Top Ten Books I’ve Recently Added To My TBR We add like 10 books a day to our TBRs, right? Am I right?! I’m only going to mention books I’ve added to my physical TBR, which means I now own them and therefore have a far higher chance of reading them… someday. I’m posting my […]
Confessions of a Book Geek turns 1!
Guys and gals, I can’t believe I’m writing this post… but Confessions of a Book Geek has turned 1! Where has the year gone?! When I first started blogging, I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing (sometimes I feel like I still don’t) but I went with it, and I’m so glad I did. […]
My “Celeb” Personality Counterparts
Way back when Cait @ Paper Fury was still blogging as The Notebook Sisters she did a post about her Myers Briggs personality type. Being an avid psychology fan, and working in the corporate field for a good few years now, I’ve come across this before, and I’ve always found it to be ridiculously accurate. For anyone […]
Top Ten Tuesday – Books From My Childhood I’d Love to Revisit
Top Ten Books From My Childhood I’d Love To Revisit I constantly struggle with the urge to reread – I want to do it SO much more than I do, but with so many new reads building up on my TBR, I rarely get the chance. I’m signed up to the 2015 Reread Challenge, and […]
Review: The DUFF
17 year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “Duffy,” she throws her Coke in his face.
But things aren’t so great at home right now. Desperate for a distraction, Bianca ends up kissing Wesley. And likes it. Eager for escape, she throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with Wesley. Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out that Wesley isn’t such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she’s falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone.
2* Read!
Review: Dumped – Stories of Women Unfriending Women
Being dumped by a woman-friend is excruciating: you expect romantic relationships to break up eventually but you don’t expect it from your friendships. And when it happens, you feel as though there should be an Adele song for you but there isn’t. Dumped: Women Unfriending Women fills that void, exploring the universal experience of being discarded by those from whom you expected more. The essays in Dumped aren’t stories of friendship dying a mutually agreed upon death, or of falling out of touch and reconnecting years later to find you haven’t missed a beat. These are stories by established and emerging authors who, like you, may have found themselves erased, without context. These, like your own, are stories that stay with you, maybe for a lifetime.
4* Read!
What is the POINT of pre-ordering?!?
Here’s the backstory – I hadn’t pre-ordered a book for years until I got back into reading again in 2012. I read and loved Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth, and was lucky to have found the series just before the release of the third and final book, Allegiant. I was so excited that books […]
Top Ten Tuesday – Books on My Spring TBR
Top Ten Books on My Spring TBR Pile It can’t be that time of year again?! I missed last week’s TTT for the first time in a year. I was so busy with work, and thought I’d post late, but it dragged on for that long that I abandoned any hope of getting it up before […]
Review: Breathe, Annie, Breathe
Annie hates running. No matter how far she jogs, she can’t escape the guilt that if she hadn’t broken up with Kyle, he might still be alive. So to honour his memory, she starts preparing for the marathon he intended to race.
But the training is even more gruelling than Annie could have imagined. Despite her coaching, she’s at war with her body, her mind—and her heart. With every mile that athletic Jeremiah cheers her on, she grows more conflicted. She wants to run into his arms…and sprint in the opposite direction. For Annie, opening up to love again may be even more of a challenge than crossing the finish line.
3.5* Read!
Babes and Books Review: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Four minutes changes everything. Hadley Sullivan misses her flight at JFK airport, is late to her father’s second wedding in London with her never-met stepmother. Hadley meets the perfect boy. Oliver is British, sits in her row. A long night on the plane passes in a blink, but the two lose track in arrival chaos. Can fate bring them together again?
3* Read!
Review: Losing Hope
In Hopeless, Sky left no secret unearthed, no feeling unshared, and no memory forgotten, but Holder’s past remained a mystery.
Still haunted by the little girl he let walk away, Holder has spent his entire life searching for her in an attempt to finally rid himself of the crushing guilt he has felt for years. But he could not have anticipated that the moment they reconnect, even greater remorse would overwhelm him…
4* Read!
Review: Hopeless
Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies…
That’s what 17 year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past that she wishes could just stay buried.
4* Read!
The Ultimate Book Tag!
The fabulous Belinda @ Bookarahma tagged me to take part in The Ultimate Book Tag – this one looks fun! 1. Do you get sick while reading in the car? Now that I drive I don’t get the chance to find out that often, but from memory, my brain tricks me into thinking I can read […]
Review: The Fever
The Nashes are a close-knit family. Tom, a popular teacher, is father to the handsome, roguish Eli and his younger sister Deenie, serious and sweet. But their seeming stability is thrown into chaos when two of Deenie’s friends become violently ill, and rumours of a dangerous outbreak sweep through the whole community.
As hysteria swells and as more girls succumb, tightly held secrets emerge that threaten to unravel the world Tom has built for his kids, and destroy friendships, families, and the town’s fragile idea of security. The Fever is a chilling story about guilt, family secrets, and the lethal power of desire.
2.5* Read!
Top Ten Tuesday – My All Time Favourite Reads!
Top Ten All Time Favourite Reads! This week’s topic is just cruel, CRUEL I tell you! I could ramble on about my favourite reads for quite a while (I’m sure we all could) but how do we just pick ten?! I’m going to try and categorise this one somehow so I don’t become a quivering mess […]
Last List Blog Hop: Interview with Bree Despain & Giveaway!
Cuddlebuggery have created a Last List Blog Hop to help authors who were previously signed with Egmont find new homes and promote their books. As soon as I spotted their post I signed up, hoping to help. I was paired with Bree Despain, author of The Dark Divine series and the Into The Dark series, and I got to ask her some questions.
Don’t forget to enter the giveaway to win a signed copy of Shadow Prince!
Confessions of a Book Geek 