Month: April 2012

Spring Fling Giveaway Hop!

Hosted by I Am a Reader, Not a Writer & Eve’s Fan Garden. I’m so excited to be participating in a Giveaway Hop finally!  And while I have some ARCs to giveaway, I thought I’d make this a really easy giveaway as May gets to be really busy with the end of the school year. […]

Posted April 30, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in Uncategorized / 131 Comments

Stacking the Shelves #1

With all the controversy lately, I found this similar meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and thought I’d join in.  I don’t really have anything to put on a shelf this week, but it is a book to read, so I’ll share!  Since I’m going to be participating in a hop for the new book Redheads […]

Posted April 29, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in Stacking the Shelves / 0 Comments

Dark Souls by Paula Morris

Dark Souls by Paula Morris My rating: 4 of 5 stars I got this book from our school book fair last October. Then I put it in a cabinet at school because I used to keep a book to read at school. Well, mostly this year I’ve been bringing the actual book I’ve been reading […]

Posted April 23, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

Ascend (Trylle Trilogy #3) by Amanda Hocking

Ascend by Amanda Hocking My rating: 4 of 5 stars Again I got this as a great deal as an e-book before they were being published.  This will be published and available in a hard copy next Tuesday! Once again I was not disappointed. This book had romance, suspense, and even some new mythology about […]

Posted April 19, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 3 Comments

Fear (Gone series #5) by Michael Grant

This is a series I began reading back in 2009 when I was reading to help pick one of my state’s award nominee list for the 2010-2011 school year.  I believe it was the same year I read Hunger Games.  You can read my review of Gone here.  I would say it was probably my […]

Posted April 13, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 8 Comments

Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson

Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I ended up waiting longer than normal to read this next book in one of my favorite series, and really the only mystery series that I read. Normally I would check it out when it first came out, but I was so busy […]

Posted April 11, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Ghost Whisperer: Revenge by Doranna Durgin

I enjoyed the tv series this book is based on, and saw the books at the bookstore where I work.  When they became strip cover books at the store, I took one or two of them home, and now that the series is no longer being filmed, I decided it was time to read them […]

Posted April 9, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

In My Mailbox (3)

In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren.  I’m very excited to do this meme this week as I won some books from Lea at LC’s Adventures in Library Land in the Hunger Games Movie Premiere Giveaway.  I hardly ever win contests, but this was the 2nd one I’ve won, the first […]

Posted April 8, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 9 Comments