A Reader's Addiction

Read: June 27, 2012 read in an hour pages: 192 This has to be one of the best finds I've literally stumbled upon in the library! I love when I just start wandering around searching for one thing and find something else that I end up loving! One of the most inspirational books I've read in a long time, or maybe ever. I admit my mood was in a funk for a couple days....I read this and not only get sucked into it but I get this urge to start writing! I've wanted to write and toy around with the idea of writing more than just these blogs and reviews, and here now that I've read this book I'm thinking even more that I need to get STARTED!! I mean even if I don't write whatever it is I decide to write and don't intend to publish it....well I should STILL write it!  The one of the last novels I read mentioned something about how it is common for authors to carry around a notebook and paper to write down phrases or ideas that they read in one no...

Read: June 21-26, 2012 read in 6 days pages: 384 14 year old Laurel becomes obsessed with flowers after reading a letter written to her by her mother. The letter had a lily attached to the top with the phrase that catches her attention. She finds a book that informs her that the lily of the valley has a meaning of "return of happiness". The phrase leads her to explore the word of flowers and she stumbles upon a book that covers what all the flowers are and their meaning. After doing her research she presents the Victorian idea that flowers were meant to send secret messages. She begins to find that she is able to use flowers herself to make things happen, namely to help her friends, and enemies, snag that certain someone they have had their eye on. Rumors spread through school and she becomes popular and reclusive at the same time. Antics ensue as she discovers strange things happening that she never planned. She eventually learns she comes from a long line o...

Read: June 17-21, 2012 read in 5 days pages: 224 Hope is a young woman who turns 30 just as her life is falling to shambles. This story is her road to recovery; the trials she faces as she tries time and time again to not only start living her life, but coming to terms with the fact that she deserves a great life. One that she has always wanted despite the mistakes she has made in the past. The novel chronicles her struggles as she overcomes a stifling depression. Her journey is heart breaking and honest. The novel reads more as a journal rather than as fiction. Hope's story is one that will hit home with anyone who has struggled to understand their own place in this crazy world we live in. Her story is one of hope, and I don't think it too ironic that she shares her name with the one emotion she lacks but comes to find over the course of the novel. A Thirty-Something Girl is chock full of raw emotions that will grip the reader. There are so many times where the...

Hey everybody! I have a special treat for you! Today's post is an interview with author Jenna Elizabeth Johnson author of Oescienne Trilogy. If you are thinking that the name sounds a bit familiar....well you would be correct! Just last week I reviewed the first book in her newest Otherworld Trilogy Faelorehn. I want to thank Jenna for taking the time to answer a few questions about her new series and what inspired her to write the series. What initially inspired you to begin writing Faelorehn?  A few things. I’ve been seriously writing for about seven years now and in the past year or so the idea for a YA urban fantasy centered on Celtic myth began to formulate. I knew I wanted to write a story that would help bring the otherworld of the Celts to life, but not until I read Amanda Hocking’s Switched did I finally get going with it. Switched felt very similar to what I had in mind, yet instead of writing a story where the premise was based on changelings and trolls...

Read: June 13- 16, 2012 read  in four days pages: 376 I I have seen Nancy Werlin's novel Extraordinary in the library before but never picked it up. I didn't look into reading it because for some reason I thought it was part of a series or something. It wasn't but there was something about that that made it stick in my head telling me to read Impossible first IF I could ever find it in the library at the same time I went in to get books. Finally at a new library I find the book and pick it up. I knew little about it and aside from the back cover telling me that there was something to do with the song "Scarborough Fair" I went in blind. Which is completely fine with me. For starters I'm glad I read this book. I really enjoyed the characters and the story line. Parts of it were predictable like for instance the truth behind this mysterious character Padraig Seeley who is introduced who has NO prior knowledge of working in a hospital le...

YAY! It's always an exciting day to wake up in the morning and find an email informing you that you have won a free book! I love free books! I've been entering the goodreads.com give away contests for so long that I forget when the give away dates are because well I so rarely win. I've won one other time which was great because that time I ended up with an advance copy of Clockwork Prince. Which I LOVED! This time I have won a copy of The Possibility of Miracles. I don't know much about it but I am looking forward to reading it. That pretty much made my day!

Read: June 7-12, 2012 read in 6 days pages: 192 This was a very quick quirky read. There are five short stories in this little book that have all been previously been published elsewhere. This was meant to put them all in one easy to access book. I'm glad I was able to find this in the library despite having bought one book with one story a while back at the used book store. Anyways there are five stories as I said a couple work really well and actually add to the story arc of the novels while the others are just filler and I guess somewhat enjoyable. "Fairy Dust" I think did well as it explained the fairy triplets Claude, Claudette and Claudine. This story has Sookie enlisted to help the duo Claude and Claudine find out what happened to their sister Claudette who we never meet. She was murdered and it is Sookie's job to help them solve the mystery. The story adds little else than introduce the characters and explain that there are triplets rather...

Read: June  7-10, 2012 read in  about 4 days pages: 228 For starters, I have to say I really enjoyed this novel! I'm so glad I contacted Ms. Johnson about reading and reviewing her novel. I was intrigued with the description and I was not disappointed at all. I was only disappointed when I had to put the novel down so I could sleep last night!! Needless to say, I am looking forward to book two in the trilogy. This was a great set up for a series because there are still so many unanswered questions that leave he next books room to explore and discover. I'm hooked and will be continuing for sure! Meghan Elam is a 17 year old outcast and former orphan who was very lucky to be adopted into a loving family. She struggled with visions, hearing voices and recurring dreams that she never really escaped. Plus her ever changing eye color is just icing on the cake. Despite countless treatments, nothing ever seemed to help. After having been ...

Read: June 5-6, 2012 read in a couple hours pages: 63 Wow, now that was intense. Great freebie from Amazon.com  I'm not a huge fan of horror and I've never read a zombie book, so this was my first. What the short stories did very well was create tension. I was tense the entire time I read this. And it was compelling enough that they kept me reading. It was a train wreck I literally couldn't stop reading and I couldn't put it down. The worst part was silly me decided to start reading this late last night before bed because I honestly did not know what to expect. I still did not expect what I got from the stories. I feel like I'm never going to be able to get to sleep in a couple hours as it is now. The images and the descriptions of the carnage was enough to cause my skin to crawl and cause me to look over my shoulder at every little creak in the house. I'm not sure I can pick up another book like this. I recommend it though to anyone who ...

Read June 5, 2012 read in 10-15 minutes pages too short to count Hmm. Don't even remotely get this. So there is apparently this Nathan guy who is actually a vampire. Some kind of head vampire who is out to create a vampire army to "save the world" and rid it of humans. ?!?! For an into to the series this was not a great one. The snippet does little to really set up the story or even explain what is going on. There is a little back story that shows somewhat how things got to this point, but even that is sketchy. I'm not compelled to read the next book although I got it as well. Thank goodness both were free from Amazon and I did not pay for anything. And luckily it only took 10-15 minutes tops to read this so no too much time invested. Oh and it appears that the author must have toyed with the POV whether in the first run through and changed it during editing and missed a few key words that should have been "I" or "me" but ...

May 22- June 5, 2012 read in  15 days pages: 342 This was the second time I've read the novel, and I have to admit it has been so long since I read it that I have forgotten everything that happens. It has been far too long I guess. Anyways maybe this time I can continue with the series and see where things go. I own enough of the novels to get a decent start before I need to start seeking them out at the library anyways.  The pacing of this novel is so slow that it took me far too long to read. It seemed to take forever for me to get hooked into the novel enough to want to stick with it for any length of time. So I spent a good part of the time just reading small snippets when I had a few minutes to read. I'm thinking I'll take a break from this and continue on with it after reading a different book or two in the mean time.