Thursday, November 30, 2017

Thursday Tracks [67]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays will become from now on... Thursday Tracks day! A feature created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. Now, this week song is...

MIDNIGHT

Artist: Jessie Ware

favorite lyrics: Maybe I love you. Maybe I want to. Maybe I need you.

Hear me next Thursday!

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Waiting on Wednesday [117]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

PRETTY DEAD GIRLS


by: Monica Murphy
Release Date: January 2nd, 2018

Beautiful. Perfect. Dead.

They’re arranged in a particular way. Their faces turned at the most flattering angles, their designer clothes immaculate, as immaculate as their carefully made-up faces. Only the slash of blood across their necks mars the perfect surface. Only the vacant stare in their eyes indicates they’re dead.

The most popular girls in school are going down, and Penelope Malone is terrified she’s next. All the victims so far have been linked to Penelope—and to the mysterious loner boy from her physics class. The one with the lopsided smirk and intense stare that’s almost…cute? Even though she’s not sure she can trust him, she reluctantly agrees to work with him to figure out what’s happening. All while trying to stay one step ahead of the brutal serial killer on the loose.

But this killer won't be satisfied until every beautiful, popular girl in the senior class is dead—especially Penelope. And the killer is closer than she thinks...

 

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Top Ten Tuesday [62]

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join! This week Top Ten is...

Top Ten Books In My Winter TBR

I hope I get to read them because whenever I do a list like this I never end up doing it.

 

 

 

 

 

What's your Winter TBR list? Are you going to stick to it?

Friday, November 24, 2017

Book to Movie [7]: Series of Unfortunate Events, Part 1


A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS


Author: Lemony Snicket
Published: between Sept 30th, '99 to April 15th, '00
Read: between Oct 7th, '17 to Oct 24th, '17

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Released: January 13th, 2017
Seen: around the same time.

Someone recommend me this series on Netflix that recently come out (back in January) and I was bored, I thought "why not" and I saw it all in two days.

At the end of season one, I (obvs) discover that more seasons were coming, BUT I needed to know how these orphans were going to end. Back then, I was not interested in reading all those books. But now that I work in a children's library, I got real curious. I haven't read them all, but I read all the books that were in season one.

I need to start saying that the series is JUST like the book. In my opinion. There are some slight changes, but those are not my concern whatsoever. The series captures tiny details that are explained in the books. The series captures that mysterious narrator called Lemony Snicket (which is the author). The series makes you want to laugh more than the book that's where my thumbs up goes to.

The books are terribly sad. The series is sad, but it makes you laugh (a little). So, even though I saw the series before reading the books (which is a terrible idea), I enjoyed the series more than the books. I have to admit that both ways there were times that it was too boring, but overall it was a good series AND a good read.

I recommend both or if you want to pick one... the series for sure.

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thursday Tracks [66]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays will become from now on... Thursday Tracks day! A feature created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. Now, this week song is...

CHASING STARS

Artist: Philip Larue

favorite lyrics: There's still arrows in my heart. There's still time I fall apart. And all I am left with is why's. But then your love falls like a heavy rain and I don't feel the pain.

Hear me next Thursday!

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Waiting on Wednesday [116]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

THE TRUTH BENEATH THE LIES

by: Amanda Searcy
Release Date: December 12th, 2017

Fight or Flight.

All Kayla Asher wants to do is run. Run from the government housing complex she calls home. Run from her unstable mother. Run from a desperate job at No Limit Foods. Run to a better, cleaner, safer life. Every day is one day closer to leaving.

All Betsy Hopewell wants to do is survive. Survive the burner phone hidden under her bed. Survive her new rules. Survive a new school with new classmates. Survive being watched. Every minute grants her another moment of life.

But when fate brings Kayla and Betsy together, only one girl will live.

 

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Top Ten Tuesday [61]

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join! This week Top Ten is...

Top Ten Books That I'm Thankful For

No order.

 

any book from Jenny Lawson, for reals.

 

Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell
City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare

 

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky

 

Looking for Alaska, by John Green
The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins

 

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charley Davidson series, by Darynda Jones

Let me see your list!

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Thursday Tracks [65]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays will become from now on... Thursday Tracks day! A feature created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. Now, this week song is...

LOVE ME

Artist: Forest Blakk

favorite lyrics: If you don't love me let me know. If you don't love me, baby, why won't you let me go?

Hear me next Thursday!

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Waiting on Wednesday [115]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:
Moonlight and Motor Oil #1

THE HOOKUP

by: Kristen Ashley
Release Date: December 19th, 2017

When the new girl in town, Eliza “Izzy” Forrester decides to hit the local drinking hole, she’s not ready to meet the town’s good, solid guy. She’s definitely not prepared to engage in her very first hookup with him.

Then Izzy wakes up the next morning in Johnny Gamble’s bed and good girl Izzy finds she likes being bad for Johnny.

Even so, Izzy feels Johnny holding her at arm’s length. But Johnny makes it clear he wants more and Izzy already knows she wants as much of hot-in-bed, sweet-out-of-it Johnny Gamble.

Floating on air thinking this is going somewhere, Izzy quickly learns why Johnny holds distant.

He’s in love with someone else. Someone who left him and did it leaving him broken. Whoever was up next would be runner-up, second best. Knowing the stakes, Izzy will take what she can get from the gentleman that’s Johnny Gamble. And even knowing his heart might never mend, Johnny can’t seem to stay away from Izzy.

Until out of nowhere, his lost love comes back to town. He’s not going back, but Johnny still knows the right thing to do is let Izzy go.

And Izzy knew the stakes, so she makes it easy and slips through his fingers.

But that’s before Johnny realizes Eliza moved to town to escape the danger that’s been swirling around her.

And that’s why Johnny decides to wade in.

That and the fact Eliza Forrester makes breakfast with a canary singing on her shoulder and fills out tight dresses in a way Johnny Gamble cannot get out of his head.

 

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Top Ten Tuesday [60]

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join! This week Top Ten is...

Top Ten Books I Want My Future Kids To Read

This list might have books that I have not read, but I'm really looking forward to having kids and reading with them all these books still. AND there's no order.

   

Harry Potter series, by JK Rowling
Percy Jackson series, by Rick Riordan
A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket

 

The Mortal Instruments series, by Cassandra Clare
The Lunar Chronicles series, by Marissa Meyer

   

Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell
Chaos Walking series, by Patrick Ness
The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

 

Penryn & the End of Days series, by Susan Ee
Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series, by Louise Rennison

Any rec for me? What's your list?