Hey everyone and welcome to the last  Summer Blog Promo Tour post, hosted by The Book Bratz. Today, I have Katie from the blog Bibliophile and today she is listing off some of her favorite characters named some variation of "Katie" seeing as though both are names are a variation of "Katie." I hope everyone enjoys!

Hi everyone! I'm Katie from the blog Bibliophile (@KatieHarness1) and thanks for stopping by! I'm so happy to be able to work with Kaitlin for the Summer Blog Promo Tour! Be sure to check out everyone's blogs weekly for more posts and collaborations! Since Kaitlin and I have similar names she thought it'd be fun to list my top Katie/Kaitlin variations in literature! To me the characters named Katie/Kate/Catherine are typically strong and intelligent women. However, I might just be biased. What are some characters that have names similar to yours that you feel proud to share it with? Enjoy!

Kate Daniels from the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews


Katherine of Aragon from The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
In literature and in real life Katherine is a great protagonist! This novel tells her story from when she was betrothed to Henry VIII's brother, Arthur, to when she was married to Henry VIII, himself. Her constant perseverance through politics and betrayal in a time in which the unsettling whims of a king dictated the lives of others is admirable. The third book in this series is the popular The Other Boleyn Girl that was turned into a movie featuring Natalie Portman. I would suggest this series if you need a historical fiction fix to marathon.

Hello everyone and welcome to a very sad post. With heavyheart, I am sad to say that my summer has officially ended. Shit, yes I am going back to school and not the happiest about it. Don't get me wrong! I enjoy going to school (sometimes) but I will definitely miss staying up late and sleeping in, being able to spend 2 hours eating lunch, and watching shows whenever I want. But to celebrate summer, I have decided to recap my summer for you guys! If you're still in summer break, embrace it because it's ending soon and then you all can join me in this "being in school" hellhole. Anyway, hope everyone enjoys this post and has a great rest of the summer.

Read This Summer

On the Fence Open Road Summer The Start of Me and You Suffer Love The Summer I Turned Pretty It's Not Summer Without You We'll Always Have Summer Tone Deaf The Sun is Also a Star This Savage Song Cursed Child	You Know Me Well Lifeboat Clique Vampire Academy Frostbite Shadow Kiss Blood Promise Spirit Bound Last Sacrifice Hamilton: The Revolution Caraval The Epidemic

So yeah, I guess you could say I had a pretty okay summer when it came to reading. There were days where I finished like 3 books in 3 days but some days where I just didn't feel like reading. I read a lot of good books and books that were already on my shelf so it was great to knock out some books I already owned and books I've been wanting to read for awhile.

Well, if summer is good for one thing it's to pile more shows onto my very long list of shows I already watch. I had a few shows that I knew I wanted to catch up on but I basically started and got caught up with three shows this summer.

First, I went ahead and got caught up on Legends of Tomorrow and The Flash, since I was only a few episodes behind and I was planning to watch the shows once they were back on air. I then started/caught up on Supergirl, which basically means I was about 15 episodes behind so I basically started the show again. Because Supergirl was getting moved to CW and would be in association with all the other shows I watch (The Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow) I decided to why not go ahead and binge the show since I would eventually watch Supergirl anyway. It was a great 2 day show binge and I'm excited for a new season!

The big binge this summer was Reign. Three seasons, each episode about 45 minutes long. So yeah, I spent a good 5 days, sitting in bed, just watching Reign. It was nice because this show is definitely meant to be binged and it was a super addicting binge. I think it's only getting a half season on CW for season four (not returning until 2017) so thank god because now I will only have to juggle 4 shows, not 5! Reign definitely gave me many feels and upon finishing it, I maybe spent like 4 nights, scrolling through tumblr under the "Reign" tag.

Then, yesterday, I decided it would be a fabulous idea to start Netflix's Stranger Things on my final day of summer break. I'm writing this post on my last day of summer break so, whether or not this paragraph stays in the post depends on whether I actually start Stranger Things. I've heard great things about it, it's only 8 episodes long so it should be a great way to end summer and start a new school year. (I watched an episode. I'm currently on episode 3 and very interested so I will definitely be planning on continuing the show.)

Hey everyone and welcome to the fourth Summer Blog Promo Tour post, hosted by The Book Bratz. Today, I have Lizzie from Big Books and Grande Lattes and we both have created some aesthetics for some books we enjoyed reading! I hope everyone enjoys our very aesthetically pleasing aesthetics and checks out some of the books we mentioned because all of them are awesome. Enjoy!

Vengeance Road 

You Know Me Well

This Savage Song

The Program

Author: Suzanne Young
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Release Date: April 19th 2016
Format: Hardcover

Can one girl help others find closure by slipping into the identities of their loved ones? Find out in this riveting sequel to The Remedy and companion to the New York Times bestselling The Treatment and The Program. In a world before The Program…Quinlan McKee has spent her life acting as other people. She was a closer—a person hired to play the role of the recently deceased in order to give their families closure. Through this process, Quinn learned to read people and situations, even losing a bit of herself to do so. But she couldn’t have guessed how her last case would bring down her entire world. The only person Quinn trusts is Deacon, her best friend and the love of her life. Except Deacon’s been keeping secrets of his one, so Quinn must set out alone to find Arthur Pritchard, the doctor who’s been trying to control her life. The journey brings Quinn to Arthur’s daughter, Virginia, who tells Quinn the truth about Pritchard’s motives. The former closer will start to see that she is the first step in fighting an epidemic. But Quinlan doesn’t want to be a cure. And with all the lies surrounding her, she realizes she has no one left to rely on but herself—even if she doesn’t know who that is anymore.

The Program series has always been one of my favorites and I was pretty excited for the release of The Epidemic because there was so much information in this book that I was dying to get to learn and read about. Well, I am happy to say that The Epidemic was another fabulous read by Suzanne Young. It was great to be back in the dark dystopian world The Epidemic takes place in and it was nice to be able to pick it up and just get right back into the world and characters after being away from this series for so long. I got to know more about the world the series takes place in and just get answers to the questions I had upon finishing The Treatment. If you're looking for a unique, darker, dystopian read, definitely pick up The Program series because it's so addicting and a great read.

One thing I want to talk about with the whole Program series in general is how dark it is. It's definitely not a type of light-hearted, funny read. Haha, no. The society itself is plagued with suicide and depression, which gives a really well, depressed vibe to the book. Each time I finish these books, I always need to take a step back because woah, so many messed up things happens in these books and there are so many twists and turns as well. It's definitely the kind of series that you picture always having a grey sky, the sun never shines (for some reason).

The Epidemic was another great Program book featuring the dark feeling, twists and turns, all the sha-bang is in there. It picks up right after the ending of The Remedy and (surprise!) The Remedy had ended on some kind of a cliffhanger so it was so great to start up The Epidemic and see how Quinlan deals with her new situation. As the book progresses, we meet new characters, read about what happens to them, get surprised by more twists and turns, and learn more about how The Program was first developed.

One of the great things about Quinlan's story is that it is totally relavent to how The Program began and that has been one of my biggest curiosities ever since finishing The Program. It was so great to finish reading about Quinlan's story and finally know, how suicide became such a huge epidemic.

I think one of the reasons why I love Suzanne's books so much is because she has great ideas for plot twists or things that happen in the book that make you drop your jaw and want to keep reading. That's one of the things I love about reading her books, is just to see what kind of things will happen in the that will just completely take me by surprise. Also, the world her books take place in has always such a high risk of being dragged into The Program so characters very much go into extreme measures to avoid being taken to The Program.

But yeah, that was The Epidemic. Like I said, anyone who enjoys darker dystopians definitely should try out The Program as it is a very addicting series with such fabulous characters.

Hey everyone and welcome to the fourth Summer Blog Promo Tour post, hosted by the Book Bratz. Today, I have Amanda from Brains, Books, and Brawn and she is going to talk about some fictional worlds that she wishes were real and could visit. I hope everyone enjoys and starts some discussion based off this post. Enjoy!

Hey everyone! My name is Amanda and I blog at Brains, Books, and Brawn. Today I'm bringing you a list of the fictional places I'd like to visit the most. Now, this could end up being a ridiculously long list so I'm going to keep it to my top 5 so that I don't drive you crazy. Also because none of us have weeks to spend reading ONE blog post ;)

Hogwarts/The Wizarding World

I think most Harry Potter fans have dreamed of getting to visit all the places in Rowling's books since they day the picked up the first book. Oh what I would give to get to walk the halls at Hogwarts, shop at Flourish and Blotts, or eat myself into a sugar coma at Honeydukes. Don't get me started on The Three Broomsticks. I'd practically live there.

Narnia

Talking animals, fauns, and magic that is abundant in general? Sign me up! I could do without some of the more sinister parts but otherwise set me free and let me explore. There are so many cool things happening in Narnia and I have serious FOMO having never gotten to go.

Aglionby Academy

Okay, I just really want to be friends with the Raven Boys. Adam, Ronan, Noah and of course the forever famous Richard Campbell Gansey III are all top on my fictional BFF list. What a quirky group of misfits. I might even be swayed to hunt dead Welsh Kings just to be their friend.

• This Savage Song
• You Know Me Well
• Lifeboat Clique
• Vampire Academy
• Frostbite
• Shadow Kiss
• Hamilton: The Revolution
• Caraval
• The Epidemic

 Yes, so because it's summer, I had a pretty good reading month. For the whole summer, I wasn't on any specific TBR each month, only that I had a huge list of books I would read and choose from throughout the whole summer. I highly doubt I will complete the list, but I am hoping to get more of those books knocked off the list in my final 12 days of summer.