Top Ten 2014 Releases I Meant To Read But Didn't Get To

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Top Ten 2014 Releases I Meant To Read But Didn't Get To

 

This is a follow up to my Should I Read These Books post, with this book being the remainder that I will try to read this year.

 

(And if you have any more contributions to that post,  I would be excited to hear it!)

 

These are the top ten that I am going to try to get around to in the next few months.....

 

 

Lots of people said that they loved this one!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you LOVE any of these?

 

 

Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories Book Review

Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories
Edited by Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones
Written by lots of different authors including Lauren Oliver, Lauren Kate, Aprilynne Pike, Alyson Noel, and Jessica Brody.
Published September 6th 2011 by HarperTeen

YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
Discover how Lauren Kate transformed the feeling of that one mean girl getting under her skin into her first novel, how Lauren Oliver learned to celebrate ambiguity in her classmates and in herself, and how R.L. Stine turned being the "funny guy" into the best defense against the bullies in his class.

Today's top authors for teens come together to share their stories about bullying—as silent observers on the sidelines of high school, as victims, and as perpetrators—in a collection at turns moving and self-effacing, but always deeply personal


Review:

There are a lot of different stories/letters in this book, and I am not going to review each and every one of them.

All I am going to say is......

For you who has been bullied, then it is important for you to read this book. It will give you the knowledge on how to handle bullying and give you the knowledge that others have been through the same thing.

For you who have NOT been bullied, this book will shed light on what some people go through while being bullied and why it is so important to stand up to bullies even if you are not the one being bullied.

And for you who are the bully. You also should read this book. This book will give you the knowledge of how much bullying affects people, and will also give you stories and letters from authors that have bullied/watched as someone was bullied that might be good for you to read.

Everyone needs to read this book to UNDERSTAND. Whether you are the bully, the person who is being bullied, or the person who is standing by and watching it all.

Waiting On Wednesday - All Fall Down

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/, that spotlights upcoming releases that I am eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is-

All Fall Down
Ally Carter

Expected publication: January 27th 2015 by Scholastic

 

 

Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things:

1. She is not crazy.
2. Her mother was murdered.
3. Someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay.

As certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her–so there’s no one she can completely trust. Not her grandfather, a powerful ambassador. Not her new friends, who all live on Embassy Row. Not Alexei, the Russian boy next door who is keeping an eye on Grace for reasons she neither likes nor understands.

Everybody wants Grace to put on a pretty dress and a pretty smile, blocking out all her unpretty thoughts. But they can’t control Grace–no more than Grace can control what she knows or what she needs to do.

Her past has come back to hunt her . . . and if she doesn’t stop it, Grace isn’t the only one who will get hurt. Because on Embassy Row, the countries of the world all stand like dominoes, and one wrong move can make them all fall down.

 

Should I Read These Books?

2014 Releases I Didn't Get Around To

 (and should I?)

I know that there is a Top Ten Tuesday about this in a week or two, but I have so many that I just wanted input now!

 

Recently I have been endeavoring to clean up my goodreads shelves. This includes going through all of the 2014 releases that I shelved as to-read, but never actually got around to.

This is where YOU come in. Below are 30 books that I am unsure about, if you see a book that you ABSOLUTELY LOVED (or at least really liked), please! Rave about it in the comments below so that I know to read it!

I will leave the comments open for a week or two, after that any book that does not have a bunch of comments gushing about how amazing it is will be deleted from my to-read shelf.

Thank-you in advance for commenting with your input!

 

 

 

 

 

 

2015 Books that I NEED NOW! (Jan/Feb/Mar Edition)

Top 5 2015 Books that I NEED NOW! (Jan/Feb/Mar Edition)

 

Because ALLY CARTER!

Princess, Spy, everything I need for an epic fantasy!

The emotion! I have confidence that this will be great!

The Boy Next Door! (Even the title screams EM WILL LOVE ME!) AND ICE SKATING????? This is the recipe for the perfect book!

If you have read Elizabeth Wein's previous books (Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire), this one should be an obvious!


There are tons more I could put down here, but these are probably the top five!
What are you looking forward to?

Real Book Challenge Wrap Up

For the first six months I kept up on this challenge great! I was listing all of my books, everything was in order.....Then I missed July (ugh!). August I got back into it, then missed September....(Again ugh!) October went well, then November and December rolled around and only read a few "real books".....
Here are all of the books through the months I read. Coming to a total of 126 books! I know there were a few that I missed on this list, but oh well.


January:
1. The Summer I Became a Nerd (review posted)
2. Nantucket Blue
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Nobody's Secret (review posted)
5. Rose Under Fire (review posted)
6. The Goddess Test (review posted)
7. Thousand Words (review posted)
8. Motocross Me (review posted)
9. Goddess Interrupted
10. How My Summer Went Up In Flames
11. Deja Dead
12. Paper Towns
13. 52 Reasons To Hate My Father
14. The Goddess Inheritance
15. Of Poseidon
16. Of Neptune

February:
17. The Offering
18. Vitro
19. Juliet's Moon
20. The Impossible Knife Of Memory
21. Dairy Queen
22. The Off Season
 23. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
24. Unremembered
25. Annie Between the States
26. You Be the Jury
27. Front and Center
28. Tuck Everlasting
29. Resistance
30. Forget You

March:
31. Origin
32. Madame Tussaud
33. To Catch a Pirate
34. Cleopatra's Daughter
35. Anne of Green Gables
36. Where the Stars Still Shine
37. Anne of Avonlea
38. Double Digit
39. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
40. The Espressologist
41. Schindler's List
42. Until It Hurts to Stop
43. Jane Eyre
44. First Love
45. Down to the Wire
46. Persuasion
47. The Sea of Tranquility
48. How Not to Find a Boyfriend

April:
49. The Immortal Rules
50. Twenty Boy Summer
51. The DUFF
52. Lock and Key
53. Resist
54. Vampire Academy
55. This Lullaby
56. Faking Normal
57. Don't Even Think About It
58. Dear Killer
59. Going Rogue
60. Split Second
61. Maybe One Day
62. The Last Silk Dress
63. The Geography of You and Me
64. What I Thought Was True
65. Nearly Gone
66. And Then There Were None
67. Shadow and Bone

May:
68. Unearthly
69. Prisoner of Night and Fog
70. A Mad, Wicked Folly
71. Sense and Sensibility
72. Along Came a Cowboy
73. Victoria Rebels
74. The Princess Diaries
75. Princess in the Spotlight
76. Princess In Love
77. Savage Drift
78. Tease
79. The Killing Hour
80. Guide to the Worlds Greatest Treasures
81. Truly, Madly, Deadly
82. Burning Blue
83. Pushing the Limits
84. Dare You To

June:
85. Crash Into You
86. Take Me On
87. The Rules For Breaking
88. The Liar Society
89. Open Road Summer
90. The Truth About Alice
91. Since You've Been Gone
92. Mansfield Park
93. The Half Life Of Molly Pierce

August:
94. Through to You
95. The Lonesome Young
96. Prep School Confidential
97. Blackbird
98. Hate List
99. Catch a Falling Star
100. Little Dorrit
101. Hereafter
102. My Life Undecided
103. Bleed Like Me

October:

104: Ignite Me

105: Sever

106: Pretty Girl - 13

107: Four

108: Two Lies and a Spy

109: The Best of Me

110: Cruel Beauty

111: Frostbite

112: Stay With Me

113: Blood of my Blood

114: The Lost Hero

115: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

116: As Long as You Love Me

 

November/December

 

117. Speak

118. Enders Shadow

119. Shadow Kiss

120. Some Boys

121. Pushing the Limits

122. Falling Kingdoms

123. The Hunger Games

124. The Ransom of Mercy Carter

125. Pride and Prejudice

126. Blood Promise

Book Bingo Fall Edition Wrap Up

These past three months I enjoyed doing Book Bingo, I managed to complete some bingos, and here is the original and my completed card.

(See more about Book Bingo here)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wings by Aprilynne Pike

Where She Went by Gayle Forman

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Sever by Lauren Destefano

Frostbite by Richelle Mead

My True Love Gave to Me by Various YA Authors

Pretty Girl - 13 by Liz Coley

They All Fall Down by Roxanne St Clair

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

White Hot Kiss by Jennifer Lynn Armentrout

Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle

Kalahari by Jessica Khoury

The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline B Cooney

On the Edge by Allison Van Diepen

Enders Shadow by Orson Scott Card

The Fine Art of Pretending by Rachel Harris

Blood of My Blood by Barry Lyga

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Alone by Lisa Gardner

Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi


I couldn't find books for the Halloween and New Orleans squares, and I didn't get around to reading a Steampunk :-(