Sunday Post - 96 & Stacking the Shelves - 62

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.

Husband was off of work this week. He's been working on cleaning out our garage so he can paint it and reorganize. I'm so excited to have this done. I love when everything has it's place and everything is in it's place. We also celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary on Thursday. The modern 5th anniversary is wood so Husband took me to the book store and let me pick out a couple of book and he got a lapdesk. We also bought a chest of drawers (FINALLY!!!) and so now our clothing will have it's place and be in it's place as well! It's been a good week. We also get to see each of our mothers today. Happy Mother's Day to all it applies to!

THIS PAST WEEK:

Monday: Review of Above by Isla Morley (4 Stars)
Tuesday: Top Ten Book Covers I'd Hang as Art
Wednesday: Waiting on Beautiful Oblivion (Maddox Brothers, # 1) by Jamie McGuire
Thursday: Review of Just for Now (Sea Breeze, # 4) by Abbi Glines (4 Stars)
Friday: Review of Emma by Jane Austen (4 Stars)

UPCOMING THIS WEEK:

Monday: Review of Dark Triumph (His Fair Assassin, # 2) by Robin LaFevers
Tuesday: Top Ten Books I Almost Put Down
Wednesday: Waiting on Wednesday
Thursday: Review of Barely Breathing (Breathing, # 2) by Rebecca Donovan
Friday: Upon Further Review: The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, # 1) by Suzanne Collins

Don't forget to sign up for the 2014 Series Enders Reading Challenge! Each month there will be a giveaway for those participating with a BIG giveaway at the end of the year! Click on the picture below or the link above to find out more!

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

Easy (Contours of the Heart, # 1)

By: Tammara Webber

Published: November 6th 2012 by Penguin Berkley (first published May 25th 2012)

336 pages

Genre: New Adult, Contemporary

Source: Personal Library (Anniversary Present)

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Goodreads description--Rescued by a stranger.
Haunted by a secret
Sometimes, love isn’t easy…

He watched her, but never knew her. Until thanks to a chance encounter, he became her savior…

The attraction between them was undeniable. Yet the past he’d worked so hard to overcome, and the future she’d put so much faith in, threatened to tear them apart.

Only together could they fight the pain and guilt, face the truth—and find the unexpected power of love.

A groundbreaking novel in the New Adult genre, Easy faces one girl's struggle to regain the trust she's lost, find the inner strength to fight back against an attacker, and accept the peace she finds in the arms of a secretive boy.

Before I Fall

By: Lauren Oliver

Published: March 2nd 2010 by HarperCollins

496 pages

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary

Source: Personal Library (Anniversary Present)

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Goodreads description--With this stunning debut novel, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver emerged as one of today's foremost authors of young adult fiction. Like Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why and Gayle Forman's If I Stay, Before I Fall raises thought-provoking questions about love, death, and how one person's life can affect so many others.

For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—"Cupid Day"—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is…until she dies in a terrible accident that night.

However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.

Named to numerous state reading lists, this novel was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly. It has been optioned for film by Fox 2000 Pictures.

Fangirl

By: Rainbow Rowell

Published: September 10th 2013 by St. Martin's Press

445 pages

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary

Source: Personal Library (Anniversary Present)

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Goodreads description--From the author of the New York Times bestseller Eleanor & Park.

A coming-of-age tale of fan fiction, family and first love.

Cath is a Simon Snow fan.

Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan...

But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.

Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words... And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?

Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?

And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

Balancing It All: My Story of Juggling Priorities and Purpose

By: Candace Cameron Bure

Published: December 4th 2013 by B&H Publishing Group

138 pages

Genre: Non-Fiction

Source: Personal Kindle Library

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Goodreads description--“How do you do it all?”

That’s the question that wife, mom, actress, and best-selling author Candace Cameron Bure is often asked. And it’s a question that women everywhere are asking themselves as we seek to balance all of our roles, responsibilities, and opportunities.

So, how do we do it? Working since the age of 5, Candace has been in a balancing act for nearly her entire life. She is the first to tell you that there is no miracle formula for perfect execution in every area of your life, but there definitely are some lessons to be learned, lessons that come to life in Candace's story.

Come along and dig into Candace’s story from her start in commercials, the balance-necessitating years on Full House, to adding on the roles of wife and mom while also returning to Hollywood. Insightful, funny, and poignant, Candace’s story will help you balance it all.

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!