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Monday, 31 December 2012

Happy New Year 2013 Giveaway Hop

Posted on 21:00 by gllapsi





Happy New Year to You!!



What better way to start the new year than with new books?! 



I am giving away one $10.00 Amazon Gift Certificate. 

Following is not required and up to 3 extra entries can be earned.

You must be 16 years or older to enter.

To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter below.

Winner will be selected via random.org and announced here via Rafflecopter.



This giveaway
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Books of the Month(5): Part 2

Posted on 09:00 by gllapsi
Books of the Month is where I share books I got In My Mailbox, read, and reviewed during the entire month.
This month I've added a new category: Shared from My Shelves. This includes books that I've loaned to my friends and other readers. Variations of these types of posts exist on many blogs so I am not claiming credit for this idea.

This was a huge month of books for me. I had to break this
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Sunday, 30 December 2012

2012 Reads: Complete List, Goals, & Challenges

Posted on 21:00 by gllapsi
Last January I joined some challenges and set some personal reading goals. Throughout the year, I tracked my reading progress and listed below are my reading goals and accomplishments for 2012. Even though I didn't accomplish all that I set out to do, I have to say that I didn't do half bad.  

On January 1, 2013, I will have a whole new set of goals. I'm not officially joining any challenges,
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Wednesday, 26 December 2012

Provisions and Paperbacks Book Club: 2012 Recap

Posted on 03:00 by gllapsi

Provisions and Paperbacks, my book club, read a lot of great books this year. My friends and I started the book club in 2011 and I brought our discussions here in 2012.



Here are all of the books we read in this year. I've included some quick thoughts, links to reviews and our discussion posts. I've always thought there isn't anything lonelier than reading a book and not having anyone to
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Saturday, 22 December 2012

Books of the Month (5): Part 1

Posted on 14:39 by gllapsi
Books of the Month is where I share books I got In My Mailbox, read, and reviewed during the entire month.
This month I've added a new category: Shared from My Shelves. This includes books that I've loaned to my friends and other readers. Variations of these types of posts exist on many blogs so I am not claiming credit for this idea.




Books of December















Purchased

On Writing
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Thursday, 20 December 2012

Guest Post: Twisted Lit authors Kim Askew and Amy Helmes

Posted on 03:00 by gllapsi

Welcome Twisted Lit authors Kim Askew and Amy Helmes!

Hey everyone! Call
us crazy, but we happen to think English dramatist William Shakespeare
could be classified as the original YA author. Just hear us out on this
one: Be it Romeo and Juliet’s desperate passion, Hamlet’s
stepdad-directed rage, the delinquent follies of a young Henry V, or
Cordelia’s frustrations with her impossibly
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Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Author Interview: A. Meredith Walters

Posted on 03:00 by gllapsi




Today A. Meredith Walters, author of the new mature/young adult novel Find You in the Dark has stopped by the blog to answer some questions about writing, reading, and her favorite books. 

Welcome A. Meredith Walters!


Have
you always been a writer? Did you keep a journal or write stories or
poetry when you were younger? 

I've been a writer most of my life.  I
kept spiral notebooks
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Monday, 17 December 2012

Excerpt: Louder Than Words by Laurie Plissner

Posted on 21:00 by gllapsi





Chapter 1by Laurie Plissner,Author of Louder Than Words (Merit Press)



Every
night it's the same thing. Screeching brakes. Crunching steel. A rush
of cold, wet air as the glass crumbles, letting in the snowy night. The
chorus of screams and then nothing -- just the slow drip of fluids from
the mangled wreck and the hiss of steam escaping the crushed radiator.
And the stench --
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Book Club Discussion: Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

Posted on 05:30 by gllapsi
Provisions and Paperbacks, my IRL book club, recently read Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire. As I said in my previous post (you can read it here), I want to share some thoughts and ideas brought up during the book club and bring my blog readers into the discussion.


Not yet, but there will be spoilers. You have been warned.






Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

Published May 26, 2011

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Thursday, 13 December 2012

Coincidences and Connections (3)

Posted on 21:00 by gllapsi

So I'm sitting here reading a book and I come across something that
seems familiar. Like I just read that in the previous book. I'm not
talking about the plot or the storyline - just little similarities like
the name of a character or the state where the book is set. There are
just too many coincidences that I couldn't help but share them.



I recently participated in a weekend long
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Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Blog Tour & Giveaway: THE FARM by Emily McKay

Posted on 21:00 by gllapsi








The Farm: Escape is Only the Beginning
by Emily McKay
Published by Berkley
Publication Date: December 4, 2012Goodreads   /  Amazon  /    IndieBound











  
Life was different in
the Before: before vampires began devouring humans in a swarm across
America; before the surviving young people were rounded up and
quarantined. These days, we know what those quarantines are—holding
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Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Review: The Believing Game by Eireann Corrigan

Posted on 21:00 by gllapsi
















The Believing Game

by Eireann Corrigan


Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publication Date: December 1, 2012
Pages: 320
Source: NetGalley











A private academy. A cult leader. A girl caught in the middle.
After Greer Cannon discovers that shoplifting can be a sport and sex can
be a superpower, her parents pack her up and send her off to McCracken
Hill-a cloistered academy
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Tuesday, 4 December 2012

I'm Blogging for Regine and Giveaway; Regine's Book: a teen girl's last words

Posted on 21:00 by gllapsi

I'm Blogging for Regine


Right
now I'm taking my time reading Regine's Book. I want to honor her by
reading her story thoughtfully instead of rushing through it just so I
can have a review to post on my blog tour date. I knew that this book
would evoke many emotions while I read it, but I just didn't realize how
much so. I, like many readers, know someone whose life has been
affected by
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Monday, 3 December 2012

Book Lover's Holiday Giveaway Hop

Posted on 10:18 by gllapsi





Welcome to the Book Lover's Holiday Giveaway Hop. 





As a book lover, I love reading books, getting books, and gifting books.

I'm pretty sure this is the last hop I'm participating in this year and I want to

do a little something different with this giveaway. I usually offer a book that I like 

or a gift card so the winner can get whatever book they want. The only thing is 

 I never
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