Waiting on Wednesday (38)

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine.

Banished
by Sophie Littlefield

Release Date:
October 12, 2010

Description:
Sixteen-year-old Hailey Tarbell can’t wait for the day she’ll leave Gypsum, Missouri, far behind, taking only four-year-old Chub, the developmenta ...more Sixteen-year-old Hailey Tarbell can’t wait for the day she’ll leave Gypsum, Missouri, far behind, taking only four-year-old Chub, the developmentally-delayed little boy her cruel drug-dealing grandmother fosters for the state money. But when a freak accident in gym class leaves a girl in critical condition, Hailey feels drawn to lay her hands on the injured girl and an astonishing healing takes place. Before Hailey can understand her new powers, a beautiful stranger shows up…just in time to save her and Chub from hired killers. A desperate race begins, with Hailey as the ultimate prize: there are those who will stop at nothing to harness her gifts to create an undefeatable army of the undead. Now it is up to Hailey and a small but determined family of healers to stand up to the unbelievable and face the unthinkable.

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It was something intense that captured my interest. And then there's the cover... It has an eerie feeling to it. The touches of blue make it look very cool and though there are strands of hair all over the girl's face, it totally gives an impression of a suspenseful hunt.

Teaser Tuesday (21)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

The rules are:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• DO NOT INCLUDE SPOILERS.

My teaser:

And for that first, breathless moment, Beth almost believed she was out in the ocean, swimming beyond the moorings in the bay at Pebble Beach, instead of in the over-chlorinated YMCA pool back home in Martin, Massachusetts.

She almost believed it was still summer.

~pg. 1 "After Summer"
by Hailey Abbott

I thought this was the perfect quote and the perfect book at a time like this. Summer is over. School starts today. And it's just so very melancholy. Even the weather agrees with me. It already feels like autumn!

In My Mailbox (25)

In My Mailbox is held weekly by Kristi at The Story Siren. Click here for details on how to participate.

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All are from the library:

Next Summer (Summer Boys book 2) by Hailey Abbott
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
Blood Promise (Vampire Academy book 4) by Richelle Mead
After Summer (Summer Boys book 3) by Hailey Abbott
Wings (Wings book 1) by Aprilynne Pike

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Can you believe this is the last weekend before school? Well, that's the case for me. I don't know about the rest of you guys. But it's still so sad! It will mean less time for reading & reviewing and more time for focusing (on school). *long, heavy sigh*

Friday's Finest (30)

Friday's Finest is a new meme hosted by Steff & Justine from A Bookful of Thoughts.

Rules:
~Post a quote that really stuck to you after reading it in a book.
~Make sure it isn't a spoiler!
~If you'd like, expand on what you think it means and why you chose it.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Frostbite (VA #2) by Richelle Mead

Vampire Academy! Blood Promise is waiting for me at the library and I'm practically jumping for joy. Woo!

Midnight Release Party of Mockingjay

Here it is! The post that I promised a few days ago. I don't know if the Mockingjay hype is still there, but this just has to be posted.

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It was my first EVER midnight release party and wow, was it a blast! I went with two of my friends, Steff and Steph (confusing, I know. But Steff is the one who wrote some reviews and posted them here) to Chapters. The party was scheduled to be at 10 pm, but since we were all worried, especially me, we went a tiny bit earlier. Like around 8 pm. So we had the chance to walk around the mall.

When we went back, it was still early and we were the only ones there. Gradually, others started coming in. I was surprised to see how much people there were overall (my guess is about 50 people). Not as much as those who would have gone to a Harry Potter release party...but I was still glad that there were actually some who came!

There were stations that were set up and there was a "passport" that we initially receive, which we must get stamped at each station in order to be qualified for the draw at midnight.

The stations were so much fun! Unfortunately, we hadn't taken pictures of them. I guess we were too caught up in the hype. Some of the things we did were:

• Design our own cupcakes
  
• Hunt for food...er, candy.
• Go fishing
• Shoot some arrows
  
• Spot herbal leaves and drink tea
• Got a Mockingjay tattoo
  
• Answer trivia questions (on paper) to be qualified for another draw
  
• Sign on a large card to be sent too Suzanne Collins

Too bad there were no group discussions. I would have loved to participate!

So in the end, we started lining up. We weren't in the front, but we weren't in the end either. I was satisfied. Yet that night, luck was against Steff, Steph and I and we didn't win any of the draws. When Mockingjay was in my hands, however, I was more than ecstatic. And thus began the night/morning of my reading the final book of The Hunger Games series.

Steph, Steff, and me

Review to be posted soon! But don't expect it too soon. . . ;)

Waiting on Wednesday (37)

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine.

Cloaked
by Alex Flinn

Release Date:
February 8, 2011

Description:
Johnny works after school in a shoe repair shop in a swanky hotel in Miami. He loves shoes and is talented; he even aspires to be the next Manolo Blahnik. But the real reason that he is working so hard is because his dad left when he was a baby and he needs to help his mom pay the bills. At least he has his friend, Meg, who works at the hotel coffee shop, to keep him company.

When beautiful Princess Victoriana comes to stay at the hotel, Johnny is thrilled when Victoriana invites him to her suite. There she tells him that her brother has been turned into a frog, and that she needs his help finding him in the Florida Keys.

Johnny thinks she is crazy and does not believe her,
until she gives him a magical cloak that immediately transports him to another location. Armed with the cloak and a magical earpiece that can help him talk to other transformed humans, Johnny sets out to save the Prince ...

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Exciting! I really enjoyed Beastly and its fascinating plot. Now I am seriously looking forward for this. Another fairytale retelling to love! :)