Splintered has a pretty cover. That’s about the only good thing I can say about it. Splintered is the story of Alyssa, the great-great-great granddaughter of Alice Liddell who has totally fucked over any future female relations with her trip down the rabbit hole. Alyssa’s mother Allison is currently in an asylum, dressing in the […]
This is what I had hope to read in February: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling The Knight of Maison-Rouge by Alexandre Dumas Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Oliver […]
Last week I was describing the Lunar series to my mom. Cinder description: “So, Cinder is futuristic with Cinderella qualities. There’s an empress who wants to control all and sets her three-year old niece on fire in her crib to get her out-of-the-way. She has like 4th degree burns but is saved from the fire and […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish I’m going to start by saying I love all these authors dearly but I am not one to run out and buy books on their release date. Although, the below author’s novels always end up on my bookshelf/ereader. Tana French — I love her Dublin Murder Squad series. […]
For this mini-challenge it is asked that we write a letter to our blogging self be it past, present or future. I thought I would do all three. Pre-Blogging So I thought my past reading/writing history would be as good a place to start as any. I was so incredibly proud of myself when I […]
For this mini-challenge, we are going to ask you to pump up the music with a book playlist post! Book playlists can be done in any number of ways. First, they can be made up using Spotify, YouTube, or just a list of song titles on your blog. Second, they can be one you made […]
It’s time for the second mini-challenge for the Book Blogger Love-a-Thon! “For this challenge, we ask that you get deep and poetic (or not-so-deep but still poetic!) This is how the challenge will work: Grab some of your favorite books (it can be any amount) and make up a poem with the titles alone! […]
It’s the Book Blogger Love-a-Thon‘s first mini-challenge is a best of post Here’s how it will work: There are four categories – best reviews, best book discussion posts, best blog design/layout and best random category (which you get to make up!). My random category is best new to me blogs. Anyway, this was tough and while I love all the blogs I read here […]
The Book Blogger Love-a-Thon has barely even start and I’m already loving it! Earlier this week I had the pleasure of swaping interviews with the lovely Andrea at The Overstuffed Bookshelf. When and why did you start your blog? I started The Overstuffed Bookcase on January 14, 2012. I had a personal blog before that […]
I usually don’t go for books that involve terrorist bombs I find them overdone; and usually once I see those two words on the back cover I set them down. But for some reason I decided to keep My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece in my hand. Rose was killed in a mass bombing when […]