Author: Jessi (Geo)

Blogiversary Celebration, Day 2: Undersea Spotlight, Featuring ME!

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 23, 2012 | 11 Comments

I started this feature here at ASR in order to know your fellow bloggers a little better! If you are interested in being featured please fill out the form. Meet yours truly! Hi, I’m Jessi! My nickname is Geo, and honestly I feel like Jessi and Geo are two different personalities sometimes. Jessi is my calm half (work personality) and Geo is my crazy half (when I’m with friends). It sounds slightly silly and borderline schizo, […]

Blogiversary Celebration, Day 1: A Year in Review

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 22, 2012 | 22 Comments

Tomorrow marks ONE WHOLE YEAR for Auntie Spinelli Reads! I can’t believe it!! The time has gone by so fast, and it has really been a fantastic year. I’m so glad I stumbled on the world of book blogging, and I look forward to many more years of it (hopefully!). I have met so many wonderful people and had so many great opportunities! Then So ASR has gone through a lot of design changes. What can I say? […]

YALSA Teens’ Top Ten

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 22, 2012 | 5 Comments

Teen’s Top Ten of 2012! In bold are the ones I’ve read: 1. Divergent by Veronica Roth 2. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 3. Legend by Marie Lu 4. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs 5. What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen 6. Across the Universe by Beth Revis (my review) 7. Cinder by Marissa Meyer (my review) 8. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (my review) 9. Where She Went by Gayle […]

Undersea Spoils (13) + New Design, Blogiversary Week

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 21, 2012 | 10 Comments

This is my replacement for IMM. I only got one book this week. BUT it was a super duper AWESOME book: Days of Blood and Starlight! Woop!! HUGE thanks to Little, Brown for sending me a copy! I almost had a heart attack when I read that email…Daughter of Smoke and Bone was one of my top 5 favorite reads since I’ve been blogging (it will be in one of my blogiversary posts this week)! I’ve got […]

Manga Review: Othello, Vol. 1 by Satomi Ikozawa

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 18, 2012 | 1 Comment

Shoujo manga Published by Del Rey (10.12.2004) Source: I own it (won) Add to Goodreads HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES… Yaya’s high school friends haven’t been very nice. They call her “Yaya the cry-ya! Yaya the misfi-ya!” But no matter how badly they act, Yaya is just too naïve and trusting to believe the worst of her friends. Hard-rocking, butt-kicking Nana is just the girl to grab hold of Yaya’s timid demeanor and turn it upside down. Nana exposes Yaya’s […]

Review: Sweet Shadows by Tera Lynn Childs

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 18, 2012 | 2 Comments

While the first book was good, I believe I enjoyed this one much more! It didn’t have a real lot of depth, but it was a cute and fun read. The fact that there are THREE changing points of view in this one really makes me appreciate Tera’s writing style. A few times I forgot momentarily who I was reading, but for the most part it was very well done. The voices were quite similar, but each of the girls […]