Sunday Post - 51 & Stacking the Shelves - 24

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ The Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~this meme was inspired in part by ~ In My Mailbox~ It's a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.

This was a good week. I took Friday off from work to clean house and ended up reading from like 7 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon. Then totally busted my rear end to get the house clean after that. OOPS! Saturday the family came over to celebrate my birthday, my brother's birthday, and Father's day with my dad (yeah, we're a little late on that one). It was a really great weekend. And I'm looking forward to the upcoming short work week and LONG weekend. Early Happy 4th of July to my American peeps!

THIS PAST WEEK:

Monday: Review of Through the Ever Night (Under the Never Sky, # 2) by Veronica Rossi (4 Stars)

Tuesday: Top Ten(ish) Books I've Read in 2013 So Far

Wednesday: Waiting on Allegiant

Thursday: Review of Confessions of an Almost Girlfriend (Confessions, # 2) by Louise Rozett (3 Stars)

UPCOMING THIS WEEK:

Monday: Review of The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, # 1) by James Dashner

Tuesday: Top Ten Fictional Crushes (I think I've done this one before...but I'm always adding new crushes to the list...so...yeah...it can't hurt to do it again, right?)

Wednesday: Waiting on Wednesday

Thursday: Review of Jenny Pox (The Paranormals, # 1) by JL Bryan

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

ALREADY FINISHED AND LOVED....

Losing Hope (Hopeless, # 2)

By: Colleen Hoover

Expected Publication: July 8th 2013 by Atria Books

256 pages

Genre: YA, Contemporary

Source: Publisher via NetGalley (THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

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Goodreads description--In the follow-up to Colleen Hoover’s #1 New York Times bestseller Hopeless, the charming and irresistible Dean Holder tells the passionate story that has melted thousands of hearts.

In Hopeless, Sky left no secret unearthed, no feeling unshared, and no memory forgotten, but Holder’s past remained a mystery.

Still haunted by the little girl he let walk away, Holder has spent his entire life searching for her in an attempt to finally rid himself of the crushing guilt he has felt for years. But he could not have anticipated that the moment they reconnect, even greater remorse would overwhelm him…

Sometimes in life, if we wish to move forward, we must first dig deep into our past and make amends. In Losing Hope, bestselling author Colleen Hoover reveals what was going on inside Holder’s head during all those hopeless moments—and whether he can gain the peace he desperately needs.

And still need to read...

The Truth About Letting Go

By: Leigh Talbert Moore

Published: February 2013

276 pages

Genre: YA/NA, Contemporary

Source: Publisher via NetGalley (Thank you!)

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Goodreads description--Ashley Lockett has always followed the rules. She's always done the right thing and played it safe until her ideal life is shattered when her dad dies suddenly.

Fueled by anger and grief, she vows to do everything opposite of how she lived before. Then she meets Jordan. He has big dreams, he's had a crush on Ashley for years, and he's a great kisser. But he's also safe.

Enter Colt. He is not safe, and he's more than willing to help Ashley fulfill her vow.

Rotters

By: Daniel Kraus

Published: April 5th 2011 by Delacorte Press

448 pages

Genre: YA, Horror

Source: Free Download from Sync Audiobooks

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Goodreads description--Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school.

Everything changes when Joey's mother dies in a tragic accident and he is sent to rural Iowa to live with the father he has never known, a strange, solitary man with unimaginable secrets. At first, Joey's father wants nothing to do with him, but once father and son come to terms with each other, Joey's life takes a turn both macabre and exhilarating.

Daniel Kraus's masterful plotting and unforgettable characters make Rotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complex family ties, taboos, and the ever-present specter of mortality.

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

Published: first published 1817

Genre: Classics, Horror, Science Fiction

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Goodreads description--"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine room, and a runaway imagination - fired by philosophical discussion with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, and the origins of life - conspired to produce for Mary Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece, Frankenstein.

Written in 1816, when she was only nineteen. Mary Shelley's novel of "The Modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time, Frankenstein remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic of its kind.

314

By: AR Wise

Published: December 24th 2012

250 pages

Genre: Horror

Source: Kindle Freebie

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Goodreads description--Alma Harper has been trying to forget what happened in Widowsfield 16 years ago. She has a good life as a music teacher now, and might rekindle her relationship with her one true love. However, the number 314 haunts her, and threatens to bring her back to the day that her brother disappeared. When a reporter shows up, just days before March 14th, Alma realizes that her past is coming back to haunt her. What happened on March 14th, at 3:14, 16 years ago? No one but The Skeleton Man can remember.

Saving Wishes (The Wishes Series, # 1)

By: GJ Walker-Smith

Published: February 2013

368 pages

Genre: YA, Contemporary

Source: Publisher via NetGalley (Thank you!)

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Goodreads description--For Charli Blake, being seventeen is a tough gig.

She's been branded a troublemaker, her reputation is in tatters and she's stuck in Pipers Cove, a speck of a town on the coast of Tasmania.

Thankfully, it's temporary. Her lifelong dream of travelling the world is just months away from becoming reality. All she has to do is ride out the last few months of high school, which is easier said than done thanks to a trio of mean girls known as The Beautifuls.

When Adam Décarie arrives in town, all the way from New York, life takes an unexpected turn. His arrival sets off a chain of events that alters her life forever, convincing her of one thing. Fate brought him to her.

Saving Wishes is the story of a girl who doesn't quite fit the life she's living, and the boy who helps her realise why.

I think that's all. But birthday celebration has come to a close--that means...birthday money spending is about to begin. Hip Hip HOORAY!

That's it for my shelves and recaps of my past and upcoming week. What did you add to your shelves this week? Any bookish news you want to talk about? Let me know!