaked in mystery. A student drowned in the river last year, and the girls whisper that she was killed by a jealous lover. Willie's room is the very room the dead girl slept in. The students say her spirit haunts it.

Willie doesn't believe in ghosts, but when strange things start happening at the school, she isn't sure anymore. She's also not sure what to make of a boy from the nearby boys' school who has taken an interest in her—his past is cloaked in secrets. Soon, even she has to admit that the revenant may be trying to tell her something. . . .

I don't know what it is, but this book just looks amazing! I can't wait for it, and it comes out very, very soon! I love mysteries and ghost stories!