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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
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Bout of Books Read-A-Thon Goals & Updates

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 The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 19th and runs through Sunday, August 25th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 8.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team




Eeep! I'm so excited! This will be the first Bout of Books Read-A-Thon I'm participating in, and since the last Read-A-Thon I did went to so well, I decided to take a shot at another one. 

Anyways, I plan on trying to read at least 5 books and of course participate in tons of Twitter and commenting shenanigans. Not sure if it counts for the challenge but I will be trying to finish up one book too. The books I'll most likely read are:
(This is the book I will be finishing)
            


Bennett & Camilla: The Playboy Prince\Cordina's Crown Jewel   The MacGregor Grooms


Throughout the week I'll also be posting updates and thoughts throughout the week. Are you participating in this read-a-thon? Leave a link to what you'll be reading below and I'll come check it out!

Monday
Books finished: The 100 by Kass Morgan
Pages read (total): 277
Comments: I definitely need to cut down on distractions and really focus on my reading!


Tuesday
Books finished: The 100 by Kass Morgan
Pages read (total): 377 (from the Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough)
Comments: Didn't have much time to read today, I need to FOCUS!


Wednesday
Books finished: The 100 by Kass Morgan
Pages read (total): 505
Comments: Almost done with The Thorn Birds. Will probably finish that one and one other book tomorrow.


Thursday
Books finished: The 100 by Kass Morgan and The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Pages read (total): 861
Comments: Finished The Thorn Birds today yay! Also decided to switch out reading The Comet's Curse by Dom Testa, for The MacGregor Grooms by Nora Roberts (I have to read this one for a feminist class I'm taking in college).


Friday
Books finished:The 100 by Kass Morgan, The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, and The MacGregor Grooms by Nora Roberts
Pages read (total): 1,139
Comments: Yay finished another book today! Can't wait to start another tomorrow!


Saturday
Books finished: The 100 by Kass Morgan, The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, and The MacGregor Grooms by Nora Roberts
Pages read (total): 1,189
Comments: I have decided to replace the Victoria Foyt book with the Nora Roberts book. Only managed 50 pages today but hopefully I'll finish another tomorrow!


Sunday
Books finished: The 100 by Kass Morgan, The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, and The MacGregor Grooms by Nora Roberts
Pages read (total): 1, 239
Comments: Well it looks like I only managed to finish 3 books but I read more than a thousand pages which is super cool! Only managed to squeeze in 50 pages from the other Nora Roberts book. Can't wait to do this again though!


See you soon!

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Blog Tour: And I Darken by Kiersten White

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Weekly Round-Up 9/2

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 Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard and then finishing The Cuckoo's Calling and listening to The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann, read by Peter Altschuler. I'm reading Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Lab   by Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith with my son right now. I think I will start featuring the chapter and middle grade books we are reading together. Last week I reviewed She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith. Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard The year is 1876, and there’s something strange and deadly loose in Philadelphia… Eleanor Fitt has a lot to worry about. Her brother has gone missing, her family has fallen on hard times, and her mother is d
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Review: Change Places With Me by Lois Metzger

Review: CHANGE PLACES WITH ME is a quiet, unassuming book that will unfortunately slip by a lot of readers. But it's a subtly disturbing book that makes you pause and think and wonder. Lois Metzger's beautifully written prose is haunted and almost lyrical. This book is definitely ... different. I'm not sure exactly what I expected when I started it, but I don't think it was this. It was a pleasant surprise. This book can only be described as a mystery shrouded in an enigma.  It's a fairly fast read, but I loved taking my time and savoring over the course of an afternoon. Metzger's writing and her heroine, Rose, are compelling and make for a great narrative. ABOUT CHANGE PLACES WITH ME: Rose has changed. She still lives in the same neighborhood with her stepmother and goes to the same high school with the same group of kids, but when she woke up today, something was just a little different than it was before. The dogs who live upstairs are no longer a terror. He
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