My Expanding Bookshelf

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic all about visuals. So this includes graphic novels, comics and picture books. I haven't read any graphic novels or comics, so recommendations would be great here. So this week, I'm going to list the picture books I own. It's going to be a short one!

Title: Unf*ck Your Habitat - You're Better Than Your Mess Author: Rachel Hoffman Published: 03/01/2017, St Martins Griffin Pages: 222 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 4/5 Finally, a housekeeping and organizational system developed for those of us who'd describe our current living situation as a "f*cking mess" that we're desperate to fix. Unf*ck Your Habitat is for anyone that has been left behind by traditional aspirational systems. The ones that ignore single people with full-time jobs; people without kids but living with roommates; and people with mental illnesses or physical limitations. Most organizational books are aimed at traditional homemakers, DIYers, and people who seem to have unimaginable amounts of free time. They assume we all iron our sheets, have linen napkins to match our table runners, and can keep plants alive for longer than a week. Basically, they ignore most of us living here in the real world. Interspersed with lists and cha...

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Title: Odd and the Frost Giants Author: Neil Gaiman Published: 22/09/2009, HarperCollins Pages: 128 Source: Gift Format: Ebook Rating: 4/5 In this inventive, short, yet perfectly formed novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman takes readers on a wild and magical trip to the land of giants and gods and back. In a village in ancient Norway lives a boy named Odd, and he's had some very bad luck: his father perished in a Viking expedition; a tree fell on and shattered his leg; the endless freezing winter is making villagers dangerously grumpy. Out in the forest Odd encounters a bear, a fox, and an eagle - three creatures with a strange story to tell. Now Odd is forced on a stranger journey than he had imagined - a journey to save Asgard, city of the gods, from the Frost Giants who have invaded it. It's going to take a very special kind of twelve-year-old boy to outwit the Frost Giants, restore peace to the city of gods, and end the long winter. Someone c...

Title: Being Jamie Baker Series: Jamie Baker #1 Author: Kelly Oram Published: 14/06/2010, Bluefields Pages:353 Source: Amazon freebie Format: Ebook Rating: 4/5 An accident that should end in tragedy instead gives seventeen-year-old Jamie Baker a slew of uncontrollable superhuman abilities. To keep her secret safe Jamie socially exiles herself, earning the title of Rocklin High's resident ice queen. But during a supercharged encounter with star quarterback Ryan Miller she literally kisses anonymity goodbye. Now the annoyingly irresistible Ryan will stop at nothing to melt the heart of the ice queen and find out what makes her so special. Unfortunately, Ryan is not the only person on to her secret. Will Jamie learn to contain her unstable powers before being discovered by the media or turned into a government lab rat? More importantly, can she throw Ryan Miller off her trail before falling in love with him?

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is a freebie. So, looking at the past topics, I have decided to go for Top Ten Series I NEED to Finish.

Title: Norse Mythology Author: Neil Gaiman Published: 07/02/2017, Bloomsbury Publishing Pages: 256 Source: Goodreads Giveaway Format: ARC - Paperback Rating: 3.5/5 Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman fashions primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds; delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants; and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people. Gaiman stays true to the myths while vividly reincarnating Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin's son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki, the son of giants, a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator. From Gaiman's deft and witty prose emerges the gods with the...

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.

Title: All Laced Up Series: Breakaway #1 Author: Erin Fletcher Published: 10/10/2016, Entangled: Crush Pages: 184 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 4/5 Everyone loves hockey superstar Pierce Miller. Everyone except Lia Bailey. When the two are forced to teach skating class to save the rink, Lia's not sure she'll survive the pressure of Nationals and Pierce's ego. Not only can't he remember her name, he signed her bottle of water like she was one of his groupies. Ugh. But if there's one thing Lia knows better than figure skating, it's hockey. Hoping to take his ego down a notch - or seven- she logs into his team website under an anonymous name to give him pointers on his less-than-stellar playing. Turns out, Pierce isn't arrogant at all. And they have a lot in common. Too bad he's falling for the anonymous girl online. No matter how much fun they're starting to have in real life, she's afraid he's going to choose fake-Lia over...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is ten underrated books I've read over the past two years.

Title: Soul Crossed Series: Angels and Demons #1 Author: Lisa Gail Green Published: 25/02/2015, Full Fathom Five Digital Pages: 294 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 4/5 One Demon. One Angel. On Soul. Josh lived a reckless, selfish life, so upon his death, escaping the eternal torments of Hell by assuming the role of a powerful, soul-corrupting demon is an easy choice. His first soul assignment doesn't seem too hard: the mortal Camden is already obsessed with weapons, pain, and torture. If only Josh wasn't distracted by Cam's beautiful friend, Grace. Grace never expected to die violently at age sixteen, but now she's an Angel, responsible for saving a soul. She can already see past Camden's earthly flaws, so the job should be easy. If only that handsome, playboy Josh would stop getting in the way. It's forbidden for an Angel to be with a Demon, so if Josh and Grace stop resisting each other, the results would be disastrous. And only one can clai...

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.

Title: The Two-Night One-Night Stand Author: Ryan Ringbloom Published: 29/09/2016, Ryan Ringbloom Pages: 152 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 5/5 A girl. A guy. And a talking peen. Holly Martin isn't the type to have a one-night stand. But a crushing break up, a sexy blind date, and a few shots of Fireball is about to change all that. Matthew Daniels is an introverted PA who claims he's too busy to date. But that doesn't stop his older brothers from encouraging him to let loose and get out there, because as they put it - the right girl won't just walk up to you. But what is she does? Is it possible for a one-night stand that happens twice, to actually become more? Could two nights of reckless debauchery actually lead to true love? Or is this just another case of a whisky induced disaster? The Romantic Comedy is sure to have you laughing, cringing, rolling your eyes, shouting at the pages and looking for a shot glass of your own. **This book contains mat...

The End of Year Book Survey was created by Jamie @  The Perpetual Page-Turner  and it's a fantastic way to recap your reading and blogging over the year. 2016 Reading Stats Number Of Books You Read: 87 Number of Re-Reads: 10 Genre You Read The Most From: Well according to my stats on Goodreads, it was Young Adult followed closely by Romance. Best in Books 1. Best Book You Read in 2016? It's so hard to narrow it down, but I'm going to go with Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter #1), Jeff Lindsay / Paper Butterflies, Lisa Heathfield  / Frostblood (Frostblood #1), Elly Blake 2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t? The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett, Chelsea Sedoti I DNF'ed this one about halfway through. It just wasn't what I was expecting 3. Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read?   Stealing Snow (Stealing Snow #1), Danielle Paige After seeing a l...