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Join Us For National Blog Posting Month

October 29, 2011 Leave a Comment

We’ve been blogging for a couple of months here at Books and Sensibility and decided it was time for a big challenge. So, we’ve signed up for National Blog Posting Month or NaBloPoMo hosted byBlogher.

In the same spirit of NaNoWriMo, NaBloPoMo challenges bloggers to blog everyday for a month

That’s 30 days and 30 post.

We plan to do every thing from features, book reviews, book cover post and maybe try some new stuff

It will be a challenge, but if we go down, we’ll go down kicking and screaming. If you think you can do it you should join us and we can get through it together.

Bout of Books 2.0 : Spine Poem

October 29, 2011 Leave a Comment

So, Bout of Books . . . it started off good and then I took a steep downward fall. I’ve done very little reading the last few days. However, after I make this post I am picking up Clockwork Angel and finishing it !

For a Bout of Books challenge from Actin’ Up With Books you have to make a poem using book spines. I am not the biggest poetry fan, but here is my try. *snaps fingers rhythmically*

Wake, beautiful creatures !

Before I die

The road, downright dangerous

Looking for Alaska

I now realize I should flip Look For Alaska and Downright Dangerous. Oh, well.

Book Review: Fallen by Lauren Kate

October 22, 2011 4 Comments

“What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?”

― Lauren Kate, Fallen

Synopsis: Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move. Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce–and goes out of his way to make that very clear–she can’t let it go (really ?). Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret . . . even if it kills her. (P.S This synopsis does not at all describe the book)

Like a lot of people on this week’s Top Ten Tuesday I picked up Fallen because of the cover. It’s dark, mysterious, and full of melancholy. It has a girl in a pretty dress, I mean it just screams dark paranormal romance.

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Waiting on Wednesday Vol. 5

October 19, 2011 4 Comments

Each week Books and Sensibility participates in Waiting on Wednesday, a meme hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

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Book Review : Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

October 15, 2011 1 Comment

“She was my destination. I was always on my way to Lena, even when I wasn’t. Even when she wasn’t on her way to me.” – Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Darkness

Synopsis : Together Ethan and Lena can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan’s eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there’s no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town’s tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.

In the sequel to Beautiful Creatures, Lena and Ethan find themselves dealing with the sad aftermath of the first novel. Slowly, they began to deal with the fissures and distance in their relationship, while darkness begins to close in on them. Along the way, we get introduced to a few new villains and meet a new cast (lol) of characters.

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Waiting On Wednesday Vol. 4

October 12, 2011 18 Comments

Each week Books and Sensibility participates in Waiting on Wednesday, a meme hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

Illuminate By Aimme Agresti

First of all look at that beautiful cover ! I love the subtleness to it and the way the textures fit together. The plot also looks promising. This book came on radar last week on Waiting On Wednesday so now I’m waiting to !

Synopsis : Haven Terra is a brainy, shy high school outcast. But everything begins to change when she turns sixteen. Along with her best friend Dante and their quiet and brilliant classmate Lance, she is awarded a prestigious internship in the big city— Chicago—and is sent to live and work at a swanky and stylish hotel under the watchful eyes of a group of gorgeous and shockingly young-looking strangers: powerful and alluring hotel owner Aurelia Brown; her second-in-command, the dashing Lucian Grove; and their stunning but aloof staff of glamazons called The Outfit. . . Illuminate is an exciting saga of a teen’s first taste of independence, her experience in the lap of luxury, and her discovery she may possess strength greater than she ever knew.