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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (22)

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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 Fall! I can’t believe summer flew by so fast! I’ve even started seeing Christmas stuff out in stores O.O So… this week. Well, have you SEEN all the giveaways I have open? All of my blogoversary ones end this week and I’m really excited to start picking winners! Make sure you all have you entries in – find them here! Every post was open for exactly 2 weeks so every day this week I will be picking winners. Aside from giveaways, don’t miss all the awesome cover reveals that happened this week! I do them on my Facebook, mostly, so go check out if you missed any!

Xpresso Design news: Besides from the giveaway I have going where you can win a book of your choice along with a 75$ design voucher, I set up its own Facebook page this week so you should go and Like it 😉 You can see the new designs I’ve done and get news on discounts etc.

Reviews on the blog this week:

Stacking the Shelves

Slow week this week! So this is short and sweet! <– dude! I could be a poet!

Bloggers mentioned: Jenni at Alluring Reads (as usual…)

I received for review (title links go to Goodreads):

*Big thanks to Kensington Books and Hachette Book Group Canada for these pretties!*

That is all for me this week!

Oh and also, since this is what I was doing while writing this post:
CHEERS!!

Peace out, lovelies!
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Review: The Diviners by Libba Bray

Posted by on 09/21/2012 • 32 Comments

The DivinersLibba BraySeries: Diviners, #1Publication date: September 18th 2012 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

 

Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City–and she is pos-i-toot-ly thrilled. New York is the city of speakeasies, shopping, and movie palaces! Soon enough, Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfield girls and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is Evie has to live with her Uncle Will, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult–also known as “The Museum of the Creepy Crawlies.”When a rash of occult-based murders comes to light, Evie and her uncle are right in the thick of the investigation. And through it all, Evie has a secret: a mysterious power that could…

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My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century Tour Stop

Posted by on 09/12/2012 • 25 Comments

Today on the blog I’m happy to have the fabulous Rachel Harris drop by for her blog tour. She’s got a great guest post about life and technology. Could you live in the Sixteenth Century?

My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century Rachel HarrisRelease date: September 11th 2012 by Entangled Publishing

 

On the precipice of her sixteenth birthday, the last thing lone wolf Cat Crawford wants is an extravagant gala thrown by her bubbly stepmother and well-meaning father. So even though Cat knows the family’s trip to Florence, Italy, is a peace offering, she embraces the magical city and all it offers. But when her curiosity leads her to an unusual gypsy tent, she exits . . . right into Renaissance Firenze.

Thrust into the sixteenth century armed…

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Blogoversary Day 4: Author & Publisher Love

Posted by on 09/12/2012 • 27 Comments

Where would we be without authors? Without publishers? Do I even dare picture such a life? *faints dramatically*. Today, on the 4th day of my blogoversary celebration week, I’m going to talk about these wonderful people who let us experience worlds beyond our own. Really, it’s just a big blah blah post about being starstruck by authors and publishers! Starstruck Like probably a lot of you, I felt very intimidated by authors and publishers when I started blogging. To me, authors have always been superstars. I’m not saying this to flatter — although I do love to flatter authors I love — but for a girl from a small town Canada where no big authors ever come for signings, I was very starstruck from the whole idea of communicating with…

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Blogoversary Celebration Day 2: Now & Then

Posted by on 09/10/2012 • 46 Comments

Welcome to day 2 of my blogoversary celebration. Since yesterday was just the launch/announcement, today is the first actual post and it’s going to be about what kind of year I had; where I’ve been, what happened, what changed.

Then This adventure all started on September 9th, 2011 when I started Xpresso Reads and posted for the very first time *sniff*. It’s safe to say I had no idea what it all entailed. I had been reviewing on Goodreads for a year, and before that I was using some lame Facebook App for a couple years. So I wasn’t new to reviewing, but blogging was a whole new world for me. I had heard of book bloggers but I didn’t know much about what it was like to have…

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Fresh Batch (September 9th – 15th)

Posted by on 09/08/2012 • 16 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Fang GirlHelen KeeblePublication date: September 11th 2012by Harper Teen

 

Things That Are Destroying Jane Greene’s Undead Social Life Before It Can Even Begin:

1) A twelve-year-old brother who’s convinced she’s a zombie.2) Parents who are begging her to turn them into vampires.3) The pet goldfish she accidentally turns instead.4) Weird superpowers that let her rip the heads off of every other vampire she meets.(Sounds cool, but it doesn’t win you many friends.)5) A pyschotic vampire creator who’s using her to carry out a plan for world domination.

And finally:6) A seriously ripped vampire hunter who either wants to stake her or make out with her. Not…

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Fresh Batch (September 2nd – 8th)

Posted by on 09/01/2012 • 16 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Monstrous BeautyElizabeth FamaPublication date: September 4th 2012by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

 

Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land, she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences.

Almost one hundred forty years later, seventeen-year-old Hester meets a mysterious stranger named Ezra and feels overwhelmingly, inexplicably drawn to him. For generations, love has resulted in death for the women in her family. Is it an undiagnosed genetic defect . . . or a curse? With Ezra’s help, Hester investigates her family’s strange, sad history. The…

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Review: Spark by Brigid Kemmerer

Posted by on 08/25/2012 • 28 Comments

SparkBrigid KemmererSeries: Elemental, #2Publication date: August 28th 2012by K-Teen

 

Gabriel Merrick plays with fire. Literally.

Sometimes he can even control it. And sometimes he can’t. Like the fire that killed his parents.

Gabriel has always had his brothers to rely on, especially his twin, Nick. But when an arsonist starts wreaking havoc on their town, all the signs point to Gabriel. Only he’s not doing it.

More than Gabriel’s pride is at stake — this could cost him his family, maybe his life. And no one seems to hear him. Except a shy sophomore named Layne, a brainiac who dresses in turtlenecks and jeans and keeps him totally off balance. Layne understands family problems, and she understands secrets. She has a few of her own.

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