August 31st, 2009 by
melis
I did pick up some books today, so I thought I’d show you all my goodies a la The Story Siren’s In My Mailbox meme.
I went to Barnes and Noble to celebrate my start of school, and used my teacher discount for the first time. I think they had to be for school books, but [...]
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August 18th, 2009 by
melis
Okay, yes, I have a thing for Faerie/Fairy Books, you can have your sparkly Vampires (Oh, I will finish the Twilight Series…um, someday, Book three keeps sitting there all big and filled with Sullen Cullen, but someday!) So I think I will be loving “Ballad” when it comes out. I know some of my BEA [...]
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August 15th, 2009 by
melis
Fun New Idea from: That’s a Novel Idea, It will work like this: Each Saturday You will post the answer to these questions. The number indicates the number of answers you will provide.
1 Book you read and/or reviewed this week
2 Words that describe the book
3 Settings it took place or characters you met
4 Things [...]
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August 13th, 2009 by
melis
Okay, are any of you following Alice Ripley’s Youtube account, because I really don’t know if she is trying to be funny, or actually having a mental breakdown:
Sometimes I watch it and I find it funny, and other times I watch and feel very frightened, like this Tony Winning Actress is going to crawl out [...]
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August 13th, 2009 by
melis
I put my name in several “hats” to win “Catching Fire” from the Book Blogging world, but alas it is not to be, I guess I should have taken the Friday off to go to BEA, or attacked Katie and Artuso and ran away with their copies :D I wouldn’t…well…probably not ;) but I am [...]
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August 12th, 2009 by
melis
The Library called I have three books to pick up, and two to return (I renewed then as to not be late today, I’m sneaky like that – one is done, just at my apartment, I still have to read “Chains” by Laurie Halse Anderson, but I’ll do it tonight in some nice airconditioned room [...]
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August 10th, 2009 by
melis
School starts in a week and a half, and I didn’t even put a dent in my Summer Reading, but this week I did but in some good effort, finishing three books, all YA, because this has become my Summer of YA I guess :P
Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner
(4.0) Solid YA fantasy, [...]
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August 1st, 2009 by
melis
Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
Prophecy of the Sisters from Vania S on Vimeo.
I feel rather special, as this book is being released in…oh -3mins, so I guess I’m early, haha. The Library called and I went to pick up four books this week, Michelle Zink’s Debut YA novel being one of them, I [...]
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