Best Book Buddy Tag

I created the Best Book Buddy Tag to showcase the friendships I’ve made by blogging. I’m just starting to really connect to other bloggers, but some of them I know IRL and we fangirl like no tomorrow. This is one such friend/blogger/reviewer. Feel free to take this tag and showcase your best friendships to show everyone the strength of the book blogger community!

  • Tag your Best Book Buddy
  • Explain why they’re your Best Book Buddy
  • List (up to) 5 books you made them read
  • List (up to) 5 books they made you read
  • Link back to this post
  • You get the tag and they get the tag. Your badge links to THEIR blog, their badge links to YOUR blog. Here’s the code:
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Which Cover Wednesday

Labyrinth Lost is getting a paper back soon and MY GOD IS IT GORGEOUS LOOKING! I would have loved to have seen the paperback cover as the hardcover image-with that glossy finish over the gate–I need to stop or I’m going to starting drooling.

But enough of me-which one do you prefer? Hardback or paperback? Because my answer is both. And if you think for a moment I’m not going to go out and buy that paperback you are very wrong.

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Which Cover Wednesday is hosted by Sue’s Reading Corner.

Stealing Candy Spotlight & Giveaway

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Candy hates boarding school. As a junior, graduation is still eons away, and making films is the only way to survive the boredom.

Until she is kidnapped.

Candy panics. Along Came a Spider, Ransom, Taken, Cellular… Candy knows how these movies end. The only reason anyone would abduct her is to get a payout from her rock star father. Except Candy and her father are estranged. There’s no way he’s going to pay.

But with every hour that passes, Candy’s fear slowly recedes. Being on the road is freeing, not to mention great material for a new documentary. And the more time she spends with her mysterious and handsome captor, Levon, the more she learns the whole scheme is not just about ransom. It’s about revenge. What began as a kidnapping is spiraling into a crazy road trip adventure as Candy and Levon find a lot of wrong ways to do the right thing.

image003About the Author: Stewart Lewis is a singer-songwriter and radio journalist who lives in D.C. and western Massachusetts and frequents New York City. Stewart has had two YAs published by Delacorte (You Have Seven Messages in 2011 and The Secret Ingredient in 2013). Visit stewartlewis.com.

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Love and Vandalism Spotlight & Blog Tour

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He calls it fate. She calls it blackmail.

Rory has a secret: she’s the vandal who paints graffiti lions all over her small town. If her policeman dad knew, he’d probably disown her. So when Hayes, a former screw-up on the path to recovery, catches her in the act, Rory’s sure she’s busted. Instead, he makes her a deal. If Rory shows him around town, he won’t turn her in. It might be coercion, but at least the boy is hot.

As they spend more time together, Rory worries she made the wrong choice. Hayes has a way of making her want things she shouldn’t want and feel emotions she’s tried to bury. Rory’s going to have to distance herself from Hayes or confront a secret she can’t bring herself to face…

image003 (1).jpgAbout the Author: When she was 17, LAURIE BOYLE CROMPTON painted her first car hot pink using 40 cans of spray paint. This turned her into an overnight icon in Butler, PA. She now lives near NYC in Queens, but maintains a secret identity in New Paltz, NY where she and her family can often be found tromping through the forest. Visit www.lboylecrompton.com

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Matchmaker Award

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It’s time to grow the book-blogosphere! So I created this award to tag book bloggers who comment back! And of course, I want to pass it on. Here’s how it works.

  • Copy and paste the code below into your badges section
  • Copy and paste this post.
  • Thank the blogger who tagged you
  • Tag at least five other bloggers
  • Ask at least five questions to help them connect!

(If you’re having trouble posting the code use the drop down menu to change it from paragraph to preformatted)

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Please link back to the original post so that we all continue to connect!

I’m tagging:

I’m asking:

  1. What was the first book you ever reviewed and why did you pick it up?
  2. Why did you start a book blog?
  3. What’s your favorite book tag?
  4. What book should all the bloggers I tagged read?
  5. What have you learned by being a reviewer/blogger?

Q&A with V. E. Schwab

Blog HEADERS(This interview was originally posted on RoundRobinWrites.com and conducted by Elizabeth DiPietro on behalf of RRW)

She’s the bestselling author of the Shades of Magic Series, This Savage Song, and Vicious. We’re looking at a Shades of Magic TV adaption on the horizon so there’s no slowing down V.E. Schwab. Despite traveling all over the country/world and drowning in deadlines, Ms. Schwab still managed to take some time out to answer a few of our questions.

Q: A trademark of your books are strong, complicated female characters (Lila Bard, Kate Harper). When you’re working on these characters do you ever find it difficult to not let them blend together?

VS: I think the problem is we still don’t see enough strong female characters, so we don’t always realize that it’s a spectrum unto itself. I may have multiple strong female characters, but they all want different things–to be seen, to be remembered, to be valid, to be free. They have to be people first, and everything else second.

Q: In regards to This Savage Song, what inspired you to combine music and monsters?

VS: Honestly, the fact that I have no talent when it comes to music has always made the ability to play vaguely supernatural, so it was only a matter of time before it played a prime role in one of my books. And when I listen to instrumental music, I feel…elevated. Like part of my mind is coming free. So in designing my soul-eating Sunai, it made sense to me that music might serve as a way to bring those souls to surface.Continue reading “Q&A with V. E. Schwab”

May TBR

Monthly TBR

I’m hoping to get to all of these in May, which should be doable after the 10th when my semester breaks. I’m really excited about Court of Wings and Ruin and I can NOT wait to dive in! And hey-there’s still time to pre-order if you haven’t already.

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