Tag: Hunger Games

Top Ten Books I’m Thankful For

Top Ten Books I’m Thankful For

Top Ten Tuesday is sponsored by The Broke and The Bookish. I am going to choose books that for some reason either made me learn or feel something that I’ll never forget and that I am thankful for whatever it was.  Books that really made something happen or change in my life.  I’ll post a picture […]

Posted November 21, 2017 by Lisa Mandina in / 20 Comments
DNF Review:  Grid Seekers by Logan Byrne

DNF Review: Grid Seekers by Logan Byrne

First, thanks to Xpresso Book Tours for allowing me to read a copy of this book.  I normally don’t review my DNFs, but this one might be of interest to some people still, so I thought I’d go ahead and do a quick review.  The story is about a future where being plugged in to […]

Posted July 11, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in / 2 Comments
Review:  Fire and Flood by Victoria Scott

Review: Fire and Flood by Victoria Scott

First thanks to Scholastic and Netgalley for allowing me to read an e-galley of this, even though I didn’t get to it until the last minute.  I loved The Collector by Victoria Scott, so I was very excited to read this. And I was not disappointed at all.  In fact, when I picked it up, I […]

Posted February 22, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 8 Comments
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Yes, I know I’m way behind everyone else on this one.  I’ve been meaning to read it for awhile.  But it was a big book, and I just had so many other things to read, that I just kept putting it on the back burner.  Finally I decided that it was time to read it […]

Posted October 25, 2013 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments
Quarantine:  The Loners

Quarantine: The Loners

I won this book in a giveaway awhile back.  I wasn’t quite sure if it was more of a zombie, post-apocalyptic, etc. type of book. Well, no zombies.  But that was okay. I have to say this was one of the most original stories I’ve read in awhile!  I really enjoyed it.  In fact, I […]

Posted July 16, 2013 by Lisa Mandina in / 16 Comments
Dualed by Elsie Chapman

Dualed by Elsie Chapman

     First let me thank both Netgalley and Random House for letting me read this egalley, and read it WAY before the book comes out.  I’m writing this review in July 2012, and as of now it isn’t due to be published till February 2013.      The book is kind of marketed to […]

Posted January 26, 2013 by Lisa Mandina in / 8 Comments
Suck It Up and Die by Brian Meehl

Suck It Up and Die by Brian Meehl

I got this book thanks to Netgalley and Random House Children’s Books. It’s been a while since I read the first one, Suck it Up. That I read for a possible book on the Gateway or Truman book list a couple years ago. I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t one of my top picks that […]

Posted July 14, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi My rating: 5 of 5 stars First, I have to say, WOW!! Why didn’t I read this when I first got the ARC at the bookstore where I work back in October? How stupid am I? This book was sooooo good. I think I waited because at first I was […]

Posted May 12, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments
Fear (Gone series #5) by Michael Grant

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