Top Ten Tuesday (#2)

Well, hello there! Long time no see. It's been a while and I have no one to blame but myself. Thank you, Nicole for being a co-blogger with the patience of a saint.

I love book recs (especially the anticipation of books I truly MUST read) and I love lists, so posting this particular TTT was a no-brainer. And of course, I'm really curious to see what other books made it to your Top Ten Tuesdays. Can't wait to discuss!

Thanks to The Broke and the Bookish for hosting!

Top Ten Books People Have Been Telling Me That I  MUST Read

I intern at Bloomsbury and I  am still fifty pages in. 

This was on my Summer TBR list.  I just bought it. Gaby made me. 

Bad writer. Bad reader. 

The whole world pretty much told me to read it. 

I kind of feel guilty for never having read this in school.

I get yelled at whenever I tell a fellow blogger I haven't read this. 

I'll get to it eventually....

Nicole, Hannah and Gaby recc'd this to me. 

I LOVED Scorpio Races so reading her other books is a given, right?

Kind of kicking myself in the butt for not having read this. 

Top Ten Tuesday (#1)

Really excited to start the first Top Ten Tuesday for Paperback Princess. I adore lists and have loved reading this meme in the past. If you don't know, TTT is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish.

Top Ten Books On My Summer TBR List

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins: I didn't know I wanted to read this until recently. I'm heading on a trip to Paris in a few weeks and I think this will be the perfect companion.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor : This book has been on my TBR list for a while but with work and school, I haven't had time to pick it up.

Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers: On a recent trip to Barnes and Noble, Co-Blogger Nicole urged me to read this. And by urged, I mean she forced it in my hands and told me I must read it. So I will.

Just One Day by Gayle Forman: If I Stay/Where She Went killed me. So I knew that I had to read Gayle Forman's second series. After I got it signed at Teen Author Carnival this year, I knew it was meant to be.

Open Road Summer by Emery Lord: The buzz for this is huge and I also feel obligated as a Bloomsbury intern to read this. But it also looks so good.

  

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater: Like If I Stay, The Scorpio Races reduced me to a pile of tears and feels. I've heard great things about this series and cannot wait to read it.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin: I am in love with meta fiction. This Gabrielle Zevin novel seems to be a quintessential book lover's book. I can't wait to read it.

This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner: The first book in this trilogy had me seeing stars. I adored it and literally made it my mission at BEA this year to get it. Thanks to the greatest Co-blogger in the world, I did.

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas: I would consider myself a horrible Bloomsbury intern and blogger if I didn't read this book. I'm twenty pages into it so far, though, and I love it. It shouldn't be a problem.

Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson: This was my favorite surprise at BEA. Morgan Matson was so sweet and I'm in love with the cover.

Honorable Mention: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: I'm not a book snob. Not really. But I do like book lists and this book has made it on all of them. So I want to see what the fuss is about. I'm kind of already intrigued.

The Raven Boys

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Goodreads Rating: 4.49
My Rating: 4 Stars
Pages: 408
Reviewed By: Nicole

I got this book from BEA because I've heard good things about Stiefvater, and although I never read The Wolves of Mercy Falls, I was excited to read this new series. I had a little trouble getting into it at first, but this four book series is going to be a hit for sure.

Goodreads Synopses:

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.

Books of Wonder Special Event and Giveaway

A few weeks back I attended a Books of Wonder Event for Maggie Stiefvater and David Levithan. I have not yet read anything by David Levithan, but after listening to the reading of Everyday, I think that I am 100% ready to dive into that book. I did read The Raven Boys by Maggie before I went there, which made the reading really fun, because I opened my book and followed along.

Introduction

The crowd.

David reading.

Reading.

Reading.

Q&A Banter

Maggie answering questions.

Maggie and Me!

So I managed to get an ARC of The Raven Boy's signed for a lucky winner as well as two signed David Levithan books. You can enter both, and there is a chance you could win both. This contest is open to US citizens and I reserve the right to delete fake entries. Below is the Rafflecopter, so go ahead and enter!

NEWS!

I came across a second ARC of The Raven Boys, its not signed, but if I hit 200 GFC followers, I'll throw in the second copy and pick a second winner for The Raven Boys! If I hit 300 GFC followers you ask? I've got an extra copy of Eve and Adam to send to a third person. So spread the news!

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