I'm Back!!! ~ The Sunday Post (11) + Stacking the Shelves (12)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer where one talks about what they did this week, what books they obtained, general blog news. 

Loving the Language of Literacy Lookback:

Friday: {Blog Tour+Giveaway+Spotlight} Winter in the Soul:...
Thursday: Funny YouTube Videos X) : Feature and Follow Friday

 Thursday: #Tea Time #69 Rewind ~ When I Curse My Parents For...
Wednesday: {Book Review} Shatter Me #1: Tahereh Mafi
Tuesday: A-Z Bookish Survey
Monday: {Book Review} Winger #1: Andrew Smith

Loving the Language of Literacy Lookout:

I'm Back!!! ~ If you hadn't noticed, I was absent from the blogosphere from the 6th to the 13th of July. I was out of town and up in the mountains on those days and I had an absolute blast. I did archery (feeling TOTALLY badass like Katniss), kayaked, hiked, swam, reversed charaded (which is SO much fun), and more. I even had to sing before every meal because it was camp.... and what better to do than have kids sing for their suppers? I hadn't known how much I needed that period of relaxation without Internet, which meant no Blogging, Twitter, Instagram, and very little reading. I am completely recharged and have a number of ideas for discussions, bookish tags, reviews to write, and a lot more fun in store.

I Broke Down and Got an Instagram ~ I did it! I finally got myself a darned Instagram account. If you take a little looksie at my left sidebar, you will see a montage of my Instagram posts, and I'm still trying to figure out how to get a follow widget. My username is @sslluvsbooks exactly like my twitter user name if you would care to follow me for bookish shenanigans.

BookTubeathon is over today!!! ~ So I know I'm a blogger, and not a vlogger, but I have been avidly keeping up with the Book Tube-a-Thon that has been commencing the past week. I have (attempted) to follow the TBR challenges, and watching my favorite BookTubers do all the fun video challenges each day. Because of Book Tube-a-Thon, I have also managed to squeeze in some extra reading, which is always a good thing, and I just love the camaraderie and feeling of community that exudes from all the videos that have been posted.

Fierce Reads Summer Blockbuster Tour ~ I will be at the Grove this Wednesday (the 23rd) at 7 pm for this tour with lovely authors Ann Aguirre (Razorland Trilogy), Marissa Meyer (Lunar Chronicles), Anna Banks (Syrena Legacy Trilogy), and Leigh Bardugo (Grisha Trilogy). I am psyched for the signing, and am so happy to have at least one book written by each author, so I will have a chance to get them signed. If I'm brave, I may even tell them that I am a book blogger, who knows anything can happen at a book signing. If you live in the LA area and are going to the signing as well, tell me in the comments, maybe we can have a secret symbol or some form of acknowledgement. And you know what a signing means? A RECAP POST!!! 

#TeaTimeRewind ~ If you missed this weeks #TeaTime (weekly liveshow on the Epic Reads YouTube channel), you may not know that Margot and Aubry (their names are spelled correctly!) would appreciate people to post/upload #TeaTimeRewind s because the comment section was overflowing so much this week, and it will give us Crumpets a chance to interact with each other. I designed a little banner which can be seen on MY #TeaTimeRewind it's nothing too special, but I think it's cute.

Kindle Unlimited ~ On Friday, Amazon launched a new program -Kindle Unlimited- which is dubbed "the Netflix for books." At a glance, it seems like a nifty new subscription service that will give us readers access to over 600,000 titles, but on the flip side, "What will this mean for authors?" On Tuesday, a discussion post will go live on the blog, and I definitely want to know what you think.

Books Read This Week: Because of my semi-participation in this week's Book Tube-a-Thon, I urged myself to read a little more than usual, and have read 4 full-length novels, a novella, and a picture book that isn't really a picture book. 

4/5: I read AND reviewed this book this week, and immensely enjoyed the romance, characters, and breakneck pace.

4/5: I read and scheduled my review for the sequel because I HAD to go to the library and pick this up and now I have to wait over 10 days for the last book -Ignite Me- to return to the library.

I don't want to reveal my rating for this book because I did do a promotional blog tour post , but I ended up disliking the it.

4/5: I read and loved The Invention of Hugo Cabret, and Wonderstruck DEFINITELY did not disappoint. My review is going live soon and I can't wait to share my thoughts.

4/5: For some reason, I thought about Winger CONSTANTLY while I read this book, and in my review, I will compare and contrast the two, because even though the plot/premise is different, the characters and writing style are very similar.

5/5: This was my semi-picture book, based off of the famous poem by Shane Koyczan "To This Day" which went viral on YouTube. The pictures perfectly depicted the verses, and really embodied the message of it.

Quote of the Week: This week's quote is from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and I love it because of how thought-provoking it is amidst all of the humor going on during the novel.

"I draw becayse words are too unpredictable.

I draw because words are too limited.

If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning.

But when you draw a picture, everybody can understand it."

Random Story of the Week: You know that phrase "It's the little things in life...." that most teenagers (like myself) roll their eyes in response to adults when it is said? Well, I learned that this is true earlier this week. I am the resident dish washer in my house, and while I was washing the dishes a few days ago, I noticed we had gotten new wool steel. And I was so freaking happy that we got new wool steel. I am a teenager, and I NEVER thought I would be happy to get a common household item used to scrub dishes. Yup, my life is so exciting.

"Stacking the Shelves" is a meme when you list the books you've added to your shelves, virtual, physical, or whatever shape or form you get them. As people may know, “Stacking the Shelves” posts are hosted by “Tynga's Reviews”

{Disclaimer: I am in no means trying to brag about what I got, and merely shared this post for the benefit of my followers seeing what I purchased, and as a favor to the lovely people that sent me things. My haul is also rather large this particular week because it is cumulative from the past month or so}

As part of a daily deal on Amazon, I purchased the eVersions of The Testing (Joelle Charbonneau) and Of Poseidon (Anna Banks). I actually got through the first 15% of TT, but it never really picked up for me, I am considering going back, and giving it another chance. After the signing, I will most definitely be picking up OP after Anna has gotten my excited for the series.

Queen of Someday (Sherry D. Ficklin) is an ARC I received from Clean Teen Publishing via Netgalley and it is being released on October 7, 2014.

Wickedpedia (Chris Van Etten) does not seem like my usual book (it has a horror feel to it), but I am extremely excited to dig into it. Wickedpedia is an ARC I received from Scholastic via Netgalley and it was released on the June 21, 2014.

Phobic (Courtney Pearson) is also horror, and I am very scared (but psyched) to read this ARC which I received via Netgalley and it is being released on September 9, 2014.

The Beginning of Everything (Robyn Schneider) is a book I purchased through a Kindle Daily Deal, and a lot of people (including my hard-to-please friend that I hit with a book) enjoyed it.

All four of these books are Blog Tour ones I have received from Xpresso Book Tours (for all except Winter in the Soul) in exchange for reviews.

My tour stop for Gypsy by Trisha Leigh is August 31, 2014.

My tour stop for the Lore Anthology is August 20, 2014, and I can't wait to read it because I have never read an anthology before.

My tour stop for The ARtful by Wilbert Stanton is August 16, 2014.

My tour stop for Winter in the Soul by Jennifer Novotney has already passed and was posted on July 18, 2014.

The four of these books are eARCS from various publishers courtesy of Netgalley.

To This Day by Shane Koyczan courtesy of Annick Press released on July 17, 2014.

Creed by Trisha Leaver and Lindsay Currie courtesy of Flux to be released on November 8, 2014.

Oh Yeah, Audrey! by Tucker Shaw courtesy of Amulet Books to be released on October 14, 2014.

Heart of Dread: Frozen by Melissa De La Cruz and Michael Johnston courtesy of Hatchette Children's Books to be released October 2, 2014. 

And now we have my HUGE stacks of library books.  I'm not going to go into each book and why I borrowed it, because frankly, it's past midnight, and I feel almost dead. You can see I have stacked these books with a bit of a purpose in accordance to genre.

The Madman's Daughter: Megan Shepherd ~ Historical Fiction/Mystery
Noggin: John Corey Whaley ~ Contemporary/Realistic Fiction
Everything Leads to You: Nina Lacour ~ Contemporary Romance/Mystery
Panic: Lauren Oliver ~ Contemporary Romance/Thriller
Prisoner of Night and Fog: Anne Blankman ~ Historical Fiction/Romance
Since You've Been Gone: Morgan Matson ~ Contemporary Romance
Winger: Andrew Smith ~ Realistic Fiction/Coming-of-Age
Unravel Me: Tahereh Mafi ~ Dystopian Romance
Shatter Me: Tahereh Mafi ~ Dystopian Romance
Landry Park ~ Science Fiction/Romance
Parallel: Lauren Miller ~ Mystery/Romance
Unsouled: Neal Shusterman ~ Dystopian
The Fifth Wave: Rick Yancey ~ Science Fiction/Romance

The Sunday Post (8)+Stacking the Shelves (10) 

Loving the Language of Literacy Lookout and Lookback

-Somebody remind me of the last time I did a Stacking the Shelves or The Sunday Post. The answer, it's been waaay too long. Anyway, I haven't been as active as I would have liked to be on the blog in these past two months because of a lovely concept we humans like to call school, or in others cases, work. There has just been project after essay after presentation all leading up the much highly anticipated OPEN HOUSE at school where the teachers get to show off how good students we have been the entire year with projects we completed for the purpose of displaying at Open House.  

-I ran for Student Council President. Yes, you heard that correctly, I, Sofia Li ran for student body president, and had to go through the trials and tribulations of campaigning, the speech, the poster, and everything else that accompanies the job. I had to overcome adversity, and a lot of other stuff which I will be talking about in a post next week which I am very excited about. The elections were this past Thursday, and the results are this upcoming Thursday, so no matter what those results are, I am going to share them along with my experience.

-I'm a mini authoress! For a school assignment (to show off for Open House, of course) we had to write chapter books, and mine is around 10,000 words, which I am very proud of. I asked around on Twitter, and will be sharing my experience writing this monstrosity of an assignment. You can also follow me on twitter @sslluvsbooks for almost hourly updates on the editing process....for the assignment due Monday....which isn't going so well.

-Media Mondays! You may have read in my April Monthly Wrap Up that I am starting a new feature on the blog called Media Mondays where I will review movies, music, and television once a week which I am super psyched about. The ironic thing is that I have a blog tour date on every single Monday in the entire month of May, so Media Mondays will be happening on Wednesdays for the time being. I already posted my first review of Nashville: On The Record which was so fun to watch/listen to/review

-Bout of Books 10 is happening this week and my goal is to read 5 books, you can find out what those five books are on my progress/goals/updates post.

Books Read this Week

Across the Universe: Beth Revis

Branded: Abi Ketner & Missy Kalicicki

Only With You: Celia Gray

Two Boys Kissing: David Levithan

Breaking Glass: Lisa Amowitz

Lookback:

• {Spoiler Free} The Shadow Throne (Ascendance Trilo...
• {Spoiler Alert} The Shadow Throne (The Ascendance ...
• I have actually met Marie Lu!: Feature and Follow ...
• Nashville: On the Record: Media Mondays (1)
• Book Covers I Would a Frame as Art: Top Ten Tuesda...
• {Blog Tour+Giveaway+Guest Post} Moon at Nine: Debo...
• {ARC Review} The Here and Now: Ann Brashares
• April 2014 Monthly Wrap-Up

Lookout:

Sunday: That is SO Cliche *hairflip* ---A short discussion piece about the many cliche premises and patterns in YA novel's plots

Monday: {Blog Tour+Giveaway+Review} Assured Destruction: Michael F. Stewart

Tuesday: Books I Almost Put Down But Didn't: Top Ten Tuesday (9)

Wednesday: Blackfish: Media Mondays (2)

Thursday: 101 Things I Love: Life of a Blogger (1)

Friday: {ARC Review} Breaking Free: Abby Sher

Saturday: The Sunday Post (9)+Stacking the Shelves (11)

Giveaways:

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"Stacking the Shelves" is a meme when you list the books you've added to your shelves, virtual, physical, or whatever shape or form you get them. I am now combining "Stacking the Shelves" with the "Sunday Post" because it is so much a personal preference about when and what you post "Stacking the Shelves" with. As people may know, “Stacking the Shelves” posts are hosted by “Tynga's Reviews”  

{Disclaimer: I am in no means trying to brag about what I got, and merely shared this post for the benefit of my followers seeing what I so generously received, and as a favor to the lovely people that sent me things. My haul is also rather large this particular week because it is cumulative from the past month or so}

Library:
Across the Universe: Beth Revis
Two Boys Kissing: David Levithan
Every You, Every Me: David Levithan
The Darkest Minds: Alexandra Bracken
Shatter Me: Tahereh Mafi

Netgalley:
Minority of One: B.A. Binns ~ All the Colors of Love Publicity
Sweet Unrest: Lisa Maxwell ~ Flux
Of Scars and Stardust: Andrea Hannah ~ Flux
I Am the Weapon: Allen Zadoff ~ Little, Brown for Young Readers
Elixir: Ted Galdi ~ Ted Galdi
Runaway: S.M. Knowles ~ Mark My Words Book Publicity
Dare: Hannah Jayne ~ Sourcebooks Fire
Paradigm: Ceri A. Lowe ~ Bookoture
Breaking Free: Winter Page ~ Dreamspinner Press
The Young Woman's Guide to Setting Boundaries: ~
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel: Sara Farizan ~ Algonquin Books
The Diamond Theif: Sharon Gosling ~ Capstone
The Gateway Through Which They Came: Heather Marie ~ Curiosity Quills Press

Bought:
The Golden Cage: Kaitlyn Davis
Concealed in Shadows: Gabrielle Arrowsmith
The Shadow Prince: Stacey O'Neale
Stung: Bethany Wiggins

Blog Tour:
Only With You: Celia Gray
Assured Destruction: Michael F. Stewart
Branded: Abi Ketner & Missy Kalicicki

Giveaway:

I generously received a basket of books and things from Spencer Hill Press. Now when they told me I was receiving a 'basket of books' I never thought I would receive an actual basket, with a bunch of swag related to picnicing with it. I got two spoon straws, a soft, fleece blanket, adorable mason jar water containers, the basket itself, and around a dozen books that have found places on my LARGE TBR shelf.

Monthly Wrap Up + The Sunday Post + Stacking the Shelves

Best of the Bunch is a monthly blog hop at the end of each month hosted by Always Lost in Stories, where we can share which books we have read or reviewed in that month, decide on our personal favourite and give that book our Best of the Bunch award.

To join in simply write your blog post telling us which books you have read or reviewed over the month, (and which book gets your Best of the Bunch award for that month), and then stop back here to add your link to the Mr. Linky. Visit the other blogs in the links to get some awesome new book recommendations.

Loving the Language of Literacy Lookout and Lookback

-I have reached ONE HUNDRED Bloglovin followers. I remember less than four months ago when I had just started Loving the Langauge of Literacy and look how far I have come since then. Thank you so much everyone that has followed me and I appreciate every single one of you Bloglovin, GFC, and  Feedly  followers.

-I have a TON of new ideas and discussion posts that are in the process of being drafted. You may have seen my first out of six Divergent Trilogy Series posts. The movie review was first, and my review of Allegiant is coming your way tomorrow. I also have a 4+ post series planned for the book Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg that I can't wait to share with you.

-I have discovered aCal, IFTTT, Evernote, Tweetdeck, and Posts. Yes, I am aware that these apps have been in existence for a long time but I recently downloaded them and am loving it. I swear, I downloaded 7 calendar apps until I found a one with multiple color coding and aCal was the one. IFTTT lets me back up posts and numerous recipes. Evernote lets me back up posts, organize my frazzled self, and records all of my Amazon purchases....which may not be a good thing. Tweetdeck let me follow the #Bloggiesta twitter chats. Posts lets me edit, schedule, past HTML and everything else that Blogger doesn't.

-I participated in Spring #Bloggiesta and got actual goals accomplished which felt awesome.

-I've gotten accepted for a lot of ARCs via Netgalley which could either be a good or bad thing, so expect to see a lot of ARC Reviews in the coming months because there are some phenomenal books.

-I'm part of the Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose Street Team. So for the next four weeks, there will be plenty of posts and tweets for this astounding novel.

-I'm going to the Los Angeles Festival of Books! :) There will be two recap posts for this.

-I am doing my best with the whole scheduling posts ahead of time thing, but all of the teachers are dumping project after project on their students because Open House is next month. That means I won't have nearly as much time to read and write posts, but I promise I will try my very hardest.

Books Read in March:

House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus #4): Rick Riordan

The Distance Between Us: Kasies West

Colonization: Aubrie Dionne

Six Months Later: Natalie D. Richards

Reconaissance: Aubrie Dionne

Alliance: Aubrie Dionne

Allegiant: Veronica Roth

Me Since You: Laura Wiess

Breaking Free: The True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery: Abby Sher

The Cellar: Natasha Preston

March Posts:

Music Mondays (2) + It's Monday! What Are You Reading (1) 

Monday Memes 

Popular Authors I've Never Read: Top Ten Tuesday (6)

All Time Favorite Middle Grade Books: Top Ten Tuesday (7)

Books On My Spring 2014 TBR List: Top 10 Tuesday (8)

WWW Wednesdays (2) 

Feature and Follow Friday (2) 

Stacking the Shelves (8)~ Powells Addition 

Best of the Bunch Montly Wrap-Up+Sunday Memes

{ARC Review} Moon at Nine: Deborah Ellis

House of Hades: Rick Riorda

{ARC Review} Me Since You: Laura Wiess 

The Cellar: Natasha Preston 

{Blog Tour+Giveaway+Review} Journey to Landaran: Judy Goodwin

{Blog Tour+Giveaway+Review} Alliance (Paradise Reclaimed #3) Aubrie Dionne 

{Blog Tour+Giveaway+Review} The Making of Nebraska Brown: Louise Caoila 

{Blog Tour+Giveaway} The Prophecy: S.P. Cervantes 

March Challenges & Readathons Goals/Updates/Results

Spring 2014 Challenges 

Spring 2014 Bloggiesta

Ides of March Challenges

#COYER Mini-Challenges

The Book Vs. The Movie~ Divergent Trilogy Series Part 1 of6 

{Book Blast+Giveaway} Final Stand: Rose Garcia 

April 2014 Goals:

I usually don't like to put my goals for followers because you honestly can't choose who follows you, and there's no magic recipe for someone to follow you. The numbers I have here are merely projections on past experience and I am not trying to say I'm entitled to those followers I wish to have.

35 Posts

13 Reviews

4 Lean In Series Posts

4 Divergent Trilogy Series Posts

Parts 1 & 2 of the Los Angeles Festival of Books Recap

Post Everyday

150 Bloglovin Followers

25 GFC Followers

15 Linky Followers

10 RSS Followers

700 Twitter Followers

15 Books Read

5 Blog Tour Books Read

4 Netgalley Books Read

4 Review Request Books Read

Challenge Updates:

COYER: 3 Technically 7 including blog tour books

March Madness Reads: 13

Take Control of Your TBR Pile 12

Ebooks 18/25 

Dystopia 9 /20

Library 17/50

Mad Reviewer 27/104

Standalone  13/

Women 30/25 COMPLETED

First Reads 21/

Chunksters 3/10

Real Books 15/

Netgalley 6/21

New Author 21/50

February Best of the Bunch:

I know having three books completely defeats the purpose of a 'Best of the Bunch' but to be fair, I did read 14, so 3 isn't even a 4th of all the books I read. I recently (as in two days ago) reviewed Obsidian Eyes by A. W. Exley for a blog tour. House of Hades was a portal back to my childhood and a wonderful read. Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls who Escaped Modern Slavery was a life-changing read and my only regret is that I cannot review this book for another month.  

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on the blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

Lookback:

• {Blog Tour+Giveaway+Review} Obsidian Eyes: A.W. Exley
• April Fools: Feature and Follow Friday (3)
• {Promo Post+Giveaway} Rush Too Far: Abbi Glines
• Skin and Bones, Smoke & Steelheart: Mini Reviews (1) 
• I'm Getting Back in the Game: Readers Workouts (1) 
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Lookout:

4/7 {Divergent Trilogy Series 2/6} Allegiant: Veronica Roth
4/8 What I've Learned.......My 4 Month Blogoversary
4/8 Race Recap: Reader's Workouts (2)
4/9 Lean In: Sheryl Sandberg
4/10 {Promo Post + Trailer Reveal} Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose 
4/11 The False Prince: Jennifer A. Nilesen 
4/12 {Divergent Series 3/6} The Hunger Games VS. The Divergent Trilogy
4/13 The Sunday Post + Stacking the Shelves. 

"Stacking the Shelves" is a meme when you list the books you've added to your shelves, virtual, physical, or whatever shape or form you get them. I am now combining "Stacking the Shelves" with the "Sunday Post" because it is so much a personal preference about when and what you post "Stacking the Shelves" with. I am doing this meme once a week, so you will probably see nothing but library books because originally, I only did "Stacking the Shelves" as an every-time-I-go-to-the-library thing. As people may know, “Stacking the Shelves” posts are hosted by “Tynga's Reviews”  

{Disclaimer: I am in no means trying to brag about what I got, and merely shared this post for the benefit of my followers seeing what I so generously received, and as a favor to the lovely people that sent me things}

Two weeks ago, I did a SIXTEEN book Stacking the Shelves post. I am sad to admit, but happy to have four more additions to my hard copy collection. Meanwhile, my eBook additions are.....lengthy to say the least.

Netgalley & Blog Tour & Review Oppurtunity eBooks

Hard Copy Book Orders & eBook Giveaway Wins

I want to thank Scholastic, Flux, Entangled Publishing, James Lorimer & Company, Macmilan Children's Publishing Group, Sourcebooks Fire, Dundurn, Bold Strokes Books, Inc.

Stacking the Shelves (8)~ Powells Addition

"Stacking the Shelves" is a meme when you list the books you've added to your shelves, virtual, physical, or whatever shape or form you get them. I am now combining "Stacking the Shelves" with the "Sunday Post" because it is so much a personal preference about when and what you post "Stacking the Shelves" with. I am doing this meme once a week, so you will probably see nothing but library books because originally, I only did "Stacking the Shelves" as an every-time-I-go-to-the-library thing. As people may know, “Stacking the Shelves” posts are hosted by “Tynga's Reviews”  

{Disclaimer: I am in no means trying to brag about what I got, and merely shared this post for the benefit of my followers seeing what I so generously received, and as a favor to the lovely people that sent me things}

These past two weeks have been INSANE in terms of books. I've gotten SIXTEEN BOOKS. Yes, you read that right, SIXTEEN BOOKS. In order to know why the hec I got this many books, here's a little backstory:

From Monday (17) to Thursday (20), I have been in Portland Oregon. As any good little book buyer should know, Portland Oregon is home of the largest independent book seller in the United States. While physical locations are only in Oregon, they do ship internationally. While at a first glance, prices are pretty expensive there, if you search through the site or the store, you will find some GREAT deals. There are some used books in remarkably good condition, along with some randomly marked down books. Also, there were THIRTY PERCENT OFF sales from the 12+ books that they consider the best YA books of 2013. There were also THIRTY PERCENT OFF sales on BRAND NEW BOOKS.  I'm not kidding, Grasshopper Jungle (February 11) and Panic (March 4) were less than $13.

So, the majority of my book haul came from the first time I went to Powells. Yes, I did go more than once. I have NO shame. Anyway, my wonderful mother and cousin pretty much paid for this wild shopping spree. Some teenage girls freak out over shoe sales, I freak out over book sales. I mean, why don't you? Before I get into this, I want to send out so much thanks and appreciation to my mom and cousin. I am in no way trying to brag, I'm just really excited and grateful for all of these lovely new additions to the family. Of course, I went back to powells and HAD to get three more books. 

The rest of my book haul comes from the lovely world of giveaways. 

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Powells Trip #1

Fangirl: Rainbow Rowell~ Everyone has been'fan giring' over this book since last September when it came out. I've heard so much praise and as much as I hate jumping on the bandwagon, I knew I just HAD to get this book.

Eleanor & Park: Rainbow Rowell~ This is the first I had ever heard of Rainbow Rowell and have heard  from numerous people how swoonworthy Park is. I've also heard Eleanor likes to spoon (LOL😝) ---creds to my crazy friend (inside joke)

Looking For Alaska: John Green~ There has been a lot of controversy about this book, so I felt the urge to buy this and find out for myself. Plus everything written by John Green is EPIC #factoftheuniverse. 

Will Grayson, Will Grayson: John Green~ I literally hadn't realized that a fourth of my book hall featured LGBTQ main characters. A David Leviathan and John Green calaboration is the best thing that happened in single didget decade (I have no idea what it is called). 

Insignia: S.J. Kincaid~ The funny thing about this book is that I borrowed it from the library, but it was actually due when I was in Portland. But a friend highly recommended it, and I just had a feeling about it. 

Grasshopper Jungle: Andrew Smith~ The review of this will be coming soon, but until then all I have to say is this book was FREAKING WEIRD and one heck of a book.

City of Bones: Cassandra Clare~ I normally don't read hyped up books, but felt this one was a must. Plus that I write a review of the movie too. 

Everybody Sees the Ant~ This was a total impulse buy, but I saw that Ellen Hopkins blurbed the book, I just had to buy it. 

Everyday: David Leviathan~ I had seen this at my library before, but I had never checked it out and I thought the concept was very intriguing. 

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Powells Trip #2

Keeping You a Secret: Julie Anne Peters~  I knew absolutely nothing about this book, but it was on sale and it was LGBTQ, which is a newer genre that has captured my interest. 

The Cellar: Natasha Preston~ Again, I knew nothing, but the plot sounded amazing. Yes, I am crazy for wanting to read about kidnapping. 

GONE: Michael Grant~ There's actually a funny story with this book, I have borrowed it from the library THREE times and NEVER read it. In my library terms, that means NINE WEEKS that I had had this book in my possession and never once had I thought to actually pick the darn thing up and read it. I think that was because of my fear of Chunksters, but my logic is "I bought the book, now I have to read it" 

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Giveaway #1

Breaking Glass: Lisa Amowitz

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Giveaway #2

Pushing The Limits: Katie McGarry

Soul Screamers: Rachel Vincent 

Indigo Awakening: Jordan Dane 

Best of the Bunch Montly Wrap-Up+Sunday Memes

Best of the Bunch is a monthly blog hop at the end of each month hosted by Always Lost in Stories, where we can share which books we have read or reviewed in that month, decide on our personal favourite and give that book our Best of the Bunch award.

To join in simply write your blog post telling us which books you have read or reviewed over the month, (and which book gets your Best of the Bunch award for that month), and then stop back here to add your link to the Mr. Linky. Visit the other blogs in the links to get some awesome new book recommendations.

Loving the Lanaguage of Literacy Lookback and Lookout
-I was nominated for another Liebster Award by my good friend Tina Chan from The Book Landers!
-I swear I will get my Fight for the Future Blog post up. It is a huge amount of work that I haven't felt like doing, but it will be up this month.
-I have something I'm trying to plan for my week of Spring Break from 3/16-3/22, I want to post a review a day to catch up on reviews. This might not work, but cross your fingers. The name is a W.I.P. but it will probably be #LuvLL
-I have the cutest new blog design features from Laura @ Laura Plus Designs/Laura Plus Books
-I have a ton of blog tour stops in March, and you know what that means? Giveaways!
            -3/7: Journey to Landaran: Judy Goodwin
            -3/14: A Chance of Love: Karolyn James
            -3/17: Alliance/Colonization/Reconnaissance: Aubrie Dionned
            -3/21: The Making of Nebraska Brown
            -3/28: The Prohpecy: S.P. Cervantes
-I am utilizing the scheduling feature! :) As of now, I have the next two weeks worth of memes scheduled. So if all goes well, you will have me in your face everyday for the entire month of March.
-Math Field Day is over! I finally can come home before 5pm! Even though I didn't place, I still feel honored to be part of the team and learn more about math. I actually know what a mantissa is! 
-Spring Break is this month! That means a whole week off and a whole week to read! I'm actually going to Portland for a few days and that means Powells Books and a huge Stacking the Shelves coming up :) 
-Remember to leave any thoughts, comments, or concerns in the comments below because I LOVE hearing from you. What do you think of me adding all the new memes? Is it a waste of blog space? Too much work? More fun for all?


Books I Read in February
-Peaceful Genocide: J.A. Reynolds
-Fire & Flood: Victoria Scott
-The Geogrpahy of You and Me: Jennifer E. Smith
-Moon at Nine: Deborah Ellis
-The Tyran'ts Daughter: J.C. Carleson
-A Touch of Honor: J.P. Grider
-Steelheart: Brandon Sanderson
-This Song Will Save Your Life: Leila Sales
-Reaper's Rhythm: Clare Davidson


March 2014 Goals
-Catch up on all Blog Tour books
-Catch up on all Review Request books
-Read 8 Netgalley books
-Read 20 books
-100 Bloglovin Followers
-600 Twitter Followers
-Post Every Day
-Go to a book signing
-17 or 12 reviews (depending on #LuvLL)
-Participate in the Ideas of March
-Participate in the Spring Cleaning Review-a-Thon
-Participate in Bloggiesta
-Reach all #Coyer, Catch up on your TBR Pile, and March Madness Reads

March 2014 Calendar
*All of this is subject to change without warning because I am a student, but I do have the entire week scheduled, so you can bet I will try to follow that trend

February Best of the Bunch
I know I shouldn't pick two, but I have one contemporary pick and one sci-fi. I read one for a blog tour (the giveaway is still going on) and the other from a library haul. 
These are both 5 ink jar books and I highly recommend them to anyone that will listen to crazy ole me. Peaceful Genocide was one of the best science-fiction books I have ever read and the giveaway for a Kindle Fire and signed copies is still going on until tomorrow! My review for TSWSYL is very rambly because of how much I love that book and because its a 'feels' review.

 
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on the blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

Posts from 2/23-3/8

• {Blog Tour+Giveaway+Review} Journey to Landaran: Judy Goodwin 
• WWW Wednesdays (1)
• Popular Authors I've Never Read: Top Ten Tuesday
• {ARC Review} Moon at Nine: Deborah Ellis
• March Challenges & Readathons Goals/Updates/Results
• {Blog Tour+Giveaway} Peaceful Genocide: J.A. Reynolds
• {Promotional Post} A Strange Kind of Familiar: Han...
• This Song Will Save Your Life: Leila Sales
• {ARC Review} Fire & Flood: Victoria Scott
• Book Buying & Bookshelf Organizing~ Musing Mondays...

What's Coming this Week?
Sunday 3/9:

-Best of the Bunch Monthly Wrap-Up+Stacking the Shelves+The Sunday Post

Monday 3/10: 

-Monday Memes

-{Book Review} House of Hades: Rick Riordan
Tuesday 3/11:

-{Top Ten Tuesday} Middle Grade books of all time

-Reader's Workout

Wednesday 3/12:

-WWW (2)

-{Book Review} The Distance Between Us: Kasie West
Thursday 3/13:

-Thursday Memes
Friday 3/14:

-Friday Memes

-TENTATIVE {Blog Tour} A Chance of Love: Karolyn James
Saturday 3/15:

-Fight for the Future
-#COYER Mini Challenges

"Stacking the Shelves" is a meme when you list the books you've added to your shelves, virtual, physical, or whatever shape or form you get them. I am now combining "Stacking the Shelves" with the "Sunday Post" because it is so much a personal preference about when and what you post "Stacking the Shelves" with. I am doing this meme once a week, so you will probably see nothing but library books because originally, I only did "Stacking the Shelves" as an every-time-I-go-to-the-library thing. As people may know, “Stacking the Shelves” posts are hosted by “Tynga's Reviews”  
{Disclaimer: I am in no means trying to brag about what I got, and merely shared this post for the benefit of my followers seeing what I so generously received, and as a favor to the lovely people that sent me things}

Blog Tour:
The Art of Letting Go (Uni Files #1): Anna Bloom
Obsidian Eyes: A.W. Exley








Library:

Look at all my new library lovelies! Which shall I start first? Did I really just use the word shall? pic.twitter.com/gPMh7BpC4T
— Bookaholic (@sslluvsbooks) February 27, 2014

Bought:
-Unremembered: Jessica Brody
-Grave Mercy: Robin LaFevers

Netgalley:
-5/8: These Gentle Wounds
-5/13: Second Star
-4/8: The Here and Now
-6/10: My Last Kiss 
-6/3: Hungry
-6/2: Breaking Free

Challenge Updates
-12/25: 2014 eBook Reading Challenge
-5/20: The Dystopia Reading Challenge 2014
-7/50: Love Library Books
-16/104: Mad Reviewer Reading and Reviewing Challenge
-715: Standalone Reading Challenge
-19/25: 2014 Women Reading Challenge
-17/26 First Reads