I did it! I met my 50 books in one year goal. I thought I was under, but I rechecked and found 2 books that I forgot to put in (The Summoning and Found) and decided since I put the work into reading my text books for class that they should count…unless I miscounted, which [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

The Library called again, another book for me to pick up, yesterday I picked up three, and I renewed another, pretty soon my collection of books from the Library will  topple off my book shelf and kill me in my sleep. Fitting way to go, as I am a librarian :)
BUT before I can dive [...]

My father works for the State, as a Supervisor for Blindness and Visual Services, and one of the lady’s he supervises was driving elsewhere in the state with a contracted engineer and to pass the time the Gentleman was telling her about his son. Since he was three years old he has had a purpose [...]

I had a blast at Book Expo today. if you follow me on twitter, are a facebook or LJ friend, or just know me in person, this will not shock you, but for any reader’s who don’t know me, I am naturally a nervous wreck, especially when the situation involves planning, or decisions. It [...]