Book Lover's Review

I purchased two new books I will be hoping to review as soon as I read them.

I had two contest running and they are now over and the two winners are...

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The question today is Which fictional character (or group of characters) would you like to spend a day at the beach with? Why would he/she/they make good beach buddies?

I think for beach buddies Derek from Awakening as he would be the one to keep all the meanies at bay and he wouldn't have to talk alot just be intimidating.  I would also take the girls from The Saving Graces as who could go anywhere without some good girlfriends to talk and gossip.  Those are my answers on the topic.

Who would you choose?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Mine is from All I Ever Wanted by Kristan Higgins

What's an honor? Noah spat "And what are you doing with my grandaughter here?  You're not sleeping with her, are you?  (Page 165)

I am currently reading:
All I Ever Wanted by Kristan Higgins
The Thyssen Affair by Mozelle Richardson

I am about to read:
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
House Rules by Jodi Picoult

What do you do when you want to get rid of your books, or you have too many that you just won't read again?

Well I came across this site which is working for me.  It works on a point system you put up your books and you can choose whether or not, when a request comes in to allow or reject a request.  You gain a point when you accept a offer.  Then you ship the book to them.  Then when you want a book you look it up and it costs you 1 point for each book.  Mind you the shipping is on you but in all reality it's not so much.  So today I was able to go through and request 5 books, not too bad if I do say so myself.  So here's the link for the site.  It's called BookMooch.  I really like it.

So I guess the question here is when you want to widdle some books down how do you do it?  And where do you send them?

This story follows young Peter van Pels as he was along with his parents forced to go into hiding, in the famous Annex that Anne Frank wrote about in her diary (aka Kitty). While she wrote about the silence that they endured Peter's story is about how he felt. It started out when he went to a friends house Liese and watched as she was carted off to the death camps. Even though Peter was silent in the majority of Anne's story it is interesting to see what he thinks, how God deserted them while in the Annex. How Peter wanted to be a man, to build things out of wood, make love to a girl. How their future was undefined.

The writer did a great job at telling such a sad story. We all know the outcome for the future 8, and that in the end the one left was Otto Frank to tell his daughter's story. How Anne asked Peter "Would anyone ever know about them, or their story?" How a boy who hated Anne Frank so much came in the end to fall in love with her.

I know in this day and age alot of people have trouble still to this day with the what the German's did but if one can read Anne's diary one should definitely try to read Peter's story. It gives you a different spin on what was happening. How he wanted to beat up the German's.

At one point Peter thinks he just wants to be a man, not even saying he's Jewish. In the beginning of the book he went out walking with out his sticker on his sleeve and how people treated him differently. They treated him like he was normal and not Jewish.

Once they were caught the story went beyond the Diary to talk about what it was like in the camps that more than likely Peter survived a long time, 6 months longer than his father and a few days longer than his mother. That when the German's marched him on a death march, to wear his body down hoping he would die. He died at age 19.

This story was very well told, makes you feel bad for those who went hiding but good to know their story was told. I would recommend this story to others.

This book was sent to me via NetGalley for a honest and fair review

 What is the most bizarre book that you have read? That you often wonder why you are keeping up with it?

 Mine was The Time Traveler's Wife.  That book was all over the place.  Forward, backward every which way in between.

check out the newest contest for a copy of Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson.  This contest lasts one week.  For UK and USA so enjoy :)



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Nancy Thayer has taken the time to stop by CMash's blog as part of her blog tour check it out right now!

CMash's Blog

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Information about the Book Blogger Hop:

Directly from Crazy for Books:ABOUT THE HOP:

In the spirit of the Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new blogs that we may be missing out on! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list below!!

Tell me about the book you are currently reading!

My bf just handed me a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King.  Talk about an old edition.  A second edition 1965...I wasn't even alive when this was out it's 10 years older than me, wow.  So the question today is

My first giveaway (YEA!) I have a hardbound copy of Witch and Wizard by James Patterson to giveaway.

The rules are very easy.  Just reply under comments with a email I can notify you of if you win and become a follower :)

 This contest will run 1 week (July 29th), then the winner will be contacted.

James Patterson has really hit on something when he wrote the book witch and wizard which follows Wisty and Whit Allgood.  They lead what they thought was a normal life until one day they are arrested in the middle of the night for practicing witchcraft.  Which in itself makes you wonder when that happened as they don't even know they have powers.  Then it is a fight to stay alive.  I really enjoyed this book, I wouldn't have even thought of it as a young adult book until you realize that the two main characters are teenagers. I can't wait to see what James Patterson does when he puts out Book 2 on this series.

This contest is open to the USA and UK

Today's question:
Do you ever listen to book-related podcasts?

If so, which ones and why? (Include the URLs for people who aren’t familiar with them.)
My answer:

This is your chance to share with me hot books that you want me to review so share your titles, and maybe I'll even add a few of my own...Let's see what you've got!

This meme was started by Savannah at Books with Bite you can check it out here

Hell on earth.

That’s what it’s like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel.
It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts—immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.

At Shoreline, Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows to her previous lives. Yet the more Luce learns, the more she suspects that Daniel hasn’t told her everything. He’s hiding something—something dangerous.
What if Daniel’s version of the past isn’t actually true? What if Luce is really meant to be with someone else?

The second novel in the addictive FALLEN series . . . where love never dies.

This is hosted from should be reading the premise is simple answer the following questions

In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter’s point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling in love with her? Especially with your parents and her parents all watching almost everything you do together. To know you’re being written about in Anne’s diary, day after day? What’s it like to start questioning your religion, wondering why simply being Jewish inspires such

hatred and persecution? Or to just sit and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting.

So far the story is very powerful, to see it through a young man's perspective. As he witnessed his friend Leise get carted off to the death camps, as the Jewish frequently called them. Then to be shut in the Annex with this annoying young girl, driving him insane. It is a very powerful look at what he went through.

*This story I got via the publisher for a honest and fair review 

I am wishing to read CRESCENDO by Becca Fitzpatrick it looks like a good series.