Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl's mother died four years ago, she just finalized her divorce, and is going on a journey that will she will always remember because from that point on everything in her life changes. From that point on she can move on.

This is my second memoir not counting Born to Run which I count as ju…

Kickstarter #1

Hello everybody! I want to talk to you about Kickstarter. Kickstarter if you don't know already is a website for people to get funds for their projects. Many months ago I found a book there that led me to some great illustrators. It's called: A Rule Is To Break: A Child's Guide To Anarc…

Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe by Shelley Coriell

Chloe is the personality out of her group of three friends. Merc is the brains and Brie is the beauty. She has a passion for shoes, soap operas, and everyone she loves. She's always there for them when they need a laugh but now after a winter break without her best friends she is abruptly hit …

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham

Theodore Boone has got to be the most knowledgeable 13 year old on law around. He's spend his life around judges, lawyers, police officers and court rooms and prides himself on knowing everyone in the courthouse. His mother is a divorce court lawyer who always sides with the woman while his da…

My Name Is Olivia... and I Can't do Anything About It by Jowi Schmitz

Olivia's mother has died and she is waiting for her in the form of an urn. It has to be mailed because her father and her moved to another town leaving her Grandma and Grandpa who think her father is very immature (which he is) behind. But it's only temporary. She doesn't need any frie…

Top Ten All Time Favorite Characters

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme by The Broke and the Bookish
Could not put this in an order this week. So the books rated are not in order well maybe the first one is correct (; Warning! A lot of males on this list.

10) Maia from Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson. My favorite (sometimes) bo…

Zero by Tom Leveen

Amanda Walsh's a.k.a. Zero's life has made a turn for the worse. Her parents are still arguing, her dad is still drinking way too much, she wasn't able to get scholarship money to go to her dream school, and her and her best friend are just not talking.

She loves the artist Salvador Da…

Socialpunk Blog Tour #5

Concluding the Socialpunk blog tour for me is an interview with author Monica Leonelle. Well enjoy!

What's your typical day like as a writer?

All of my days revolve around my dog, actually. I wake up and take her out, then feed her. She has another break at dinner and another before bed. She ke…

What have I been up to...

Ugh. Sorry guys. Last week was bad for me. I just went home and fell asleep but not only that. I have this big project due. I've decided I'm not going to stress it so much anymore. Whatever happens happens. So sorry! I'll be a better blogger. It's just one of those weeks. I also had…

Socialpunk Trilogy Blog Tour #4

Ima lives in The Dome. You can't leave The Dome. She doesn't remember her younger years-the years she wasn't at Dome. Her best friend in the world is Dash and it's become awkward between them. See she loves him but can't tell him. He even sets her up with Nahum who is new to Th…

Trouble Gary D. Schmidt

Gary D. Schmidt famous for (well at least for me) The Wednesday Wars and Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy plunges himself into creating a story about brothers, loss, and forgiving.

"Henry Smith's father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble …

Socialpunk Trilogy Blog Tour #3

Okay I have been holding out on you guys. I actually received the first 10 chapters of Social Punk from the author. What I mean is she allowed all the bloggers to share it with you guys. I don't know how long you'll be able to see it or download it so I would recommend if you truly want to…

You Against Me by Jenny Downham

Mikey's sister was raped and the person is going to get off he just knows it. All he wants to do is bash his skull in. Because that's what brothers do when horrible things happen to their sisters. They protect. They make them stop hurting.

Karyn has never been the same since. She cries con…

The Socialpunk Trilogy Blog Tour #2

Continuing the blog tour is an excerpt from Social Punk by Monica Leonelle...

After playing God for six years with the world he created, he couldn't control any of his subjects, none at all. Over the years, he had watched them evolve and become the sum of their own choices rather than the sum o…

The Socialpunk Trilogy Blog Tour #1

Hey guys! I have a special treat for you today. All this week I'll be talking about The Social Punk Trilogy well specifically the first book: Social Punk by Monica Leonelle. The author was kind enough to let me participate in this blog tour as well as review her book and later on even have an interview. So stay tuned this week for more updates about the book. For now a description of the book, about the author, and a giveaway!

The Book:




Ima would give anything to escape The Dome and learn what's beyond its barriers, but the Chicago government has kept all its citizens on lockdown ever since the Scorched Years left most of the world a desert wasteland. When a mysterious group of hooded figures enters the city unexpectedly, Ima uncovers a plot to destroy The Dome and is given the choice between escaping to a new, dangerous city or staying behind and fighting a battle she can never win.





 The Author:






Monica Leonelle is a well-known digital media strategist and the author of three novels. She blogs at Prose on Fire and shares her writing and social media knowledge with other bloggers and authors through her Free Writer Toolkit. Monica's other books  are Silver Smoke and the second book from the Seven Halos Series is Tin Soldier.





Giveaway!:

Loser by Jerry Spinelli

Donald Zinkoff has always been messy, an atrocious writer, clumsy, and has never really one anything. One day someone finally takes notice and he is dubbed a Loser. He's made fun of and doesn't know it and he just takes everything because life is just one big laugh to Zinkoff. Then he does…

I Forgot To Say....

Happy Easter everybody! Have a great day! Listening to some Christian music right now....

By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters

Daelyn Rice is going to die in 23 days. That's the plan according to the website www.through-the-light.com. She would do it sooner she really wants to do it sooner but she can also wait. During the time between she goes on forums and sees other people's problems laid out. Some days she get…

Addison Blakely: Confessions of a PK by Betsy St. Amant

Addison Blakely is a PK. After seeing the words PK mentioned oddly in two books I've read in the past couple of weeks I have finally discovered what it means! Yay for me! It means preacher's kid. She does everything for her father (well that's how I see it) while he's always away d…

Banished by Sophie Littlefield

Hailey Tarbell lives in Gypsum, Missouri. Her house being close to Trashtown where the Morries live. There people who are dirt poor and  look it too. They keep close together. And she feels drawn to them but doesn't know why...

Hailey lives with her Grandmother, Chub (a four year old she adopt…

Leverage by Joshua C. Cohen

I honestly felt completely blind sighted by this book. I mean I thought oh a prank war of football players and gymnasts and there are steroids so that should be interesting. THIS WAS NOT ABOUT STEROIDS!!! Well it was an underlying problem but I felt like the author just passed by it. One of the ma…

Top Ten Books To Read in A Day

Top Tuesday is a weekly Meme by The Broke and the Bookish
Honestly this was ridiculously hard to put in order. I am still thinking about it. My reactions to most were... My eyes! Why did I do this to myself!!!???, If you don't leave me alone right now you will be seriously injured, What did yo…

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

I finally relented and got this book. I have nothing against it. It's really popular but it never interested me that much. It was out of the norm. It actually had a "bad boy" who wasn't a complete ass. He wasn't really one ever actually. He was painted to be the bad boy but h…

March 2012 Cover Love

Another month another new batch of beautiful covers....



It annoys me that there aren't an even number of Cover Loves this time but whatever...
My picks for Cover Love for this month are Paranormalcy by Kiersten White, Jump by Elisa Carbone, and The Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith.