Book Lover's Review

Early in the mail today I got my iPad so over the next few days I will be reviewing the following devices:


iPad
Nook

And doing some comparison posting and such. So keep your eyes open, and if you have a favorite please let me know.

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 Morganville Vampires 1--Glass House by Rachel Caine

“I don’t care how old he is—he’s not tanning,” Shane said. “We wait for dawn, and then we get Claire and the book out of here.” (page 131)

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.