Always Me

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 featuring one of my current reads, Heartless by Marissa Meyer , which is my second book for Summer 2017 Bookish Bingo - it will fulfill the Royalty square.  I'm really looking forward to trying out something new by Marissa Meyer since The Lunar Chronicles is an all-time favorite series.  To help me decide what to read ne...

Happy Tuesday and welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and the Bookish !  This week's topic is Series I've Been Meaning To Start But Haven't.  Here we go in order of series title: Delirium by Lauren Oliver - 3 books The First Law by Joe Abercrombie - 3 books, and 3 stand alone books in the same world Graceling Realm  by Kristin Cashore - 3 books His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman - 3 books Inkworld  by Cornelia Funke - 3 books Kate Daniels by Ilona Andrews  - 9 books (so far) The King Killer Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss - 2 books (so far) and a novella Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson - 6 books (so far) Red Rising by Pierce Brown - 3 books Song of the Lioness  by Tamora Pierce - 4 books Have you started and/ or read any of these series?  If so did you enjoy them - which would you recommend first?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog...

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 a few 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. I'm getting a bit nostalgic this week with Ryan Cabrera .  He got a lot of radio time back when I was in high school, and I have to admit that his music was pretty addicting - particularly those two singles (you've probably heard them) "On the Way Down" (2004) and "True" (2005) .  Anyway, within the last few weeks I'v...

❋  ❋  ❋  ❋   ❋ Starr Carter has struck up an uneasy balance between two worlds - the poor neighborhood she lives in and the elite prep school she attends. One night, though, that uneasy balance is irrevocably shattered when she witnesses the shooting of Khalil, a childhood best friend, at the hands of a police officer. Khalil's death makes national news soon after and many are calling him a thug, a drug dealer, and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets to find justice for Khalil. Some police officers and drug lords try to intimidate Starr and her family. Everyone wants to know one thing that only Starr can answer: What really happened that night? The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is an absolute must-read. It's a truly stunning debut that truly lives up to the hype surrounding it. Not only is it an incredibly well-written novel filled with characters who could walk right off the page, it's also extremely important as it realistically handles the com...

I spotted this tag over at Erica Robyn Reads  (created by ReadorRot ) and I tagged myself.  It's looks like it's going to be fun!  Here we go: 1. Name a cartoon that you love. Danny Phantom - Recently I was poking around on Pinterest and saw a pin about the show - totally reminded me of how much I loved it!  I wouldn't mind if it made a come back! 2. What is your favorite song right now? There are too many!  My Music Monday posts should give you a pretty good idea of some of my favorites! 3. What could you do for hours that isn't reading? I absolutely love going on bike rides - I could do that for hours!  In fact, I did it for four hours (26.6 miles) on Thursday! 4. What is something you love to do that your followers would be surprised by? Finger knitting - I haven't done it in a little while, but it's kind of addicting. 5. What is your favorite unnecessarily specific thing to learn about? I love learning about women in...

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 one of my current reads, The Mists of Avalon  ( Avalon  #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley .  I've been told I need to read this classic Arthurian fantasy novel for ages and now that I'm taking part in Book Riot's 2017 Read Harder Challenge I've finally decided to tackle this huge epic novel.  Appropr...

❋  ❋  ❋ I received a free eARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Sam's finally starting to get her life under control in her junior year of high school, after all she's finally been accepted to join the Sherpas, the most popular girls in school. Her best friend, Madison, who put in a good word to get her into the Sherpas in the first place, has made it her mission to find a boyfriend for Sam. Things get complicated when Sam realizes that her new boyfriend, Zach, grew up Amish has chosen not to end his Rumspringa possibly bringing complete shunning from his family. Of course, Sam's friends can't help but torment her about all of this. Sam's carefully constructed world begins to collapse due to cyberbullying, never coming to terms with her parents' divorce, and Zach's apparent return to the Amish community. As a result she return to her old shoplifting habits. I mean, does she even want friends like the Sherpas anymore and will Zach find ...