Saturday, April 30, 2011

Status: April 2011


My Monthly Status

  • Books Read: 7
Books I've read this March are as follows: 
  1. Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of Dawn Treader by C.S.Lewis
  2. Iron Witch (Iron Witch #1) by Karen Mahoney (Review will be posted on Melissa's blog at I swim for oceans) 
  3. The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake #4) by Laurell K. Hamilton
  4. Firespell (Dark Elite #1) by Chloe Neill
  5. Griffin Rising by Darby Karchut
  6. Matched (Matched #1) by Ally Condie
  7. Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy #1) by Kiersten White
Other Reviews:
Favorite Book of the Month: 








 
















Challenge Update: 

  • YA Reading Challenge - 21 / 40 (52%)
  • 350 Paged Book Challenge - 15 / 15 (100%)
  • 100+ Reading Challenge - 32/ 100 (32%)
  • Outdo Yourself Reading Challenge - 32 / 60 (53%)
  • 2011 Debut Author Challenge - 3 / 12 (25%)
  • Wordsworth Classics Reading Challenge - 1 / 12 (8.33%) 
  • YA Series Challenge - 10/ 12 (83%)
  • NEW! 2011 Page to Screen Reading Challenge - 0 / 5 (0%)
Highlights: 
  1. NEW LAYOUT! I finally created a proper Layout for my blog with a matching button.
  2. NEW BLOG! My design blog is up and running on blogger. Visit it to get free design work done.
  3. I was interviewed for my work @ Assortments.
  4. NEW FEATURE! Its called Re-Cover Me Friday which runs once every other week. Check out what I've Recovered so far, includes Awakened by The Casts and Vampire Academy. HERE
  5. I've completed the 350 page challenge. I'll still keep going until the end of the year though.
Book News:
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Comments:

T-T Dang. I was too distracted by certain situations in my life that I haven't been reading at all. Sigh. So depressing. May will be different! I know it will. Oh I was approached by an author to do their books Cover Design. So I'm very excited about it. I'll be reviewing some of his books and Re-Covering them too. :D So What out for that!

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R.A.K. Love #2




Book Soulmates




BIIIIG Thanks to the ladies below! You have no idea how much this means to me! Thank you!
I did not expect to be approached by one person let alone THREE. I'm so grateful and appreciative right now! Please visit their blogs they are all awesome ladies. 
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April 2011 Cover Reveals!

A little feature I'll be posting up at the end of every month. :D




 Goodreads: "Born into a life of secrets and service, Chrysabelle's body bears the telltale marks of a comarrĂ© -- a special race of humans bred to feed vampire nobility. When her patron is murdered, she becomes the prime suspect, which sends her running into the mortal world...and into the arms of Malkolm, an outcast vampire cursed to kill every being from whom he drinks.

Now, Chrysabelle and Malkolm must work together to stop a plot to merge the mortal and supernatural worlds. If they fail, a chaos unlike anything anyone has ever seen will threaten to reign."

Goodreads: Everything burns in Pandemonium

Everything is made of steel, even the flowers. How can you love anything in a place like this?

Daphne is the half-demon, half-fallen angel daughter of Lucifer and Lilith. Life for her is an endless expanse of time, until her brother Obie is kidnapped—and Daphne realizes she may be partially responsible. Determined to find him, Daphne travels from her home in Pandemonium to the vast streets of Earth, where everything is colder and more terrifying. With the help of the human boy she believes was the last person to see her brother alive, Daphne glimpses into his dreams, discovering clues to Obie’s whereabouts. As she delves deeper into her demonic powers, she must navigate the jealousies and alliances of the violent archangels who stand in her way. But she also discovers, unexpectedly, what it means to love and be human in a world where human is the hardest thing to be.

This second novel by rising star Brenna Yovanoff is a story of identity, discovery, and a troubled love between two people struggling to find their place both in our world and theirs.



 Goodreads: Love can never die.Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie?
The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria—a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune, and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible—until she’s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses.
But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead—and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit, luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there’s no turning back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win, separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then, beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.
In Dearly, Departed, steampunk meets romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love.

Goodreads : Life can’t get much better for Sam Lock. Popular, good-looking, and with a future as a professional football player… every guy at Stanton High School wishes he were Sam. That is, until his championship football game, when Sam accidentally links with an ancient source of energy known as the Veil and reveals his potential to become a powerful sorcerer.

Sam’s dreams are crushed as he is whisked off to Atlas Crown, a community of sorcerers who utilize the Veil as a part of everyday life. Once there, he trains beside a mute boy who speaks through music, an eternal sage who is the eyes and ears of the Veil, and a beautiful girl who's pretty sure Sam's an idiot.








Comments: Blood Rights and Twisted are my fav covers. Least Fav is the Wood Queen, just doesn't look right. O.O What do you guys think?

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