A Love For Lit

Super-huge 26 Book Haul

Hey Everyone! As you know ive been gone all summer! I only just got back about 2 weeks ago! While i was gone i collected ALOT of books!!! So i wanted to do a haul post to see what you all think of these. If youve read one or have reviews, please post thoughts and links in the comments. Im excited to read your opinions!

The List:

The Vampire's Promise by Caroline Cooney

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick

Old Magic by Marianne Curley

Swoon by Nina Malkin

Remember Me by Christopher Pike

Jessica Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey

The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong

The Mark by Jen Nadol

Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel

The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell

The Hourglass Door by Lisa Mangum

Wuthering Bites by Sarah Gray

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Nighlight by Harvard Lampoon

Forgive my Fins by Tera Lynn Childs

The Mermaid's Mirror by L K Madigan

Raven by Allison Van Diepen

All Just Glass by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Vampire Kisses the Beginning by Ellen Schreiber

Fallen by Lauren Kate

Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Need by Carrie Jones

Blood Promise by Richelle Mead

Firespell by Chloe Neill

Hexbound by Chloe Neill

Hmm, which should i start first? :D

Waiting On Wednesday

Title: The Hidden

Author: Jessica Verday

Date of Publication: September 6th, 2011

Blurb: Abbey knows that Caspian is her destiny. Theirs is a bond that transcends even death. But as Abbey finally learns the full truth about the dark fate that links her to Caspian and ties them both to the town of Sleepy Hollow, she suddenly has some very hard choices to make. Caspian may be the love of her life, but is that love worth dying for?

Beautifully spun, emotionally gripping, and irresistibly romantic, The Hidden will leave you breathless.

Waiting On Wednesday: This is a weekly event that spotlights upcoming releases that I am eagerly anticipating! Brought to you by Breaking the Spine

Teaser Tuesday

Title: Nevermore

Author: Kelly Creagh

Location of teaser: Chapter 5 "A Note of Warning" at 30% mark

Teaser: He pressed something into her palm. Her fingers curled to secure it and, for the briefest moment, clenched his. In the next, he moved on, and she felt herself turning to stare after him, rubbing her thumb over the smooth slip of folded paper.

Teaser Tuesday: Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page and share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given! No spoilers! Brought to you by MizB

Hey hey hey!!

Wow im at 110 followers!! Do you know what that means?? Yep a giveaway! Im so happy you all choose to follow me! Thank you so much!!!!!

Originally i wanted to give away Unearthly but i decided to let you choose your ~~book~~ books! Thats right however many books you can squeeze in for $25 including taxes and shipping!! Ill probably buy from book depostitory because there is free shipping!!!

To enter all you need to do is:

Be a follower!

Leave a comment with the top five books youd like to win in a numbered list! Make sure the #1 is your "most wanted" and #5 is your least wanted. Im going to scour the internet for cheap prices and send as many books as $25 can get!

Please tweet, blog, or share the contest and leave a link.

Lastly, Leave your email address in the comment!

Only one random winner will be choosen. International welcome...but book quanity will be reduced because of shipping. One entry per follower. Deadline to enter will be September 1st. Winner will have 3 days to respond and provide shipping address. Please feel free to ask questions.

Thank you all and goodluck!!

Review: Twilight by Stephenie Meyers

While i know that everyone has already reviewed Twilight in like...2007.. Im sort of just getting to it! :)

5 Hearts

--SIDENOTE: Ive been out of town for a while (meaning all summer) so i havent really had time to blog at all...that an the fact that i have NO internet sort of renders my blog as a desert wasteland...sort of like my life.. (lol joking..that was too funny not to say :P) But anyway, i found the COOLEST app on my android phone for composing text and it has export! Wow imagine that...my blog just might survive after all....maybe my life will turn around....just maybe! :P (Dear lord, please help me remember my blogger password!) Also, blogger for android only allows pictures that sort of float above the text...no textwrap or anything... :( So i made easy templates for my reviews. --

Ok, so for Twilight! What else can i say beyond i loved it. When i say love i mean true love for the literature. I am aware the Kstew is amazing to alot of people and the Rpattz is sexy (as hel*) to most people, but my love is for the story without consideration to the actors! (Although i struggle with some rob-obsession)

Before twilight was a movie, i loved it!! As soon as i saw it at walmart (the only place i bought books back then) i bought it and read it the same night. Maybe it helped that i lived in phoenix and was about to louisiana the "most humid place in the continental US" as Edward where say (with a crooked grin)! It was probably the cover too....i love me some apples! (Although Mango is my friut of choice at current, just opened a mango debit acct)

Before twilight, i didnt read. Well obvious i read but not fiction works and never for pleasure. I guess the pleasure of reading about Edward ruin me because now i read alot!! I get annoyed when i cant and supered annoyed when bothered while reading. I suppose twilight was a hook that caught a lonely little fish that was me. _verysince then its been an everylasting reeling motion towards shore...gosh i hope i never get there!

I dont think i need to explain what Twilight is about or what happens in it.... "She falls in love with a mysterious strange who turns out to be a vampire" pretty much sums up the story line. The pacing is sort of slow as far as Bella always cooking or doing chores, but i think that builds a stronger bond to the character for me. The writing is beautiful and funny at times. The characters are realistic and interesting. As far as twilight "book 1" i dont have any dislikes! (i have issues with the others.)

I think readers in general either hate or love twilight... both sides have huge backing. I cant say for sure but i guess the movie or something might have something to do with it. Or issues with stephanie. I can defiately see those issues. But i think twilight is perfect for what it is: an imaginary story with real emotions. Thats the only way i can look at it.

What do you think? Id love to hear you comments! Thanks so much for coming by!

Swag #Giveaway

Hey everyone! Guess what I got in the mail?? The Eternal Sea bookmarks!!! Five of them!! This particular giveaway is for 3! Three lovely readers will get one bookmark each!!

To enter, all you need to do is (1) follow my blog; (2) write 2 comments: one stating why everyone should read Everlasting and one stating what youre most exciting about in book 2 The Eternal Sea; (3) add your name and email address!

This giveaway is open international and will end in 2 weeks on Wednesday!

Good luck everyone!

Carnival

WELCOME TO THE "ONCE UPON A TIME" BOOTH!!!

Hello All and Welcome to my booth! With the "Royal Wedding" just this weekend, I wanted my booth to alleviate the some of the possible envy! Maybe we all cant marry a Prince, but maybe emersing yourself in an excellent fairy tale could be just the thing! SO, if you complete my little challenge...you could get these books by Gail Carson Levine.

THE PRIZES

YEAH!! That's right! One winner will get all FOUR books! These are all great princess books!! WOOO! I havent even read these yet...but no worries because i bought 2 copies of each One for the winner and one for me!! :) I heard they are WONDERFUL!

THE RULES

Ok, so the rules to enter:

Must be a Follower of my blog (GFC Follower).
Must complete the Challenge Below and Submit on the form.
Must Live on Earth (Any Country as long as The Book Depository Ships to you).

THE CHALLENGE

Step One: Fill in the Crossword puzzle! Hehe Not to hard huh?
Step Two: UnScramble these! Look to the Crossword for Hints! :D

Question 6

Question 7

Question 8

Question 9

Woooo Just 9 small question.

Be sure to Check out my main post for the Full Booth Schedule and Blog Hop locations!

Huge thanks to the Hosts: Candace’s Book Blog http://www.candacesbookblog/, Reading Angel http://www.readingangel.com/, Pure Imagination http://www.pureimaginationblog.com/, and The Book Swarm http://www.bookswarm.blogspot.com/ !

Spring Blog Carnival: Princess Booth

Spring Blog Carnival: Princess Booth Giveaway

Come one, come all! Welcome welcome! Welcome to the Princess Booth! I have TWO giveaways for you!! One I'll announce now, the other will be revealed later in the week with a challenge! :) All you have to do to be entered into this drawing is to add your name and email to the comments below!! A random winner will be chosen after the carnival! Deadline to enter is May 8th at Midnight!!

The featured book for my first giveaway IS: *waves magic wand* My Fairy Fair Godmother by Janette Rallison! Since Book two, My Unfair Godmother, was just released this book i thought it was a perfect choice!!

Summary (Goodreads): After her boyfriend dumps her for her older sister, sophomore Savannah Delano wishes she could find a true prince to take her to the prom. Enter Chrissy (Chrysanthemum) Everstar: Savannah’s gum-chewing, cell phone–carrying, high heel-wearing Fair Godmother. Showing why she’s only Fair—because she’s not a very good fairy student—Chrissy mistakenly sends Savannah back in time to the Middle Ages, first as Cinderella, then as Snow White. Finally she sends Tristan, a boy in Savannah’s class, back instead to turn him into her prom-worthy prince. When Savannah returns to the Middle Ages to save Tristan, they must team up to defeat a troll, a dragon, and the mysterious and undeniably sexy Black Knight. Laughs abound in this clever fairy tale twist from a master of romantic comedy.

I want to give a HUGE thanks to our carnival hosts (Candace’s Book Blog http://www.candacesbookblog/, Reading Angel http://www.readingangel.com/, Pure Imagination http://www.pureimaginationblog.com/, and The Book Swarm http://www.bookswarm.blogspot.com/) !! You guys totally absolutely rock!!!

Here the Schedule:

May 1st-

Reading Angel: Haunted House

Reading Teen: Fortune Tellers Booth

May 2nd-

Candace’s Book Blog: Food Court

The Mod Podge Bookshelf: House of Mirrors

May 3rd-

The Book Swarm: Roller Coaster

Actin’ Up With Books: Karaoke Booth

May 4th-

Pure Imagination: Kissing Booth

Lovely Lit: Once Upon a Time Booth

May 5th-

Awesomesauce Books: Gaming Booth

Books R Us: Medieval Booth

May 6th-

Extreme Reader Book Reviews: Guessing Booth

Colloquium: Cotton Candy Booth

May 7th-

The Minding Spot: Teacups Booth

Miss Remmers Review: It’s a Bad World Booth

ALSO, (Yes, there is more!!) the carnival has a blog hop!! Gosh i love these!! A great way to find great friends and new blogs!!

Widget Wednesday (5)

Heeyy All,

I have an amazing widget for you all today!! I was looking around on twitter and noticed that @Angie_Frazier was giveaway bookmarks. So i tweeted her and now shes sending me one!! :O Amazing! ANND its not just any bookmark... Its for the Eternal Sea!! That would be Everlasting #2!!!! *screams* I thought Everlasting had a beautiful cover....but that was until i saw this book!! Soo so precious! So as a thank youto her, i made a widget for the new book!! It will be out on June 1st! :)

Summary (Goodreads.com): After the thrilling journey that led Camille through the dangerous discovery of love, secrets, and a magical stone that grants immortality, Camille has everything she wants. She's escaped the men who wanted her dead, and now she is ready to build a new life with Oscar, her one true love. But things are not to be so simple. Oscar is acting strangely, and before they can even board a ship from Australia back home, to San Francisco, Camille learns that the journey is not over. If she does not follow the magic of the curse of Umandu, her life and Ocar's could be in grave danger.

Whens Peeps Attack! #Giveaway

WHEN PEEPS ATTACK #GIVEAWAY

What do you do when peeps want to eat you? ;O

Ohhh, did you think i meant our tiny, yummy marshmallow friends? Oh nope, i mean Peeps by Scott Westerfeld! Yeap thats right....that crazy, cool vampire-isque book from a few years back. 2006 to be exact. I cant even express how much i love Scott Westerfeld's writing. I love love love the Uglies series! Mhm... OHH wait did i say the Peeps? I meant the Peeps AND The Last Days. The last day is book 2 in the series! :D

Summaries (goodreads.com):

Peeps (Peeps #1)
A year ago, Cal Thompson was a college freshman more interested in meeting girls and partying than in attending biology class. Now, after a fateful encounter with a mysterious woman named Morgan, biology has become, literally, Cal’s life.

Cal was infected by a parasite that has a truly horrifying effect on its host. Cal himself is a carrier, unchanged by the parasite, but he’s infected the girlfriends he’s had since Morgan. All three have turned into the ravening ghouls Cal calls Peeps. The rest of us know them as vampires. It’s Cal’s job to hunt them down before they can create more of their kind. . . .

Bursting with the sharp intelligence and sly humor that are fast becoming his trademark, Scott Westerfeld’s novel is an utterly original take on an archetype of horror.

The Last Days (Peeps #2)

Strange things are happening: old friends disappearing, angels (or devils) clambering on the fire escapes of New York City. But for Pearl, Moz, and Zahler, all that matters is the band. As the city reels under a mysterious epidemic, the three combine their talents with a vampire lead singer and a drummer whose fractured mind can glimpse the coming darkness. Will their music stave off the end? Or summon it?

Set against the gritty apocalypse that began in Peeps, The Last Days is about five teenagers who find themselves creating the soundtrack for the end of the world.

So to enter my little giveaway, all you need to do is leave a comment with your email address and name!! I recently added numbers to my comments, so i just use random.org to find my winner! :D This giveaway is open to all of my followers: US and all over the world! :D I havent picked the deadline yet...but probably in about 2 or 3 weeks! Ill be adding ways for extra entires soon (watch my twitter @alove4lit )...but for now, only one entry per person. :) Must be a follower of my blog to enter!

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!

Vampire Saga Hiatus?

You may notice a small hiatus on my part! Sigh....ive been feeling under the weather and not so socialable. I have a few posts schedule and ill send out my giveaway prizes, but other than that...i think ill stay curled up in bed with my game Vampire Saga! :) ill be back soon though!

Sorry for grammar/spelling stuff! Posted from my phone via Blogaway. hard to edit...

Widget Wednesday (4)

Halo!!! I love the cover of Halo! I've not read it yet, but i was super excited to see that the cover for book 2 is out!! I was sooo excited that i decided to make a widget!! Woooo...i love making widgets.