Showcase Sunday #2

Showcase Sunday is a meme hosted by Vicki over at Books, Biscuits, and Tea. Showcase Sunday is a chance for us bloggers to share with you, our readers, what we have gotten recently. I don't often get any new books because I have a hard enough time keeping up with ones that I already have, but this week a got a whole lot of new books that I felt I should share.

So this is my first attempt at a Vlog post, so please bear with me while I try to figure out how everything works. I'm not the most techsavvy person in the world so this can actually be a real challenge for me.

Books mentioned in this post:

The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D - by Nichole Bernier

Becoming Marie Antoinette - by Juliet Grey

Into the Darkest Corner - by Elizabeth Haynes

Safe Within - by Jean Reynolds Page

Never Tell- by Alarair Burke

Take a Bow- by Elizabeth Eulberg

Storybound- by Marissa Burt

Firelight - by Sophie Jordan

Vanish - by Sophie Jordan

Throne of Glass - by Sarah J. Maas

I know its kinda long, but enjoy. If you have any comments or suggestions, or helpful tips on how to successfully Vlog, I would love to hear hear it! Thanks for watching!

Five Months

For a new follower/ reader, let me tell you that today marks my blogs 5 month-aversary. Rather than celebrate the traditional 6 months, I decided to do five months because May is a very important month for me. If you've noticed, May is the month of my birthday, if you haven't then you should go check out the Giveaway tab to find out what is going on this month.

Besides it being the blogs monthaversary, its also the day that I graduated from college which is pretty scary. While I haven't been taking classes for the last semester, it wasn't official until today. It was once I finished with college classes that I decided I would start a blog about all the books that I planned on reading now that I had time to read books that didn't need to be educational. 

I wanted to use today to thank you, my precious reader, for coming back, even once a month, because you have helped me keep this going. There have been moments where I was convinced that all of my page-views came from my boyfriend and my sister. But I have come to learn that other people have read, and enjoyed my blog and so I keep on keeping on.

This month I am hosting 7 giveaways! Two have already happened, and one is currently underway, and so you can enter to win, super easy. I also wanted to let you know of some big things that are coming up. Next month, and the remainder of this month, I have 8 blog tour stops headed to Paperback Princess, and At least one more giveaway once May is over. I will also be headed to BEA which means four days of super exciting posts and new books. So please stay tuned for more chances to win and so much more exciting news headed your way.

I hope you enjoyed poking around Paperback Princess and that you'll stop by again. Tomorrow I'll be having a Showcase Sunday Post because I got a lot of cool stuff from the YAmazing Race. So thank you, thank you, thank you. Without you I wouldn't be able to say that I have 2916 page views, 76 followers, 145 twitter followers, and 59 Facebook Likes! So to quote Bon Jovi, thank you for Keeping the Faith.

<3 The Paperback Princess

Lost Voices From the Titanic

Author: Nick Barratt
Goodreads Rating: 3.32
My Rating: 3.5
Pages: 286 (264 w/o appendix and index)
Reviewed by: Nicole


I am a disaster junkie. It's terrible to say, but it is so true. I went to see the Titanic when it came out the first time in theaters (I was only 6 or 7 and I constantly wonder what my parents were thinking, but then I remember that I was just that persuasive). I saw this book while I was in Mystic, CT and then I saw my library had it so I decided that in honor of the 100th anniversary of the maiden voyage, I would review some books about it.


Goodreads Synopses:


On April 15, 1912, the HMS Titanic sank, killing 1,517 people and leaving the rest clinging to debris in the frozen waters of the North Atlantic awaiting rescue. Here, historian Nick Barratt tells the ship’s full story, starting from its original conception and design by owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through its construction at the shipyards in Belfast. Lost Voices From the Titanic offers tales of incredible folly and unimaginable courage—the aspirations of the owners, the efforts of the crew, and of course, the eyewitness accounts from those lucky enough to survive.
In narrating the definitive history of the famous ship, Barratt draws from never before seen archive material and eyewitness accounts by participants at every stage of the Titanic’s life. These long-lost voices bring new life to those heartbreaking moments on the fateful Sunday night when families were torn apart and the legend of the Titanic was cemented in our collective imagination.


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