BookTubeAThon Wrap Up and readathon announcement!

Hey guys!

So I recently participated in the book tube a thon! Needless to say, I failed horrifically.

I only read The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning and that was 472 pages. I guess that’s ok, but it put me in a little reading slump.

Therefore I’m going to be hosting a readathon called “To Many Books, So Little Time”. It starts tomorrow, Tuesday July 22 and ends on July 30. So that will give you about two weeks to read as much as you can!

I’m going to be doing daily updates and trying as hard as I can to read atom of books!

If your going to be participating in this readathon please comment below your TBR and use the #TMBSLT!

This is going to be so much fun and I’m really looking forward to it!
Happy Reading!

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July Library Book Haul

Hey guys!

Here are some of the books I borrowed from the library this month:
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Railway Children
Chopsticks
The Grave Robbers Daughter
The Book Of Magic by Neil Gaiman

Movies:
Monsters University
Hugo
Monsters Inc.
Lady and the Tramp
Alice in Wonderland
Bridesmaids
Life of Pi

Those are the books and movies I borrowed from the library in the month of July!

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Book-TubeAThon TBR!

Hey guys!

Today I’m going to be sharing with you all of the books that I plan on reading for the Book-TubeAThon!

The book tube a thon starts on midnight on July 14 and ends at 11:59 pm July 21!

As always I cannot guarantee that I will be reading all of these books, but I will certainly try!

I tried to correspond the books I was planning on reading to the challenges but for some of the reading challenges I did not pick anything.

Let’s get started!

1. A Book with read on the cover
For this challenge I chose The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning by Chris Colfer. This is the third book in the TLOS series! It just came out on July 8, 2014 and I’m so excited to start it!

2. A book with pictures and a book to movie adaptation
For this I chose The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick! I have wanted to read this for a long time now, and I figured this was the perfect opportunity to read it, as it goes along with not one, but TWO of the challenges!

3. A book someone else chose for me
The book my mom chose for me is Nancy Drew #1: Without a Trace by Carolyn Kenne. In my early childhood years I absolutely loved the children’s Nancy Drew and The Clue Crew series, so my mom picked up this book for me and told me that I should read it for this challenge!

4. A book from a genre that I have not read much from this year
The book I chose is Four: A Divergent Collection by Veronica Roth. I have only read 2 dystopians this year so I figured that I should read this. I absolutely ADORE the Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth so I went and picked this up. This is a collection of 4 short stories in Fours perspective!
This is a brand new release that as well came out on July 8!

5. Read 7 books

Since those are all of the challenges I will be partaking in, I chose a few more books that will work for the “Read 7 Books” challenge.

The extra first book I plan on reading is The Railway Children by E. Nesbit. The second extra book I plan on reading is The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse.

Those are all of the books I hope to be reading this book tube a thon!
Again, I probably won’t finish all of them but I will try!

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Reading Response: Reading Response Topics

Hey guys!

Today I’m going to be sharing with you some of the Reading Response Topics I want to post very soon! Most of these were taken off goodreads groups and online sites! Enjoy! Also, if you have any other fun reading response topics please comment them below!

Top Books BookTube Made You Read
Top Cover Buys (Books you bought solely for the cover)
Top Books You Wished You Read Earlier
Top Books That Made You Cry
Characters You Wish You Were More Like
Top 5 Books You Struggled to Finish
Top 5 Naked Cover Books (Hardbacks w/o dust jacket)
Top 5 Last Sentences
Top Genres
Top Book Quotes
Top Siblings
Top Fictional Technology
Top Characters You Hate
Top 5 Friendships
Top 5 Book Parents (parent/guardian/adult figure)
Top 5 Sequels
Top 5 Books You Would Recommend to New Readers
Top Villains
Top Unread Authors
Top Male Protagonists
Top Books You’d Like to See Be Movies
top characters that you would like to meet
If you were to meet any charcter from any book who would it be/construct a thought through conversation with this charcter
Top books that you cried at

I hope you enjoy this list of Reading Response Topics! Again, if you have any topic please put them in the comments below!

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#AYearAThon TBR!

Hey guys!

I made a last minute decision to join the #AYearAThon for classics week.

I just went to the library and picked up “The Railway Children” by Jacqueline Wilson, which is a children’s classic (published in 1906).

My dad also has a lot of classics including, The Hobbitt; The Great Gatsby and more.

So hopefully I can read a few classics this week!

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Alyssa’s Reviews – Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

This is going to be my non-spoiler book review of Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi!

Never heard of this book? NO Problem! (summary by GoodReads.com):

I have a curse
I have a gift

I am a monster
I’m more than human

My touch is lethal
My touch is power

I am their weapon
I will fight back

Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

Plot Line:
I thought the plot line was very unique. The whole “my touch can kill” plot was very interesting but can also be considered a typical dystopian YA book.
The way the plot was dragged through throughout the whole book was very well thought through.
The plot never got boring and was very actioned pack!

Characters:
Juliette, Warner and Adam are the main characters in this book.
Juliette has a killing touch and that is showcased throughout this book. Needless to say, pretty much every book has an annoying and misleading character. This was that charcter. Many of Juliettes desicions were not thought out and that annoyed me quite a bit throughout this book.
Adam is the soilder that is chosen to watch over Juliette. Her and Adam have known eachother since they were kids. Although, I would have liked to see more flashbacks from that period. Adam is our love interest in this novel.
Warner is the leader of the cult. He is the one that is trying to get Juliette on his side of the page. In the “bookish community” Warner can be considered the second love interest.

Team Adam or Team Warner?
I have always been on team Adam side just because.

Overall thoughts:
I thought this was an amazing start to a YA dystopian trilogy. It was action packed and full of fun. I could not put this book down! I hope to continue this trilogy sometime in the future! 5/5 stars!

Thats it for now!
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R.R.: Top 6 Books I’ve Read So Far!

Hey guys!

I haven’t done a reading response in a long time so I figured this would be fun!

My goal this year was to read 50 books and so far I have read 27! Right on Track!

My Favourite Books so far:

1. Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
*I was fortunate enough to receive an ARC for this book from Simon & Schuster*

The Pre-Sloane Emily didn’t go to parties, she barely talked to guys, she didn’t do anything crazy. Enter Sloane, social tornado and the best kind of best friend—the one who yanks you out of your shell.But right before what should have been an epic summer, Sloane just… disappears. No note. No calls. No texts. No Sloane. There’s just a random to-do list. On it, thirteen Sloane-selected-definitely-bizarre-tasks that Emily would never try… unless they could lead back to her best friend. Apple Picking at Night? Ok, easy enough.Dance until Dawn? Sure. Why not? Kiss a Stranger? Wait… what?
Getting through Sloane’s list would mean a lot of firsts. But Emily has this whole unexpected summer ahead of her, and the help of Frank Porter (totally unexpected) to check things off. Who knows what she’ll find?
Go Skinny Dipping? Um…

2. My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
“One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time.”
The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, messy, affectionate. And every day from her rooftop perch, Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them . . . until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs up next to her and changes everything.
As the two fall fiercely for each other, stumbling through the awkwardness and awesomeness of first love, Jase’s family embraces Samantha – even as she keeps him a secret from her own. Then something unthinkable happens, and the bottom drops out of Samantha’s world. She’s suddenly faced with an impossible decision. Which perfect family will save her? Or is it time she saved herself?
A transporting debut about family, friendship, first romance, and how to be true to one person you love without betraying another.

3. Harry Potter and The Philosiphers Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He’s never worn a Cloak of Invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. Harry’s room is a tiny cupboard under the stairs, and he hasn’t had a birthday party in ten years.
But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to a wonderful place he never dreamed existed. There he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic around every corner, but a great destiny that’s been waiting for him… if Harry can survive the encounter.

4. Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
I didn’t ask for any of this. I didn’t ask to be some kind of hero.
But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know?
Sure, I’ve read the books. I’ve seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can’t be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There’s still the yellow brick road, though—but even that’s crumbling.
What happened? Dorothy.
They say she found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe.
My name is Amy Gumm—and I’m the other girl from Kansas.
I’ve been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked.
I’ve been trained to fight.
And I have a mission.

5. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

6. Cinder by Marrissa Meyer
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

Those are my favourite books that i have read, so far this year!
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June Book Haul

Hey guys! Here is my highly anticipated book haul!

If you think this post is big, prepare for my July book haul…

Books I got:

Amy & Rogers Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

New Moon by Stephanie Meyer

Unravel by Imogen Howson
*I received an ARC copy from Simon & Schuster Canada

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Lani Taylor

Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Sioban Vivian

Those are all the books I bought/received this month!

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Weekly Reading Plans! #2 July 4- July 11, 2014

Hey guys!

Today I’m going to be sharing with you all of the books I plan on reading this week!
A lot of you have been asking me why I haven’t posted/ when I will post my June Book Haul! I’m going to post it right after I post this!

July 4: Finish The Giver by Lois Lowry

July 5: Start my ARC of Servants Of The Storm by Delillah S. Dawson

July 6: Read Servants of The Storm

July 7: Read Servants of the storm (finish?)

July 8: START THE LAND OF STORIES: A GRIMM WARNING!!!!!!

July 9: DEVOUR TLOS

July 10: READ TLOS

July 11: FINISH TLOS!!!!!!!

Those are my weekly reading plans!

I hope you guys enjoyed this! Leave any post requests in the comments below!

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June E-Book Haul

Hey guys!

Today I’m going to be sharing with you all of the e-books I got this month. Grab some tea because this is going to be a long one!

E-Books:
I recevied all of these books from @BibliophileChic on Instagram. She is so lovely and you should all go and follow her. She gives out ebooks for free and all of them are very popular books that everyone would enjoy!

1. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Synopsis (Off of Goodreads.com):
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Eleanor & Park.
A coming-of-age tale of fan fiction, family and first love.
Cath is a Simon Snow fan.
Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan…
But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.
Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.
Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words… And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.
For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?
Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?
And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
“Touching and utterly real.” — Publisher’s Weekly

I have not yet read this yet, but it is on the top of my June TBR. I am really looking forward to reading this and have heard some great things about it!

2. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Synopsis (Off of Goodreads.com):
“Hi, I’m the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you . . . “
Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company policy.) But they can’t quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives.
Meanwhile, Lincoln O’Neill can’t believe this is his job now- reading other people’s e-mail. When he applied to be “internet security officer,” he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers- not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke.
When Lincoln comes across Beth’s and Jennifer’s messages, he knows he should turn them in. But he can’t help being entertained-and captivated-by their stories.
By the time Lincoln realizes he’s falling for Beth, it’s way too late to introduce himself.
What would he say . . . ?

I have heard many great things about this book and hope to get through it soon!

3. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi:
Synopsis (Off of GoodReads.com):
I have a curse
I have a gift
I am a monster
I’m more than human
My touch is lethal
My touch is power
I am their weapon
I will fight back
Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.
Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

I read this book and really enjoyed it! Please check back on Sunday for a NON SPOILER review!

4. Destroy Me (TJC #0.5)
I can’t share the summary because it will be full of spoilers from the latest book.

5. Unravel Me
I can’t share the summary because it will be full of spoilers from the latest book.

6. Ignite Me
I can’t share the summary because it will be full of spoilers from the latest book.

7. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Summary (Off of Goodreads.com)
Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.
I open my eyes wide now.
I sit up as much as I can.
And I listen.
Stay, he says.
Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?
Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it’s the only one that matters.
If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make.

8. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Summary (Off of Goodreads.com):
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?

9. Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
Summary (Off of Goodreads.com):
Budding designer Lola Nolan doesn’t believe in fashion…she believes in costume. The more expressive the outfit–more sparkly, more fun, more wild–the better. But even though Lola’s style is outrageous, she’s a devoted daughter and friend with some big plans for the future. And everything is pretty perfect (right down to her hot rocker boyfriend) until the dreaded Bell twins, Calliope and Cricket, return to the neighborhood.
When Cricket–a gifted inventor–steps out from his twin sister’s shadow and back into Lola’s life, she must finally reconcile a lifetime of feelings for the boy next door.

10. Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Summary (Off of Goodreads.com):
Ninety-five days, and then I’ll be safe. I wonder whether the procedure will hurt. I want to get it over with. It’s hard to be patient. It’s hard not to be afraid while I’m still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn’t touched me yet. Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.

11. Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
I can’t tell you the summary because it will spoil the latest book.

12. Requiem by Lauren Oliver
I can’t tell you the summary because it will spoil the latest book.

13. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Summary (Off of Goodreads.com)
A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.
We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.
Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

14. The Selection by Kiera Cass
Summary (Off of Goodreads.com)

For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.
But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn’t want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.
Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she’s made for herself—and realizes that the life she’s always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.

15. The Elite Kiera Cass
I can’t tell you the summary because it will spoil the latest book.

16. The One by Kiera Cass
I can’t tell you the summary because it will spoil the latest book.

17. Paper Towns by John Green
Summary (Off of Goodreads.com)

Two-time Printz Medalist John Green’s New York Times bestseller, now in paperback!
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life — dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge — he follows.
After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues — and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.

18. Looking For Alaska by John Green
Summary (Off of Goodreads.com)

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter’s whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the “Great Perhaps” (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.
After. Nothing is ever the same.

19. Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellira
Summary (Off of Goodreads.com)

It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more; though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was; lovely and amazing and deeply flawed; can she begin to discover her own path.

20. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Summary (Off of Goodreads.com)

Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics.
Until Greg’s mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel.
Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia—-cue extreme adolescent awkwardness—-but a parental mandate has been issued and must be obeyed. When Rachel stops treatment, Greg and Earl decide the thing to do is to make a film for her, which turns into the Worst Film Ever Made and becomes a turning point in each of their lives.
And all at once Greg must abandon invisibility and stand in the spotlight.

21. To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Summary (Off of Goodreads.com)

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister’s ex-boyfriend, Josh. As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all.

Those are all of the e-books I got this month. I would have made this post about all the books I got this month but that would have been wayyyy to long.