Happy Blogversary to Me!! ~ Day 1: Looking Back {and giveaway}

Posted October 24, 2015 in Life, Reading / 2 Comments

blogversary-day-1

It is so hard to believe that I have reached my one year Blogversary! That is so crazy for me to say. One year ago I was just going to blog for me. I never thought I would have any readers, yet alone all of you. It has been a crazy year and I can hardly believe it.

To celebrate this crazy, beautiful, amazing year, I have decided to host a series of giveaways. The giveaways will all be Kindle ebooks since those are cheaper and I can send them internationally much easier. 🙂 Today’s theme is Looking Back.
Read More

Tagged as , ,

{F56} First Rider’s Call

Posted October 23, 2015 in Reading / 16 Comments

 

First Rider's Call

This is the sequel to Green Rider that I featured last week. It continues about two years after Green Rider ended. Karigan is on yet more adventures and this book finds her learning more about the history of the Riders though unnatural means. 🙂

Read More

Tagged as

{Review} Earthbound – Strange Magical Abilities and on the Run

Posted October 22, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Earthbound – Strange Magical Abilities and on the RunEarthbound by Aprilynne Pike
Series: Earthbound #1
Publisher: RazorBill (2013)
Paperback (366 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: Earthquake
Also in this series: Earthquake
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Tavia Michaels is the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed her parents. When she starts to see strange visions of a boy she’s never spoken with in real life, she begins to suspect that there’s much about her past that she isn’t being told.
Tavia immediately searches for answers, desperate to determine why she feels so drawn to a boy she hardly knows. But when Tavia discovers that the aunt and uncle who took her in after her parents’ death may have actually been responsible for the plane crash that killed them—and that she may have been the true intended victim—she flees for the safety of Camden, Maine, where the boy she sees in her visions instructs her to go.
Now, Tavia is on the run with no one to trust. No one, that is, except for her best friend and longtime crush, Benson.
Tavia feels torn between the boy who mysteriously comes to her at night and the boy who has been by her side every step of the way. But what Tavia doesn’t know is that the world is literally falling apart and that to save it she will have to unite with the boy in her visions. Only problem? To do so would mean rejecting Benson’s love. And that’s the one thing Tavia Michaels swore she’d never do.

Find the book: Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository

Read More

Tagged as , ,

{Review} Encountering Truth – Daily Homilies from the Casa Santa Marta

Posted October 19, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Encountering Truth – Daily Homilies from the Casa Santa MartaEncountering Truth by Pope Francis
Publisher: Image (2015)
Hardcover (416 pages)
Via: Blogging for Books
Rating:
Also by this author: The Joy of the Gospel, Walking with Jesus, The Name of God is Mercy
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Experience the morning homilies of Pope Francis and witness how he continues to change the life of the Catholic Church.
Shortly after seven in the morning, Pope Francis gives a brief homily in the little Vatican chapel of Saint Martha, in front of an audience that is always different: gardeners, office workers, nuns and priests, as well as a growing group of journalists. It is a set appointment, and in some ways a revolutionary innovation, where a pope speaks to everyone, off the cuff, without any written text, as he would have done as a parish priest.
Encountering Truth is a collection of highlights from these homilies from March 2013 to May 2014. Along with summaries by Radio Vaticana (who recorded and transcribed the homilies) and commentary by Father Antonio Spadaro, SJ, these reflections provide moments of inspiration, simplicity, and a glimpse into the papal world very few ever get to experience.

Find the book: Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository

Find the author: Website, Twitter, Goodreads, Instagram

Read More

Tagged as , , , , ,

{F56} Green Rider

Posted October 16, 2015 in Reading / 10 Comments

 

green rider

Green Rider is one of my all time favorite books of ever. I first found the book when I was in eight grade, I believe, at Waldenbooks before they all closed years ago. I read it so fast and fell in love. Later, in high school, I recommended it to my friend and she loved it as well. We have anxiously awaited each book in the series and bemoaned the multi-year wait (like 3-5 years!!!) between each book.

I reread this series every year because I adore it that much. It is a gloriously epic fantasy novel with amazing world-building, complex characters, and an excellent plot. Even rereading it, I keep turning the pages because I am so drawn into this world. This is definitely a fantasy world I would not be too sad to have to live in. 🙂
Read More

Tagged as