Top Ten Tuesday: Top New(ish) Series I Want To Start

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the gals at The Broke and the Bookish where you share your top ten choices within a given topic. It's super-fun!

    

There are just so many books I want to read and sometimes it feels like I'm never going to get around even the ones I want to read the most. I'm not the kind of person who gives up though, so as hard as it is, I prioritize. My lists's changing constantly in unison with new books releasing, but right now, these are my top ten first-in-series.

Snow Like Ashes - The more I read about it, the more excited I get. Right now, I'm at the point where I shriek and squeal even at the mention of it.

Seraphina - Dragons rule!

Throne of Glass - I wasn't particularly interested in Throne of Glass at first, but after the hype it got, I became so a bit. I've had a copy since May; it would be time to delve into it.

Between the Devil and The Deep Blue Sea - I discovered BTDATDBS (Man, even the abbreviation is looong) at a writing contest and I'm just curious what it was all about. Okay, maybe demons have something to do with it, too.

Talon - Dragons still rule!

Lark Rising - This is one of my most anticipated books of fall and since I read a rave review... I just need it, okay?

The Jewel - I didn't really notice it before all the mixed reviews, but as strange as it sounds, that made me indeed curious about The Jewel. The story seems interesting as well, so...

Cinder - Over the past few months (basically when I realized they existed), I've grown to love retellings. And, well, frankly, this is one of the most hyped - of not the most hyped - retelling.

Alice in Zombieland - Alice and zombies in one single book? Do I even have to explain?

The Darkest Minds - I'm not gonna lie; it's all about the hype. And that several bloggers said they hadn't expected it to be anything big and then bum! They adored it.

Which new(ish) series have YOU been meaning to start?

Sunday Post #9

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme

Sunday Suspense (13) - Hexed (Hexed #1) by Michelle Krys

Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Expected day of publication: June 10th 2014
Pages: 384



Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle Edition, eBook
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Synopsis:



If high school is all about social status, Indigo Blackwood has it made. Sure, her quirky mom owns an occult shop, and a nerd just won’t stop trying to be her friend, but Indie is a popular cheerleader with a football-star boyfriend and a social circle powerful enough to ruin everyone at school. Who wouldn’t want to be her?

Then a guy dies right before her eyes. And the dusty old family Bible her mom is freakishly possessive of is stolen. But it’s when a frustratingly sexy stranger named Bishop enters Indie’s world that she learns her destiny involves a lot more than pom-poms and parties. If she doesn’t get the Bible back, every witch on the planet will die. And that’s seriously bad news for Indie, because according to Bishop, she’s a witch too.

Suddenly forced into a centuries-old war between witches and sorcerers, Indie’s about to uncover the many dark truths about her life—and a future unlike any she ever imagined on top of the cheer pyramid.

Sunday Post #7

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme

Teaser Tuesday #2 - Fire of the Sea by Lyndsay Johnson

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read

• Open to a random page

• Share two (2) “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!

Top Ten Tuesday (4) - Top Ten Book Covers I'd Frame As Pieces of Art

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. It features a different topic every week, when you can share your Top Ten Books in the certain aspect.

Teaser Tuesday #1 - Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “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!

Top Ten Tuesday (2) - Top Ten Bookish Things

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. It features a different topic every week, when you can share your Top Ten Books in the certain aspect.

Top Off Tuesday 1

Another meme...I promised myself I won't do any more, but it's so cool, I just can't resist. :D

Every week, Amanda @ On a Book Bender, Christi @ Smitten with Reading,and Felicia @ the Geeky Blogger’s Book Blog want to see those Top Off covers that grab your attention!  To play along, share your favorite covers (old, new, or coming soon).  Every once in a while there are covers that just make you say Oh My!  Sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad, and sometimes it is head scratching.

So let's play a short Twenty Questions. Or rather Twenty Answers. I'll be telling you twenty facts about the book, then leave a comment with your guess and we'll see i you can find out. Are you in? I write out them anyways, and we'll see.



#1 It's an upcoming book.


#2 It will come out in May.


#3 It's the last book of a series, but I won't tell you how many books it consists of. (:P) It would be too easy.


#4 Its genre is (urban) fantasy.


#5 I posted about it not long after I launched the blog.


#6 I (and the 3/4 of the world) am a huge fan of it.


#7 There is a sexy, blond guy in it. (You really can't complain now, I even divulged his hair color.)


#8 Its author loves to torture us. :D I'm kidding. Partially...


#9 Its author used to be famous for her fan-fictions.


#10 It has a nerve-wrecking one-liner.


#11 The books are written in third person.


#12 There is another published books series based on the same idea and several under development.


#13 The author speaks France a little.


#14 The author supports racial diversity and it is visible in his/her (Yep. This one is gonna be your task to find out.) books.


#15 The author is writing under a pen name.


#16 The author has an awesome taste in TV shows. (The author loves Sherlock)


#17 The author's answering questions on Twitter and Tumblr A LOT.


#18 The author has resemblances with her FMC (hair color, and name similarity)


#19 The FMC likes painting.


#20 The MMC playes the piano.



Okay, so let's play. If you can figure it out (or at least you try) I'll share 10 interesting/exciting/suspenseful/beautiful pieces of information/picture of the book. You can guess until Thursday. :) Bye.

Top Ten Tuesday 1 - The top ten most unique books I've ever read

Hi, guys! I've joined numerous memes lately, and I started my own as well. I've really grown to like them, I think it's a perfect opportunity to participate in a great community, get to know other blogs and bloggers, moreover to draw some attention to your own blog and yourself. And apart from these, it's so much fun! Thus I'm incredibly excited to represent to you the top ten most unique books I've ever read.

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. It features a different topic every week, when you can share your Top Ten Books in the certain aspect.

IT Thursday (1)

Coping with the technology is not always easy even if you know how to do things. It can mean a lot of help, though, to know the basic stuff such as HTML, basic website building, like how to add width, height and color, photo editing so as not to get those kind of pictures which go to 2failed, and using the most useful programs for a blogger, for example Microsoft Office programs, some online social sites and forums etc. So I'm launching my own meme that will be featuring different guidelines of IT every week. They are going to be blogger tips, since I've never had a WordPress site, and I wouldn't like to preach blindly about it. They are also going to be easy to understand because my purpose is it to be comprehensible for everybody. If you have a good tip, too, join the meme and get to know thousands of useful tips from other bloggers. You can learn about the official rules here.

IT Thursday is a meme featuring mostly blog-related technical tips and tricks that are easy to understand for everybody. These guidelines include how to use certain programs or create some sort of HTML code, how to do this and that on blogger (or WordPress) and so on. You can create your own advice, too. If you want to see the official rules click here.




Since I created the site's Grab My Button today, I'll be representing you how to create one. I hope you'll find all the tips useful.




1. First, you create a 225x225 picture, which is going to be your image part of the button, preferably with PicMonkey (it's a very useful photo editor offering a wide variety of tools).



2. Share it on Pinterest or other photo sharing site and grab the URL. Theoretically it should work with Flickr and Facebook as well, however, it didn't to me, so I would recommend Pinterest, but you can try the others, too.



3. Next step is to open this page, which is a code generator, and fill it in.



4. Then open Layout->Add Gadget->HTML/Java Script and past the HTML code.



5. Congratulation! You created your Grab My Button. :)