Sunday, January 05, 2014

Jenni’s Stacking the Shelves

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Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews featuring new additions to our bookshelves.

Books Mentioned in Vlog (click title for Goodreads):
The Secret Diamond Sisters (The Secret Diamond Sisters #1) by Michelle Madow
Racing Savannah (Hundred Oaks #4) by Miranda Kenneally
Love Your Entity (Entity #3) by Cat Devon
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller
Waiting by Carol Lynch Williams
BZRK (BZRK #1) by Michael Grant
The Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Robin Palmer
Zom-B Baby (Zom-B #5) by Darren Shan
Impulse (Impulse #1) by Ellen Hopkins
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
Burned (Burned #1) by Ellen Hopkins
My Life After Now by Jessica Verdi

Bloggers Mentioned:
Christina of A Reader of Fictions
Bekka of Great Imaginations

eBook Haul (click cover for Goodreads):
13446537 13576132 16122034 16143347 17314430 17572888 17693452 17860217 17899696 18242896 18600124 ForgetAboutMe_EpicReads

Thank you to Amy of Book Loving Mom who gifted me Wait for you, Trust In Me, The Edge of Always and Frigid for Christmas! You rock chick!

Huge Thank You’s to Christina of A Reader of Fictions, St. Martin’s Press, Delacorte Press, HarperTeen, Viking Juvenile, Michelle Madow, Miranda Kenneally and my wonderful co-blogger Giselle!

Fresh Batch (New Releases January 5th – 11th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases January 5th – 11th)

Posted by on 01/04/2014 • 19 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Impossible Knife of Memory Laurie Halse Anderson Publication date: January 7th 2014by Viking Juvenile

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For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories, even have a relationship with Finn, the hot guy who obviously likes her but is…

Meet Penelope from A Breath of Frost + Exclusive Excerpt!

Meet Penelope from A Breath of Frost + Exclusive Excerpt!

Posted by on 01/03/2014 • 25 Comments

Today we all get to meet Penelope from A Breath of Frost by  Alyxandra Harvey! I love witch books and this one sounds awesome. I also have heard great things about the author’s other series so let’s see what this new one is all about!

Official Book Trailer:

An Introduction to Penelope! Penelope Chadwick Age: 18 Hair: black Eyes: dark brown Familiar: Spider Magic: Pscychometry: sensing the history of an object and the people who have touched it

Penelope is romantic and spoiled and kind and very talented at the pianoforte. She’s mad for anything Shakespearean and likes to use odd random bits of Shakespearean insults. She also has a rather prickly temper when her loved ones are insulted.

Her…

Review: Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Review: Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Posted by on 01/02/2014 • 22 Comments

An immensely powerful book, Crank brings us a heartbreaking downfall into drug addiction. Knowing Ellen personally experienced much of this story gives it even more of an emotional pull, as we learn that this is based on Ellen’s own daughter’s story.

I’m still quite new to verse novels so it did take me a good 100 pages (which took like 20 mins to read, really – you can fly through verse books in no time) to get comfortable with the writing style. Before that I kept concentrating on how I was supposed to read it: vertical first or not? For instance. I soon realized it didn’t matter. Plus, by then, I was so into it I wasn’t even paying attention to that at all, it had…

Welcome Jenni to Xpresso Reads!

Welcome Jenni to Xpresso Reads!

Posted by on 01/01/2014 • 83 Comments

Oh em gee! Right? Yep there are some big changes for this new year at Xpresso Reads and I’m incredibly excited to announce this news. I’m sure you all know her and adore her already: Jenni from Alluring Reads is joining Xpresso Reads!

I have been thinking for a while now that I would like to be working with a co-blogger, but after having run a blog for 2 years by myself it’s hard to imagine having to share blogging with someone else. Not because I didn’t want to, but I’ve always been anxious about changes in routine and life in general and it’s quite a huge step to make for both of us. Jenni and I met 2 years ago when this blog was…

Happy New Year! 2013 Highlights + Giveaway!

Happy New Year! 2013 Highlights + Giveaway!

Posted by on 01/01/2014 • 32 Comments

Happy New Year everyone! My hiatus was a nice break but I’m happy to be back blogging and refreshed for the new year. I’ve got some great posts planned for 2014, awesome events especially for my 3 year blogoversary in the fall, and I also may be getting a co-blogger which you all know and love already 😉 We’ll see if/when that happens! So today let’s check out Xpresso Reads’ 2013 highlights, exciting happenings you may have missed, and an awesome giveaway to kick off the new year in style!

2013 Highlights We introduced our new feature that me, Jenni (Alluring Reads), and Amy (Book Loving Mom) do together: Book Girls Don’t Cry… They Vent which we’ve had a lot of fun with bookish discussions…

Top Ten Books I Read In 2013

Top Ten Books I Read In 2013

Posted by on 12/31/2013 • 47 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish where every week there is a new top 10 topic where we list bookish things.

Top Ten Books I Read In 2013

These are books that also released in 2013. I read a lot of great me-books that could also make this list so I had to limit it somehow – I’m too indecisive >.< Also – it’s in no particular order.

Sins & Needles by Karina Halle: I could really put the whole series on this list which is just fantastic. I love the grittiness and how character oriented it is. Plus, it has a perfect example of a love triangle done right! The 5th…

Review: Tragic by J.A. Huss

Review: Tragic by J.A. Huss

Posted by on 12/30/2013 • 16 Comments

-This novel was listened to via audiobook-

What a refreshing story. Even though it may have a lot of the same general elements as many New Adult novels – a protagonist with a rough upbringing who’s inexperienced in romance and meets this drop dead gorgeous guy that sweeps her off her feet – I found this one still had a lot of originality to offer. The whole erotic photography scene is new and pretty fascinating if you ask me. As a web designer, I admit to never thinking about the people on the stock images that I’ve worked with. Even those used on book covers; do you ever consider the kind of people they are and the kind of life they lead? They’re just book character personas to most of…