January 2012
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2011: End of Year Reading Stats
These stats are really for me…I’m not sure how interested you all will be in my progress, but I like to keep a record. And this year, I can add my reading challenge stats to it!
First, it was pretty nifty that Goodreads kept track of how many books I read this year. Since I was participating in a 100+ Reading Challenge already, I set my goal on Goodreads to 100. I reached that goal...
December 2011
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December #RAK Wrap-Up
I received a RAK from Barbara at Basia’s Bookshelf - she sent me Dearly, Departed ahhhh! :-D
The lovely Andrea at The Busy Bibliophile was nice enough to send me Prized by Caragh M. O’Brien. ♥
Cat from Cat’s Thoughts returned the RAK goodness with dancergirl by Carol Tanzman. Thanks bunches!
Thank you to Lethea (@Luvdaylilies) for Siren’s Call: A Dark Tides Novel by...
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December: New Loot!
1 December 2011
For $0.99 from Amazon for Kindle:
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6 December 2011
For free from Amazon for Kindle:
Won and received from This Is Teen’s Twitter giveaway:
I can’t wait to get my copy of the book in a few weeks! Thanks so much!
7 December 2011
From Amazon for...
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Clockwork Angel
Alone and without any remaining family in America, sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray boards an ocean liner to London to reunite with her brother, Nathaniel. When she arrives in London, however, it is not her brother waiting for her but the strange Dark sisters, Mrs. Dark and Mrs. Black, who have proof that Nathaniel sent them. Uneasy from the start but with limited options, Tessa goes with the...
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The Healer's Apprentice
Disconnected from her family and with qualities only Frau Geruscha, the town healer, can fathom, Rose has been given an unusual education and a healer apprenticeship designed to keep her close and safe. Still, life is relatively normal for Rose until the day she and her best friend Hildy join the rest of Hagenheim’s citizens to welcome back the duke’s two handsome sons,...
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Winner: Signed Copy of FURY!
Thank you all for helping The Musings of ALMYBNENR reach 100 likes on the Facebook fan page! I decided to finally create a page to have as much as a presence on Facebook as I have on Twitter, especially since Google is planning to discontinue following via GFC in March 2012. Hopefully I can get a post up about that soon so you all have some more information.
Anyway, onto the winner of the...
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Best of 2011 Giveaway Hop!
The Best of 2011 Giveaway Hop is hosted by Kathy at I Am a Reader, Not a Writer.
The hop runs from December 27 to December 31. Any entries outside of those dates will be disqualified.
What will you win here? Well, I have chosen some of my very favorite books of 2011 that I want EVERYONE to read, but I know at least two of you will be winning and reading them! There will be two winners, one...
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The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse
What a beautiful book. For children, it is colorful and fun. For adults, it is about learning something new. Most everyone is familiar with Eric Carle’s illustrations even if they have not cracked open one of his picture books. With beautiful brush strokes and painted on texture, they are truly phenomenal. Like many of Carle’s books, The Artist Who Pained a Blue Horse, teaches...
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Bad Taste in Boys
Kate Grable is a halfway reformed geek, retaining her brains and glasses, but otherwise emerging from her shell and standing up to others. That is why when, as the high school varsity football team’s manager, she finds out the coach has given the team steroids, she decides to do something about it - especially when she learns that a side effect of the steroids turns the athletes...
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Tortured
Disclaimer: No spoilers from Prized or Tortured, but read with caution if you have not read Birthmarked.
Birthmarked and Prized fans know all about Gaia Stone and her life, personality, and views. Fans also know of Leon through Gaia’s eyes, but we never quite knew what happened to him between books one and two…until now.
What happened to Leon? Well, there is not much I can...
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Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?
Uh oh! Baby Bear has been separated from his mother, but as he journeys to reunite with her, he comes across all kinds of other animals!
Baby Bear, Baby Bear is a super cute children’s picture book. With colorful full-page illustrations and easy words in large print, it is the perfect book to engage and delight your young ones. I was glad that a blue heron was featured in the book....
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Want to win a signed copy of FURY?
Huh. The world “will” looks like it only has one “l” but I promise you guys, I know how to spell and it’s not an error…it’s just the font. So it’s been awhile since I held a giveaway - well, a couple of months - but the mood for a giveaway struck me last night and so, here we are. It’s super easy. No forms to enter or anything. Just go like...
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Hollowmen
Disclaimer: No spoilers from Hollowmen, but read with caution if you have not read Hollowland.
Six months have passed since Remy King and her fellow survivors made it to the quarantine and things have been worse than she expected since she switched places with her little brother. Zombies dominated Hollowland and are still significant in Hollowmen, but Remy and the others have even worse...
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Tangled Tides
Tangled Tides begins with a hurricane. Yara is boarding up her island home when a strange but attractive guy shows up wearing only shorts and asks her to trust him to take her somewhere safe during the storm. The guy, Treygan, knows who Yara is and as unlikely as it seems, Yara finds him vaguely familiar. Mesmerized, she goes with him…to the sea.
When she awakens underwater with...
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Teaser Tuesday - 20 December 2011
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.
Be careful not to include spoilers!
Share the title and author so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their TBR lists...
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Geek Girl
Seventeen-year-old goth girl and foster child Jen Jones has endured a troubled and violent past that has resulted in a nothing-can-hurt-me confidence and unacknowledged low self-esteem. One day, out of sheer boredom, Jen wonders aloud if she can turn the least nerdy boy out of the geeks, Trevor Hoffman, bad like her. Little does she know how much her own challenge will change her life.
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Teaser Tuesday - 13 December 2011
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.
Be careful not to include spoilers!
Share the title and author so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their TBR lists...
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Insider Information: A Possession Short Story
Disclaimer: No spoilers from Insider Information, but read with caution if you have not read Possession.
Insider Information is a short story that takes place prior to Possession. It follows a fourteen-year-old Zenn Bower when he was still Jag Barque’s second-in-command in the Resistance. He is on a mission to save some people who were taken from the Goodgrounds and he is upset at...
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2012 150+ Reading Challenge
I have really enjoyed the 100+ Reading Challenge that Amy at My Overstuffed Bookshelf hosted for 2011. In fact, 2011 was the first time I participated in ANY reading challenges and they are so fun. I reached my goal of 100 books with The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson back in September 2011. I decided to push forward (what book blogger could not) and keep reading of course. By the time...
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Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2012
I participated in Historical Tapestry’s 2011 challenge and I’m back for more in 2012! I love historical fiction although I haven’t read nearly as much in 2011 as I have in the past in this genre. Either way, for 2011 I chose the level of “Severe Bookaholism”, which meant reading at least 20 historical fiction books. As of this posting, I am at nineteen books, so I...
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YA Contemporary Challenge 2012
Hosted by Katie at Katie’s Book Blog and Angela at Reading Angel, the YA Contemporary Challenge of 2012 promises to be exciting and I look forward to opening my eyes to more new books in this genre. I read few contemporary books, but I have noticed the number has grown since I started blogging almost two years ago, and there are quite a few that I have read in 2011 that I really enjoyed...
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The Merchant's Daughter
Annabel was once the daughter of a wealthy merchant, but when her father died in debt, her family fell on hard times although they were still better off than most. In order to repay her family’s debt to the village, Annabel becomes an indentured servant to Lord Ranulf le Wyse, a man the majority of the town thinks of as a beast. But the real beast is a man the village holds in high...
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dancergirl
Alicia Ruffino’s friend posted a video online of her dancing and now acquaintances and strangers know her as “dancergirl”. At first, Ali enjoyed the attention, but the vibe quickly changed from admiring to unwanted. Ali is sure someone is taking this dancergirl thing too far and feels like someone is always watching her. Thrown into a world of fear and paranoia, Ali,...