Top Ten Books I Read In 2013

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week we're listing the top books we've each read in 2013.For the sake of simplicity, I decided to go with some of the books I rated most highly according to Goodreads. There's a mix of standalones and series, debuts and works by previously published authors. All of them, however, impressed me very much. Siege and Storm...

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2013 End of the Year Book Survey

I quite enjoyed participating in the End of the Year Book Survey hosted by Jamie at The Perpetual Page Turner last year, and couldn't resist the opportunity to again analyze my past year's reading.  Without any further ado: The Best in Books 1. Best book I read in 2013 I’ll keep this nice and short.Young Adult Fiction: In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters Adult Fiction: Burial Rites...

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Review: Control by Lydia Kang

Control by Lydia Kang Series: Control, #1 Published: December 24, 2013, Dial Books for Young Readers Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction Source: From publicist via Netgalley Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble I draw back, considering the threat. I’m never one to cause trouble. I don’t rock the boat, because I don’t know how to swim. But this isn’t about me. Dad’s voice replays in...

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Ready to Become a Fan of...Brandon Sanderson

Ready to Become a Fan of... focuses on those authors new and old whose works I have every intention of eventually reading, but haven't been able to devote the time to just yet. By discussing authors and their works that I'm sure I'll love, given the chance, hopefully I can be more easily compelled to take the next step in not simply acquiring one of their books, but actually taking the time to...

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Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read In 2013

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week we're discussing the top ten authors we've discovered this past year, both recently published and not.    Historical Fiction   Cat Winters     Read my 5-star review of In the Shadow of Blackbirds   Hannah Kent   My 4.5-star review of Burial Rites will be posted in January   Elizabeth Ross     Read my 4.5-star review of Belle EpoqueContemporaryCatherine...

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Review: The Book of Broken Hearts by Sarah Ockler

The Book of Broken Hearts by Sarah Ockler Published: 2013, Simon Pulse Genre: Young Adult Contemporary, Romance Source: Library Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and watched. Oh, dear....

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Review: The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas

The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas Series: The Elemental Trilogy, #1 Published: 2013, Balzer + Bray Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Source: Purchased Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble There existed something in this world that bound a mage tighter than a blood oath: love. Love was the ultimate chain, the ultimate whip, and the ultimate slave driver. The prologue of The Burning Sky begins...

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