Posts By: Giselle

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (47)

Posted by Giselle • 48 Comments

Xpresso Weekly is my edition of Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews featuring the books I got this week, and I also mention blog news/happenings of the past week.

This week at Xpresso Reads

Hi lovely pies! I had a great week of clothes shopping and reading! Oh and I also got my first library card in over 10 years at least! No more paying ridic amounts for audiobooks (which I listen to while I work and thus I have the best job ever! :D). While we’re on the subject–if you have audiobook recs leave them below! 😉

Reviews on the blog this week:

Xpresso Book Tours

Tours open for sign ups:
— All the King’s Men by Kat H. Clayton
— Rocked by Gina Marie Long
— Blood and Snow by RaShelle Workman
— Playing Hooky by Rita Webb
— The Photo Traveler by Arthur J. Gonzalez
— Different Roads by Lori L. Clark
— Renhala by Amy Joy Lutchen
— The Art of Being Invisible by Suzanne Kamata
— Why My Love Life Sucks by Shevi Arnold
— Runes by Ednah Walters

Find open book blitzes here!

Find open cover reveals here!

Stacking the Shelves

(Click on covers or title links for Goodreads)
I received for review:

*A big thanks to Sourcebooks, Helen Keeble, Soho Press, and Kensington Books for these pretties!*
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Best find ever!
Oh, and lookie what I got! YEAH!

That’s all for me, folks!
Link me to your book haul in the comments! 🙂

XOXO!

Fresh Batch (March 17th – 23rd)

Posted by Giselle on 03/16/2013 • 17 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

17 & GoneNova Ren Suma Publication date: March 21st 2013by Dutton Juvenile

Seventeen-year-old Lauren is having visions of girls who have gone missing. And all these girls have just one thing in common—they are 17 and gone without a trace. As Lauren struggles to shake these waking nightmares, impossible questions demand urgent answers: Why are the girls speaking to Lauren? How can she help them? And… is she next? As Lauren searches for clues, everything begins to unravel, and when a brush with death lands her in the hospital, a shocking truth emerges, changing everything.

With complexity and richness, Nova Ren Suma serves up a beautiful, visual, fresh…

Review: If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch

Posted by Giselle on 03/15/2013 • 31 Comments

A deep and emotional journey into the lives of two very special girls, If You Find Me is a wonderfully inspiring story that brings us past the unimaginable horror it inhibits and makes it about hope instead, about second chances.

We meet Carey and Jenessa who are living–or surviving–in their mama’s old camper in the woods. This immediately captured both my heart and rapt interest, seeing two very young girls having to fend for themselves in such cruel ways. I could see from the start how much Carey had matured way beyond her years, caring for her sister more than any mother for her child. This brought me so very close to her. She quickly wedged herself right into my sympathizing heart. Easily, I could feel the deep bond these…

The Look Blog Tour: Guest Post, Sneak Peek + Giveaway

Posted by Giselle on 03/14/2013 • 15 Comments

Sophia Bennett, author of The Look, is over at Xpresso Reads today for her US blog tour–her book having released in the US this month. We’ve got a guest post and sneak peek to her book for you today, as well as a giveaway! First though, let’s see what The Look is all about:

The LookSophia Bennett Genre: YA ContemporaryPublication date: March 1st 2013by Scholastic

Can she be a supermodel and a super-sister? She finds her answer in just one look.

Two sisters, both beautiful in different ways: Fifteen-year-old Ted has got “The Look.” That’s what the scout for the modeling agency tells her, and she can’t believe her luck. But just as Ted’s jet-setting off on her new career, Ava is diagnosed with cancer. Can…

Book Girls Don’t Cry: Book-to-Movie Adaptations

Posted by Giselle on 03/14/2013 • 43 Comments

Inspired by Book Buzzers, Book Girls Don’t Cry is a weekly feature where we each discuss/vent/advise on the chosen weekly bookish topic. Don’t miss Jenni on Mondays, and Amy on Saturdays: This week’s topic was suggested by Kezia of Pansycake Reader

Movie Adaptations are Taking Over!

Let’s take a moment and reflect on upcoming book to movie adaptations (linked to IMDB): Beautiful Creatures Daughter of Smoke and Bone The Book Thief Ender’s Game Blood Red RoadBefore I Fall Delirium Divergent Forest of Hands and Teeth 13 Reasons Why Shiver Paranormalcy Heist Society The Maze Runner Pure The Luxe The Host Fallen A Great and Terrible Beauty Matched Legend Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Mortal Instruments The Night Circus The Scorpio Races Shadow and Bone The Raven Boys…

Review: On Every Street by Karina Halle

Posted by Giselle on 03/13/2013 • 18 Comments

Having already met Ellie in Sins & Needles, I was excited to get the before: What happened to make her run away, and how she fell in love with Javier to begin with. I must say, I feel very torn after this. In Sins & Needles, Ellie meets Camden with whom she develops a very chemistry filled, eccentric relationship that takes the reader by storm. Then she makes Javier out to be someone she fears, someone she must stay away from at all costs. He’s the villain no one wants to see swoop in. In On Every Street, however, we see what made her fall in love with Javier. Knowing their unfortunate downfall doesn’t make their romance, nor Javier himself, any less enticing, either. I didn’t think I would like…

Review: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Posted by Giselle on 03/12/2013 • 38 Comments

Before I FallLauren Oliver Genre: YA ContemporaryPublication date: October 25th 2011by HarperCollins

What if you only had one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?

Samantha Kingston has it all: looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday, February 12, should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it turns out to be her last.

The catch: Samantha still wakes up the next morning. Living the last day of her life seven times during one miraculous week, she will untangle the mystery surrounding her death–and discover the true value of everything she is in danger of losing

-This novel was listened to via audiobook- Having heard numerous incredible reviews on this novel, I…