Feature & Follow Friday #7

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This meme is hosted by Parajunkee & Alison Can Read. 
 It is a great way to meet fellow bloggers and gain new followers.  Each participant will answer the week's F&F questions.  And each week a blogger will be Featured on the host's website. 



This week's question:

Q: Jumping Genres: Ever pick up a book from a genre you usually don't like and LOVE it? Tell us about it and why you picked it up in the first place.

I used to only read contemporary and chick lit (with the exception of Harry Potter and Twilight).  But one day I saw Divergent on the shelf at the library and picked it up because the cover was interesting (and shiny lol).  The only other dystopian I had read was Hunger Games and I wasn't too sure if I liked that genre or just happened to like HG.  I looooved Divergent and now I can't get enough of dystopians.

Arc Review: Don't You Wish by Roxanne St. Claire

4 Stars
Title: Don't You Wish
Author: Roxanne St. Claire
Publisher:  Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Publication date: July 10, 2012
How I got the copy: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review (and from Netgalley--thank you!).

From goodreads.com

When plain and unpopular Annie Nutter gets zapped by one of her dad's whacked-out inventions, she lands in a parallel universe where her life becomes picture-perfect. Now she's Ayla Monroe, daughter of the same mother but a different father—and she's the gorgeous, rich queen bee of her high school.  

In this universe, Ayla lives in glitzy Miami instead of dreary Pittsburgh and has beaucoup bucks, courtesy of her billionaire—if usually absent—father. Her friends hit the clubs, party backstage at concerts, and take risks that are exhilirating . . . and illegal. Here she's got a date to lose her V-card with the hottest guy she's ever seen.

But on the insde, Ayla is still Annie.

So when she's offered the chance to leave the dream life and head home to Pittsburgh, will she take it?

The choice isn't as simple as you think.

A Day at the Beach







My current favorite:
-Cocktail Recipe
-Ice pop Recipe
-Beach Read
Today I sweated my butt off at the Jersey Shore (is sweated even a word?)  I think it was about 98 degrees, but it felt like 110.  You should see my sunburn/tan lines.  I am fifty shades of tan lol.  Anyways, I thought it would be fun to do a post about my favorite beach/summer recipes and beach reads so you can have the ultimate beach/pool day.

Top Ten Tuesday #8

Top Ten Tuesday


Sorry this post is kind of late today.  I spent all morning grocery shopping and making fruit salad and white chocolate covered pretzels with red and blue sprinkles for the bbq I'm having tomorrow!  I love the 4th of July!  
 





This weekly meme is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.  All you have to do is add a link back to the hosts page and compile your top ten list of the week.  Each week there is a new top ten list announced and bloggers post their top ten.

(#8)
Top Ten Books For People Who Liked X Author
I'm going to do it a little different as usual.

                IF you like:                                         You might like:

                                                                  
These books are a little dark and twisted.  Mara Dyer And One Moment are both about girls who have lost there memory after a tragic event and are trying to piece back together what happened. 

ARC Review: Dark Companion by Marta Acosta

3.5 Stars
Dark CompanionTitle: Dark Companion
Author: Marta Acosta
Publisher: Tor/Macmillan
Publication date: July 3, 2012
# Of Pages: 368 ebook
How I got the copy: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review (and from Netgalley).

From Amazon.com

When foster teen Jane Williams is invited to attend elite Birch Grove Academy for Girls and escape her violent urban neighborhood, she thinks the offer is too good to be true. She's even offered her own living quarters, the groundskeeper's cottage in the center of the birch grove.

Something's not quite right about the school -- or is it Jane? She thinks she sees things in the birch grove at night. She's also beginning to suspect that the elegant headmistress and her sons are hiding secrets. Lucky is the gorgeous, golden son who is especially attentive to Jane, and Jack is the sardonic puzzling brother.

The school with its talented teachers and bright students is a dream for a science and math geek like Jane. She also loves her new friends, including hilarious poetry-spouting rich girl, Mary Violet. But the longer Jane stays at Birch Grove, the more questions she has about the disappearance of another scholarship girl and a missing faculty member. 

Jane discovers one secret about Birch Grove, which only leads to more mysteries. What is she willing to sacrifice in order to stay at this school...and be bound to Birch Grove forever?

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