Confessions of a Bibliovore

Title: The Summer I Wasn't Me Author: Jessica Verdi Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release date: April 1st 2014 Pages: 342 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: Bought Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon Lexi has a secret. She never meant for her mom to find out. And now she’s afraid that what’s left of her family is going to fall apart for good. Lexi knows she can fix everything. She can change. She can learn to like boys. New Horizons summer camp has promised to transform her life, and there’s nothing she wants more than to start over. But sometimes love has its own path… My rating: 3 out of 5 stars I loved Jessica Verdi's debut, My Life After Now , so I was super excited to read her sophomore novel. And while I didn't love The Summer I Wasn't Me quite as much as My Life After Now because some of the storylines didn't work for me, I still absolutely love Jessica Verdi's writing. I love that Jessica Verdi decided to write about a camp like this. I wasn...

Title: Rival Author: Sara Bennett Wealer Publisher: HarperTeen Release date: February 15th 2011 Pages: 336 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: Bought Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon Meet Brooke: Popular, powerful and hating every minute of it, she’s the “It” girl at Douglas High in Lake Champion, Minnesota. Her real ambition? Using her operatic mezzo as a ticket back to NYC, where her family lived before her dad ran off with an up and coming male movie star. Now meet Kathryn: An overachieving soprano with an underachieving savings account, she’s been a leper ever since Brooke punched her at a party junior year. For Kath, music is the key to a much-needed college scholarship. The stage is set for a high-stakes duet between the two seniors as they prepare for the prestigious Blackmore competition. Brooke and Kathryn work toward the Blackmore with eyes not just on first prize but on one another, each still stinging from a past that started with friendship and ended ...

Bookish Anticipation is a feature I do every once in a while to spotlight future releases I'm excited for. It was inspired by  Breaking the Spine 's Waiting on Wednesday. You can check out more of my Bookish Anticipation posts  here . The Devil You Know by Trish Doller Release date: June 2nd 2015 Eighteen-year-old Arcadia wants adventure. Living in a tiny Florida town with her dad and four-year-old brother, Cadie spends most of her time working, going to school, and taking care of her family. So when she meets two handsome cousins at a campfire party, she finally has a chance for fun. They invite her and friend to join them on a road trip, and it's just the risk she's been craving-the opportunity to escape. But what starts out as a fun, sexy journey quickly becomes dangerous when she discovers that one of them is not at all who he claims to be. One of them has deadly intentions. Get Dirty (Don't Get Mad #2) by Gretchen McNeil Release date: June 16th 2015 The memb...

Title: Playlist for the Dead Author: Michelle Falkoff Publisher: HarperTeen Release date: January 27th 2015 Pages: 288 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: Edelweiss - I received a free eGalley of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Thanks! Add to Goodreads | Purchase from Amazon A teenage boy tries to understand his best friend's suicide by listening to the playlist of songs he left behind in this smart, voice-driven debut novel. Here's what Sam knows: There was a party. There was a fight. The next morning, his best friend, Hayden, was dead. And all he left Sam was a playlist of songs, and a suicide note: For Sam—listen and you'll understand. As he listens to song after song, Sam tries to face up to what happened the night Hayden killed himself. But it's only by taking out his earbuds and opening his eyes to the people around him that he will finally be able to piece together his best friend’s story. And maybe have a chance to change his ...

Title: Two Boys Kissing Author: David Levithan Publisher: Knopf BYR Release date: August 27th 2013 Pages: 196 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: Bought Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon New York Times bestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record—all of which is narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS. While the two increasingly dehydrated and sleep-deprived boys are locking lips, they become a focal point in the lives of other teen boys dealing with languishing long-term relationships, coming out, navigating gender identity, and falling deeper into the digital rabbit hole of gay hookup sites—all while the kissing former couple tries to figure out their own feelings for each other. My rating: 5 out of 5 stars Two Boys Kissing is only my second non-collaborative David Levithan boo...

                                  Top Ten Tuesday  is a weekly meme brought to you by  The Broke and the Bookish .  Each week a new Top Ten list topic is posted and book bloggers fill in their own choices.  This weeks topic is Top 10 2014 Releases I Meant to Read, but Didn't These are books I either own and never got around to, or books I don't own but wanted to read.  * All pictures link to GR page                                                                                         1. The Blood of Olympus : I own it and refuse to read it. I DON'T WANT IT TO ENDDDD! 2. Red Rising : So much hype. So many reservations. 3. Sea of Shadows : FANTASY AWESOMENES...

Title: 3:59 by Gretchen McNeil Series: N/A Genre: Young Adult - Science Fiction/Fantasy Publication: September 17, 2013 by Balzer + Bray Format: Hardcover Source: Purchased Rating: ★★★ Synopsis: Josie Byrne's life is spiraling out of control. Her parents are divorcing, her boyfriend Nick has grown distant, and her physics teacher has it in for her. When she's betrayed by the two people she trusts most, Josie thinks things can't get worse. Until she starts having dreams about a girl named Jo. Every night at the same time—3:59 a.m. Jo's life is everything Josie wants: she's popular, her parents are happily married, and Nick adores her. It all seems real, but they're just dreams, right? Josie thinks so, until she wakes one night to a shadowy image of herself in the bedroom mirror – Jo. Josie and Jo realize that they are doppelgängers living in parallel universes that overlap every twelve hours at exactly 3:59. Fascinated by Jo's perfect world, Josie jum...

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by  The Broke and the Bookish  with a different topic for a top-ten list each week. You can find out more about it  here . This week's topic is:  Top Ten 2014 Releases I Meant to Read But Didn't Get to Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern Inland by Kat Rosenberg Isla and the Happily Ever After  by Stephanie Perkins Like No Other by Una LaMarche Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour In Deep by Terra Elan McVoy The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder Bright Before Sunrise by Tiffany Schmidt Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer What 2014 releases did you miss out on reading this past year?

I'm so excited to have Natalie D. Richards here for an author interview today! I really liked her debut Six Months Later, and this post is part of the blog tour for her new release,  Gone Too Far. 1. I  really enjoyed the mystery element of Six Months Later , and it sounds like Gone Too Far will be heavily driven by a mystery storyline as well. What made you want to write within the contemporary YA mystery genre? Thank you so much for your kind words about Six Months Later ! Yes, Gone Too Far definitely shares that creepy what-is-going-on vibe!! I think I write thrillers and mind-benders because I love to read them. Great books come in all shapes and sizes, but there is something that gets me about a good thriller, one that keeps me up way too late, turning pages to find out what the heck is going to happen. 2. Could you talk a little bit about how writing Gone Too Far was similar to or different from writing Six Months Later ? Oh, I could write a blog, a book, an epic ten-...

This post is just to show y'all what books I've gotten over the past....well, as far back as I can remember (been a long time since one of these went up). There's no way I'm going to remember them all since it's been so long, but here I go: *Pictures lead to Goodreads pages Bought                          For Review         Gifted    I know this isn't all the books, but this is all I can remember at the moment. I look forward to all the reading I get to do! What book have y'all gotten this past week? Let me know in the comments below! All the best ♥︎ Mackenzie 

Sometime last year I decided to start up a new feature, Literary Fashion. While I've never considered myself to be very stylish or fashionable, I found it to be quite fun to put these outfits together. The normally match what the main character wears or match the cover somehow, and lately I started putting a few more together. Here's one of the older ones I done that I really liked, inspired by Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. I wanted to keep the outfit relatively simple, and while the dress mostly represents what Fern wears in the book, but the accessories basically focus more on the animals. I really enjoyed creating this one because it was a fun, simple look but it came out kind of classy and I liked that.

Title: When You Were Here Author:  Daisy Whitney Publisher: Little, Brown for Young Readers Release date: June 4th 2013 Pages: 272 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: Bought Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon Danny's mother lost her five-year battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation-the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone, with only his memories, his dog, and his heart-breaking ex-girlfriend for company. He doesn't know how to figure out what to do with her estate, what to say for his Valedictorian speech, let alone how to live or be happy anymore. When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of a side of his mother he never knew. So, with no other sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his mother's memory and make sense of her final months, which seemed filled with more joy than Danny ever knew. There, among the cherry blosso...

Omg, a review, finally! Sort of. It's been so long that I've written my actual thoughts on a book that I am quite rusty and it's been such a long while that I actually read this book (almost a whole year!) that this will probably be pretty terrible anyways. So let me just ramble a bit while I get the hang of things again. The main reason why I picked up The Perks of Being a Wallflower was because my brother adores the movie. Like any pesky brother, he continued to bug me about the movie long after he'd seen it, because he wanted me to watch it with him. Really, desperately needed me to see it. My mom watched it with him also, and adored it as well. I'd heard of the book, and it has great rave reviews but it never truly caught my interest. But of course, being the book nerd that I am, I had to read the book before watching this movie and since I was tired of my brother annoying me each time we were going to watch a movie by suggesting (read: pestering) that we shou...

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by  The Broke and the Bookish  with a different topic for a top-ten list each week. You can find out more about it  here . This week's topic is:  Top Ten Most Anticipated Debut Novels for 2015 The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne No Parking at the End Times by Bryan Bliss Little Peach by Peggy Kern The Distance Between Lost and Found  by Kathryn Holmes Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee Even When You Lie to Me by Jessica Alcott Pretending to Be Erica  by Michelle Painchaud The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes What 2015 debuts are you most excited about?