tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67848112575461093492024-03-23T11:56:16.341+01:00The Book EaterLamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-57636199550903339822012-05-03T17:30:00.000+02:002012-05-03T17:30:00.783+02:00Review: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo<a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1330059994l/10194157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img align="left" border="0" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1330059994l/10194157.jpg" vspace="3" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Series: </b>The Grisha Trilogy #1<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>Henry Hold and Co.<br />
<b>Publishing Date:</b> June 5th, 2012<br />
<b>Pages:</b> 368</span></div>
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<b>Summary:</b> Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. <br />
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. <br />
Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha…and the secrets of her heart.</blockquote>
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<b>Rating:</b> 3.5 stars<br />
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So, this started out really well. Really, I liked it... until I didn't.<br />
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Shadow and Bone is about Ravka, a country at war. There's a mysterious "fold" that threatens to engulf everyone in endless darkness, magical powers, soldiers, kings, intrigues and a heroine in the middle of it all who's supposed to save the world. <br />
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I think the fantasy aspect was well done, if not particularly original. The Grisha is one of the King's armies, composed of people with magical ability. You have people who can throw fire, people who can manipulate water, some can reshape glass and so on. I found the Shadow Fold passages to be very confusing, though, but maybe that's just me. It wasn't described properly and I couldn't visualize what Alina was talking about so I'm still confused as to how the whole thing works.<br />
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Alina is a strong narrator who, despite her short comings, doesn't spend her time drowning in a pit of despair and self-deprecation, and I found that refreshing. She's likable, and her voice is honest and touching and makes you feel her loneliness, her homesickness and her yearning to belong.<br />
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I also found Mal to be a remarkably realistic protagonist. None of the usual embellished, love-sick puppy with a side of whiny. He's a boy. He doesn't talk about his feelings or how (this isn't really a spoiler, but just in case you don't want to know anything about potential love interests, it's tagged as such) <br />
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he'd be desperately lost in a moonless night of dismay without Alina. Their relationship would have been believable if not for the weird Darkling thing. It just came out of nowhere and didn't make much sense. Even Alina didn't seem to understand it. I guess it could always be some kind of spell the Darkling put on her to make her more pliant, but this isn't said anywhere in the book and I find it confusing that she could just jump from one guy to the other in a matter of days without any explanation.</div>
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All in all, this was a nice read, and the whole make-over/new home/new powers aspect was pretty fun, if a bit cliché (especially Alina's relationships with other Grisha females. They were either shallow or evil. Come on now). But to me, the main issue was... Depth, I guess? As I've said, it's nice and fun, but doesn't really make you think, make you ache, it lacks a more sophisticated quality you can find in Melina Marchetta's Finnikin of the Rock or Laini Taylor's Lips Touch. After a while I started waiting for this little something extra, that little je ne sais quoi that turns an average fantasy book into a good one. But it never came.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Series: </b>Curse Workers #1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Publisher: </b>Margaret K. McElderry</span></div>
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<b>Publishing Date:</b> Jan 1st, 2010<br />
<b>Pages:</b> 310</div>
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<b>Summary:</b> The first in a trilogy, this gritty, fast-paced fantasy is rife with the unexpected. Cassel comes from a shady, magical family of con artists and grifters. He doesn’t fit in at home or at school, so he’s used to feeling like an outsider. He’s also used to feeling guilty—he killed his best friend, Lila, years ago.<br />
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But when Cassel begins to have strange dreams about a white cat, and people around him are losing their memories, he starts to wonder what really happened to Lila. In his search for answers, he discovers a wicked plot for power that seems certain to succeed. But Cassel has other ideas—and a plan to con the conmen.
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<b>Rating:</b> 4 stars<br />
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My first impression upon finishing this was "Well. That was interesting."<br />
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<u>Some rambling thoughts:</u><br />
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I liked the writing. It fits the genre and the story and is, for me, a welcome change in Black's usual writing style. So if you didn't like her previous novels and are thinking of skipping this one because of it, think again. You'll be surprised.<br />
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I also now get why everyone cites this series as an example of well-written male POV. It <i>is</i> good. That's probably why I didn't completely identify with the narrator on an emotional level. I never do when it's a well-written male POV. And I guess I'm not supposed to, because why would I think the way he does? He's a guy. Duh.<br />
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Plot-wise, the novel is solid. It's intriguing, it's exciting, it makes sense and I want to find out more. It's basically everything you can ask from a book, to be honest. And it flows really well, too. Like sometimes you'll see Cassel noticing random things and it doesn't really serve any purpose in the story, but I find that refreshing because when everything is relevant in a narration, the plots gets way too predictable.<br />
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Something interesting happened, though, despite my lack of falling in love with Cassel: I started to "adopt" his way of thinking. When confronted to a situation that would have been perfectly normal for a regular person, I was screaming in my head "nooooo Cassel don't do the normal thing! It's baaad! You should never trust anyone, ever, trusting is wrong!"... Which is not how I feel in real life. And for me, that's proof of a consistent, immersive and well-done characterization, one that pulls you in despite yourself.<br />
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If you still need a reason to open this book, I'll give you one: Black does subtle but in-depth world building. Example: She mentions the odds of being a curse worker is one in a thousand. BUT then how is Cassel's entire family gifted? WELL SHE EXPLAINS IT. You heard that right. I know I'm way too excited about this, but so <i>many</i> authors leave gaping plot holes that have to be later explained in an interview. And she didn't! Yay world building!<br />
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I still feel like there was a little something missing, though, but I'm not sure what. It might just be the male POV messing with my brain.<br />
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Oh, and after reading book 2 and 3, I can definitely tell you that if you feel hesitant about Cassel after book 1, you definitely won't after book 2. Promise.<br />
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1) Begin your summary with "In the future, people are separated by [insert unfair and intriguing criteria]".<br />
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2) Create different parts in this futuristic society and give them funky names. If they don't sound quite serious enough to actually exist, don't worry. Just capitalize the first letter and everything shall be fine.<br />
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3) Try to create some kind of age-related deadline/inevitable milestone for the characters to go through. 18 is the best age, considering the target audience, but it can be anything if you can make it work. It is better if there is a fancy government-sponsored ceremony attached to the event.<br />
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4) Go on a little bit about the new big brother-like society and then insert [character 1, most likely the narrator or part-time narrator, who has been raised *this way* and who is confused/passive/naive].<br />
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5) Insert now [character 2, future love interest of character 1, who has been raised in exactly *the opposite way*].<br />
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6) Arrange for them to meet and somehow be unable to avoid each other despite a less than ideal start.<br />
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7) Skip the boring relationship building. No time for that.<br />
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8) Also skip the world building and pesky little details like consistency or "now, <i>why </i>would society ever do that?" explanations. No one will pay attention.<br />
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9) <u>First option:</u> If you want an introspective book: painfully slow but steady evolution of the plot towards a rebellion against the narrator's overbearing and totalitarian society, rebellion born from their loving relationship<br />
<u>Other option:</u> fast paced, engaging plot with twists and turns that will make the reader forget about everything that's wrong with the world building and the insta-love relationship.<br />
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<b>Bonus:</b> get some kind of [childhood best friend/new love interest/narrator] love triangle in there, and you're set for a trilogy.<br />
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Of course, this is an exaggeration.<br />
Of <i>course</i>, not every YA dystopian novel is like this. But you have to admit, it fits for most of the popular ones, and I think this is my recurrent problem with YA distopia right now: it works, on a very shallow level. It looks intriguing, but once you start actually thinking about it? It falls apart.<br />
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<u>Case in point with a few popular dystopian YA books: </u><br />
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In <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7735333-matched">Matched</a></u> by Allie Condie, the pacing was the main problem for me. I know it worked for some people, but it completely fizzled out the narration and plot, and the pairing and love interest seemed to jump out of nowhere. It's not even that Cassia started having all these feelings and I was wondering where they were coming from. No. I couldn't even <i>see </i>the feelings in question.<br />
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In <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7686667-delirium">Delirium</a></u> by Lauren Oliver, a novel with a fascinating premise, I would have loved to have more details and context about why people suddenly started thinking love was a bad idea. I know it's explained a little bit, but I need to be convinced. I can't just accept that something this huge could have happened and not have details. It's up to the author to figure out how to give them.<br />
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Another example: <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8306857-divergent">Divergent</a></u> by Veronica Roth. Now, I actually liked that one. But the world building? No. Come on. People can't be rendered to being <i>one single thing</i>. The mere notion is preposterous. People don't have a "dominant trait" or whatever you want to call it. It's much more complex that that, and I feel like, again, we weren't really given any details about the thought process behind it.<br />
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I would be more than happy for you guys to let me know about any counter-examples you may have encountered, especially the ones for points 7 and 8. I'm begging for an in-depth dystopian YA novel, but haven't managed to find one yet.Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-6956909218377051142011-08-01T13:13:00.005+02:002011-08-03T00:03:35.363+02:00Eating ARCs (3)Hey everyone!<br />
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Here we go again.<br />
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<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 225, 255); padding: 5px 8px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">Have you ever been on NetGalley and stared at aaaaaall the galleys, thinking "oh my god, I don't want to go through 30 pages to have something to read"? Have you ever gotten your Galley Grab newsletter and stared at the adult fiction galleys, and went "ummmm. I'll look at this later"?<br />
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Well, this is where I come in. Once a month, I'll be sharing a list of e-ARCs that have <strike>peaked</strike> <strike>picked</strike> piqued my interest, that are from popular authors or that I've seen recommended all around Goodreads/the blogosphere.</div></div><br />
<i>Lots </i>of HarperCollins galleys this month, and some pretty awesome Harlequin Teen books as well (I was told <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9672990-saving-june">Saving June</a></u> would be on NetGalley in the next few weeks, so keep your eyes open.)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>NetGalley: </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(click on the cover to go to the book's NetGalley page so you can request it)</span><br />
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<u>Random House:</u><br />
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<b>Note:</b> Those are both on auto-approve.<br />
<b>Note 2:</b> If you don't request and read Graffiti Moon <i>right now</i>, [insert suitable threat here] (click <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Crowley"><u>here</u></a> to read my review)</div><br />
<u>HarperCollins:</u><br />
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<a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=30&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Wignall"><img alt="Blood" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415-NJUm0yL.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=30&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Mette"><img alt="Tris & Izzie" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1297799959l/7909961.jpg" width="133" /></a><br />
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<b>Note:</b> Blood and Tris & Izzie are on auto-approve<br />
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<a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=McKinty"><img alt="Deviant" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BrznfBqML.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Skovron"><img alt="Misfit" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298929402l/9802740.jpg" width="133" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Auxier"><img alt="Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1304094105l/10806008.jpg" width="134" /></a></div><br />
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<a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Kagawa"><img alt="The Iron Knight (Iron Fey, #4)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1310589240l/9659607.jpg" width="131" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Rees"><img height="200" src="http://darkissharlequin.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/juliet.jpg" width="130" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Purnhagen"><img alt="Beyond the Grave (Past Midnight, #3)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1309540258l/9132487.jpg" width="124" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Sagara"><img alt="Cast in Ruin (Chronicles of Elantra, #7)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1303045759l/8679140.jpg" width="130" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=9139"><img alt="Good Girls Don't (Donovan Brothers Brewery, #1)" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qvzaguyUL.jpg" width="126" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=9455"><img alt="Bad Boys Do (Donovan Brothers Brewery, #2)" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bklmUj32L.jpg" width="126" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=30&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Brezenoff"><img alt="Brooklyn, Burning " height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1308236115l/10628114.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><u>Hyperion/Disney-Hyperion:</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Bacon"><img alt="The Twisted Thread" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gNF18MlAL.jpg" width="128" /></a> <u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=7801"><img alt="The Wild Rose (The Tea Rose, #3)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1303241097l/9464746.jpg" width="131" /></a></u> <a href="http://netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Crewe"><img alt="The Way We Fall" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1309280434l/8573632.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Valentine"><img alt="Double" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1311023923l/11863992.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Mellom"><img alt="Ditched: A Love Story" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1306687973l/10194548.jpg" width="133" /></a><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Hachette Books Group:</u></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Grant"><img alt="Dark Parties" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512O9fU0kGL.jpg" width="133" /></a> <a href="http://netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Jesse+Petersen"><img alt="Eat Slay Love (Living With the Dead, #3)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1300977121l/9421748.jpg" width="124" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Simon & Schuster Galley Grab:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>In the newsletter:</u> (covers lead to Goodreads)</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><u>Children's eGalleys</u></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br />
</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917925-witchlanders"><img alt="Witchlanders" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1304529790l/9917925.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9491739-clean"><img alt="Clean" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1286821354l/9491739.jpg" width="135" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917879-the-unwanteds"><img alt="The Unwanteds" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1308432658l/9917879.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9918083-goliath"><img alt="Goliath (Leviathan, #3)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1299808712l/9918083.jpg" width="125" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9918133-fury"><img alt="Fury (Fury, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1302251927l/9918133.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917957-drink-slay-love"><img alt="Drink, Slay, Love" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1295367031l/9917957.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><br />
<ul><li><u>Adult eGalleys:</u></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10559583-starting-from-happy"><img alt="Starting from Happy: A Novel" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1304782311l/10559583.jpg" width="131" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10436992-heartwishes"><img alt="Heartwishes (Edilean, #5)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1310568194l/10436992.jpg" width="131" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7766064-the-taker"><img alt="The Taker" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1302506400l/7766064.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Not in the newsletter:</u><br />
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Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse by Lucas Klauss <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10798397-everything-you-need-to-survive-the-apocalypse">Goodreads</a></u> | <u><a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442434448">Galley Grab</a></u><br />
Past Perfect by Leila Sales <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10637697-past-perfect">Goodreads</a></u> | <u><a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442432055">Galley Grab</a></u><br />
Swear (Swoon #2) by Nina Malkin <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8581147-swear">Goodreads</a></u> | <u><a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442432338">Galley Grab</a></u><br />
Gone Gone Gone by Hannah Moskowitz <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8849382">Goodreads</a></u> | <a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442434462" style="text-decoration: underline;">Galley Grab</a><br />
Virtuosity by Jessica Martinez <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8419529">Goodreads</a></u> | <u><a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442432321">Galley Grab</a></u><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">We're done for this month! As usual, if you come accross any other links that aren't in the newsletter, drop me a note and I'll add them.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Thanks to the NetGalley and Galley Grab people for making this possible, and to the publishers for being so willing to make egalleys available. Cheers!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-68395854800947653442011-07-19T15:17:00.001+02:002011-07-19T15:20:47.408+02:00Teaser Tuesday: The Iron King by Julie Kagawa<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Teaser Tuesdays</span></strong></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/">Should Be Reading</a><i>.</i></span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you want participate, just do the following</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">:</span></div></div></div></div><blockquote><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Grab your current read</span></li>
</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Open to a random page</span></li>
</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page</span></li>
</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!</strong></span></li>
</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Share the <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">title & author</strong>, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!</span></li>
</ul></blockquote><div><img align="right" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1308972359l/6644117.jpg" vspace="3" /><i> “Very clever,” Puck said, smirking. “But then, you were always the strategist, weren’t you? What do you want, Ash?” </i><br />
<i> “Your head,” Ash answered softly. “On a pike. But what I want doesn’t matter this time.”</i></div><br />
- <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6644117-the-iron-king">The Iron King</a></u> by Julie KagawaLamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-12646044774332445982011-07-13T18:42:00.002+02:002011-07-18T12:51:57.101+02:00Review: Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley<a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1279318277l/7863274.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><img alt="Graffiti Moon" border="0" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1279318277l/7863274.jpg" width="132" /></span></a><br />
<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 225, 255); padding: 5px 8px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Series:</b> </b>Stand-alone</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Publisher</b><b style="font-weight: normal;">: </b>Pan Macmillan Australia</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Publishing date:</b><b style="font-weight: normal;"> </b>August 1st, 2010</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Pages:</b><b style="font-weight: normal;"> </b>244</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div></div></div></div><blockquote><b>Summary:</b> <i>"Let me make it in time. Let me meet Shadow. The guy who paints in the dark. Paints birds trapped on brick walls and people lost in ghost forests. Paints guys with grass growing from their hearts and girls with buzzing lawn mowers."</i><br />
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It’s the end of Year 12. Lucy’s looking for Shadow, the graffiti artist everyone talks about. <br />
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His work is all over the city, but he is nowhere. <br />
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Ed, the last guy she wants to see at the moment, says he knows where to find him. He takes Lucy on an all-night search to places where Shadow’s thoughts about heartbreak and escape echo around the city walls. <br />
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But the one thing Lucy can’t see is the one thing that’s right before her eyes.</blockquote><br />
<b>Rating:</b> 5 stars<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><strong>ATTN READING MANIACS AND BOOK LOVERS:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">To all of you who have regular reading slumps, READ THIS. I can guarantee this book will get you out of it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">So, I finished this book 4 days ago and I'm still trying to gather my thoughts into coherent sentences.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The writing was so beautiful that I kept stopping to stare at the words. I wanted to crawl across the page and come up to the words and snuggle them. And also hug the characters.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">This is the kind of book that puts a huge smile on your face. The kind of book that makes your day better. Hell, it makes your day, period.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The storyline was realistic and lovely, the characters had depth and personalities, the banter was perfect and I just wish I could take a swim in this novel and never come out. And hug the characters. Always hug the characters.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">I do hope the author will make some kind of companion novel to Graffiti Moon. She has more than enough talent to pull it off, and honestly, I'm not ready to say goodbye to these folks quite yet. I'd even want to read the parents' story (they're actually multi-dimensional! And</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><em>interesting</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">!) I don't care. JUST WRITE MORE.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">I would recommend this book to anyone, anybody who loves good writing and lovable characters. It's right up there with Saving Francesca (review </span><u style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://the-book-eater.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-saving-francesca-by-melina.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">here</span></a></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">) and the likes. And if you don't trust me, trust the judging panel of this year's Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Graffiti Moon won the first prize in the "Young adult fiction" category. Yup. Go read now.</span></span></span><br />
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</script>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-10369401240434355932011-07-05T18:07:00.000+02:002011-07-05T18:07:22.203+02:00Teaser Tuesday: Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Teaser Tuesdays</span></strong></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/">Should Be Reading</a><i>.</i></span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you want participate, just do the following</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">:</span></div></div></div><blockquote><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Grab your current read</span></li>
</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Open to a random page</span></li>
</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page</span></li>
</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!</strong></span></li>
</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Share the <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">title & author</strong>, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!</span></li>
</ul></blockquote><div><img align="right" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1265814659l/7716140.jpg" vspace="3" /><i>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Just because she tried to eat us doesn't mean she was wrong.</span>"</i><br />
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- Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen</div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-50876947071758616292011-07-01T07:05:00.000+02:002011-07-01T07:05:25.948+02:00Follow Friday<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4710921228_bf32d46f6d_o.png"><img border="0" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4710921228_bf32d46f6d_o.png" style="cursor: move;" /></a></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by <a href="http://www.parajunkee.com/search/label/FF">Parajunkee's View</a>.</div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This week's question:</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>ACK! Your favorite book/movie character (example Hermione Granger played by the Emma chick) just walked into the room! Who is it and what would be your first reaction? You get extra points if you include visual stimulation.</b></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Oooh. Hmmm.<br />
Okay. If Francesca from <u><a href="http://the-book-eater.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-saving-francesca-by-melina.html">Saving Francesca</a></u> suddenly barged into my room, I would most likely:<br />
- shuffle my feet and look around<br />
- awkwardly try to give the girl a hug<br />
- start babbling and shove food at her/talk about how she needs to try sushi<br />
- inquire about how Will is/demand details<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What about you? Who's your favorite fictional character? Would you freak out if you met him/her, or would you stay (outwardly) cool and composed?</span></div></div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-23001322836196097472011-06-30T02:36:00.003+02:002011-06-30T21:42:22.656+02:00Eating ARCs (2)Hey everyone!<br />
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This is the second edition of Eating ARCs, and if you haven't done your homework, here's what this post is all about:<br />
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<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 225, 255); padding: 5px 8px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">Have you ever been on NetGalley and stared at aaaaaall the galleys, thinking "oh my god, I don't want to go through 30 pages to have something to read"? Have you ever gotten your Galley Grab newsletter and stared at the adult fiction galleys, and went "ummmm. I'll look at this later"?<br />
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Well, this is where I come in. Once a month, I'll be sharing a list of e-ARCs that have <strike>peaked</strike> <strike>picked</strike> piqued my interest, that are from popular authors or that I've seen recommended all around Goodreads/the blogosphere.</div></div><br />
Ready? Here we go.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>NetGalley: </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(click on the cover to go to the book's NetGalley page so you can request it)</span><br />
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<u>Candlewick Press:</u><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=30&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Delsol"><img alt="Frost (Stork, #2)" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51g349voA9L.jpg" width="132" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><u>HarperCollins:</u></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=8601"><img alt="The Beginning of After" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1299063090l/10429005.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Domestic+Violets"><img alt="Domestic Violets" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1306344559l/10790819.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Booy"><img alt="Everything Beautiful Began After" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1302013204l/10156330.jpg" width="132" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><u>Egmont USA:</u></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Faegen"><img alt="The Mephisto Covenant (The Mephisto Covenant, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1299790542l/10535171.jpg" width="133" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=30&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Ilsa+"><img alt="Ashes " height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1306278378l/7903871.jpg" width="133" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=30&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Wignall"><img alt="Blood" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415-NJUm0yL.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=30&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Mette"><img alt="Tris & Izzie" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1297799959l/7909961.jpg" width="133" /></a><br />
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Blood and Tris & Izzie are on auto-approve!<br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><u>ABRAMS:</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=McKinty"><img alt="Deviant" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BrznfBqML.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Skovron"><img alt="Misfit" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298929402l/9802740.jpg" width="133" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Auxier"><img alt="Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1304094105l/10806008.jpg" width="134" /></a></div><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Harlequin:</u></div><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><u>YA</u></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Spellbound"><img alt="Spellbound" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1302191797l/10118172.jpg" width="124" /></a> </u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Cayla+Kluver"><img alt="Legacy (Legacy, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1301841400l/10072160.jpg" width="124" /></a><br />
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<ul><li style="text-align: left;"><u>Adult</u></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Rebirth"><img alt="Rebirth (Aftertime, #2)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1305390308l/10322436.jpg" width="124" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Sharpe%2C+Bettie"><img alt="Cat's Tale: A Fairy Tale Retold" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1305100781l/11329389.jpg" width="126" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Mullany"><img alt="Tell Me More" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZBIx%2Bt9BL.jpg" width="124" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Collide"><img alt="Collide" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298554094l/9920152.jpg" width="134" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><u>Lerner Publishing Group:</u><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Ultraviolet"><img alt="Ultraviolet" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1285975907l/8843789.jpg" width="130" /></a> </u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=30&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Brezenoff3"><img alt="Brooklyn, Burning " height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1308236115l/10628114.jpg" width="150" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><u>Houghton Mifflin Harcourt:</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u><br />
</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=7409"><img alt="Never Eighteen" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1302635576l/8419647.jpg" width="145" /></a></u><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><u>Hyperion/Disney-Hyperion:</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u><br />
</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Bacon"><img alt="The Twisted Thread" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gNF18MlAL.jpg" width="128" /></a> <u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=7801"><img alt="The Wild Rose (The Tea Rose, #3)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1303241097l/9464746.jpg" width="131" /></a></u> <a href="http://netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Crewe"><img alt="The Way We Fall" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1309280434l/8573632.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Artemis+Fowl"><img alt="Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1304577546l/6090919.jpg" width="135" /></a> <a href="http://netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Mellom"><img alt="Ditched: A Love Story" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1306687973l/10194548.jpg" width="133" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><u>Hachette Books Group:</u></div><br />
<a href="http://netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Jesse+Petersen"><img alt="Eat Slay Love (Living With the Dead, #3)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1300977121l/9421748.jpg" width="124" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Simon & Schuster Galley Grab:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>In the newsletter:</u> (covers lead to Goodreads)</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><u>Children's eGalleys</u></li>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br />
</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917925-witchlanders"><img alt="Witchlanders" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1304529790l/9917925.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9491739-clean"><img alt="Clean" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1286821354l/9491739.jpg" width="135" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917879-the-unwanteds"><img alt="The Unwanteds" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1308432658l/9917879.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9918133-fury"><img alt="Fury (Fury, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1302251927l/9918133.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9757266"><img alt="Sometimes It Happens" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5163QWrxV8L.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8419546"><img alt="Wildefire" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1290615516l/8419546.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><br />
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<ul><li><u>Adult eGalleys:</u></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9470371"><img alt="Love Story" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1305684651l/9470371.jpg" width="142" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10084976-pinch-me"><img alt="Pinch Me" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rI25QtRdL.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Not in the newsletter:</u><br />
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Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse by Lucas Klauss <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10798397-everything-you-need-to-survive-the-apocalypse">Goodreads</a></u> | <u><a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442434448">Galley Grab</a></u><br />
Past Perfect by Leila Sales <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10637697-past-perfect">Goodreads</a></u> | <u><a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442432055">Galley Grab</a></u><br />
Swear (Swoon #2) by Nina Malkin <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8581147-swear">Goodreads</a></u> | <u><a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442432338">Galley Grab</a></u><br />
Gone Gone Gone by Hannah Moskowitz <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8849382">Goodreads</a></u> | <a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442434462" style="text-decoration: underline;">Galley Grab</a><br />
Virtuosity by Jessica Martinez <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8419529">Goodreads</a></u> | <u><a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442432321">Galley Grab</a></u><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">We're done for this month! If you come accross any other links that aren't in the newsletter, let me know, and I'll add them here :)<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Again, thanks to the NetGalley and Galley Grab folks. You make people's day/week regularly.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-327074448825590922011-06-29T15:24:00.001+02:002011-06-29T15:26:53.330+02:00"Waiting On" Wednesday (11)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill from <u><a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/">Breaking the Spine</a></u> that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">This week, I'm excited about:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img align="left" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1299857171l/9961796.jpg" style="cursor: move;" vspace="3" /><b>Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Publishing date:</b> September 29th, 2011</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9961796-lola-and-the-boy-next-door">Goodreads</a></u></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i>Budding designer Lola Nolan doesn’t believe in fashion . . . she believes in costume. The more expressive the outfit -- more sparkly, more fun, more wild -- the better. But even though Lola’s style is outrageous, she’s a devoted daughter and friend with some big plans for the future. And everything is pretty perfect (right down to her hot rocker boyfriend) until the dreaded Bell twins, Calliope and Cricket, return to the neighborhood. <br />
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When Cricket -- a gifted inventor -- steps out from his twin sister’s shadow and back into Lola’s life, she must finally reconcile a lifetime of feelings for the boy next door. </i><br />
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The story sounds very cute, and while this alone would usually not be enough to appeal to me, it <i>is </i>by Stephanie Perkins, author extraordinaire of Anna and the French Kiss. And, oh, look at that! It's a companion novel to Anna and the French Kiss!<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img align="right" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1299396299l/9297774.jpg" style="cursor: move;" vspace="3" /><b>Eve by Anna Carey</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Publishing date:</b> October 4th, 2011</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9297774-eve">Goodreads</a></u></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
<i>The year is 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus—and the vaccine intended to protect against it—wiped out most of the earth’s population. The night before eighteen-year-old Eve’s graduation from her all-girls school she discovers what really happens to new graduates, and the horrifying fate that awaits her. <br />
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Fleeing the only home she’s ever known, Eve sets off on a long, treacherous journey, searching for a place she can survive. Along the way she encounters Caleb, a rough, rebellious boy living in the wild. Separated from men her whole life, Eve has been taught to fear them, but Caleb slowly wins her trust...and her heart. He promises to protect her, but when soldiers begin hunting them, Eve must choose between true love and her life.</i><br />
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Another dystopian sci-fi novel? Really, Lamia?<br />
Well, yes, really. I just can't resist.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What are you excited for?</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-3587483453101822022011-06-28T20:22:00.000+02:002011-06-28T20:22:13.172+02:00Teaser Tuesday: Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Teaser Tuesdays</span></strong></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/">Should Be Reading</a><i>.</i></span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you want participate, just do the following</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">:</span></div></div></div><blockquote><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Grab your current read</span></li>
</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Open to a random page</span></li>
</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page</span></li>
</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!</strong></span></li>
</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Share the <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">title & author</strong>, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!</span></li>
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<div><img align="right" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1306504932l/8490112.jpg" vspace="3" /><i>"The butterflies in the belly." Karou sighed. "I know. You know what I think? I think the butterflies are always there in your belly, in everyone, all the time [...] and some people's butterflies react to other people's, on a chemical level, like pheromones, so that when they're nearby, your butterflies start to dance. They can't help it<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">—</span>it's chemical."</i><br />
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- Daughter of Smoke and Bone (pp. 69-70) by Laini Taylor</div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-9553939914415790092011-06-01T17:58:00.000+02:002011-06-01T17:58:28.049+02:00"Waiting On" Wednesday (10)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill from <u><a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/">Breaking the Spine</a></u> that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">This week, I'm excited about:</div><br />
<div><img align="left" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yKhYM19tL.jpg" vspace="3" /><b>Every You, Every Me by David Levithan</b><br />
<b>Publishing date:</b> September 13th, 2011<br />
<u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9972838-every-you-every-me">Goodreads</a></u><br />
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In this high school-set psychological tale, a tormented teen named Evan starts to discover a series of unnerving photographs—some of which feature him. Someone is stalking <i>him </i>. . . messing with him . . . threatening him. Worse, ever since his best friend Ariel has been gone, he's been unable to sleep, spending night after night torturing himself for his role in her absence. And as crazy as it sounds, Evan's starting to believe it's Ariel that's behind all of this, punishing him. But the more Evan starts to unravel the mystery, the more his paranoia and insomnia amplify, and the more he starts to unravel himself. Creatively told with black-and-white photos interspersed between the text so the reader can see the photos that are so unnerving to Evan, <i>Every You, Every Me</i> is a one-of-a-kind departure from a one-of-a-kind author.<br />
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Um, this is the new David Levithan. THIS IS THE NEW DAVID LEVITHAN. Do I need more justification?<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What are you excited for?</span></div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-83688944131602051382011-05-30T16:51:00.005+02:002011-05-31T02:10:54.120+02:00Eating ARCsHi there!<br />
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Have you ever been on NetGalley and stared at aaaaaall the galleys, thinking "oh my god, I don't want to go through 30 pages to have something to read"? Have you ever gotten your Galley Grab newsletter and stared at the adult fiction galleys, and went "ummmm. I'll look at this later"?<br />
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Well, this is where I come in. Once a month, I'll be sharing a list of e-ARCs that have <strike>peaked</strike> <strike>picked</strike> piqued my interest, that are from popular authors or that I've seen recommended all around Goodreads/the blogosphere.<br />
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Ready? Here we go.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>NetGalley: </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(click on the cover to go to the book's NetGalley page so you can request it)</span><br />
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<u>Candlewick Press:</u><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=L.A+Weatherly"><img alt="Angel Burn" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D6hDTIfqL.jpg" width="131" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=6907"><img alt="A Long, Long Sleep" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZhuLXcOqL.jpg" width="131" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Circle+Nine"><img alt="Circle Nine" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ntxQU1edL.jpg" width="131" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><u>HarperCollins:</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u><br />
</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Hereafter"><img alt="Hereafter (Hereafter, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1289525884l/9256414.jpg" width="131" /></a> </u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=7788"><img alt="Everything We Ever Wanted" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rbDBwEQDL._SL500_.jpg" width="131" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Feast"><img alt="Feast: Harvest of Dreams" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1293816220l/9464797.jpg" width="122" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Harlequin:</u></div><ul><li><u>YA</u></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Spellbound"><img alt="Spellbound" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1302191797l/10118172.jpg" width="124" /></a> </u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=7341"><img alt="The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1297987541l/9166877.jpg" width="130" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=7341"></a><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Cayla+Kluver"><img alt="Legacy (Legacy, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1301841400l/10072160.jpg" width="124" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Rebirth"><img alt="Rebirth (Aftertime, #2)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1305390308l/10322436.jpg" width="124" /></a><br />
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<ul><li style="text-align: left;"><u>Adult</u></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Sharpe%2C+Bettie"><img alt="Cat's Tale: A Fairy Tale Retold" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1305100781l/11329389.jpg" width="126" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Walker%2C+Saskia"><img alt="The Harlot" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1297777393l/9920156.jpg" width="131" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Walker%2C+Saskia"></a><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Mullany%2C+Janet"><img alt="Tell Me More" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZBIx%2Bt9BL.jpg" width="124" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Collide"><img alt="Collide" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298554094l/9920152.jpg" width="134" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><u>Lerner Publishing Group:</u><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Ultraviolet"><img alt="Ultraviolet" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1285975907l/8843789.jpg" width="130" /></a></u><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><u>Houghton Mifflin Harcourt:</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u><br />
</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=7409"><img alt="Never Eighteen" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1302635576l/8419647.jpg" width="145" /></a></u><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><u>Hyperion/Disney-Hyperion:</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u><br />
</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=7801"><img alt="The Wild Rose (The Tea Rose, #3)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1303241097l/9464746.jpg" width="131" /></a> </u><a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=1&txt=Schwab%2C+Victoria"><img alt="The Near Witch" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1299080471l/6931344.jpg" width="133" /></a> <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?module=catalog&page=1&genre=&sdir=2&sfld=1&type=2&txt=Artemis+Fowl"><img alt="Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1304577546l/6090919.jpg" width="135" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Simon & Schuster Galley Grab:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>In the newsletter:</u> (covers lead to Goodreads)</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><u>Children's eGalleys</u></li>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8349244-forbidden"><img alt="Forbidden" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1284749033l/8349244.jpg" width="132" /></a> </u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917938"><img alt="Blood Red Road (Dustlands, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1293651959l/9917938.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8922087"><img alt="The Day Before" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zbJlREfgL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8922087"></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9757266"><img alt="Sometimes It Happens" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5163QWrxV8L.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8419546"><img alt="Wildefire" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1290615516l/8419546.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9209290-cleopatra-confesses"><img alt="Cleopatra Confesses" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BgZGN6m4L.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><br />
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<ul><li><u>Adult eGalleys:</u></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9470371"><img alt="Love Story" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1305684651l/9470371.jpg" width="142" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9758768"><img alt="Ordinary Beauty" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yuGA8iwGL.jpg" width="128" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9758768"></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8337087"><img alt="Possession" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1284729671l/8337087.jpg" width="133" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11251515"><img alt="I'm Kind of a Big Deal" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xjJMTg-nL.jpg" width="128" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Not in the newsletter:</u><br />
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Past Perfect by Leila Sales <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10637697-past-perfect">Goodreads</a></u> | <u><a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442432055">Galley Grab</a></u><br />
Swear (Swoon #2) by Nina Malkin <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8581147-swear">Goodreads</a></u> | <u><a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442432338">Galley Grab</a></u><br />
Gone Gone Gone by Hannah Moskowitz <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8849382">Goodreads</a></u> | <a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442434462" style="text-decoration: underline;">Galley Grab</a><br />
Clean by Amy Reed <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9491739">Goodreads</a></u> | <u><a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442417564">Galley Grab</a></u><br />
Virtuosity by Jessica Martinez <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8419529">Goodreads</a></u> | <a href="http://www.galleygrab.com/?asset_url=9781442432321">Galley Grab</a> <- I really liked that one. Just sayin.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Aaaaand that's *cough* all. See you all next month for another ARC post! And please, if I've missed anything, let me know. Or just tell me what you grabbed/requested :)<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Oh, and thank you for the NetGalley and Galley Grab folks for enabling people who don't live in the US to get ARCs. I don't think I can express my love for you guys adequately.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-67440620694956411162011-05-29T01:19:00.000+02:002011-05-29T01:19:31.719+02:00IMM (9)<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So, I know I've been MIA for the past two weeks, but I was busy with finals and general RL ~excitement (notice the little ~). But nooooow... I'm back! (oh dear.) So here we go:</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Bought/Borrowed:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8574517-like-mandarin"><img alt="Like Mandarin" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4118U7t9VhL.jpg" width="132" /></a> </b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8253694-other-words-for-love"><img alt="Other Words for Love" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1275967548l/8253694.jpg" width="133" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7417780-the-piper-s-son"><img alt="The Piper's Son" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1261824018l/7417780.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7159515-still-missing"><img alt="Still Missing" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260468195l/7159515.jpg" width="131" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2986865-eon"><img alt="Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (Eon, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1299076175l/2986865.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6469165"><img alt="What Alice Forgot" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1273500356l/6469165.jpg" width="136" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For review:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9470371-love-story"><img alt="Love Story" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1305684651l/9470371.jpg" width="142" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8419546-wildefire"><img alt="Wildefire" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1290615516l/8419546.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10072160-legacy"><img alt="Legacy (Legacy, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1301841400l/10072160.jpg" width="124" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What did you get in your mailbox this week?</span></div></div></div></div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-70874698012332522462011-05-11T15:25:00.001+02:002011-05-11T15:33:02.601+02:00"Waiting On" Wednesday (9)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill from <u><a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/">Breaking the Spine</a></u> that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">This week, I'm excited about:</div><br />
<div><img align="left" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1301841400l/10072160.jpg" vspace="3" /><b>Legacy by Cayla Kluver</b><br />
<b>Publishing date:</b> June 21st, 2011<br />
<u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10072160-legacy">Goodreads</a></u><br />
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<i>The first boy disappeared on the day of his birth, on a night when the pale yellow moon of the nighttime sky turned red and bathed the heavens in the ghastly color of blood, on the same night the Kingdom of Cokyri abruptly ceased its merciless attack.<br />
Across the land of Hytanica, under the shadow of the crimson moon, infant boys continued to vanish. Not until the blood had faded from the sky did the disappearances stop and the bodies of the murdered infants were found outside the gates of the city, a final word from the greatest enemy Hytanica had ever known. For the next sixteen years, peace reigned, but one mystery remained unsolved. The Cokyrians had abducted forty-nine newborns, but returned only forty-eight bodies.<br />
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Now, as seventeen-year-old Princess Alera of Hytanica is besieged from all sides by suitors vying for the Throne, a teenage Cokyrian boy, Narian, is encountered within the walls of her Kingdom, a boy who will show Alera a world where women serve a purpose and not just a husband. As Narian helps Alera find her voice, she struggles against an arranged marriage that will shatter the life she has scarcely begun to live. And when Narian's shocking past is uncovered, and war with Cokyri looms once more, he must fight to defy a fate ordained at his birth.</i></div><br />
The blurb sounds really intriguing. I just hope Narian's "shocking" past isn't what I think it is, because if I know the twist before even opening the book... That would be some kind of record for me.<br />
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<div><img align="right" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298874981l/10429015.jpg" vspace="3" /><b>Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey</b><br />
<b>Publishing date:</b> September 20th, 2011<br />
<u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10429015-cold-kiss">Goodreads</a></u><br />
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<i>When her boyfriend, Danny, is killed in a car accident, Wren can’t imagine living without him. Wild with grief, she uses the untamed powers she’s inherited to bring him back. But the Danny who returns is just a shell of the boy she once loved. <br />
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Wren has spent four months keeping Danny hidden, while her life slowly unravels around her. Then Gabriel DeMarnes transfers to her school and somehow, inexplicably, he can sense her secret. Wren finds herself drawn to Gabriel, who is so much more alive than the ghost of the boy she loved. But Wren can’t turn her back on Danny or the choice she made for him—and she realizes she must find a way to make things right, even if it means breaking her own heart. <br />
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Amy Garvey’s transcendent teen debut is perfect for fans of Shiver and Beautiful Creatures. Wren’s unforgettable voice and story will stay with readers long after the last page is turned.</i></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What are you excited for?</span></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-45090504231080599502011-05-10T15:27:00.000+02:002011-05-10T15:27:00.507+02:00Teaser Tuesday: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Teaser Tuesdays</span></strong></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/">Should Be Reading</a><i>.</i></span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you want participate, just do the following</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">:</span></div></div><blockquote><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Grab your current read</span></li>
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</div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img align="right" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1277331932l/5821978.jpg" style="cursor: move;" vspace="3" /><i>"I did not know the winter Jeremiah or the winter Conrad, and I was jealous of everyone who did."</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> - <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5821978-the-summer-i-turned-pretty">The Summer I Turned Pretty</a></u>, Jenny Han</div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-7332278583334174022011-05-08T16:03:00.000+02:002011-05-08T16:03:31.319+02:00IMM (8)<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJri22Ifxbt2y913Ds2VulHmLtE6tg3J1kEULspqTGkRHDK1fs6YqSp8SglluSiufYPAxbxnNzzkyitGMX06v9oXMIuSJzWSBBXZftZ0uJsK9vifw_qCG0Q1GWFFhcbNSXVfxw9hcKdcWH/s1600/mailbox1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJri22Ifxbt2y913Ds2VulHmLtE6tg3J1kEULspqTGkRHDK1fs6YqSp8SglluSiufYPAxbxnNzzkyitGMX06v9oXMIuSJzWSBBXZftZ0uJsK9vifw_qCG0Q1GWFFhcbNSXVfxw9hcKdcWH/s1600/mailbox1.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /></a></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7949011-everything-we-ever-wanted"><img alt="Everything We Ever Wanted" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rbDBwEQDL._SL500_.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917938-blood-red-road"><img alt="Blood Red Road (Dustlands, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1293651959l/9917938.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8563789-where-things-come-back"><img alt="Where Things Come Back" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61j5jB9FgTL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What did you get in your mailbox?</span></div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-17304499868800846262011-05-06T03:54:00.006+02:002011-05-06T13:33:56.395+02:00Follow Friday/Blogger Hop<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4710921228_bf32d46f6d_o.png"><img border="0" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4710921228_bf32d46f6d_o.png" style="cursor: move;" /></a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b> Circle time! Time to share. What character in a book would you most like to be, what character in a book would you most like to date?</b><br />
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I have to say I agree with Al (this friday's feature) and being Mac from the <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/series/41192-fever">Fever series</a></u> would be really nice. Only I would want to date V'lane. And I'm totally ignoring the end of Shadowfever (there, that's not spoilery, right?)<br />
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The thing is, my favorite characters to date are all in books with a setting I wouldn't want to be in. Like Adam from <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6990472-if-i-stay">If I Stay</a></u> (yeah... Needless to say, I would never want to be Mia.)<br />
Oh! Tucker. I would definitely want to date Tucker from <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7488244">Unearthly</a></u>. But would I want to be Clara? I'm too lazy to be an angel.<br />
Sigh. I think I'm just doomed to stay in the real world.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What about you? Who do you want to be/who do you want to date?</span><br />
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</div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The Book Blogger Hop is a weekly event that enables people to <s>hop all over each other</s> make new friends and be enthusiastic about books in general. Join the fun! Go over at <u><a href="http://www.crazy-for-books.com/">Crazy for Book</a></u>.</div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Which book blogger would you most like to meet in real life?</span></b></div><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Okay, my answer(s) will probably come off as stalkerish because I'm new here and haven't really made any friends yet. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">In the "she's so awesome but I'd be too intimidated to actually say anything to her" category, I's say anyone from <u><a href="http://www.thebooklantern.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The Book Lantern</span></a></u>. They're all so eloquent and smart and always talk about thought-provoking things. I love their posts.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">In the "she's so awesome and I want to violate her bookshelves because she has the same taste than me and she's amazing and funny" category, I would LOVE to meet Honey @ <a href="http://sheread.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Sniff Books, Not Drugs</span></a> because she's like my other bloggy half. But I think the world wouldn't survive. Also, <a href="http://smallreview.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Small Review</span></a> (who has awesome, awesome discussion posts). Because I just can't pick just <i>one</i>. I'm annoying like that.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What about you? Which blogger would you like to meet?</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-37753088690120735312011-05-05T23:56:00.003+02:002011-05-06T15:10:44.629+02:00Review: Stay by Deb Caletti<a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1301850508l/8527904.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1301850508l/8527904.jpg" width="131" /></a><br />
<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 225, 255); padding: 5px 8px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Series:</b> </b>Stand-alone</div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Publishing date:</b><b style="font-weight: normal;"> </b>April 5th, 201<b style="font-weight: normal;">1</b></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Pages:</b><b style="font-weight: normal;"> </b>320</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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border-width: initial !important; font-weight: normal;"><b><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=144240373X&camp=217145&creative=399349" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote><b>Summary:</b> Clara's relationship with Christian is intense from the start, and like nothing she’s ever experienced before. But what starts as devotion quickly becomes obsession, and it's almost too late before Clara realizes how far gone Christian is—and what he's willing to do to make her stay.<br />
Now Clara has left the city—and Christian—behind. No one back home has any idea where she is, but she still struggles to shake off her fear. She knows Christian won't let her go that easily, and that no matter how far she runs, it may not be far enough...</blockquote><br />
<b>Rating:</b> 4 stars<br />
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This would normally earn 3.5 stars from me because I rate books based on how I <i>felt </i>about them, not how well-written they are or how awesome the plot/characters are. But I can't in good conscience give this less than 4 stars. I can't bring myself to. So I'm rounding up. And you know what? I don't mind, because this book deserves it.<br />
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This is a story about love, loss, family and overcoming your fears. It's the strength of a father-daughter relationship, the hope of a young adult just coming out of her shell and a budding love story sprinkled with humor and heart-wrenching writing.<br />
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This book will hit home, whether you've been in Clara's situation or not. The prose flows perfectly, Clara's characterization is really well done and the plot is poignant yet to the point. I can't even tell you how glad I am to not see this dragged out on 500 pages. Choosing to write the book in chapters alternating from past to present, Caletti draws you into the plot and sets the atmosphere of the novel right from the start. I remember this sense of dread that I kept feeling for whatever would happen with Christian and how it would push Clara to leave town. Also, this is one of the very rare cases when the time jumps didn't bother me one bit. She's just that good.<br />
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Clara is a genuinely funny narrator. She adds little annotations in the book, and it brings you closer to her because her annotations are addressed to <i>you</i>, the reader. And they're so cute. Like, after an umpteenth person made a cup of tea and you start wondering just how often people make tea in America, she adds a little note "Everyone in this story, in my life, makes tea." I just want to hug her. Her voice is honest and unique, and she feels so real and fragile yet strong and brave. I don't know how to describe it. I love her.<br />
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I'd also like to point out that Clara's dad might just be in close competition with Mia's dad in <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6990472-if-i-stay">If I Stay</a></u> and Juli's dad in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331920" style="text-decoration: underline;">Flipped</a> for the award of the most awesome YA dad ever. His characterization is so wonderful. The man is a writer, and it <i>shows</i>, you know? He says deep shit. Seriously. Also he calls Clara "pea". How can you not love him?<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">And Finn. Oh, how I love Finn. He's the perfect balm to Clara's mangled heart. And his characterization is, yet again, amazing. He's sweet and doesn't push Clara and supports her and is generally perfect. Also, he likes to walk around shirtless. Uhuh. If you want a visual of what he looks like, head over to <u><a href="http://irresistiblereads.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-book-boyfriend-14.html">Nic's my book boyfriend post</a></u> (and stalk her other posts too, while you're at it.)</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><u>Some of my favorite quotes:</u></span></b><br />
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<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 225, 255); padding: 5px 8px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i>"Parents can be such children," Finn said.</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><i>"We ought to raise them better."</i></div></div></div><br />
<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 225, 255); padding: 5px 8px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><i>"I'm in a baked potato mood," Dad said. "Butter. You know, Pea, I love butter. I really love it. My heart even swells a little when I think of it."</i></span></b></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 225, 255); padding: 5px 8px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><i>I just saw it as praise, falling down now like glittering snowflakes. But it was something else. A drop of poison on gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn't.</i></span></b></div></div></div><br />
See see see? The prose is just <3<br />
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To sum it up, this is a well-written, tactful and subtle novel that will definitely make an impression on you. I would recommend it to anyone.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">This week, I'm excited about:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div><img align="left" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NkvsEsZBL.jpg" vspace="3" /><b>As I Wake by Elizabeth Scott</b><br />
<b>Publishing date:</b> September 15th, 2011<br />
<u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742401-as-i-wake">Goodreads</a></u></div><br />
<i>What if you woke up and didn't know where you were? <br />
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What if you didn't know who you were? <br />
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And what if, when your memories started to come back--what if they didn't match the you that you're supposed to be? <br />
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Ava is welcomed home from the hospital by a doting mother, lively friends, and a crush finally beginning to show interest. There's only one problem: Ava can't remember any of them--and can't shake the eerie feeling that she's not who they say she is. <br />
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Ava struggles to break through her amnesiac haze as she goes through the motions of high-school life, but the memories that surface take place in a very different world, where Ava and familiar-faced friends are under constant scrutiny and no one can be trusted. Ava doesn't know what to make of these visions, or of the boy who is at the center of them all, until he reappears in her life and offers answers . . . but only in exchange for her trust.</i><br />
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This sounds so good that I frankly don't even know what to say. I want it. NOW.<br />
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<div><img align="right" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1299002277l/7193689.jpg" vspace="3" /><b>A Beautiful Dark by Jocelyn Davies</b><br />
<b>Publishing date:</b> September 27th, 2011<br />
<u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7193689-a-beautiful-dark">Goodreads</a></u></div><br />
<i>Skye never questioned the story of her life. Her Aunt Jo adopted her after the death of her parents when she was just a child, and together they flip through memories the way some people flip through photo albums. <br />
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She never questioned if the stories were true. <br />
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Until the night of her 17th birthday, when the arrival of two strangers intrudes on her cozy life. Polar opposites, like fire and ice, Asher is dark and wild, while Devin is fair, cold, and aloof. Skye has no idea what they want—only that their presence coincides with the beginning of some shockingly strange events. Events that Skye, if she dares to think it, might be responsible for causing. <br />
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High up in the mountains of Boulder, Colorado, Skye finds herself caught in the middle of an ancient battle, one that began untold millennia ago. Torn between unpredictable Asher, whom she loves, and the infuriating Devin, who she can’t stay away from, her fate is murky as a starless night. And as the secrets of her true identity are revealed, Skye realizes that her destiny may reside in the Heavens—or somewhere darker.</i><br />
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Cliched love triangle + angels + shocking events? I'm sold.<br />
After all, it was the premise of Unearthly (review <u><a href="http://the-book-eater.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-unearthly-by-cynthia-hand.html">here</a></u>), and look how it turned out. I still have hope, you guys!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What are you excited for?</span></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-76280658771773296512011-05-03T13:33:00.000+02:002011-05-03T13:33:42.846+02:00Teaser Tuesday: A Little Wanting Song by Cath Crowley<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Teaser Tuesdays</span></strong></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/">Should Be Reading</a><i>.</i></span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you want participate, just do the following</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">:</span><br />
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</ul><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-position: outside; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!</strong></span></li>
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</span></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img align="right" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1276426809l/7124053.jpg" vspace="3" /><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"It's so early he's wiping hills of sand piled in the corner of his eyes</span>."</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7124053-a-little-wanting-song">A Little Wanting Song</a></u> by Cath Crowley</span></div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-55157924045227000912011-05-01T12:19:00.000+02:002011-05-01T12:19:44.946+02:00IMM (7)<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJri22Ifxbt2y913Ds2VulHmLtE6tg3J1kEULspqTGkRHDK1fs6YqSp8SglluSiufYPAxbxnNzzkyitGMX06v9oXMIuSJzWSBBXZftZ0uJsK9vifw_qCG0Q1GWFFhcbNSXVfxw9hcKdcWH/s1600/mailbox1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJri22Ifxbt2y913Ds2VulHmLtE6tg3J1kEULspqTGkRHDK1fs6YqSp8SglluSiufYPAxbxnNzzkyitGMX06v9oXMIuSJzWSBBXZftZ0uJsK9vifw_qCG0Q1GWFFhcbNSXVfxw9hcKdcWH/s1600/mailbox1.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /></a></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">In My Mailbox is a weekly event hosted by Kristi over at <a href="http://www.thestorysiren.com/"><u>The Story Siren</u></a>.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Click on the pictures to go to the book's GoodReads page</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Bought/Borrowed:</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3389671-jessica-s-guide-to-dating-on-the-dark-side"><img alt="Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side (Jessica, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1231533313l/3389671.jpg" width="134" /></a> </b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9065272-aftertime"><img alt="Aftertime (Aftertime, #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1288994261l/9065272.jpg" width="128" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9397967"><img alt="Abandon (Abandon Trilogy #1)" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1290806991l/9397967.jpg" width="138" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8419529"><img alt="Virtuosity " height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298058114l/8419529.jpg" width="131" /></a> </b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8419647-never-eighteen"><img alt="Never Eighteen" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1302635576l/8419647.jpg" width="145" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9758768-ordinary-beauty"><img alt="Ordinary Beauty" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1299184894l/9758768.jpg" width="128" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by <a href="http://www.parajunkee.com/search/label/FF">Parajunkee's View</a>.</div><br />
This week's question:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><b>If you were stocking your bomb shelter, what books would you HAVE to include if you only had space for ten?</b></span></div><br />
Oh dear. You want to kill me, don't you?<br />
Okay. Okay. Here we go.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/862041"><u>Harry Potter series</u></a> (I'm lazy, so I'm linking to a boxed set)<br />
The <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7100490-the-forbidden-game"><u>Forbidden Game Trilogy</u></a> (but I read them in a bind-up edition so IT COUNTS AS ONE BOOK, OKAY?)<br />
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60510.Poison_Study"><u>Poison Study</u></a> by Maria V. Snyder<br />
Errrrr. The <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7938275"><u>Hunger Games Trilogy</u></a>? I would make room for them. I'd throw away one or two <s>people</s> cans. Who cares about food? I HAVE BOOKS.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What's on your list?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">04/25: <u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://the-book-eater.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-goddess-test-by-aimee-carter.html">Review: The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter</a></span></u></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">04/26: <u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://the-book-eater.blogspot.com/2011/04/teaser-tuesday-abandon-by-meg-cabot.html">Teaser Tuesday: Abandon by Meg Cabot</a></span></u></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">04/27: <u><a href="http://the-book-eater.blogspot.com/2011/04/waiting-on-wednesday-7.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">"Waiting On" Wednesday:</span></a></u> A new sci-fi dystopia and <br />
(yet another) book about Greek mythology<br />
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</tbody></table></div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-40750774717887173352011-04-28T14:32:00.003+02:002011-04-28T14:49:39.964+02:00Review: Abandon by Meg Cabot<a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1290806991l/9397967.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Abandon (Abandon Trilogy #1)" border="0" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1290806991l/9397967.jpg" width="138" /></a><br />
<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 225, 255); padding: 5px 8px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Series:</b> </b>Abandon #1</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Publisher</b><b style="font-weight: normal;">: </b>Scholastic</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Publishing date:</b><b style="font-weight: normal;"> </b>April 26th, 2011</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Pages:</b><b style="font-weight: normal;"> </b>320</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><b>Summary:</b> Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she's never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.<br />
But now she's moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.<br />
Only she can't. Because even here, he finds her. That's how desperately he wants her back. She knows he's no guardian angel, and his dark world isn't exactly heaven, yet she can't stay away . . . especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.<br />
But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.</blockquote><br />
<b>Rating:</b> 2 stars<br />
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<b>WARNING: This review contains mentions of wanting to throttle, strangle and maim book characters, and includes potentially traumatizing pictures.</b><br />
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Just look at this summary. Go ahead, read it.<br />
It's amazing, isn't it? And the cover. It's gorgeous. The premise is mysterious, intriguing and lovely. I was SO excited for this book, you don't even know. I think my entire twitter feed knew the instant it was out.<br />
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This is why I'm going to be a little hard on it. Because my expectations were high, and there weren't met. At. All.<br />
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<u>About the narrator:</u><br />
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This is what I wanted to do to her for half the book. UGH. What a vapid, idiotic, insensitive, shallow, <i>boring </i>person. She's everything I hate in a character. No backbone, changing loyalties, and just this carelessness that I HATE.<br />
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<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 225, 255); padding: 5px 8px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"> <i>Sure, I'd been kicked out of school. I couldn't seem to go more than an hour without craving a caffeinated beverage. And a guy I'd met while I was dead had popped by unexpectedly and caused me to be slapped with a seven-figure civil suit.</i><br />
<i> But I was feeling positive about the future.</i></div></div></div><br />
... Excuse me???<br />
LOL my daddy has to pay more than a million dollars to a guy but I don't care!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggAiujmmbZuHxqXHwMJRdp9KbSicvsLWWwysiFGZ9nwGHa6YNEpFMC2OiXVl5h01qTApMJB8iTwYjEz-YhNskM-q0VSwo_ZRbAReYd3jCgT8BhXMBMxgbfoL1UwM33tjtXgyMAEELXl4y8/s200/homer_strangle_1_.gif" width="159" /></div><br />
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<u>About the writing:</u><br />
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It draaaaaaaagged. She spent ages telling us about how she had been in the Underworld, and some bad "incident" had happened after she came back, but that the <i>incident </i>was different from the <i>accident</i>, and blablablablabla. My god, just get ON with it! The book is just so full of plot holes (like when Pierce loses her necklace, but somehow still has it around her neck?) and stilted, stretched out mock-obstacles.<br />
Also, just like in The Goddess Test (which is also a retelling of the Persephone/Hades myth), the narrator keeps talking about <i>"that"</i>. Apparently, spelling out the word sex is a capital offense.<br />
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Oh, and by the way, Pierce hates Greek mythology, because it's "complicated and weird and had nothing to do with reality." How the hell do you want me to empathize with her? Seriously? SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHO HOMER IS.<br />
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<u>About the romance:</u><br />
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It was ridiculous. And the love interest? His name is John. I don't even know what to say to that. He's a one-dimensional, pseudo swoon worthy "dark" guy that we didn't get to know at all. He behaved all aloof-like and jerky and moody and suddenly bam! His lips came came down over mine etc etc. Of course, the rest of the world ~vanished instantly. Eye roll.<br />
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One thing I learned from this book: tassels?<br />
BAD.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="200" src="http://www.tasselsmanufacturer.com/picture/key-tassel/bell-tassel.jpg" width="200" /></div><br />
EVIL. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.<br />
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Needless to say, I would recommend this book to no one. I <i>know </i>it looks so good and you want to like it sooo bad, but... Yeah. No.<br />
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<div id="gr_add_to_books"><div class="gr_custom_each_container_"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn_to_id/0545284104" style="border: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Abandon (Abandon Trilogy #1)" src="http://www.goodreads.com/images/atmb_add_book-70x25.png?1303943065" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784811257546109349.post-41881571518003585552011-04-27T12:55:00.002+02:002011-04-27T13:02:35.151+02:00"Waiting On" Wednesday (7)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill from <u><a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/">Breaking the Spine</a></u> that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div><img align="left" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1300476450l/10174795.jpg" vspace="3" /><b>Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan</b></div><b>Publishing date:</b> September 27th, 2011<br />
<u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10174795-glow">Goodreads</a></u><br />
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<i>What if you were bound for a new world, about to pledge your life to someone you'd been promised to since birth, and one unexpected violent attack made survival—not love—the issue? </i><br />
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<i>Out in the murky nebula lurks an unseen enemy: the New Horizon. On its way to populate a distant planet in the wake of Earth's collapse, the ship's crew has been unable to conceive a generation to continue its mission. They need young girls desperately, or their zealous leader's efforts will fail. Onboard their sister ship, the Empyrean, the unsuspecting families don't know an attack is being mounted that could claim the most important among them... </i><br />
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<i>Fifteen-year-old Waverly is part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space; she was born on the Empyrean, and the large farming vessel is all she knows. Her concerns are those of any teenager—until Kieran Alden proposes to her. The handsome captain-to-be has everything Waverly could ever want in a husband, and with the pressure to start having children, everyone is sure he's the best choice. Except for Waverly, who wants more from life than marriage—and is secretly intrigued by the shy, darkly brilliant Seth. </i><br />
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<i>But when the Empyrean faces sudden attack by their assumed allies, they quickly find out that the enemies aren't all from the outside. </i><br />
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Whevener I see "shy" in a guy's description, I start day-dreaming. I mean, it's such a pretty word. Shy. Say it with me. "He's shy". "Shy". <3 <3 <3<br />
What? Why are you looking at me like that?<br />
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<div><img align="right" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1297756594l/7670741.jpg" vspace="3" /><b>Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs</b><br />
<b>Publishing date:</b> October 4th, 2011<br />
<u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7670741-sweet-venom">Goodreads</a></u><br />
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<i>Grace just moved to San Francisco and is excited to start over at a new school. The change is full of fresh possibilities, but it’s also a tiny bit scary. It gets scarier when a minotaur walks in the door. And even more shocking when a girl who looks just like her shows up to fight the monster. </i><br />
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<i>Gretchen is tired of monsters pulling her out into the wee hours, especially on a school night, but what can she do? Sending the minotaur back to his bleak home is just another notch on her combat belt. She never expected to run into this girl who could be her double, though. </i><br />
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<i>Greer has her life pretty well put together, thank you very much. But that all tilts sideways when two girls who look eerily like her appear on her doorstep and claim they're triplets, supernatural descendants of some hideous creature from Greek myth, destined to spend their lives hunting monsters. </i><br />
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<i>These three teenage descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned by myth, must reunite and embrace their fates in this unique paranormal world where monsters lurk in plain sight</i>.</div><br />
Yet another mythology book. I'm really excited about it (duh, Greek myths), but so far, all the books centered around Greek mythology that have come out this year have disappointed me. I hope this one lives up to my expectations.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What are you excited for?</span></div>Lamia (The Book Eater)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04289787490099247630noreply@blogger.com7