0 Book Binge

I am starting in on a book binge. I'm so low energy and need an escape. I've ordered/bought 9 books in the past week (there goes the last of my Christmas cash). Most are still in the mail, so I've only read one (see directly below this post). If you are feeling the itch to read, then join our book blog {I think it is open for the public to read and I can have Devony add you as an author if you want to post.}

LINK: Book Club Blog

* * Books I have coming in the Mail this week * *


The Mortal Instruments Series -Cassandra Clare
1. City of Bones, 2. City of Ashes, 3. City of Glass
"Dear Edward and Jacob, I adore you both, but I'm spending the weekend with Jace. Sorry! Love, Stephenie" --Stephenie Meyer, author of Twilight

The Queen's Thief Series - Megan Whalen Turner

1. The Thief, 2. The Queen of Attolia, 3. The King of Attolia
my mother and sisters loved these

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
found on GoodReads


The Immortals Series, book #2: blue Moon - Alyson Noel
I read book #1 'Evermore' Saturday



* * Books I am looking forward to in the near future* *
March 16, 2010 - - The Girl Who Chased the Moon (Sarah Addison Allen)
March 23, 2010 - - A Conspiracy of Kings (The Queen's Thief Series, #4)
June 22, 2010 - - Dark Flame (The Immortals Series, #4)
Aug. 24, 2010 - - The Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3...final installment!)
Sept. 2010 - - The Clockwork Angle (The Infernal Devices Series, Prequels to Mortal Instruments, #1 of 3)
March 31st 2011 - -City of Fallen Angels (Mortal Instruments Series, #4)

0 The Immortals Series, book #1: Evermore (by Alyson Noel)

I was desperate for a book to read while I'm waiting for several in the mail (I'll post about them as soon as they get here and I read them), so I bought this one at Hastings while my husband was deciding what DVD to rent Saturday. (Oh, they gave me 10% off since the back upper corner was crumpled-yeah)

It was a quick read and kept me involved, but it's similarities with Twilight were eerie and a bit distracting. I did like it enough to have ordered the sequel, Blue Moon (drat those publishers putting the first chapter of book #2 at the end of book #1). There is a third book out (Shadowland) and a fourth book (Dark Flame) is due out June 22th this summer. From reading the previews, I'm not sure I'll like the rest of the series, but I'm willing to give them a try. I'm pregnant and need an escape.

Link: The Immortals Series

Amazon summary:

This opening book in a new series, The Immortals, will thrill many teen fantasy-suspense readers, especially fans of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. Seventeen-year-old Ever survived the car crash that killed her parents, younger sister, and their dog. Now she lives with an aunt in Southern California, plagued not only by survivor guilt but also by a new ability to hear the thoughts of all around her. She tries to tune out all these distractions by keeping her hoodie up and her iPod cranked loud, until Damen, the cute new boy at school, convinces her to come out of her shell. Damen, however, is frighteningly clever—and has the strange ability to produce tulips from nowhere and disappear himself at critical moments. Noël (Saving Zoë, 2007) creates a cast of recognizably diverse teens in a realistic high-school setting, along with just the right tension to make Ever’s discovery of her own immortality—should she choose it—exciting and credible. Grades 8-10. --Francisca Goldsmith

1 Hunger Games will resolve!

I'm sure everyone has seen and heard about the Mockingjay cover (Hunger Games book 3) by now, but I just had to post it. It's amazing! I'm so excited about this book, and I can't wait to read it. Here's some information from a Scholastic UK press release:

THE EAGERLY-AWAITED THIRD BOOK WILL BE PUBLISHED ON 24TH AUGUST 2010

Since the September 2009 release of Catching Fire, the second book in Suzanne Collins' best-selling Hunger Games trilogy, there has been a great deal of internet speculation about the title for the forthcoming third book. The wait is over. Today we can reveal that the third book will be called THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY.

In the series, mockingjays are government-bred mutant birds, the offspring of mockingbirds and jabberjays, created in order to spy on rebels. Mockingjays became the symbol of resistance in book two of the series.