Waiting On Wednesday...

(Compliments of Jill @ Breaking the Spine)

It allows bloggers to feature pre-publication
books that they are eagerly anticipating!

 This weeks selection is a book I have personally been waiting on for QUITE a long time...  but I really enjoy books that are told from multiple different characters points of view!!!

Party

by Tom Leveen

Release Date:  April 27, 2010

Random House Books for Young Readers

Pages:  240

ISBN-13: 978-0375864360

From Amazon.com:

It's saturday night in Santa Barbara and school is done for the year. Everyone is headed to the same party. Or at least it seems that way. The place is packed. The beer is flowing. Simple, right? But for 11 different people the motives are way more complicated. As each character takes a turn and tells his or her story, the eleven individuals intersect, and reconnect, collide, and combine in ways that none of them ever saw coming.

Teaser Tuesdays

(Compliments of MizB @ Should Be Reading)

Here's what you're asked to do:

1. Grab your current read...
2. Let the book fall open to a random page...
3. Share two teaser sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12...
4. Share the title of the book that the “teaser” comes from ~ so people can find the book if they like the teaser...

And remember – AVOID SPOILERS!!! 

Here's Mine:

The moment a cleric rises for a sermon is, for me, a time for the body to ease in, as if the good listening is about to start.  I had always done this with the Reb, and, out of habit, I slid down in the wooden pew as the organist held the last chords of "Amazing Grace."

Page 135

Have a Little Faith:  A True Story

by Mitch Albom

Hyperion, 1st ed.

Copyright: September 29, 2009

ISBN-13: 978-0786868728

Pages:  272

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Mondays are courtesy of Marcia @ The Printed Page...  Feel free to share a link to yours in your comment!!!

This week a large portion of my books came from buddy swaps on Paperbackswap.com...  And a couple came from the local B&N, I'm not gonna lie...  I broke down and purchased a couple myself....

From Swaps on Paperbackswap.com

From paperbackswap.com FIFO method...

From Amazon.com

 

From Barnes & Noble

 

Teaser Tuesdays

(Compliments of MizB @ Should Be Reading)

Here's what you're asked to do:

1. Grab your current read...
2. Let the book fall open to a random page...
3. Share two teaser sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12...
4. Share the title of the book that the “teaser” comes from ~ so people can find the book if they like the teaser...

And remember – AVOID SPOILERS!!! 

Here's Mine:

Trollop?  Who uses that word for real?  Laughter dribbles from my mouth.

Page 255

Tricks

by Ellen Hopkins

Young Adult

Margaret K. McElderry

Copyright:  August 25, 2009

ISBN:  978-1416950073

Pages:  640

Mailbox Monday

Thanks to Marcia @ The Printed Page, we get a chance to share

with others any books we've received the previous week,
via our mailbox.
Be sure to comment and leave a link to your Mailbox Monday post,
or just post your list in your comment.

This past two weeks, my mailbox overfloweth with books!!!!!  Always a good thing....  now if I just felt well enough to read.....................................

From Paperbackswap.com

   

From Amazon.com....

 

(courtesy of Janet at Friday Fill Ins)
1. No, we will NOT be opening Christmas presents early.
2. I remember eating dinner at the old kitchen table.
3. I watched the steam rising from the hot cup of coffee (or tea) and thought: I was right...  I knew I didn't like hot beverages.
4. No matter what happens...  I'm going to be okay.
5. I'll take Robert Pattinson...  you can have Taylor Lautner.
6. It looks like snow... at least from my point of view.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to watching TV and reading, tomorrow my plans include wrapping Christmas presents and Sunday, I want to finish it all up!

Waiting on Wednesday...

(Compliments of Jill @ Breaking the Spine)

It allows bloggers to feature pre-publication
books that they are eagerly anticipating!

After the last book in this sequel left me hanging.... BIG TIME....  and my obsession with the TV show....  I cannot wait for this one!!!

The Vampire Diaries: The Return:  Shadow Souls

L.J. Smith

Release Date:  March 16, 2010

HarperTeen

Pages:  608

ISBN:  978-0061720819

From ljanesmith.net:

A kinder, gentler Damon, a heart-torn Elena, and a roadtrip that leads--literally--into Hell. What more could you want on vacation with your best friends? The catch: even to get in you have to wear a dog-collar and be considered the slave of the vampire that brings you. Suddenly Damon learns what it's like to have three wives at once. Meanwhile Stefan is languishing in prison, dependent on Elena's dreams to keep him from dying. Plus, quite a twisty ending, if I do say so myself.

Loved Ones Lost in 2009

Well, I am going to make this post hoping with all my heart that we are able to successfully make it to 2010 without losing anyone else...

This post is to serve as a tribute to all those loved ones that have gone on to bigger and better things in 2009...  my family has suffered a lot of loss this year...  so much love to those now smiling down on us from Heaven...  and if you have lost a loved one, please feel free to share in your comment...  and share this post with others you know that might want to add lost loved ones...  and it doesn't have to just be people...  if you lost a beloved pet, feel free to share that as well....

Halo Marie Gearlds (cousin...  died at birth)

James Leonard Lockhart (great-uncle...)

Willow Faye Bray (grandmother)

Lillie Mae Layne Lockhart (great-grandmother)

Shawn Martin Holdaway (brother)

Wanda Carroll Owens (aunt)

Waiting on Wednesday

(Compliments of Jill @ Breaking the Spine)

It allows bloggers to feature pre-publication
books that they are eagerly anticipating!

This week's selection is going to keep me waiting for quite a bit, but I'm hoping it will be well worth the wait...  

Keep Sweet

Michelle Dominguez Greene

Release Date:  March 9, 2010

Young Adult

ISBN-13: 978-1416986812 

From Amazon:

 

Alva Jane has never questioned her parents, never questioned her faith, never questioned her future. She is content with the strict rules that define her life in Pineridge, the walled community where she lives with her father, his seven wives, and her twenty-eight siblings. This is the only world Alva has ever known, and she has never thought to challenge it.

But everything changes when Alva is caught giving her long-time crush an innocent first kiss. Beaten, scorned, and now facing a forced marriage to a violent, fifty-year old man, Alva suddenly realizes how much she has to lose--and how impossible it will be to escape.

 

Teaser Tuesdays

(Compliments of MizB @ Should Be Reading)

Here's what you're asked to do:

1. Grab your current read...
2. Let the book fall open to a random page...
3. Share two teaser sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12...
4. Share the title of the book that the “teaser” comes from ~ so people can find the book if they like the teaser...
5. And remember – AVOID SPOILERS!!!
   

Here's Mine:

I'm sitting in the bathroom.  The teachers' bathroom, even.

page 23

Love You Hate You Miss You

by Elizabeth Scott

Fiction/Young Adult

Harper Teen

Copyright 2009

ISBN:  978-0-06-112283-5

Pages:  276 

Mailbox Monday

Thanks to Marcia @ The Printed Page, we get a chance to share
with others any books we've received the previous week,
via our mailbox.
Be sure to comment and leave a link to your Mailbox Monday post,
or just post your list in your comment.

The mailman was QUITE good to me this week....  I'm sure he didn't love it, but I did!!!!!  Several books came this week.....  

From Amazon.com Marketplace Sellers....

 

From Paperbackswap.com