Stacking The Shelves #35 + Meeting Kami Garcia & Giveaway!

Stacking The Shelves ( hosted by Tynga's Reviews ) is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

Books I have received for Review:

Deadly Design by Debra Dockter

Diamonds in the Rough by Michelle Madow

Forbidden by Kimberley Griffiths Little

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley 

Books/Swag I have won or was gifted:

Fakers by Meg Collett - won

Sanctum by Sarah Fine - won

Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi - birthday gift from Hillary

Unforgotten by Jessica Brody - birthday gift from Hillary

Books I have bought:

 

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl - signed @author signing. 

Unmarked by Kami Garcia - signed @author signing. 

Here are some pictures from the signing.  I have a ton more but didn't want to overload this post. Kami was super nice! She was signing with author Carrie Ryan. 

Here's Kami signing my books. 

Kami was giving away some awesome swag items and she gave me a few extra for a giveaway on my blog! 

One winner will receive two bookmarks and two buttons. 

To enter the swag seen above please use the rafflecopter form. 

US ONLY!

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I ♥ my readers! 

Thank you all for stopping by! What does everyone think of the books I received? Are there any you're looking forward to reading? I would love to hear what you guys think. Leave me a comment or/and leave your book haul blog link below. I promise to stop by and check them out. 

Have a nice weekend!  

Rachel & Katie - Video Review | Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi + Giveaway!

Hi everyone! 

 Today Web/Graphics Designer, Rachel Silberman (designer of my beautiful new blog layout) will be sharing with my readers a video guest post and giveaway.  Rachel and her friend Katie @ Reading In Twilight have done an amazing video review for the novel, Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi. A MUST SEE! I hope everyone will enjoy this post and be sure to enter the giveaway below for a chance to win a hardcopy of SHATTER ME! Open ITNL via The Book Depository.

Rachel & Katie - Video Review | Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi 

Subscribe to their channel, here.

Rachel and Katie youtube channel has a mix of a lot of great thing: author interviews, book reviews, book vs. movie reviews, tags, ect.
Two friends from Minneapolis sharing their love of books through social media:

• Rachel (Ray) - Reviewer for Reading In Twilight

Blog: http://readingintwilight.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/readingintwilight
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RachelSilbes

• Katie (Kay) - Owner of The Book Sphere

Blog: http://theebooksphere.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Book-Sphere/6581752341976­52?fref=ts
Twitter: http://twitter.com/aloveofbooks

 To win a hardcopy of SHATTER ME, use the rafflercopter form below to enter. OPEN International via TBD.

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This giveaway is ONLY hosted on Bittersweet Enchantment and the sole purpose is to create awareness of both Rachel and Katie's youtube channel. I am not responsible for prize distribution.

Cover Reveal: Ignite Me (Shatter Me # 3) by Tahereh Mafi

This just released via HarperTeen Facebook Page & http://hollywoodcrush.mtv.com/ the OFFICAL Cover Reveal for Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi, book #3 in the Shatter Me series.

TADA!

WOW! Breathtakingly beautiful! 

*swoons* I can now die happy! :) Just look how exquisite the new cover is. I mean, WOW! There are no words to describe it. I truly believe this cover is one of the most gorgeous covers I have even laid eyes on. 

What are YOUR thoughts on the new cover? Leave me a comment below. I would love to know. 

Top Ten Tuesday # 20 + Teaser Tuesdays # 45

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists! 

This week's Top Ten is: 

Top Ten Favorite Beginnings/Endings In Books

1. The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey #3) by Julie Kagawa - The ending just brought me to tears. I mean full out sobbing like a baby, box of tissues, snot and all! haha

2. Beautiful Lies by Jessica Warman - The ending of this book totally BLEW. MY. MIND!

3. Immortal City (Immortal City #1) by Scott Speer - Both beginning and the ending were spectacular! One of my favorite books last year.

4. Slide (Slide #1) by Jill Hathaway - Mostly the ending but the beginning was amazing as well or as said in my review: "Slide rocked my socks off".

5. The Devouring (The Devouring #1) by Simon Holt - OMG, the ending was SO scary! I had nightmares after reading this book. The whole book was one big freak fest. Also it's one of 5 books I literally didn't put down until the very end. (even if that meant staying up to 3 am) 

6. Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1) by Tahereh Mafi - The beginning was totally epic! (as was the end)

7. Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die #1) by Katie Alender - Another scary book that kept me up half the night reading. The ending left me breathless.

8. The Last Academy by Anne Applegate - THE ENDING! *True story: I was sitting in a Barnes & Noble reading the last 60 pages of this book, while my best friend was sitting across from me eating. When I finally found out the why all of these odd things keep happening to Cam my mouth dropped. (literally) I mean like, OMG!!!! My friend is looking at me like "WHAT THE??!". I swear people around me are giving me a look like, is she is crazy?! *

9. Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult - The beginning. Super cute!

10. Shadowlands (Shadowlands #1) by Kate Brian -  I was like: WTF????!!!!! The ending totally blew my mind..... Nooooooo!!!  I cannot put into words the ending. *mind blown* 

It was SOOO hard for me to only choose 10 books because there are so many that fall into this category for me.

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

The Rules:

• Grab your current read

• Open to a random page

• Share two (2) or so “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!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.

My teaser comes from the book: 

Star Cursed by Jessica Spotswood 

Finn's mouth claims mine with a searing kiss, and my mind empties of everything except his hands, his lips, his tongue.

- Page 152

[...another snippet...]

There is a little cut on Rory's check from her Father's ring. I call up my magic again and touch her cheek, lightly, with my fingertips. "Hold still."

- Page 189

I love comments! Leave your links to your blog posts below. I will come check them out. Even if you don't blog, I would love to hear your thoughts on my Top Ten choices or book teaser for this week. :) Thank you for stopping by and Happy Reading!

Pitch Dark Days winter 2013 Author Tour: Meeting the Authors, taking pictures & giveaway!

Hello my wonderful readers! 

Today I would love to share with you all the author event I attended in Cary, NC at the local Barns and Noble. The 2013 Pitch Dark Days author tour made a stop here with all the YA authors seen above. I was so super excited to go and a little nervous I might add to see all of my favorite authors in one place. The event started at 7 PM and ended around 9 or 10. I stayed the latest and was able to not only take a group pic with them all but walk the authors out the their car. I have a blast! All of the author were so very nice and down to earth. I was able to speak with each author and join in one some Q & A during the event. 

Below are my picture's I took and I did some video of the event but still need to get that off my Mom's camera. Also once I got home I took pictures of my signed books and swag. Oh, and I asked for some extra swag items for YOU, my readers. Be sure to check at the end of the post for a giveaway to win those. 

Pictures of the authors, my sister Rachel and I.

 Tahereh's Shoes:

My Signed Books & Epic Reads mascot "Snarkles".

Wanna win some signed swag items? 

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