My Expanding Bookshelf

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% January - 57% February - 57% March - 52% (This better start going up real soon!) April - 54% May - 56%  June - 54% July - 54% August - 56% Read 20 physical books I already owned prior to 1st January January - 2 February - 4 March - 8 April - 9 May - 10 June - 10 July - 12 August - 14 Reread 5 books January - 0 February - 2 March - 2 April - 3 May - 4 June - 4 July - 4 August - 5 Finish 6 series January - Finished/Up-to-date = 2 February - Finished/Up-to-date = 3 March - Finished/Up-to-date = 4 April - Finished/Up-to-date = 4 May - Finished/Up-to-date ...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is a back to school freebie. So I'm choosing books that would be on my classroom shelf if I was a teacher.

Title: Asking For It Author: Louise O'Neill Published: 14/07/2016, riverrun Pages: 344 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 4.5/5 FROM THE WINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER AWARD OF THE YEAR. It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma. The next morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. She can't remember what happened, she doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why she's in pain. But everyone else does. Photographs taken at the party show, in explicit detail, what happened to Emma that night. But sometimes people don't want to believe what is right in front of them, especially when the truth concerns the town's heroes...

Title: The Flame Never Dies Series: The Stars Never Rise #2 Author: Rachel Vincent Published: 16/08/2016, MIRA Ink Pages: 352 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 4/5 ONE SPARK WILL RISE Nina Kane was born to be an exorcist. And since uncovering the horrifying truth - that the war against demons is far from over - seventeen-year-old Nina and her pregnant sister, Mellie, have been on the run, incinerating the remains of the demon horde as they go. In the badlands, Nina, Mellie and Finn, the fugitive and rogue exorcist who saved her life, find allies in a group of freedom fighters. They also face a new threat: Pandemonia, a city full of demons. But this fresh new hell is the least of Nina's worries. The well of souls ran dry more than a century ago, drained by the demons secretly living among humans, and without a donor soul, Mellie's child will die within hours of its birth.  Nina isn't about to let that happen... even if it means she has to make the ultimate s...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is ten books that have been on my bookshelves since before I started blogging. Now, there's A LOT more than ten but I'm definitely just going to limit myself because I'd be here all day otherwise.

Title: Buster: The Dog Who Saved a Thousand Lives Author: Will Barrow, Isabel George Published: 15/01/2015, Virgin Books Pages: 256 Source: Bought Format: Hardback Rating: 3/5 Thousands of lives have been saved by this spaniel. He is a best friend in dog's clothing. An RAF dog with his mossy feet firmly on the ground. A brave dog who has served his colleagues and his country with unstinting devotion. A dog in a million. This is the true story of the partnership of Buster and Will, told by Will himself, describing how each came to save the other's life. This is a relationship that produced some heroic feats - and the most decorated dog in military history. With some dogs you share a boil in the bag breakfast and maybe a blanket on a cold desert floor. Some you wouldn't leave in charge of your Grandma unless you wanted to find out just how fast the old girl could run. But, if you're very, very lucky there will be the one dog you would lay down your life for - an...

Title: Nevernight Series: The Nevernight Chronicle #1 Author: Jay Kristoff Published: 11/08/2016, Harper Voyager Pages: 643 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 4/5 Destined to destroy empires, Mia Covere is only ten years old when she is given her first lesson in death.  Six years later, the child raised in shadows takes her first steps towards keeping the promise she made on the day she lost everything. But the chance to strike against such powerful enemies will be fleeting, so if she is to have her revenge, Mia must become a weapon without equal. She must prove herself against the deadliest of friends and enemies, and survive the tutelage of murderers, liars and demons at the heart of a murder cult. The Red Church is no Hogwarts, but Mia is no ordinary student. The shadows love her. And they drink her fear.

I was so sure that I had done this tag before, but I haven't so I just have to complete it now! I wasn't tagged but I've seen this tag crop up on a few blogs recently including Brandie @ Brandie is a Book Junkie , Christina @ The Reading Queen  and Lexxie @ (Un)Conventional Book Views .

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is ten books with an X setting. I'm going to go for ten books with a war setting as this is completely different to anything I've done so far.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is Top Ten Tuesday rewind so go back and do a past topic you have missed. I've chosen a topic from way back in April 2014 and it is popular authors I haven't read (yet). These are all authors I definitely plan to read.

I've seen this tag around a few times recently, including on You, Me and a Cup of Tea and The Quiet People , and I've been meaning to complete it for ages so I thought now is as good a time as any. I've been blogging over a year now and thought this would be a great way for you guys to get to know me a bit better of course.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is ten books I'd buy right now if someone handed me a fully loaded gift card. And it's my birthday next week so with any luck I will be getting some gift cards!!

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.

Title: You Before Anyone Else Author: Julie Cross & Mark Perini Published: 02/08/2016, Sourcebooks Fire Pages: 400 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 3/5 Model Finley needs someone to help her shed her "good girl" persona, so she'll try Eddie on for size. New York City model Finley is fed up with hearing the same feedback at castings: she needs to take some serious action to wipe the "good girl" stamp from her resume if she wants to launch to stardom. Enter Eddie Wells. He's shallow, predictable... and just as lost as Finley feels. Deep down, Finley is drawn to Eddie's bravado, his intensity. Except Eddie is hiding something. A big something. And when it surfaces, both loving and leaving Finley will become so much harder.