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February 11th, 2010

TBR Thursday

TBR Thursdays is a bi-weekly spotlight on books that I want to read. The only rule is that the have to be books that are released. (Inspired by Waiting on Wednesday/Breaking the Spine.)

Here’s my pick this week

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
Release Date: September 2009

These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed.

But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets.

The one who saved me…and the one who cursed me.

So begins the journal of Will Henry, orphaned assistant to Dr. Pellinore War throp, a man with a most unusual specialty: monstrumology, the study of monsters. In his time with the doctor, Will has met many a mysterious late-night visitor, and seen things he never imagined were real. But when a grave robber comes calling in the middle of the night with a gruesome find, he brings with him their most deadly case yet.


November 26th, 2009

TBR Thursdays (11)

TBR Thursdays is a weekly spotlight on books that I want to read. The only rule is that the have to be books that are released. (Inspired by Waiting on Wednesday/Breaking the Spine.)

Here’s my pick this week

Coffeehouse Angel by Suzanne Selfors
Release Date: July 2009

When Katrina spots a homeless guy sleeping in the alley behind her grandmother’s coffee shop, she decides to leave him a cup of coffee, a bag of chocolate-covered coffee beans, and some pastries to tide him over. Little does she know that this random act of kindness is about to turn her life upside down.  Because this adorable vagrant, Malcolm, is really a guardian angel on a break between missions. And he won’t leave until he can reward Katrina’s selflessness by fulfilling her deepest desire. Now if only she could decide what that might be . . .

November 12th, 2009

TBR Thursdays (10)

TBR Thursday is a meme hosted by Drea. (Inspired by Waiting on Wednesday/Breaking the Spine.)

TBR Thursday highlights all those books that are already out (whether you own them or not) that you’re dying to read, but haven’t had the chance to yet. There can be some old books, some new books, and some that are in between, but they have to be books that you want/hope to read and review!

Here’s my TBR Thursday this week

Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
Release Date: Oct. 2001

Jason Carrillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend, but he can’t stop dreaming about sex…with other guys.

Kyle Meeks doesn’t look gay, but he is. And he hopes he never has to tell anyone — especially his parents.

Nelson Glassman is “out” to the entire world, but he can’t tell the boy he loves that he wants to be more than just friends.

Three teenage boys, coming of age and out of the closet. In a revealing debut novel that percolates with passion and wit, Alex Sanchez follows these very different high-school seniors as their struggles with sexuality and intolerance draw them into a triangle of love, betrayal, and ultimately, friendship.

So what is in your TBR Pile? Be sure to leave a comment with your links/comments!

November 5th, 2009

TBR Thursdays (9)

TBR Thursday is a meme hosted by Drea. (Inspired by Waiting on Wednesday/Breaking the Spine.)

TBR Thursday highlights all those books that are already out (whether you own them or not) that you’re dying to read, but haven’t had the chance to yet. There can be some old books, some new books, and some that are in between, but they have to be books that you want/hope to read and review!

Here’s my TBR Thursday this week

Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Release Date: March 2006

Raised in a religious — yet abusive — family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions — about God, a woman’s role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of control. Pattyn is sent to live with an aunt in the wilds of Nevada to find salvation and redemption. What she finds instead is love and acceptance — until she realizes that her old demons will not let her go.


So what is in your TBR Pile? Be sure to leave a comment with your links/comments!

October 29th, 2009

TBR Thursday (8)

TBR Thursday is a meme hosted by Drea. (Inspired by Waiting on Wednesday/Breaking the Spine.)

TBR Thursday highlights all those books that are already out (whether you own them or not) that you’re dying to read, but haven’t had the chance to yet. There can be some old books, some new books, and some that are in between, but they have to be books that you want/hope to read and review!

Here’s my TBR Thursday this week

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Release Date: Dec. 2003

It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?

So what is in your TBR Pile? Be sure to leave a comment with your links/comments!