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Review: Eleanor and Grey by Brittainy C. Cherry

Eleanor & Grey, an all-new beautiful and emotional standalone from Brittainy C. Cherry is available now! Greyson East left his mark on me. As the young girl who first fell for him, I didn’t know much about life. I did know about his smiles, though, and his laughs, and the strange way my stomach flipped when he was near. Life was perfect…until it wasn’t, and when we were forced to go our separate ways, I held on to our memories, let go of my first crush, and wished for the day I’d find him again. When my wish came true, it was nothing like I imagined. I couldn’t have known when I took the nanny position that it would be his children I looked after, that my new boss would be that boy I used to know, that boy who was now a man—a cold, lonely, detached man. The smile and laugh I had loved so much were gone, now distant memories. Every part of him was covered in a fresh pain. When he realized who I was, he made me promise to do my job and my job only. He made me promise not to try to ge

The Secret

Love? Maybe. by Heather Helper

Synopsis from Goodreads :  Just because Piper's birthday is on Valentine's Day does not mean she's a romantic. In fact, after watching her father and then her stepfather leave, she's pretty sure she doesn't believe in love at all. Then her friends concoct a plan to find them all Valentine's dates, and somehow Piper finds herself with the most popular guy in school. But true love never follows a plan, and a string of heartfelt gifts from a secret admirer has Piper wondering if she might be with the wrong guy. In this heartwarming romance, true love is more than a maybe - and it might be closer than you think. Number of pages : 288 My review : This book was so cute! Piper, our main character, is a no nonsense hardworking young girl who, although sometimes a little ditzy and clueless, was an awesome character to read about. She works in a chocolate shop (cue me getting hungry and having insane cravings for chocolate every few pages) and is a girl who hates Valentin

End of Summer Read-A-Thon Hosted by Turning Pages and YA Bookmark

Hey everyone! Just a heads up I will be participating in the End of Summer Read-A-Thon hosted by Turning Pages and YA Bookmark ! And you should too! Here is a link to the sign up page and use these buttons on your blog to promote the challenge too! There will be giveaways and prizes and it all starts August 9 and runs until August 12! Here's the complete info: What is The End of Summer Read-A-Thon? The End of Summer Read-A-Thon is hosted by me (Lisa) from Turning Pages and Audris from YA Bookmark; running from August 9th through August 12th. The End of Summer Read-A-Thon is a long weekend filled with books, challenges, giveaways and other special posts. What do you do? All you have to do is gather up a big stack of books, either summer themed, or books you planned on finally reading this summer, and start reading and don’t stop until Monday August 12th!! I plan on reading books that have been sitting on my shelf for months now, unread. Also tons of giveaways, challenges, and speci

The Geek's Guide to Dating by Eric Smith (+ giveaway)

There seems to be a mix-up with a book giveway and I received this one instead. I couldn't figure out at first why I would enter a contest for a dating book but I thought that maybe I thought it was a novel. It turns out that, no, it was just a mix-up. No problem. But this looked fun and so I flipped through it. I find dating guides interesting. I clearly not their target audience since I have been with my husband since we were 20 and we have 2 kids together and all. But I guess some people need help or advice. I know a lot of people who have trouble getting relationships off the ground. I, myself, can be pretty awkward around new people. I am terrible at small talk. So I found the advice in here pretty useful for someone trying to establish a rapport with another person. The main message is basically don't be overzealous, be respectable of the other person's wants, needs, and feelings and don't try to rush into anything. I can co-sign that. Plus it is filled with many,

Weekly Round-Up 7/29

Weekly Round-Up is my wrap-up of last week's activities and includes what I'm reading this week, reviews I've posted, books in the mail and anything else of interest plus From the Library, my weekly listing of what I've checked out from the library. This week I'm reading by The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith and The Honest Toddler: A Child's Guide to Parenting by Bunmi Laaditan and listening to Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Claire, read by Daniel Sharman. Last week I reviewed The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente. This week on SYNC you can download The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen, read by Charlie McWade (Scholastic Audiobooks) and The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, read by Steve West. Downloads are free til Wednesday. Thursday the new downloads are Death Cloud by Andrew Lane, read by Dan Weyman (Macmillan Audio) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, read by

Cum Laude by Cecily von Ziegesar

Synopsis from Goodreads:  They're here for a higher education . . . and you won't believe how far they'll go. Dexter College is a small liberal arts college in the quiet town of Home, Maine. But it won't stay quiet for long with this group of freshmen. There's Shipley--blonde and beautiful, the object of envy and more than a little lust. Determined to assert herself and to shed her good-girl image, she buys cigarettes and condoms, because that's what every self-respecting college girl does. Her edgy roommate, Eliza, came to Dexter to get noticed, and she has the attitude and the mouth to prove it. Then there's Tom. Handsome, privileged, used to getting his own way, he's a jock-turned-artist who thinks his paintings will change the world. Sensitive Nick, Tom's wake-and-bake pot-smoking roommate, wants to follow in the footsteps of his boarding-school hero. And then there are brother and sister Adam and Tragedy Gatz. The freckle-faced farm boy lives at

The Truth About You and Me Review

The Truth About You and Me by Amanda Grace ★★★☆☆ Release Date: September 8, 2013 Publisher: Flux Age: Young Adult Genre: Coming of Age, Contemporary Romance, Drama, Teacher, Love, High School, College Format: ebook Source: Publisher via Netgalley Preorder it: Amazon | Barnes and Noble Smart girls aren't supposed to do stupid things. Madelyn Hawkins is super smart. At sixteen, she's so gifted that she can attend college through a special program at her high school. On her first day, she meets Bennet. He's cute, funny, and kind. He understands Madelyn and what she's endured - and missed out on - in order to excel academically and please her parents. Now, for the first time in her life, she's falling in love. There's only one problem. Bennet is Madelyn's college professor, and he thinks she's eighteen - because she hasn't told him the truth. The story of their forbidden romance is told in letters that Madelyn writes to Bennet - both a heart-searing od

Stacking the Shelves #18

Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga over at Tynga's Reviews. Stacking the Shelves is a way to show off what books you have received throughout the week (whether they be for review, from the library, etc.) This week: July 21-July 28, 2013 Bought at local used bookstore in Vegas: Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins Cum Laude by Cecily von Ziegesar Graceling by Kristin Cashore Bought at local used bookstore in California: Love, Maybe? by Heather Helper Going Vintage by Lindsey Leavitt Sweethearts by Sara Zarr Received as a gift from my (awesome) boyfriend: The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick Received for review from the author: The Vampire's Daughter by Shayne Leighton The Vampire's Reflection by Shayne Leighton                         What did you get this week? Link it up below! See you soon,

Bookshelf Tour

So last night was my first day at home in 5 weeks (since I've been working) and of course the first thing I did was reorganize my shelves. I was up until 1 in the morning doing this *hides in shame* but I think the look pretty nice. Here's the overview: So they are all arranged alphabetically by author's last name. Except for that shelf on the right hand side and third down. That one is only classics. Oh and the top two shelves are my big series' like Gossip Girl and The Clique. Also, all the little dots on the spine mean I haven't read those books. I know what you're saying: "But Paige there's so many dots!"  Trust me. I know. Anyways here's the individual shelves: This shelf has books by Jen Calonita, Zoey Dean, and Cecily von Ziegesar This shelf has books by Lauren Conrad, Joanna Philbin, Zoey Dean, and Lisi Harrison Applegate-Christopher Clare-Elkeles Elkeles-Hawthorne Hawthorne-Lasky Leighton-Patterson Patterson-Smith Snadowsky-Westerfeld

Losing It by Cora Carmack

Synopsis from Goodreads:  Virginity. Bliss Edwards is about to graduate from college and still has hers. Sick of being the only virgin among her friends, she decides the best way to deal with the problem is to lose it as quickly and simply as possible-- a one-night stand. But her plan turns out to be anything but simple when she freaks out and leaves a gorgeous guy alone and naked in her bed with an excuse that no one with half-a-brain would ever believe. And as if that weren’t embarrassing enough, when she arrives for her first class of her las t college semester, she recognizes her new theatre professor. She’d left him naked in her bed about 8 hours earlier. Number of pages: 288 My review: (Side note: totally wish I had the cover pictured here. I like it so much better than the one I have which is here: This being the second New Adult (ugh I hate that phrase) book I've ever read I didn't have much to compare it to, but I digress. I still liked it! It just wasn't very thou

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