December 8, 2015

Top Ten New-To-Me Favorite Authors I Read For The First Time In 2015

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created bThe Broke and the Bookish

Top Ten New-To-Me Favorite Authors I Read For The First Time In 2015
(in no particular order)
note: the picture of the author were taken from their website or their goodreads page.
Sophie Kinsella: This year I read and loved Remember Me?, Can You Keep a Secret? and I've Got Your Number, the latter been my favorite of them.

Laurie Halse Anderson:  I read for the Anti-bullying readathon, Twisted and Speak, both are very good books and I´m glad that I finally read them.

Rainbow Rowell: Finally, this year I was able to read Fangirl, I loved it!

Graeme SimsionThe Rosie Project is witty and very funny, one of my favorites this year.

Gillian Flynn: This year I read Dark Places because I wanted to read it before the movie came out.  This book is seriously messed up but I really enjoyed it and I´m looking forward to read more of her books.

Courtney Summers:  All the Rage is a powerful, raw and sad story. I looking forward to read more of her books.

Francesca Zappia: Made You Up is one of my favorites books od the year. It´s an addictive and irresistible read with an unreliable narrator I loved it!

Becky Albertalli:  Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda it was very funny read, I end up with a big smile on my face.

Jay Asher: I recently read Thirteen Reasons Why a book that had been recommended to me more than once. It´s a good book.

Rachel HartmanI also read Seraphina and its sequel Shadow Scale, both are GREAT reads. they´re very entertaining epic fantasy novels

What are your favorite new-to-you authors that you read for the first time this year?
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December 2, 2015

Waiting On Wednesday (197): The Girl from Everywhere

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

The book I´m waiting this week is

The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere #1) by Heidi Heilig
Release date: February 16th 2016
Heidi Heilig’s debut teen fantasy sweeps from modern-day New York City to nineteenth-century Hawaii to places of myth and legend. Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father’s ship. But when he gambles with her very existence, it all may be about to end. The Girl from Everywhere, the first of two books, will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir, Rae Carson, and Rachel Hartman.

Nix’s life began in Honolulu in 1868. Since then she has traveled to mythic Scandinavia, a land from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, modern-day New York City, and many more places both real and imagined. As long as he has a map, Nix’s father can sail his ship, The Temptation, to any place, any time. But now he’s uncovered the one map he’s always sought—1868 Honolulu, before Nix’s mother died in childbirth. Nix’s life—her entire existence—is at stake. No one knows what will happen if her father changes the past. It could erase Nix’s future, her dreams, her adventures . . . her connection with the charming Persian thief, Kash, who’s been part of their crew for two years. If Nix helps her father reunite with the love of his life, it will cost her her own.

In The Girl from Everywhere, Heidi Heilig blends fantasy, history, and a modern sensibility with witty, fast-paced dialogue, breathless adventure, and enchanting romance.
What book are you waiting this week?
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December 1, 2015

Top Ten 2016 Debuts Novels I´m Looking Forward To

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created bThe Broke and the Bookish

Top Ten 2016 Debuts Novels I´m Looking Forward To
(in no particular order)
Blackhearts by Nicole Castroman

Into the Dim by Janet B. Taylor
After the Woods by Kim Savage
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

A Shadow Bright and Burning by Jessica Cluess
Suffer Love by Ashley Herring Blake 

The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos

What books are your most anticipated debut novels in 2016?
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November 25, 2015

Waiting On Wednesday (196): A Study in Charlotte

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

The book I´m waiting this week is

A Study in Charlotte (A Study in Charlotte #1) by Brittany Cavallaro
Release date: March 1st 2016
The last thing sixteen-year-old Jamie Watson–writer and great-great-grandson of the John Watson–wants is a rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school just an hour away from his estranged father. But that’s not the only complication: Sherringford is also home to Charlotte Holmes, the famous detective’s enigmatic, fiercely independent great-great-granddaughter, who’s inherited not just his genius but also his vices, volatile temperament, and expertly hidden vulnerability. Charlotte has been the object of his fascination for as long as he can remember–but from the moment they meet, there’s a tense energy between them, and they seem more destined to be rivals than anything else.

Then a Sherringford student dies under suspicious circumstances ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Holmes stories, and Jamie and Charlotte become the prime suspects. Convinced they’re being framed, they must race against the police to conduct their own investigation. As danger mounts, it becomes clear that nowhere is safe and the only people they can trust are each other.

Equal parts tender, thrilling, and hilarious, A Study in Charlotte is the first in a trilogy brimming with wit and edge-of-the-seat suspense.

What book are you waiting this week?
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November 23, 2015

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a meme hosted by Book Date.
Each week we spotlight the books we are reading, planning on reading or just finished reading.

Click on the image to look description in Goodreads.

Finished reading
 
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson (4/5 stars)
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (4.5/5 stars)
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (4/5 stars)

I only read three of the five books that I planned to read for the Anti Bullying Week Readathon, so this week I´m going to read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson because it had been on my bookshelf for a while. And after I want to read something light and funny, so that´s why I pick I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella.

What I´m going to read next?
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

What are you reading today?
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November 18, 2015

Waiting On Wednesday (195): This Savage Song

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

The book I´m waiting this week is

This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1) by Victoria Schwab
Release date: June 7th 2016
The city of Verity has been overrun with monsters, born from the worst of human evil. In North Verity, the Corsai and the Malchai run free. Under the rule of Callum Harker, the monsters kill any human who has not paid for protection. In the South, Henry Flynn hunts the monsters who cross the border into his territory, aided by the most dangerous and darkest monsters of them all—the Sunai, dark creatures who use music to steal their victim’s souls.

As one of only three Sunai in existence, August Flynn has always wanted to play a bigger role in the war between the north and the south. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate Harker, daughter of the leader of North Verity, August jumps on it.
When Kate discovers August’s secret, the pair find themselves running for their lives and battling monsters from both sides of the wall. As the city dissolves into chaos, it’s up to them to foster a peace between monsters and humans.

A unique, fast-paced adventure that looks at the monsters we face every day—including the monster within. 
What book are you waiting this week?
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November 16, 2015

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a meme hosted by Book Date.
Each week we spotlight the books we are reading, planning on reading or just finished reading.

Click on the image to look description in Goodreads.

Finished reading

What I´m going to read next?
My Anti Bullying Read-A-Thon TBR (blog post - here)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli 
Wonder (Wonder #1) by R.J. Palacio

What are you reading today?
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November 14, 2015

Anti Bullying Week Readathon 2015 TBR


This year I´m participating again in the Anti Bullying Week Readathon. It´s hosted by Sarah Churchill from 16th-22nd November.

You can check her Youtube announcement video -  here
And other information in the Goodreads group - here

Here’s My Anti Bullying Read-A-Thon TBR:
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli 
Wonder (Wonder #1) by R.J. Palacio

I´m not a fast reader so obviously I´m not going to read all this books but I´m going to pick from this list and see how many I can read, all of them have less than 320 pages so I´m optimist about them. 

Have you read any of these books?
All recommendations are welcome.