Monday, June 20, 2011

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #2, June 20th

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

What happened in the past week:
Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #1
Teaser Tuesday #10
WWW Wednesday #10
WOW #6
Will the Time Come #3
I Have an Update #1

Week 24 Reviews:
Grease Town
The Surrendered
Oh My Goth
Witch Song

Well, this week wasn't as busy as I expected it to be, but The Surrendered and Game of Thrones (which I'm currently reading) were/are taking long then I expected them to, but I'm making my way through them. But 10 posts in 7 days isn't so bad, either. And it turns out the days that I need book memes are Friday (a consistent book one), and Sunday (a book one), because Monday is this, Tuesday is teasers, Wednesday is WWW and WoW, Thursday is Will the Time Come, Saturday is Reviews, and I have a writing one on Sunday, I have an Update.  Any suggestions?

For next week, of course is the weekly memes and Week 25 reviews. Maybe a random post or 2 (I'm writing finals on Monday (physics) and Tuesday (math) so I could complain post about them. Also going to do some catch up on posting, since I really want to do the TV Shows, and I just haven't found the energy for it yet, but I will! Maybe some writing, too, since I will be having more time, and I have to edit The Soul Collector to use my nano code for Createspace, everything else (besides the cover, which I have to email someone about) is ready. Just need the MS to be ready :)

For Week 25, I am expecting, and hoping to read Game of Thrones, Next, (maybe) Anyone Out There, Die for Me, The Katyn Order. Also reading those 2 nano books still, but just 1 right now, and Singular and Four Hundred Days (may receive a print copy of Destruction From Twins) on PDF.

Currently Listening to: Overrated by Ashley Tisdale
Currently Reading: Game of Thrones
Currently Watching: Game of Thrones

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective wall. To the south, the King's powers are failing, and his enemies are emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the King's new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but also the kingdom itself. A heroic fantasy of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and evildoers who come together in a time of grim omens. The first volume in George Martin's series.

Welcome to our genetic world.

Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future-it's the world right now.

Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why an adult human being resembles a chimp fetus? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction-is it worse than the disease?

We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars; test our spouses for genetic maladies and even frame someone for a genetic crime.

We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes. . . .

Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions, and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.

The future is closer than you think. Get used to it.

In the City of Lights, two star-crossed lovers battle a fate that is destined to tear them apart again and again for eternity.

When Kate Mercier's parents die in a tragic car accident, she leaves her life--and memories--behind to live with her grandparents in Paris. For Kate, the only way to survive her pain is escaping into the world of books and Parisian art. Until she meets Vincent.

Mysterious, charming, and devastatingly handsome, Vincent threatens to melt the ice around Kate's guarded heart with just his smile. As she begins to fall in love with Vincent, Kate discovers that he's a revenant--an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save the lives of others. Vincent and those like him are bound in a centuries-old war against a group of evil revenants who exist only to murder and betray. Kate soon realizes that if she follows her heart, she may never be safe again.

In this incandescent debut, newcomer Amy Plum has created a powerful paranormal mythology with immortal revenants. The Paris setting comes enchantingly alive as a relentless struggle between good and evil takes place in its streets. Rich with romance, atmosphere, and thrills, Die for Me will leave readers breathlessly awaiting its sequel

The German war machine is in retreat as the Russians advance. In Warsaw, Resistance fighters rise up against their Nazi occupiers, but the Germans retaliate, ruthlessly leveling the once-beautiful city. American Adam Nowak has been dropped into Poland by British intelligence as an assassin and Resistance fighter. During the Warsaw Uprising he meets Natalia, a covert operative who has lost everything—just as he has. Amid the Allied power struggle left by Germany’s defeat, Adam and Natalia join in a desperate hunt for the 1940 Soviet order authorizing the murders of 20,000 Polish army officers and civilians. If they can find the Katyn Order before the Russians do, they just might change the fate of Poland.



2 comments:

  1. Have a wonderful week and enjoy your books.
    My Monday: http://www.rundpinne.com/2011/06/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-44.html

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  2. Thanks! I wish I could get to the link, but my computer secruity is blocking it, so I can't :(

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