Always Me

❋  ❋  ❋  ❋ Frost knows full well why she's spent her entire life cramped in a tiny apartment and why she's never met another human aside from her father. She even understands why he expressly forbids her to go out and find medicine for her dying pet. After all, their city is a ruined wasteland and is a hunting ground for Eaters and robots gone rogue - any other human caught outside is fair game. But, her father isn't exactly her father, not anymore. Technically, his memories are giving the orders from their old robot servant that he uploaded his consciousness into as he was dying - and now that tech is malfunctioning so sometimes her father fades away and the robot's personality rises back to the surface. When Frost learns that there may be medicine across the city that could save her pet, she's willing to do anything she can to rescue the only living thing in her life. Hopefully, her first journey outside of books and windows won't be her only journey. F...

Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to Music Monday! Let's share some songs we've been enjoying lately!  If you would like to play and I really hope you do, please see the rules and link up below. Rules: Every Monday share one or two of songs you've been enjoying lately.  It doesn't have to be a specific genre, new, or one of your favorites - just something you'd like to share with others.  If possible, share a music or lyric video of the song and your thoughts on the song(s), artist(s), and/or music video(s). If you would like to participate in Music Monday, please join the link up by sharing your post's url. This week I'm sharing a couple of classic Christmas songs performed by Gene Autry - these two are my favorite covers of each respective tune.  Both of these were staples during my elementary school's yearly Christmas program! "Up On A House Top" (1953) - This song was originally written in 1864 by Benjamin Hanby, a fellow ...

Happy Sunday everyone!  This weekend I have quite a surprise for you all - I'm hosting a giveaway of the novel Redemption by Elora Mitchell .  I'll be giving away two copies - a print copy for my US readers and an e-copy (Kindle, ePub, and PDF) for my international readers!  Thanks so much to the author, Elora Mitchell, for making all of this possible! I really lucked out when I myself just happened to win an e-copy of Redemption  during a Facebook contest earlier this year.  Here's the official Goodreads synopsis of the newly revised (November 2016) edition that will be given away: Torn apart by war, the world is working to rebuild itself—one city at a time, each vying for power over the other. At least that’s how seventeen-year-old Agent 093762 sees it. To help her city, she signs up for a covert mission, one that takes her far from the comfort—and safety—she’s used to. It’s a simple mission, one that’s supposed to take her team in and out of ene...

❋  ❋  ❋  ❋   ❋ Maddy survived WWI in Germany and the Spanish Flu, but she has changed. She knows the true meaning of horror - she remembers waking up in a grave, her mother performing a strange ritual, blood, and fever. Although she's changed, she can no longer physically change - she doesn't eat, sleep, or age, and she can no longer die; she is now immortal. Stunning audiences as a street performer with crazy stunts that push normal human limits, she finally finds her calling in the burgeoning film industry of Berlin ( The Cabinet of Dr. Calligari ). She practically invents the modern horror genre with her intimate knowledge of fear and death. Soon Maddy finds herself working in Hollywood as the secret genius behind classics like Dracula , The Phantom of the Opera , and Frankenstein . Only the Dead Know Burbank by Bradford Tatum is a very well-researched dark and gritty horror, historical-fantasy novel. I found myself absolutely hooked right from page one...

Welcome to The Friday 56, a weekly meme hosted by  Freda's Voice . These are the rules: 1. Grab a book, any book. 2. Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader. 3. Find any sentence (or a few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you. 4. Post it. 5. Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post. I'm also taking part in Book Beginnings, a weekly meme hosted by  Rose City Reader .  The rules are pretty simple - you share the first sentence or so and your initial thoughts, impressions, or whatever else it inspires.  Don't forget to link up your post's url with Rose City Reader. This week I'm spotlighting my current read, A Criminal Magic by Lee Kelly .  I've just started it and I'm really excited by the premise.  It's set in an alternate Prohibition era, but instead of illegal alcohol it features illegal magic.  Essentially, it's been billed as The Night Circus  by Erin Morgenstern meets Peaky Blin...

Happy Tuesday and welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and the Bookish !  This weeks topic is Books I'm Looking Forward To For The First Half Of 2017.  These are my most anticipated upcoming releases through March with a bonus book from April.  Here we go, in order of release date: Carve the Mark  ( Untitled Duology #1) by Veronica Roth - Release Date: January 17th Caraval ( Untitled #1) by Stephanie Garber - Release Date; January 31st The Dark Days Pact ( Lady Helen #2) by Alison Goodman - Release Date: January 31st The Valiant by Lesley Livingston - Release Date: Febuary 14th A Conguring of Light  ( Shades of Magic #3) by V.E. Schwab - Release Date: Feburary 21st The Ship Beyond Time  ( The Girl From Everywhere  #2) by Heidi Heilig - Release Date: February 28th The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - Release Date: Feburary 28th Future Threat ( Future Shock #1)   by...

Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to Music Monday! Let's share some songs we've been enjoying lately!  If you would like to play and I really hope you do, please see the rules and link up below. Rules: Every Monday share one or two of songs you've been enjoying lately.  It doesn't have to be a specific genre, new, or one of your favorites - just something you'd like to share with others.  If possible, share a music or lyric video of the song and your thoughts on the song(s), artist(s), and/or music video(s). If you would like to participate in Music Monday, please join the link up by sharing your post's url. In honor of the holiday season, this week I'm sharing some Christmas songs I grew up with that I still love.  My dad had Twelve Days of Christmas  album by Jim Reeves from 1963 and when I was little I listened to it all the time.  Of the twelve tracks, my two favorites were (and still are) "The Merry Christmas Polka" and "S...