Summer Reading List

I decided it was time for me to make a Summer Reading List, cause I need to stick with some books and actually read them.

Physical Books

• The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
• My Loves Lies Bleeding by Alyxandra Harvey
• Out of Sight, Out of Time by Marilyn Kaye (my review)
• The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
• Storm by Brigid Kemmerer (my review)
• Possessions Nancy Holder (my review)
• City of Ships by Mary Hoffman (my review)
• Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins (my review)
• Sisters Res by Jackson Pearce  (my review)

E-books

• Gifted by Liz Long (my review)
• The Shapeshifter's Secret by Heather Ostler (my review)

• In a Wolf's Eyes by A. Katie Rose (my review)
• Ethereal by Addison Moore (my review)

• Manifest by Artist Arthur (my review)
• Blackwood by Gwenda Bond (my review)

• Exiled by M.R. Merrick
• Silver by Talie Vance

What are your reading plans for this summer? Have you read any of these books yet?

Book2Movie 2012 Challenge

The goal for this challenge is to read a book/ watch a movie in each of the 12 categories, which are further down, during the year of 2012 (01.01.2012 – 31.12.2012) + 1 bonus category, if someone can’t find a book in one of the 12 categories. 

This means: 12 books + movies in 12 months, as a result 1 book/ 1 movie per month. (Book can be read/ movie can already been watched – but just one of each)

So this is my list:

1. … where the movie is more famous than the book
Lord of the Rings #1
2. … to a TV- Series
Vampire Diaries #1
3. … which is based on a cartoon/ fairy tale or where the main characters are animals
Chronicles of Narnia #1
4. … where your favorite actor/ actress is playing in the movie.
Inkheart
5. … to a book classic which was made into a movie after 1990
The Picture of Dorian Gray
6. … where the book was written for the movie
I am number four
7. … from an author of your home country (for English joiners: from an author who is not coming from an English speaking country)
Night Watch - Which is not from my country, but as close as I could get!
8. … where the story is about love and where you’ll probably cry OR where the story is about blood, murder and horrific killers.
Hannibal
9. … which is focused on a social critic topic (misogyny, racisms, cruelty,…)
->Not a book for this one, I am using the bonus category.
10. … where the story is playing at least 100 years ago.
Timeline
11. … where the story is playing in the future OR where the story is playing in Asia or Africa The Time Machine
12. … where the movie to the book is coming to the cinemas 2012 Hunger Games #1
(+ 13 bonus category: … where you’ve already watched the movie, but never read the book) – for all who have a problem to find a book/movie in one of this categories.
Cirque du Freak #1′ or ‘The Dark is rising #1

Ghostly Challenge 2012

This is the second challenge I plan to participate in, since it seems I have a lot of ghost books to read this year!

There are 5 levels:

1. Still Living - 6 books
2. Are We Dead Yet? - 12 books
3. Wasting Time Between Lives - 18 books
4. Unfinished Business - 24 books
5. Lost Souls - 30+ books

I think I am going for Still Living, maybe I'll upgrade it later on.

Books I read so far:

1. Ashlyn's Radio
2. Ghosts of Rosewood Asylum
3. The Abandoned
4. Darkhouse
5. Anna Dressed in Blood
6. Possessions
7. First Grave on the Right
8. Manifest
9. Girl of Nightmares
10. Wuthering High

If you want to join too, click here.

2012 TBR PILE Reading Challenge

 

Welcome to 2012 TBR PILE Reading Challenge!!!


We all have those books. We buy them, win them, they're gifted to us.. Then we put them up on a bookshelf and there they stay, collecting dust, waiting for the time when we'll finally decide to pick them up..


Join us on a quest to dust off your TBR Pile and read all the books you've been telling yourself you'll read next time you'll get a chance.. This is your chance! And we've got PRIZES!!! :D


Challenge guidelines:

1. This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2012.
2. As we would like to see quality reviews linked up to our monthly wrap-ups, only bloggers can enter. Sorry about that!
3. Any genre, length or format of book counts, as long as it is a book that's been sitting on your shelf for some time now. Only books released in 2011 and earlier! NO ARCs and 2012 fresh-off-the-press releases allowed!
4. You can list your books in advance or just put them in a wrap-up post. If you list them, feel free to change them as the mood takes you.
5. When you sign up in the linky, put the direct link to your post about joining the 2012 TBR PILE Reading Challenge (You need to include the info + host list + challenge button. You can also grab the button code and add it to your sidebar!)
6. You can move up levels, but no moving down.
7. Sign-ups will be open until Dec 15, 2012, so feel free to join at any time throughout the year.
8. At the end of each month one of the hosts will post a wrap-up. Every wrap-up will have it's unique theme, a mini-challenge, a giveaway and place for you to link up your reviews from this month. For each review you link up, you will get one entry in a drawing of one book of choice from Book Depository. It's open to INTERNATIONALS. For participating in the mini-challenge you will get +1 entry.
9. If you miss a wrap-up post + giveaway, you can link up your reviews next month. Do not, however, try to link up one review twice - we will be checking ;)
10. December is a wrap-up for the whole year. All the book reviews you linked up January-November + the ones you'll link up in December will be entered into a HUGE giveaway - 12 books, 12 winners, INTERNATIONAL. 
11. You don't have to follow all the hosts to join the challenge, but you do have to follow all of us to be entered in giveaways!

Levels:
1-10 - A Firm Handshake
11-20 - A Friendly Hug
21-30 - A Sweet Kiss
31-40 - Love At First Sight
41-50 - Married With Children

Hosts:
Evie from Bookish - http://www.evie-bookish.blogspot.com @SeoEvie
Nicole from All I Ever Read - http://www.nicoleabouttown.com/ @Nicoleabouttown
Bonnie from Hands and Home - http://www.handsandhome.ca/ @HandsHomeBlog
Donna from Book Passion For Life - http://bookpassionforlife.blogspot.com/ @BookPforLife
Caitlin from WatchYA Reading - http://whatchyareading.net @caitlingss
Rie from Mission To Read - http://missiontoread.com/ @missiontoread
Vicky from Books, Biscuits & Tea -http://booksbiscuitsandtea.blogspot.com/ @alouetteuette
Christa from Hooked On Books - http://christashookedonbooks.blogspot.com @ChristasBooks
Jenna from Fans Of Fiction - http://fansoffiction.blogspot.com/ @fansoffiction
Angel from Mermaids Vision - http://mermaidvision.wordpress.com @mermaidvisions



Wrap-up POST Schedule:
January - Donna (Theme: Let It Snow + Book Cover Challenge)
February - Nicole (Theme: Un-requited Love/Love Gone Wrong + Advice Column Challenge)
March - Rie (Theme: Green or Pinched + Green Cover Challenge)
April - Bonnie (Theme: Easter + Mini Challenge)
May - Christa (Theme: MayDay - Disaster Books! + Cover Disaster Challenge)
June - Jenna ( Theme: Camping + Sentence Challenge)
July - Rie (Theme: International Day + Cover Comparison Challenge)
August - Angel (Theme: Summer Memories + Send Your Fav Character On Vacation Challenge)
September - Nicole (Theme: Life Changing Books + Mini Challenge)
October - Caitlin (Theme: Thanksgiving Theme + Share-A-Book Challenge)
November - Vicky (Theme: Spooky Halloween + Book Puzzle Challenge)
December - Evie (Theme: Xmas Bliss + Book Bachelor Challenge)

I challenge myself to A Friendly Hug Level, but I might go up!

Since I have already managed to read 14 books from my to be read pile I am upgrading my challange to A Sweet Kiss Level, and my goal is 30 books.

Read so far:

• January

1. Ghosts of Rosewood Asylum
2. The Viscount and The Witch
3. Strength of a Giant

• February

1. Ashlyn's Radio
2. The World Among Us

• March
1. Blood Warrior
2. Straight to Hell

• April
1. DreamKiller, The Longest Day
2. The Abandoned
• May
1. Emotionally Charged
2. Darkhouse
3. Bad Taste in Boys
4. Anna Dressed in Blood
5. The Girl in the Steel Corset
• June
1. Valor
2. Sisters Red
3. Out of Sight, Out of Mind
• July
1. City of Ships
2. Demonglass
3. Ethereal
4. Possessions
• August
1. First Grave on the Right
2. Pretty Little Liars
3. Manifest
4. Better Late Than Never
5. Here Today Gone Tomorrow
• September
1. Dark Lover
2. I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You
3. Wuthering High

If you too want to sign up go here.