I love YA Giveaway Hop

So I've decided to do my very FIRST giveaway, look out for it on February 14!  Come join in the fun!

 

Welcome to the I Heart YA Giveaway!

This awesome event is hosted by For Those About to Read, Fictional Distraction, & Michelle Madow.
If you’re a YA book blogger, or just love reading YA fiction, sign up on the linky list to join the party!
The giveaway hop will run from Feb. 14 – Feb. 20.
Deadline to join is Feb. 10.
We will email all participants on the 11th as a reminder!

Giveaway Hop Guidelines

1.) The "I Heart YA" Hop Button-- or Image-- must be a part of your giveaway post.

2.) You must either include the linky list with all participating blogs at the end of your giveaway post OR link to the giveaway hop page of one of the hosts. (This is so your followers can easily see and enter all of the giveaways!)

3.) Your giveaway prize must be a YA book (no gift cards!)

4.) No gift cards!

4.) Please try to keep your giveaway rules as simple as possible! No more than 4 entries allowed

5.) Your giveaway may only run on the same days as the Hop (Feb. 14 – Feb. 20)

6.) Please keep your giveaway visibly to your followers throughout the entire hop by posting a link or a button to it at the top of your blog in the sidebar.

Monday Musing:

MUSING MONDAYS… is a weekly event where MizB at Should be Reading will ask a book/reading-related question, and you answer with your own thoughts on the topic.

This week’s musing asks…
Are there any “raved reads” –books that everyone seems to be talking about– that you’re hoping to get read this year, yourself? What books are they, and why are you hoping to read them? Is it because you want to say you’ve read it? Or, would you have chosen to read it, even if you’d discovered it yourself, and no one was raving about it?


Well I've read a lot of books because of everyone raving around them.  So all the books that are being talked about around the blog world that I check out are books that I've read.  Except a few.  I don't get ARC's so those that have already read them I want to read them.  Below are examples of books I want to read because of the raves:

Tempest by Julie Cross - probably wouldn't have discovered it otherwise but have seen it everywhere that I want to read it.

Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton - also knew nothing about it but am curious to read it now.

Iron Fey Series by Julie Kagawa - I don't normally read books about fairies but I'm open minded and will check them out this year.
How about you?

Friday Five: Inventions

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5 hosted here! Please copy these questions to your web space. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses.

1.If they could invent a remote control for something in your house that doesn’t have one, what would you wish it to be?
Omg sometimes I wish I could have a remote for my kids, like mute, sleep, quiet etc haha is that mean?  Nah sometimes I just want some peace and quiet.  Don't get a lot of that here.


2.What could your car really use that they just hasn’t invented yet?
They've probably invented everything already after all they do have the show pimp my ride haha.  I would probably want it  to fly so I can get places faster.

3.Who among your friends could probably be a great inventor if he or she had enough funding to do it?
Probably my boyfriend he's like McGuyver I swear.

4.What invention seems to do its job in a less-satisfying manner than the old-fashioned way?
the microwave is great but sometimes nothing beats freshly cooked stuff.


5.Lately, vending machines have gone beyond drinks and snacks: you can rent DVDs from them or even purchase iPods from them. What’s something your life could be improved by if it were available in vending machines?
i wouldn't mind stamps or something not postage i mean like rubber stamps and books and all that good crafting stuff.

Waiting on Wednesday

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week I'm "Waiting on":

Fracture
By Megan Miranda
Release Date January 17, 2012

Description:
Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow defied medical precedent to come back seemingly fine


-despite the scans that showed significant brain damage. Everyone wants Delaney to be all right, but she knows she's far from normal. Pulled by strange sensations she can't control or explain, Delaney finds herself drawn to the dying. Is her altered brain now predicting death, or causing it?

Then Delaney meets Troy Varga, who recently emerged from a coma with similar abilities. At first she's reassured to find someone who understands the strangeness of her new existence, but Delaney soon discovers that Troy's motives aren't quite what she thought. Is their gift a miracle, a freak of nature-or something much more frightening?

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: •Grab your current read •Open to a random page •Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page •BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) •Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here's my teaser for the week:

"Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadvantageous.  MY challenge stands." Benedict's hands gripped each other.

Clockwork Prince
By Cassandra Clare
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Series: The Infernal Devices

Review: Catching Jordan

Catching Jordan
By Miranda Kenneally
Release Date: December 1, 2011

Description:
What girl doesn't want to be surrounded by gorgeous jocks day in and day out? Jordan Woods isn't just surrounded by hot guys, though - she leads them as the captain and quarterback on her high school football team. They all see her as one of the guys, and that's just fine. As long as she gets her athletic scholarship to a powerhouse university. But now there's a new guy in town who threatens her starring position on the team... and has her suddenly wishing to be seen as more than just a teammate.

Review:
Jordan Woods, the quarterback for her high school Tennessee football team, her head is constantly in the game.  Her only goal is to go to Alabama to play for their collage football team.  Then there's her best friend Sam Henry, he's with her the majority of the time.  He even sleeps in the same bed with her at least a couple times a week.  They are like two peas in a pod.  But then a new guy comes to town, who also happens to be a quarterback and who also happens to be the first guy to make Jordan feel like she wants to be more like a girl.  This turns her world upside down because with Ty's arrival she starts losing focus on her main goal - Alabama State - and herself. 

There was something about Ty that I thought was off, but you can form your own opinion of course. Sam used to go out with Carrie but every since they broke up Jordan thought he has been so sad.  One day Carrie tells Jordan why they broke up, turns out Sam is in love with someone else and it takes Jordan a few minutes to figure out its her.  If she thought Ty's arrival was a whirlwind, well she wasn't ready to find out her best friend was in love with her and that she might be into him as well.  That's when all the drama starts, there are fistfights, missing practices, a lot of crying and heartbreaking and even a sprained knee.  I won't go into details because I really think you should check this book out.  I loved it and could have read it in a day.  Can't wait to see what Kenneally comes up with next. 

Musing Monday - First Read

MUSING MONDAYS… is a weekly event where MizB at Should be Reading will ask a book/reading-related question, and you answer with your own thoughts on the topic.

This week’s musing asks…

What is/are the first book(s) you’re reading for the new year?

Ok So I started Catching Jordan before New Years, so I'm not going to count that since I finished it last night.  Therefore the first book I'm reading is Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices #2) by Cassandra Clare, I'm about to start reading it in a few minutes he he.  What about you? What are you reading first?