January 7, 2011

Blogger Hop & Friday Follow

Yay the hop is back!!! I love Fridays!!!


The Friday Friday is hosted by Parajunkees View
This weeks question is from Stalking the Bookshelves:
What book(s) have you discovered lately from someones book blog?

The Morganville Vampire Series by Rachel Caine

I can't remember what blog I saw the post on- I'm hooked! see my review here.


The Blogger Hop is hosted by Crazy for Books
This weeks question:
What book influenced or changed your life? How did it influence/change you?"
It's funny because I recently did a post about this very topic:
 
Books have always had tremendous impact on me, (obviously I love them and love to read or I wouldn't be blogging or working in a library) but it's much more than that.
There are a few every year that stand out as my "life lesson" books. I even have a special shelf for them.

One from a few years ago was by the author Kate Di Camillo. It was called The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. It reminded me during a very difficult time not to give up on love and though love may be a sacrifice in the end it's always worth it.


This year, the stand out was If I Stay by Gayle Forman.


My review is here.
If I Stay reminded me that life is always a choice even if it doesn't always feel like it. We need to hold on to the ones we love and treasure the moments we might usually miss because we never know what might happen. It also taught me that sometimes the very best thing we can do to show our love for someone is to let them go.

Do books have the same type of impact on you? If so, What was the book that impacted you the most this year?
Leave I link so I can visit you too! Happy Friday!

January 3, 2011

Top Ten Tuesday- Books I Resolve to Read in 2011

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by the fab Broke and the Bookish. This weeks topic:

Top Ten Books I Resolve to Read in 2011.

I decided to use my GoodReads*To-Read shelf as inspiration. I went with the books that have been on my to-read list the longest. Afterall the list just gets longer. *Side-bar-I love GoodReads. I'd be lost without it. I often wonder if I should keep a paper copy of my lists too...

  1. Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
  2. Going Bovine by Libby Bray
  3. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
  4. Impossible by Nancy Werlin
  5. Poster Boy by Dede Crane
  6. Wonderous Strange by Lesley Livingston
  7. Hate List by Jennifer Brown
  8. What I Was by Meg Rosoff
  9. Ingo by Helen Dunmore
  10. The Spell Book of Listen Taylor by Jaclyn Moriarty
Leave me a link to your lists! I love reading them.

January 1, 2011

Choker by Elizabeth Woods

Choker by Elizabeth Woods
Published by Simon and Schuster Childrens Publishing
January 4th 2011
240 pages
Reviewed from finished copy provided by the publisher

Summary from Goodreads:
What if the only friend you could trust turned out to be dangerous? A new thriller from debut author Elizabeth Woods.

This one was a little disturbing as there is such a completely twisted ending. I won't include any spoilers in this review. (so keep reading :))

Cara doesn’t fit in. She’s alone. She’s tormented everyday by the girls at her high school, who take pleasure causing humiliation. It wasn’t always like this, before she moved, Cara had a best friend (Zoe) who stood by her and cared about her. Cara misses her terribly until Zoe shows up at her house one night, saying she's run away. Cara promises to keep Zoe hidden and Zoe promises to help Cara fit in. As the days go by Zoe’s behaviour becomes stranger and little scary and people around Cara are mysteriously getting hurt.
This one grabbed me right away. I felt so badly for Cara and how alone she felt and was thrilled when Zoe seemed to come to her rescue. I felt like a such a bystander reading this, helpless to do anything as I watched the situation deteriorate. Shocked by the last few chapters, I found it a little disturbing and was shaken for a while (I'm a wimp though) Overall it was a good suspense filled read.

3.5/5

Elizabeth Woods is a Debut YA Author.

In my Mailbox


In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren
After last weeks epic IMM (click here to see it's awesomeness) this week seems a little boring. I picked up two books from the library, though I'm not sure when I going to find time to read them....

Inspired by GReads love for this series:

I just finished the first book in the SkinJacker Series by Neal Schusterman and it was really really good (review coming this week) I couldn't wait for the second:




What was in your mailbox?