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T5W: Favorite Required Reading
TOP 5 WEDNESDAY Group for the Top Five Wednesday-ers! As of February 21, 2014, any booktuber or book blogger can participate in T5W. You’ll find the topics for that month listed in the “Topics” section. Be sure to post you channel/blog site to the “Complete List” post so we know who is participating. Follow along […]
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Polarity in Motion Review
Polarity in Motion Book Review Publisher: Red Adept Publishing Author: Brenda Vicars Polarity in Motion is an empowering, yet saddening realization of society from the eyes of a 15-year-old girl, Polarity. Vicars captures the flaws and obliviousness of today’s society, from racism to bullying, in a unique, self-reflecting way. “We, the privileged majority, talk about […]
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Your Future TBR: Adult Fantasy and Sci-Fi Series
Welcome to Part Two of my Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction book series recommendations! I am only listing four series on here. I know there are so many more GREAT series out there, but I just have not read them yet! I think these are good starters for getting into long series. A Song of […]
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T5W: Favorite Maps
TOP 5 WEDNESDAY Group for the top five wednesday-ers! As of February 21, 2014, any booktuber can participate in T5W. You’ll find the topics for that month listed in the Topics section. Be sure to post you channel/blog site to the Complete List post so we know who is participating. Follow along on Twitter: #T5WFamily […]
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The Book Thief Book Review
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak One of the best reading experiences is when a book slowly and unexpectedly takes hold of your heart and whole being. Then when you finish the last page, you’re left in pieces. The Book Thief is one of those books. Synopsis This novel is told through the perspective […]
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What’s That Hashtag: #TBR
What’s That Hashtag: #TBR We are continuing our series on bookish hashtags. We hope you are enjoying this because not everyone knows what all these hashtags mean. This installment will be about the hashtag #TBR. #TBR: This is an acronym for “to be read.” This hashtag is frequently used in the Booktube community of Youtube, […]
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The Legend Series
The Legend Series by Marie Lu So, here is the deal. I absolutely LOVED this entire series. However, it has been about 2 years since I read it, aka forgot a lot of details, but I NEED to give some hype to this series on the new blog. And, yes, I know you are probably […]
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Speak Book Review
SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson Age Range: 12 – 18 years Grade Level: 7 and up Publisher: Square Fish Rating: FIVE STARS There are only a few books that I can say I read in one sitting…. And SPEAK is one of them. I saw this book at Goodwill and recognized the cover, so of […]
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The Haunting of Sunshine Girl Book Review
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl If you love YouTube and a scary story, you may have found your book. The Haunting of Sunshine Girl is based off the YouTube series of the same name that started in 2010. In the Youtube series, Paige McKenzie plays a girl named Francis aka Sunshine. It follows her story […]
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New Releases: August 2015
New Releases in YA Fiction: August 2015 Another Day by David Levithan Release Date: August 25 ,2015 Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her life, convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental boyfriend, Justin, even established guidelines by which to live: Don’t be too needy. Avoid upsetting him. Never get […]
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T5W: Side Characters That Deserve Their Own Story
TOP 5 WEDNESDAY Group for the top five wednesday-ers! As of February 21, 2014, any booktuber can participate in T5W. You’ll find the topics for that month listed in the Topics section. Be sure to post you channel/blog site to the Complete List post so we know who is participating. Follow along on Twitter: #T5WFamily […]
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Your Future TBR: Adult Fantasy and Sci-fi Stand Alones
The past three years or so I have really enjoyed reading Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction books. There’s something about becoming lost in a completely different world other than your own, that keeps you wanting more. I’ve barely hit the surface with my reading of Fantasy and Science Fiction books, but I wanted to share […]
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T5W: Anticipated Pre-Orders For The Rest Of The Year
TOP 5 WEDNESDAY Group for the top five wednesday-ers! As of February 21, 2014, any booktuber can participate in T5W. You’ll find the topics for that month listed in the Topics section. Be sure to post you channel/blog site to the Complete List post so we know who is participating. Follow along on Twitter: #T5WFamily […]
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Blue Karma Book Review
Blue Karma – Book Review Author: J.K. Ullrich Publisher: J.K. Ullrich Release Date: May 2015 Rating: FIVE STARS Disclaimer: ebook copy received from the author in exchange for an honest review. Forget dystopian. Cli-fi is about to explode and BLUE KARMA is going to take it there. Cli-Fi is the new Dystopian, as Blue is […]
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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee I think almost everyone has read or heard of To Kill a Mockingbird. I think most people now have read it because of a class they took at some point in their educational career, or because it’s a classic and it’s one of those books you feel you need […]
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Shark Week Books
Shark Week Books & Fun Facts In honor of Shark Week, we have put together a list of 5 shark facts with 5 YA books featuring sharks. Enjoy. SHARK GIRL by Kelly Bingham On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And […]
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The Uglies
The Uglies – Book Review THE UGLIES is an amazing book filled with adventure, rebellion, and HOVERBOARDS! More than your typical heroine vs. government book like Divergent, Hunger Games etc. THE UGLIES makes you take a deep look at how we as a society think – our culture’s continued obsession with physical perfection. Westerfeld creates […]
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Looking For Alaska
Looking For Alaska by John Green “I Go to Seek a Great Perhaps” Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called a “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. […]
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New Releases: July 2015
PRETENDING TO BE ERICA by Michelle Painchaud Release Date: July 21,2015 Seventeen-year-old Violet’s entire life has revolved around one thing: becoming Erica Silverman, an heiress kidnapped at age five and never seen again. Violet’s father, the best con man in Las Vegas, has a plan, chilling in its very specific precision. Violet shares a blood […]
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T5W: Characters You Wish You Could Drown
Sarah’s Picks 1) Dude who killed Manchee from the Chaos Walking Series. His name is not even worth looking up. Seriously though, I dont even remember his name. But when I find him, I will hunt him down. He made me cry for DAYS! I still have flashbacks of Manchee and start to tear up. […]
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What’s That Hashtag: #BookHaul
What’s That Hashtag: #BookHaul Lately we have been asked ‘What does that hashtag mean” when posting to our instagram, twitter and facebook pages. So, I would like to introduce a new section, I would like to call: “What’s That Hashtag” #BookHaul: When someone purchases a large amount of books at one time, whether it be […]
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The Heir Review
The Heir by Kiera Cass The Selection Series Book 4 Kiera Cass continues America’s story in the best way possible…. twenty years later from the perspective of America’s daughter. Although you may feel a void in your heart where America and Maxon use to be, this void will soon be filled with their “who-run-the-world-GIRLS” daughter, […]
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Books You Read in One Sitting
BOOKS YOU READ IN ONE SITTING (or close to) Gab’s Picks The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Fangirl and Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell The Giver by Lois Lowry The Archived by Victoria Schwab Sarah’s Picks Looking For Alaska by John […]
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Review: Afterimage
AFTERIMAGE The Enertia Trials Book 1 by J. Kowallis My feelings were torn about this book, and I have contemplated for a few weeks now what rating properly reflects this story. I am a HUGE fan of dystopian novels, and was kind of pumped to read a new, not overly hyped dystopian book. Let me […]
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T5W: Books with Multiple Point of Views
Top 5 Wednesday: Books with Multiple POVs Gab’s Picks Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman This book is strange, but good. It takes place in London and London Below; the London almost no one ever sees. You follow many different characters’s point of views that are after the same thing but with different motives. The POV will […]
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The Martian Review
The Martian by Andy Weir Outer space. Mars. Stranded. Survival. The Martian by Andy Weir is the survival story of Mark Watney. Watney is a botanist of the Ares 3 crew on the spacecraft Hermes. Their mission is to travel to Mars to conduct research. They make it to Mars safely, but one day there […]
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Top 5 Wednesday
Top 5 Wednesday: Favorite Books Of The Year So Far Sarah’s Picks Lux: Obsidian by Jennifer Armentrout I am not a fan of aliens usually, but this book OMG. I didn’t understand what all the hype was about, but the constant turns and shockers at every turn are genius. Read my review of Lux Book […]
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Onyx: Lux Book #2
Onyx by Jennifer Armentrout (Lux Book #2) Five. Stars. Yes. This is me liking the SECOND book better than the first. After finishing Obsidian, I was skeptical about continuing. Not because I didn’t enjoy it, but because I didn’t know where it could possible go from there. I thought, OK, now we all know they […]
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#TBRTakedown
Gab here! It’s been a while folks. March through May are pretty crazy months for me. Now it’s summer, I have plenty of time to read and write reviews. To start my summer off, I decided to participate in a read-a-thon. If you’re not familiar with that concept, it’s what it sounds like. You start […]
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The Young Elites Review
The Young Elites by Marie Lu Marie Lu has done something wonderful – taking an already known Renaissance times of kingdoms, aristocracy, and nobility and mashing it with her own unique spin to create a supernatural, yet realistic new world. The Young Elites is edgy, dark, intense thrillride. The “Blood Plague” has swept through the […]
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The Selection Review
The Selection by Kiera Cass “True love is usually the most inconvenient kind” An epic battle between young love. The Selection is set in a world where society is set into different castes from 1 (royalty) to 8 (servants). America, a 5, has her life figured out. She is in love with a boy from […]
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Cinder Review
Cinder by Marissa Meyer “Even in the future the story begins with ‘Once Upon A Time'”. A futuristic spin to the classic cinderella story. Do not be thrown-off if the disney princess stories are not your kind of read. Cinder is a brilliant retelling of the traditional fairy tale princess story with the perfect combination […]
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Top 5 Wednesday: Worst Series Ending
Thinking back on all the series you have read to come up with the top five really gets you thinking. You really have to think hard, because the books that sucked, you probably already forgot about. I had to go back through my entire Good Reads list to dig up some of these. However, there […]
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UnWind Dystology: Full Series Review
The Hunger Games was my first experience with YA Dystopian. (I had read The Giver prior to this, but didn’t consider it to be dystopian at the time.) That trilogy made me go, “WOW!” Behind Harry Potter, this is my favorite book series. Naturally, I had to read more dystopian – and YA in general. […]
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Top Five Wednesday: Books You’d Save in a Fire
Hi! This is your fellow blogger, Gab! Besides working as an assistant librarian for a year, I’d have to say the BookTube community on YouTube is what got me back into reading. I have discovered SO many books that have I now hold dear to my heart. A good chunk of my YouTube subscriptions are […]
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5 YA Dystopian Series You Need To Read in 2015
If you haven’t done so already, these 5 YA dystopian novel series are a must read. If you are a dystopian lover, ie Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Divergent, etc. stop what you are reading and bump these 5 titles to the top of your TBR list. 1) Unwind Overview:In America after the Second Civil War, […]
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