What I read in September
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own
Making by Catherynne M. Valente Review|Goodreads|Amazon
What I plan on reading in October (Anyone notice a theme?)
What’s on your wrap-up/TBR?
Showing posts with label September 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label September 2012. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
September Birthdays!
These are just a few YA books that
I’ve found are coming out during the month. Again, I tried to pick new books
that were not in the middle of a series. I pick one or two books coming out each week. Every once in a while I might throw in
another genre if it looks really good.
Origin by
Jessica KhouryHardcover, 372 pages
Expected publication: September 4th 2012 by Razorbill
Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home—and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life.
Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark on a race against time to discover the truth about Pia’s origin—a truth with deadly consequences that will change their lives forever.
Origin is a beautifully told, shocking new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever, no matter the cost. This is a supremely compelling debut novel that blends the awakening romance of Matched with the mystery and jungle conspiracy of Lost.
Tilt by Ellen HopkinsHardcover, 608 pages
Expected publication: September 11th 2012 by Margaret K. McElderry Books
Love—good and bad—forces three teens’ worlds to tilt in a riveting
novel from New York Times bestselling
author Ellen Hopkins.
Three teens, three stories—all interconnected through their parents’ family relationships. As the adults pull away, caught up in their own dilemmas, the lives of the teens begin to tilt….
Mikayla, almost eighteen, is over-the-top in love with Dylan, who loves her back jealously. But what happens to that love when Mikayla gets pregnant the summer before their senior year—and decides to keep the baby?
Shane turns sixteen that same summer and falls hard in love with his first boyfriend, Alex, who happens to be HIV positive. Shane has lived for four years with his little sister’s impending death. Can he accept Alex’s love, knowing that his life, too, will be shortened?
Harley is fourteen—a good girl searching for new experiences, especially love from an older boy. She never expects to hurdle toward self-destructive extremes in order to define who she is and who she wants to be.
Love, in all its forms, has crucial consequences in this standalone novel.
Three teens, three stories—all interconnected through their parents’ family relationships. As the adults pull away, caught up in their own dilemmas, the lives of the teens begin to tilt….
Mikayla, almost eighteen, is over-the-top in love with Dylan, who loves her back jealously. But what happens to that love when Mikayla gets pregnant the summer before their senior year—and decides to keep the baby?
Shane turns sixteen that same summer and falls hard in love with his first boyfriend, Alex, who happens to be HIV positive. Shane has lived for four years with his little sister’s impending death. Can he accept Alex’s love, knowing that his life, too, will be shortened?
Harley is fourteen—a good girl searching for new experiences, especially love from an older boy. She never expects to hurdle toward self-destructive extremes in order to define who she is and who she wants to be.
Love, in all its forms, has crucial consequences in this standalone novel.
Burn for Burn by Jenny HanHardcover, 368 pages
Expected publication: September 18th 2012 by Simon & Schuster Books For Young
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY...
THEY GET EVEN.
Lillia has never had any problems dealing with boys who like her. Not until this summer, when one went too far. No way will she let the same thing happen to her little sister.
Kat is tired of the rumours, the insults, the cruel jokes. It all goes back to one person– her ex-best friend– and she's ready to make her pay.
Four years ago, Mary left Jar Island because of a boy. But she's not the same girl anymore. And she's ready to prove it to him.
Three very different girls who want the same thing: sweet, sweet revenge. And they won't stop until they each had a taste.
THEY GET EVEN.
Lillia has never had any problems dealing with boys who like her. Not until this summer, when one went too far. No way will she let the same thing happen to her little sister.
Kat is tired of the rumours, the insults, the cruel jokes. It all goes back to one person– her ex-best friend– and she's ready to make her pay.
Four years ago, Mary left Jar Island because of a boy. But she's not the same girl anymore. And she's ready to prove it to him.
Three very different girls who want the same thing: sweet, sweet revenge. And they won't stop until they each had a taste.
Alice in Zombieland by Gena ShowalterHardcover, 404 pages
Expected publication: September 25th 2012 by Harlequin Teen
She won’t rest until she’s sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.
Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that’s all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.
Her father was right. The monsters are real….
To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn’t careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies….
I wish I could go back and do a thousand things differently.
I'd tell my sister no.
I'd never beg my mother to talk to my dad.
I'd zip my lips and swallow those hateful words.
Or, barring all of that, I'd hug my sister, my mom and my dad one last time.
I'd tell them I love them.
I wish... Yeah, I wish.
What are you excited for this month?!
(oh and speaking of birthdays.. Mine is Sept 28th!)
Friday, August 31, 2012
August WrapUp & September TBR
What I read in August:
(Not in order)
Other Goose: Re-Nurseried!! and Re-Rhymed!! Children's Classics
by J. Otto Seibold
Review|Goodreads|Amazon
Batula by Marco Cinello Review|Goodreads|Amazon
Review|Goodreads|Amazon
Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts
Review|Goodreads|Amazon
The Dark Knight Trilogy by Nolan Christopher
Review|Goodreads|Amazon
Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James
Review|Goodreads|Amazon
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (All three reviewed in one post)
Review|Goodreads|Amazon
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Goodreads|Amazon
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Goodreads|Amazon
Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James
Review|Goodreads|Amazon
My Dead Friend Sarah by Peter Rosch (Had to quit this one L)
Review|Goodreads|Amazon
The girl who circumnavigated fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente
Goodreads|Amazon
Goodreads|Amazon
What did you read this month and what do you plan on reading next month?!
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