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.
It was so nice to have a day off on Monday. Spent some time in the pool. It was my first time getting in this year. Cool but not too cold. Got too much sun, but not too crispy. Of course that helped the week go by pretty quickly. There are a lot of changes coming at work and no one really seems to know what's going to happen, but I'm not worried too much. It will all work out. Obviously ArmchairBEA was this week. I had a good time, but I wish I had more time to interact with others. This just hasn't been a week full of any extra time for me. Yesterday I mega cleaned house. I didn't make it to as many rooms as I wanted, but I did things in each room that weren't things I do every week--like vacuuming the ceiling and ceiling fans. Oh and this coming weekend I'm headed to Mobile to visit with some family and hit up the beach with my sister and SNL. We'll probably try to go see The Fault in Our Stars while we're in Mobile. Any of you planning on seeing it this weekend?
Sunday: 2014 Series Enders Reading Challenge - May Wrap Up
Monday: ArmchairBEA Day 1 - Introduction & Literature
Tuesday: ArmchairBEA Day 2 - Author Interactions & More Than Just Words
Wednesday: ArmchairBEA Day 3 - Expanding Blogging Horizons & Novellas/Short Stories
Thursday: ArmchairBEA Day 4 Part 1 - Beyond Borders & ArmchairBEA Day 4 Part 2 - Giveaway (Ends June 2nd)
Friday: ArmchairBEA Day 5 - Middle Grade/Young Adult
Saturday: May 2014 EOM Wrap Up
Monday: Review of Losing Control (Kerr Chronicles, # 1) by Jen Frederick including a Giveaway (Ends June 7th)
Tuesday: Top Ten Books in my Beach Bag
Wednesday: Waiting on Wednesday
Thursday: Review of Jane's Melody (Jane's Melody, # 1) by Ryan Winfield
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!
City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, # 6)
By: Cassandra Clare
Published: May 27th 2014 by Margaret K. McElderry
725 pages
Genre: YA, Fantasy, Paranormal
Source: Own/Personal Library
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Goodreads description--ΕRCHOMAI, SEBASTIAN HAD SAID.I am coming.
Darkness returns to the Shadowhunter world. As their society falls apart around them, Clary, Jace, Simon and their friends must band together to fight the greatest evil the Nephilim have ever faced: Clary’s own brother. Nothing in the world can defeat him — must they journey to another world to find the chance? Lives will be lost, love sacrificed, and the whole world changed in the sixth and last installment of the Mortal Instruments series!
Anatomy of a Misfit
By: Andrea Portes
Expected Publication: September 2nd 2014 by Harper Children’s
336 pages
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary
Source: Publisher via Edelweiss (Thank you!!)
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Goodreads description--This emotional, hilarious, devastating, and ultimately triumphant YA debut, based on actual events, recounts one girl’s rejection of her high school’s hierarchy—and her discovery of her true self in the face of tragedy.Fall’s buzzed-about, in-house favorite. Outside, Anika Dragomir is all lip gloss and blond hair—the third most popular girl in school. Inside, she’s a freak: a mix of dark thoughts, diabolical plots, and, if local chatter is to be believed, vampire DNA (after all, her father is Romanian). But she keeps it under wraps to maintain her social position. One step out of line and Becky Vilhauer, first most popular girl in school, will make her life hell. So when former loner Logan McDonough shows up one September hotter, smarter, and more mysterious than ever, Anika knows she can’t get involved. It would be insane to throw away her social safety for a nerd. So what if that nerd is now a black-leather-jacket-wearing dreamboat, and his loner status is clearly the result of his troubled home life? Who cares if the right girl could help him with all that, maybe even save him from it? Who needs him when Jared Kline, the bad boy every girl dreams of, is asking her on dates? Who?
Anatomy of a Misfit is Mean Girls meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Anika’s hilariously deadpan delivery will appeal to readers for its honesty and depth. The so-sad-it’s-funny high school setting will pull readers in, but when the story’s dark foreboding gradually takes over, the devastating penultimate tragedy hits like a punch to the gut. Readers will ride the highs and lows alongside funny, flawed Anika—from laughter to tears, and everything in between.
Confessions of a Murder Suspect (Confessions, # 1)
By: James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Published: September 24th 2012 by Little, Brown and Company
372 pages
Genre: YA, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Crime
Source: Free Audiobook Sync Download
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Goodreads description--James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a thrilling teen detective series about the mysterious and magnificently wealthy Angel family... and the dark secrets they're keeping from one another.On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: She was the last person to see her parents alive. The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. She can't trust anyone -— maybe not even herself.
Having grown up under Malcolm and Maud's intense perfectionist demands, no child comes away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous -- and revealing -- game. Who knows what the Angels are truly capable of?
The Murder at the Vicarage
By: Agatha Christie
Publication: first published 1930
288 pages
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Classic
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Goodreads description--"At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true" sighs old Miss Jane Marple in her first full novel. St Mary's Mead vicar Len Clement narrates. When hated wealthy Colonel Protheroe is shot in Len's office, Jane alibis both heir, wife Anne, and Anne's lover Lawrence. Curate admits guilt for embezzlement and murder by his suicide -- until he survives.
Deliverance (Courier's Daughter, # 3)
By: CJ Redwine
Expected Publication: August 26th 2014 by Balzer + Bray
480
Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopian, Fantasy
Source: Publisher via Edelweiss (Thank you!!)
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Goodreads description--Everything hangs in the balance, and nothing is certain: Rachel has been kidnapped by enemy forces and is being taken to Rowansmark while Logan, imprisoned and awaiting trial, is unable to leave Lankenshire. Separated from each other and their Baalboden comrades, each must find a way to achieve what they desperately want: to rid their world once and for all of the Commander and the tech that controls the deadly Cursed One.Fighting through her pain and embracing the warrior she’s become, Rachel will do whatever it takes to escape her enemies’ clutches and join Logan in his fight. But when she learns a secret that changes everything, she realizes that escaping Ian and his tracker friends is no longer an option if she wants to save the people she loves. Instead, she’ll have to destroy Rowansmark from the inside out—if she can survive the journey through the Wasteland.
Logan needs allies if he wants to thwart Rowansmark’s power grab and rescue Rachel. But securing allies will mean betraying his beliefs and enlisting the help of the man he hates more than anyone: Commander Jason Chase. Driven by his fierce love for Rachel and his determination to make their world safe, Logan may be just the weapon the city-states need to defeat the Cursed One.
But as Rowansmark bears down and uneasy alliances are tested, will Rachel and Logan’s love for each other be enough to surmount the unbelievable odds against them?
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!
