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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Waiting on Wednesday: Covet by Tracey Garvis Graves

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we cannot wait to get our hands on.
I am waiting on:

Title: Covet

Author: Tracey Garvis Graves

Publisher: Dutton

Publication Date: SPRING 2013

What if the life you wanted, and the woman you fell in love with, belonged to someone else?
Chris and Claire Canton’s marriage is on life support. Downsized during the recession, Chris copes by retreating to a dark place where no one can reach him, not even Claire.
Daniel Rush had it all, until a tragic accident took away everything he cherished. A chance meeting with Claire sets in motion a chain of events that will leave three people questioning their choices and dealing with the aftermath of their decisions.

Why am I waiting?

Let me lay it out for you

1. On The Island (Another book by Tracey) is beyond AMAZING!
(If you do not know what that is please check out this post)
2. Tracey Garvis Graves is just a fantastic person as well as a writer.
3. This sounds like it is going to make cry (not just cry but possibly going all the way to ugly cry while cradling the book) , probably laugh, and most of all just be beautifully complicated.

Spring 2013 is going to a very very long wait, but I have a feeling Covet is going to be worth it.

Is there a book you are dying to read?

Leave me a link, so I can check it out!

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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Blog Tour: Excerpt and Giveaway: On The Island by Tracey Garvis Graves

I am really honor to have the chance to help promote this book again! Thank you to AToMR Book Blog Tours for letting me participate! There is a lot of fun events going on, and to keep up with the complete schedule click the banner above or right HERE

ABOUT THE EVENT

Thank you for participating in the ON THE ISLAND Event! This week in addition to reviews and posts, select blogs are hosting a word from the author's favorite quotes in the book as a Scavenger Hunt! There is one quote from Anna and one from T.J. Visit each stop this week to find the hidden words (they will be numbered for order) and after July 22nd, submit your answer to the quotes here! Random winners for books and swag will be chosen and notified by July 29th.

Also, next week July 23-27, there will be even more events and chances to win the book and swag!

Monday, July 23 at 8:00 pm CST - Chat with the author Tracey Garvis Graves! We will be chatting with the author on Savor Chat: http://www.savorchat.com/chat/on-the-island-chat Come join us! (You can sign in with twitter or facebook)
Each day look at #ontheisland on twitter for random shout outs to win books and swag! @Tale_of_Reviews
ON THE ISLAND released in bookstores Tuesday, July 10th! If you see the book in stores or 'in the wild' take a picture. Please tweet it and use hashtag #ontheisland. Or you can post it to facebook! Please submit twitter and facebook links of your post/tweet here! All entries need to be submitted by July 29th.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: On the Island

Author: Tracey Garvis Graves

Publisher: Plume (Penguin)

Publication Date: July 17, 2012

When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day.
T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue assignments - instead of his friends.
Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.

When I first read this book, I knew it was one of those books that stick with you. The kind of book you recommend to everyone you meet, and I could not be happier that it is skyrocketing in popularity. I am excited to see it out in stores everywhere. Tracey deserves every bit of success that On The Island has brought her. If you haven't read On The Island yet, please do yourself a favorite pick up a copy!!

Feel free to read my review!

This time around, I have the pleasure of giving everyone a sneak peak at On The Island with an Excerpt!!

Book Trailer: Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse

The author, Lisa M. Stasse shared this trailer with me, and I decided to share it with my readers.

What is Forsaken?

Title: Forsaken

Author: Lisa M. Stasse

Series: The Forsaken #1

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Publication Date: July 10, 2012

A thought-provoking and exciting start to a riveting new dystopian trilogy.
As an obedient orphan of the U.N.A. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the U.S., and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet—having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl. But Alenna can’t help but stand out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to The Wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up.
The life expectancy of prisoners on The Wheel is just two years, but with dirty, violent, and chaotic conditions, the time seems a lot longer as Alenna is forced to deal with civil wars for land ownership and machines that snatch kids out of their makeshift homes. Desperate, she and the other prisoners concoct a potentially fatal plan to flee the island. Survival may seem impossible, but Alenna is determined to achieve it anyway.

Cover Battle: US vs UK (AGAIN)

It that time again, when we pit covers for the same book against themselves to see who comes out the reigning victor.

This week TWO US book covers will be going up against their UK counterparts, to find out which one is the winner!

FIRST UP THE WINNERS OF THE PREVIOUS COVER BATTLE

FIRST UP

Rift by Andrea Cremer

US COVER VS UK COVER

THE SECOND BATTLE

Hysteria by Megan Miranda

US COVER VS UK COVER

Just fill out the form below with your votes, and I will announce the winners next week!

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Friday, July 13, 2012

Technical Difficulties

Earlier today, my faithful laptop was decimated by my lovely little girls.

By that overly dramatic statement, I mean that my laptop screen is a bunch of pretty spidery cracks.

I happen to do 99.9% of my blogging from my laptop.

While I do have what is probably consider an ancient desktop(it is 4 years old), but it is slow and makes me sad to use it.

This is where this message is being brought to you right now.

To try to take the time to lock myself away, and use the desktop is going to harder to do. This goes especially during the day.

I should still post with the same frequency. The biggest delays will be responding to email, and comments in any sort of a timely fashion.

I really hope to be able to replace the laptop screen myself, since the laptop is less than two years old.

Until then please do not be offended if I do not respond to questions, emails and comments right away, it is going to be a bit difficult to do in a timely fashion for the next however many weeks before my beautiful laptop comes back to me.

Thank you for understanding!

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Blog Tour: Review & Giveaway: Lonely Souls by Karice Bolton

Welcome to Lonely Souls Blog Tour stop at Unabridged Bookshelf!

Thank you very much to AToMR Blog Tours for allowing to participate in this wonderful tour. For the full tour schedule, please click the banner above!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Lonely Souls

Author: Karice Bolton

Series: The Witch Avenue Series #1

Publisher: Bulldog Press

Publication Date: June 29, 2012

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

It’s two weeks before Triss turns 18, and her world is about to change into the most magical one imaginable as she readies herself to enter The Witch Avenue Order... that is until her mother’s disappearance. Instead of celebrating her transformation, she finds herself spreading rose petals into her mother’s empty grave.
When Logan, her best friend from junior high, moves back to town for college, he vows to help her find the answers she so desperately seeks surrounding her mother’s disappearance. As they begin uncovering clues, it becomes apparent that the life of white magic they both grew up loving is not what the majority practices, and their lives are in danger.
With a haunting feeling that her mother may still be alive, she begins to hear a call to the wilderness. Triss realizes that in order to find the answers she needs, she must learn the ways of her ancestors and become the hunter, not the hunted before it’s too late, and she becomes part of the lonely souls.