BOOK BLOGGER HOP

COME JOIN THE FUN!
In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new book-related blogs that we may be missing out on! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed! So head on over to Crazy For Books and join the party!
A BIG Thank you to Jennifer who hosts this super cool event!
QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
Who is your favorite new-to-you author so far this year?

That is a tough question!

I will have to say Lauren Oliver blew me away with her book-Before You Fall.

And don't forget-I'm giving away 3 ARCs of Another Pan by Daniel and Dina Nayeri-Scroll down for more info!

IT'S GETTING A WEE BIT CROWDED IN HERE!

My book shelves are getting a little too crowded. Normally I donated the books that I win or buy to my public library(because our young adult section is so horribly outdated-Bobbsey Twins & Five Little Peppers anyone, anyone, any....) but can't with these titles. Some of them, because of content will end up in adult section-because our library is ultra- conservative(Twilight is in the adult section, as is The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series) or because they are paperback and our library prefers hardbacks because of wear and tear issues. So, anywho- I'm proposing a trade.
I'm interested in trading young adult for young adult. So if your looking for some new reads and wanting to get rid of a few yourself, let me know. I'm looking for a fair trade with books in the same condition.
Here's what I have-
*Another Faust by Daniel and Dina Nayeri (hardback-excellent condition)
*Gentlemen by Michael Northrop (hardback-excellent condition)
*Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz (hardback-excellent condition)
*Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr (hardback-acceptable condition-writing on inside cover)
*Swim the Fly by Don Calame (paperback-excellent condition)
*Seers of Shadows by Avi(paperback-excellent condition)
*Kitty's House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn (paperback-excellent condition)
*Life of Pi- Yann Martel(paperback-good condition-cover corner has slight bend)
Any takers?

BEFORE I FALL

By Lauren Oliver

2010

470 pages

From Inside Cover:

What if you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?

Samantha Kingston has it all: the world's most crush-worthy boyfriend, three amazing best friends, and first pick of everything at Thomas Jefferson High-from the best table in the cafeteria to the choicest parking spot. Friday, February 12, should be another day in her charmed life.

Instead, it turns out to be her last. Then she gets a second chance. Seven chances, in fact. Reliving her last day during one miraculous week, she will untangle the mystery surrounding her death-and discover the true value of everything she is in danger of losing.

My Thoughts:

Where do I start?

This book was amazing. Lauren Oliver takes a girl who really isn't even likable at the start of the book and made me love her. I was really worried that a story being told seven times would get old really fast-IT DOES NOT! Each day is new and different and sometimes left me shocked. This book is an emotional roller coaster. It made me angry, amused, disgusted, joyous and sad.

Wow! What a ride!

It's hard to talk about the plot without giving anything major away. This girl gets seven chances to right a wrong-will she?

I do want to say that this book made me hungry to get anything else that Lauren Oliver has written in my hands ASAP. She's that good people! I'm trying really hard not to gush-but this is me gushing. Seriously, get your hands on a copy.

This book is available at the Salmon Public Library for check out. It does contain language, sexual content and drinking situations.

Book Blogger Hop!

Stretch out and join the fun!

It's all fun and games till someone pulls a hammie!

Get ready to hop!

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new book-related blogs that we may be missing out on! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed! So head on over to Crazy For Books and join the party!

A BIG Thank you to Jennifer who hosts this super cool event!

QUESTION OF THE WEEK:

TELL US ABOUT THE BOOK YOU ARE CURRENTLY READING!

I am just finishing up Another Pan by Daniel and Dina Nayeri

It's an interesting take on Peter Pan.

I'll be writing a review on it this weekend. And I'm giving away 3 ARCs of Another Pan-Don't forget to enter!

SUMMER GIVEAWAY!

3 LUCKY WINNERS

Will Be drawn for 3 ARCs

ANOTHER PAN

(ARC)

by Daniel and Dina Nayeri

Release Date October 2010

From the Authors of Another Faust comes....

From Back Cover:

A darkness continues to haunt the Marlowe School, and this time, someone is plotting payback.

Wendy Darling a headstrong junior, and her brother John, a thirteen-year-old genius with a chip on his shoulder, struggle with being from the poorest family at the posh New York Academy, where their father is a professor of ancient civilizations.

Wendy's new boyfriend, socialite golden-boy Connor Wirth, offers a solid step up in popularity, yet ambitious Wendy and John still find themselves longing for something more.

When the Book of Gates, a mysterious tome of fabled origins, appears at Marlowe along with Peter, a dashing new resident adviser with a murky past, the Darlings are swept into a captivating world of "Lost Boys," age-old secrets, and forbidden places.

The book opens the door to a hidden labyrinthine underworld where Egyptian myths long thought impossible become frighteningly real. Suddenly Peter, Wendy and John find themselves captive in the lair of an age-old darkness, trying to escape the clutches of an ancient and beautiful child-thief who refuses to let go.

Candlewick Press has graciously donated 3 ARCs of Another Pan for me to giveaway to 3 lucky people.

To enter these giveaway-

1. Leave your email address in the comment section-so I can get a hold of you if your name is drawn.

2. You must be 13 years or older

3. This contest open to U.S. residents only

4. Contest Ends AUGUST 15th

Good Luck!!

ITS THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT....

LIFE AS WE KNEW IT

by Susan Beth Pfeffer

2006

337 page

From Inside Cover:

When Miranda first hears the warnings that a meteor is headed on a collision path with the moon, they just sound like an excuse for extra homework assignments. But her disbelief turns to fear in a split second as the entire world witnesses a lunar impact that knocks the moon closer in orbit, catastrophically altering the earth's climate.Everything else in Miranda's life fades away as supermarkets run out of food, gas goes up to more than ten dollars a gallon, and school is closed indefinitely.But what Miranda and her family don't realize is that the worst is yet to come.

My Thoughts:

WOW!

The story is told through sixteen year old Miranda's journal entries. It's starts in in May just as the world is getting ready for an asteroid to hit the moon-for some reason it's not considered a big deal? Which sort of puzzled me-Surely there was some Jeff Goldblum character out in the world scratching his head muttering to himself and anyone who would listen that this whole impact thing would have a CATASTROPHIC EFFECT??

Nope. In fact people are celebrating and having BBQs and block parties-WTF? Haven't any of these people seen Independence Day??

So the asteroid hits the moon and pushed the moon closer to the earth producing CATASTROPHIC RESULTS-tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions. It's bad people-very, very bad.

What I love about this story is that we see all this happening through the eyes of a sixteen year old. She and her family are trying to survive this horrible earth changing event but she still has the thoughts and actions of a teenager who wants to go to the prom and have a boyfriend. Miranda was a very real character with real feelings and emotions.

I have to admit that when I finished the book I was tempted to run out to the nearest grocery store and stock up on water, canned corn and Cheetos.

If you read the story and loved it as much as I did you need to check out the Life As We Knew It Book Club Discussion over at Forever Young Adult. Thought provoking and Laugh out loud funny. Go check it out.

I also bought the second book in the series: The Dead and the Gone which I'm going to try to hold off on reading until our family vacation coming up in a few weeks.

I bought this book used on Amazon and will be donating it to my Public Library.

I recommend this book for ages 10 and up.

WINNER OF SUMMERTIME GIVEAWAY

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!

BETH @ MAYBE TOMORROW

Has won my Summer Time Giveaway

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS

By Sara Shepard

I'll be sending your book out this week.

A BIG thank you to everyone who entered.

(Winner was drawn by way of -names, bowl, and teenage son-we are high tech here in Idaho!)