Friday Fun and Following

Happy Friday everyone!!! If you are new to the #FF fun, Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. Sign up at parajunkee.com then you create a post on your own blog that links back to parajunkee and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them hi in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you! There is also a question of the week and this weeks question is.....

Let's step away from besties...What is the worst book that you've ever read and actually finished?

 Mine would have to be Torment!!!

(Review)

Thanks for stopping by have a wonderful weekend!

Insight and Embody Giveaway Winner!!!

The very lucky winner of Insight and Embody is.......

Karen!!! 

If your name is Karen and you entered to win this giveaway you will be getting an email informing you that you are indeed the correct Karen.  Thanks to everyone that entered.

 

NeuroticThoughts on Where She Went

Where She Went
Author: Gayle Forman
Released: April 5, 2011
Published by: Dutton Juvenile
Pages: 264
ISBN: 0525422943
Target Age: Young Adult

Source: I borrowed this one from the fabulous Jessica of Shut Up I'm Reading
Summary from Goodreads:

It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.

Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future - and each other.

Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.

AMAZING!!

 First off If you haven't read If I Stay - stop right now! Go to the store, library, amazon, or wherever you get your books from, and RUN don't walk to get your own copy of If I Stay!!!! Yes, it really is that good.

OK, now onto Where She Went.... I've been putting this review off for quite awhile because I'm afraid it's just going to sound all gushy and incoherent because of the amount of love I have for this book and Adam! As wonderful as If I Stay was, Where She Went is even better! This book is told from Adam's point of view and wow, I just love this guy SOOO much.  Adam's heartache is so palpable you feel it right along with him. When he cried, I cried. He's barely hanging on trying to get through his life in the aftermath of what happened to Mia three years ago. While waiting to head off to Europe on tour with his band he takes a few days in New York City and remembers what's happened in the past three years.  Oh my, get ready for the tears during his flashbacks!!! While wandering through the city he stumbles upon Mia, what  happens next you'll have to find out for yourself.
Side note: After reading this book I went to New York City for the first time, and seeing the things that Gayle Forman wrote about just made them so much more for me, it was awesome!!! 

Waiting On Wednesday (7/06/2011) I Loved You First

I Loved You First
Author: Reena Jacobs
Expected Release Date: August 1, 2011
Summary from Goodreads:

My best friend was more than just a best friend to me. Three words summed it up: I heart him. I’d never tell him though. I wasn’t stupid. Besides, what he’d told no one, but me, was a little something I wished I could forget… or ignore. He was gay. I guess gay wouldn’t be bad if I wasn’t so in love with him. Now it was just cruel.

Stereotypes run amok in this college love story: Parties, alcohol, hookups, and breakups. Alexandria Carmichael may find it a bit much as she deals with the unreturned love from the boy who completes her. When all is revealed, not only does she risk losing her best friend forever, but also herself. Without her childhood companion for support, Alexandria takes a journey of self-discovery but fears what she’ll find at the end.

 Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we (bloggers) are anxiously awaiting. So what book are you excited about right now?

Teaser Tuesday (7/05/2011) Crossroads

Crossroads
Author: Mary Ting
Teaser from page 124


"Thou shall not touch," he muttered. "I'm sorry. I don't know what's gotten into me. Please forgive me. It won't happen again." He was serious and sorrowful.

Miz B hosts Teaser Tuesday every week, check her out for the official rules.  I never seem to be able to stick to the rule about only 2 sentences.

I love reading teasers so let me know where I can view yours in the comments.