"A Book A Day, Keeps Reality Away!"

Hello Lovelies!

In all reality, I am not able to read a book a day, but I have read some pretty incredible books in my 6 month hiatus from blogging that I'd love to share with you. As a child, I hated to read, which I'd attribute to my difficulty in grasping how to read when I was a child.  I hated, hated, hated to read aloud in class because I had such a hard time.  However, it wasn't until middle school that I learned to love to read, when my 6th grade teacher encouraged us to take a few minutes out of everyday a read a book of our choice.  With that being said, as I grew up I discovered so much from reading books of all different genres.  Recently, some of my favorite books have been discovered on Amazons Top 100 Free books, which is an amazing place to read books that you wouldn't normally read.  Another reason why I've been reading so much lately is because me and my friends decided to form a book club.  The guidelines for the book club were pretty simple, each month one member of the club would select a book to read and once the book was complete we all would meet up and discuss the book.  Originally, we set out to not pick books that were in a series, were not sci-fi, shouldn't cost more than $10, and each member HAD to complete the book and not complain about reading it.  As the months have gone on some of the members have had a hard time agreeing to all these terms but we've managed to read some amazing books along the way.  What I've also loved about our book club rules was after each member picked their book the following book needed to be a classic or a NY Times Bestseller (this months is Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez).

So without further ado, here are some of my favorite books that I've read recently:

Gabriel's Inferno/Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard
What's interesting about this book is it mixes in parts of Dante's Inferno in with heated love story (similar to Fifty Shades of Grey).  If you've liked Christian Grey, you'll love Gabriel Emerson.

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
My friend picked this book but I was interested in reading it because I had seen a preview for the Starz show that stared Max Irons.  The book was great, the series follows 3 of Gregory's books so its interesting to see how they mashed up and made me want to read a few more books by her.  I will give you one warning: her books are not for the faint of heart because they are pretty long.

Hello King Edward

The Edge of Never by J.A Redmerski
This book was a random purchase, but I loved every second of it.  This book follows two young strangers who become fast friends on a Greyhound bus.  This book shows that sometimes you are destined to meet certain people.  The sequel is coming out November 5, and I've been anxiously awaiting it to download on my kindle for months now.

Easy by Tammara Webber
If you loved Beautiful Disaster, you'll love this.  It's very similar but I'm biased and if you had to choose between the two I'd read Beautiful Disaster first!

The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden/ The redemption of callie and Kayden by Jessica Sorensen
Jessica Sorensen has quickly become one of my favorite authors.  I stumbled across one of her books that was free on Amazon and have read nearly everything she's written since that day.  Callie and Kayden grew up in the same town but were never friends, until Callie stepped in and saved Kayden's life.  After a few months a chance meeting has Kayden wanting to know more about the girl that saved his life.  This book is good and the sequel is even better.  Totally worth the read.


I hope some of you will check out these suggestions and I'd love to hear any suggestions some of you may have!

Until Next Time.....

Read It: A Beautiful Disaster Review

Hello lovelies long time no blog.

I'm not even going to begin to apologize for my lack of posting but I'm back now so let's forgive me for this long overdue post!

So I just literally finished the book "Beautiful Disaster" by Jamie McGuire.  Holy smokes this book was Ahhhhh---Mazing.  I would easily give it 5/5 stars.  I purchased this book on Amazon for my Kindle for 7.59.  Now you may be thinking that's a bit pricey, and normally I'd agree, but this book is worth every penny! It's 404 pages long so you're getting WAY more than you paid for.  I'm going to run through a few of the things I LOVED about the book and some of the things I wasn't crazy about (I'm also writing this post because my friends and I decided the other day that we wanted to start a book club and this is the first book we'll be reading and i needed a place to jot down my notes).

Things I loved:

1. Abby and Travis's relationship.  Although to many they were a disaster, something about them just made you want to root for them.  It didn't matter if you knew that they physically could not be together, you were still somehow pulling for them.  For example, travis is known on campus for being the raining one-night-stand champ, yet once he meets Abby he's willing to completely change his life for her.  Even though at times Travis is a bit possessive and obsessive of Abby, I still somehow loved him and could only hope for a Travis Maddox of my own.
2. The writing: I loved how Jamie McGuire wrote this book.  I could not put this book down.  I'm normally someone who values their sleep and I was seriously considering pulling an all nighter because I wanted/needed to know how this book was going to end.  Even when I went to work today I couldn't stop talking about this book.  For me any book that you can't put down is easily a  5 star kind of book!
3. Conflict. Spoilers................................................................................. Even though you know every book has a point where something has to go wrong, this book had so many twists and turns you weren't sure what was going to be the breaking point for this relationship.  Just when I thought Travis couldn't do anything else to piss off Abby, he does it.  

Things I didn't love:

1. The typos.  The book had a decent amount of typos, which always annoys me.  I'm not perfect, but if you're charging someone to purchase a book, I would think that the publishers would have been able to pick up on some of those typos.  One of these days I'm going to highlight every typo in a book and send if back to the author, free of charge just to show how an average person can pick up on these mistakes.  I wouldn't mind if some of these authors would send me the manuscripts a head of time, just so I could help them!
2. The violence.  Travis is a bad boy who partakes in an underground fighting ring.  Clearly Travis has anger management issues, but he's always fighting someone and always beating their face into a bloody pulp.  Sometimes the violence seems justified, but other times not so much.

Like I mentioned about I loved this book.  I would definitely recommend it and would re-read it.  In April ,Jamie McGuire will be releasing the same story from Travis's perspective which I'm interested in reading called Walking Disaster.  I think the next book will be reading is 10 years later by Hoda Kotb

Until next time......