We're an Open Book
It has been a while since I’ve done any reading challenges, but this year I want to dedicate a large portion my reading and reviewing to diverse books. To help me keep track I’m going to sign up for the 2015 Diversity On The Shelf Challenge hosted by Alysia at My Little Pocket Books !
I’m starting out modestly at the 1st Shelf Level, but hope to move up
1st Shelf: Read 1-6 books
For more information and if you would like to sign upclick hereand head over to My Little Pocket Book
Kat and I are excited to be featured bloggers for Feature & Follow Friday ! This hop is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The objective ? To discover and follow new blogs. To participate create your own post with this week’s question, sign up in the linky and then visit and follow all the awesome blogs also linked ! Don’t forget to follow the host.
Hop over toParajunkee to check out our interview.
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I love a good book cover design, so when a book gets a brand new cover I suddenly turn into a reality show judge. Check out the three YA cover redesigns I recently spotted.
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I generally get most
of my Adult literary fiction recommendations from podcasts and one I’ve heard a lot
about is Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. I picked this up at my Indie book
store (shout out to Fountain Bookstore) after the bookseller told me how much she loved Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale which I have but haven’t read yet….
- Release Date: January 1, 2011
- Pages: 352
- Publisher: Quirk Books
- Genre: Paranormal Historical
Jacob has always felt that his life was just ordinary, especially compared to the stories he heard from his grandfather about the halcyon days and Peculiar children during World War II. But these strange stories are just stories though, right? After the traumatic death of his Grandfather, Jacob begins to see things– things that can’t possibly be real. Soon, Jacob finds himself traveling to the small island of Carinholm, Wales, the place of his Grandfather’s stories, where he discovers the past and present may not be that far apart at all….
- Release Date: February 4th, 2014
- Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
- Audiobook length: 15 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan
Cress is the third book in Marrisa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles Series. In this book, we get introduced to Cress who briefly appears at the end of Cinder. Cress is a highly imaginative teenage girl who has spent most of her life in isolation aboard a satellite. When the chance comes for her to embark on a real adventure with the crew from the previous novels; her will, smarts and survival skills are put to the test….