Courtney Lives On In Books

This has been so much fun so far! The Challenge for Day 2 is: Character Face Off! Hosted by Lulo Fangirl  To do this: Pick your two all time favorite characters (Can be from any book you've read) Choose a winner Share your reasons (with conviction)!  I'm going to follow the example Opponent #1 Harry Potter –WHO: The Boy Who Lived, Wizard, and Auror – CONS: Sometime a bit dim/naive, moody, always in danger    – PROS: Voldemort's worst nightmare, brave, kind, can get out of just about anything, Super lucky Opponent #2 Akiva (Daughter of Smoke & Bone) –WHO: Seraphim/Angel, Soldier – CONS: Too selfless, Too passionate, Vengeful – PROS: protective, kind, strong, beautiful (did I mention the angel thing?) loyal, honorable Winner: Akiva  Why: Despite his fault, despite the things he's done/gone through he has come out better for it. He has tried to make up for the w...

Day 1 of Bout of Books 13 Bout of Books is going on from May 11 to May 17. This is week long a read-a-thon that is put on three times a year by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. I am going to be participating in challenges, while also doing updates on here and twitter. The first challenge is a book related survey.  The Questions  1. How do you organize your shelves? It depends on whether I've read the book or not. I have two bookcases, the black one is mostly tbr books, and that one is not very organized at all. I like to keep my book together by size because it bothers me when they don't line up nicely. I also keep book by the same author & in the same series together. I'm moving so right now most of my books are in boxes at the moment.  2. What is one of your favorite book that’s not in one of your favorite genres?  I think I'd have to go with  Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn .  I don't read a lot of T...

Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Days of Blood & Starlight, Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #1,2, & 3) by Laini Taylor Published: September 27 2011, November 6 2012, April 8 2014 Hardcovers: 418,517,613 pages Genre: High Fantasy, Romance, Magic Source: Goodreads Summary of Book One: Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, a...