Month: September 2015

Waiting on Wednesday:  Worlds of Ink and Shadow:  A Novel of the Brontes by Lena Coakley

Waiting on Wednesday: Worlds ..

Posted September 30, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in / 42 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.  For a change this week, I’m featuring a book that is not part of a series.  As far as I know, it will be a standalone.  I always love when historical fiction takes real […]

Interview (and Giveaway) with Lizzy Ford, author of Omega

Interview (and Giveaway) with ..

Posted September 29, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour, giveaway / 10 Comments

Book Details: Omega by Lizzy Ford (Omega #1) Publication date: October 25th 2015 Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult Synopsis: In a modern world ruled by territorial Greek gods, the human race has been oppressed, exploited and now, nearly destroyed by the constant infighting of gods. However, a human girl with the power of a goddess is […]

Blog Tour – Guest Post and Giveaway:  City of Roses by Donovan Pruitt

Blog Tour – Guest Post a..

Posted September 28, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in giveaway / 23 Comments

Book and Author Details: City of Roses by Donovan Pruitt Publication date: May 5th 2015 Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Young Adult Synopsis:A young man ventures to his lost love’s childhood home in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine. When a sudden accident puts him off-course, he awakes to discover a lively and vibrant culture living […]

I’m in New Orleans, so……..

I’m in New Orleans, so&#..

Posted September 27, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in / 10 Comments

Yeah, so I didn’t have anything I needed to post before I left, although I do have one review to do, it’ll just have to wait till I get back.  But since I wanted to still blog each day this weekend, I’m doing a fun post with gifs and lists of stuff to do with […]

Banned Books Week Giveaway Hop 2015

Banned Books Week Giveaway Hop..

Posted September 26, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in giveaway / 58 Comments

Thanks to Mary at Bookhounds and Kathy at I Am a Reader for hosting this blog hop.  So as a librarian, my job isn’t to censor what my students read.  Yes I purchase things that I think are appropriate for my students, but other than that, they are allowed to check out anything that we […]

Review:  The White Rose (The Lone City #2) by Amy Ewing (September Sequel Challenge #3)

Review: The White Rose (The L..

Posted September 25, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in / 20 Comments

I actually got an ARC of this book through Books for Trade on Twitter, but originally I got an e-galley from HarperTeen and Edelweiss.  I really wanted a physical ARC though, to match the physical ARC I have of the first book, The Jewel, which I got at BEA in 2014.  So thanks to all […]

Cover Characteristic:  Water

Cover Characteristic: Water

Posted September 24, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in / 22 Comments

The Cover Characteristic meme is hosted at  Sugar and Snark.   Here are the guidelines: Each week we will post a characteristic and choose 5 of our favorite covers with that characteristic. If you want to join in and share your 5 favorite covers with the weeks particular characteristic, then just make a post, grab the meme […]

Waiting on Wednesday:  Will to Survive (The Rule of Three #3) by Eric Walters

Waiting on Wednesday: Will to..

Posted September 23, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in / 36 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 the 3rd and final book in a very interesting trilogy.  The first book, The Rule of Three, didn’t go quite where I thought it would, and so I was […]

Audio Book Review:  Passion (Fallen #3) by Lauren Kate (September Sequel Challenge #2)

Audio Book Review: Passion (F..

Posted September 22, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in / 5 Comments

Once again I downloaded the audio book from the library to go on with this story. And I really enjoyed a lot about this next part in the series.  It was filled with so many different periods in history, which was a lot of fun.  We didn’t get to see all of the characters that […]

Sign Up Post for Blog Ahead 2015!!

Sign Up Post for Blog Ahead 20..

Posted September 21, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

I saw this challenge last year, and thought how helpful it would have been to do this in order to get ready for NaNoWriMo when I would be busy writing my novel instead of spending as much time blogging. So I decided to join in!  And here is all the information! The Goal Build your […]