Sorry for Slacking

Ok, ok....start the stone throwing now...but don't hit my mouth, I have sarcastic super powers and would be rather useless without them!

As many of you know, and some of you don't, I was screwed last week & laid-off from my job.

Blows, hardcore. 

But have no fear, I have already started a new job. And in doing so, I am currently in that awkward, "your friends with everyone", stage. (we'll see how working with other females plays out....I try not to actually think about it)

So now everyday at work, I have to actually work. Yes, it's as strange as it sounds. 

I ask you all to just ride along with me while I play catch-up & work the kinks of my chaotic life out. 

*You never realize what a creature of habit you are until that habit is broken :(*

Winners!!

Sorry I really haven't been announcing winners lately....it's because I'm a slacker...sorry...

Anyways I'm announcing the winners of the the Amber Scott, Kristie Cook AND K.C. Neal Giveaways!

Congrats to.....

Amber Scott Winner : Rogier

Kristie Cook Winner : Dawn


K.C. Neal Winner : Sizzling Reads


**Winners have been notified & have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be drawn**

IMM (#1)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme that was started by The Story Siren!

Here's the goodies I got this week!

For Review:

Josephine Lost - By Rebecca Gahagan (Tate Publishing)

Touch - By Jus Accardo (Entangled Publishing)

A Sucker Born Every Minute - Lia Kane (From Author)

Arson/Ashes - Estavan Vega (From Author)

UBER LOVE:

Under the Never Sky - By Veronica Rossi (Mindy @ Magical Urban Fantasy Reads)

That's it for this week! What's in your Mailbox?

Fresh Face Friday: Rebecca Gahagan (47)

Who: Rebecca Gahagan

What: Josephine Lost

Nineteen-year-old Abigail Thornton’s family means everything to her. Her quarreling brother and sister, her ailing father, and her overbearing mother matter more to Abigail than anything in the world.

That is until one fateful December day changes her life forever. Betrayal and death sweep through her family and life as she knows it will never be the same.

Abi is drawn into a battle waged for eternities between the Arkos and the Scrios. Abigail is the Arkos’ Chosen Soldier and with the help of Harrison, her Guardian, she fights the ultimate battle to save the souls of mankind. Abigail’s sister, Josephine, falls in with the Scrios, the enemy bent on destroying the world.

If Abigail succeeds in her mission, she must battle her sister and leave what’s left of her family forever. Should she fail, she will cease to exist, and the world will fall into an irreversible darkness.

In the midst of chaos, she finds a love truer than she’s ever known and the courage to defy those whose only mission is to destroy her.

But will it be enough? Will she be able to save the world from a terrible fate? How will Abigail be able to fight a sister who she once loved? 

My Thoughts: I just started this book the other day, and so far it has sparked my interest. Cool fact, the page numbers are actually on the sides of the pages.

Cover: A++, I'm utterly IN LOVE with it. (It's even better in person!)

Stalking Ground: Facebook, Website, Goodreads

Vlog Review: Pyxis - By K.C. Neal

Author: KC Neal
Website
Release Date: 11/4/11
Purchase Info: Amazon, B&N


Two worlds... one 16-year-old girl must learn to protect them both.


The nightmares haunting Corinne and her friend Mason hint at a universe that exists beyond the one they know. Her destiny is to protect a weakness between the two worlds, but her mentor is dead. As Corinne and Mason search for answers, she tries to ignore the sparks igniting between them, but can't deny she feels safe only when he's nearby. Will they find help before their nightmares break free?

First Thought: Every time I think about this book, my mind ALWAYS comes back to the ending! It k-i-l-l-e-d me!

I had to let you guys know right away what I thought about this book, so here's the Vlog review.

(yes a written review will come)

**Disregard the shitty quality, the fact that I move around, a lot, and the phone ringing at some point, LOL*

Teaser Tuesday 1.11.2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.
The rules are:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers

Share the title and author too so that other Teaser Tuesday participients can add the book on their TBR lists, if they like your teasers!

I'm finally reading a great classic I've meant to read for a very long time!

"Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded by the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicaple in him." [Moby Dick by Herman Melville, p. 42]

Top Ten Tuesday: Emontional Roller Coasters

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme over at the Broke and the Bookish.



This week we're talking:

Top Ten Books I Had VERY Strong Emotions About (cry, laugh, hurl across the room, etc.)

The Demon Trapper's Daughter - By Jana Oliver
Probably the first book EVER to make me cry

New Moon - By Stephenie Meyer

Seriously! Who didn't throw the book across the room when Edward left?!



Captivated - By D. Apodaca
Not only did this book have one of the best cliff hangers ever, but it broke my heart, TWICE!



The Turning - By Jennifer Armintrout

This one was picked because how sadistic and cruel Cyrus, the main vampire, is. (If you haven't read this book, then you don't know what I'm talking about)



The Iron Knight - By Julie Kagawa

Though all the Iron Fey books are UH-MAZE-ING, Ash's story ran so deep for me. Maybe it was the jaw dropping shocker in the beginning of the book...or the journey he goes on....but this left my emotions all over the place.



Possession - By Jennifer Armintrout

I think that this whole series was like a mind-f*&% for me. But what Carrie & Nathan had to go through in this book by re-living his wife dying...oh man I was in TEARS!



Of Mice and Men - By John Steinbeck

Simply because it's a classic, and I still remember how much I was taken back after reading this book for the first time.



Blue Moon - By Laurell K Hamilton

I <3 Richard!
God I just wanted it to work out SO badly....I was fighting for them :(



Halfway to the Grave - By Jeaniene Frost

I'm not sure if I've ever laughed SO MUCH in a book!Plus we all know Bones is a hottie, which helps with that emotional connection!



Dead Until Dark - By Charlaine Harris

Gran dying really did me in, but man did Sookie kick some ass at the end!

What are your Top Ten??