My Expanding Bookshelf

Title: Firsts Author: Laurie Elizabeth Flynn Published: 05/01/2016, St. Martin's Griffin Pages: 320 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 4/5 Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom, but only if the guy fulfills a specific criteria: he has to be a virgin. Mercedes lets the boys get their awkward, fumbling first times over with, and all she asks in return is that they give their girlfriends the perfect first time - the kind Mercedes never had herself. Keeping what goes on in her bedroom a secret has been easy - so far. Her absentee mother isn't home nearly enough to know about Mercedes' extracurricular activities, and her uber-religious best friend, Angela, won't even say the word "sex" until she gets married. But Mercedes doesn't bank on Angela's boyfriend finding out about her services and wanting a turn - or on Zach, who likes her for who she is instead of what she can do in bed. When Mercede...

The End of Year Book Survey was created by Jamie @ The Perpetual Page-Turner and I thought it would be a great way to recap my first year of blogging.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is my top ten most anticipated releases for the first half of 2016.

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly of  Caffeinated Book Reviewer . It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is the top ten books I wouldn't mind Santa leaving under my tree. Really I'd welcome all books under the tree but these are ones that I've seen around a lot or recently.

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly of  Caffeinated Book Reviewer . It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

As 2016 will be the first time I start the New year with a blog, I've decided to participate in a few challenges. The first Challenge I will be participating in is the 2016 Bookish Resolutions Challenge, hosted by Laura @ trips down imagination lane and Michelle @ Because Reading . The challenge runs from 1st January 2016 to 31st December 2016 and you can sign up here before 1st March 2016. My 2016 resolutions are: Bookish resolutions Get Netgalley ratio up to 80% Read 20 physical books I already owned prior to 1st January Reread 5 books Finish 6 series Reach my Goodreads goal this year (65 books) Blogging resolutions Finish updating all blog posts to current layout Visit 4 blogs a week (not including memes) Blog ahead - get to at least 6 weeks ahead Personal resolutions Start going to the gym again Start learning Spanish again The second challenge I will be participating in is the 2016 New Release Challenge hosted by Lexxie @ (Un)conventional...

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!

Title: Did I Mention I Love You? Author: Estelle Maskame Release Date: December 1, 2015 Publishers: Sourcebooks Fire "Love is everything but expected. Eden Munro came to California for a summer of sun, sand, and celebrities- what better way to forget about the drama back home? Until she meets her new family of strangers; a dad she hasn’t seen in three years, a stepmonster, and three stepbrothers. Eden gets her own room in her dad’s fancy house in Santa Monica. A room right next door to her oldest stepbrother. Tyler Bruce. Whom she cannot stand. He has angry blue eyes and an ego bigger than a Beverly Hills mansion. She’s never felt such intense dislike for someone. But the two are constantly thrown together as his group of friends pulls her into their world of rule-breaking, partying, and pier-hanging And the more she tries to understand what makes Tyler burn hotter than the California sun, the more Eden finds herself falling for the one person she shouldn’...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is the top ten books I read in 2015.

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly of  Caffeinated Book Reviewer . It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

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!

Title: A Christmas Carol Author: Charles Dickens Published: 17/05/2012 Pages: 112 Source: Amazon freebie Format: Ebook Rating: 3/5 Cruel miser Ebeneezer Scrooge has never met a shilling he doesn't like... and hardly a man he does. And he hates Christmas most of all. When Scrooge is visited by his old partner, Jacob Marley, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come, he learns eternal lessons of charity, kindness, and goodwill. Experience a true Victorian Christmas!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is a top ten new to me authors of 2015. I have read so many new to me authors this year and it's been brilliant! I'm not sure if I can limit this list to only 10!

I joined my first COYER last summer and had such great fun (and read so much) that I decided to return to COYER this winter. COYER (Clean Out Your E-reads) is hosted by Berls @ Fantasy is More Fun , Michelle @ Because Reading and Stormi @ Books, Movies, Reviews! Oh My! and is is a great way to get caught up on a massive TBR. It's Going Back to Basics this time around and only ebooks and audiobooks count and they must be free. The challenge runs from 19 December to 4 March. My Goals To read 15 ebooks This Is Where It Ends, Marieke Nijkamp The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey Learning to Live (Infinite Love #1), Kira Adams The Truth, Jeffry W. Johnston When Everything Feels Like the Movies, Raziel Reid Red Queen (Red Queen #1), Victoria Aveyard The V Girl, Mya Robarts Did I Mention I Need You (The DIMILY Trilogy #2), Estelle Maskame Crossing the Ice (Ice #1), Jennifer Comeaux To increase my Netgalley ratio by 10...

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly of  Caffeinated Book Reviewer . It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

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!

Title: Without You Author: Lindsay Detwiler Published: 01/12/2015, Limitless Publishing Pages: 222 Source: Review request from Lindsay Detwiler Format: Ebook Rating: 4/5 On the surface, Jenna Landsen has it all... She's smart, beautiful, confident, and married to Camden Landsen, who happens to be drop dead sexy and just as successful. But after five long years, all the success in the world hasn't brought the romantic spark back into her marriage. Jenna fears it never will. When life gives you lemons, open a bakery and name it Vi's... Violet Streiff made the exact mistake her mother warned against - she fell in love with Liam Coffman, a charming finance major. When he left her heartbroken to further his career, Violet drowned her sorrows by opening a bakery, and now relies on Bob, her eighteen-poind cat for warmth at night instead of a sexy man. To find love, sometimes you first have to discover yourself… When Jenna’s job offers an extended trip to New York, she pa...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic the top ten debut novels I'm looking forward to in 2016. Once again, I don't have many on my list this week as I've decided to focus on all the books I've already got at home in 2016. Not sure if this will work, but I'm giving it a go.