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 week was a lot less stressful than last week. We're celebrating my birthday and Father's Day with my in-laws today. My birthday isn't until next Saturday, but my brother-in-law and sister-in-law and their kids will be in town this weekend so we're going to celebrate while they're here. But hey...I'm not going to complain about stretching the birthday celebrations out. Also, Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there. We'll celebrate Father's Day with my dad next Saturday. Also, apparently this week was the week of series enders for me. Also you guys PLEASE check out the Delirium pilot that will be on Hulu for a limited time. I suppose depending on the response they get they might pick up the series. I SO!!!! want this to make it! I LOVED Delirium!
Monday: Review of Five Ways to Fall (Ten Tiny Breaths, # 4) by KA Tucker (4 Stars)
Tuesday: Top Ten Books I've Read So Far in 2014
Wednesday: Waiting on Jane's Harmony (Jane's Melody, # 2) by Ryan Winfield
Thursday: Review of City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, # 6) by Cassandra Clare (4.5 Stars)
Friday: Review of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, # 3) by Stieg Larsson (4 Stars)
Saturday: Movie Review of The Fault in Our Stars (5 Stars) - I've never given a movie review 5 stars until now.
Monday: Review of Very Bad Things (Briarcrest Academy, # 1) by Ilsa Madden-Mills
Tuesday: Top Ten Books on my Summer TBR List
Wednesday: Waiting on Wednesday
Thursday: Review of Pivot Point (Pivot Point, # 1) by Kasie West
Friday: Review of The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger
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Mortal Heart (His Fair Assassins, # 3)
By: Robin LaFevers
Expected Publication: November 4th 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
480 pages
Source: Publisher via Edelweiss (Thank you!!!!)
Genre: YA, Fantasy, Historical Fiction
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Goodreads description--Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent. Feeling sorely betrayed, Annith decides to strike out on her own.She has spent her whole life training to be an assassin. Just because the convent has changed its mind doesn't mean she has.
A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird, # 1)
By: Claudia Gray
Expected Publication: November 4th 2014 by Harper Teen
368 pages
Genre: YA, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Fantasy, Paranormal
Source: Publisher via Edelweiss (Thank you!!)
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Goodreads description--Every Day meets Cloud Atlas in this heart-racing, space- and time-bending, epic new trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray.Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. Their most astonishing invention: the Firebird, which allows users to jump into parallel universes, some vastly altered from our own. But when Marguerite’s father is murdered, the killer—her parent’s handsome and enigmatic assistant Paul—escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him.
Marguerite can’t let the man who destroyed her family go free, and she races after Paul through different universes, where their lives entangle in increasingly familiar ways. With each encounter she begins to question Paul’s guilt—and her own heart. Soon she discovers the truth behind her father’s death is more sinister than she ever could have imagined.
A Thousand Pieces of You explores a reality where we witness the countless other lives we might lead in an amazingly intricate multiverse, and ask whether, amid infinite possibilities, one love can endure.
No Place to Fall
By: Jaye Robin Brown
Published: December 9th 2014 by Harper Teen
368 pages
Genre: YA, Contemporary
Source: Publisher via Edelweiss (Thank you!!)
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Goodreads description--Amber Vaughn is a good girl. She sings solos at church, babysits her nephew after school, and spends every Friday night hanging out at her best friend Devon’s house. It’s only when Amber goes exploring in the woods near her home, singing camp songs with the hikers she meets on the Appalachian Trail, that she feels free—and when the bigger world feels just a little bit more in reach.When Amber learns about an audition at the North Carolina School of the Arts, she decides that her dream—to sing on bigger stages—could also be her ticket to a new life. Devon’s older (and unavailable) brother, Will, helps Amber prepare for her one chance to try out for the hypercompetitive arts school. But the more time Will and Amber spend together, the more complicated their relationship becomes . . . and Amber starts to wonder if she’s such a good girl, after all.
Then, in an afternoon, the bottom drops out of her family’s world—and Amber is faced with an impossible choice between her promise as an artist and the people she loves. Amber always thought she knew what a good girl would do. But between “right” and “wrong,” there’s a whole world of possibilities.
The Bourne Ascendancy (Jason Bourne, # 12)
By: Eric Van Lustbader
Published: June 10th 2014 by Grand Central Publishing (first published May 22nd 2014)
464 pages
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Adventure
Source: Publisher via NetGalley (Thank you!!)
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Goodreads description--Jason Bourne is one of the most popular and compelling characters in contemporary fiction. Originally created by bestselling author Robert Ludlum, the Jason Bourne series was later adapted into films that have become modern classics. Now, New York Times bestselling writer Eric Van Lustbader carries on Jason Bourne's story with a new novel about the rogue secret agent who has lost his memory . . .THE BOURNE ASCENDANCY
In this thrilling and absorbing new novel Jason Bourne is faced with an impossible mission. He has been hired to impersonate a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding the minister from any assassination attempts. Suddenly, armed gunmen storm the room, killing everyone but Bourne. Their target, however, isn't the minister Bourne impersonates....it is Bourne himself.
Kidnapped and transported to an underground bunker, Bourne finds himself face-to-face with an infamous terrorist named El Ghadan ("Tomorrow"). El Ghadan holds as his captive Soraya Moore, former co-director of Treadstone, and a close friend to Bourne, along with her two year old daughter.
Meanwhile, the President of the United States is in the midst of brokering a historic peace treaty between the Israelis and the Palestinians-an event that El Ghadan is desperate to prevent. He demands that Bourne carry out a special mission: kill the President. If Bourne refuses, Soraya and her daughter will die.
Bourne must make a monstrous choice: save Soraya and her daughter, or save the President.
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!
