In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren and inspired by Alea of Pop Culture Junkie! It is a list of what books you have received over the previous week, either for review, from the library, from the bookstore, or from trades.
Top Ten Book Endings That Left Me With My Mouth Hanging Open
*I'mjust going to list the titles and not give any descriptions so that it won't ruin any endings
1. City of Fallen Angles by Cassandra Clare
2. The Giver by Lois Lowry
3. Burned by Ellen Hopkins
4. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
5. Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
6. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
7. Blue Noon by Scott Westerfeld
8. Identical by Ellen Hopkins
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
10. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading.
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.
My Teaser:
"But she doesn't recognize herself. Maybe her face isn't any different, but the look in her eyes. Worse than dead, their expression is simply blank."
-pg. 25 "Willow" by Julia Hoban
A weekly feature hosted by Ginger at GReads! that showcases music!!
For the month of October Tune in Tuesday will be featuring songs from soundtracks.
This week I am picking songs from Across the Universe (a movie where they took a bunch of Beatles songs and made a movie around them), and since it's one my favorite movies and I could probably spend the whole month on it I am going to put my top 5 favorites
Top Ten Books That Should Be Required Reading For Teens:
10. Shakespeare
9. Any book by Sarah Dessen
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by: Stephen Chbosky
7. The Hunger Games by: Suzanne Collins
6. To Kill A Mockingbird by: Harper Lee
5. Speak by: Laurie Halse Anderson
4. The Giver by: Lois Lowry
3. Any book by Ellen Hopkins
2. Thirteen Reasons Why by: Jay Asher
1. Harry Potter by: J.K. Rowling
This series is first because it is simply magnificent! J.K. Rowling manages to create a story that transcends any age group. This series will always be my favorite and I will never be ashamed to say that I have read this series!
Like Stephen King said:
"Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength, and doing what is right in the face of adversity." (the rest of the quote is bashing twilight and not really relevant)
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading.
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read, open to a random page, and s.hare two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.
My Teaser:
"Maybe he's changed his mind," Simon suggested. "you know how he is. Moody. Fickle."
"I wouldn't know. I haven't really seen him since that time I threatened to kill him with a candelabra. He took it well, though. Didn't flinch."
"Fantastic," Simon says.
-pg. 11 "City of Fallen Angels" by Cassandra Clare
I kind of cheated and did more than two sentence but I'm on page 203 and this is by far my favorite quote so far and I couldn't bear the thought of not putting all of it.
