Goliath, by Scott Westerfeld

Title: Goliath Author: Scott Westerfeld Published: September 2011 Pages: 560 pages (hardcover) Genre: YA Fantasy Standalone or series: Third and final book in the Leviathan trilogy. Why I read it: Loved the first two in the series (review of 1st book, Leviathan, here) Source: The library Let’s start out with a bold statement, shall we? This is the best YA adventure series I’ve [...]

Library Loot: return from hiatus

I love cleaning out the YA section of my local libraries (I’ve done it many times before), I swear the DC/MD/VA area public libraries have AWESOME Young Adult fiction selections (kudos to the buyers in charge!) but rarely have any of the adult books on my wish list. So I did it once again…check out [...]

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

 OK all this lovely lovely information was supposed to copy paste from Goodreads, but was just messy HTML, sigh. So here is the detail: Title: Will Grayson, Will Grayson Authors: John Green and David Levithan Pages: 310, hardcover Published: April 2010 My Goodreads rating:  4 out of 5 stars Summary (from Goodreads): One cold night, [...]

The Daughters, by Joanna Philbin

Title: The Daughters Author: Joanna Philbin (could NOT find an author website. lame.) Published: May, 2010 Pages: 288 pages (Hardcover) Genre: Young Adult Standalone or series: First in a planned series of three.  Why I read it: Saw a review in People magazine. Source: Library. Yes, this is by Regis Philbin’s daughter, so one can assume the author has experienced some [...]

Going Too Far, by Jennifer Echols

Title: Going Too Far Author: Jennifer Echols (author website here) Published: March, 2009 Pages: 245 pages (paperback) Genre: Young Adult Standalone or series: Standalone. Why I read it: Um, have you NOT heard the buzz about how awesome this books is? It seems like every book blog I read last year sung it’s praises, but I only just got [...]

Fevered bookish thoughts

The lusty household was home sick this week and I have been apathetic about blogging, reading and commenting. The only meal I made in 4 days was the classic grilled cheese, tomato soup, and orange juice: Oh, and a giant FAIL at easy mac, wayyy to soupy to eat, yuck. I’m out of practice as [...]

My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincet

I received this book as an ARC earlier this summer from Harlequin, my first ARC ever! (Happy now FTC?) I was super intrigued by the summary: She doesn’t see dead people, but… She senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody [...]

I should really just give my credit card to The Book Smugglers

The book loving blogosphere is celebrating Book Blogger Apperciation Week (BBAW) through awards, blog topics, memes and interviews. Today’s blog discussion asks us to name a book you read only because another blogger recommended it. Oddly enough I already had most of this post typed up in an email to two of my favorite bloggers anways. [...]

Hunger, by Michael Grant

As you may recall I read the first book in Michael Grant’s new series, Gone, and ADORED it, in fact it was my best read in July. Whenever I read something that grips me, that I dream about, that I stay up until 2:30am until I turn the last page, I obviously just can’t get [...]