The Reading Diaries

Friday, August 5, 2016

Follow Friday

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it’ll allow us to show off more new blogs!
Recently Feature & Follow has gotten a makeover now each week we will have a prompt to respond to.

Instagram

Any other way you like.

My email followers are low and I'm working on changing that. However, you are welcome to follow in your preferred form. If you want to follow via GFC just in case it goes away I ask you follow a second way, email, Linky, Bloglovin'. Thanks!!!!

This Week's Prompt:

What are your favorite podcasts - both bookish and non-bookish podcasts?

Answer:

Clearly, I'm missing out because I don't listen to podcasts never have before. I've heard about a few non-bookish ones but never considered checking them out. Just like audio books it just is hard because I have kids and can't tune out the world to listen. Maybe one of these days I'll have to check them out possible when school starts I'll have some uninterrupted time for a podcast.
Any suggestions?

This week was a little tough because I've never listened to a podcast before. I'm curious to see what others are listening to.

Thursday, August 4, 2016

From the Review Pile

From the Review Pile is a meme hosted by Stepping Out of the Page every Thursday.

The aim of this meme is to showcase books that you've received for review (or if you don't receive review books, any book that you own and really want to read/review) but haven't yet got around to reading, in order to give the book some extra publicity.

I know that a lot of you have a huge pile of books that you want to read/review, but it understandably takes a while to get around to reading them all - here you can give a book (or two!) some of the publicity that it deserves, even if you haven't read it yet!

While browsing my old meme posts I used to do I happened across this one. I haven't done one since 2013 but I am ready to start it up again. I love talking about all the wonderful review books I have.

My husband and I watched the Sci Fi show of Wynonna Earp season 1. I'm excited to check out the Graphic Novel after enjoying the show. I bet he's going to be jealous when he finds out I'm reading it too.

Wynonna Earp Vol 1: Homecoming

by Beau Smith

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The US Marshals Black Badge division has been fighting back against supernatural threats for decades. But even the toughest werewolf, most bloodthirsty vampire, or grisliest zombie knows there s one agent to avoid at all cost: Wynonna Earp. Descended from the legendary Wyatt Earp, Wynonna is dead set on bringing the unnatural to justice! Collects issues #1 6."

What's on your review pile this week?

#DustOffYourBookshelf Thursday

Dust off your Bookshelf was originally created to share books that have been on my “to read pile” for a long time. Some so long I’ve forgotten that they are there, and have purchased duplicate copies. Each week I will share on my blog as well as Instagram a new title. Some may be newer and some so old I have forgotten they are there. I do have issues with buying books and never reading them. I’m hoping that by share them I will be motivated to read them. Plus it’s always fun to find new books hiding within the bookshelves. Feel free to join in and share on Instagram or your blog. Just let me know so I can check out your choice this week too. Just use #DustOffYourBookshelf

This weekly makes me feel like a hoarder when it comes to books because deep down I really am. I have so many books that I keep adding to my shelves but they never end up getting read. I keep saying one day they will all be read.

I've had this one on my TBR list for far too long.

My book choice this week

Vampire Girl
by Karpov Kinrade
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You think it's safe to walk alone at night. It's not.

You think the only threat is other humans. It's not.

Monsters are real. Demons are real. Vampires are real.

And I'm about to become one of them.

My name is Arianna Spero. I was an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life, until my mother lapsed into a coma. Now, I am her only hope. She made a deal with the devil, and on my 18th birthday he came to collect. But there's a way to save her. There's something the princes of hell want more than my mother.

Me.

So I signed my soul away and promised to pick a prince to marry. I would take the blood oath, become one of them, and give them an heir. I would become a princess of hell, and my mother would live.

I expected fire and brimstone. I expected pain and misery. I didn't expect beauty. I didn't expect magic.

I didn't expect love.

But the princes are keeping secrets from me.

Secrets that could shatter everything.

Scroll up and click the buy button now to uncover the truth...

Feel free to dig through your shelves and share what you find.

Please leave a comment telling me where I can check it out.

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. In my case not so patiently waiting for the new releases, which I lack.

I keep adding dozens of exciting new books to my TBR this weeks sounds amazing

My Choice this week is

Tears of Time
by - Joel Lawrence
Expected Publication - September 2016
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Cal State freshman Eden Ellis feels like a stranger in time, and her dreams are growing more dangerous each night. Is she really the reincarnation of a Bronze Age princess, or is that just the medication talking?

Dreams and reality start weaving together, and Eden and her friends begin to develop extraordinary powers and find themselves confronted with ancient secrets, government experiments, and the return of the same demonic force that nearly shattered the world 3,500 years ago.

Eden’s dreams hold the key to saving the future—if she can embrace her duel identity and defeat the reincarnation of the man she used to love.

What are you waiting on?

Cover Reveal: Dark and Twisted Obsessions

Dark and Twisted Obsessions (Hearts of Faeylon #2)

by Heidi Acosta

Genre: YA Dark Fantasy

Release Date: August 26th 2016

Summary:

When Eden returned back to her world, she believed that Jaxson would be right behind her. She was wrong. Now Eden is back home in her own world while Jaxson is stuck in Faeylon, a world that is as magical as it is treacherous. Eden wants nothing more than to return to Faeylon and find Jaxson, but that is easier said than done. She is locked away, her sanity in question for admitting that she sees fae and magical creatures. Determined to escape and get back to Faeylon, she will have to befriend unlikely people. She is willing to risk everything for Jaxson, but is he the same boy she knew?

Jaxson paid a price for Eden’s safe return home, and that price was greater than Eden will ever know. Now he battles a dark force that threatens to consume him. Can Eden get back to him before it is too late? And when she finds him, will he be the same person she fell in love with?

Travel to the world of Faeylon where magic is everywhere and the creatures you thought were only in fairytales are very much real, but not as you imagined.

Dark and Twisted Obsessions, the second book in the Hearts of Faeylon series, a fast-paced read with heart stopping twists and turns on every page.

Previous Book in the Series (click on image for Goodreads link):

About the Author

Heidi Acosta was born on Long Island, New York. Moving around a lot when she was younger, she has lived in New York, Arizona, New York (again), Washington, Georgia, and Florida, in that order. Each place offered her something special, but she will always consider New York her home.

Heidi started writing as soon as she could spell. When she was three, Heidi’s mother gave her a copy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House in the Big Woods; thus beginning her lifelong love affair with literature.

Writing soon also became a form of therapy for Heidi, when she realized that no matter what was happening in her life, she could find emotional escape while writing. Some of her earliest stories featured her as a princess who explored new worlds with her horse Buttercup. If it sounds romantic, it wasn’t, there was no prince charming in those fairy lands (boys where yucky).

Heidi now resides in Florida with her husband, very active daughter, one hyper Chihuahua, two sweet cats, and one very fat moody cat.

Barbie Girl is the first Novel of Heidi’s new, four-book, Baby Doll Series: Barbie Girl, Barbie World, Doll Face, and Southern Sugar.

Author Links:

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What Are You Reading Wednesday

Hosted by It's A Reading Thing

#WAYRW

I love this weekly it's always interesting to see what everyone else is reading.

I keep trying to read this one but real life is getting in the way hopefully it will calm down.

It Ends With Us

by Colleen Hoover

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Synopsis

Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

With this bold and deeply personal novel, Colleen Hoover delivers a heart-wrenching story that breaks exciting new ground for her as a writer. Combining a captivating romance with a cast of all-too-human characters, It Ends With Us is an unforgettable tale of love that comes at the ultimate price.

What are you reading?

Monday, August 1, 2016

July Re-cap 2016

What happened in July @ TRD

July was awful not a whole lot of reading was done. I spent a couple of weeks working really hard on my cross stitch. I'm in love with it.

It was a really busy month. Only finished 6 but I did finish this beautiful cross stitch.

Read in July

Pennies by Pepper Winters
True North by Nikki Jefford
Shadow Bloodlines by A.R. Cooper
Pet Shop of Horrors Vol 8 by Matsuri Akino
Pet Shop of Horrors Vol 7 by Matsuri Akino
Pet Shop of Horrors Vol 6 by Matsuri Akino

August Goals
It was a busy month and things are going back to mellow now that school is over.

Instagram
Lots of instagram challenges this month.

Follow Me (Here)
Still a instagram addict. It's been a great outlet for me.
Stop by say hi and don't forget to follow me =D

August TBR

Ive got a big list so far but I'm hoping to be ambitious.

What are you goals for the new month?

Have a great month!!!!

Musing Monday's & Manga Monday

Musing Mondays

Created & Hosted by Books And A Beat

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…

I blogged about ____ this past week…

This week's question:

What are you currently reading?

My Answer:

At the moment I'm between books but I thought this was fun to share. I'm starting a reading challenge for August with the goal of reading all the books in a series.
I picked for this challenge

Dragon Born Alexandria by Ella Summers
Currently 3 books but if the 4th one comes out I'll be reading it also.

Manga Monday

Created by Alison Can Read
I don't see it as a current weekly on her blog but she does have a great list of manga's that she's read or reading. Be sure to check her out.

I'm enjoying this weekly it's pushing me to read more manga

In August I'm reading
Vampire Knight for my manga selection and hope to finish it.

Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino
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Yuuki's earliest memory is of a stormy night in winter, where she was attacked by a vampire... And then rescued by another. Now 10 years later, Cross Yuuki, the adopted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, has grown up and become a guardian of the vampire race, protecting her childhood crush, Kaname, from discovery as he leads a group of vampires at the elite boarding school. But also at her side is Kiryuu Zero, a childhood friend who’s hatred for the creatures that destroyed everything he held dear, is now determined never to trust them. This coexisting arrangement seems all well and good, but have the vampires truly renounced their murderous ways, or is there a darker truth behind their actions. Because in this world of secrets, nothing is as it seems. And the price of misplaced trust may even be worse than death.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

Welcome to It's Monday! is a weekly event hosted by Book Date to share with others what you've read the past week and are planning to read the next.

Currently at 119 out of 250 not as many as I would like but it's a start.

Last week
Last week we were on the run most of it so not a lot of reading.

Reviews