Month: September 2014

Stacking the Shelves – September 21st, 2014

Stacking the Shelves – S..

Posted September 21, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in Stacking the Shelves / 16 Comments

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga’s Reviews. It is a way for us to share the new books we have collected.  Here’s what I got this past week. Books won:  The first one I won from Bookhounds in the September is for Sequels Giveaway Hop that I co-hosted earlier this month.  I don’t normally […]

Banned Book Weeks Hop 2014

Banned Book Weeks Hop 2014

Posted September 20, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 116 Comments

  Thanks to Kathy at I Am a Reader, and Mary at Bookhounds for hosting this blog hop.  This  year I don’t know that I’m going to get a display up in my library.  You see I had ordered the stuff from ALA for the week, but because of all the red tape and how […]

Review:  Sever (Chemical Garden #3) by Lauren DeStefano (September Sequels Challenge #4) #TackleTBR Read-a-thon Final Update

Review: Sever (Chemical Garde..

Posted September 20, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

I won this book a while back, but again, it was before I started marking the books so I could remember when I reviewed them where they came from. So whoever I got this from, thanks!!  It has been 2 years though since I read the 2nd book in the series, Fever, so of course […]

Book Beginning:  Sever (Chemical Garden Trilogy #3) by Lauren DeStefano

Book Beginning: Sever (Chemic..

Posted September 19, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 12 Comments

This is a meme I’ve seen others do, but haven’t tried myself yet.  So I’m going to join Rose City Reader this Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book I am reading, along with my initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. It […]

Waiting on Wednesday – Empire of Night (Age of Legends #2) by Kelley Armstrong

Waiting on Wednesday – E..

Posted September 17, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 30 Comments

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where we spotlight upcoming releases that we’re eagerly awaiting.   My choice this week is a sequel to a book that I read earlier this year about the same time I got to meet the author, Sea of Shadows.  Here’s the blurb from Goodreads.com: […]

Review:  Asunder (Newsoul #2) by Jodi Meadows (September Sequels Challenge #3)

Review: Asunder (Newsoul #2) ..

Posted September 16, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

FINALLY!!!  I feel like it took forever to get through this book.  And not because it was hard to read, but because I just never seemed to have time to read.  I remember that I really enjoyed the first book, Incarnate, but once again, it just seemed to take me forever to get around to […]

Top Ten Tuesday:  10 authors I’ve only read one book from and need to read more!

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 authors I..

Posted September 16, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 28 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is sponsored by The Broke and The Bookish.   The ten authors that I can’t believe I’ve only read 1 book by are: Andrew Smith – I just learned about this author with all the fuss being made over Grasshopper Jungle this year.  Now I must read all his books!  And get them for […]

Review H2O by Virginia Bergin

Review H2O by Virginia Bergin

Posted September 13, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

I have to first say thanks to Sourcebooks Fire for allowing me to read an e-galley of this. I even was approved on both Netgalley and Edelweiss.  I guess I didn’t realize that I’d asked at both sites, but I did.  And I’m glad I did, because I really enjoyed it. The main character, our […]

The Friday 56 #11

The Friday 56 #11

Posted September 12, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 39 Comments

I am so close to being done, well, over 100 pages that is, with my latest book, but not quite ready to review.  So, once again this week I’m going to participate in Friday 56, sponsored by Freda’s Voice.  Here are the rules: Rules: *Grab a book, any book.*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader *Find […]