tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12617476759896836782024-03-13T03:08:39.548-07:00Confessions of a Bookworm"If you are a dreamer, come in.
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer,
if you're a pretender, come sit by my fire,
for we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in! Come in!"
-Shel SilversteinBookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-62020361582603365022011-08-09T20:51:00.000-07:002011-08-09T20:51:26.359-07:00My Entry for the Merry Fates Prompt ContestThis is just a short piece I wrote for the contest the Merry Fates are having, which you can learn more about here. The prompt is the picture below, "The Turret Stairs" by Frederic Burton. This isn't my best work, but I hope you like it, and maybe enter the contest yourself!
A Different Future
They say you always want what you can't have. But standing with him in the low light of the towerBookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-86023203287982231102011-08-08T14:28:00.000-07:002011-08-08T14:28:00.906-07:00And I Thought My Sibling Relationship Was RockyCircle of Fire
Michelle Zink
5 Stars
With time dwindling, Lia sets out on a journey to locate the missing pages of the prophecy and persuade her sister, Alice, to help—or risk her life trying. Lia has Dimitri by her side, but Alice has James. James doesn’t know the truth about either sister, or about the prophecy. And Alice intends to keep it that way. There are some secrets sisters aren't Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-90875845640488334732011-07-11T11:31:00.000-07:002011-07-11T11:31:22.104-07:00Tassels Are Bad
Abandon
Meg Cabot
2 Stars
Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we die. That's how she met John Hayden, the mysterious stranger who's made returning to normal life - or at least life as Pierce knew it before the accident - next to impossible. Though she thought she escaped him - starting a new school in a whole new place - it turns out she was wrong. He finds her. What Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-82435963058538895992011-06-10T13:12:00.000-07:002011-06-10T13:12:45.312-07:00My Letter to Sarah Rees Brennan
It is no secret that Sarah Rees Brennan's The Demon's Lexicon trilogy is one of my obsessions. I've forced everyone I know into reading it, I spend hours debating different couples and scenes, and when The Demon's Surrender finally shows up at my door, I may just burst into song and run around my house screaming "SURRENDER!". But, it's not just her books - I think SRB herself is Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-47643732396874888692011-06-09T19:34:00.000-07:002011-06-09T19:36:22.196-07:00Killer UnicornsRampant
Diana Peterfreund
4 Stars
Forget everything you ever knew about unicorns . . . Astrid Llewelyn has always scoffed at her eccentric mother's stories about killer unicorns. But when one attacks her boyfriend—ruining any chance of him taking her to prom—Astrid finds herself headed to Rome to train as a unicorn hunter at the ancient Cloisters the hunters have used for centuries. Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-28300134447388824472011-06-08T02:15:00.000-07:002011-06-08T07:19:07.960-07:002 A.M. Musings on Looking for AlaskaLooking for Alaska
John Green
5 Stars
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words–and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-77597589571545386472011-06-07T17:58:00.000-07:002011-06-07T17:58:21.085-07:00What I Learned from Miss Teen DreamBeauty Queens
Libba Bray
5 Stars
Printz Award winner Libba Bray is back with a tale that involves a plane crash, national beauty pageant contestants, a secret militaristic corporation, and desert island survival. It’s irreverent and thought provoking, and laugh-out-loud funny. When the Miss Teen Dream Pageant plane goes down over the ocean, there are only a handful of pageant contestant Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-30558895272088912652011-05-26T14:12:00.000-07:002011-05-26T14:12:06.720-07:00Winners of City of Fallen Angels and Red Glove!Thank you so much to everyone who entered the giveaways, and congratulations to the winners below! Enjoy your books.
Signed City of Fallen Angels :Erica East
Signed Red Glove :ferretvamp14
Both of these winners have been sent e-mails by me (from arshdeep.27@gmail.com) and have 48 hours to respond and claim their prizes, or a new winner will be chosen.Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-90000889048399823052011-05-08T00:01:00.000-07:002011-05-08T00:03:36.161-07:00Giveaway of SIGNED Red Glove by Holly Black!
So, back in April, I had the amazing experience of attending a signing by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black! Both ladies were incredibly funny and sweet, and I honestly was awed to be in their presence. It was a fantastic event - readings from the authors' books, a great question-answer session, and of course, getting books signed. However, I know that most people didn't have the Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-46480646055515849542011-05-07T23:54:00.000-07:002011-05-07T23:54:06.417-07:00Holly Black Would So Be an Emotion Worker.Red Glove
Holly Black
5 Stars
Curses and cons. Magic and the mob. In Cassel Sharpe's world, they go together. Cassel always thought he was an ordinary guy, until he realized his memories were being manipulated by his brothers. Now he knows the truth—he’s the most powerful curse worker around. A touch of his hand can transform anything—or anyone—into something else. That was how Lila, the girlBookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-87424023409350239112011-05-05T20:28:00.000-07:002011-05-06T08:03:19.519-07:00Giveaway of SIGNED City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare!
So, back in April, I had the amazing experience of attending a signing by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black! Both ladies were incredibly funny and sweet, and I honestly was awed to be in their presence. It was a fantastic event - readings from the authors' books, a great question-answer session, and of course, getting books signed. However, I know that most people didn't have the Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-1798138075972743982011-05-05T19:35:00.000-07:002011-05-05T19:35:08.054-07:00I Will Never Look at a Mango the Same Way Again.City of Fallen Angels
Cassandra Clare
4 Stars
City of Fallen Angels takes place two months after the events of City of Glass. In it, a mysterious someone’s killing the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine’s Circle and displaying their bodies around New York City in a manner designed to provoke hostility between Downworlders and Shadowhunters, leaving tensions running high in the city andBookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-1664943012284671742011-04-26T18:30:00.000-07:002011-04-26T18:30:01.432-07:00Scarlett and Rosie March Are Officially One of My Favorite Fictional FamiliesSisters Red
Jackson Pearce
4.5 Stars
Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris--the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She's determined to protect other young girls from a grisly death, and her raging heart will not rest until Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-71070406531725789982011-04-21T16:53:00.000-07:002011-04-21T16:53:44.302-07:00Cinnamon Rolls and Vampires and Sunlight and Magic...Sunshine
Robin McKinley
2 Stars
Rae, nicknamed Sunshine by her stepfather, is the baker at her family's coffeehouse. She's happy getting up at 4 am to make cinnamon rolls for the breakfast rush, and dealing with people and food all day. But one evening she needed somewhere she could be alone for a little while, and there hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years. She never thought ofBookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-63779640301778100562011-04-20T21:13:00.001-07:002011-04-20T21:13:22.052-07:00I'm Back!Okay, so, I realize that I've completely dropped the ball on this blog in the last few months, and I am so, so sorry! But, I have returned, and I have a lot of reviews to get up (and I mean a lot). I even have a couple of giveaways planned, which should be really exciting. So, stay tuned, lots of great stuff coming up!Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-53866748900496261662011-02-14T21:16:00.001-08:002011-02-14T21:16:54.725-08:00In response to your poll: I borrow all the books I read from a demented worm of sorts. xxHa, this demented worm is quite glad to have someone to share these books with ;)Query! Comment! Recommend!Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-78507565452008381342011-02-05T16:22:00.000-08:002011-02-05T16:22:57.995-08:00The (Apparently) Lost Magic of Dan Brown's WritingThe Lost Symbol
Dan Brown
3.5 Stars
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object--artfully encoded with five symbols--is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation... one meant to Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-73582725634586149332011-01-12T14:49:00.000-08:002011-01-19T17:59:19.232-08:00Searching For More Book Review Blogs & Some Lovely NewsHey, everybody! I just wanted to let you know that I am searching for some good book review blogs, so if you have one yourself, or know of one, please do let me know by commenting on this post, tweeting me (@bookworm_blog), or asking on Formspring (bookwormblog). I'd love to check them out. Thanks so much! Also, Sarah Rees Brennan has announced that The Demon's Lexicon has been optioned by Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-46686510888204751942011-01-11T18:30:00.000-08:002011-01-19T18:03:45.610-08:00A Beautiful Story of Ugly ThingsThe Replacement
Brenna Yovanoff
4.5 Stars
Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie isBookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-4847793399177853272011-01-01T16:20:00.001-08:002011-01-01T18:07:21.086-08:00First of all, Happy New Year! Second, I answered "other" on your poll, and I'm waiting for Circle of Fire by Michelle Zink!Thank you so much, Happy New Year to you too!! Michelle Zink...I've heard a lot about her. Yet another author I must read soon! Thanks so much for recommending and for voting (:Query! Comment! Recommend!Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-4184540350245620582010-12-31T16:55:00.001-08:002010-12-31T16:56:22.855-08:00Happy New Years. (: What are your New Year's Resolutions?Thank you! Happy New Year to you too!! Hmmm, my resolutions....read even more. Make my blog better, in general...get serious about my writing...Yeah, I think that's mostly it :)Query! Comment! Recommend!Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-42786447349284688012010-12-31T16:53:00.001-08:002010-12-31T16:56:14.783-08:00ahh, one more comment. I absolutely loved Nightlight, so freakin hilarious. :DAbsolutely! Nightlight is utter genius :D And I never, ever mind comments/questions/etc. so keep 'em coming (:Query! Comment! Recommend!Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-86341278801026332412010-12-31T16:51:00.001-08:002010-12-31T16:56:05.784-08:00Alsooooo, I don't like the cover of CoFA that much. I mean it's nice, but Clary isn't at all how I pictured her... Also, her eyes freak me out, so unnaturally bright haha.Definitely liked the first series's covers better.I agree; the Simon part of the cover is good, but Clary just seems kind of weird. Yeah, so far I like TMI Cycle 1's covers better, but I still have hopes for the next few covers...*crosses fingers for Magnus on cover*Query! Comment! Recommend!Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-28019315779800366042010-12-31T13:49:00.000-08:002010-12-31T14:03:37.224-08:00My Most-Awaited Reads for 2011!So, guess what? It's New Year's Eve! (Well, at least where I am...) And that means that 2011 is just a few hours away, along with all the amazing books it shall bring, like...
City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince - Cassandra Clare
The Demon's Surrender - Sarah Rees Brennan
The Vespertine - Saundra Mitchell
Red Glove - Holly Black
Bloodlines - Richelle Mead
SuccubusBookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1261747675989683678.post-33450007175263694522010-12-30T21:05:00.001-08:002010-12-30T21:06:05.797-08:00I voted other on your survey ... My vote goes to Richelle Mead!Richelle Mead is definitely AMAZING <3!! And thanks so much for voting (:Query! Comment! Recommend!Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143287696163201162noreply@blogger.com0