It's Monday! What are you reading?

It’s Monday!  What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey  where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!

Just Finished:

I literally just finished reading The Hate List by Jennifer Brown. You guys can look for my review of it coming up this week.

Reading Now:

Currently I am reading The Sapphire Talisman by Brenda Pandos. I can't wait to finish this. I'm really excited because I loved her first book in the series. September 5-9th will be when I post my reviews on all her books. Come stop by :)

 

To Read Next:

Next I plan on reading another Brenda Pandos book, Everblue, for the week of her reviews in September. It's about mermaids and I have yet to read a mermaid book so I'm really looking forward to it. I've heard nothing but great things.

Reading Later:

I will be reading Grounding Quinn by Stephanie Campbell. She will also be by my blog in September. This book looks great so I can't wait to dig in.

That is my reading week. What will you guys be reading? Let me know below :)

Hunger Games Teaser

The teaser trailer was released yesterday during the VMA's. Waited the entire show but only after seeing Lady Gaga as a man, Beyonce pregnant, Katy Perry with a cube on her head and the awesomeness that is Russell Brand, did they show the teaser. I know a lot of you want to see it so here it is:

*SQUEEEE* I CAN'T WAIT!!!! March 2012 could not come any faster. A lot of people are complaining about how this was nothing, that they should have given us a better teaser. I'm just glad they gave us a teaser 7 months in advance when they are still filming. What do you guys think of the teaser?

Oh and this video is too funny but I can't find it on youtube to upload it so you can watch it here :)

http://www.okmagazine.com/2011/05/jennifer-lawrence-acts-out-meeting-kristen-stewart-books-who-knew/

*I do not own this video, belongs to Lionsgate*

In My Mailbox

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme started by The Story Siren. 

This week I fixed my laptop butttt the guy that fixed it deleted some drivers :[ so now I can't open my webcam. So hopefully I will find out how to fix that soon. In the mean time, here is what I got this week.

Trade:

The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler

Bought:

Abandon by Meg Cabot

Siren by Tricia Rayburn

Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen

Won:

Amen, L.A. (thanks Random House Teens)

I also bought an HP Touchpad. I am so excited!! It is awesome and now I can read my ebooks. Before I was reading them on my phone and that got a bit difficult. I'm really excited :D

So what did you guys get in your mailbox?

Leave a comment with your link below and I will check it out :)

Waiting on Wednesday

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Title: The Future Of Us
Author: Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Goodreads: It's 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet.

Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM.

Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on--and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future.

Everybody wonders what their Destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out.

I can't wait for this book to be released. I absolutely loved Thirteen Reasons Why, read it in one sitting the same night I bought it. Recently I read The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler. I loved it too, it was an amazing story of a teen with real life issues. That said, this book is bound to be amazing because it is written by both authors of those books and the story line is just really unique. Can't wait! :)

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab your current read

Open to a random page

Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Title: Hate List
Author: Jennifer Brown
Goodreads: Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets.

Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life.

My Teaser: "They were at one another's throats. All the old rivalries, the old jokes, the old sour feelings were right there, festering under the plastic surgery and sympathetic head nods and crumpled Kleenex." pg. 73

Review: But I Love Him

Title: But I Love Him
Author: Amanda Grace (Pseudonym), Mandy Hubbard
Source: Library Copy
Age Level: Young Adult
My Rating: 5 out of 5
Goodreads:
Tonight was so much worse than anything before it. Tonight he didn't stop after the first slap.

At the beginning of senior year, Ann was a smiling, straight-A student and track star with friends and a future. Then she met a haunted young man named Connor. Only she can heal his emotional scars; only he could make her feel so loved — and needed. Ann can't recall the pivotal moment it all changed, when she surrendered everything to be with him, but by graduation, her life has become a dangerous high wire act. Just one mistake could trigger Connor's rage, a senseless storm of cruel words and violence damaging everything — and everyone — in its path. 

This evocative slideshow of flashbacks reveals a heartbreaking story of love gone terribly wrong.

Review:
This is such a different book. I have read several books about relationships and abusive boyfriends. One I read this year was Dreamland by Sarah Dessen. Dreamland was a typical abusive relationship book. Starts out with a cute relationship and builds up into the abuse. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with this type of book but it is a relief to read something different. But I Love Him starts off with the climax of the abuse one year into the relationship. From there it back tracks all the way to the first day when Ann and Connor first meet.

Because Ann and Connor's relationship is told backwards, we come to understand why it is so difficult for Ann to leave Connor. We get a better perspective of how she fell so deeply in love with him and felt like she had to protect him. The book starts out with the difficult moments but slowly goes onto the sweeter, better parts of the relationship, like their first dates.

All the characters in the book are developed through their relationship with Ann. There is the relationship with her mother, her best friend, her guy friend and of course Connor. We get to know more about Ann as the book develops and we get to see her life before Connor became the center of it.

I really liked this book. It was so different form the format of all other books. So different in fact, that I wasn't sure how I would feel about it but ended up not being able to put it down. This book was so intriguing that while I was at the dentist I saw my guy cousin pick it up and start reading it, after that, he kept asking me what was happening when I was reading it. So, Mandy Hubbard? This book? Just plain awesome. Go pick it up now!! :)

Bout of Books Read-a-Thon

Read-a-Thon Goals

Read at least 4 books

Books to Knock Out

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

The Sapphire Talisman by Brenda Pandos

Everblue by Brenda Pandos

Grounding Quinn by Stephanie Campbell

Other Books I’d Love to Get to

The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore (I would have to reread I am number four)

Matched by Ally Condie

How Much Time I Intend to Read

This is the first week of the semester so although I'm starting college again it should be an easy week :) I intend to read every day :)

Updates

The following is my own format.  You can take it, change it, use something different, not update us until the very end, whatever.  :)

8/22
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8/27
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8/28 — will go into a “wrap-up” post on 8/29 or 8/30

In My Mailbox (Vlog)

It's in my mailbox time hosted by the story siren. I'm sorry for the sound quality. I'm working on fixing my camera but right now had to use my dad's laptop to record this IMM. I'll post the names of the books I got below too.

Bought:
        
Gifted:

Traded: (ivyreads.info)
 
From author:



vvvv what did you guys get in your mailbox? vvvv

Book Blogger Hop

This is a hop hosted by crazy for books to participate you can go here
This week's question is:


“What’s the LONGEST book you’ve ever read?” 


I am going to go with the longest book I have read this year. I read Delirium which was 441 pages. But the longest book I have on my goodreads would be Breaking Dawn...with a total of...754 pages. I feel like I haven't read an extremely long book :\ hmm...*rushes off to grab the longest book on her to be read list* 






vvvv What's the longest book you guys have read? I would love to hear about it! vvvv

A Few Books I Have For Trade

I don't have many books for trade right now but I do have a few, just email me if you are interested in anything, audrisj15@gmail.com
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