My Own Little World In A Book: 2013

Monday, December 30, 2013

Musing Monday's

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…

• Describe one of your reading habits.

• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).

• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!

• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren't) enjoying it.

• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!

• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

Hosted by Should Be Reading

My Musing: An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon

I just bought this book yesterday, since I'll be finishing A Breath Of Snow And Ashes sometime this week. I'm really looking forward to reading this since book 9 comes out June 10, 2014..

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Vampire and Shifter 2014 Challenge List

1. BirthRight by Sydney Addae

I'll Add More As I Go Through The Year

Shifter Challenge 2014

by ParaJunkee

Since I'm Doing the Vampire one I decided to do this one too.

THE RULES:

The Shifter Challenge runs from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014
The challenge is to read 10 books that have a SHIFTER as a main, or supporting character
Books can be in any format and should be at least 100 pages. Short stories do not count. You can also post about rereads.
Post about this challenge on your blog stating that you are participating or create a shelf via Goodreads, Booklikes etc. That post or shelf is the link that you will include in the link-up below. The link should be the post link not just your direct blog link. Please be courteous and include a link back to this post.
Post your reviews on the Review Post: Click here to log your reviews!

Stacking The Shelves

Hosted by Tynga's Reviews

Stacking the Shelves is where we share the books we added to our bookshelves this week. It is hosted by Tynga's Reviews and is inspired by IMM

An Echo In The Bone by Diana Gabaldon

Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and he’d rather die than face his illegitimate son — a young lieutenant in the British Army — across the barrel of a gun. Fraser’s time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price won’t include Jamie’s life or happiness — not if she has anything to say.

Claire’s grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the unfolding of Brianna’s parents’ history — a past that may be sneaking up behind their own family

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (E-Book)

The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding Highland clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into intrigues and dangers that may threaten her life...and shatter her heart. For here she meets James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, and becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Friday, December 27, 2013

2014 Vampire Challenge: Hosted by ParaJunkie.com

Hosted by: parajunkee.com

THE RULES:

The Vampire Challenge runs from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014
The challenge is to read 10 books that have a VAMPIRE as a main, or supporting character
Books can be in any format and should be at least 100 pages. Short stories do not count. You can also post about rereads.
Post about this challenge on your blog stating that you are participating or create a shelf via Goodreads, Booklikes etc. That post or shelf is the link that you will include in the link-up below. The link should be the post link not just your direct blog link. Please be courteous and include a link back to this post.
Post your reviews on the Review Post: Click here to log your reviews!

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Waiting on Wednesday

"Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Publication Date: June 10, 2014

In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears . . . into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it “a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries].” Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart’s Blood.

1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington’s troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie’s wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces.

The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in twentieth-century Scotland. Or not. In fact, Brianna is searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family’s secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy . . . never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself.

Written in My Own Heart’s Blood is the brilliant next chapter in a masterpiece of the imagination unlike any other.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read(s)
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) -- or less or more -- “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

"He'd do anything to protect one of 'his men'" I said instead.

Christie's gaze was rather glassy, but still intelligent; he looked at me for

a long moment, unspeaking, thoughts passing slowly behind his eyes.

A floorboard in the hall creaked, and I strained my ears for Jamie's

breathing. Yes I could hear it, soft and regular, he was still asleep."

- A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon

Top Ten Tuesday: What I Hope Santa Brings Me

Top Ten Tuesday by: The Broke and the Bookish

Dear Santa, I have been real good this year. Will you bring me a James Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser. Along with the books.

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon

A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon

An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon

Dangerous Women by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois

The Game of Thrones Series by George R. R. Martin

Opps thats alittle more then ten...

Friday, December 13, 2013

Friday Finds (Dec 13th)

Firelight by Kristen Callihan

Moonglow by Kristen Callihan

Winterblaze by Kristen Callihan

Shadowdance by Kristen Callihan

Ember by Kristen Callihan

Evernight by Kristen Callihan

I can't wait to check this series out.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Swoon Thursday #YA Bound

Swoon Thursday is a weekly event hosted by YA Bound So drop by and check it out!

From the book you’re currently reading, or one you just finished, tell us what made you SWOON. Shout it out on Twitter with the hashtag #YABound, post it here in the comments, or grab the adorable button above and share it on your blog.

This week, I’m SWOONING over:

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Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon’s New York Times bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over — and sold more than twelve million books. Now, A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.

The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.

With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence — with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie’s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.

I love the saga of Jamie and Claire...