February 2012
14 posts
Guest Post: Character Backstage with AT Audot...
Hi guys! We have a special treat today, Chrysoula Tzavelas has been awesome and sent us this great guest post as part of the Matchbox Girls tour. Look out for my review on Friday and be sure to check out all the stops to make sure you don’t miss anything!
Today’s interviewer at Character Backstage is AT Audot. In-story, she plays the role of “newfound ally.” She’s interviewing...
The NetGalley Review-a-thon: Go!
It’s Friday! Some of you may have been reviewing away already, but I managed to double book myself with the awesome Love-A-Thon so I’ll be starting bright and early tomorrow morning.
The review-a-thon has only one rule: REVIEW. Make a post with your goal, list the books you review as you go along (you don’t have to post them yet), and feel the relief of a bunch of books...
Mini Challenges!
#2 - New (to me) Bloggers!
I’m being pretty vague with the term ‘new’ here. If I’ve only recently (let’s say past 3 months) found a blog, I’ll count it as new. I generally find my new blogs from twitter so make sure to follow these guys on there too!
Completely Booksessed @TheJennJenn - A super awesome blogger who offered to attempt A Game of Thrones...
My Book Blogging Inspirations
I started to write this post with a whole long monologue about why I started blogging and which blogs I found first and all that, and then my computer decided it was time to restart and it’s all disappeared. It’s probably better for you guys though because now I can just jump into the actual point of this post, giving a shout out and saying thank you to those bloggers who made me...
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Under the Never Sky: Veronica Rossi
Aria has lived her whole life in the protected dome of Reverie. Her entire world confined to its spaces, she’s never thought to dream of what lies beyond its doors. So when her mother goes missing, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland long enough to find her are slim. Then Aria meets an outsider named Perry. He’s searching for someone too. He’s also wild...
Book Club: The Tiger's Wife, Chapters 1 through 4
So far I am loving this book. It feels like taking a step into something magical. As Natalia looks into her Grandfather’s life I feel like I’m making much more of a connection to her than I was at first. She seemed a bit cold and distant but through her Grandfather’s stories more of her personality is coming through. Most of all, I’m enjoying how the chapters are set up...
Sunday Salon: NetGalley Review-A-Thon
I’ve been mumbling and grumbling for months now about how I’m always behind with my reviews. I’m getting much better at actually squishing out time to read what I have for review, only asking for and accepting review books I’m itching to read and restraining myself from going request crazy on NetGalley and Edelweiss.
And while I haven’t read everything I’m...
Neverwhere: Neil Gaiman
In the tradition of Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, the reader is transported into another reality where the only way to survive to give up all we know and accept the realm of the seemingly impossible.
In London, Richard Mayhew is just an average guy, who is about to marry a beautiful woman, Jessica. One night, against his fiance’s wishes, he stops to help poor girl in tatters who...
Book Blogger Love-A-Thon
I’m posting this partly so I don’t forget that I’m excited to participate (I hate when that happens!) and partly so you guys can all run over and sign up to share the love. Katelyn over at Tales of Books and Band’s is determined to share some bloggy love over this Valentines, and I’m more that happy to join in!
Details from her post:
What is a Love-A-Thon, you may...
Our February YA Speculative Fiction Recommendation...
Every month we post one or two books that we feel are so good, everyone should try them as part of the 2012 Speculative Fiction Challenge.
Kris picked this month’s YA and it’s the first in a series that has captivated readers.
Dru Anderson has what her grandmother called “the touch.” (Comes in handy when you’re traveling from town to town with your dad, hunting...
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Lord of Light: Roger Zelanzy
Award winning American writer Roger Joseph Zelazny was known to snatch up existing mythologies for his own purposes. This one was no exception to the rule. Lord of Light was awarded the Hugo award for best novel in 1968 and apparently nominated for the Nebula for the same reason. It is also part of the SF Masterworks series, whose aim it was bring important books like this back into print. And if...
The Speculative Fiction Challenge: February Link...
This is where you can link up your reviews, discussions and other Speculative Fiction type links. You must have already signed up as a participant in the 2012 Speculative Fiction Challenge to add your links and have your books counted towards your challenge goal. You can sign up until November 31st.
Each month we will select one or two books to be highlighted as our challenge recommendations to...
Game of Thrones Announcement(s)
So if you’re participating in our Game of Thrones readalong, you may have noticed that Kwame’s final readalong post has yet failed to appear. It will be coming up this weekend, he’s finished but sick.
I, however, am nowhere near finished. In fact, I think I’m back at update two someplace. That was kind of a fail. So what we’re going to do is…
Sunday:...
NetGalley January Wrap Up
January is over and done with, which is kind of scary. That means that it’s time for some wrapping up!
I had 9 books on my list and read 2 of them before January had started, 2 others actually in January and 2 that weren’t on the list at all. My total number of books read in January is: 7. So more than half were from NetGalley which sounds nifty.
NetGalley books read:
The...
