My Expanding Bookshelf

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of  Parajunkee’s View  and Alison of  Alison Can Read . Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it’ll allow us to show off more new blogs! I'm one of the featured blogs this week! Along with Amanda of  The Darling Bookworm . This week’s Question: How many books have you got on your TBR list? I recently had a bit of a cull of my TBR list so now it is sitting at 269. I'm trying my hardest to get it below 200 by the end of the year but I really don't see it happening. I'd currently be happy if I managed to get it below 225. However, I did recently have a look through my TBR on Goodreads and deleted a few books that I don't think I will actually ever read - I'm not even to sure how they got there anyway. Follow me via  Goodreads ,  Facebook ,  Bloglovin  and  Pinterest  and also via email to myexpandingbookshelf@gmail.com.  Feel fre...

Title: Woman of the Dead Series: Blum Trilogy #1 Author: Bernhard Aichner Published: 12 April 2015 (originally 14 October 2014), Orion Publishing Ltd Pages: 258 Source: Goodreads Firstreads Format: Hardback Rating: 4/5 How far would you go to avenge the one you love? Blum has a secret buried deep in her past. She thought she'd left the past behind. But then Mark, the man she loves, dies. His death looks like a hit-and-run. It isn't a hit and run. Mark was killed by the men he was investigating. And then, suddenly, Blum rediscovers what she's capable of... Kill Bill meets Dexter via The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Woman of the Dead is a wild ride of a thriller where the first stage of grief is revenge. And revenge is a dish best served bloody.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is top ten great beach/summer reads. I will read anything at any time of the year and I haven't been near a beach in six years so I'm just going to make a top ten of books I plan to read in the next month or so. Of course, there is a high probability that his may change slightly.

Thanks so much to Emma @ The Book Brief for nominating me for this award.  I was nominated back in April but I completely forgot about it until last week, so it's safe to say it has taken me a while to get this up. The Rules: Nominate 15-20 blogs and notify all nominees via their social media/blogs Thank and post the link of the blog that nominated you (very important) Share 5 facts about yourself to your readers Pass these rules on to them The Nominees (I've only put 5 as I've been nominated for a few awards and don't want to keep nominating the same people over and over): Ranu @ The Bookish Life Kristine & Terri@ Twin Spin Aditi @Book Stop Corner Andrea @ Mountain Rhinestones Silvy @ Books Are My Life The Facts: I’m a bit OCD when it comes to keeping organised. My books, DVDs, CDs, etc are all in alpabetical order. My clothes are organised by type and then colour, i.e. all my skirts are together and then all my blue skirt...

Book Beginnings is a meme hosted every Friday by  Rose City Reader  where you share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.  Please remember to include the title of the book and the author’s name.

Title: '89 Walls Author: Katie Pierson Published: 5 June 2015, Wise Ink Source: Netgalley and Wise Ink Format: Ebook Rating: 3.5/5 College is not on the cards for Seth. He spends his minimum wage on groceries and fake happiness to distract his mom from the MS they both know will kill her. It's agony to carry around a frayed loved note for a girl who's both out of his league and beneath his dignity. Quinn's finishing high school on top. But that cynical, liberal guy in her social studies class makes her old assumptions. Challenging the rules, though, would a) squander her last summer at home, b) antagonize her conservative dad, and c) make her a hypocrite. Seth and Quinn's passionate new romance takes them both by surprise. They keep it a secret: it's too early to make plans and too late not to care. But it's 1989. As politics suddenly gets personal, they find themselves fighting bare-fisted for their beliefs - and each other - in the clear light of d...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish .  This week's topic is  freebie.  Therefore, my topic is the top ten books I own a physical copy of but haven't read yet.