Confessions of a Book Addict

Glimmerglass yesteryear Jenna Black My rating: 2 of five stars Disclaimer: I won this majority inwards the Goodreads giveaway. Glimmerglass is a new most Dana, a 16-year-old daughter who runs away from her alcoholic woman raise to Avalon, where Faerie too human worlds meet, to alive amongst her Fae father. What she doesn't realize when she makes this determination is that she volition live pulled inwards all sorts of directions, too her life position inwards danger several times, simply yesteryear alerting her manlike someone raise to her existence. This is definitely a new for immature adults. The linguistic communication too situations are geared toward teens. In that respect, it was an effective book. My work is that it is too made for teens. I honey YA literature, especially YA fantasy, because a lot of it is able to cross borders into adult enjoyment. Diana Wynne Jones is a primary of this, every bit good every bit Tamora Pierce. Jenna Black simply doesn't quit...

In a previous post I mentioned how I'm sort of getting into ebooks for around of my reading. Well, I managed to larn my hands on a re-create of the ebook of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as well as man child was that a doozy! As I've mentioned previously , Goodreads has run an invaluable resources for me inwards my mass addiction. I literally pass hours on that site when I visit, perusing my friends' recent reading, checking upwardly on novel giveaways, editing my library... So of classify it makes feel that I would run to Goodreads for reviews of books I've simply finished. Note: I (almost) never read reviews earlier I read the books themselves. I honour it spoils my wishing to read the mass as well as I goal upwardly non enjoying it. I much prefer to read them after, when I've had a risk to digest the book's contents, as well as tin forcefulness out coherently articulate my thoughts. I realize I'm starting amongst the goal here. Let...

Since I started using Goodreads , I've been having a lot of fun figuring out the website, my stats, taking quizzes, rating books, writing reviews for books I've loved in addition to hated, in addition to entering giveaways (which is my favorite part!). It's great! All I select to produce is alternative a mass I'm interested inwards reading in addition to come inwards the giveaway, in addition to if I win they permit me know! I've entered several hundred giveaways (lol) in addition to won 2 then far, in addition to today I got the get down i inwards the mail. Exciting! So the adjacent hard re-create mass I get down volition survive Glimmerglass yesteryear Jenna Black. It truly looks pretty adept for beingness a modern fantasy ready inwards today's populace (which I've never truly been interested in). The synopsis on the website is a petty dramatic but yet sounds interesting: It’s all she’s always wanted to be, but it couldn’t survive farther from h...

Obviously this is a mass blog, but sometimes, books only don't cutting it for me. There are a lot of things that enter beingness a bride. I've done a bulk of the planning for this wedding, including contacting all the vendors, making all the appointments, arranging to a greater extent than or less everyone's schedules, as well as deciding what nosotros produce as well as produce non want. It's been crazy as well as wonderful as well as a consummate trip, to a greater extent than complicated as well as involved than I e'er imagined. But where I used to hold upwardly able to plough to books to possess got me away from this variety of heed describe of piece of job as well as position me inwards a unlike mindset, it's been a niggling hard to concentrate lately. Sometimes books only don't work. What produce you lot produce when you lot experience similar you're out of control, as well as the ane affair that used to popular off on you lot occupied doe...