Friday, August 28, 2015

Kiss Me Again By: Rachel Vail

Kiss Me Again  (If We Kiss #2)
Author: Rachel Vail
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: December 2012
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
Kiss Me Again, the sequel to Rachel Vail's beloved contemporary teen romance If We Kiss, follows Charlie (Charlotte) Collins as she struggles with her feelings for her longtime crush Kevin Lazarus after their parents marry and he becomes her stepbrother.

It was complicated enough when their parents were only dating and Kevin was going out with Charlie's best friend, Tess. Now, living under one roof, Charlie and Kevin are crossing paths and crossing lines, sneaking around at night and then sitting down to breakfast together as a family. It feels so crazy--exciting, confusing, impossible, and romantic. It can't last, not like this, but if anybody discovers their secret, everything could explode...


Thursday, August 27, 2015

If We Kiss By: Rachel Vail

If We Kiss (If We Kiss #1)
Author: Rachel Vail
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: December 2011
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Rating: 2.5/5
Summary:
Kevin let me quickly around the side of the building, then stopped. I managed not to crash into him. I tried to look calm, cool, unperturbed. I told myself not to laugh, especially not a snorting kind of laugh. "wha...what did"

And then he kissed me.


Charlotte (Charlie to her friends) finds herself falling for a boy who is off-limits. Her best friend is in love with him, and her mother and his father are dating. Still, Charlie can't help but wonder, what would happen if we kissed?



Book Haul!

Hello Bookworms! As you can tell this is my third Book haul in the last...what three weeks? I know I have an addiction--just look at my Instagram page! I'm hoping that this will be my last book haul for the month of August, as I am going back to College again very soon. Some of these books that I have today are ones I've been wanting for a while, and thanks to some Chapters Bonus cards, I was able to get them all! Most of these books, I'm sure you all have heard and are thinking, MORGAN! how could you not have read these yet?!! Well I assure you bookworms, I'll be getting on board, and trying to get as many of these famous reads on my shelves read! So lets get started with (hopefully) this last haul for August! ;)


Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Top Ten Tuesday

Hello Bookworms! This is my first Top Ten Tuesday! I hope to be doing more in the future, but it may not be every Tuesday (as i tend to forget things..Uh Oh!) So for each of my Top Ten Tuesday blogs, I will be posting my top ten of anything. it could be favourite/worst characters, auto buy authors, favourite/worst books--You name it! My lists also are not in order of favourite to least or anything close to that type. I just post in order of what comes to mind. :)

Monday, August 24, 2015

Forever... By: Judy Blume

Forever...
Author: Judy Blume
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: April 2014 (Originally in 1975)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Rating: 4.75/5
Summary:
There's a first for everything.

When you build up something in your mind--really imagine it, wish for it--sometimes, when it actually happens, it doesn't live up to your expectations.


True love is nothing like that.


Especially not for Katherine and Michael, who can't get enough of each other. Their relationship is unique: sincere, intense, and fun all at the same time. Although they haven't been together all that long, they know it's serious. A whole world opens up as a young passion and sexuality bloom.


But it's senior year of high school, and there are big changed ahead. Michael and Katherine are destined for another big "First": a decision. Is this love of a lifetime, or the very beginning of a lifetime of love?


Owl Crate Unboxing!


Sunday, August 23, 2015

Everybody Rise By: Stephanie Clifford

**SPOILER ALERT**
Everybody Rise
Author: Stephanie Clifford
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: August 2015
Format: Paperback ARC
Pages: 384
Rating: 3.75/5
Summary:
It's 2006 in the Manhattan of the young and glamorous. Money and class are colliding in a city that it about to go over a financial precipice and take much of the country with it. At 26, bright, funny, and socially anxious Evelyn Beegan is determined to carve her own path in life and free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto the Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she gets a job at a social network aimed at the elite, she's forced to embrace them.

Recruiting new members for the site, Evelyn steps into a promised land of Adirondack camps, Newport cottages and Southampton clubs thick with socialites and Wall Streeters. Despite herself, Evelyn finds the lure of belonging intoxicating, and starts trying to pass as old money herself. When her father, a crusading c;ass-action lawyer, is indicted for bribery, appearances in her new life, grasping with increasing desperation as the ground underneath her begins to give away.



Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Book Haul!!

Here we are again. Not even the last day of the month or anything and I have yet another book haul to deliver to you guys! I thought i would assure you that it wouldn't be a long haul, but I completely forgot the books I just got from a Half Price Book Store a couple weeks back--Whoops!! Obviously now I can tick each one of these books off my long list of books. Not only are they on my TBR pile, but they are also on my list of books/series I should be getting....With that being said lets get into my book haul!


Monday, August 17, 2015

Now I'll Tell You Everything By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

(CAUTION: SPOILER ALERT!!)
Now I'll Tell You Everything (Alice #25)
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: September 2014
Format: Paperback
Pages: 544
Rating: 4.5/5
Summary:
It's Alice-for the rest of her life! Yes, the very last Alice book, and it reveals every last bit you'd want to know about Alice, including whether she spends the rest of her life with Patrick! "This is the book where Alice, every girl;s girl, turns into every lady's lady" (VOYA).

Alice McKinley is going to college! And everything, from her room to her classes to her friends, is about to change. Stoically, nervously, Alice puts her best foot forward...and steps into the rest of her life.


Will Alice's dream of becoming a psychologist come true? Are she and her BFFs destined to remain BFF? And with so many miles between them, will Alice and Patrick stay together...or break up for good? Will there be baby Alice's in her future? As Alice well knows, life isn't always so predictable, and there are more than a few curveballs waiting to be thrown her way.


This is it. The grand finale. Everything you've ever wanted to know about Alice McKinley will be revealed!


Friday, August 14, 2015

You and Me and the Space In Between By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

You and Me and the Space In Between (Alice#22-24)
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: May 2013
Format: Paperback
Pages: 880
Rating: 3.5/5
Summary:
Senior year is a big deal, but is Alice ready for it? Big decisions (college). Big parties (senior prom!). Big heartache (Patrick is in college-halfway across the country!). Alice needs to step up in a big way-the weather unexpected storm of all sorts. This compilation of three Alice titles includes Alice in Charge, Incredibly Alice, and Alice on Board.


Please Don't Be True By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Please Don't Be True (Alice #19-21)
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: March 2011
Format: Paperback
Pages: 768
Rating: 3.5/5
Summary:
The ups and downs of high school life continue in the third bind-up in the Alice series. Please Don't Be True, is an adventure of growing up in Alice's junior year, when she and her friends deal with issues like a pregnancy scare and a heartbreaking good-bye. But no matter what changes, Alice is as relatable as ever.


It's Not Like I Planned It This Way By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

It's Not Like I Planned It This Way (Alice #16-18)
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Antheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: October 2010
Format: Paperback
Pages: 816
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
The ups and downs of high school life continue in the second and third bind-ups in the Alice series. In It's Not Like I Planned It This Way, Alice's sophomore year is chock full of change, from a new living arrangement, to a possible new relationship, to the new found freedom that comes with driving. And in Please Don't Be True, the adventure of growing up continues in Alice's Junior year, when she and her friends deal with issue like pregnancy scare and heartbreaking good-bye. But no matter what changes, Alice is as relatable as ever.


I Like Him, He Likes Her By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor


I Like Him, He Likes Her (Alice #13-15)
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Antheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: May 2010
Format: Paperback
Pages: 640
Rating: 2.5/5
Summary:
Find a Penny pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck...except, of course, if that Penny is charming and pretty and funny, and the person picking her up just happens to be your boyfriend. Alice McKinley's freshman year is not as "lucky" as she was hoping it would be. But she is trying to look on the bright side. There are worse things than being single for a semester...for a school year...for the whole summer...At least Alice can count on her best friends for support-in theory, anyway. Lately they haven't been all that there-for-her. In fact. it seems like Pam and Liz are suddenly involved in intense, secret conversations whenever Alice is around.

Single is starting to feel a whole lot like solo.


Thursday, August 6, 2015

Book Haul!!

I think we can all relate to the feeling we get when we have a delivery in the mail, or purely the book itself. There's always a great deal going on in the bargain section, or we find a gem of a book hidden within the shelves that make us so happy, we just want to go home and start reading it right away...but wait, there's a book you're currently reading and you need to finish it first.

So here it is, a new book haul from delivery to shelves, and will sit there until my TBR pile gets smaller...

Sunday, August 2, 2015

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