As a “professional” reviewer (and believe me when I say I use that word lightly) I spend hundreds of hours each month immersed in the written word. Most of the time…I read a book, shrug/eye-roll/smile/or shudder/ write down a few notes and move on. These books are not bad, just… forgettable. Other times, I’ll pick up a book and be impressed. It’s entertaining The characters are believable, and the plot is everything you expect from a quality crafted novel. But rarely do I pick up a book and realize, too little too late, that what I’m reading is not a book at all,
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Quote This… “He had been willing to die because he refused to take a life. But me, I contemplated shooting everyone.” Loss is a natural part of life. We are taught to accept it at a very young age. Our family pet dies, one of our beloved grandparents passes away…ashes to ashes, dust to dust. But what our family/friends/ministers fail to tell us is what happens AFTER the loss. Not a week later when you are laying flowers on a grave, or a month later when you are cleaning out your Aunt June’s attic. No. What they conveniently forget to tell you is what
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So there is this quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick that says: “He who knows no hardship will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best, grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.” Now, I don’t know how many of you even know who Harry is (FYI – An American pastor from the early 1900′s who later went on to establish the AA movement as well as write a number of MG books for boys under the pen name Harry
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Revolution 19 by Gregg Rosenblum Add to your Goodreads shelf Buy on Amazon Twenty years ago, the robots designed to fight our wars abandoned the battlefields. Then they turned their weapons on us. Only a few escaped the robot revolution of 2071. Kevin, Nick, and Cass are lucky —they live with their parents in a secret human community in the woods. Then their village is detected and wiped out. Hopeful that other survivors have been captured by bots, the teens risk everything to save the only people they have left in the world—by infiltrating a city controlled by
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Quote This… “Anger is a poison and will eat away at your beauty.” – Page 40 “Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s thought that everything was perfect; her world. Her people. The Law. But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into their secluded little world, she’s forced to come to a startling realization: everything she knows is a lie. Her memories have been altered. Her
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Luc de Clapiers once said that: “Emotions have taught mankind to reason.” Emotions are defined as: Any of the particular feelings that characterize such a state of mind, such as joy, anger, love, hate, horror, etc. So imgine for a second if you were stripped of yours. Imagine that you walked through life in a bubble, completly oblivious to changes, or at the very least incapable of responding to them? Sort of like being a robot without all of those pesky wires. People around you die, or disappear and you are void of any natural response. Even if they are related
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There are few things in life that genuinely intrigue me. What happened to the Jonas Brothers? Did they die in a plane crash? Why is there braille on drive up ATM machines? Who was the idiot that inspired the “do not drink” sign on the back of concrete mixers? and Who in there right mind would think to combine the fascinating world of mermaids with the destructive premise of dystopian literature? I’m still working on the first three, but as for the mermaids? I can blame that on Ami Blackwelder. “Mira always knew she was different. Growing up with Mers,
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Ami just sent me some info telling me that her new “YA Mermaid Dystopian” book is going to be free for the next 2 days…and as far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t get much more interesting than those 3 words put together, so here is the link where you can find it. (click the pic) What lies beneath the surface? One hundred years from now, the world has changed and brought with it, new forms of life. Who are the Mers? Who is Mira? Mira always knew she was different. Growing up with Mers, she never quite fit in.
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Much like all things paranormal a few years ago, or my obsession with Greek mythology last year, Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic societies are very quickly becoming my new favorite schtick. I’ve always adored a good zombie “end of the world” book, (that’s never going to change) but this up and coming genre, (unlike my brain slushy loving friends) goes past the obvious, (the world has gone to shit) and focuses on something else entirely…the struggle to accept reality in a harsh environment. The way in which civilization (as we currently know it) took a bullet between the eyes is (more often than not)
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Well, it’s that time again. The time in which I cast all of my good sense into the gutter and gush, (quite un-eloquently) about a book. I know what you are thinking. “We already KNOW you like this book Misty, because you gave copies of it away!” But that’s not exactly true. While I had faith in the book, (formed of course by my sneak peek at the first chapter) I hadn’t actually read it. Why would I do such a thing? Simple. I loved that Kristen readily admitted her love for Jazzersize. (Who does that?) But now, after days
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