tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55157098307623049872024-03-16T00:08:50.340-07:00PARAFANTASYEzmireldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04217164955411191307noreply@blogger.comBlogger306125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515709830762304987.post-86872699116170454202013-11-22T13:19:00.002-08:002013-11-22T13:19:24.977-08:00REVIEW: Losing It by Cora Carmack<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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Edwards is about to graduate from college and still has hers. Sick of being the
only virgin among her friends, she decides the best way to deal with the
problem is to lose it as quickly and simply as possible—a one-night stand. But
her plan turns out to be anything but simple when she freaks out and leaves a
gorgeous guy alone and naked in her bed with an excuse that no one with half a
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and <i>Faking It</i>, also by Cora Carmack,
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<span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: medium;">Bliss
Edwards is a girl who is ready to make new transitions in her life – one of
them being to lose her virginity. She’s the only one of her college friends who
is still a virgin and she’s determined to lose it before she graduates. One
night she almost comes close to accomplishing her mission with an extremely hot
guy she met at a bar, but then when her brain tells her she is still not ready
she makes a quick excuse to get away. And then she finds out he’s her </span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px;">theater</span></span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: medium;"> professor in college. And, oh boy do things heat up from there!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has many funny and quirky moments! I thought the side characters were a bit
predictable and cardboard but the main characters were pretty interesting. And
of course British guys in novels forever and always remain my weakness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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but I just could not get into </span><i style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Losing It</i><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: medium;">.
There was something about it that was too similar to every other contemporary novel I've ever read and the plot toward the end sort of just fell into a puddle.
Although I’m all for resolutions I felt like the end kind of dragged out too
long. I hope, like with the second book in this </span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px;">series</span></span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: medium;">, the novels keep getting
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Ezmireldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04217164955411191307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515709830762304987.post-77268454390387504772013-06-16T11:21:00.001-07:002013-06-16T16:18:41.989-07:00Book Talk: When You're Just Not Getting Into It (DNF)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When You're Just <i>Not </i>Getting Into It</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>PHASE 1</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> You open a book after giving the back cover a glance through. Semi-awkward protagonist, an interesting premise, a <i>cute </i>love interest to fawn over. Yup, this looks like your kind of read!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">>You open the first page. The writing is confusing / not really your style so you keep on having to re-read certain parts of it</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> The first and second chapters bore you to tears <i>"when can I get some action????!"</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> Some of the characters are so cardboard their names practically <i>spell out </i>the word cliche.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> You chug ahead and wait for something interesting to happen. Nothing does.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> <b>A</b>bsolute <b>l</b>ast <b>r</b>esort: start flipping through the and searching for any of the "good parts"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> You stop to read some reviews online. Try to figure out what people liked about this book.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> Stop and wonder why this one person gave the book 5 stars. <i>Were we even reading the same thing?</i> OKAY. Let's try this thing again.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> Go back to reading the book, make it count. No skipping this time! Just give the thing a chance.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> You see another book that is just <i>screaming</i> for your attention and you "accidentally" put the book down somewhere and never look at it again. Maybe stash it in the back of your bookshelf or cover it with a towel so you don't feel so bad for not finishing it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> Add the discarded book to your DNF shelf on goodreads</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> Someone remarks later about how much they love such and such book. You remember it as the one you canned a few months again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">> You sigh and wonder if you should give the book a chance again.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> Pick it up and get a slap in the face reminder of why you DNFed it in the first place.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> Give it to someone else who you think might actually like it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><b>How many times have you had a similar experience?</b> It's <i>frustrating</i> to me because I pick up a book wanting to <i>love</i> it to death and display it on my bookshelf and tell everyone I know about it. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When I don't like a book I feel awful for a day. </span><br />
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<br />Ezmireldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04217164955411191307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515709830762304987.post-9235156400591217282013-06-15T16:25:00.001-07:002013-06-16T11:26:05.607-07:00Bookish News: All things "Divergent"<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know the cover to <i>Allegiant</i> (3rd installment of the <i>Divergent</i> series) was released a month ago but I <i>just</i> saw it so of course now I have to gush over how <b><i>amazing</i></b> it is and how much I <i>can't wait</i> for it to be released!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Is anyone else this excited? AHHH I am so pumped. My sister has read books 1 and 2 of the Divergent series which is amazing because she literally never reads anything more than like 50 pages. This is the one book we can both talk to each other about and that makes me *so* so happy! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Also</i> this image was released like a month ago. It is a picture from the <i>Divergent </i>Movie. Haha! I had almost forgotten about this turning into a movie. This is so <b>surreal</b>. I wonder who was cast as who.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Update:</b> Whoa! Tris is that girl from The Secret Life of the American Teenager. I watched all seasons of that show and I can not imagine this actor playing Tris <i>at all</i>. :/</span><br />
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<br />Ezmireldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04217164955411191307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515709830762304987.post-28536639416479977682013-06-14T10:41:00.000-07:002013-06-15T17:32:42.072-07:00REVIEW: The Elite by Kiera Cass<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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Selection. All but six have been sent home. And only one will get to marry
Prince Maxon and be crowned princess of Illea. America still isn’t sure where
her heart lies. When she’s with Maxon, she’s swept up in their new and
breathless romance, and can’t dream of being with anyone else. But whenever she
sees Aspen standing guard around the palace, and is overcome with memories of
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<span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I absolutely loved reading <i>The
Selection</i>. The whole find-the-princess bachelor thing was really interesting, and I liked
America and Maxon enough to care what happened to them in the next book. I
thought their relationship was adorable. I also liked how America </span></span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">wasn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> falling all over Maxon the moment she met him. However, after reading <i>The Elite</i>
I no longer care about either America or Maxon. In fact, I can’t stand either
of them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The romance, the confusion, the </span></span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">indecisiveness</span></span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">All I can say is <i>for the love
of god </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>make up your mind,</i></span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>
America</i>! I can't go through a whole other book of "I love Maxon. No wait, I
love Aspen! No wait Maxon! Don’t leave me." It gets really annoying after
awhile. I also disliked how she thought it was completely okay for her to cheat
all she wanted and had the audacity to blow up when [insert love interest] did
it! And I am so tired of Maxon making
excuses for what he did. Being a prince </span></span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">doesn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> excuse you from being a
complete jerk! It is still wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Throughout the entirety of </span></span><i style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Elite</i><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> barely nothing major happened or if it did it wasn't that much of a big deal. I am still confused about the whole rebel thing and
their random appearances to stir up conflict in the novel. The characters and
their actions were completely inconsistent. The ending left everything right
back to where the characters were in the beginning of the novel. I </span></span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">couldn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> help
but think to myself after reading the whole book “<i>what was the point of all
this?</i>”. If you skipped this <i>The Elite</i> and went straight to book # 3 you would not be missing out on anything. There were some fun moments in this book but the
more I read the more I started to dislike the characters. I can’t think of even
one character I like enough to continue reading this series. Sadly, I think my journey into the world of
<i>the Selection</i> officially ends here.</span></span><br />
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Ezmireldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04217164955411191307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515709830762304987.post-39749232574064362842013-04-16T22:27:00.000-07:002013-04-19T21:17:35.906-07:00REVIEW: The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Title:
The ETERNITY CURE (Blood of Eden # 2)</span><br />
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Date: 30 April 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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0373210698<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Sylfaen","serif";">Allison Sekemoto has vowed to
rescue her creator, Kanin, who is being held hostage and tortured by the
psychotic vampire Sarren. The call of blood leads her back to the beginning—New
Covington and the Fringe, and a vampire prince who wants her dead yet may
become her wary ally. </span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif;">Even
as Allie faces shocking revelations and heartbreak like she’s never known, a
new strain of the Red Lung virus that decimated humanity is rising to threaten
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that’s for sure. My heart stopped so many times while reading this it is a
wonder I never got dizzy. Allie is a kick-butt heroine who does a lot of
self-discovery in this book. Despite her being a vampire and attacking humans
for blood the way any other legitimate vampire would I always felt like Allie
always had her humanity intact. Allie took Kanin’s words to heart about choosing
what type of monster she wanted to become. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;">The beginning of The Eternity Cure is slow.
Like, brain dead slow. At one point I was even tempted to skip ahead, that’s
how frustrated I was. But gosh, I am SO happy, I </span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif;">didn't</span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;"> stop reading there
because the second half of the book was so brilliantly woven , fast-paced, and
darn amazing that it completely made up for the beginning. So if you’re reading
this book and you’re wondering why nothing is going anywhere – keep going!
Trust me when I say it gets </span><i style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: 12pt;">so much better</i><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: small;">
and you’ll be finishing the rest of it in a sitting like I did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Sylfaen","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Allie’s relationship with Zeke warmed my heart.
Sometimes I wish certain parts of the book were written in Zeke’s POV instead
because I often wonder what’s going on in his head. Jackel lightened the mood
of the story and though his comments were often crass and demeaning I found
myself agreeing with him when he actually had something sane to say. I love his
sister-brother relationship with Allie and am curious to see how that develops
in the next book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Sylfaen","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">My mind = blown. That’s all I have to say about
it. That and I need to read the next book as soon as humanely possible so I
could figure out what the heck is going on. >< <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Sylfaen","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Put together action-packed fighting, psychotic vampires,
a crazy virus on the loose, delicious plot twists and you get the heart-pounding
sequel. Fans of The Immortal Rules do not want to miss The ETERNITY CURE. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Shonar Bangla', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Juliette
has escaped to Omega Point. It is a place for people like her—people with
gifts—and it is also the headquarters of the rebel resistance. She's finally
free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and
free to love Adam. But Juliette will never be free from her lethal touch. Or
from Warner, who wants Juliette more than she ever thought possible. In this
exhilarating sequel to Shatter Me, Juliette has to make life-changing decisions
between what she wants and what she thinks is right. Decisions that might
involve choosing between her heart—and Adam's life.</span><span style="font-family: 'Shonar Bangla', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></blockquote>
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can’t even put into words what I felt when after reading the last page of
Unravel Me, but I will try. One thing I felt for sure was that was that I could never go back to
being Team Adam again after reading Unravel Me. No matter how nice or sweet or
perfect he is. Ever since I read the e-novella, Destroy Me, I knew that I would
love Warner. He just cares so much for Juliette, like she was essential to his
breathing or something. I just feel like it’s not the same with Adam. I don’t
know, I’m kind of torn between the two because they’re both so great but Warner
just takes the romance plot to this series on to a <i>whole new level</i>. At this
point I hardly care for any horrible thing he did in the past especially after
reading the e-novella. He always had a good reason for what he did – even if
the decision was a tough one to make, and I respect him for that. I think he’s
brave, and different, and completely right for Juliette. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thing I felt a lot of while reading Unravel Me was “Wow, I can’t believe that
just happened.” I can’t believe half the stuff in this book happened. Also,
half the time I could hardly understand Juliette’s angst. I think she gets too
nervous too fast, too anxious, too emotional. Her emotions were all over the
place all of the time. At one point I just wanted to make her stop. And the
plot twister! Whoa, boy did I not see that coming. The only thing that ticked
me off about this book was how the entire plot centered around Juliette’s love
life and then occasionally “yeah...um, there’s a war going on. We have to
prepare um. *insert make out scene* *insert angst-filled love scene* Yeah but
on top of all that making out...oh yeah there’s a war.” Come on! There’s got to
be more to this books substance than just the romance no matter how adorable
and cute I thought it was. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Shonar Bangla","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Oh Juliette,
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character in general just ticked me off. Kenjie would try so hard to snap some
sense into her, but she would completely forget everything he told her in the
next scene. I mean sometimes I thought her character was cute and misguided and
not willing to trust, but then most of the time she was just self-pitying how awful
she thought her life was and I got annoyed by how much she kept on having to
repeat how she was not a monster. Overall, I loved this book. The writing was
gorgeous in its own unique way. I recommend it 100 times over. It’s addictive,
(although slightly annoying) but still REALLY addictive. Shatter Me fans go out
and get this a.s.a.p! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">I’m not the best at staying organized when it comes to blogging. Recently, I’ve tried scheduling my posts weeks in advance so that they’d post themselves while I was away at school or something. Now I’m trying this new approach for staying organized and coming up with new ideas for posts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I saw someone who created a “Blog Planner” out of some store-bought items and I thought – What an <i>awesome</i> idea! Why hadn’t I thought of that?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jolanthe from homeschoolcreations.net made a “Yearly Blog Planner”. She used a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003OCW702/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=ourhomecrea-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B003OCW702&adid=09KNY9VNQ82EGBKJJ1YM" target="_blank">flexible meadbinder</a>, some <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000DJEP3/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=ourhomecrea-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B0000DJEP3&adid=1ZX6HTQX5CX7W6FBXQ75" target="_blank">tabs</a>, and some <a href="http://www.homeschoolcreations.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Free-Printable-Blog-Planner.pdf" target="_blank">printables</a> she made. You can download the printables by heading over to her site. [<a href="http://www.homeschoolcreations.net/2012/07/free-printable-blog-planner/" target="_blank">click here</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I really loved the first book in the Elysium Chronicles, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">RENEGADE</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, by J.A Souders. You can read my 4 star review of it </span><a href="http://parafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/12/review-renegade-by-ja-souders.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. The first book left my head spinning so I have definite plans to continue on with the next. Here is the super-uber beautiful cover of the second book "</span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332261-revelations" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">REVELATIONS</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">": </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I honestly love this cover </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a lot </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">more than the first one. The colors are great, and they still incorporated the rose but in a very subtle way (she's holding it and there are a few petals on the ground). I like how she's not in this huge puffy dress anymore, symbolizing a change in her character and also how she is standing above water instead of underneath or in the water. Also, this cover just looks </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">worlds better </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">without that brown border around it! I think the border before was meant to represent the walls of Elysium and maybe in this novel the walls aren't very necessary anymore. I absolutely cannot wait to read Revelations. I'm sure we're in for something possibly even more exciting than the first book. Haha, now if only the wait wasn't so long...</span></div>
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recovering from his near-fatal wound, Warner must do everything in his power to
keep his soldiers in check and suppress any mention of a rebellion in the
sector. Still as obsessed with Juliette as ever, his first priority is to find her,
bring her back, and dispose of Adam and Kenji, the two traitors who helped her
escape. But when Warner’s father, The Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment,
arrives to correct his son’s mistakes, it’s clear that he has much different
plans for Juliette. Plans Warner simply cannot allow. Set after Shatter Me and
before its forthcoming sequel, Unravel Me, Destroy Me is a novella told from
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<span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; font-size: 13pt;">Though short, I felt
insane chills while reading DESTROY ME. Gorgeous writing aside, the e-novella
had me thinking for a whole week, warring with my original thoughts on who I
thought Warner was. I was expecting this angry psychotic character willing to
kill anyone who got in his path (well…that’s actually pretty close to the
truth), but instead I got this tortured hero who is desperately in love with a
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and amazing in a tortured-soul kind of way. I can’t really explain it, but after a while
he sort of grows to you. You start to realize that he actually has a heart and
isn’t the reckless killer we saw him as in the first book. But what was even
more incredible was how intensely he felt about Juliette. Honestly, as much as
I like Adam I’m not really sure if his feelings for Juliette are even half as
much intense as how Warner feels about her. And if you think about it Juliette
having Warner as an ally would be awesome because together they would have the
power to go against the Reestablishment and stage a REAL full-blown rebellion
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">They see everything. They know everything.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">They locked me away for life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">My crime?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">They say I murdered my parents.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">I was fifteen years old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love how fierce the girl looks on the cover of <i>ACID</i>! Haha, it looks like she's walking through black / red acid rain and she's staring down her enemy. This one is definitely getting tagged for one of the books I might read for the <a href="http://parafantasy.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-feminist-reads-challenge.html" target="_blank">Feminist Reads Challenge</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Bach must have blacked out, because the next thing he
remembered was someone dragging him out of the quarantine center. After that,
his next memory was waking up in a cell, handcuffed to a chair with no idea
where he was. Too weak to break free, he tried anyway—to no avail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A man in a white coat and one of the island’s guards walked
into the room. Bach recognized the man in white from the school as Mr. Cheung,
the mathematics teacher. Cheung walked up to Bach and injected something into
his neck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“What are you doing to me?” Back wanted to know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Just relax. This is going to keep you calm,” the teacher
claimed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Is he secured now?” the soldier asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“He’s not going anywhere.” Cheung nodded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The cell’s doors opened and Coles strode in with two more
people dressed in white. One was Hailey’s father, Charles Davenport, and the
other Bach didn’t know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“What do you want from me, Coles?” Bach’s speech was slurred
and he found it hard to think straight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“This is the subject.” The unknown man walked up to him.
“He’s stage three infected.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“He looks remarkable. How come he’s not going crazy?”
Hailey’s father asked.</span></div>
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work is clean, but when I looked at his DNA we realized there was something
very wrong.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You saw his blood work, Tom?” Charles asked the unknown
man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I rechecked it after Silas.” The other man nodded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Dr. Hindle saw the same thing that I did. He’s a post-stage
three infected,” Cheung continued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“What the hell is post-stage three infected?” Charles asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The teacher glanced at the island’s leader, and then at Dr.
Hindle as if to say, <i>that Charles was an
idiot for asking the question</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Stage one means he’s been exposed to the virus most likely
bitten or has been kissed by someone infected. A stage one infected has no
symptoms. Stage two, they get the fever and by stage three they’ve gone crazy
and are dangerous to others.” Coles turned to Cheung. “There’s no other stage.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Well it looks like there’s one now,” Tom Hindle replied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Like I said, I have no clue as to what’s going on inside
this boy, but it’s possible the mutation might make him immune to the disease,”
Cheung said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“At least that’s the theory. I’m pretty certain, but we need
to do some more testing.” Tom nodded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You think we can get a cure out of this kid?” Coles
gestured in Bach’s direction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“If we’re lucky, we might get a vaccine,” Tom answered. “But
he’ll give us something.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I cannot help you cure this disease which you gave to
yourselves,” Bach seethed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“We’ve a long way to go before we can even begin to
understand what’s going on inside of him. Any talk of creating a vaccine is
premature.” Cheung ignored Bach’s response. “He might not even survive that
long.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You do know I can hear you?” Bach asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I never trusted you, Bach.” Coles walked over to him.
“There was something wrong with you. Doctor Hindle is going to figure it out
and we’re going to unlock how you work.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Don’t provoke him, please, Major.” Charles signaled to
Coles. “We don’t want him to become agitated.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Bach lifted up his head and looked at the man while the room
was spinning around him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You may be saving thousands of lives.” Cheung tried to
reassure him. “You’ll save everyone, everyone including Hailey.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Leave her out of this,” Sir Davenport remarked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You do not know what you are doing. You could never help
the people of this world even if you had all the scientists from before the
outbreak working on this and someone gave you half a clue!” Bach seethed.
“Greater men than you have tried to unlock the secrets in my Family and have
failed. So will you. Your world is supposed to die.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You sound like you know an awful lot about this disease,”
Charles Davenport remarked suspiciously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You know what I think?” Coles stated. “You’re scared and
you’re trying to scare us because you think we’re a bunch of thirteen-year-old
girls.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You’ve nothing to fear from me or these people. I give you
my word, you won’t be killed. You will have to stay here, but you’ll be
comfortable,” Cheung tried to assure him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“So I am your prisoner?” Bach asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You won’t be alone much longer, your friend Felip will soon
be joining you,” Coles continued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“No, he’s gone.” Bach grinned defiantly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“We know. Blair saw him scaling the outer wall. We’ve got
patrols looking for him. If we can find him, we’ll bring him back safely,” Sir
Davenport added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You will not find him,” Bach stated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Then you’re going to be down here alone. It makes no
difference to me,” Coles retorted and started to leave the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Wait, Major Coles…Sir?” Bach pleaded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The soldier paused to look back at him, still looking
irritated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Let me say goodbye to my friends. I do not want her to feel
I have abandoned her!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“No, you leave my daughter out of this!” Sir Charles yelled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“She’ll get over you, don’t worry,” Coles added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Wisteria, can I see her?” Bach ignored Sir Charles.
“Please, I am asking you for a favor.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Coles’s jaw clenched and he turned to the other soldier in
the cell. “If he mentions her name again, I want you to cut out his tongue.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 26pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">That
Spark of Inspiration</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By: Anne Elisabeth Stengl<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The first germ of an idea that
became the novel <i>Starflower</i> came to
me when I was slogging my way through a very difficult read: <i>Phantastes</i> by George MacDonald.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t get me wrong! I love George
MacDonald's fairy tales. <i>The Light
Princess</i>, <i>Photogen and Nycteris, </i>and
<i>The Princess and the Goblin</i> will
always hold special places in my heart. But <i>Phantastes</i>
is a mind-bender if ever there was one. I always felt as if just when I was
just on the verge of understanding what he was trying to say, he'd throw
something totally random into the game and change all the rules on me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I kept on reading because,
despite all the bizarre twists and turns that left me baffled, I kept coming
upon little moments of brilliance, sparkling jewels in the labyrinthine mine. A
phrase, a thought, or a scene that would strike me to the core with beauty and
truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One such scene is to be found near
the end of this strange novel. The hero and the knight he serves come together
to a grove of worship. Men and women dressed in holiday attire are gathered
there, watching the approach of a line of white-robed priests. The knight,
looking on, declares that it is all so solemn that something very good must be
near. But the hero, his squire, cannot shake a conviction that evil lurks
nearby, closer than anyone gathered realizes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ritualistic worship, and it is at last revealed that those gathered in the
sacred grove are offering human sacrifices to a monstrous wolf lurking in the
shadows of a decayed throne. This monster had become their god, and they
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scene, full of many layers of meaning which I could not then understand. Even
now I return to that scene every so often and read it again, trying to
understand just a little more of what George MacDonald was attempting to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Other stories played important roles
in influencing this novel of mine. One reader, having just finished reading <i>Starflower</i>, wrote and asked me if I was
inspired by C.S. Lewis's fabulous retelling of the "Cupid and Psyche"
legend, <i>Till We Have Faces. </i>While
this novel was not an overt influence on my novel, I realized that it probably
had left an impact on me when I read it years ago, an impact that affected my
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novel was one of my favorite poems, "The Hound of Heaven" by Frances
Thompson. I reencountered this poem when partway through the first draft of <i>Starflower</i>, and realized that it
contained within its lines many of the powerful themes I wanted to communicate
in my story. So I incorporated not only the Hound itself, but also many lines
and poetic beats from the poem into my novel. Consider it a tribute to Frances
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slighter than these. My hero, Eanrin, was inspired at least in part by Diana
Wynne Jones's fabulously self-centered hero in <i>Howl's Moving Castle. </i>And the lovely fairy tale style of Robin
McKinley's narratives will always be a style to which I aspire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as novelist, link hands with those novelists who went before me. And I can only
hope that someday my work will ignite a spark of inspiration in a novelist to
come, so that someday, when asked what motivated her to write her most recent
work, she will say, "I read this book called <i>Starflower</i> by Anne Elisabeth Stengl, and one of the scenes really
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Five days ago, Dinah found Claire’s diary and discovered why.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Two days ago, she ditched her piercings and bleached the black dye from her hair.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Yesterday, knee socks and uniform plaid became a predator’s camouflage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's been <i>way too </i>long since I've read a good mystery / thriller / psychological novel so I'm pretty excited about this one. Plus, the cover's pretty cool to look at! I am a little confused about the summary. What happened to Claire? </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To me it sounds as though Dinah is going to take revenge for Claire (assuming something horrible happened to her). So then Dinah probably goes to this ultra-preppy private school (wearing plaid and dying hair blond?) to go find the guy who messed up Claire's life. So I'm guessing she either kills him or falls in love with him....? I guess I'll just have to wait until October to find out. :)</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">April 16th:</b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11044367-taken" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Taken</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Erin Bowman</span><br />
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dark brown, and her hair glossy black. For another, she was imperfect. Her
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of a handsome hero to aid her. As far as Eanrin was concerned, a dash of
heroism was one thing, but commitment to a cause? Never. Rushing off to the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What traits do you think are commonly seen amongst book lovers / book bloggers. Comment below and let me know or make a post of your own and link in the comments!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You and your friends are at the mall excited for a day of shopping! You make a beeline for the nearest <i>Barnes & Nobles</i> as your friends dash towards the clearance sales at Forever 21. Later they call you saying, "Where did heck did you go? You were there one second and the next you disappeared!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You wake up at 6:00 am in the morning and say "Oh, crap! I forgot to post yesterday!" And go into <i>panic</i> mode as you stumble to reach your computer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You list "reading" as your favorite hobby on <i>every</i> public profile you make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Your're room is decorated in books, literally....there are books <b>EVERYWHERE</b>. On the dresser, on your bed, on your nightstand, in your locker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When someone slams a book on the ground or mistreats a book you get a slight <i>twitch</i> in your eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You're constantly trying to figure how HTML / Photoshop works to make a graphics for your blog </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's a normal thing to <b>only</b> ask for books for Christmas, and nearly nothing else. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You feel <b>shocked</b> (and I mean jaw-drop-worthy <i>shocked</i>) when someone tells you they've NEVER read a book for fun before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You feel <u>even more shocked</u> when someone tells you they've never read not even ONE of the Harry Potter novels before. (In which I will proceed to lend you ALL my copies). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You honestly feel like you've lost a very good friend once you've finished reading a book series you've been following FOR YEARS. (*ahem* the Vampire Academy series. I'm still weeping now that it's over...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When you go out your necessities are always wallet, keys, gum, and a book / kindle / nook. No matter where you're at, your book is going with ya. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You and your friends are discussing a movie and you're constantly bringing up the parts that <b>only</b> happened in the book. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Do you have any "you know when you're a book blogger / book lover when..."s to add?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Today, I spied the book trailer of </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13049981-boundless" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">BOUNDLESS</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Cynthia</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Hand!</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Read the summary and/ or skip right down to see the trailer. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Since discovering the special role she plays among the other angel-bloods, Clara has been determined to protect Tucker Avery from the evil that follows her . . . even if it means breaking both their hearts. Leaving town seems like the best option, so she’s headed back to California - and so is Christian Prescott, the irresistible boy from the vision that started her on this journey in the first place....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Book Haul Sunday</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> features books I have borrowed, bought, received for review and etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Comment or link below and tell me what books you received this week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Taken</b> by Erin Bowmen [<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11044367-taken" target="_blank">Add to goodreads</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Source: Edelweiss | HarperTeen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Mind Games</b> by Kiersten White [<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12578294-mind-games" target="_blank">Add to goodreads</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So I've been trying to get back into the swing of things with blogging. I've been pre-making and planning all my future posts so the days when I'm busy they can automatically post themselves (I'm in LOVE with the "scheduled" option on blogger! It's been so convenient for me.) So yeah, plenty of content coming your way these coming weeks. Hope you're all having an amazing weekend! Stay awesomesauce and try not to catch the flu this season. :)</span></div>
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Ezmireldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04217164955411191307noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515709830762304987.post-74366893407754214182013-01-12T06:58:00.003-08:002013-01-12T07:02:07.591-08:00COVER REVEAL: Transparent *UK edition*<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">I thought it would be fun to share the UK cover reveal of </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11973377-transparent" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Transparent</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"> by Natalie Whipple. I'm not from the UK but I thought the cover for this looked pretty eye-caching and original so I had to share! </span><br />
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Sixteen year old Wisteria Kuti has two
options—track the infected around the Isle of Smythe or leave the only known
safe haven and face a world infested with flesh eating biters. But even with
well-armed trackers, things go wrong and Wisteria ends up alone facing certain
death, until she is rescued by the mysterious Bach. Uninfected, Bach is able to
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Eighteen year old Bach, from a race known as The
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Hunted by flesh eaters, cannibals, and the mysterious
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“I love the buildup of this story, getting to know
the characters and watching their connection grow. I had no idea which way the
story was headed and I was kept in suspense right up to the very end! It has
plenty of action and a fascinating plot and I can’t wait to see what Bisi
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~ <a href="http://nomisparanormalpalace.blogspot.com/2012/09/book-tourreviewgiveaway-wisteria-by.html">Naomi Hop</a> </div>
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“There are a lot of great things in this book, so
much more than zombies and a struggle for survival. At it’s base core it is
about star-crossed lovers, literally and the supporting characters roles… Ms.
Leyton brings to Wisteria a mixture of science fiction, fantasy, dystopic world
with a twist to the paranormal romance angle!” </div>
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“The book was full of nonstop action from the
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Author Bisi Leyton:</span></b></div>
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