In My Mailbox #9

In My Mailbox

IMM is hosted by Kristi from The Story Siren.

Back from Vacations and Bye to Borders u.u

I just got back from my Vegas Vacations!! Which seemed to short >.< I want to go again :D! that's the thing I love about Vegas, no matter how many times you go, it is never the same ;)

aside from this I'm going to fall into deep depression! Borders is Closing!!! U_U I've always been a Borders Girls, sometimes WalMart but mostly Borders! Borders will always have a special place in my heart. RIP.

In what I think was my last trip to Borders - I'm hoping to go one more time! - I got:

Falling For Hamlet and A Need So Beautiful are part of my 18th B-day Giveaway, even though I have them now It does not affect at all the giveaway, it just means I'm closer to getting all my B-day Book Wish List come true! ^^

So what do YOU have in your Mailbox? Leave me a link and I'll do my best to stop by :D!

Follow Friday #12

Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee.

Follow Friday is asking: 

Let's step away from books for a second and get personal. What T-Shirt slogan best describes you

I Love Shoes Booze and Boy With Tattoos!!!

I Love Shoes and Boys With Tattoos!!! No Doubt, don't like drinking though.I hate Hangovers >.<



Or Maybe This One? My friends say I get a bit antisocial when I'm reading xD



I think I'm This One!! I definitely am a Starbucks Girl!!!
and Pirates have Tattoos right? and I'm alsmot 100% sure that Pirate Girls have really cute shoes ;)

Lol, I Love my Arrbucks Shirt <3



Enjoy Your Weekend Everyone!!!

Gotta Love Vegas...

Vegas has been Amazing!! I LOVE It here! I practically come every year, what I most love: no matter how many times you come, its never the same ;)

My brother just finished his Master Degree and him and a bunch of his friends - including girls - decided to come to Vegas and he and I are close so I was also invited! that's why I'm here.

Funny Fact: its like my name disappeared the moment we came to Vegas, everyone is calling me Freshman ^^

I don't have many pictures right now to show, I'll make another post when I'm at home but I do have this Really Cute T-shirt, that cost Ridiculously Expensive and a Size too big. ^^ it was the only one in that store. by Ridiculously Expensive I mean 20$, maybe its not a lot of money but I always get my T-shirt free, my brother gets them for me from where he works. but something expensive is this 56 dollar T-shirt from Cirque Du Soleil.... not talking about that one, but look!

ARRBUCKS!!! How cute is that? I Love Starbucks so It was only natural I had to have this one.
My Favorite Starbucks Coffee: The Green Tea Frappuccino. it's this green thing that looks like avocado - which is sorta disgusting - but tastes really good ^^

We've also been eating like cows, there are lots of buffets here, can't blame us. So when the girls as me when to buy some mini shorts - its as hot as hell here -we where all "OMG I look sooooo fat!!" Duh. we are girls, what did you expect? another great thing about being girl is that we know how to deal with the stress of being fat. We go eat it - the stress I mean. Yup, after buying those cute little shorts we went for 44onz. Floats at the Coca-Cola store. One for each one. Gotta Love Vegas.

Once back home I will completely forget I ate like a cow and that I've been spending money like a rich kid - which I'm not so, whoops! - After all, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas ;)


I hope everyone is having a Happy Summer!!! Goodbye for now!

Blogger Lift #16

Blogger Lift:

Blogger Lift Is Hosted Here. and in Goodreads on YABC.

Blogger Lift is a feature in which I'll promote blogs I follow and that I recommenced you.

I am filled until November. If you don't mind being featured in a few months in Blogger Lift, then contact me :)
Before doing so please make sure you fill in the Requirements Of Blogger Lift! Thank You!
JudeHnd@Gmail.com or message me on Goodreads Jude.

Featured this week:

Pictures in the Words

Blog: Pictures in the Words

Blogger: Thalia

Tags: Review. Pictures. Words. Bibliophile. Tumblr.

"Words are pictures, too.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Thalia. Sixteen. Bibliophile."

I Love Tumblr!! and this is the first Blogger on Blogger Lift from Tumblr! its such a creative space and I LOVE It!!! and this Blogger is not the exception on creativity and beauty!

Now lets know more about this Tumblr Blogger:

 
1.-In Between Writing and Reading what do you like to do?
Pictures In The Words: Well, one of my biggest passions is video editing. Some would call what I do "fan videos" where you take a song and footage from a show/game/movie and then make a music video out of it. It's a perfect way to vent emotions and just to make something beautiful out of something ordinary.

2.-Convince me to join your Blog Twitter Style. 140 Characters or Less. GO!
PITW: Do you get bored waiting for the next review? PINT blogs not only reviews, but photos, quotes, and even videos about books as well! Stop by!

3.- A Word. A Planet. A Holiday.
PITW: Blasphemy. Pluto. Thanksgiving.
(Pluto is definitely a planet! (: )

4.- If you could make the world read one book, which book would we read?
PITW: That's a tough one! There are so many I love! However, I'd have to go with City of Bones, the first in the Mortal Instruments series. No other book has put my stomach in such knots and made me not want to read anything else!

5.- I Love Tumblr, its different from blogger and I find it to be more personal. Why did you went with Tumblr instead of Blogger? PITW: I've been using tumblr for about a year, and before that, I'd had a Blogger account. However, I found it too boring; when you aren't posting things about your personal life, your blog is fairly empty. With Tumblr, you can't get bored. Your followers can still get to know you, even when you don't post everything, by what you reblog and what you like. It's ideal for book reviews, because followers can still be entertained by book-related things, even when you don't have a review coming any time soon.

6.- I Love the name of your Blog! where did it came from?
PITW: Let it be known that Yellowcard is my favorite band of all time! I was so thrilled when they came of hiatus and released a new album. My favorite song on this album was one called, "Hang You Up" and it just brought tears to my eyes whenever I heard it. The ending line of the song is, "My ears are tired from all the pictures in the words, cause you are in them still." It always just stuck with me.

7.- What's your biggest passion?
PITW: Another hard question! While reading, writing, and video editing are all huge parts of my life, I believe singing is my biggest passion. Both my brothers are amazing singers and I've always looked up to them; choir is always the first on my elective list. If I couldn't sing, I don't know how I could live.



8.- and Now you get to describe your blog in more detail :)
PITW: Not only will you never be bored scrolling through this blog, but you can stay away from spoilers, too. To start every review, I give a basic overview of the book and what I thought of it, if you're a new reader who doesn't want to be spoiled. If you've read the book already or don't care about spoilers, I go into details of what I specifically enjoyed or wish had been left out. It's a setup I try to maintain to keep everybody happy! Hope to see you there!

You can find the Teen Readers Book Club here:

A Super Cute Blog and a Super Cute Blogger. I Love Both and hope you do too ;)

Thanks Thalia for being part of Blogger Lift!

Grounding Quinn - Stephanie Campbell

Grounding Quinn by Stephanie Campbell
Author: Stephanie Campbell
Date Released: June 15th 2011
Pages: 250 pages
Date Read: July 21 2011
Format: Paperback
Source: Amazon

Summary:

Eighteen-year-old Quinn MacPherson's biggest fear has always been turning out like her mentally unstable mother. (Solving algebraic equations comes in as a close second.)

 
That is, until she meets Benjamin Shaw.

Quinn thinks hooking up with Ben over summer vacation will be nothing more than a quick fling. She can't even commit to a nail polish choice, much less some guy.
Unfortunately for her, Ben is not just some guy. Ben gets her- the real her, flaws and all- and that scares the hell out of her.

When Ben does the unthinkable- tells Quinn he's in love with her- she does what comes naturally. She pushes him away. Ben can only watch from a distance as Quinn lashes out, and punishes him for daring to care about her.

But how far can you push someone, even someone who loves you, before they are gone for good?

From Goodreads

My Review:

Here We Go Again. it looks long but it goes fast ;)

The Story is the most cliché thing you’ll find. Girl afraid to fall in Love. Boy that Loves her. She pushes him away. They get back together. End of the story. A lot of books have this and I LOVE IT! It’s my favorite subject – I think… - and so when I read the summary I knew I had to read it. Sadly, my relationship with this book didn’t turn out nearly as good as I hoped :/ This is not a hate review whatsoever, it’s just a take on my personal opinion. 

The first half of the book was great, it’s the part when the girl – Quinn – and the guy – Ben – fall in love. It was really good, and also when she starts to get scared – Normal – and then they break up – Normal.  I was sure I was going to give it 4 stars. The next half make me think I would give it 1.

They got into this Here We Go Again thing that was a pain in the butt. It went like this:

She did something. Something really bad. He’s pissed and goes away. She begs. He decides to forgive her. She tells him to go away (if the guy is willing to forgive you why the hell do you tell him to go? O.o). He goes to a party with another girl. She yells at him stuff about moving on so fast and him dumping her for the ‘promiscuous’ girl [I say promiscuous to make it sound nicer] (whaaaat? She dumped Him]. Then he begs her again. She pushes him Away. Tells him she hates him. Feels bad afterwards. And blah blah.

There where WAY to many of this episodes and I was LITERALLY rolling my eyes by the end. And it was so much time that passed after they broke up, she says so herself, more than 100 days! It was somewhere around 5 months. So It also seemed unreal that they didn’t moved on, I was seriously – practically begging – for the book to end with both of them moving on and understanding everything.

Another thing was the families. Ben’s mom was a bitch! And not once does he confront her. And also Quinn’s dad is a bitch! He’s sleeping with their neighbor! And her mom is crazy – literary. She has problems with them but also never actually confronts them. In one chapter her dad is being pushy and she takes out the your-cheating-my-mom card. But that’s all, no sorting things out, just a check mate.

Being Scared is one thing, scared to fall in love, to confront someone and to just live your life, and it’s a whole other thing to be weak. Which was what I got form Quinn :/

It had some good points, because she learns some valuable lessons, and by the end it seems that she finally got it, and even though a thousand Here We Go Again episodes happened, I was ready to see her come to her senses and talk to Ben. And when she’s at his house, she suddenly says:

“Never mind, it was stupid of me to come.”

Oh Dear God Kill Me.

She threw everything she had learned, all the things she went through during the book, to the trash with that line. All I wanted to do was grab the book and hit my forehead against it! If it wasn’t because there were 2 pages left I wouldn’t have continued reading it.

I’m not a girl that likes Here We Go Again relationships – been there – and I sort of can’t stand people who feel sorry for themselves, I get it, you get down sometimes – done that – but you get UP again. And the same goes to Quinn, she went through a lot of stuff, but you have got to move on.

So I’m giving it 2 stars. More like 2.5. Which means that it was OK. It had its meaning, but it just didn’t work nearly as well as I hoped. More than that I feel a little crushed, I wanted so bad to love it *Sigh*

If you can stand way to many Here We Go Again episodes then this book is for you :)

"Does it ever make you sad?"
"Does what?"
"The Sunset,"
"Sad? Nah, I think it's peaceful."
"Not to me. I've always found it depressing."
"How so?"
"I guess because it's the end. I hate endings."
"Not all endings are bad though. I think of sunsets more as a clean slate. Besides, they're beautiful... like you"
"Beautiful things never last."

Tweet Review

If you like relationships where they get into Here We Go Again periods often this book is for you.

My Bookshelf

After like 3 Months I finally cleaned my room!! and so I got my shelves in order and I saw in other blogs that bloggers are showing off their shelves, so I though, why not show you guys mine! I know where Every Single One Of My Books Is. I can do you a whole drawing even. I don't order the alphabetically, but by colors and covers... I'm not a control freak, just a design freak :))


Well, my first shelf: at the top on the left side we have light purples, pinks and light blues. on the right we have black. The on the next space we go from red with white to pretty spines, then from deep blue to deep pink. then just pretty covers and spines. and on the next one just 2 blue books. Down on the left side all my Sarah Dessen books and on the right side 2 pink books.

My next bookshelf. on the top I have my twilight books and elixir, also 4 books with pretty spines. then we have greens. another down we have blue on the right and orange on the left. We go down again and we have Purples, greens and whites. and one more down and we have grays and browns.

Then we have another piece of furniture with less books. A few Blue/Green/Purple books with pretty spines. then 100% orange and my The Hunger Games collection.

I also think that, why have furniture when you have books? so here are my two nightstand. Lots of Books! and see! they are also by colors! from redish to acua to black with redish to black with gray to black with blue and to black with purple and then to whiter :D!

And this is a small table beside my door ^^ From color to black to gray to white :D!

Maybe I do have some control issues.... Oh! well xD, that's all my books and bookshelves!!!! How do you guys arrange your bookshelf?

In My Mailbox #8

In My Mailbox

IMM is hosted by Kristi from The Story Siren.

EEEEEKKK!!! Lots of AMAZING books this week!!! And I never went to the bookstore!! :DD!!!!!

A Random Act Of Kindness:

I have a Faery God Mother!!! her name is Kristina and she's the most Amazing person out there!!!! If she where a Blogger this would definitely count as a R.A.K. but it is still Amazing!!! Thanks To Her I already have all this books!!!! :D!!! I just want to add that this, in no way, affects My 18th B-day Giveaway. all of the books there will remain there and are part of the Giveaway! I LOVE YOU KRISTINA! in a non-creepy way....

And one book from the Galley:

 

Remember I'm going to Vegas!!! I'm not sure if the internet will work so I don't know if I'll be able to check your In My Mailbox! But I'm back Tuesday! so if you do not mind me checking you IMM until then, then feel free to leave me a link and I'll do my best to follow back!!! Have a nice Weekend everyone!

Follow Friday #11

Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee.

Follow Friday is asking: 

Name 3 authors that you would love to sit down and spend an hour or a meal with just talking about either their books or get advice on writing from?

Well, the first person that came to my mind was Tabitha Suzuma. Her book Forbidden was just so Amazing, I think I'd definitely like to meet her up for coffee, I'd as so many question that it would probably take a whole day to answer ^^

also Sarah Dessen, but I think I'd need Weeks to talk with her, all her books, everything, it would be just WOW!

and Jennifer Echols. her books are amazing, I would love to sit and talk with her about her books! her writing style is amazing and her characters jump of the page! I also love how she can entwine the beautiful romance with drama and deep situations :))

This was all for Blessed Fridays, Thank You For following ;)

Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Date Released: March 2nd 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins  
Pages: 470 pages
Format: Hardcover
Source: Borders

Summary:

What if you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?

Samantha Kingston has it all: the world's most crush-worthy boyfriend, three amazing best friends, and first pick of everything at Thomas Jefferson High—from the best table in the cafeteria to the choicest parking spot. Friday, February 12, should be just another day in her charmed life.

Instead, it turns out to be her last.

Then she gets a second chance. Seven chances, in fact. Reliving her last day during one miraculous week, she will untangle the mystery surrounding her death—and discover the true value of everything she is in danger of losing.

From Goodreads

My Review:

I remember when I finished this book, I was sitting in my bed, hugging my knees to my chest, completely lost in thought, not really in shock but my mind was definitely working full speed.

I didn’t felt heartbroken with this book, I knew what I was getting into, the summary says it all, also the fact that his is sort of a known subject, there are movies with these theme, like the one with Sandra Bullock – Can’t remember the name of the movie – What made this book so great are the characters and the situations Sam – Main Character – is into. She’s what you’d call a Mean Girl, ok, I’ll say it: A Bitch. She dies. But she also gets a second chance. A few actually, so as soon as she understands this she sets of to make everything in her life right.

A friend of mine found the process of waking up again in the same day and stuff to be to tedious for her and barely managed to finish, I never found it tedious. I was anxious with every upcoming day to see what she would change, what truths where left to unravel and which ones was she willing to take to the grave. I was literary grasping the book as I read, it actually managed to survive just because it’s a hardcover, still, you can notice I was on edge.

It does not have a Happy Ending, neither a Sad one, it’s just an Ending. Lauren Oliver definitely did a great job and I have become one of her fans. You’ll have no other reason but to Fall… for this book <3

A Really Good Book!

"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know."

Publish Post

Tweet Review

I was anxious with every upcoming day in her life to see what she would change, what truths where left to unravel and which ones was she willing to take to the grave. I was literary grasping the book as I read

Between Updates

Two More Books Have Been Added to My 18th B-day Giveaway List!

I wasn't going to add Starstruck because I was planning on buying it as soon as it came out but I can't find it! no bookstore has it! so something tells me I'll have to order it, so in case the winner wants it I'll also ordered it there. Still, I'm pissed off, I want that book sooooo bad! >.<

and Tomorrow comes my Before I Fall Review, Sneak Peek:

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Sneak Peek Review

I was anxious with every upcoming day in her life to see what she would change, what truths where left to unravel and which ones was she willing to take to the grave. I was literary grasping the book as I read.
 

You’ll have no other reason but to Fall… for this book <3

And This are The Upcoming Reviews For Next Week [In that Order]:

I'm not sure if I'll be around next week 'cause I'm of to Vegas!!! :DDD!!!! But I will leave Scheduled Post so everything should go alright, if I have Wi-fi and it actually works then I'll definitely be around ;) 

The Host - Stephanie Meyer

The Host by Stephanie Meyer

Date Released: May 6th 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 619 pages
Date Read: 2 years ago
Format: Hardcover
Source: Walmart........

Summary:

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact and continue their lives apparently unchanged. Most of humanity has succumbed.
When Melanie, one of the few remaining "wild" humans, is captured, she is certain it is her end. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, was warned about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the glut of senses, the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.
Wanderer probes Melanie's thoughts, hoping to discover the whereabouts of the remaining human resistance. Instead, Melanie fills Wanderer's mind with visions of the man Melanie loves - Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she has been tasked with exposing. When outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off on a dangerous and uncertain search for the man they both love.

From Goodreads

My Review:

I had to re-read the 1st chapter like 5 times, and still I didn’t understood. Halfway around the book I went back and re-read it again and I was like: OoOh!! Duh. When I tried to explain what the story was about to someone I always ended up saying a lot of nonsense and never actually saying what the book was about, because, honestly it’s a complicated storyline; which is part of why I loved it so much, I was able to dive into the story and I never lost track of things or was like ‘whaaaaat?’ Well, aside from Chapter 1 at least ^^

I also think that this books has a lot of important lessons and meaning. Though I’m the kind of girl that thinks all books have layers and hidden messages, even when my mom tells me I need to go get groceries I think there’s this life changing meaning behind her words; so no big surprise to find meaning behind Meyer’s words, but this is one of the best plots I’ve read and that has lots of meaning ;)

BUT, yeah, there’s always a but. The But here is this: The Characters. They were not flat, not boring, not unlikable or unrelatable. Then what’s the problem? Lack of creativity. They seemed to come straight out of Twilight. Wanda – Bella. Melanie – Rosalie. Jared – Edward. Jamie –Jacob. And so on a Lot of the characters resembled the one’s in Twilight, it’s like Meyer thought about a whole new plot and used all of her creativity in it that she had no time or imagination left for more original characters :/

All in all it was a great story, I don’t know if I like it more than Twilight to be honest, I read both a while back so I’m not sure, maybe if you count both books [Twilight and The Host] as stand-alone books I’ll go for Twilight, though counting Twilight for what it is – A Series – I would go for The Host. The Host is also going to be a series but, its been 4 years since the host came out and Meyer hasn’t given updates on the sequel. Only Alice knows when she’ll publish it.

A Really Good Book :) Oh! and My FAVORITE part is: Chapter56. Page 570. Heartbreaking and just... Sigh

  "It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful."

Tweet Review

A Really Good Book. One of the best plots I’ve read and with lots of meaning. Meyer's piece will not disappoint. 

Waiting on Wednesday #4

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine.

Audition

When high school junior Sara wins a coveted scholarship to study ballet, she must sacrifice everything for her new life as a professional dancer-in-training. Living in a strange city with a host family, she's deeply lonely-until she falls into the arms of Remington, a choreographer in his early twenties. 

At first, she loves being Rem's muse, but as she discovers a surprising passion for writing, she begins to question whether she's chosen the right path. Is Rem using her, or is it the other way around? And is dancing still her dream, or does she need something more? 

This debut novel in verse is as intense and romantic as it is eloquent.

Title: Audition
Author: Stasia Ward Kehoe
Release Date: October 13th 2011

I just discovered this book and I can't wait to get it! I love this kind of stories, or just about anything that has dancing, Like Center Stage... ♥ the story line sounds great and now I'm just counting the days until October.

*Sigh* I suck with Patience U_U