Follow Friday--Book Hoader Confessional!

Happy Friday!!

"Follow My Book Blog Friday" is a weekly meme hosted by Rachel at Parajunkee's View and Allison at Allison Can Read where bloggers make new friends, including this week's featured bloggers--Book are Vital and Once Upon a Time!!  Be sure to join in the follow fun!!

This week's question: 

Q: When you've read a book, what do you do with it? (Keep it, give it away, donate it, sell it, swap it?)

Here's where I admit to being just a bit crazy: I'm a major book hoarder.  I have 8 full bookshelves in my house and countless boxes of books stored in my parent's attic and my in-laws basement.  I am TRYING to get better about donating some to the library and/or not buying as many (for both space and financial reasons) but I can't seem to stop!  My husband simply groans when new books show up in the mail (like when my UK copy of Clockwork Prince *finally* showed up yesterday!!). So, in short, I, Jessi, am a book hoarder extraordinaire. If there was a reality TV show for book hoarders, I'm sure my husband would be first in line to sign me up. ;)

So, what do YOU do with your books? Lemme know in the comments! :)

(ARC) YA Book Review: Try Not to Breathe by Jennifer Hubbard

Release Date: 19 January 2012

Publisher: Viking
Format: ARC
Source: Around the World ARC Tours

Goodreads description:

Learning to live is more than just choosing not to die, as sixteen-year-old Ryan discovers in the year following his suicide attempt. Despite his mother’s anxious hovering and the rumors at school, he’s trying to forget the darkness from which he has escaped. But it doesn’t help that he’s still hiding guilty secrets, or that he longs for a girl who may not return his feelings. Then he befriends Nicki, who is using psychics to seek contact with her dead father. This unlikely friendship thaws Ryan to the point where he can face the worst in himself. He and Nicki confide in one another the things they never thought they’d tell anyone—but their confessions are trickier than they seem, and the fallout tests the bound of friendship and forgiveness.

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Waiting on Wednesday (41)

"Waiting on Wednesday" is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where book bloggers discuss the books that they are most anxiously waiting for! (And this fabulous button was designed by my dear blogger friend Lindsay at The Violet Hour)

This week I'm waiting on...

Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood
© 14 February 2012 by Katherine Tegen Books

Rosemary Bliss’s family has a secret. It’s the Bliss Cookery Booke—an ancient, leather-bound volume of enchanted recipes like Stone Sleep Snickerdoodles and Singing Gingersnaps, all of which keep the town of Calamity Falls free from, well, calamity.

Rose can’t wait to be a magical baker just like her parents. But when Albert and Purdy Bliss leave for a week, they tell Rose and her siblings (Thyme, Sage, and Parsley) that the Cookery Booke is off-limits—and hand them a boring old cookbook instead. It seems Rose is doomed to ordinariness in every part of her life.

But then a mysterious stranger shows up. Rose is suspicious of “Aunt” Lily, and yet Lily is charismatic and glamorous and fun. Maybe if Rose experiments with just a little magic, she’ll be respected like Aunt Lily and be a pinch closer to becoming a magical baker herself. A few Love Muffins and a few dozen Cookies of Truth couldn’t cause too much trouble...could they?

Winterling by Sarah Prineas

©  3 January 2012 by  HarperCollins 

With her boundless curiosity and wild spirit, Fer has always felt that she doesn’t belong. Not when the forest is calling to her, when the rush of wind through branches feels more real than school or the quiet farms near her house. Then she saves an injured creature—he looks like a boy, but he’s really something else. He knows who Fer truly is, and invites her through the Way, a passage to a strange, dangerous land.

Fer feels an instant attachment to this realm, where magic is real and oaths forge bonds stronger than iron. But a powerful huntress named the Mor rules here, and Fer can sense that the land is perilously out of balance. Fer must unlock the secrets about the parents she never knew and claim her true place before the worlds on both sides of the Way descend into endless winter.

(ARC) YA Book Review: The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour

Release Date: 16 February 2012

Publisher: Penguin
Format: ARC
Source: LibraryThing Early Reviewers

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Goodreads description:

Colby and Bev have a long-standing pact: graduate, hit the road with Bev's band, and then spend the year wandering around Europe. But moments after the tour kicks off, Bev makes a shocking announcement: she's abandoning their plans - and Colby - to start college in the fall.

But the show must go on and The Disenchantments weave through the Pacific Northwest, playing in small towns and dingy venues, while roadie- Colby struggles to deal with Bev's already-growing distance and the most important question of all: what's next?

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(ARC) YA Book Review: Still Waters by Emma Carlson Berne

Release Date: 20 December 2011

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: ARC
Source: Around the World ARC Tours

Goodreads description:

Hannah can't wait to sneak off for a romantic weekend with her boyfriend, Colin. He’s leaving for college soon, and Hannah wants their trip to the lake house to be one they’ll never forget.

But once Hannah and Colin get there, things start to seem a bit...off. They can't find the town on any map. The house they are staying in looks as if someone's been living t...moreHannah can't wait to sneak off for a romantic weekend with her boyfriend, Colin. He’s leaving for college soon, and Hannah wants their trip to the lake house to be one they’ll never forget.

But once Hannah and Colin get there, things start to seem a bit...off. They can't find the town on any map. The house they are staying in looks as if someone's been living there, even though it's been deserted for years. And Colin doesn’t seem quite himself. As he grows more unstable, Hannah worries about Colin’s dark side, and her own safety.

Nothing is as perfect as it seems, and what lies beneath may haunt her forever.

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