2013 TBR Pile Challenge!

I am finally getting back into challenges  now that I know there are two places that I can access the internet regularly while I am waiting to have my own laptop again. This challenge is right up my alley so I am excited to take part in it.

This challenge is to finally read 12 books in 2013 that have been on your TBR pile for at least a year. This means none of the books can have a published date of 1/1/12 or later.

These are the books on my list:

 

1. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

2. Wake by Lisa McMann

3. North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley

4. The Body Finder by Kimberley Dertling

5. Where I Belong by Gwendolyn Heasley

6. XVI by Julia Karr

7. Delirium by Lauren Oliver

8. Forget You by Jennifer Echols

9. Crossed by Ally Condie

10. Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

11. Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

12. Frost by Wendy Delsol

 

Alternates

1. Fateful by Claudia Gray

2. One Night that Changes Everything by Lauren Barnholdt

 

 

If you have a HUGE TBR pile then you should join us by clicking here!

Cover Reveal (Times Three!)

Jillian Dodd is revealing the next three covers in her Mature Young Adult romance series, The Keatyn Chronicles. The covers were designed by Okay Creations.

Title: DATE ME (Keatyn Chronicles, #3)

Expected released date: April 2013

Goodreads: Date Me

Title: LOVE ME (Keatyn Chronicles, #4)

Expected release date: September 2013

Goodreads: Love Me

Title: HATE ME (Keatyn Chronicles, #5)

Expected release date: January 2014

Goodreads: Hate Me



About the author:



Jillian Dodd grew up on a farm in Nebraska, where she developed a love for Midwestern boys and Nebraska football. She has drank from a keg in a cornfield, attended the University of Nebraska, got to pass her candle, and did have a boy ask her to marry him in a bar. She met her own prince in college, and they have two amazing children, a Maltese named Sugar Bear, and two Labrador puppies named Camber Lacy and Cali Lucy.



She is the author of the That Boy Trilogy and The Keatyn Chronicles Series.



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Win a $25 gift card to your local bookstore

Shelf Awareness is giving away a $25 gift card to your local bookstore. To earn more entries, after you enter you will be provided a referral link for your friends to click on so they can enter the giveaway. For each friend who clicks on your referral link you get an extra entry. You can enter here with my referral link and then when you are given your own referral link why not make your own post so others can use your link to sign up and get yourself some extra entries? Because who doesn't like free money for books?

Stacking the Shelves and a Question about a possible upcoming giveaway.

 

Hosted at Tynga's Reviews

 

 

Not much in the way of books this week. I still have a ton out of the library so I took a break from requesting though I did allow myself to borrow one more simply because I have wanted it FOREVER and wanted to request it before I forgot about it again. That book is:

 

Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah Moskowitz

 

For Review from the Author I received:

 

Memoirs Aren't Fairytales by Marni Mann

Scars from a Memoir by Marni Mann

 

Bought:

You: Having a Baby

 

I ordered this from Ebay and then found out when it arrived that it is the audio book. I do not like audio books so I wanted to know, would anyone be interested in a giveaway for this audio book?

 

What Stacking your shelves this week?

 

 

Follow Friday

 

Hosted by Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM BOOK BLOGGING THAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW BEFORE ABOUT THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY?

 

 

I have read a lot of interviews on the way that book covers are designed from the blogging community. Before, I thought that the author had a bigger say but thanks to the numerous blogs who have posted interviews and asked about the book covers I have learned that the authors rarely weight in on the cover designs. 

End of the World Dystopian Giveaway

 

 

Hosted by About to Read. Check it out and enter so you have some books to look forward to if the world doesn't end!

Road Trip Wednesday



The list of top baby names in 2012 had us talking about naming characters. How do you decide on names? Would you ever name a character after a friend/family member/ex?

    For a very long time, in my teen years, I would decide on the personality of the character first and then find a name that had a meaning to go with the personality of the character. Man,did it take forever to name my characters when I did things that way. Now, I go with whatever flows and feels right. For some background characters and supporting characters I use names that I love but they are just too out there to use in real life, like Sergie (Sare-gay), Winter Rose, or names for siblings that are cutesy and fit a common theme (Lyric, Novelle, and Author for a sibling set of two girls and a boy for example or Gaston and Belle for boy/girl twin set). As for people in real life, I don't think I would use their first name but I will do a play on their name in a way. Such as, I have a story line strongly based on a crush I had on a lawyer when I was a lowly mailroom attendant. The lawyer's middle name is Anthony. Therefore, the character based on him is named Anthony.     Word Trip Wednesday is hosted at YA Highway