Posts By: Giselle

Sunday, July 06, 2014

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [July 6th]

Posted by Giselle • 26 Comments

Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews featuring the books we got this week, and I also mention blog news/happenings of the past week.

How is everyone doing? I hope you were affected by the recent Google freak out – I hear a bunch of blogs got deleted this week. Never too late to move to WordPress! 😉 Also I hope all my Eastern friends all stayed safe from the hurricane. It hit us this weekend – just the tail end of it so it wasn’t so bad here. So this week on the blog we posted our 2nd Cover Madness giveaway hop which started on the 1st, don’t miss your chance to win over 40 giveaways! This was another slow book week for me, but I’m excited about the creepies I got!

THIS WEEK’S BOOK HAUL:

I received for review:

–The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco
–Night Film by Marisha Pessl

Ebook haul:

*Thanks to Raincoast Books, Random House Canada, and HarperCollins for these pretties!*

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That’s all for me this week!
XOXO

Fresh Batch (New Releases July 6th – 12th)

Posted by Giselle on 07/05/2014 • 10 Comments

Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Landline Rainbow Rowell Publication date: July 8th 2014by St. Martin’s Press

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Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems besides the point now.

Maybe that was always besides the point.

Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be…

Review: Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Posted by Giselle on 07/04/2014 • 18 Comments

Landline is different from what I expected: first of all it’s an adult book which I only realized when I started it, but this is totally my fault and also not a bad thing. I was due for an adult book. And, unlike her usual contemporary reads, this one has a bit of a paranormal vibe to it. I’m not sure how I felt about this at first, I loved the mind-f*ck nature of it, but it has an element that very rarely impresses me [time-travel], so I was afraid of the direction it was going in. In the end, though, I can say I quite enjoyed the story. It has a bit of a fairy-tale quality to it, so have to go into it with an open mind, but…

Review: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Posted by Giselle on 07/02/2014 • 31 Comments

Why do I read these books? Wait, why do I love them? DO I LIKE PAIN!?!?

Before this book even began, with just the author’s note, I was already emotional to learn of the passing of Siobhan Dowd that inspired this novel. I’m so happy that Ness wrote it, and that it became such a well loved book. What a wonderful way to commemorate someone’s life work.

A Monster Calls is a masterpiece in itself, with its terribly poignant account of a young boy learning to deal with his mother’s battle with cancer. Being a mother myself, this is one of my worst fears – to leave my child motherless, filled with grief and pain and confusion. With that said, I truly and deeply connected with this story, with…

Cover Madness Giveaway Hop!

Posted by Giselle on 06/30/2014 • 29 Comments

Our second Cover Madness giveaway hop is finally here! We’re so happy with how many people have joined in, and there are a lot of pretty covers to make your way onto your bookshelves this month! For those who are new to our Cover Madness giveaways, it’s a giveaway where we show off the new covers we like, and then you can enter to win a pre-order of one of them! Let’s see what new pretties we found!

Up for grabs One winner will be winning one of these beauties!

You can pick a pre-order for any of these, OR, you can choose the 1st book in the series if the cover shown is a sequel.*If the title chosen happens to become unavailable at The Book Depository, the…

Fresh Batch (New Releases June 29th – July 5th)

Posted by Giselle on 06/28/2014 • 10 Comments

Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

On the Fence Kasie West Publication date: July 1st 2014by HarperTeen

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She’s a tomboy. He’s the boy next door…

Charlie Reynolds can outrun, outscore, and outwit every boy she knows. But when it comes to being a girl, Charlie doesn’t know the first thing about anything. So when she starts working at a chichi boutique to pay off a speeding ticket, she finds herself in a strange new world. To cope with the stress of her new reality, Charlie takes to spending nights chatting with her neighbor Braden through the fence between their yards. As she grows to depend on their…

Cover Reveal, Interview & Giveaway: I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios

Posted by Giselle on 06/27/2014 • 53 Comments

I hope everyone is as excited as I am about a new release by Heather Demetrios! Today we’ve got the brand new cover to show off to you guys, and a Q&A with Heather as well as a giveaway! So let’s see the new pretty!!

Q&A with Heather Demetrios Describe I’ll Meet You There in a Tweet (140 characters)!

Every single word of I’ll Meet You There gutted me. Here is my heart, in paper and ink. I’ve never loved a book so much.

What was your initial reaction to the cover design? What do you like best about it?

I was thrilled…and relieved! My editor was on the phone with me when she sent the cover comp over. She knew how important the cover of this particular…

Review: Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn

Posted by Giselle on 06/25/2014 • 23 Comments

WHAAAAAAA!

Holy mother of god this book is some kind of messed up! Like, whoa! But it’s the kind of disturbing that is really wonderfully brilliant when you turn the last page, sit back and really think about it. It’s a story that will make your skin crawl, an ending that made me want to pee myself, and a memorable quality that makes it all unforgettable.

Jamie comes off as someone who is mentally unstable from the very start. Understandably so after learning the tragedy that is his childhood. And like many unsettling narrators, he immediately had me under his spell. I quickly became fascinated by his life, his thoughts, his mysterious condition where his hands go numb anytime he gets too stressed or panicked. I wanted to know…