My first Book Convention: ALA 2014

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I'm typically an introvert on days that end with Y.  I talk when it's socially expected of me, but if I don't know the people I feel 50 shades of awkward during the whole conversation.  Did I mention I also hate large crowds?  

So when I saw American Library Association was happening and that it was possible for me to go I had a few reservations.  What if I got lost getting there?  What if the crowds were too daunting?  What if I ran into people I knew from online?

But the promise of free books can pretty much get me to do anything (within reason of course).  So I ventured to my first convention and had the best day I've had in a long time.   Besides meeting one of my favorite authors and getting books.  I also met three amazing bloggers who I've talked to on twitter for about a year now (Jamie, Betty, and Gabby).  And a few other bloggers I'd never talked to before.  That's the beauty of events like these.  You get to meet people.  And while that used to scare me...I'm really glad I put myself out there and did this.  I even got the nerves up to ask Rainbow Rowell to say hi for the vlog I made.  She was such a sweetheart!  


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{Review} The Edge of Never

4 Stars
Pages: 426
Publication date: November 15, 2012
Publisher: J.A. Redmerski
How I got the copy: Bought
Rating:  3.5 out of 5 Stars
   
  
From Goodreads:
Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett had always been one to think out-of-the-box, who knew she wanted something more in life than following the same repetitive patterns and growing old with the same repetitive life story. And she thought that her life was going in the right direction until everything fell apart.

Determined not to dwell on the negative and push forward, Camryn is set to move in with her best friend and plans to start a new job. But after an unexpected night at the hottest club in downtown North Carolina, she makes the ultimate decision to leave the only life she’s ever known, far behind.  continued on goodreads

Reading this book was like riding a seesaw.  One minute the mood was up and fun and I was loving it.  Next, it's down and some serious stuff is happening.  But there were points in between all that where things just got weird.  And I'm still not really able to get over that to give this a higher rating.

I'm talking about the reason why Andrew would push her away.  Because he needed to "own her".  It went from cute little road trip book to weird in .5 seconds.  Like seriously, you just met her a week ago.  And now you want to own her.  What does that even mean?  Normally I'd just think it meant he'd want to marry her...like be the last guy who'll ever get to date her.  But when you've just met someone and you say this as you're getting physically intimate...it's just...weird.  There's no other way to put it.

Bookshelf Tour

One of my favorite parts of BookTube is the bookshelf tours.  You can tell a lot about a person by which books they choose to buy and keep.  I did an abbreviated tour (meaning I don't pull any of the books out). Ain't nobody got time for that!  Let me know if you see any you love or if you think I'm missing some good ones.

Guest Post {Review} Dare You To

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Nikki from Fiction Freak has graciously offered to do a guest review of


Dare You To. It was disappointing and I wasn't the biggest fan. Not to say it didn’t have its good moments—it did! Just not enough to make me love it as much as I wanted. Which sucked since it got off to an absolutely GREAT start and I loved.

I had a lot of issues with this book, namely the characters. I pushed through this book though because 1) I kept hoping it would get better and 2) I really wanted to see Echo and Noah and Isaiah again. 

Now, if you ask Annabelle, she can probably send you all my reactions since I texted her all of them. And none of them were particularly…good. I alternated between hating and loving all the characters, wanting to punch someone and wanting to tackle hug them. I guess you could call them brilliantly flawed, but they seemed more moody and hypocritical to me, though they did have their moments.

So I’m going to basically talk about the characters in this review.


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BOB Challenge & Giveaway

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GIVEAWAY WINNER: Entry #26 Sharon from The Book Barbies!  Congrats.  Look out for your email.  Thank you to everyone who participated!

Have you ever read a book and thought, "Man I wish these people were real?  I would be best friends with them in real life". 

 Well, I made a tag on my BookTube channel called The Bookish Wedding tag.  It's all questions about which of your favorite characters you'd invite to your wedding if you were to marry your top book boyfriend/girlfriend.
Watch my example:

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