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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> <strong>Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong> Release Date: 4/7/13</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /><em> When Leila discovers the Web site Red Pill, she feels she has finally found people who understand her. A sheltered young woman raised by her mother, Leila has often struggled to connect with the girls at school; but on Red Pill, a chat forum for ethical debate, Leila comes into her own, impressing the Web site's founder, a brilliant and elusive man named Adrian. Leila is thrilled when Adrian asks to meet her, flattered when he invites her to be part of "Project Tess." Tess is a woman Leila might never have met in real life. She is beautiful, urbane, witty, and damaged. As they e-mail, chat, and Skype, Leila becomes enveloped in the world of Tess, learning every single thing she can about this other woman—because soon, Leila will have to become her. An ingeniously plotted novel of stolen identity,</em> Kiss Me First <em>is brilliantly frightening about the lies we tell—to ourselves, to others, for good, and for ill."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I have been asked by Pan Macmillan to help spread the word around about this new book and its brilliant trailer. The internet has fast become the preferred method of contact amongst todays society and <em>Kiss Me First</em> <em> </em>dives head first into its depths. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">To view the book trailer just <a href="http://kissmefirstapp.com/?utm_source=jodiecontacts&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=kissmefirst&utm_content=facebooktrailer" target="_blank">click here</a>. It will ask you to sign in with Facebook and ask for access to your friends list, however it states; "Connecting with Facebook will not result in anything being posted on your Facebook profile or elsewhere, and your details will never be shared. We promise. Connecting to watch this trailer with Facebook is completely safe."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So why do you have to connect with Facebook I hear you ask? Well this trailer plays different for <strong>everyone</strong> who watches it and you will understand why when you watch it for yourself ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Australian Residents can visit the <a href="http://www.kissmefirstbook.com/" target="_blank">Kiss Me First webpage</a> for your chance to win one of 50 advanced reading copies of this book!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">- Amy</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-87857652862618528192013-06-26T12:34:00.002+08:002013-06-27T12:21:26.451+08:00The Husbands Secret by Liane Moriarty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Release Date: April 2013</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pages: 416</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From Goodreads: "</span></strong><span id="freeText8523739566179586715"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>To be opened in the event of my death</em><br /><br />With one swift, vicious movement, she sliced the envelope open, and pulled out a handwritten letter.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>love you and the girls...<br />so sorry to leave you with this...<br />cannot bear</em></span></strong></span><a name='more'></a><span id="freeText8523739566179586715"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /><em>The Husband's Secret</em> is a funny, heartbreaking novel of marriage, grief, love and secrets. When her husband announces he's in love with her best friend, painfully shy Tess picks up her young son and returns to her mother's house. There she begins an unexpected affair with an old flame. Rachel is a woman in her sixties consumed by grief and anger at the loss of her daughter twenty years earlier. When her son announces he is taking her beloved grandson overseas, Rachel begins a descent into deeper bitterness and pain. Cecilia is the quintessential "I don't know how she does it" woman. A devoted mother to three daughters, she runs her household like clockwork, is President of the P&C, owns an extremely successful Tupperware business and is happy in her fifteen-year marriage. Until she discovers a letter in their attic labelled: "To my wife Cecilia, to be opened in the event of my death"... Her husband's secret is a bombshell beyond all imagining with repercussions across the lives of all three women."</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thank you to the lovely people at Pan Macmillan who supplied me with a copy of this book for review purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Where do I even start?! Now it <strong>has</strong> been a while since I read it but it was just so amazing that I need to tell you all about it!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>The Husband's Secret</em> is a very hard book to talk about without giving away any spoilers but I will do my best because you need to discover all the secrets hidden within these pages yourselves!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Initially there are 3 main people we are introduced too. Tess, Rachel and Cecilia. Now at the start it may seem that their stories do not intertwine but showing her amazing story writing skills Liane Moriarty links all of these women and their families in ways that you would not expect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Rachel is the oldest of the women, with a very unfortunate past. Her daughter died in her early teens. Murdered. The murderer never found. Now Rachel is principle of the school her daughter attended. Rachel gets thrown back in to the past when her son announces that he is taking her grandson overseas. It brings up all those old feelings of loss she had managed to bury. She is now more determined than ever to find her daughters killer and she even believes she knows who it is. Now just to prove it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tess has not been having the best time. Her husband and her best friend have been seeing each other behind her back and she decides to up and leave to look after her mother in her home town, taking her son with her. While she is there an old flame is rekindled. He who now works at the same school as Rachel. Only, he went to this school, with Rachel's daughter and was even dating her at one time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cecilia is a bubbly and charismatic mother of three lovely daughters. She is a successful </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As the story grows Cecilia, Tess and Rachel all become connected as do their past, present and future. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is one book that will leave you begging for more right up till the last page. Which by the way has to be the most well thought out last page in the history of last pages! (too far? you get the idea!) All is most definitely not as it seems in <em>The Husband's Secret</em> but to find out all there is to know you will have to read it yourself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-65783592474603775622013-04-12T05:00:00.000+08:002013-04-12T05:00:01.881+08:00Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Shaffer & Annie Barrows<br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Release Date: June 2009</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Publisher: Allen and Unwin</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pages: 280</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From Goodreads: </span></strong><em><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"It's 1946, and as Juliet Ashton sits at her desk in her Chelsea flat, she is stumped. A writer of witty newspaper columns during the war, she can't think of what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from one Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance he's acquired a book Juliet once owned - and, emboldened by their mutual love of books, they begin a correspondence. <br /><br />Dawsey is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and it's not long before the rest of the members write to Juliet - including the gawky Isola, who makes home-made potions, Eben, the fisherman who loves Shakespeare, and Will Thisbee, rag-and-bone man and chef of the famous potato peel pie. As letters fly back and forth, Juliet comes to know the extraordinary personalities of the Society and their lives under the German occupation of the island. Entranced by their stories, Juliet decides to visit the island to meet them properly - and unwittingly turns her life upside down."</span></strong></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I really don't even know where to start with this one. I so much thank Life of Pi by Yann Martel for getting me onto books such as this. Life of Pi is the new Twilight for me, I know I know, there is that T word that gets fan girls going mental! But Twilight for me is what got me into Young Adult so it will always hold a special place in my heart. Now the same goes for <a href="http://followingthereader.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/review-life-of-pi-by-yann-martel.html" target="_blank">Life of Pi</a>, If it weren't for <a href="http://followingthereader.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/review-life-of-pi-by-yann-martel.html" target="_blank">Life of Pi</a>, I would never have thought to try GLAPPPS (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society with henceforth be known as GLAPPPS to save me getting RSI from typing it out so many times!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now for a book with such a long winded title such as GLAPPPS (has, I really had no clue what to expect. I had read the back and thought 'it doesn't sound much like something I would like, but I will give it a go with my new found Life of Pi love.' So I had a gift card from Collins that I was wanting to spend (what a shame that is, huh? hehe) so I bought this and I am so very glad I did. I'm sorry that this isn't <strong>remotely</strong> Young Adult, but hey! I broadend my book horizons so maybe some of you want to too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">GLAPPPS is a series of letters 'Dear so and so, bla bla bla bla bla life and things and stuff bla bla, Yours Sincerely, me' You get me? I didn't realise this when I bought the book and my first thought when I realised was 'oh <strong>no</strong> this is going to be <em>so hard</em> to follow!' Well I was definitely mistaken. Each letter is clearly written, you know exactly who it's coming from and who it's going to. There was very little use of nicknames, or if there was everyone used the same one, so as not to confused the real name and the nickname as two different people (I hate when this happens!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Set in 1946 <em>GLAPPS</em> follows the German occupation of Guernsey in in an attempt to occupy England during WWII. Now I will stop there because to be perfectly honest, I am positively <strong>shocking</strong> at history and dates and what happened when. So for all you history buffs you will know all about it and for those of you who don't, <strong>don't worry</strong>, you don't necessarily <strong>need</strong> to understand it all. You just need to know that it was a horrible time (obviously) and there is a lot of heartache that came out of all of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The main character, Juliet, is a writer who is in a serious writing slump and she is not sure how to go about getting out of it. By chance she receives a letter, from a lovely man, Dawsey, who comes across one of her books in Guernsey and writes a letter to her. They start up a unique companionship and send letters back and forth. As their relationship evolves Juliet realises there could be so much more for her in Guernsey than she ever thought possible. She comes in contact with many of Dawsey's friends and acquaintances and feels as though she becomes very good friends with them all. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed GLAPPPS and since then have been trying to venture even further out of my reading comfort zone! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Have you read this? What are some other books you can suggest for me?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-72723529630344341592013-04-10T10:12:00.000+08:002013-04-10T10:12:01.027+08:00Waiting on Wednesday #22<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi Everyone!<span id="goog_1768991587"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Want to see what I picked this week? Well you will have to see below the bump ;) </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13446537-premeditated" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img alt="Premeditated" height="320" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1344693490l/13446537.jpg" width="211" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Premeditated by Josin McQuein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Release Date: October 8th 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span>This sounds freaking amazing. I hope hope hope it lives up to my expectations. I'm thinking this could have the same feel as TEN by Gretchen McNeal which I loved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Want to see what I picked this week? Well you will have to see below the bump ;) </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13423346-ink" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img alt="Ink (The Paper Gods, #1)" height="320" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1349382349l/13423346.jpg" width="210" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Ink by Amanda Sun</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Release Date: June 25th 2013</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Publisher: Harlequin Teen</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From Goodreads: "</span><span id="freeText12203059630982100420"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>I looked down at the paper, still touching the tip of my shoe. I reached for it, flipping the page over to look.<br /><br />Scrawls of ink outlined a drawing of a girl lying on a bench.<br /><br />A sick feeling started to twist in my stomach, like motion sickness.<br /><br />And then the girl in the drawing turned her head, and her inky eyes glared straight into mine.</em><br /><br />On the heels of a family tragedy, the last thing Katie Greene wants to do is move halfway across the world. Stuck with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan, Katie feels lost. Alone. She doesn’t know the language, she can barely hold a pair of chopsticks, and she can’t seem to get the hang of taking her shoes off whenever she enters a building.<br /><br />Then there’s gorgeous but aloof Tomohiro, star of the school’s kendo team. How did he really get the scar on his arm? Katie isn’t prepared for the answer. But when she sees the things he draws start moving, there’s no denying the truth: Tomo has a connection to the ancient gods of Japan, and being near Katie is causing his abilities to spiral out of control. If the wrong people notice, they'll both be targets.<br /><br />Katie never wanted to move to Japan—now she may not make it out of the country alive."</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">There are no words for how excited I am for this one!!! AND its released on my boyfriends birthday therefore it has to be amazing, right? LOGIC!</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-60121340844560962382013-03-27T06:00:00.000+08:002013-03-27T06:00:01.918+08:00Waiting on Wednesday #20<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi Everyone!<span id="goog_1768991587"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Release Date: December 10th 2013</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From Goodreads: <em>"</em></span><span id="freeText16873793037506487389"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. <br /><br />Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they’re worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help. <br /><br />Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other’s arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder—would they be better off staying here forever?<br /><br />Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won’t be the same people who landed on it.<br /><br />The first in a sweeping science fiction trilogy, These Broken Stars is a timeless love story about hope and survival in the face of unthinkable odds."</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">That cover is SO gorgeous. I just adore it. Eeeep sounds so good! Only have to wait till December *sigh* :(</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">What are you waiting on?</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-61308677037407717172013-03-20T06:00:00.000+08:002013-03-20T06:00:04.028+08:00Waiting on Wednesday #19<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi Everyone!<span id="goog_1768991587"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Release Date: April 16th 2013</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Publisher: HarperTeen</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pages: 352</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From Goodreads: <em>"</em></span><span id="freeText10868399583994872180"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>There are no men in Claysoot. There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends…and he’s gone.<br /><br />They call it the Heist.<br /><br />Gray Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared to meet his fate–until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he’s been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets. The Heist itself. And what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot–a structure that no one can cross and survive.<br /><br />Climbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be taken–or risk everything on the hope of the other side?"</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sounds flipping amazing right? RIGHT?!?!?! Can't wait to read it!!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-10716807126877340432013-03-19T06:00:00.000+08:002013-03-19T06:00:05.460+08:00Teaser Tuesday #24<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have been hang out to read this one for SO long!! Thanks to the lovely Hannah @ The Girl in a Café <3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Release Date: November 2012</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Publisher: Bloomsbury </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pages: 371</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Series: <em>Breathe</em> #1</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"I don't want this. I want to pass because I'm good enough, not because you threatened some examiner."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sounds good right?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><u>Creepy & Maud by Dianne Touchell</u></strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Release Date: October 1st 2012</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Publisher: Fremantle Press</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Source: Purchased by me</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pages: 220</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From Goodreads: <em>"</em></span></strong><span id="freeText17143008877767624818"><em><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hilarious and heartbreaking, Creepy & Maud charts the relationship between two social misfits, played out in the space between their windows.<br /><br />Creepy is a boy who watches from the shadows keenly observing and caustically commentating on human folly. <br /><br />Maud is less certain. A confused girl with a condition that embarrasses her parents and assures her isolation.<br /><br />Together Creepy and Maud discover something outside their own vulnerability — each other’s. But life is arbitrary; and loving someone doesn’t mean you can save them.<br /><br />Creepy & Maud is a blackly funny and moving first novel that says; ‘You’re ok to be as screwed up as you think you are and you’re not alone in that.'"</span></strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Creepy & Maud</em> is really not like any book I have read before. It is concerning, disturbing, realistic, powerful, and so many things all rolled in to one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Every couple of chapters or so the point of view changes from one character to the other. Creepy and Maud live next door to each other, in an unnamed street in Australia. Both houses are two story and both of their bedrooms are on the top floor facing each other. Windoes pretty well lined up for sneaking peaks in. We find the most out about Maud, through Creepy's observations and we find out the most about Creepy through Maud's observations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Now they are neighbours and go to school together but as far as I am aware, they never use each others actual names. So I can literally only refer to them as Creepy and Maud. Such a unique way to write a story! You feel strangely close to the characters because by looking through their bedroom windows we get the 'behind closed doors' look at their lifes. But at the same time, not knowing their names and only knowing the majority we do about them through observation, we are distanced. It's such a weird concept, but Dianne Touchell makes it work, and makes it work well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Maud. One of the more 'popular' girls at school. Not your typical popular girl, she keeps to herself mostly and hides all her feelings. Her dad physically abuses her, and Creepy see's it happen. He can't do anything so instead he writes a quote from one of his books and tapes it to his window for her to read. To let her know that he is there for her and to stay strong. At first Maud finds this incredibly weird, this boy is watching her through her window, has she no privacy? He's seen her at her most vulnerable, yet he still seems intrigued. Creepy see's the effect that her parents have had on her, she has a nasty habit of pulling her hair out when she gets emotionally overwhelemd. It's her coping technique. It may sound weird, (which it is and that's the point), but it happens! One of the guys I went to school with used to sit there and pull his eyelashes out. Maud is seriously damaged goods! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Creepy, I found that though a lot of what I understood about him was through Maud, he was more willing to let us in to his head. Maud was a ver closed book (excuse the pun) kind of character and Creepy was far more open. He gave the reader glimpses into his family life, first hand, rather than just what Maud witnesses. Creepy doesn't know, but he is being watched too, Maud watches him. When he isn't watching her, she is watching him. She loves the way he can get lost in a book, so nerdy and quirky. He cares about her, which is crazy seeing as they have never had a real conversation. She is 'the girl next door.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Creepy & Maud start to interact with notes taped to their bedroom windows. With everything that is going on in both of their lives, it is a welcome distraction. Maud's Dad beats her and Creepy's Dad has it out for his Mum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Overall a very disturbing but enjoyable read. The content was deep and meaningful but was all wrapped up in a nice little read! Can't wait to see what Dianne Touchell writes in the future!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-57215404679575579792013-02-27T11:06:00.000+08:002013-02-27T11:06:00.155+08:00Waiting on Wednesday #18<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi Everyone!<span id="goog_1768991587"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From Goodreads: <em>"</em></span><span id="freeText9966792669383740755"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In this sequel to OF POSEIDON, Emma has just learned that her mother is a long-lost Poseidon princess, and now struggles with an identity crisis: As a Half-Breed, she’s a freak in the human world and an abomination in the Syrena realm below. Syrena law states that all Half- Breeds should be put to death.<br /><br />As if that’s not bad enough, her mother’s reappearance among the Syrena turns the two kingdoms—Poseidon and Triton—against one another. Which leaves Emma with a decision to make: Should she comply with Galen’s request to keep herself safe and just hope for the best? Or should she risk it all and reveal herself—and her Gift—to save a people she’s never known?"</span></em></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Really enjoyed Of Poseidon! Seriously can't wait to see where Anna Banks takes the story line in Of Triton! </span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-81797917269283067832013-02-24T07:00:00.000+08:002013-02-24T07:00:01.638+08:00Blogspiration #16<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi everyone!</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We have all done it. Sometimes it is hard to avoid. "Why is this happening to me." "Why me?" I came across this quote on good old pinterest and it has stuck with me ever since. Often times I find I think "why me?" then once the storm has passed I am able to see what good that metaphorical storm has brought me. I seem to be getting more and more spiritual on you guys as the blogspiration weeks go on. But theres always been a part of me that has thought "everything happens for a reason." If I hadn't of been in <em>horrible situation A</em> then <strong>wonderful situation B</strong> wouldn't have had the opportunity to surface!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-29736896067573055962013-02-21T10:00:00.000+08:002013-02-21T10:00:05.760+08:00Review: Crewel by Gennifer Albin<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><u><strong>Crewel by Gennifer Albin</strong></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Release Date: October 4th 2012</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Publisher: Faber & Faber </strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Format: Australian Paperback</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Pages: 360</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Find it on <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13554480-crewel" target="_blank">Goodreads</a></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>From Goodreads: <em>"</em></strong></span><span id="freeText7523269664722393830"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong>Enter a tangled world of secrets and intrigue where a girl is in charge of other’s destinies, but not her own.<br /> <br />Sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys has always been special. When her parents discover her gift—the ability to weave the very fabric of reality—they train her to hide it. For good reason, they don’t want her to become a Spinster — one of the elite, beautiful, and deadly women who determine what people eat, where they live, how many children they have, and even when they die.<br /> <br />Thrust into the opulent Western Coventry, Adelice will be tried, tested and tempted as she navigates the deadly politics at play behind its walls. Now caught in a web of lies and forbidden romance, she must unravel the sinister truth behind her own unspeakable power. Her world is hanging by a thread, and Adelice, alone, can decide to save it — or destroy it"</strong></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Where to even start with <i>Crewel</i>? It was a new and unique concept, at least to me. Being able to alter threads of time? Pretty cool!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">Adelice Lewys has a gift. Or I guess you could call it a curse. In a world where women, known as Spinsters, can thread time, nothing is easy. Time is nothing but a blanket of sorts, made up of threads. Spinster contain the ability to weave new threads but to also rip existing threads. Altering life and causing death.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">Adelice's parents spent her whole life trying to conceal her from the Coventry, they didn't want her ability to become known. By anyone. At the end of the school year all the girls under go testing, testing to see if they could become a Spinster. Adelice has managed to hide her ability her entire life, but she slips during testing. She slips and she knows. She knows that they will come for her that very same night. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">She doesn't tell her parents, so when they show up her parents have to act quickly. Adelice gets shoved into a secret under ground tunnel she knew nothing about with her mum and her sister. While her dad is left there to by them some time. Their plan fails though. Adelice gets caught, and running from collection is punishable by death. Only she wakes in the Coventry to find herself in a cell. Surely that is better than death? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Adelice starts to develop her ability inside the Coventry and along the way she discovers that she isn't like the other girls there. She is far more special than she ever thought, than any of them ever thought. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">A unique and fast paced read that kept me on the edge and wanting to know more. I pleasantly surprised to find such a unique read in <em>Crewel</em>. Can't wait to see where the second book takes us and a very big door was opened right at the end of this story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">If you liked this review then make sure to check out my review of The <a href="http://followingthereader.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/review-secret-hour-by-scott-westerfeld.html" target="_blank">Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld</a>, another book revolving around the concept of time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Release Date: April 2013</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Publisher: HarperCollins</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB @ </span><a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #336699; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Should be Reading </span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> to give our readers a little preview of the book we are currently reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This weeks title I have chosen is one that caught my eye straight off the bat. Pretty excited to read this one!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p>I can't wait to start this one! I have heard great things about Lucy in the Sky by Paige Toon but haven't had the opportunity to read it. </o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p>Sounds like a great read to me! Who doesn't like back muscles that ripple *drooooooool*</o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p>What are you currently reading? Feel like giving me a little teaser? Then please do in the comments!</o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Worrying is something I have been very good at my whole life. I worry too much and I get anxiety. So I agree with this quote to a point, worrying surely doesn't empty tomorrow of its troubles but feeling the worry, the fear and the anxiety and doing that something anyway. There is no strength quite like it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Some people might not agree with me, but having suffered with anxiety I can honestly say that pushing through the anxiety and doing things in spite of it gives you such a sense of strength its liberating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So if you have worries or anxiety, don't let it stop you from doing the things that you want to do. I refer you back to an old Blogspiration post about not focusing on what could go wrong.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-7588533632083265702013-02-14T09:25:00.000+08:002013-02-19T07:36:19.756+08:00Review: The Boy Who Fell to Earth by Kathy Lette<div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Find it on </strong></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13277383-the-boy-who-fell-to-earth" target="_blank">Goodreads</a></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>From Goodreads: <em>"</em></strong></span><span id="freeText18161117607047852059"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong>Meet Merlin. He's Lucy's bright, beautiful son -- who just happens to be autistic. Since Merlin's father left them in the lurch shortly after his diagnosis, Lucy has made Merlin the centre of her world. Struggling with the joys and tribulations of raising her eccentrically adorable yet challenging child, (if only Merlin came with operating instructions) Lucy doesn't have room for any other man in her life.<br /><br />By the time Merlin turns ten, Lucy is seriously worried that the Pope might start ringing her up for tips on celibacy, so resolves to dip a poorly pedicured toe back into the world of dating. Thanks to Merlin's candour and quirkiness, things don't go quite to plan... Then, just when Lucy's resigned to a life of singledom once more, Archie -- the most imperfectly perfect man for her and her son -- lands on her doorstep. But then, so does Merlin's father, begging for forgiveness and a second chance. Does Lucy need a real father for Merlin -- or a real partner for herself?"</strong></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Thanks for letting me borrow this one Jodie! You have really opened my eyes to a whole new genre for me!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I'm really not sure <em>where</em> to start with this review. I guess I will start by saying that I wasn't expecting to love this book as much as I did. I believe I even uttered the words "it is one of my new favourite books" to Jodie. I KNOW. That's <strong>big</strong>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><em>The Boy Who Fell to Earth </em>is a wonderful combination of brilliant, witty, heart breaking, quirky, eye opening and funny. I could seriously throw all the adjectives around for this one. Kathy Lette is a genius. Yep. I said it. Genius. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Merlin is one of the most entertaining characters I have ever come across, and I read. A lot. He has Asperger's but this book is written in such a way that you don't feel sorry for him. He is so uniquely and genuinely him that you can't help but love and appreciate everything he says. His mind works so differently to mine that I often found myself thinking "why didn't <strong><em>I</em></strong> ever think about it that way?!" I am desperately wishing I had written down some quotes for you guys! Why didn't I do that?! Ugh how silly of me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Now this story is more about Lucy, Merlin's mum, I found. It was written from her point of view. Lucy is struggling. She loves Merlin to no end but she doesn't know how to cope sometimes. He gets bullied in school but she can't afford to put him in a special needs school, and she was denied help from the government to do so. Her husband left not long after Merlin's diagnosis and ever since Lucy has been <strong>off</strong> men. There just isn't room for a man in her life when Merlin needs her so greatly. Only Merlin may not need her as much as she thinks. She coddles him too much, he is bright and smart but lacks in social skills which can often get him into a bit of a mess. I was really impressed with Kathy Lette's writing style. I liked that this was from the mothers point of view. It can't be easy having a kid with Asperger's and she finds herself wondering if she had done something wrong during her pregnancy. Don't get me wrong, Lucy <strong>loves</strong> Merlin, but it would be difficult to see your child struggle with Asperger's and Lette captures the essence if this greatly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Things start to get real interesting in <em>The Boy Who Fell to Earth</em> when Archie shows up. Oh Archie, never have I found myself loving such a character. He is Lucy's cousins ex hubby, who is an <strong>Aussie </strong>(woop woop go us Aussies!) moves in with her because he needs a place to stay. He is a rock star, or well he used to be but he still holds the same beliefs that he did when he was one. He does <strong>nothing, </strong>I mean nothing around the house. He gives Merlin porn filled magazines among many other things. But he is <strong>great</strong> with Merlin. His first conversation with him had Lucy cringing to see what Archie's reaction would be but he brushes it off and makes a joke of it. He becomes an (interesting) father figure for Merlin and slowly captures the heart of Lucy. But with her ex husband just on the other side of her front door, she gets thrown around an emotional roller coaster.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">A truly moving and quirky story that left me wanting more. This is a very new read for me, I generally try to steer away from adult books that have deep issues, from past experience I get too caught up in the sadness and end up bawling my eyes out. But this was a refreshing take on Asperger's taking a serious topic and giving it humor and love and all the things you could want in a story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I highly recommend this to anyone and everyone. If this isn't your typical read then I more than <strong>highly</strong> recommend it to you. It might open some new doors for you like it did for me! If you are a fan of John Green's quirky and beautiful writing, then this might be one that you like. <a href="http://followingthereader.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/review-abundance-of-katherines-john.html" target="_blank">See my review of An Abundance of Katherines by John Green.</a> </span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19px;">Hunter Garrity just wants to be left alone. He’s learned the hard way that his unusual abilities come at a price. And he can’t seem to afford any allies.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19px;">He’s up to his neck in hostiles. His grandfather, spoiling for a fight. The Merrick brothers, who think he ratted them out. Calla, the scheming psycho who wants to use him as bait.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19px;">Then there’s Kate Sullivan, the new girl at school. She’s not hostile. She’s bold. Funny. Hot. But she’s got an agenda, too.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19px;">With supposedly secret powers rippling to the surface everywhere around him, Hunter knows something ugly is about to go down. But finding out what means he’ll have to find someone he can trust…"</span></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-59209337616085649782013-02-12T07:00:00.000+08:002013-02-12T07:00:00.459+08:00Teaser Tuesday #22<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB @ </span><a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #336699; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Should be Reading </span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> to give our readers a little preview of the book we are currently reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This weeks title I have chosen is one that caught my eye straight off the bat. Pretty excited to read this one!!</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Release Date: June 14, 2011</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"I can see the filthy thoughts filtering through his head like sh** through a sieve. He's not gazing at her longingly like I do, he's leering at her like a filthy animal that has picked up the scent of meat."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">This just sounds so quirky and interesting from both the blurb and this teaser. I have been loving quirky little books lately.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-62342535878303084772013-02-10T07:00:00.000+08:002013-02-10T07:00:04.846+08:00Blogspiration #14<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi everyone!</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I seem to keep getting deep and meaningful in my blogspiration posts. I hope you guys don't mind.. But I feel like this meme is more personal than the others and that is why I love it. I feel like you all get to know a bit more about me rather than just what I like to read. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-36521826258412199402013-02-08T10:07:00.002+08:002013-02-08T10:07:55.110+08:00(t)GIF Fridays! #2<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I just can't get enough of animals doing silly things and this is no exception!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This potato is to this cat like books are to me. In other words. How I react when I see my favourite book or when someone starts talking about my favourite book. Hehe!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-79870284727156369112013-02-07T11:38:00.000+08:002013-02-19T07:37:11.252+08:00Review: Of Poseidon by Anna Banks<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Release Date: June 1st 2012</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Publisher: Hardie Egmont Grant </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pages: 324</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Series: Of Poseidon #1</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Source: Borrowed from Jade <3</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I have been wanting to read Of Poseidon for a while. When it was first released I just couldn't get over how gorgeous the contrasting colours of the cover were. Gave me goosebumps! I have had this one sitting on my to-read list for yonks when my friend Jade saw that and said she had it and I could borrow it! *Squee!* So thanks Jade!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><em>Of Poseidon</em> is the first in a thrilling series revolving around mythology. Very exciting for me as I haven't red <strong>too</strong> many on the topic!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">First of all there is Emma, just your average teenage girl. Or so she thinks. Emma is pretty shy when we first get to know her, but we see that she can be fiery when need be. She has great power she knew nothing about. While she is on vacation and at the beach with her white blond hair and pasty skin she comes across the <strong>most</strong> gorgeous boy. By comes across I mean she runs into him. <strong>Literally</strong> runs into him. <em>Awkwaaarrrd!</em> What a klutz! Not far into this story Emma and her best friend, while at the beach, encounter a shark. It's not often in Young Adult books, particularly ones that aren't thrillers, the author's include gruesome details. But Anna Banks is not afraid. She includes, in pretty gruesome detail their interaction with the shark. The shark latching on to her best friends legs, not being able to wrench free and the pool of red that surrounds them. What a way to start a book! Though it was definitely not what I was expecting, nor did it completely sit right with me, I felt that it was crucial to the story line for Emma.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Galen, ahhemmm, <strong>Prince </strong>Galon. After hearing word of a girl in the human world who can supposedly talk to fish, Galon and his sister swim to shore to investigate. Upon getting there Galon feels a strong pull, a very strong pull. A pull that he can only feel when there is another of his kind around. It's unusual that he should feel this on land, and whats more unusual is that he is the only one who feels it. Galon and his sister are at the beach just chin-chilling, when, yeah you guessed it, Emma walks into him. But how could it be that Emma is one of them when she looks so incredibly different? Different skin tone, different hair colour. But those eyes. She has the eyes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">All of Emma's life she thought she was human, only to find out by a perfect (and I do mean perfect!!!) stranger, that she is in fact Syrena. <strong>And then</strong> she finds out that she is neither!! Where does that leave her?! While she is figuring all this out she is supposed to save the entire race of Syrena? A species she has only known existed for all of 5 minutes? INTENSE!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><em>Of Poseidon</em> is a truly gripping story with characters you love to hate and even some you hate to love. With references to Atlantis, a topic I love to read about, I thoroughly enjoyed this emotional roller coaster.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I highly recommend Of Poseidon to those who enjoyed My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent. Similar themes with a very different concept, both of which I find to be pretty unique!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-82100444478622780082013-02-06T07:00:00.000+08:002013-02-06T07:00:10.628+08:00Waiting on Wednesday #15<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hi Everyone!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">From Goodreads: </span><i>"</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Katarina Bishop and W.W. Hale the fifth were born to lead completely different lives: Kat comes from a long, proud line of loveable criminal masterminds, while Hale is the scion of one of the most seemingly perfect dynasties in the world. If their families have one thing in common, it’s that they both know how to stay under the radar while getting—or stealing—whatever they want.</span></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-15581540900409928412013-02-05T07:00:00.000+08:002013-02-05T07:00:00.167+08:00Teaser Tuesday #21<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This week I have chosen a book that I have been dying to read for a <strong>long</strong> time and finally was able to borrow it from a friend!! </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Release Date: June 1st 2012</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Publisher: Hardie Egmont Grant </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Find it on </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13573520-of-poseidon" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Goodreads</span></a></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"As fast as he is, Galen is too late. He powers through the current as the floor of the gulf slants steeper and steeper. Every time he hears Emma's screams, he pushes harder, harder thab he's ever pushed himself before."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So there it is folks! What do you think? Or have you read this one and what did you think of it? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667805212769758234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8452869660665047863.post-82978946646696917512013-02-03T07:00:00.000+08:002013-02-03T07:00:04.950+08:00Blogspiration #13<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi everyone!</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I know it might be totally cliche but I really loved this quote when I came across it. Roald Dahl really knows what he is talking about. You know you can always tell when people are having good and happy thoughts and they just look happy and friendly? Then there are those people who you can tell aren't thinking that way because they look super cranky or they just look sad and down. You know what I'm sayin? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Particularly working in retail I've learnt to read people a bit better. I usually always tell who's going to be a cranky customer and who's going to be a customer I end up chatting away with. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I always want to be that person who see's the good. It's not always possible obviously but I always try to be the happiest I can be and I end up being a bit silly in the process but I'm happy and that's what counts. </span></div>
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