In My Shopping Bag

In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren, inspired by Alea from Pop Culture Junkie and explores the contents of our mailbox ( Or shopping bag) on a weekly basis.

From Half-priced Books:

The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams

An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults

A YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

Recommended by The New England Children's Booksellers Association

Description From Amazon

Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated community without questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters, with two more on the way. That is, without questioning them much---if you don’t count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her meetings with Joshua, the boy she hopes to choose for herself instead of having a man chosen for her.

But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle---who already has six wives---Kyra must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever.

Evernight by Claudia Gray

Description From Amazon

Bianca wants to escape.

At the eerily Gothic Evernight Academy, the other students are sleek, smart, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in.

When she meets handsome, brooding Lucas, he warns her to be careful—even when it comes to caring about him. But the connection between them can't be denied. Bianca will risk anything to be with Lucas, but dark secrets are fated to tear them apart . . . and to make Bianca question everything she's ever believed.

That's all for now!

Friday Finds

The idea is to share, every Friday, about books that you’ve recently discovered (never heard of before) that sound really good! And is hosted by Should Be Reading.






Split by Stefan Petrucha














Anxious Hearts by Tucker Shaw

Don't they look awesome!

Recommend Me!

Recommend Me is hosted by The Neverending Shelf

Recommend Me is a weekly event in which participants will pick one of their all time favorite reads to share. This could be a book that your read yesterday or years ago.

To play along, grab a favorite read and tell us about it. You can include your thoughts about the novel, its summary, your favorite memory related to the novel... the possibilities are limitless. If you are up for a challenge, you can also include:

* Your review of the novel
* Links to others' reviews of the novel
* Recommending to a general group of readers or if you want to be extra daring, to specific reader friends

I Recommend: Eighth Grade Bites (Chronicles of Vladimir Tod) by Heather Brewer

Description from www.heatherbrewer.com

~ALA 2008 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers~

If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.

Junior high school really sucks for thirteen-year-old Vladimir Tod, and not in the good slurp-up-the-blood kind of way. A gang of bullies harasses him daily, the principal is dogging his every move, and the girl he really likes prefers his best friend. Oh, and Vlad has to hide the fact that he's a vampire.

When the one teacher he really connects with mysteriously vanishes, Vlad is determined to find him. But then Vlad finds an unsettling note scribbled across his essay: "I know your secret."
Vlad must locate his missing teacher, dodge the principal, resist the bullies’ tempting invitations to Bite me!, and get a date for the dance—all before he is exposed for the teen vampire he is.

Other books in the series: Ninth Grade Slays, Tenth Grade Bleeds, Eleventh Grade Burns.

For more info go to www.heatherbrewer.com

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by the lovely Jill over at Breaking the Spine.

The Lost Island of Tamarind by Nadia Aguiar.



Description from Amazon

Maya Nelson isn’t your typical thirteen-year-old. She’s spent her whole life living on the sea with her marine biologist parents, her younger brother, Simon, and baby sister, Penny. Maya used to love living on a sailboat, but lately, everything feels terribly claustrophobic. Maya longs to go to school on land. To make friends. To lead a normal life. But when a violent storm hits and Maya’s parents are washed overboard, life becomes anything but normal. The children manage to steer the boat toward a mysterious island, to a place that doesn’t exist on a map.

Welcome to Tamarind, where fish can fly, pirates patrol the waters, jaguars lurk, the islanders are at war, and an evil, child-stealing enchantress rules the jungle.

Maya never imagined she’d have to face so many dangers. But then, who could have imagined a place like Tamarind. . . .?

In her stunning first novel, Nadia Aguiar presents a heart-pounding adventure tale about a haunting, fantastical island cut off from the outside world.


I love that cover! It was done by one of my favorite artist who did books like Mercy Thompson series and Alpha & Omega! Here's his website Dan Dos Santos

On My Radar

This is a weekly posting i will do every Sunday and is inspired by Teen Vogue.

Book(s):

The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles, #1) by Rick Riordan

SPIN by Catherine McKenzie

They just look so good!

Movie(s):

Growl

Love this poster! And Werewolf's meet fight club! Awesome.

Gaga Eyes For:

Anton Yelchin
In:
Star Trek (Pavel Chekov)

Charlie Bartlett (Lead role)

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (Ace Zuckerman)

You know he is cute!

Matchbox Twenty/Rob Thomas

Matchbox Twenty/Rob Thomas was the first Band/Musician i learned to sing with! And Rob Thomas is such a sweet guy all around!

The Thomases are committed animal lovers and supporters of animal charities. Rob and his wife have established the Sidewalk Angels Foundation, a non-profit organization created to help needy people in and around America’s big cities by partnering with various charities to assist people who get lost in the system, those who cannot afford medical care.

He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as Willie Nelson, Mick Jagger, Marc Anthony, Pat Green, Taylor Hicks, Travis Tritt and Daughtry.

I have fixed the comments! (I think) Thank You Kristi!

Well that is all i got for now! Bye!

In My Shopping Bag

In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren, inspired by Alea from Pop Culture Junkie and explores the contents of our mailbox ( Or shopping bag) on a weekly basis.

From Half-priced Books:

Wolf's Trap by W. D. Gagliani

Description From Amazon

A murdered friend.

A descent into the darkness of the porn world.

A cop whose tragic past includes a terrible secret and a horrible burden.

A serial killer with depraved obsessions and a

blood grudge.

They will meet in Wisconsin's dark and chilly North Woods.

But who will be the hunter, and who will be

the hunted?

And how many innocents will have to die?

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Description From Amazon

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls.

Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they’ve closed tight. And every 30 days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.

Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent up—the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers.

Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind.

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Description From Amazon

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant

Ace Detective
Snappy Dresser
Razor–tongued Wit
Crackerjack Sorcerer
and
Walking, Talking,
Fire-throwing Skeleton

—as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve-year-old.

These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil.

The end of the world?

Over his dead body.

Well that's it for me! See ya next time!

Friday Finds

Brighid's Quest by P.C. Cast

Description from Amazon

"I will go."

Rather than follow her family's restrictive rules, centaur Brighid chose to set out on her own to make friends and form relationships with humans as well as centaurs.

Now she's facing her toughest challenge yet. While helping guide home a grieving human—Cuchulainn, her friend Elphame's brother—Brighid finds

herself beginning to care for him. An emotion forbidden by her clan.

To add to her troubles, the Great Goddess has awoken the power of the Shaman within Brighid—the first centaur so blessed in ages. And just as she's torn between taking up a power she never expected and a love she's afraid to admit to, Brighid receives a vision of a tragedy that might destroy everyone she's ever cared about….

Illyria by Elizabeth Hand

Description from Amazon

Madeleine and Rogan are first cousins, best friends, twinned souls, each other’s first love. Even within their large, disorderly family—all descendants of a famous actress—their intensity and passion for theater sets them apart. It makes them a little dangerous. When they are cast in their school’s production of Twelfth Night, they are forced to face their separate talents and futures, and their future together. This masterful short novel, winner of the World Fantasy Award, is magic on paper.

The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman

Description from Amazon

Elizabeth has a new job at an unusual library— a lending library of objects, not books. In a secret room in the basement lies the Grimm Collection. That’s where the librarians lock away powerful items straight out of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales: seven-league boots, a table that produces a feast at the blink of an eye, Snow White’s stepmother’s sinister mirror that talks in riddles.

When the magical objects start to disappear, Elizabeth embarks on a dangerous quest to catch the thief before she can be accused of the crime—or captured by the thief.

Well that's all i got! See ya next time!

Waiting on Wednesday

Glimmerglass (Faeriewalker, Book 1) by Jenna Black

Description From Amazon

It’s all she’s ever wanted to be, but it couldn’t be further from her grasp…

Dana Hathaway doesn’t know it yet, but she’s in big trouble. When her alcoholic mom shows up at her voice recital drunk, again, Dana decides she’s had enough and runs away to find her mysterious father in Avalon: the only place on Earth where the regular, everyday world and the captivating, magical world of Faerie intersect. But from the moment Dana sets foot in Avalon, everything goes wrong, for it turns out she isn't just an ordinary teenage girl—she's a Faeriewalker, a rare individual who can travel between both worlds, and the only person who can bring magic into the human world and technology into Faerie.

Soon, Dana finds herself tangled up in a cutthroat game of Fae politics. Someone's trying to kill her, and everyone seems to want something from her, from her newfound friends and family to Ethan, the hot Fae guy Dana figures she’ll never have a chance with… until she does. Caught between two worlds, Dana isn’t sure where she’ll ever fit in and who can be trusted, not to mention if her world will ever be normal again…

It sounds like a good read! Plus that cover is so captivating!

Alexander Wang

In My Shopping Bag

So my blog is being very cruel today (Curse you computer gods!) so I'm going too just do links!

In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren, inspired by Alea from Pop Culture Junkie and explores the contents of our mailbox ( Or shopping bag) on a weekly basis.

From Half-priced Books:

Magic to the Bone by Devon Monk

Magic in the Shadows by Devon Monk

Wolf's Gambit by W.D. Gagliani

From Barnes & Noble:

Teen Vogue

A Match Made In High School by Kristin Walker

Well that's all for me! :D

Recommend Me!

Recommend Me!

Recommend Me is hosted by The Neverending Shelf

Recommend Me is a weekly event in which participants will pick one of their all time favorite reads to share. This could be a book that your read yesterday or years ago.

To play along, grab a favorite read and tell us about it. You can include your thoughts about the novel, its summary, your favorite memory related to the novel... the possibilities are limitless. If you are up for a challenge, you can also include:

* Your review of the novel
* Links to others' reviews of the novel
* Recommending to a general group of readers or if you want to be extra daring, to specific reader friends

I Recommend:

The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes.


Summary: (from Goodreads)
Five shapeshifter novels—one fascinating read!

Hawksong
Danica Shardae, an avian shapeshifter, will do anything in her power to stop the war that has raged between her people and the serpiente—even pretend to be in love with Zane Cobriana, the terrifying leader of her kind’s greatest enemy, and accept him as her pair bond. But will Zane strike as swiftly and lethally as the cobra that is his second form?

Snakecharm
A surprising union has brought peace to the avians and serpiente. Soon a child will be born to carry on their royal lines. But Syfka, an ancient falcon, is claiming that one of her people is hidden in the avian and serpiente land. Is Syfka’s lost falcon just a ruse to stir up controversy among them?

Falcondance
Nicias is a falcon, the son of two exiles from Ahnmik, and images of this distant island have always haunted his dreams. When his visions become more like reality, his parents send him back to the homeland—and a royal falcon—they’ve tried their best to forget.

Wolfcry
Oliza Shardae Cobriana is heir to Wyvern’s Court, home of the avians and serpiente, whose war with each other ended just before Oliza was born. But hatred is slow to die, and Oliza’s serpiente suitor is found beaten in avian land. How can she be expected to lead a unified society if her people still cannot live peacefully together?

Wyvernhail
Hai, daughter of a falcon mother and a deceased cobra father, is considered a mongrel by most, an ally by some, and a friend by few. When Hai’s cousin abdicates the throne of Wyvern’s Court, Hai has visions of destruction. Now she will do anything to protect her new home—even if it means betraying the very people who need her most.

My favorite memory related to the novel is before it was a quartet the first book in the series Hawksong was the first book i WILLINGLY read! And it is now one of my top favorite reads to this day.

Other Quartet's by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes:

The Den of Shadows Quartet

Camilla d'Errico

Did you know that i love her work!


So gorgeous!

Friday Finds

Friday Finds
















Unleashed by Kristopher Reisz Starlighter (Dragons of Starlight) by Bryan Davis
















The Fallen 1: The Fallen and Leviathan by Thomas E Sniegoski Siren by Tricia Rayburn

You know it's funny

Mockjay cover! Book 3 in the hunger games trilogy:

Sweet!

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine

Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising by Jason Henderson

It looks like a good read! and i love the cover!

Well that's all for now!

It's Monday!

It's Monday! What are you reading?

It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week

Read This Past Week: Nothing. I've been through a reading slump but this week seems to have done the trick!

Currently Reading: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Hearts At Stake by Alyxandra Harvey, Soulless by Gail Carriger, Ballad by Maggi Stiefvater and Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. I know it's a BIG list but like i said I've been in a slump! But my good friend Pride and Prejudice is helping me fix that! and i hope I'll be done with most in a few days.

To Read This Week: Stop, Look up! It's gonna take me a few days to know what's next.

Well that's all folks! :D

I got my new car!

I got my new car!

Now when i say car i mean this
That is my old Jr. Dragster! I've been doing this since i was 8! (I've had about four cars now but not all at once) i can go a lot faster now tho (That car can go up to 85mph from a dead stop For quarter-mile) We had to drive to chickasha Oklahoma from Dallas to get my new one. Tho i didn't see much besides the insides of my eyelids! I can't wait till my car is painted and the mortar is on! Then I'll post a pick of it!

Well that is all for now! Bye! :D

In My Shopping Bag

Is really In My Mailbox that was created and hosted by Kristin at The Story Siren

So It is most likely i won't be doing this every week because i don't buy books/clothes/etc every week. Tho i wish i could!

Barns&Noble

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater The Iron King By Julie Kagawa

From Buckle


Daytrip Studded Velvet Taping Top

Friday Finds

Friday Finds


Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold Star Crossed: Aries Rising by Bonnie Hearn Hill

Nomansland by Lesley Hauge Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve

Why you should know Chloe Moretz

"Why you should know Chloe Moretz" From Teen Vogue Daily.

"This ridiculously talented about-to-turn-13-year-old steals the thespian thunder from on-screen dad Nicholas Cage as Hit-Girl in the Marvel-comics-based film Kick-Ass, due out on April 16th. The buzzy movie about average folks who turn themselves into superheroes is all guns, guts, and glory, and Chloe tears it up hardcore. She's also starring in this October's Let Me In, the remake of the Norweigan vampire movie Let The Right One In--easily the coolest vampire movie of the decade (sorry, Twilight Saga). Keep an eye on this most likely to succeed it girl in the making."

Oh yes! Me and my sister are so going!

Well this is my first post and I'm mainly going to be posting images/quotes/etc so here gos nothing!

I Love the artist Camilla D'Errico!



One of my cats tried sleeping on my head at bed time. Safe to say it was not something that makes you wanna paint.



That's right! I don't really like Twilight but i do like Jeff Dunham!

Well that is all for now! BYE!