One readathon ends, another begins!

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on July 7, 2015 | 2 Comments

One readathon ends… Last week I participated in the Instagram readathon, #bbbreadathon, hosted by @bbbgirlies! Goal: 5 books and 3 challenges Books: Read: Illuminae by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman, 608 pages Off the Page by Jodi Picoult, 356 pages Queen of Zombie Hearts by Gena Showalter, 464 pages The 100 by Kass Morgan, 323 pages This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales, 288 pages DNFed: Untreatable by J. Laslie, stopped at 106 pages Finished: The Eighth Guardian […]

Review: Off the Page by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on July 6, 2015 | 4 Comments

I think I mentioned in my review of Between the Lines that I would have never looked twice at these books based off of the covers. This one is better than the last, but it still doesn’t scream “Young Adult fantasy” to me. But I’m very glad I received this one for review, because I really enjoyed it! I am highly impressed by how much the writing style improved from the last book. (Part of that may be because two heads are […]

Heartbeat Weekly (65): Dragon making workshop with Julie Kagawa!

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on July 5, 2015 | 4 Comments

Books I got this week Signed (already owned): Talon by Julie Kagawa Rogue by Julie Kagawa The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa, UK edition Gifted: Untreatable by J. Laslie Weekly Recap Posts on the blog: What I’ve been up to this week: I had a hectic but wonderful week! I had Julie’s workshop on Tuesday, I worked during the crazy 4th of July rush (everyone wants to board their dogs last minute!), and spent the holiday with my family. […]

Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 29, 2015 | 1 Comment

There was sooo much 80’s pop culture in this book! I did get excited about the music references, but honestly most of it was over my head because it was things I wasn’t interested in (particularly 80’s video games, I never had any gaming consoles growing up sadly). I don’t know much about video games from that era because I was never that big into gaming. So a lot of those references had little to no meaning to me. But […]

Heartbeat Weekly (64): In which I get my MOST anticipated 2015 release!

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 28, 2015 | 8 Comments

Books I got this week Gifted: Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman AHHHH I CAN’T EVEN *squeals* THANK YOU OCTAVIA!!! You are the BEST! <3333 Weekly Recap Posts on the blog: Blog news: I’m hoping that with normalcy returning to my life, I’ll have more time to start visiting blogs again and commenting regularly! Does anyone know of any upcoming readathons? I’m getting really behind on reading and have been dying for a readathon! What I’ve been up […]

Review: Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 26, 2015 | 5 Comments

I’m going to be honest, this is a book I would never have picked up on my own. The cover just screams “contemporary” and I’m not a big contemp reader. I also wouldn’t have pegged it as YA. Not to mention the average Goodreads rating is only 3.53, which typically scares me away from reading. But, I got the companion/sequel novel, Off the Page, from the publisher for review and everyone told me that I should read this one first. […]