Sunday, May 12, 2013

Stacking the Shelves (55)

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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

Happy mother’s day!! I hope you’re all enjoying your weekend and maybe your gift is an afternoon off like mine? Teehee. Oh and because I said I would mention it weekly–2.5 weeks before BEA! 😀

Reviews on the blog this week:

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Stacking the Shelves

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

                                        –Gorgeous by Paul Rudnick
                                          –Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg

*An immense thank you to the fabulous Scholastic Canada, HarperCollins, St. Martin’s Press, Sourcebooks, AToMR Tours, Louise Rozett, Rhiannon Frater, William Morrow Paperbacks, Random House Children’s Books, Month9Books, and Lerner Publishing Group for these pretties!*
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Happy Mother’s Day!

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Fresh Batch (May 12th – 18th)

Fresh Batch (May 12th – 18th)

Posted by on 05/11/2013 • 13 Comments

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

Golden Jessi Kirby  Publication date: May 14th 2013 by Simon & Schuster BfYR

Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and quintessential good girl, she’s about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush or broken the rules. So when fate drops a clue in her lap—one that might be the key to unraveling a town mystery—she decides to take a chance.

Julianna Farnetti and Shane Cruz are remembered as the golden couple of Summit Lakes High—perfect in every way, meant to be together forever. But Julianna’s journal tells a different story—one of doubts about Shane and a forbidden romance with an older,…

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Review: Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn

Review: Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn

Posted by on 05/10/2013 • 27 Comments

This book takes mind-fuck to a whole new level–and excuse my french, but there is really no calling this one any different.

Charm and Strange is… well it is very definitely strange. This is probably one of the most baffling books I’ve read. I was unable to stop thinking and questioning and wondering about every single thing that was going on in this book. It felt like it was going to go one route, only to leave me completely bewildered by the direction it did take. While you will likely want to discuss this book the second you turn the last page, once the ending comes, so does clarity. The confusion is not an irritation while reading either, on the contrary, it’s a fascinating and spellbinding confusion that keeps you…

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Book Girls Don’t Cry… They Vent on Pet Peeves

Book Girls Don’t Cry… They Vent on Pet Peeves

Posted by on 05/09/2013 • 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:  

Bookish Pet Peeves!

We are talking pet peeves today! I’m sure you will all have some to share as well and this is my favorite thing to discuss in books so gimme all you got in the comments, loves! I’ve grown to have very many pet peeves through the years so I will just list the ones that are the most annoying for me.

Insta-Love Oh hell to the no (and really who doesn’t have this as a pet peeve by now?)! What more can I even say about it? Insta-love sucks. An instant attraction is ok, insta-lust…

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Waiting on Wednesday (81)

Waiting on Wednesday (81)

Posted by on 05/08/2013 • 47 Comments

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine  and spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.  My pick this week: The 100 Kass Morgan Genre: YA Dystopian Publication date: September 3rd 2013 by Little, Brown Young Readers

In the future, humans live in city-like spaceships orbiting far above Earth’s toxic atmosphere. No one knows when, or even if, the long-abandoned planet will be habitable again. But faced with dwindling resources and a growing populace, government leaders know they must reclaim their homeland… before it’s too late.

Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents are being sent on a high-stakes mission to recolonize Earth. After a brutal crash landing, the teens arrive on a savagely beautiful planet they’ve only seen from space. Confronting the dangers…

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Review: Easy by Tammara Webber

Review: Easy by Tammara Webber

Posted by on 05/07/2013 • 30 Comments

An amazing story involving first loves and true loves, Easy by Tammara Webber is highly emotional as it involves the topic of rape and a dark past, but in the end it remains a very heartwarming love story.

In a story like this the characters–their development and likeable qualities–are the most important, and this is where Tammara excels. As much as Jacqueline is created with tons of layers and a personality you can’t help but adore, Lucas’ character, with his tattoos, his Harley, and an extremely kind soul, is not neglected with his development one bit. These two characters become real, breathing, living beings that are effortless in getting us to care for them. Even though the chemistry between them is a character in and of itself, with palpable electricity…

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Review: Doll Bones by Holly Black

Review: Doll Bones by Holly Black

Posted by on 05/06/2013 • 30 Comments

Holly Black is one of few who can write something as cute as it is creepy!

Doll Bones is a Middle Grade novel that is full of adventure and friendship–really the only type of MG books I read and enjoy. It’s the story of Zach, Poppy, and Alice who have been friends for such a long time that their friendship feels familiar even to us. I immediately felt attuned to their mutual trust and support. Not giving in when the other kids laughed at them for playing with action figures. But then one day the game got a little bit more real, and it involves a creepy devil doll who is made of little girl bones!

“Her clay was made from human bones. Little girl bones. That hair threaded…

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Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (54)

Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (54)

Posted by on 05/05/2013 • 41 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

Happy May!! I am so very happy to see more summery weather it’s so just happy making, right? I’m also getting all set for BEA with my ladies. Let me know if I can expect to see you there! (I’ll probably be mentioning BEA every week until then! >.<). What is new this week? Well I know that it’s been pretty giveaway awesome on the blog lately so make sure you have entered to win all the pretties! And did you miss this week’s Book Girls Don’t Cry? We talked book genres and what…

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