Book Haul #7

Hello!! Today I am going to share a book haul of all the books I picked up recently. I had felt the urge to add to my never ending TBR pile on my book shelf.

The first 4 books in the picture are the first 4 books in the Pretty Little Liars series. I have wanted to watch this TV show but was curious if the books were better. I saw someone reading one of them in my work and asked if they were good books and got good feed back on them. I decided to buy the box set for the first 4 books because it was only $20 as opposed to $10 for one book. Better deal!

Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins. After reading this authors first book, Anna and the French Kiss, I had to get this one too. I'm so excited to read this I can't even contain myself. Does it bother anyone else when books in a series have not matching covers?? It's bothering me how this book cover isn't the matching one to Anna and the French Kiss. Unfortunately this is the only one that Barnes and Noble had, so I got it anyways. I'm crazy.

Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson. If you've read my latest  Exploring Random Bookstores post, then you've already seen this book when I purchased it. 

Three Weeks with my Brother by Nicholas Sparks. This is the only Nicholas Sparks book that I have not read or owned. This one is a memoir of the time he spent 3 weeks with his brother. I have only read a handful of memoirs before and they aren't my favorite but hey it's Nicholas Sparks and I need to read everything that he has written to be satisfied. I've been meaning to pick up this book for a few years now. 

Dead until Dark by Charlaine Harris. This is the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Mysteries/True Blood series. I recently got recommend this book from someone and she said it's a book that I won't be able to put down once I read it. I always love books like that so we will see!

That is all for my book haul, I hope you enjoyed and thank you for reading! 

Upcoming Fall 2013 Releases!

Hello Everyone! Today I am going to share some upcoming new releases for this Fall that I am excited about. But first I wanted to say that I'm sorry about my lack of blogging lately. I have not been posting hardly any book reviews, but I have not read much that I have wanted to review. I read a couple book already this month that I might do a review on. They are all companion novels to each other so I might just do a 3 in 1 review on all of them. Now onto the books that Im excited about!! First and foremost, Nicholas Sparks new book comes out next month so I will be talking about that, and there are alot of YA books that are part of series that I love coming out in October and November!

Asylum By Madeleine Roux coming out on August 20th. This book is about a guy who joins a college prep program, but his dorm room used to be used for an Asylum for the criminally insane. This book sounds so good, I love books about Asylums and crazy people. I find these topics really interesting so I am excited about this book!!

The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks coming out on September 17th. I am a huge Nicholas Sparks fan and I really can't wait for this book!! I think he usually releases (or use to) a book every year, but I'm pretty sure it's been two years since his last book came out. It's been way too long since I have indulged a Nicholas Sparks book.







All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry coming out on September 26th. This book is about two girls who went missing from their town 4 years ago, but two years ago only one returned. Now she is unable to speak and lives life in silence, but when their town is attacked again she has to decide if it's time to speak up about what happened or continue to be silent. This book sounds really good and interesting! I can't wait to pick this one up.






Revealed (House of Night book #11) By P.C. Cast coming out on October 15th. This is a series that I've been reading for years! I can't believe that this is the 11th book in the series. 11 books in a series is a little excessive in my opinion, but hey whatever I keep reading them. This use to be a favorite series of mine but I haven't enjoyed the later books in the series as much as the beginning ones. Every time a new book comes out I pretty much forget what had happened in the previous one, so they are hard to get into. But regardless I will still read this one.

Allegiant (Divergent book #3) by Veronica Roth coming out on October 22nd. I feel like I've been waiting for this book to come out for so long. I absolutely love this series and I can't wait to read this one. These book are so amazing and I can't wait to see how the series is going to end!








The Iron Traitor (Iron Fey series #6) By Julie Kagawa coming out on October 22nd. This book is continuing Ethan Chase's story from The Lost Prince. I didn't enjoy The Lost Prince as much as the original Iron Fey series, but I do want to continue reading with this next book. Originally, The Lost Prince was suppose to have it's own series, but now the author has this new book matching the cover and title the the original Iron Fey series. Hmmm confusing.





Teardrop by Lauren Kate coming out on October 22nd. I wasn't a huge fan of Lauren Kate's Fallen series. I only read the first book and didn't like it so I never continued with the series. This new series of hers sounds really good and interesting, and it doesn't sound like anything I've read before. I'm excited to give this author another try with her new book coming out!









Champion (Legend series book #3) by Marie Lu coming out on November 5th. I read Legend and Prodigy a few months ago and this is a really good dystopian series. I also can't wait to find out what is going to happen in this book!







The Fiery Heart (Bloodlines series #4) By Richelle Mead. I think this is the book that I am most excited about this Fall. I can't wait to read it!! I'm pretty much going crazy waiting for it. The last book in the series was amazing and I think this one will be too. I'm a huge fan of Richelle Mead and her Vampire Academy series is one of my favorites. Bloodline is a spin off series, and I think it's just as great. I'm currently re reading the VA books, and I hope I can catch up and re read the first 3 Bloodlines books to get ready for this one!!





This is all for the upcoming releases that I'm excited about this fall!! I really can't wait for any of these books to come out!! Thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoyed!

Top 10 Love Stories (Valentines Day books!)

Hey Everyone! Today in honor of Valentines Day I'm going to share my top ten favorite love stories! I know Valentines Day was on Thursday, so this post is a little late but I still wanted to do it because I didn't have time to on actual Valentines Day. When I think of my favorite love story books, I naturally graduate more towards adult fiction books like ones written by Nicholas Sparks. I don't know why but in books like these I have found the best (or my favorite) love stories. All of my top ten books except 2 of them are adult fiction but I have two young adult books in there as well. I hope you enjoy this post and if you're in the mood for a sappy love story that will probably make you cry then please check out some of these books!




1. Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks. Like I said before, my first thoughts when I think of love stories is books written by Nicholas Sparks. I have read all of his books and they are really wonderful but a few of them have stuck out more than others and Message in a Bottle is one of them. I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did. As I was reading all of the books written by him a few years ago, I started with the newer released ones so I read Message in a Bottle as one of the last ones. I think this was one of the first books he wrote but I was so late to read it. This book was really heart breaking but so wonderful at the same time. I absolutely loved everything about it.




2. The Choice by Nicholas Sparks. You know how we all have that one book that made you cry more than any other book ever has? This is that book for me. Even though It made me cry so much, a lot of it was tears of sadness but happiness too. This book was heart breaking but it ended up having a happy ending to it. It was such a fantastic book and I can't say enough times how great it is.








3. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks. OK after this one, I promise I'm done with this author haha. This is my all time favorite love story (book and movie) I absolutely love this book but this is one that I seen the movie first, so naturally I am partial to the movie because that's what I knew of the story first. The movie is a little but different, but that's okay because I do love both the book and movie equally.







4. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. This is another love story that I really, really love. The time traveling in this book is beyond amazing. This is a very detailed book and it is sort of long but none the less wonderful. I also really enjoyed the movie of this book as well.









5. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen. This one also is a great love story, and the movie was also enjoyable. It was a really great read that I read fairly quickly because I couldn't put it down.











6. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. This is one of the best books that I have ever read. It's a lot different from the other love stories that I have read, but I think that's why I loved it so much. It didn't have over the top, head over heals in love kind of love story but a slow one that grows with time. It's such a beautiful story and I can't say enough great things about it.








7. Night Road by Kristin Hannah. I'm not exactly sure if this book would be considered a 'love story' or not. The love story in this book definitely isn't the main focus but it is one of my all time favorite books. The two people in the book who are part of the love story just go through so much together and still manage to be together in the end. It's so inspiring so that is why I'm including it in my favorites.








8. The Pact by Jodi Picoult. This is another one that has a lot of other focuses in the book rather than the love story. But like Night Road, it is one of my favorite books ever so I am including it because this book is so wonderful and heartbreaking.







9. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. This is one of the two YA books I am including because this book has a really amazing love story in it. The two main characters, Hazel and Gus have a wonderful romance that just melted my heart. I absolutely adored this book.









10. The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead. I don't typically find a great romance in YA fantasy books/series but this one is one of the best (in my opinion). Rose and Dimitri's love and romance in this series is unbelievable and it my favorite love story in all of YA fantasy books. It's such a great forbidden love that it drove me crazy all through the books in this series. I was definitely rooting from these characters since book one!







This is all for my top ten love stories! All the talk about Nicholas Sparks books in the beginning makes me miss reading his books. I just might have to re read them soon! I hope you all enjoyed this post and happy reading! :)

Top 10 stand alone novels

Hello Eveyone! Today I'm going to share with you my top ten favorite stand alone novels. I recently did a blog post on my top favorite book series which you can read here if you are interested.
These are all of my favorite stand alone novels (books not in a series) and unlike my top ten favorite series, these ones are not fantasy books or young adult books like the series are.  Some of these books were highly popular ones and were made into movies as well. I'm such a sucker for reading books that are being turned into a movie, especially if it's some chick-lit romance book :p




1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
2. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
3. The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Night Road by Kristin Hannah
5. Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah
6. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
7. The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
8. Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
9. Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
10. The Pact by Jodi Picoult

Each and every one of these books is amazing in my opinion. I recently just finished reading The Pact by Jodi Picoult so that book had made it onto my favorites list as well. I had first written down Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult in its place because that is an amazing book as well but I loved The Pact a lot more! I highly recommend any of these books to anyone who hasn't read them yet. I'm a sucker for Nicholas Sparks and Kristin Hannah books as you can see. :)

I hope you enjoyed reading this post, and also based on my favorites list, if anyone has any recommendations for me then feel free to comment and let me know!
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