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Monthly Recap and TBR
The April Post
4/01/2015And it's April. Just 40 days until school is over! Yes. I am currently in spring break so that's a relief too. I know some people don't have spring break until about next week, but alas, you will get spring break. If you had spring break last week I hope you had a great break. I hope everyone had a great March and April! :D
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Anna and the French Kiss
Author: Stephanie Perkins
Pages: 372
Published by: Speak
Published on: December 2nd 2010
Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris--until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss?
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Compulsion
Author: Martina Boone
Pages: 433
Published by: Simon Pulse
Published on: October 28th 2014
Three plantations. Two wishes. One ancient curse. All her life, Barrie Watson has been a virtual prisoner in the house where she lives with her shut-in mother. When her mother dies, Barrie promises to put some mileage on her stiletto heels. But she finds a new kind of prison at her aunt’s South Carolina plantation instead—a prison guarded by an ancient spirit who long ago cursed one of the three founding families of Watson Island and gave the others magical gifts that became compulsions. Stuck with the ghosts of a generations-old feud and hunted by forces she cannot see, Barrie must find a way to break free of the family legacy. With the help of sun-kissed Eight Beaufort, who knows what Barrie wants before she knows herself, the last Watson heir starts to unravel her family's twisted secrets. What she finds is dangerous: a love she never expected, a river that turns to fire at midnight, a gorgeous cousin who isn't what she seems, and very real enemies who want both Eight and Barrie dead.
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Rebels: City of Indra: The Story of Lex and Livia
Authors: The Jenner Sisters (That's right. The half sisters of the Kardashians)
Pages: 352
Published by: Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing
Published on: June 3rd 2014
Reason for reading: I'm curious. Sue me.
Kendall and Kylie Jenner, stars on the hit reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, present their debut novel—a thrilling dystopian story about two super-powered girls who embark on a journey together, not knowing they’re twins. Two girls, two worlds apart. Lex lives down below, close to rock bottom. She grew up in the orphanage, alone, and now is training to be a Special Op so she can finally destroy the rebels with her own hands. She needs no one. Livia lives miles above everything on a floating island in the city of Indra. She is training too, but for a life that she doesn’t want. She wants to be free, to finally leave her floating island, and to run with her beloved horse until she can’t run any longer. And then there’s Kane—Lex’s only friend, whom she would walk through fire for. And when she finds that Kane is in danger, she doesn’t hesitate to leave her post and blast her way to the top of Indra to save him. She just needs to get one stubborn, unexpectedly clever airgirl to tell her where he is first. In this fast-paced, dystopian thriller, Lex and Livia reluctantly team up to save Kane after discovering that they share a mysterious identical mark—not realizing that their biggest danger is in each other.
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Timeless
Author: Michelle Madow
Pages: 230
Published by: Dreamscape Publishing
Published on: November 14th 2012
IT'S A RACE AGAINST TIME. In Remembrance, Lizzie and Drew changed the course of fate so they could be together. In Vengeance, Chelsea set fate back on its original, deadly path. Now, strange things keep happening to Lizzie. Things that are omens of darkness to come. A curse has doomed her to die an early death, just as she did in her past life. To make matters worse, even if she can figure out who cast the curse, it's irreversible. There's only one option left for her to save herself. It's crazier than anything she's heard yet, and to do it, she'll need Drew and Chelsea's help. Because to make things right, they must travel back to when it all began ... and Lizzie discovers that the final events in her past life were more sinister than she ever imagined.
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Vanishing Girls
Author: Lauren Oliver
Pages: 357
Published on: HarperCollins
Published on: March 10th 2015
New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver delivers a gripping story about two sisters inexorably altered by a terrible accident. Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her sister, before it's too late. In this edgy and compelling novel, Lauren Oliver creates a world of intrigue, loss, and suspicion as two sisters search to find themselves, and each other. "Alarming and uplifting, a rare psychological thriller that has a kind heart at its center. Read it with all the lights on." -- E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars.
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Material Girls
Author: Elaine Dimopoulos
Pages: 336
Published by: HMH Books for Young Readers
Publishing on: May 5th 2015
Author: A.S King
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Author: Lori Goldstein
Publishing on: May 5th 2015
In Marla Klein and Ivy Wilde’s world, teens are the gatekeepers of culture. A top fashion label employs sixteen-year-old Marla to dictate hot new clothing trends, while Ivy, a teen pop star, popularizes the garments that Marla approves. Both girls are pawns in a calculated but seductive system of corporate control, and both begin to question their world’s aggressive levels of consumption. Will their new “eco-chic” trend subversively resist and overturn the industry that controls every part of their lives? Smart, provocative, and entertaining, this thrilling page-turner for teens questions the cult like mentality of fame and fashion. Are you in or are you out?
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Everybody Sees the Ants
Author: A.S King
Pages: 280
Published by: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published on: January 1st 2011
Lucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vietnam War. He didn't ask for a father who never got over it. He didn't ask for a mother who keeps pretending their dysfunctional family is fine. And he didn't ask to be the target of Nader McMillan's relentless bullying, which has finally gone too far. But Lucky has a secret--one that helps him wade through the mundane torture of his life. In his dreams, Lucky escapes to the war-ridden jungles of Laos--the prison his grandfather couldn't escape--where Lucky can be a real man, an adventurer, and a hero. It's dangerous and wild, and it's a place where his life just might be worth living. But how long can Lucky keep hiding in his dreams before reality forces its way inside? Michael L. Printz Honor recipient A.S. King's smart, funny and boldly original writing shines in this powerful novel about learning to cope with the shrapnel life throws at you--and taking a stand against it.
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Eleanor and Park
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Pages: 336
Published by: St. Martin's Griffin
Published on: February 26th 2013
Two misfits. One extraordinary love. Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor. Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...Park. Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
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Last month I read...
Since You've Been GoneThe Glass MagicianRuin and RisingUnder a Painted SkyInvadedHidden GirlAll the Bright PlacesLove, Lucy(<- This one is new)Never Always Sometimes(<- So is this one)
THIS WAS THE BEST MONTH EVER. NOT ONLY DID I FINISH THE BOOKS I WANTED TO FINISH IN THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH, I WAS ABLE TO ADD TWO MORE BOOKS. HAAALLLEEE YAHHHH.
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- 105 Book Challenge
- 14. Books from the library
- 13. Books off my bookshelf (8)
- 12. 2015 new releases
- 11. YA Contemporary (8)
- 10. YA Dystopian
- 9. ARCs (E or Physical) (1)
- 8. Debut novels (from any year)
- 7. 2014 new releases (7)
- 6. Books that were recommended to me (that I had never heard of before)
- 5. We Need Diverse Books books
- 4. Re-read books
- 3. Sequels (1)
- 2. Books with 3 or more colors on the covers (6)
- 1. YA Fantasy (1)
- 2015 Contemporary Challenge TBR
- Finished Invaded!
- 2015 TBR Pile Challenge
- 6 books off the TBR!
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What's Going on This Month...
I may be attending a launch party this month, so I will keep you all updated on that. I know there are a few blog tour posts this month and some reviews on the books above. Other than that I'm not quote sure on what is going to be happening...
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Picture to describe last month
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(I don't have a legit picture of the book because I don't have it with me right now. This was the best I could do)
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
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New Release this Month...
Becoming Jinn
Author: Lori Goldstein
Pages: 384
Published by: Feiwel & Friends
Publishing on: April 21st 2015
Forget everything you thought you knew about genies! Azra has just turned sixteen, and overnight her body lengthens, her olive skin deepens, and her eyes glisten gold thanks to the brand-new silver bangle that locks around her wrist. As she always knew it would, her Jinn ancestry brings not just magical powers but the reality of a life of servitude, as her wish granting is controlled by a remote ruling class of Jinn known as the Afrit. To the humans she lives among, she’s just the girl working at the snack bar at the beach, navigating the fryer and her first crush. But behind closed doors, she’s learning how to harness her powers and fulfill the obligations of her destiny. Mentored by her mother and her Zar “sisters”, Azra discovers she may not be quite like the rest of her circle of female Jinn . . . and that her powers could endanger them all. As Azra uncovers the darker world of becoming Jinn, she realizes when genies and wishes are involved, there’s always a trick.
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Thanks everyone for reading the post!
So tell me: What is one book you look forward to reading this month?
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