Follow Friday

FOLLOW FRIDAY is hosted by Parajunkee & Alison Can Read and each week they feature their own bloggers to follow this week they are:
http://confuzzledbooks.blogspot.com/
http://thelittlebookblog.blogspot.com/

And the question for this week is:
Q: If you could have characters from a book meet and form an epic storyline with characters from a TV series, which characters would you choose and why?

A: I would have to choose the characters in Peeps and the show Supernatural. I love the whole sci-fi aspect of both, but they both seem to find some... logical reason behind what's happening. I love the sarcasm that they both have. I think Dean, Sam and Cal would butt heads, but it'd be funny.




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Meet Me on Monday (015)

Meet Me on Monday is hosted by Never Growing Old and it's a meme for bloggers to get to know each other one Monday at a time.

1. The best part of waking up each day is being able to start a new day hopefully in a positive way. And knowing you have another chance.


2. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? Not going to lie, a bit confused by this. I'm only 22 (though I feel much older) and if I could be any other age, I'd like to go back to high school to do it all over again!! Only changing a few things though. (I'm not greedy).

3. Red or Green Apples? Green! Granny smith are my favorites! YUM!!




4. Do you forgive easily? No, I don't. I can hold grudges for a very very long time!!


5. If you could live in any home on a television series, which would it be? There are a couple. I love the hanok (traditional Korean house) in the Korean drama, Personal Preference. But I loveee the house Aria lives in in the show Pretty Little Liars (mainly because of her room!! THOSE BOOKS!!)!

Waiting on Wednesday (009)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine. This isn't something that I will try to do every week especially if there's a book I really want to let people know about. I try to have books that are coming out within the next couple months, but this one comes out January of 2012!

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?
Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. She's stuck at JFK, late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon to be step-mother that Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's in seat 18B. Hadley's in 18A.
Twists of fate and quirks of timing play out in this thoughtful novel about family connections, second chances and first loves. Set over a 24-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it.


(read an excerpt here)
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Looking around for an upcoming book that I have been dying to read was hard. I've been out of the book loop for quite awhile and needed to visit publishing websites to find books coming out soon.
After visiting Poppy's website, I found this book and the title alone drew me in. The cover and the font definitely help. All of the reviews on Goodreads seem to be nothing but positive! I've added this to my list and cannot wait to read it when it comes out in January!

SHIFTING by Bethany Wiggins [review]

Shifting by Bethany Wiggins

Published: Septempber 27th, 2011 | Walker Books for Young Readers
Age: Young Adult
Pages: 384
Acquired: ARC

Overall: 1/2

Review: I have read a lot of reviews saying how surprised they were that they liked this book. My review is no different. But the reason I'm surprised is because I'm not much of a shifters, werewolves style book, luckily this books isn't really like that.

Maggie Mae moves to Silvery City, New Mexico after a few run-ins with the law for public indecency.... aka she was naked. But being a shape shifter and not quite in control of when and where you turn can leave you in such predicaments.

As she turns 18 she learns to control her shifting ability a little bit better, right when she meets and quickly begins fall for Bridger. He's the guy everyone loves and admires. And it definitely wasn't hard to see why. The entire time I was reading Shifting I kept imagining Blair Redford as Bridger.

I loved Maggie Mae's voice, how she stood up for her own, never afraid to admit when she may be falling and even though she didn't ask for help, she still knew when she needed it. And it was obvious that living with Mrs Carpenter, someone who genuinely cared for her and was there to help her through her difficult time, made it easier for her to adjust and start accepting people into her life.

When the book first starts out, she's attending school and it seems that the entire book will be her as this girl who has to continue running from her issues so as not to expose her secret. And I was relieved to find out that the school year ending fairly early on in the book, I knew it'd mean more Bridger, more Maggie Mae and her life as a shifter and hoped for more of her friends.... like Yana.
Unfortunately, however there wasn't enough Yana, it seemed the author actually forgot about her completely. She was Maggie Mae's first friend, got her a job, and looked out for her best interest from the beginning, but the way the author left her out made it look as if Maggie Mae completely forgot about her.

The ending is not really left open for a sequel, but I wouldn't be mad if there was on. I'd just hope that there would be more Yana, Mrs. Carpenter and more on Bridger's life.


Plot: 1/2
Characters:
Ending: 1/2
Writing:
Cover: (ARC cover)




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Author's Info:
Bethany Wiggins has always been an avid reader, but not an avid student. Seriously!!! She failed ninth grade English because she read novels instead of doing her homework. In high school, she sat alone at lunch and read massive hardback fantasy novels (Tad Williams and Robert Jordan anyone?). It wasn't until the end of her senior year that the other students realized she was reading fiction--not the Bible.
Seven years ago, Bethany's sister dared her to start writing an hour a day until she completed a novel. Bethany wrote a seven-hundred page fantasy novel that she wisely let no one read--but it taught her how to write. Since then she has completed six more novels, each one a little better than the one before.


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