Award Giveout

Thanks to Eleni from LA FEMME READERS who nominated me for this award. Go check out her wonderful blog.
The Lemonade Award is a feel good award that shows great attitude or gratitude. Here are the rules for accepting this award:

•Put the Lemonade Award logo on your blog or post.
•Nominate at least 10 blogs that show great attitude or gratitude.
•Link your nominees within your post.
•Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
•Share the love and link to the person from whom you received the award.
The blogs I nominate for this award are:
A Circle of Books
Cornucopia of Reviews
Em's Bookshelf
Feed Your Imagination
Frenetic Reader
I Was A Teenage Book Geek
Just Blinded Book Reviews
Katie's Bookshelf
Laina Has Too Much Spare Time
Sharon Loves Books and Cats


Sorry if you aren't on here and thanks again to Eleni.

Friday Finds

What great books did you hear about this week? Friday Finds is a meme hosted by Should Be Reading. I'm kind of late doing this today but here are my finds:





Pretty Dead by Francesca Lia Block
Pub. Date: September 22, 2009:
Charlotte Emerson seems to have the perfect existence. She is enviably beautiful and lives alone in a mansion full of reasures and beautiful clothes, perched atop the cliffs of the Pacific Palisades. But Charlotte has been lonely and dead for almost a century. Now she might get a second chance at life.






Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Pub. Date: October 6, 2009:
Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men.

Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She’s a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered.

With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn’s paths cross in the most unexpected way…taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever.








The Monstrumologist by Rick and Richard Yancey
Pub. Date: September 22, 2009:

These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed.

But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets.

The one who saved me...and the one who cursed me.

So begins the journal of Will Henry, orphaned assistant to Dr. Pellinore War throp, a man with a most unusual specialty: monstrumology, the study of monsters. In his time with the doctor, Will has met many a mysterious late-night visitor, and seen things he never imagined were real. But when a grave robber comes calling in the middle of the night with a grueso me find, he brings with him their most deadly case yet.

This is all the books I'm going to post since I'm so lazy. Hope you find something you would like to read.

And Then Everything Unraveled review

Title: And Then Everything Unraveled
Author: Jennifer Sturman
YA Ficition

Inside flap description:
Delia Truesdale has no idea her life's about to change forever. She's too busy enjoying the California summer. Her internet tycoon mother, T.K. Truesdale, is out of town, and that means Delia can spend all her time at the beach, surfing.
That is, until everything unravels.
Her mother suddenly goes missing, and everyone thinks she's dead- except Delia, who knows T.K.'s way to organized to simply disappear. But Delia's still sent to New York to live with her two aunts - a downtown bohemian and an uptown ice queen. And in case that's not bad enough, she also has to deal with a snotty new school and trying not to fall for the wrong guy. Oh, and finding her mother.
As she delves deeper into the tangle of conspiracies and lies surrounding T.K.'s disappearance, Delia begins to suspect that the wrong guy may be the right guy ... and that some secrets - especially the dangerous ones - were never meant to be unraveled.

This books about Delia, a Californian girl who loves to surf, who's internet tycoon mother goes missing. Shes forced to live with her aunt in New York and go to a school were the cool group gives a new meaning to the word inexpressive. Everyone but Delia thinks her mothers dead. Not going to give up on her mother she investigates. With some help from a psychic, a girl who only thinks about how shes going to get into Stanford, and a guy who might or might not have given her her first kiss.

Delia is smart, sweet, and your modern day Nancy Drew. If you like books with mystery, a snobby school, and a dash of the cute popular guy then you'll love this book. One minute she's talking to an undercover detective and the next kissing the boy of her dreams. It'll take your breath away and at the same time have you anticipating for the next clue.

I couldn't connect with some of the background characters. You don't hear very much about T.K., Delia's mother. I felt like the aunt Charley was really her mom for some reason the entire book. Their was so many similarities between the two I just felt like she was some how actually her daughter. It wasn't the most deep book I've ever read but its a cute fun read.

This is a wonderful first book for Jennifer Sturman's series and I can't wait for the next, And Then I Found Out The Truth. I give this book an 7.5 out of 10.

Giving Out Awards

I've been very bad. I haven't sent awards like I'm suppose to so please don't shank me. I've gotten two awards:


The Lemonade Award from The Book Scout
Rules:
The Lemonade Award is a feel good award that shows great attitude or gratitude. Here are the rules for accepting this award: -Put the Lemonade Award logo on your blog or post. -Nominate at least 3 blogs that show great attitude or gratitude. -Link your nominees within your post. -Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog. -Share the love and link to the person from whom you received the award. Here is my list of nominees:

The Story Siren- With the whole mean blogger thing going on I thought she handled it wonderfully. Its a wonderful blog with great YA reviews, author interviews, and contests.

The Neverending Shelf- Another YA blog with great and often reviews. This is a must visit site.

LA FEMME READERS- Another must visit blog. She hosts reviews, giveaways, author interviews, upcoming movies, ect. She's one of the people who really helped me whenever I first started my blog. Big thank you to you Eleni.



One Lovely Blog Award from TBQ's Personal Book Palace


Here are the rules for this award:

1. Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.

2. Pass the award to other blogs that you’ve newly discovered.Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Here's the great blogs I've found:

Bloody Bookaholic- I love this blog. Shes got great reviews and updates on great things like movies. She also plays music on her blog so that's a big plus.

Hope's Bookshelf- If you want daily book reviews and author interviews then this is the place to go. All the books you can't wait to get your hands on shes reviewed. I stalk this site on a regular basis because there's so many goodies.

J. Kaye's Book Blog- Another great blog that gives great reviews all the time. This isn't a new blog but its still a great blog so I had to put it on here. You can just about reload the page and she'll have something new on there.

Thanks again to those who gave me this award and I'm sorry to all who I didn't put on here. It was so hard to choose.

Waiting on Wensday

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine. WoW helps spread the word on upcoming new release books. This weeks WoW is:

Positively by Courtney Sheinmel which comes out September 15.


Emerson Price cannot remember a time when life was ordinary. She was four-years-old when she and her mom were diagnosed as HIV-positive – infected with the virus that causes AIDS, and eight when her parents divorced. Now she is thirteen and her mother is dead. Emmy moves in with her father and stepmother, but she feels completely alone. Even though everyone has always accepted her, no one – not her father, or stepmother, or even her best friend – understands what it’s like to have to take medicine every single day, to be so afraid of getting sick, and to miss her mom more than she ever thought she would.

When Emmy’s dad and stepmother send her to Camp Positive, a camp for HIV-positive girls, Emmy is certain she is going to hate it. But soon she realizes that she is not so alone after all – and that sometimes letting other people in can make all the difference in the world.

The author is donating a portion of her proceeds from this book to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Which makes it even better. This sounds intriguing and deep and I can't wait to read it. I love the cover with her letting go of the red balloon.