Stacking The Shelves! # 6

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

Guidelines:

• Create your own Stacking The Shelves post. You can use my official graphic or your own, but please link back to Tynga’s Reviews so more people can join the fun!
• You can set your post any way you want, simple book list, covers, pictures, vlog, sky is the limit!
• I am posting Stacking The Shelves on Saturdays, but feel free to post yours any day that fits you.
• Visit Tynga’s Reviews on Saturday and add your link so others can visit you!

• Visit other participants link to find out what they added to their shelves!

Here is What I got this week.....

For Review:
 
Title: Intangible
Author: J. Meyers
Pages: 264
Synopsis (from goodreads): Twins Sera and Luke Raine have a well-kept secret—she heals with a touch of her hand, he sees the future. All their lives they’ve helped those in need on the sly. They’ve always thought of their abilities as being a gift.

Then Luke has a vision that Sera is killed. That gift they’ve always cherished begins to feel an awful lot like a curse. Because the thing about Luke’s ability? He’s always right. And he can’t do anything about it.



What did you guys get this week?

Waiting on Wednesday! #8

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill over at breakingthespine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating!

Here is my Waiting on Wednesday this week.....



Title: The 4th Floor Lounge
Author: Amanda Hamm
Publisher: Before Someday Publishing
Expected Publication: October 1st 2012
Synopsis (from goodreads): Where does an extreme introvert draw the line between being lonely and being left alone? One quirky college student is looking for the answer in the 4th floor lounge.

Her goals are simple: make one or two good friends and avoid talking to everyone else. Achieving those goals will not be easy for this gorgeous yet socially awkward heroine. She’s constantly approached by guys who are not interested in friendship. And when she finally forms some solid bonds it’s her own romantic feelings that get in the way

New Releases This Week!

Here are a few of the new releases coming out this week that we at The Closet Library have been waiting for!


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Title: The Mephisto Kiss
Author: Trinity Faegan
Series: The Mephisto Covenant, Book 2
Pages: 448
Publisher: Egmont
Synopsis (from goodreads): The eyes never lie. No one’s eyes are darker than Eryx. Not even the Devil’s.

When Jax and Sasha first see Jordan Ellis, they know she is no ordinary teenager. She’s the daughter of the President after all, but she’s also Anabo – a descendant of Eve.

What they don’t know is that Eryx plans to kidnap Jordan and force President Ellis to pledge his soul. If Eryx’s plot succeeds, the consequences would be catastrophic.

But the Mephisto brothers do know about Jordan’s secret identity. And for one of them, she could be the match that leads to their soul’s salvation.

Now it’s a desperate race against time to save Jordan and prevent Eryx’s haunting eyes from discovering her true identity.

A thrilling story of romance, danger, and intrigue, THE MEPHISTO KISS continues the marvelous mythology that began in THE MEPHISTO COVENANT.

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Title: Alice in Zombieland

Author: Gena Showalter

Pages: 404

Series: The White Rabbit Chronicles, Book 1

Publisher Harlequin Teen

Synopsis (from goodreads): She won’t rest until she’s sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.

Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that’s all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.

Her father was right. The monsters are real….

To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn’t careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies…

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Title: The Turning

Author: Francine Prose

Pages: 256

Publisher: HarperTeen

Synopsis (from goodreads): Jack is babysitting for the summer on an isolated island with no Wi-Fi, no cell service, and no one else around but a housekeeper and two very peculiar children. He immediately senses something sinister-and it's not just the creepy black house he's living in. Soon he is feeling terribly isolated and alone, but then he discovers there are others. The problem is, he's the only who can see them. As secrets are revealed and darker truths surface, Jack desperately struggles to maintain a grip on reality. He knows what he sees, and he isn't crazy…Or is he?

Where does reality end and insanity begin? The Turn of the Screw reinvented for modern-day teens, by National Book Award finalist Francine Prose

Teaser Tuesday! #3

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of shouldbereading . Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here is My Teaser this Week!

"Because of her life. Shes been...things happened that caused her too..." He sighed and watched snowflakes land on his brother's dark hair. "She's broken" 

Pg. 347 "The Mephisto Kiss" by, Trinity Faegan 

Musing Monday! #5

Musing Monday is a great weekly meme hosted over at shouldbereading!

This weeks Musing Monday question is.....

Do you have any hobbies outside of reading?
Or do you collect anything?

My Answer:
My other biggest hobby besides reading is probably sports. I play Soccer, Volleyball, and Track and field. I'm big into to exercising. 
I also loveeeeee High top converse and my goal is to try and get every color shade out there. So far i have navy blue, green, black, aqua, gray/yellow/blue, purple, and i am hoping to get a read or maroon pair for christmas! 

What are your hobbies?
What do you guys collect? 
I'd love to hear!

Weekly Rewind! #3

Week of September 16th.....

Books Read:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by, Stephen Chbosky goodreads

Books Started:
ARC of Eve and Adam by, Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate goodreads

Reviews:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by, Stephen Chbosky
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New Releases: new-releases-this-week

Memes:
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Whats Happening Next Week!?
More Memes,
More New Releases,
and an ARC review of Eve and Adam by, Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate!

Top Ten Tuesday! # 3

Top Ten Tuesday is a great weekly meme hosted by brokeandbookish. For all of you who love making lists this a great meme for you. Every week a new theme is posted and you can make a top ten list for that theme.
This weeks theme is........Top Ten Bookish People You Want To Meet (Authors, Bloggers, etc.)

Here is my Top Ten!

1. Susane Colasanti
(Author of When it Happens, Take me There, Waiting for You, Something Like Fate, So Much Closer, and her latest one Keep Holding On)
Check out her website here! http://www.susanecolasanti.com/
(I have already met Susane before but she is so amazing i just had to put her on this list.

2. Sarah Dessen
(Author of That Summer, Someone Like You, Keeping The Moon, Dreamland, This Lullaby, The Truth about Forever, Just Listen, Lock and Key, Along for the Ride, and What Happened to Goodbye)
Check out her Website here! http://sarahdessen.com/

3. Ally Carter
(Author of The Gallagher Girls Series and The Heist Society Series, latest book in the Heist Society Series, Perfect Scoundrels, is coming Febuary 2013)
Check out her website here! http://allycarter.com/

4. Jennifer Donnelley
(Author of Revolution, A Northern Light, and The Tea Rose Trilogy)
Check out her website here! http://www.jenniferdonnelly.com/index.html

5. Trinity Faegan
(Author of The Mephisto Covenant and The Sequel The Mephisto Kiss comes out September 25th 2012)
Check out her Website here! http://www.trinityfaegen.com/

6. E. Lockhart
(Author of The Ruby Oliver Series, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, Fly on the Wall, and Dramarama)
Check out her website here! http://www.emilylockhart.com/

7. Bree Despain
(Author of the Dark Divine Trilogy)
Check out here website here! http://www.breedespain.com/index.html

8. Laurie Halse Anderson
(Author of Wintergirls, Prom, Speak, Twisted, Catalyst, Forge, Chains, and Fever 1793)
Check out her Website here! http://madwomanintheforest.com/

9. Lisi Harrison
(Author of the Clique Series)
Check out her Website here! http://lisiharrison.com/

10. Stephen Chbosky
(Author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
Check out his page here! http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Stephen-Chbosky/1843916

Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Title: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Pages: 213
Publication Date: February 1st 1999
Publisher: MTV Books and Pocket Books
Synopsis: Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up

My Review: The Perks of Being a wallflower is a absolutely amazing book. It left me speechless, breathless. 

 The Perks of Being a Wallflower is really a incredible coming of age story. The book follows the main character charlie through his freshman year of high school. I think this is a must read for teenagers experiencing high school for the first time. We may not have gone through some of the same things Charlie did but i think every teen can relate to what he is saying and feeling in some way. 

The characters in this book were phenomenal.    They were all so real and it felt like they could be going to your school. These are the kind of characters you wish for and think man why can't these people be real and be my friend. You will fall for these characters immediately. They really jump off the pages especially the main character charlie  and his too best friends Sam and Patrick. They are so well developed but they are not to developed. Chbosky did a great job creating some of the best characters i have seen in young adult literature to date.

I really liked the writing style of this book. This book is written in letters that Charlie is writing to another person about his life. And I thought this made the book an even better read because it felt like Charlie was speaking right to us. I think it gave a much more powerful impact that way. And another great thing about it is its like Charlie is telling you his story to you verbally so it is easy to understand and read. Flawless writing.

I personally thought this book was pure genius. Probably the greatest thing about this book is that it doesn't really seem like fiction. It seems so real the characters, the events, the stories, the emotions. It feels like it could be happening in your life today. And because of that it really left a lasting impact on me. This is one of those books that once you finish it makes you take a moment and really think about life. And i think books like that are precious because they can be hard to find especially in YA. This book makes you feel that your not alone and every teen needs that. 

By far one of the best young adult coming of age novels i have ever read. Highly recommended to everyone even if your not normally a reader of coming of age books. 

5 stars- A Must Read


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Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York

Stacking The Shelves! #5

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

Guidelines:

• Create your own Stacking The Shelves post. You can use my official graphic or your own, but please link back to Tynga’s Reviews so more people can join the fun!
• You can set your post any way you want, simple book list, covers, pictures, vlog, sky is the limit!
• I am posting Stacking The Shelves on Saturdays, but feel free to post yours any day that fits you.
• Visit Tynga’s Reviews on Saturday and add your link so others can visit you!

• Visit other participants link to find out what they added to their shelves!
•  

This week i got........


ARC of Eve and Adam by, Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate


And this morning i went to a HUGE library book sale and got 18, yes 18 books for $9.50, yes $9.50. I Love library book sales oh sooooo much!
Here is what i got at the sale!

My Fair Lady by, Alan Jay Lerner                                       
Go Ask Alice by, Anonymous
Jane Eyre by, Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by, Jane Austen
Anne Frank's Tales form The Secret Annex by, Anne Frank
The Scarlet Latter by, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chosen Ones by, Tiffany Truitt
Shiver by, Maggie Stiefvater
Deadly Little Secret by. Laurie Faria Stolarz
Dracula by, Bram Stoker

A Walk to Remember by, Nicholas Sparks
The Lucky one by, Nicholas Sparks
Leaving Paradise by, Simone Elkeles
Beautiful Stranger by, Zoey Dean
Back in Black by, Zoey Dean
Heart of Glass by, Zoey Dean
American Beauty by, Zoey Dean
Tall Cool One by, Zoey Dean



 

Waiting on Wednesday! #7

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at breakingthespine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating!

My Waiting on Wednesday this week is......


Title: The Turning
Author: Francine Prose
Pages: 256
Publisher: Harper Teen
Expected Publication: September 25th 2012
Synopsis (from goodreads): Jack is babysitting for the summer on an isolated island with no Wi-Fi, no cell service, and no one else around but a housekeeper and two very peculiar children. He immediately senses something sinister-and it's not just the creepy black house he's living in. Soon he is feeling terribly isolated and alone, but then he discovers there are others. The problem is, he's the only who can see them. As secrets are revealed and darker truths surface, Jack desperately struggles to maintain a grip on reality. He knows what he sees, and he isn't crazy…Or is he?

Teaser Tuesday! #2

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of shouldbereading Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!


My Teaser.....

"Operation? What Operation? They tell me it lasted fourteen hours. I wasn't really there. I was in a weird landscape of dreams, nightmares, and memories - with a little shopping thrown in."

- pg. 15 ARC of Eve and Adam by, Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate


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New Releases This Week!

Here are the new releases coming out this week that we at The Closet Library have been anxiously waiting for!


Title: Cursed
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Pages: 288
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Synopsis(from goodreads): Dying sucks-- and high school senior Ember McWilliams knows firsthand. After a fatal car accident, her gifted little sister brought her back. Now anything Ember touches dies. And that, well, really blows.Ember operates on a no-touch policy with all living things--including boys. When Hayden Cromwell shows up, quoting Oscar Wilde and claiming her curse is a gift, she thinks he's a crazed cutie. But when he tells her he can help control it, she's more than interested. There's just one catch: Ember has to trust Hayden's adopted father, a man she's sure has sinister reasons for collecting children whose abilities even weird her out. However, she's willing to do anything to hold her sister's hand again. And hell, she'd also like to be able to kiss Hayden. Who wouldn't? But when Ember learns the accident that turned her into a freak may not have been an accident at all, she's not sure who to trust. Someone wanted her dead, and the closer she gets to the truth, the closer she is to losing not only her heart, but her life. For real this time.


Title: The Raven Boys
Author: MaggieStiefvater
Pages: 408
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Synopsis(from goodreads): It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

Title: Adaptation
Author: Malinda Lo
Pages: 400
Publisher: Little Brown books for Young Readers
Synopsis(from goodreads): Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: She’s different now.Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded.Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David are in Arizona when it happens. Everyone knows the world will never be the same. On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch of empty highway at night in the middle of Nevada, a bird flies into their headlights. The car flips over. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won’t tell them what happened, where they are—or how they’ve been miraculously healed.Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. When Reese unexpectedly collides with the beautiful Amber Gray, her search for the truth is forced in an entirely new direction—and threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret.

Title: Ten
Author: Gretchen Mcneil
Pages: 304
Publisher: Blazer and Bray
Synopsis(from goodreads): It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives—an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie each have their reasons for being there (which involve T.J., the school’s most eligible bachelor) and look forward to three glorious days of boys, booze and fun-filled luxury.But what they expect is definitely not what they get, and what starts out as fun turns dark and twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine.Suddenly people are dying, and with a storm raging, the teens are cut off from the outside world. No electricity, no phones, no internet, and a ferry that isn’t scheduled to return for two days. As the deaths become more violent and the teens turn on each other, can Meg find the killer before more people die? Or is the killer closer to her than she could ever imagine?

The Weekly Rewind! #2

Hey everybody sorry this has been such a slow week over here at The Closet Library. I ha a huge presentation due this week on Greek Myths. Have you ever read The Odyssey? It's a hard book.
Well here is the Weekly Rewind...
 
Monday: Musing Monday!- Do you take notes while you read? musing-monday
Tuesday: Top Ten Tuesday! -Top Ten Books That Make You Think (About The World, People, Life, etc.) top-ten-tuesday_
Wednesday: Waiting On Wednesday! -Alice in Zombieland waiting-on-wednesday
Saturday: Stacking The Shelves! - Ruined stacking-shelves

Stacking the Shelves! # 4

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

Guidelines:

• Create your own Stacking The Shelves post. You can use my official graphic or your own, but please link back to Tynga’s Reviews so more people can join the fun!
• You can set your post any way you want, simple book list, covers, pictures, vlog, sky is the limit!
• I am posting Stacking The Shelves on Saturdays, but feel free to post yours any day that fits you.
• Visit Tynga’s Reviews on Saturday and add your link so others can visit you!

• Visit other participants link to find out what they added to their shelves!

This week I got......

Rebecca couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans, where she comes to spend the year while her dad is traveling. She's staying in a creepy old house with her Aunt Claudia, who reads Tarot cards for a living. And at the snooty prep school, a pack of filthy-rich girls treat Rebecca like she's invisible. Only gorgeous, unavailable Anton Grey seems to give Rebecca the time of day, but she wonders if he's got a hidden agenda. Then one night, in Lafayette Cemetery, Rebecca makes a friend. Sweet, mysterious Lisette is eager to talk to Rebecca, and to show her the nooks and crannies of the city

Waiting on Wednesday! # 6

Waiting on Wednesday is a great weekly meme hosted by Jill over at breakingthespine! Waiting on Wednesday os when we get to share with everyone what books we are anxiously waiting for to hit bookshelves finally. I know i am waiting for a ton of books to come out and i bet you are too!

Here is my Waiting on Wednesday this Week.....

Title: Alice in Zombieland
Author: Gena Showalter
Pages: 404
Series: White Rabbit Chronicles #1
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Expected Publication Date: September 25th 2012
Synopsis (from goodreads): She won’t rest until she’s sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.

Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that’s all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.

Her father was right. The monsters are real….

To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn’t careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies….

The Weekly Rewind! # 1

 The Weekly Rewind!

So first i wanna thank you all for being patient with me while the school year has started up. It is hard to balance school with the blog but i promise you i will keep the blog up and running. I love book blogging and wouldn't trade it in for anything. I apologize if i miss a few memes and events here and there due to school work but i will make sure to blog as much as possible. Thanks for being such great followers!

So here is the Weekly Rewind!

Week of September 2nd 2012....

Monday: Musing Monday! - Have you ever considered writing a book before? What genre would you write? http://theclosetlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/09/musing-monday.html

Tuesday: Top Ten Tuesday! - The Top Ten Books on Your Fall To-Read List http://theclosetlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/09/top-ten-tuesday.html
and
New Releases We Have Been Waiting For! - Carnival of Souls http://theclosetlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/09/new-releases-we-have-been-waiting-for.html

Wednesday: Waiting on Wednesday! - Josie Griffin is Not a Vampire http://theclosetlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/09/waiting-on-wednesday.html

Friday: Friday Finds! - Beautiful Creatures - Fated - Hemlock http://theclosetlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/09/friday-finds.html

Saturday: Stacking the Shelves! - Twenty Boy Summer - Seventeenth Summer http://theclosetlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/09/stacking-shelves.html
and
Review of Love and Leftovers! http://theclosetlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/09/love-and-leftovers-review.html

New Releases This Week!

Here are the New Releases coming out this week that we at The Closet Library have all been waiting for!

Title: Daylight Saving
Author: Edward Hogan
Pages: 224
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Synopsis (from goodreads): Can you save someone from something that’s already happened?Daniel’s expectations for his forced vacation with his father at the Leisure World Holiday Complex are low. He hates sports, and his father is mostly lost in drink and depression. But then he sees a strange girl swimming in the fake lake, and everything changes. Lexi has a smart mouth and a killer swim stroke, but dark secrets swirl around her. She’s got bruises and cuts that seem to be getting worse instead of better. She’s always alone. And her watch is ticking backwards. When a dark figure begins to stalk Lexi and Daniel, the truth must come out. This gripping ghost story will raise goose bumps and questions: does a traumatic past mean the future is a foregone conclusion?

Title: Hanging by a Thread
Author: Sophie Littlefield
Pages: 288
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Synopsis (from goodreads): Summer is the best part of the year in Winston, California, and the Fourth of July is the highlight of the season. But the perfect town Clare remembers has changed, and everyone is praying that this summer will be different from the last two—that this year's Fourth of July festival won't see one of their own vanish without a trace, leaving no leads and no suspects. The media are in a frenzy predicting a third disappearance, but the town depends on tourist dollars, so the residents of Winston are trying desperately to pretend nothing's wrong.And they're not the only ones hiding something.Clare, a seamstress who redesigns vintage clothing, has been blessed—or perhaps cursed—with a gift: she can see people's pasts when she touches their clothes. When she stumbles across a denim jacket that once belonged to Amanda Stavros, last year's Fourth of July victim, Clare sees her perfect town begin to come apart at the seams.In a town where appearance means everything, how deep beneath the surface will Clare dig to uncover a murderer?

Title: Unspoken
Author: Sarah Rees Brennan
Pages: 370
Publisher: Random House
Synopsis (from goodreads): Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met . . . a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn’t suffered too much from not fitting in. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Her life is in order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head.But all that changes when the Lynburns return.
The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami is not one to shy away from the unknown—in fact, she’s determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the-Vale is suddenly posing. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him?

Title: Josie Griffin is Not a Vampire 

Author: Heather Swain

Pages: 272

Publisher: Speak

Synopsis (from goodreads): When former good girl turned rebel Josie Griffin gets busted for what was in her mind perfectly acceptable revenge on her cheating dog of a boyfriend, she lands herself in anger management therapy. It could be worse: it could be juvvie, or she could be a zombie cheerleader like the rest of her former friends. But there's something strange about therapy--these are not normal kids. There's the wannabe ladies man with a weird accent, Johann; the blindingly gorgeous Helios; Avis with his wild dreads; and Tarren, the sprite of a girl with a wicked temper. And all of them keep talking about "powers." Josie knows that has to be impossible, but strange things start happening, and nothing weird ever happens in Indiana. After all, there're no such things as vampires, werewolves, Greek gods, or fairies . . . right?

Top Ten Tuesday! # 2

Top Ten Tuesday is a great meme hosted by brokeandbookish! This weeks theme is........

Top Ten Books That Make You Think (About The World, People, Life, etc.)

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Musing Monday! # 4

Musing Monday is a great meme hosted by shouldbereading! This weeks Musing question is...

Do you take notes while you read?

My Answer: 
Yes! I actually have had a habit for a long time now of making notes in the margins in the books i read and also i underline my favorite quotes in the book. I have always thought that this helps me understand and experience the book more. I always have to have a writing utensil in my hand while i read or it just isn't right.  

Love And Leftovers Review!

Title: Love and Leftovers

Author: Sarah Tregay

Publication Date: December 27th 2011
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 432

Synopsis(from Goodreads):My wish is to fall cranium over Converse in dizzy daydream-worthy love.

(If only it were that easy.)

Marcie has been dragged away from home for the summer--from Idaho to a family summerhouse in New Hampshire. She's left behind her friends, a group of freaks and geeks called the Leftovers, including her emo-rocker boyfriend, and her father.

By the time Labor Day rolls around, Marcie suspects this "summer vacation" has become permanent. She has to start at a new school, and there she leaves behind her Leftover status when a cute boy brings her breakfast and a new romance heats up. But understanding love, especially when you've watched your parents' affections end, is elusive. What does it feel like, really? Can you even know it until you've lost it?

"Love & Leftovers" is a beautifully written story of one girl's journey navigating family, friends, and love, and a compelling and sexy read that teens will gobble up whole.

 

My Review: When i first got this book i was a little hesitant about it. I was hesitant becuase this book is written in verse. And when it comes to books in verse sometimes i find them a little confusing and that they do not create enough of a story. But that was not the case for this book. Lets start out with the fact that i LOVED this book. It was heartfelt, funny, and oh so real. At some points in the book the narrarator, Marcie, sounded like she was me talking. This book is so refeshing. Tregay really sounds like a teenage girl in this book, so it makes it the perfect young adult read. Tregay just seems to really understand the teenage mind it portrays it perfectly throughout the book. The book is full with dilemas, family, heartbreak, and love. Tregay was also able to create two not one but two fantastic heartthrobing guys in this book. It made it a little hard for me at some points because i was torn between which guy to choose. J.D. or Linus? I finally chose that Linus was the best. This is such a cute love story that every girl would want to and should read! This book is a masterpiece!

 

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

 

 

Stacking The Shelves! # 3

Stacking the Shelves is a great meme hosted by tyngasreviews! Every Saturday we get to share what books we added to our shelves this week!

Guidelines: 

• Create your own Stacking The Shelves post. You can use my official graphic or your own, but please link back to Tynga’s Reviews so more people can join the fun!
• You can set your post any way you want, simple book list, covers, pictures, vlog, sky is the limit!
• I am posting Stacking The Shelves on Saturdays, but feel free to post yours any day that fits you.
• Visit Tynga’s Reviews on Saturday and add your link so others can visit you

• Visit other participants link to find out what they added to their shelves
  
  
  Here Is What i added to my shelves this week!
  
  
  
  Title: Twenty Boy Summer
  Author: Sarah Ockler 
  
  Synopsis(From goodreads): According to Anna’s best friend, Frankie, twenty days in Zanzibar Bay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy every day, there’s a pretty good chance Anna will find her first summer romance. Anna lightheartedly agrees to the game, but there’s something she hasn’t told Frankie–she’s already had her romance, and it was with Frankie’s older brother, Matt, just before his tragic death one year ago.TWENTY BOY SUMMER explores what it truly means to love someone, what it means to grieve, and ultimately, how to make the most of every beautiful moment life has to offer.
  
  Title: Seventeenth Summer 
  Author: Maureen Daly
  Synopsis(from goodreads): Until the summer before college, Angie Morrow didn't really date. Her mother didin't like her to go out much. But no one -- not even Angie's mother -- can resist the charm of strikingly handsome Jack Duluth. His good looks grab Angies's attention from the moment in June when Jack throws Angie a smile at McKight's drugstore. And on their first date sailing under the stars -- when Jack leans in and whispers to Angie, "You look nice with the wind in your hair," the strange new feeling s begin. Tingles, prickles, warmth: the tell-tale signs of romance. It's the beginning of an unforgettable summer for Angie, full of wonder, warmth, tears, challenge, and love.Maureen Daly had created a love story so honest that it has withstood the test of time, winning new fans for more than six decades. Today, this classic is enjoyed by many who think of it as the quintessential love story, and as a glimpse of love in the 1940's; a refreshing alternative to modern love stories, reflecting the beauty and innocence of new love.
  
  

Friday Finds! # 3

Friday Finds is a great meme hosted by shouldbereading! This is where we get to showcase the books we added to our to be read lists!
My Friday Finds this week are....

Title: Beautiful Creature
Author: Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Synopsis(from goodreads): Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

Title: Fated
Author: Alyson Noel
Synopsis (from goodreads): Lately strange things have been happening to Daire Santos. Animals follow her, crows mock her, and glowing people appear out of nowhere. Worried that Daire is having a nervous breakdown, her mother packs her off to stay in the dusty plains of Enchantment, New Mexico with a grandmother she’s never met.There she crosses paths with Dace, a gorgeous guy with unearthly blue eyes who she’s encountered before...but only in her dreams. And she’ll get to know her grandmother—a woman who recognizes Daire’s bizarre episodes for what they are. A call to her true destiny as a Soul Seeker, one who can navigate between the worlds of the living and the dead. Her grandmother immediately begins teaching her to harness her powers—but it’s an art that must be mastered quickly. Because Dace’s brother is an evil shape-shifter who’s out to steal her powers. Now Daire must embrace her fate as a Soul Seeker and find out if Dace is one guy she’s meant to be with...or if he’s allied with the enemy she’s destined to destroy

Title: Hemlock
Author: Kathleen Peacock
Synopsis (from goodreads): Mackenzie and Amy were best friends. Until Amy was brutally murdered.Since then, Mac's life has been turned upside down. She is being haunted by Amy in her dreams, and an extremist group called the Trackers has come to Mac's hometown of Hemlock to hunt down Amy's killer:A white werewolf.Lupine syndrome--also known as the werewolf virus--is on the rise across the country. Many of the infected try to hide their symptoms, but bloodlust is not easy to control.Wanting desperately to put an end to her nightmares, Mac decides to investigate Amy's murder herself. She discovers secrets lurking in the shadows of Hemlock, secrets about Amy's boyfriend, Jason, her good pal Kyle, and especially her late best friend. Mac is thrown into a maelstrom of violence and betrayal that puts her life at risk.Kathleen Peacock's thrilling novel is the first in the Hemlock trilogy, a spellbinding urban fantasy series filled with provocative questions about prejudice, trust, lies, and love.




oh boy my TBR list is getting o so longg