November 2016 Library Checkout!

Hey there bookworms :)

As November is gone (somehow) it is time for me to wrap-up my library use for the month! This monthly feature Library Checkout is brought to you by River City Reading and it gives us bloggers the chance to look at the books that we borrowed, read and put on hold from the library, as well as the books that we returned unread (oops). So let's get to it and have a look at my library books for November!!

Books Read in November:

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowly: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

Checked Out, To Be Read:

The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

The Mistake by Wendy James: Goodreads || Amazon

Blackmoore by Julianne Donaldson: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Audio): Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

The Dark Half by Stephen King: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

Missing Pieces by Heather Gudenkauf: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

On Hold:

Run to Me by Diane Hester: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

Returned Unread:

All of the books that I returned to the library in November I read! The big list above I checked out in the last couple of days of November and they are my December TBR so check back at the end of the month to see if I read them all!

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That is all for this month's Library Checkout post!! What books did you all get from the library last month!! I'd love to hear about it!

Thanks for stopping by, and until next time, happy reading!!

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From the Printer #2 (28.11.16-04.12.16)

Hey there bookish people

Welcome to another Monday on my blog! That means that it is time for another round of From the Printer which is a weekly feature that I started over on my other blog which you can check out by clicking here. It is a place where I talk about the new books that are going to be published in the coming week :) so here we go!

Title: The Whole Town's Talking
Author: Fannie Flagg
Published: November 29th by Random House
Genre: Fiction; Contemporary
Links: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon
Goodreads' Synopsis:
Elmood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like no other, but something strange is happening out at the cemetery. "Still Meadows," as it's called, is anything but still. Funny and profound, the novel in the tradition of Flagg's Can't Wait to Get to Heaven and Thorton Wilder's Our Town deals with universal themes of heaven and earth and everything in between, as Flagg tells a surprise story of life, afterlife, and the mysterious goings-on of ordinary people.

Title: When All The Girls Have Gone

Author: Jayne Ann Krentz

Published: November 29th by Berkley

Genre: Mystery; Romance; Suspence; Contemporary; Thriller

Links: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

Goodreads' Synopsis:

When Charlotte Sawyer is unable to contact her step-sister, Jocelyn, to tell her that one of her closest friends was found dead, she discovers that Jocelyn has vanished.

Beautiful, brilliant - and reckless - Jocelyn has gone off the grid before, but never like this. In a desperate effort to find her, Charlotte joins forces with Max Cutler, a struggling PI who recently moved to Seattle after his previous career as a criminal profiler went down in flames - literally. Burned out, divorced and almost broke, Max needs the job.

After surviving a near-fatal attack, Charlotte and Max turn to Jocelyn's closest friends, women in a Seattle-based online investment club, for answers. But what they find is chilling...

When her uneasy alliance with Max turns into a full-blown affair, Charlotte has no choice but to trust him with her life. For the shadows of Jocelyn's past are threatening to consume her - and anyone else who gets in their way..

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They are two of the books being released this week! When all the Girls Have Gone sounds really good, I have added it to my TBR pile already! 

What books are you looking forward to being released?? Leave your comments below and we can discuss!

Thanks for stopping by, and until next time, happy reading!!

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #2

Hi bookworms!!

Welcome to another Monday on my blog! Which means that it is time for another It's Monday! What are you reading? This weekly feature is hosted by Book Date and involves talking about what you have been reading, and will be reading throughout the week!

Just Finished Reading:

I just finished reading this amazing book by Sarah J. Maas and I loved every minute. I am going to struggle waiting for the next one to be published (early next year but that is so far away!)

You can check out my review here

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Reading this Week:

I am currently only 25% done with this book but of course I love it (how could I not?) I hope to be done with this one in the next couple of days, so stay tuned for my review!

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It has been a while since I picked up a book by Nora Roberts so I have this one that I borrowed from a friend, so I will get into it this week! Cannot wait :)

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Up Next:

Again, it has been a very long time since I picked up a Nicholas Sparks' book, and I love his writing so when I found this one in the library I got it straight away. I already know that I will love it!

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I found this one in the library too, it has been on my TBR ever since I read another of her books, One Breath Away so I grabbed it as soon as I saw it. Hopefully it is as good as that one. 

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That is all for this week's It's Monday! What are you reading? post. Have you read any of the books mentioned in the post?? What did you think?? If you have taken part in this feature, leave me a link to yours, I would love to check it out :) 

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Sunday Post #2

Hey there bookworms!
Welcome back to another Sunday on my blog! Being Sunday means that it is time for another Sunday Post! This is a weekly feature brought to you by the beautiful Kimba @ The Caffeinated Book Reviewer. 
This feature involves talking about all that has happened on our blogs in the previous week and what we have planned for the week to come! So, lets get down to it!

Last Week:

Weekly Features:

• Sunday Post #1 
• It's Monday! What are you reading? #1
• From the Printer #1
• WWW Wednesday #1
• Friday Finds #1

Book Reviews:

• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (view)

Next Week:

Weekly Features:

• It's Monday! What are you reading? #2
• From the Printer #2
• Top Ten Tuesday #1
• WWW Wednesday #2
• Friday Finds #2
• Sunday Post #3

Book Reviews:

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

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So that is all for today's Sunday Post I have linked my posts from the previous week in case you missed them and wanted to go and take a look!

Thank you for stopping by, and until next time, happy reading!

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Friday Finds: The Young Elites

Hi bookworms!
I know today is Saturday, not Friday, but yesterday I was seriously swamped with work and did not get a chance to write this post, so here I am..better late than never I guess?

Anyway, lets get down to business..
Friday Finds is a weekly feature brought to you by Jenn over at A Daily Rhythm and it involves talking about a book (or series in the case of today's post) that you have recently 'discovered' and added to your shelf or TBR.

This week's find is:

 The Young Elites series by Marie Lu. I have known about this series for a while now, I have seen people feature the books on their bookstagrams as well as posts on their blogs. But as I have only really just started getting into the world of fantasy I have only just read what the books are about and decided that they sound awesome and I really want to read them! They have therefore been added to my Goodreads "To-Read" shelf and hopefully ill get to read them soon!


The Young Elites: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon
The Rose Society: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon
The Midnight Star: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon



Has anyone read these books?? What did you think of them?? I would love to hear your thoughts on the series in the comments below! Also leave me a link to your own Friday Finds posts so I can go and have a look at the books that you have discovered this week :)

Thanks for popping in and reading this week's Friday Finds! Until next time, happy reading!

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Book Review: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (Spoiler Free)

Title: A Court of Mist and Fury
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Published: May 2016 by Bloomsbury
Genre: Fantasy; Young Adult; Romance
Links: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon
Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses #2
Format: Paperback
Source: Borrowed from Library (will be purchasing!)
Goodreads' Rating: 4.74 / 5 stars
My Rating: 🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺
Goodreads' Synopsis:
Feyre is immortal.
After rescuing her lover Tamlin from the wicked Faerie Queen, she returns to the Spring Court possessing the powers of the High Fae. But Feyre cannot forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people - nor the bargain she made with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court.
As Feyre is drawn ever deeper into Rhysand's dark web of politics and passion, war is looming and an evil far greater than any queen threatens to destroy everything Feyre has fought for. She must confront her past, embrace her gifts and decide her fate.
She must surrender her heart to heal a world torn in two.

Book Review:

This book! Where do I even start?? I don't think anything I write will do this book justice. From start to finish I was hooked, by the last handful of chapters I was on the edge of my seat and my heart was racing!

We follow Feyre once again as she is plagued with guilt about what she needed to do Under The Mountain to save Tamlin and the Fae population. She has nightmares and is generally unhappy, the more she tries to heal, the worse she feels. Even though she knows it was for the greater good, she needs to keep reminding herself that she is safe. 

Then there is the deal that she struck with Rhysand, the High Lord of the Night Court, in order to stay alive. She is to be a guest in his home for one week every month. 

I don't want to give anything away for those who haven't read it or who haven't finished it. 

What I will say is that my opinion of certain characters changed throughout the book which I wasn't expecting, but I was so very happy about it! I was itching for Feyre and Rhysand to fall in love..(the inner romantic coming through I know!) their chemistry was just so real and easy and you just knew that they had to be together! 

As Feyre learned to use her powers and become a fighter, thanks to Rhysand and his inner circle, she began to become herself again. 

THE ENDING!! OH. MY. GOD! 

I didn't want it to end where it did! I have so many questions and I have to wait until MARCH to get the answers! I don't think I can survive that long! What am I going to do! 

I need to discuss this book with fellow lovers out there! Leave a comment and let's chat..I am not quite ready to leave Prythian behind just yet!

Thanks for reading my review of A Court of Mist and Fury I hope you enjoyed it. If you have not read this series, you need to go out and buy the books now and read them! But be warned for heartbreak when you get to the end and need to wait for the next one (why so long Sarah???)

Until next time, happy reading!

About the Author:

Sarah lives in Bucks County, PA, and over the years she has developed an unhealthy appreciation for Disney movies and bad pop music. She adores fairy tales and ballet, drinks too much tea, and watches an ungodly amount of TV. When she is not busy writing, she can be found exploring the historic and beautiful Pennsylvania countryside with her husband and canine companion. (Goodreads)

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WWW Wednesday

Hi there bookworms!

Today is Wednesday and therefore it is time for WWW Wednesday which is a weekly feature hosted by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. In this feature we are to answer three questions:

1. What are we currently reading?
2. What did we most recently finish reading?
3. What are we going to read next?

What I am Currently Reading!

 I am 70% done with A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas and I am LOVING it! I will be sad to finish it, seeing as we have to wait until March for the third book in the series to come out. But I hope to continue with her other series, Throne of Glass while I am waiting patiently for it to be published!

Has anyone else read this?? What did you think of it?? Leave me a comment, I would love to chat with you about it :)

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What did I Recently Finish Reading?

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult was the most amazing book and I loved every minute of it. I went to a her book signing and got to meet her and it was the most amazing experience. I HIGHLY recommend this book, it really opens your eyes to racist and what it means to be a person of colour in America as well as how things that white people say and do can hurt a person, even if we don't mean to. 

Who has read/wants to read this one?? Let's chat in the box below!

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What am I Going to Read Next?

I know that by this time in my life I should have read the Harry Potter series many times by now..but no, this will be the first time reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which of course is the second book in the amazing series. I am super excited to start it!

I am sure the entire world has read this! If so, let's chat..leave a comment in the box below!

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Thanks for stopping by and reading my WWW Wednesday post! I hope you enjoyed it! Leave me a comment below to discuss the post, or any of the books that I have mentioned. Or, if you have written a similar post this week leave me a link so I can check it out!

Until next time, happy reading!

Kim x

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From the Printer (21.11.16-27.11.16)

Hey there bookworms!

This post is a weekly feature that I began doing over on my other book blog (www.booksarelove22.wordpress.com) so I thought I would do it here too! It is a post in which I talk about the books that are going to be released in the coming week! So here we go :)

Title: Moonglow
Author: Michael Chabon
Publishing: November 22 by Harper
Links: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon
Goodreads' Synopsis:
Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at mid-century and, above all, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies. A gripping, poignant, tragicomic, scrupulously researched and wholly imaginary transcript of a life that spanned the dark heart of the twentieth century, Moonglow is also a tour de force of speculative history in which Chabon attempts to reconstruct the mysterious origins and fate of Chabon Scientific, Co., an authentic mail-order novelty company whose ads for scale models of human skeletons, combustion engines and space rockets were once a fixture in the back pages of Esquire, Popular Mechanics, and Boy’s Life. Along the way Chabon devises and reveals, in bits and pieces whose hallucinatory intensity is matched only by their comic vigor and the radiant moonglow of his prose, a secret history of his own imagination.

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Title: I'll Take You There

Author: Wally Lamb

Publishing: November 22 by Harper

Links: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

Goodreads' Synopsis:

I’ll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting up a film in the projectionist booth, he’s confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywood’s silent film era. Lois invites Felix to revisit—and in some cases relive—scenes from his past as they are projected onto the cinema’s big screen.

In these magical movies, the medium of film becomes the lens for Felix to reflect on the women who profoundly impacted his life. There’s his daughter Aliza, a Gen Y writer for New York Magazine who is trying to align her post-modern feminist beliefs with her lofty career ambitions; his sister, Frances, with whom he once shared a complicated bond of kindness and cruelty; and Verna, a fiery would-be contender for the 1951 Miss Rheingold competition, a beauty contest sponsored by a Brooklyn-based beer manufacturer that became a marketing phenomenon for two decades. At first unnerved by these ethereal apparitions, Felix comes to look forward to his encounters with Lois, who is later joined by the spirits of other celluloid muses.
Against the backdrop of a kaleidoscopic convergence of politics and pop culture, family secrets, and Hollywood iconography, Felix gains an enlightened understanding of the pressures and trials of the women closest to him, and of the feminine ideals and feminist realities that all women, of every era, must face

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Title: Victoria

Author: Daisy Goodwin

Publishing: November 22 by St Martin's Press

Links: Goodreads || Book Depository || Amazon

Goodreads' Synopsis: 

In 1837, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria – sheltered, small in stature, and female – became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Many thought it was preposterous: Alexandrina — Drina to her family — had always been tightly controlled by her mother and her household, and was surely too unprepossessing to hold the throne. Yet from the moment William IV died, the young Queen startled everyone: abandoning her hated first name in favor of Victoria; insisting, for the first time in her life, on sleeping in a room apart from her mother; resolute about meeting with her ministers alone.

One of those ministers, Lord Melbourne, became Victoria’s private secretary. Perhaps he might have become more than that, except everyone argued she was destined to marry her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. But Victoria had met Albert as a child and found him stiff and critical: surely the last man she would want for a husband….
Drawing on Victoria’s diaries as well as her own brilliant gifts for history and drama, Daisy Goodwin, author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter as well as creator and writer of the new PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria, brings the young queen even more richly to life in this magnificent novel.


Thank you for popping in to read about the new books being published this week in From the Printer. I think the only one of those that I would think about adding to my TBR would be Victoria by Daisy Goodwin the other two books don't really sound like my kind of thing. What about you guys? Which one are you most looking forward to reading?? Let me know in the comments box!
Until next time, happy reading!

Kim x

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It's Monday! What are you reading??

Hey bookworms! 

Today is Monday, and that means that it is time for the weekly feature, It's Monday! What are you reading? This feature is hosted by Book Date and gives us a chance to talk about the books that we are currently reading, and what books we will be reading through the week!

Currently Reading:

Title: A Court of Mist and Fury

Author: Sarah J. Maas

Publishing: May 2016 by Bloomsbury

Links: Goodreads \\ Book Depository \\ Amazon

Goodreads' Synopsis:

Feyre is immortal.
After rescuing her lover Tamlin from a wicked Faerie Queen, she returns to the Spring Court possessing the powers of the High Fae. But Feyre cannot forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people - nor the bargain she made with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court.As Feyre is drawn ever deeper into Rhysand's dark web of politics and passion, war is looming and an evil far greater than any queen threatens to destroy everything Feyre has fought for. She must confront her past, embrace her gifts and decide her fate.She must surrender her heart to heal a world torn in two.

I am currently 40% through this book and I am loving it! My opinion of characters have changed, which I wasn't expecting, but I am super happy. Cannot wait to see what happens!

Up Next:

After I finish reading ACOMAF I will be getting into this one! I am so excited!

Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Author: J. K. Rowling

Series: Harry Potter #2

Links: Goodreads \\ Book Depository \\ Amazon

Goodreads' Synopsis:

The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny. But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone, or something, starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects: Harry Potter himself?

Well that is all for today's post! Thank you for stopping by! What books are you reading this week?? I would love to hear about them in the comments below..if you have taken part in this weekly feature, leave a link in the comments box so that I can go and have a look!
Until next time, happy reading!

Kim x

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Sunday Post

Hi there bookworms!

Welcome to Sunday on my blog! Today's post is a weekly feature called The Sunday Post and it is hosted by Kim at The Caffeinated Book Reviewer and it gets us bloggers talking about what has been happening on our blogs in the past week, and what will be happening in the coming week :)

Last Week on booksarelove:

In the last week, I have only written one post as I only just started up this blog. It was my welcome post, which you can read here. Next week will be more eventful!

Next Week on booksarelove:

• It's Monday! What are you reading? (feature)
• Top Ten Tuesday: Books I am thankful for (feature)
• WWW Wednesday (feature)
• Shelf Control (feature)
• Friday Finds (feature)
• Sunday Post (feature)
• A Court of Mist and Fury (review)

As you can see, next week will be a busy week, so make sure you stay tuned for all of my posts. I was hoping to have my review of ACOMAF done this week, but it is taking me longer to read than I had hoped so next week it will be up I PROMISE! 

Thanks for stopping by and reading this week's Sunday Post I hope you pop in during the week to check out my other posts! 

Until next time, happy reading!!

Kim x

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Welcome to my New Blog!

Hi everyone!

I have decided to make another blog dedicated to books. I have a blog over at Wordpress.com but I would like to reach more people so I thought that I would begin a blog here on Blogspot as well!

So far I am not really sure what I am doing, but I am sure I will figure it out in time :)

On this blog I will be posting all kinds of things to do with books - reviews, weekly features, discussions etc. so I hope that you enjoy what I have to offer!

I look forward to connecting with you through a love of books and reading and if you want to find me on other social media platforms, follow the links below!

Thanks for dropping by, and until next time, happy reading!

Kim x

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