What a great week for awesome discoverys and lots of awards.
Awards
I recieved The Splash and Stylish Blog Award from Shantel at Book Nerds Are Pretty Too.
I also recived the Honest Scrap Award from Marce at Tea Time With Marce.
You can read about my ten honest things here.
And lastly but not leastly- I recieved the Lovely Blog Award from Marjolein at Marjolein Book Blog.
-Thanks girls, awards make me happy and always make my week lovely!!!!
New Blogs
Check out these new blogs and support these girls by stopping by and saying hi.
Marjorlein at Marjoleinbookblog and Shantel at BookNerds are Pretty Too.
You can read about my ten honest things here.
-Thanks girls, awards make me happy and always make my week lovely!!!!
New Blogs
Check out these new blogs and support these girls by stopping by and saying hi.
Marjorlein at Marjoleinbookblog and Shantel at BookNerds are Pretty Too.
Great Find
So maybe this is old news to some of you...but I discovered such a great website called Pandora this week.
Pandora is a internet radio station where you can explore music and create your own stations. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and it will scan its entire world of analyzed music new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. The site has two options a free membership or a paid. I choose the free membership for now which allows 40 hours of free music a month. The funpart is creating your own radio stations. So far I have a Paramore Radio and 30 Seconds to Mars Radio. An entire site dedicated to my favorite bands and songs!! I love it!!
This week Im reading-
Darkborn by Alison Sinclair
For the Darkborn, sunlight kills. For the Lightborn, darkness is fatal. Living under a centuries-old curse, the Darkborn and the Lightborn share the city of Minhorne, coexisting in an uneasy equilibrium but never interacting. When Darkborn physician Balthasar Hearne finds a pregnant fugitive on his doorstep just before sunrise, he has no choice but to take her in. Tercelle Amberley’s betrothed is a powerful Darkborn nobleman, but her illicit lover came to her through the daytime. When she gives birth to twin boys, they can see, something unheard of among the Darkborn. When men come for the boys, Balthasar is saved by the intervention of his Lightborn neighbor—and healed by the hands of his wife, Telmaine. Soon he finds himself drawn deeper into political intrigue and magical attacks, while Telmaine must confront a power she can no longer keep sheathed in gloves, a power she neither wants nor can control.
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Incarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber -- chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison -- a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device -- a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born ...
Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen
It was the summer on Vliet Street when we all started locking our doors...
Sally O'Malley made a promise to her daddy before he died. She swore she'd look after her sister, Troo. Keep her safe. But like her Granny always said-actions speak louder than words. Now, during the summer of 1959, the girls' mother is hospitalized, their stepfather has abandoned them for a six pack, and their big sister, Nell, is too busy making out with her boyfriend to notice that Sally and Troo are on the Loose. And so is a murderer and molester. Highly imaginative Sally is pretty sure of two things. Who the killer is. And that she's next on his list. Now she has no choice but to protect herself and Troo as best she can, relying on her own courage and the kindness of her neighbors.
Hand of Fate by Lis Wiehl
Hand of Fate begins with a suspected terrorist attack, when outspoken radio talk show host Jim Fate is killed by poisonous gas while his show, "The Hand of Fate" is on the air. In the ensuing panic, downtown Portland is evacuated and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges is trapped in a high-rise building. Crime reporter Cassidy Shaw is the only journalist brave enough to report from the scene as chaos overtakes the streets. And federal prosecutor Allison Pierce ends up rescuing a toddler separated from her family and taking her to one of the city's overwhelmed hospitals. In the days following Fate's murder, the three colleagues and friends team up to uncover the secrets behind it - and reveal a few secrets of their own.
Happy Reading.................
CONGRATS ON THE AWARDS:))
ReplyDeleteI LOVE PANDORA! Lol. It's such a great site. And Darkborn looks really interesting. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it! :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats!
ReplyDeleteI'm a fairly recent convert to Pandora too. I love it! It's just bad for my music wishlist as I find artists I've never heard of. :-)
I got mad at pandora when they started limiting my weekly listening or they'll charge me. We used to just keep it on at work and let it play and play and now we can only do 40 hours. So I declared shenanigans on it and I'm on strike. :) I know I'm cheap.
ReplyDeleteDarkborn - ooh what a cover.
PJ- you crack me up!! On strike!! I feel so out of the loop that I just found this site. I mean everyone knows about it!! I guess my face has been to much in a book and not in my music.:D
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