Feature and Follow Friday

The Feature & Follow is back with a few changes. 

The Feature & Follow is back after a two-month hiatus! I know you missed it. I've missed it too! But we wanted to make it bigger and better - and I hope we have accomplished that.

Bitty Book Reviews: Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate) by Amy Thomas

Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate) by Amy Thomas

Release Date: February 1, 2012
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Source: BEA

Summary

Part love letter to New York, part love letter to Paris, and total devotion to all things sweet. Paris, My Sweet is a personal and moveable feast that’s a treasure map for anyone who loves fresh cupcakes and fine chocolate, New York and Paris, and life in general. It’s about how the search for happiness can be as fleeting as a sliver of cheesecake and about how the life you’re meant to live doesn’t always taste like the one you envisioned. Organized into a baker’s dozen of delicacies (and the adventures they inspired) that will tempt readers’ appetites, Paris, My Sweet is something to savor. (courtesy of Goodreads)

Waiting on Wednesdays: The Glittering Court #1 by Richelle Mead

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill of Breaking the Spine!

The Glittering Court #1 by Richelle Mead

Publish Date: April 5, 2016

Publisher: Razorbill

So I just realized Richelle Mead has a new series coming out. How did I miss this>?!?! It sounds great!

Bitty Book Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen

Release Date: May 1, 2009
Publisher: Quirk Classics
Source: Library

Summary

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”

So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you’d actually want to read.(courtesy of Goodreads)

Feature and Follow Friday

The Feature & Follow is back with a few changes. 

The Feature & Follow is back after a two-month hiatus! I know you missed it. I've missed it too! But we wanted to make it bigger and better - and I hope we have accomplished that.

The Geomancer by Clay and Susan Griffith

The Geomancer by Clay and Susan Griffith

Release Date: November 3, 2015
Publisher: Pyr
Source: Publisher

Summary

The uneasy stalemate between vampires and humans is over. Adele and Gareth are bringing order to a free Britain, but bloody murders in London raise the specter that Adele's geomancy is failing and the vampires might return. A new power could tilt the balance back to the vampire clans. A deranged human called the Witchfinder has surfaced on the Continent, serving new vampire lords. This geomancer has found a way to make vampires immune to geomancy and intends to give his masters the ability to kill humans on a massive scale.

The apocalyptic event in Edinburgh weakened Adele's geomantic abilities. If the Witchfinder can use geomancy against humanity, she may not have the power to stop him. If she can't, there is nowhere beyond his reach and no one he cannot kill.

From a Britain struggling to rebuild to the vampire capital of Paris, from the heart of the Equatorian Empire to a vampire monastery in far-away Tibet, old friends and past enemies return. Unexpected allies and terrible new villains arise. Adele and Gareth fight side-by-side as always, but they can never be the same if they hope to survive.(courtesy of Goodreads)

Waiting on Wednesdays: A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill of Breaking the Spine!

A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

Publish Date: March 1, 2016

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

This book is getting quite a bit of buzz. It's right up my alley. I love Sherlock Holmes related stuff. I think I've featured this before, but it's worth doing again!

Thursday Night! The Return of Feature and Follow Friday!!

The Feature & Follow is back with a few changes. Please come back Thursday night and join us.

The Feature & Follow is back after a two-month hiatus! I know you missed it. I've missed it too! But we wanted to make it bigger and better - and I hope we have accomplished that.

Waiting on Wednesdays: Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill of Breaking the Spine!

Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare

Publish Date: March 8, 2016

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

I'm behind in the Mortal Instruments series. I'd love to catch up and then read this new series!

YA Quarterly Box #4 Unveiling

I always look forward to the arrival of my Quarterly Book Riot box. This was the fourth issue of the YA version of their regular Quarterly Box.

Book Riot is a very popular book blog and now has TWO Quarterly book related boxes. For $50 (each box costs $55 with shipping), they will send you a box filled with books and book related items every quarter. The YA box is obviously YA related, but the non-book items aren't really kiddish. They appeal to people of all ages. But at the same time, they aren't obviously adult - like a book related flask, which I received in the general box. The general box has adult books of all different genres (even a Ms. Marvel trade one time) and fun bookish items.

It took forever to get this box! It didn't arrive until two weeks after it shipped. At which time, I had already moved. So that caused an additional level of complexity (although only one additional day of delay).

After the last box, I said I was thinking of cancelling my subscription because I haven't been interested in the non-book items. I'm so glad I kept the subscription! This was such a good box! My favorite of the YA boxes and maybe my favorite of all the Book Riot boxes.

The subscription is staying, for at least a few more tries.

Waiting on Wednesday: Defending Taylor by Miranda Kenneally

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill of Breaking the Spine!

Defending Taylor (Hundred Oaks) by Miranda Kenneally

Publish Date: July 1, 2016

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Miranda Kenneally is an auto-read for me. I'm surprised I haven't heard more about this.

TBR Challenge

Hey guys! Remember me? It's been a month since I last blogged. My longest break ever, I think. What's new with you?

It's been a busy month. We got back from our big trip to Paris and Dubai around January 13 (I'll have to post pictures!). Then we immediately started moving from our rental house to the house we bought at the end of December. So it was weeks of packing, moving, and now unpacking. Our new house is about 30 minutes from the old one, so I was doing a lot of driving back and forth.

Things are a bit calmer now although it will be awhile before we're fully settled into this new house. Years perhaps, since we're going to buy furniture a bit at a time.