In My Mailbox!

"In My Mailbox" is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren, and it is a meme where all bloggers post about what wonderful books and goodies they received in their mailboxes this week! This is my first IMM because my other meme was the same thing but I figured it would be more recognizable this way! =D

Here is what I got this Week:

For review:
Deliruim By Lauren Oliver (Harper Teen) Had it for a while but
I let me friend borrow it!
Enclave(Razorland #1) by Anna Aguirre(MacMillian)
And some swag from Riv Re!

Bought:

Unearthly (Unearthly #1) by Cynthia Hand
Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead (epp!)
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer (My Review HERE)
Before i Fall by Lauren Oliver

Hope your week was filled with many great books!

Friday Blog Hop!

Now for the Follow Fun!

To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list
2. Follow our Featured Bloggers - http://missiontoread.blogspot.com
3. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.
4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don't just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don't say "HI"
6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
7. If you want to show the link list, just follow the link below the entries and copy and paste it within your post!
8. If you're new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

This week's question.....

What is/was your favorite subject in school?

Well, perfect question since I just came back from school after failing yet another AP Chemistry test(you can cross out THAT subject from my favorite list). Well my favorite subject has always been English.Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Dickens, Fitzgerald! No matter how psycho my teacher was (9th grade and this year, no offense to all teachers out there) I always love reading and writing assignments. When we got to get some reading done, everyone moans and groans while I inwardly cheer to myself. Right now we are reading some Edgar Allan Poe and I cannot wait to re-read The Raven! Did I also mention we have 20 minutes of "silent reading time" every class?

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Waiting On Wednesday!

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.


Aw how cute is that little girl! I can tell you what she is thinking: the book she is really, really looking forward to this week! It is so hard to decide but finally I narrowed down my choices to two books. I have never seen another blogger do this, so I am a meme rebel!

And both of them turn out to be YA Romance novels!

Number Uno!

What Happened to Goodbye By Sarah Dessen

Summary:

Another town. Another school. Another Mclean. Ever since her parents' bitter divorce, Mclean and her father have been fleeing their unhappy past. And Mclean's become a pro at reinventing herself with each move. But in Lakeview, Mclean finds herself putting down roots and making friends—in part, thanks to Dave, the most real person Mclean's ever met. Dave just may be falling in love with her, but can he see the person she really is? Does Mclean herself know?

Number Two!

So Much Closer by Susane Colasanti

Summary:

Scott Abrams is the love of Brooke's life. He just doesn't know it yet. So when his family moves to New York City the summer before senior year, Brooke has no choice but to follow Scott. It's her last chance to prove to him that they're meant to be together.

What will Brooke do when her biggest dream finally comes true, but instead she wants something more?

Hope you liked my picks! Till next Wednesday!

To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list
2. Follow our Featured Bloggers - http://www.loganeturner.com/
3. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.
4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don't just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don't say "HI"
6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
7. If you want to show the link list, just follow the link below the entries and copy and paste it within your post!
8. If you're new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

Question of the Week:

Who Do You Cheer For?

As you can see, I am a bookworm. A non-sport-playing bookworm. So I don't know much about sports. Baseball? Don't really care much for (sorry baseball fans). Golf? Not for me. Volleyball? Maybe. Basketball? Eh. But Football?That is one of the few sports I get excited about. Especially when the Cowboys play, no matter what happens I am with them all the way! Texas girl remember? But since they are not going to play in the Superbowl..... I gotta cheer for the Jets! My brother is a fan, and so we started watching the games together (brother and sister bonding *insert aww here*), and they are pretty good. So I think they have a good chance to win as much as any other team.

Hope I didn't make a fool of myself talking about sports......as you can see, I don't know much about them. =D

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!

New followers/bloggers, let me know what you think of the blog in the comments please! Need to tweak and fix somethings, but for the time being I am making a list. A loong list. Procrastinating? No I wish. I am a little bit sick with coughing and all the other sick stuff so I will get to those things in the list....eventually.

Review: Gilr, Stolen By April Henry

Girl, Stolen By April Henry
Publish Date: October 2010
Publishers: Henry Holt and Company
Source: Author/Publisher (ARC)
Age recommendation: There is really nothing to look for, except some curse words.
Summary from Goodreads:

Sixteen year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills her prescription at the pharmacy. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, their car is being stolen—with her inside! Griffin hadn’t meant to kidnap Cheyenne, all he needed to do was steal a car for the others. But once Griffin's dad finds out that Cheyenne’s father is the president of a powerful corporation, everything changes—now there’s a reason to keep her. What Griffin doesn’t know is that Cheyenne is not only sick with pneumonia, she is blind. How will Cheyenne survive this nightmare, and if she does, at what price?



Review:
"Please let me go, I won't tell!"
When I read the summary for Girl, Stolen I though, "How in the world is this author going to portray the point of view of a blind girl?," because before I though that sight was essential to portray a story. Boy, did she prove me wrong. And I have the answer for the question , brilliantly. Cheyenne, the main character, is so independent and uses her other senses that it made it very easy to relate to her and admire her at the same time.Half of the time I didn't even remember that Cheyenne is blind, and the other half, when I did, I didn't find it difficult to understand and I didn't find so bad that I couldn't see her surroundings

Because, see, that is where I think Griffin comes in. He is ,of course, able to see everything and since he is Cheyennes unintentional kidnapper he is with her at all times. And every other chapter it is in his point of view so it is even more refreshingly different to have the story told from both point of views. Griffin, he is the sweetest and most adorable guy! Don't judge me, I like sweet guys with a dangerous streak, you know you do too.
I loved Griffin from beginning of the book to the end. When he kidnapped Cheyenne not only did that change her life, but his too.

Which is why I am sorry to say that there was sort of one-sided romance with this story. Which is kind of sorta understandable under the circumstances, but still! Not much romance in a one-sided interest. And I think you guys can guess who the love interest is...But other than that the action was great and the suspense was well....suspenseful! =D But being the romance-lover that I am, I am sort of disappointed with that part of the plot but that wasn't the main idea for this novel so all in all, I enjoyed reading it.

Cheyenne was a strong and very admirable main character. I found myself cheering her on the whole book. Her perseverance, which I wouldn't have in that situation, is very impressive. And her intelligence and kick-ass demeanor is what I liked the most about her. But girlfriend should have cut Griffin some slack! He was just doing what he was told to do! Just kidding, sorta.

If you like suspense, this is a short and refreshingly different read.

Rating:

Excerpt:
"Then the cough pushed its way up out of her chest, tore though her throat, and shattered the silence. And then the footsteps charged toward her." Pg. 171

Cover love: Simple and the cover itself tells a story.
What is next?: There is still nothing about a sequel to this book*fingers crossed*. Probably never will be, it doesn't seem like it. But if you liked April's books you can read her other YA thriller Shock Point.

About the Author:

She says: "I grew up in a small Oregon town, and I still remember my mom teaching me with alphabet flash cards. White with a picture of an object on one side and a letter on the other, those cards glowed with magic."

To read more about her and her books go to her site HERE.

Sorry for taking so long to review this. I have been overwhelmed ever since I got the new laptop trying to get back up to my feet after the robbery.

WINNER!

Okay the time has finally come to announce the fist winner of my first giveaway EVAR! I am so excited about this because I know that there are many more of these giveaways to come. Bigger, better, and awesomer! I would have loved to give each and ever one of you lovely followers a copy but sorry, only got 2.

I finally chose the winner using my awesome mathematical and scientific skills and found out that there is only one way to pick a winner: make my mom pick a from a hat with little pieces of paper numbered 1 to 50. So winner, thank my mom who still keeps asking me why I made her pick that paper from the hat(it is the number in which you enter the form in my spreadsheet).Makes it all more fun! Enough of my babbling! So without further a do.. the winner of the End of 2010 copy Of MATCHED IS.......

*Drum roll*

#13 Melannie Lara!! Whoot! Congrats Melannie!

I will contact you as soon as I can to let you know that you won and ask for your address and other info. Thank-you all so much for participating, I did not know I was gonna get these much responses.

Boys In Books Are Just Better

Boys In Books Are Just Better(BBJB) is going to be a weekly meme where I talk about boys in books that I wish were real, but aren't. Every week I will talk about one drool-worthy boy but at the same time try my best not to spoil anything important for those of you who haven't read the book.
I will try to post a picture or drawing that resembles that fictional--wish he wasn't--boy. This weekly post is my way of having fun but at the same time I will be wondering to myself: WHY AREN'T THEY REAL?!
Every time I read a book where the guy is everything a girl could dream of, I envy all of those fictional girls(Katniss) who have this fictional boy's heart(Peeta). You guys can guess who I am gonna talk about next week.....*wink*

I will not have a criteria for this but I do have to point out that the character HAS to be YA and can be the minor or major character, whichever. Whether he is an Angel, Wolf, Vampire, Dragon, Fairy or human we love them all! So if you have any suggestions or would like to talk about your BBJB let me know in the comments or e-mail me. I have plenty of BBJB to last a whole year but this isn't just my meme is all of you guys!

I am thinking about having guests posts with some fellow bloggers who share the love for fictional boys as I do. So I will keep you guys posted. But for moment I just wanted to give you guys a heads up for next Saturday And If you suggest a boy, also list the book he was in in case I haven't read that book so then I can read it.
Have A Great Saturday!! I am off to read Across The Universe! =D New BBJB perhaps?

Feature & Follow Friday(4)

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4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
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Question of the Week:
What makes up your non-human family??


My non-human family? Well, that would have to be my laptop. It is not human or family.
It's name is Toby, and it and I have had great times together. Been blogging for a while now, and I don't know what I would do without it. I have no pets because the little brother is allergic to cats and my mom doesn't like dogs. And when I when I am in school, who would take care of it? So my closes non-human family would be my laptop.

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!

**Whoever entered my MATCHED giveaway, I will choose the winner today(Friday)! =D Good luck everyone!

Dark Days Of Supernatural

Attention Texas Bloggers AND Readers, a lot of bloggers are uniting forces to bring The Dark Days Of Supernatural tour to Texas. The authors in this tour are:

• Ellen Schreiber (Once In a Full Moon)
• Cynthia Hand (Unearthly)
• Courtney Allison Moulton (Angelfire) Check out her Website, it is AMAZING!
  
• Kimberly Derting (Desires Of The Dead, Body Finder#2)
• Claudia Gray (Afterlife)-- I love her books!

Um, who wouldn't want these freaking amazing authors to come to Texas?! Well I do, so to pitch in my little grain of salt, I am doing this post and I encourage every reader and blogger in Texas to do so too! Even if you are not in Texas but would like to help us out, it would mean a lot. Leave your post on the comments section because I would love and give a shout out to all of the Texas bloggers! Here are some of the Texas bloggers who have already posted about this:

• Girls In The Stacks
  
• Cari's Book Blog
  
• GReads
• A Blog About Nothing

I am sure there are many more blogs that have come together for this cause, and I would love to visit them all! Go to any of these sites to Mr.Linky your own post.
Then go to the Pitch Dark Facebook page (click on the pic above) and post your link of the post there. And maybe we will have a Dark Days of Supernatural!

On the side note, if they DO let Texas be a part of the tour *fingers crossed* I live in the Dallas area. If the tour is not close to here, anybody willing to give this not-driving-yet 16 year old a lift? =D

Stuffed Bookshelf (3) "Catching Up"

Okay, since my computer was been stolen I have bought, received, and checked-out a LOT of books to keep hold my sanity!And not turn into a crazy Internet-withdrawn freak!

And so I have been procrastinating and waiting for some books to get here in the mail so I can give you guys a SPECIAL EDITION of Stuffed Bookshelf where I post pictures of the books I have received. And don't forget to leave YOUR link of your own post, because I am a total addict for those kind of posts.

HERE ARE ZEH PICTURES:

For Review:

CRUSADE by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie
Intrinsical by Lani Woodland
CRAVE Melinda Metz and Laura J. Burns
Echoes by Melinda Metz
Heavenly by Jennifer Laurens
Girl, Stolen by April Henry
Born At Midnight C.C. Hunter
Delirium By Lauren Oliver (NOT in pictures because currently my best friend borrowed it, she is almost done and she loves it as much as I do!)

ARC Tours:
Crescendo(Hush, Hush #2) by Becca Fitzpatrick (Look at my freaky thumb!)
Torment(Fallen #2) by Lauren Kate
JANE by April Lindner
SLAYED by Amanda Marrone
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White(NOT in pics)
The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade

Library:
Halo by Alexandra Adornetto
Nevermore by Kelly Creagh(Not in picture)
The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
BRUISER by Neal Shusterman
Never Cry Warewolf by Heather Davis

AND..the others were overdue so I didn't get time to read those....

Bought:
Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers
Across The Universe by Beth Revis

What books did you stuff your bookshelf with this past week??

Follow Friday! (3)

Yay my third Follow Friday! Finally a meme I can keep up with.

To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list
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3. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.
4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can
6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
7. If you want to show the link list, just follow the link below the entries and copy and paste it within your post!
8. If your new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

Q:What book(s) have you discovered lately from someone's book blog?
A: Well right now, I haven't discovered any new books from blogs, but I have certainly read many awesome reviews from books I have been wanting to read and that encouraged me to want to read them more! Right now a lot of reviewers are giving Wither By Lauren DeStefano a big thumbs up so I cannot wait till its release! Thank-you fellow bloggers! <3

What books have you guys discovered lately from someone's blog? =D Happy Friday!

CLARITY By Kim Harrington Book Trailer

Just Released!! The New trailer of Kim Harrington Upcoming Novel CLARITY.
I am so excited to read it! What do you think?

A little about the book:

When you can see things others can't, where do you look for the truth?

This paranormal murder mystery will have teens reading on the edge of their seats.

Clarity "Clare" Fern sees things. Things no one else can see. Things like stolen kisses and long-buried secrets. All she has to do is touch a certain object, and the visions come to her. It's a gift.

And a curse.

The Elevensies

Well thanks to Facebook(gotta love it!) I found this website dedicated to the YA and MG debut books of 2011 and written by their authors. And most of these books begin released I want! So here is a little video that they created.

They also make these daily posts and very interesting "A Day In The Writing Life Of.." where you can get a sneak peek at the writing life of your favorite 2011 debut authors(I read them all). It is extremely cool, If I do say so myself. And then there is daily updates on the books, such as starred reviews, cover releases, dates, by the authors themselves!
Why didn't I find this earlier?! I seriously need to be slapped, I cannot believe this website has been up for a while, and I have never heard about it. Okay enough rambling for now, you can visit The Elevensies website HERE, if you were one of the people who didn't know about it, which sadly I was.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

HAPPY NEW YEARS HUMANS and other living beings! Today marks the first day of a new decade! I wish everyone a healthy and prosperous year full of life and plenty of good books to read! I am so excited to see what's 2011 gonna bring. God Bless!