Friday, March 2, 2012

What Should I Read This Month? March 2012

Welcome to "What Should I Read This Month?" Every year I sign up for way too many challenges, list all the books I've been dying to read and then inevitably have to give up on some of them for lack of time. These polls let you tell me which of the selections I should definitely not miss.

Last month Daughter of Smoke & Bone won with 59% of the vote.
This month's potential reads are:

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
 A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for.

Wicked Game by Jeri Smith-Ready
 LATE NIGHT RADIO YOU CAN SINK YOUR TEETH INTO

Recovering con artist Ciara Griffin is trying to live the straight life, even if it means finding a (shudder!) real job. She takes an internship at a local radio station, whose late-night time-warp format features 1940s blues, '60s psychedelia, '80s goth, and more, all with an uncannily authentic flair. Ciara soon discovers just how the DJs maintain their cred: they're vampires, stuck forever in the eras in which they were turned.

Ciara's first instinct, as always, is to cut and run. But communications giant Skywave wants to buy WVMP and turn it into just another hit-playing clone. Without the station — and the link it provides to their original Life Times — the vampires would "fade," becoming little more than mindless ghosts of the past. Suddenly a routine corporate takeover is a matter of life and undeath.

To boost ratings and save the lives of her strange new friends, Ciara rebrands the station as "WVMP, the Lifeblood of Rock 'n' Roll." In the ultimate con, she hides the DJs' vampire nature in plain sight, disguising the bloody truth as a marketing gimmick. WVMP becomes the hottest thing around — next to Ciara's complicated affair with grunge vamp Shane McAllister. But the "gimmick" enrages a posse of ancient and powerful vampires who aren't so eager to be brought into the light. Soon the stakes are higher — and the perils graver — than any con game Ciara's ever played...

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
 Three years ago, Alison disappeared after a slumber party, not to be seen since. Her friends at the elite Pennsylvania school mourned her, but they also breathed secret sighs of relief. Each of them guarded a secret that only Alison had known. Now they have other dirty little secrets, secrets that could sink them in their gossip-hungry world. When each of them begins receiving anonymous emails and text messages, panic sets in. Are they being betrayed by some one in their circle? Worse yet: Is Alison back?
 
Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep--sometimes with each other.

S is back from boarding school, and if we aren't careful, she's going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn't fit into, steal our boyfriends' hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I'll be watching closely...

You know you love me,
gossip girl


Thursday, March 1, 2012

February 2012 in Review

Received for Review
Dollhouse, Volume 1: Epitaphs by Joss Whedon
Beer for Dummies by Marty Nachel
Faery Tales & Nightmares by Melissa Marr
Jake and Lily by Jerry Spinelli
Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins
Destined by Aprilynne Pike
Gilt by Katherine Longshore

Bought
Sacrifice by Dakota Banks
Angel: After the Fall, Vol. 1 by Joss Whedon
Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough
Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Deadly Little Secret by Laurie Faria Stolarz
The Dead Girl's Dance by Rachel Caine
Naked Heat by Richard Castle
Unholy Magic by Stacia Kane
The Hour of Dust and Ashes by Kelly Gay
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Read
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
Rainshadow Road by Lisa Kleypas
Are You Going to Kiss Me Now? by Sloane Tanen
Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell
The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia by Peter Dendle
All That Remains by Patricia Cornwell
So Pretty It Hurts by Kate White
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Reviews
Enclave by Ann Aguirre
Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
Make Mine Midnight by Annmarie McKenna
World War Z by Max Brooks
Crime Brulee by Nancy Fairbanks

March Review Book Giveaway

Faery Tales & Nightmares by Melissa Marr (ARC)
Jake and Lily by Jerry Spinelli (ARC)
Are You Going to Kiss Me Now? by Sloane Tanen
The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia by Peter Dendle
So Pretty It Hurts by Kate White (ARC)

One winner will receive their choice, up to 4 so they fit in a box, of the above gently read books that I received for review.

Rules: 
Deadline for entry is Saturday March 31, 2012 11:59pm EST.
Giveaway is open to all US residents.

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