Follow Friday!

1. To join the fun and make new book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:
2. (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list
3. (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers - rhiannonpaille.blogspot.com/
4. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. LINKY TOOLS IS BACK! I paid for the subscription - finally so now you can add the links to your own post!!! To add the code to your own post click on GET THE CODE here under the list of names.
5. 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
6. 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"
7. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
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!

Contest Rules & Restrictions

1. You have to participate in the Feature Friday today, I'm picking from the below list
2. The Blog Package that is offered is the IN THE BOX package with an additional animated blogger badge {Value $110}
3. Because you are participating in the Feature & Follow you must follow all the rules of the #FF above {1 - 4} required. If it is found that you did not participate in the #FF your entry will be disqualified.
4. This is for a Blogger design, if you do have a Wordpress blog it will have to be evaluated and you can apply the $110 credit towards the design
5. This package can not be transfer to another party
6. This package can not be substituted for anything but what is offered
7. There are change restrictions on the package
8. Winner will be chosen from the Linky List using the random feature provided by Linky Tools.
9. Blogger chosen will also be the Feature at the next available spot
10. Winner will be chosen on Sunday, the 19th.

Question of the Week:

Q. Genre Wars! What's your favorite genre and which book in that genre made it your favorite?

Recently I have been crazy about YA Dystopan. Ever since I read the Hunger Games, I fell in love with the genre. I have many other favorites such as Divergent and Delirium. Dystopian books just give you a glimpse to an alternative universe, and I love that about it.

HAPPY FRIDAY!

DIVERGENT sequel title reveal!

So if you didn't know already, the title of Veronica Roth's sequel to DIVERGENT is.....



*drum roll*

So what do you guys think? You can read the entire post HERE.

I am going to have some problems saying it for a while, but I love it. Very DIVERGENT!

INSURGENT is scheduled to be released in 2012, which is pretty painful! But re-reading DIVERGENT will totally make up for it, and I am sure it will be worth the wait!

Here's part of the blog post:

INSURGENT. Origin:
1755–65; < Latin insurgent- (stem of insurgēns ) present participle of insurgere: to get up, ascend, rebel.

1. a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
2. a member of a section of a political party that revolts against the methods or policies of the party.
3. one that acts contrary to the established leadership (as of a political party, union, or corporation) or its decisions and policies
4. (international law) a person or group that rises in revolt against an established government or authority but whose conduct does not amount to belligerency

Not all of those definitions are equally applicable to the book-- some are more spot-on than others. But I won't tell you which ones yet.

In Stores TODAY: Hourglass

Hourglass by Myra McEntire
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Watch out for: Some kissing and bad words but nothing R rated. Pretty clean.
Publisher: Egmont USASource: from Publisher
Summary (from Goodreads.com):
One hour to rewrite the past . . .

For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn’t there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents’ death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She’s tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.

So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson’s willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may change her past.

Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he’s around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?

Full of atmosphere, mystery, and romance, Hourglass merges the very best of the paranormal and science-fiction genres in a seductive, remarkable young adult debut.

My thoughts on Hourglass:
Based on the cover and the summary provided, you will never know what the book REALLY is about. They did such a good job on making this book as mysterious sounding as they could. As for the cover, there was not a single day in school (where I read it) that somebody didn't make a comment about the wicked cool cover on this book.

I honestly thought that this book was going to be about your typical teenager who starts seeing ghosts and gets thrown into a loony-bin called "Hourglass". But, no it wasn't. It was much more than that. Now, I am not going into full blown detail about it, so you can be as surprised as I was.

Emerson is a quirky teen girl who behind all that sarcasm hides a big secret: she can see things that are not there. Michael is the only one that can help her, he also sees the thing she sees, which might now make her as crazy as she thinks she is.

Emerson's mysteriously alluring story had me reading like a madwoman. Such an alluring and mysterious story plot with characters with such a good chemistry between each other. Well except for the bad guys, and lemme tell you, there is a fair amount of bad guys here. I mean, who doesn't love a little antagonism now and then? There is no good story plot without a bad guy.

Emerson and Michael are such a highly comedic couple, every word that Emerson said was sarcastically hilarious and Michael just had such an amusing reaction to everything Emerson had to say. Kaleb (possible love triangle alert!) was another character that was charming (at times) and he captivated my heat as soon as I read about him being drunk and naked on the couch (nothing to worry about, pretty hilarious scene).

The impossible romance that develops through the story, will have all the suckers for romance sighing and crying at times. I know I did plenty of both.

I see so much potential to learn about the other characters as the series develops and to read about all the craziness that Emerson get herself into. So that is why I am giving this story a little bit of leverage on the lack of explanation when it comes to some things, there are two more books coming so the story will probably develop much further then.

There is so much to cover about this book that I would probably make this post longer than it already is, so if you want to read a refreshing new plot story with some entertaining characters, then Hourglass is for you.

Hope you go check it out, Hourglass hits bookstores TODAY!

My rating:


Should be a 4.5 but don't have a butterfly for that! =(

What's Next?
Hourglass #2 is the title at the moment.
Set to be published 2012.







About the Author:
Myra McEntire (Debut Author)

Bio:

Myra McEntire knows the words to every R&B hit of the last decade, but since she lives in Nashville, the country music capital of America, her lyrical talents go sadly unappreciated. She’s chosen, instead, to channel her “mad word skills” into creating stories infused with her love of music. Her young adult book, Hourglass, will debut on June 14, 2011.

Book Trailer:

Follow Friday!

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

1. (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list
2. (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers - http://ninjagirlreads.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're new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

This Weeks Question:

Q. It's circle time. Time for us to open up and share. Can you tell us FIVE quirky habits or things about you? We all have them...

1. I have major book OCD, if the book cover is damaged or the corners are bent, I look for another book. I will check every book in the pile to see which one is the one in the best condition.
2. Cockroaches are my biggest fear, I have a sort of phobia with the little critters. I saw one last night, screamed, killed it, and didn't go back to sleep. That is how bad my fear is.
3. I have a weird thumb that can bend back unnaturally. I bend it back to creep my friends, it works every time.
   
4. I am obsessed with RITZ crackers, I cannot have just one. Especially if they have some cream cheese on em.
   
5. I use anything as a bookmark: napkin, sock (clean), pencil, you name it. As long as it doesn't stain the book or damage it in any way, I use it. I just can't keep track of bookmarks.
   

Sooooo what are your 5 quirky habits?
HAPPY FRIDAY!
Two more weeks left of school!

IMM and some bad news..

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Krisi at The Story Siren (won't let me post a link)and its a meme in which you can post what books you have received/won/bought recently. It is a great way to find out what other bloggers got and share what you got!

Here is what I got this week..

Not links because this computer won't let me post them!!

For Review

Eve by Anna Carey (Thanks HarperTEEN!)

Frost by Marianna Baer (Thanks HarperTEEN!)

POSSESS by Gretchen McNeil (Thanks HarperTEEN and Gretchen!)

*UPDATE* Whoops! Forgot to mention:
Witches of east end by Melissa De la Cruz (thanks HYPERION)

From the Library:

Entice by Carrie Jones

Fixing Delilah by Sarah Ockler

THE BAD NEWS...

Recently my very old laptop got a virus and my anti-virus was not working #facepalm!

So I have no idea when I am getting it fixed, I will be getting a new one, but It'll take a while. So please, PLEASE be patient with me..this was sort of unexpected so I have NO posts ready. I just came back from AP testing so I wasn't prepared. So I will try to update you guys on the situation, please don't give up on my blog!

Thanks guys! See you, well...later! (I hope)

**UPDATE** Apparently everything is fine now, my computer was just being a little brat. So I'll post as regular! =D False Alarm!