Series I have yet to read

Hey Fellow Readers!

Today, I'm going to throw myself under the bus and call out popular series I either haven't finished, or straight up haven't started yet.  Hopefully this will give me the motivation to finish these this year!

Unfinished

Daughter of Smoke and Bone series
By: Laini Taylor
Books of the series I've read: Just the first one.




The Lunar Chronicles
By: Marissa Meyer
Books of the series I've read: Just the first one again.




The Hunger Games series
By: Susan Collins
Books I've read: Actually most of the series, I got partially into Mocking Jay, got mad and stopped reading.

Not even started yet

Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children
By: Ransom Riggs



Throne of Glass Series
By: Sarah J. Maas





The Mortal Instruments Series
By: Cassandra Clare



The Maze Runner series
By: James Dashner




I've heard some great things about these and want to love them too!  The Lunar Chronicles is probably at the top of my list right now.  Have you read all of these, or are you like me and have more reading to do?

Thank you for reading and your support!

February TBR

Hey Fellow Readers!

I thought I would do something I have yet to do and share my TBR (or my To Be Read) for the month!  I normally go to the library every few weeks or so to pick up more things to read.  This month will be no exception, I do plan on reading a couple more, but have yet to pick them up.
The first two books I have picked out to read are from the library.

The first one is:
between shades of gray
By: Ruta Sepetys

Here’s the synopsis from GoodReads.
“Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin’s orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.”
I haven’t read a lot of historical fiction, but I have heard great things about this one so when I saw it I thought this would be a good place to start.

Next I have:
I’ll Give you the Sun
By: Jandy Nelson



Here is another synopsis from GoodReads.

“Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah’s story to tell. The later years are Jude’s. What the twins don’t realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.”


Finally one from my own unread bookshelf!

The Unnaturalists
By: Tiffany Trent


Very short description for this one from GoodReads.

“In an alternate London where magical creatures are preserved in a museum, two teens find themselves caught in a web of intrigue, deception, and danger.”

This book looks like it combines a little bit of steampunk with a little alternate worlds.  I’m pretty excited to get into this one.  I mean look at the cover! I’m such a sucker for a pretty cover.

Are any of these on your TBR?  Have you read these and wanna talk about them?  Let me know in a comment!  Thanks for reading!

Your Public Library

Hey Readers!

Alright, my question of the day is, Library or bookstore?

I saw this question raised the other day on a group on Goodreads, and it got me thinking about my own bookish habits.  I love supporting local bookstores, and buying books brand new.  There is just something about the way new books smell, and feel.  It's pretty close to an addiction for me.

As you know, the down side of doing such things is the fact that books can get expensive, and quick. So I started buying books secondhand to save myself some money.  It worked, but in turn I had ended up with too many books on my TBR shelf to be acceptable.

My plan to remedy this was getting a library card at my local library.  At first I was a little skeptical, I mean, do I really want to touch a book that so many other germy hands had been on?  Not to mention the state of some of the books there are slightly depressing.  Looking past all of that, I walked up to the counter ready to get a card of my own.  The process was completely computerized (at least at my local library) and it was really quick.  They even took my picture to make sure it's really me checking out books.

Libraries have so many resources available to card holders and its all free! Yes, free! There is a fee to do things like sending or receiving a fax, making copies, and printing things from the internet.  Those fees are relatively low, and seemed reasonable to me.  My local library even had a section dedicated to researching family history, which I thought was super cool. There is even a "family history specialist" available some days to help with your research.

Did you know they even have foreign language programs you can check out? You could learn a new language for FREE!  That is another cool thing that I have yet to check out, but I am super interested to look into all the options they have.

Your local library may even have some E-Book options for you E-Readers out there.  Personally, I can hardly read from a screen, whether it's my phone, laptop or a tablet.  I really, really like the feeling of a physical book in my hand and getting the satisfaction of turning the pages, which brings us back to my book addiction.

Overall I love the library and will continue to check out books, along with picking up a few new ones as well. Let me know what you think, will you be giving your public library a chance?

Thanks for reading!!
Stephanie