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What We Are Thankful For

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This Thanksgiving we want to give thanks to all the book bloggers that have inspired us during our blogging journey. As new book bloggers we are always looking to learn and be innovative, I don’t think we would be here today without them.

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First you have to understand that when we started this blog we had no idea there was a book blogging community.

Just days after Books and Sensibility was created, Iloveradingandwriting had a contest where the first fifteen posters who responded would get buzzed on her site. No only did this help us gain interest, but we were introduced to the world of book blogging, without it we would be alone out here.

The Story Siren and Breaking The Spine

How do you get to meet hundreds of book bloggers in a  matter of seconds ? The memes created by Story Siren and Breaking The Spine. A few months ago I could have only named maybe 2 new books, now I can names hundreds (okay, maybe just tens)

Katie’s Book Blog, Sash and Em, Dianne Salerni, What’s Your Story YA and Creative Reads

They were kind enough to host giveaways in which we won some amazing books we would not have thought to read on our own !

A Cupcake and A Latteand The Girl Who Reads A Lot for adding us to your blogrolls and spreading the love !

Most importantly thank you to all the readers and followers for taking time from your day to read a piece of our minds.

 

Happy Thanksgiving !

Books and Sensibility is participating in NaBloPoMo. What’s NaBloPoMo ? Find out here !

If These Books Were Judged By Their Covers : Twilight

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They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but ever so often  Books and Sensibility contributors take a stroll around the local bookstore (okay, the internet) to see what we can find in the world of book covers

Clearly Wal-Mart is Team Edward

 Seriously, all of the trade paperback Breaking Dawn  movie tie-ins in my Wal-Mart were like this. I think someone at Wally world has a sense of humor.

Books and Sensibility is participating in NaBloPoMo. What’s NaBloPoMo ? Find out here !

Give Thanks For Good Books : Jess Edition

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Beth Revis, author of Across the Universe is hosting a 19 book giveaway. To enter create a post about a book you are thankful for. Find more about the contest here.
 

I imagine a lot of people are saying this, but the book I’m most thankful for is Harry Potter. I remember being in the 5th grade at the school book fair, sitting on the floor of the gym as the librarian gave some book recommendations. The last books she showed was a case of Harry Potter books. I wasn’t interested because it was about a boy and it was a little pricey.

Somehow, I decided to take a risk and bought it, then returned it because my mom thought it was “evil”. I later got it from the library and started reading it. I had no idea the phenomenon or the impact Harry Potter would have on the world. Or that 2 years later that my mom would be the one dragging me to the HP movies and ten years later calling to asking which scarf she should buy from The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Harry Potter changed the way I read books. I realized that authors could do more than just tell stories, they could create a world that readers could imagine and grow in. The Prisoner of Azkaban blew my mind with its Chekov’s guns, twist ending and vivid writing, I felt like I was in the shrieking shack.

In reality, I’m thankful for all books, they have a funny way of taking us out of the moment and putting us in fantastical places.

Honorable Mentions

The Babysitters Club

The Box Car Children

 

 

 

 

Book Review : The Night Circus

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“The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.”

– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Synopsis : The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas, tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors.

I figured The Night Circus would be a good read following Water For Elephants. While Water For Elephants deals with the metaphorical illusions of circus life,  The Night Cirus deals with the more fantastical and literal ones

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Waiting On Wednesday Vol. 7

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Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.


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Book Review : Dearly Departed

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“Vampires are just zombies with good PR”

                    – Dearly, Departed

Synopsis :  Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible—until she’s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses. . . Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead—and hell along with them. 

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