My Expanding Bookshelf

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish .  This week's topic is the top ten books featuring characters who BLANK .  It's been such a busy week that I haven't had time to think of a topic, so I'm just going to do one of the examples given.  So here is my top ten book characters who have lost someone at the start of/before the book/series.

  Thank you very much to All Write-y Then for nominating me! The Liebster award is a chain award that was created by bloggers and is a tradition to make new friends in the blogging community.

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: Stolen Series: Marty Keal Author: Dawn Kopman Whidden Published: 25/06/2014 Pages: 280 Source: Goodreads Group Read Format: Ebook  Rating: 4/5 Another homicide has rocked the small town of Fallsburg, BY. In a cabin nestled deep in the woods two male victims are discovered, both gunshot victims. One is deceased the other one is barely alive. But it is not the murder itself that has detectives Jean Whitley and her new partner Marty Keal frantic to find out the answers of what occurred in that cabin, but it is the identities of the two small children also found at the scene. One child is quickly identified but the other a young boy remains a mystery. The only one with possible answers lies with the man who lay critically wounded and unconscious in the hospital because the unidentified boy either can not or will not speak to tell the investigators who he is and what happened in that cabin that left one man dead and another barely hanging on...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish .  This week's topic is the top ten all time favourite authors.

So I saw this tag over at Asterick Pearl's Book Blog and after seeing it appear on a few other blogs I thought I'd give it a go.  This tag started of as a Youtube video at  The Book Life  so you should check that out also. For those of you who haven't heard of this tag, it's basically a list of Taylor Swift songs and your interpretation of the books that should go along with them.  Very fun! Let's get started! 1. We Are Never Getting Back Together A book/series you were sure you were in love with, then wanted to break up with. The Twilight series, Stephanie Meyer I absolutely loved Twilight back when I was around 15-18 years old.  Now I'm just a bit meh over the whole thing.  I doubt that will stop me reading it again, I just don't love it like I used to. 2. Red A book with a red cover. Girl of Nightmares (Anna #2), Kendare Blake Okay so not totally red... but still absolutely st...

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: All Is Bright - A Short Story Author: Sarah Pekkanen Published: 2010 Pages: 47 Source: Freebie from Amazon Format: Ebook Rating: 4/5 Thirty-year-old Elise Andrews couldn't bring herself to marry Griffin, her childhood friend turned sweetheart, so she let him walk away. Eight months after their breakup, she arrives in her hometown of Chicago on Christmas Eve and hears a voice from her past calling her name in the grocery store. It's Griffin's mother, Janice, who invites Elise over for a neighborhood gathering of eggnog and carols. Walking into Janice's house sends Elise tumbling headlong into memories of her relationship with Griffin - and with Janice, who exudes the kind of warmth Elise ached for after her own mom passed away when she was six. But Griffin has moved on, and suddenly Elise doubts her decision to give him up and lose her chance at being folded into his wonderful family. Confused and reeling, she goes in search of an answer to a universal qu...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish .  This week's topic is the top ten inspiring quotes from books.  Some of these aren't inspiring per se but that doesn't stop me loving them.

Title: The Tears of the Unicorns I - Temptation Series: The Tears of the Unicorns Author: Stephanie Rose Published: 2015 Pages: 167 Source: Review copy from author Format: Ebook Rating: 1.5/5 The angel Caylen is entrusted with guiding Eliya back on the path of light, but when his assignment is terminated she takes her life in despair. He cannot bear losing his charge, and desperately searches for a way to bring her back to life. That is when he stumbles upon the Holy Grail, which seems to show its amazing powers in combination with unicorn blood. Because of her gift for foreseeing the future, Miriel, the sister of Caylen, is sent to bring back the Grail which has been stolen by him. Sirion, a mage, is helping her with her task. An adventurous and dangerous journey begins, because there is much more at stake than at first seemed...

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: Into The Darkness Series: Darkness Falls Author: Kira Adams Published: 2014 Pages: 185 Source: Freebie via Amazon Format: Ebook Rating: 4/5 It was supposed to be a way to end the devastation in the Middle East, but instead a darkness has been unleashed unlike anything the world has ever seen. Ike Glass is well versed in chaos, but even he is unprepared for what the world will become after the outbreak. Ace Cullen has been loyal to his country ever since he was brought to the United States as a young boy, but it is difficult to stand by a country that can't even take responsibility for their ownactions. Phoenix Blue just wants a ight of mindless sex... is that too much to ask? Always a black sheep, she shocks everyone as she finds the strength inside herself to protect the ones she cares about and fight to see another day. They were strangers when the virus took over, but tradegy will bring them together in ways they never thought possible as they descend into the d...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish .  This week's topic is the top ten characters you'd like to check in with.  I really struggled with this one, my brain just went blank and I couldn't really think of anyone besides pretty obvious choices.

Title: Animal Farm Author: George Orwell Published: 2000 (originally 1945), Penguin Classics Pages: 120 Source: Library Format: Paperback Rating: 3/5 "It is the history of a revolutuon that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine," wrote ORwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remaied unpublished. Its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwel''s simple, tragic fable, telling what happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run the farm themselves, has since becomes a world famous classic.

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: The Seer Author: R.R. Sechi Published: 2014, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Pages: 126 Source: Goodreads First Reads Format: Paperback Rating: 1/5 Stacey Daley unexpectedly meets a handsome and mysterious stranger, who weems ton possess an incredible psychic ability to predict the future. However, before she realises it, he has gone. Instinctively, she feels an urge to fnd hime, so that she can discover more about his seemingly magical powers. Little does she know, but otheres are after him as well...

Books I have read this month (follow links to reviews): The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky The Book Thief, Markus Zusak The Princess Bride, William Goldman Safe, Dawn Husted Awaken (Abandon #3), Meg Cabot We Go Again, Michael Cargill Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies #1), Isaac Marion The Seer, R.R. Sechi Animal Farm, George Orwell