Sunday, October 30, 2011
In My Mailbox (10) October 30th, 2011
Time for another In My Mailbox, a weekly meme where bloggers display the books that they have bought, borrowed, or received for review. As always it's hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren.This is the first IMM I've done in awhile, so I'll be talking about all the books that I've gotten since I did my last one.
The books I've gotten in the past two weeks are:
1. Burned by Ellen Hopkins
2. Hold Still by Nina LaCour
3. The Devouring by Simon Holt
4. Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas
5. Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott
6. Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols
7. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
That's it for me! What did you get in your mailbox? Just post a comment letting me know or a link to your IMM and I'll be sure to check it out.
--Alexis
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Wonderfully Wicked Read-A-Thon Wrap-up!
In this post, I just wanted to share the books that I've been reading!
Finished:
1. Hold Still by Nina LaCour
2. Burned by Ellen Hopkins
3. Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas
Started:
1. Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols
Wonderfully Wicked Read-a-Thon Challenge: Zombie Apocalypse
If I could only bring 5 books that would have to sustain me for 5 years, I would bring:
1. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
2. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
3. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
4. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (I know, I know)
5. One of the Stephen King short story collections
What would you bring?
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Wonderfully Wicked Read-A-Thon Update, Saturday October 22nd
So far I've finished:
Hold Still by Nina LaCour
And I'm almost done with:
Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Are you participating? If so, what have you read? Have you done any of the challenges?
Monday, October 17, 2011
In My Mailbox (9) October 16th, 2011
For me, this week wasn't very that great. I got two books in the mail, which is amazing, but I was expecting a package with four books to arrive and it didn't. Next week will definitely be bigger because I'm expecting a package from Amazon. :) I was very excited to get the books that I did receive this week: An ARC Copy of Bitter End by Jenifer Brown, and a hardcover of Every You, Every Me by David Levithan.
Bitter End was actually an RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) that I was really excited to get. I'll be doing an RAK roundup post at the end of the month talking about RAK and what happened to me this month relating to it. (What and Who and all that jazz.)
So that is it for me this week. What did you get in your mailbox? Leave a comment letting me know or a link to your IMM and I'll be sure to check it out. :)
Happy Reading!
--Alexis
Sunday, October 16, 2011
The Pulse Experience: A Guest Post from Jeff Horton
I want to apologize in advance about the tardiness relating to this post. (I should have posted it last night or early this morning. I'm in the process of moving and my computer could not be set up and ready to use until now.)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A
riveting blend of science fiction and fantasy, recommended reading, September
10, 2011 By
Midwest
Book Review (Oregon,
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This review is from: The
Dark Age: Survivors of the Pulse (Volume 2) (Paperback)
"As the world falls to pieces, evil will flourish and
only the bold will dare stand in its way. "The Dark Age: Survivors of the
Pulse" is set on a post apocalyptic Earth. Ferrell Young of the Warrior
Clan takes up a duty for the church to recover an important book. He races
against Barbaric warlord Kraken, who is looking to end any power to oppose him
as lord of the world. "The Dark Age" is a riveting blend of science
fiction and fantasy, recommended reading."
Guest Post
Please permit me to begin by saying thank-you for allowing
me to be a guest author on YA Books: Beyond the Cover, and for
giving me an opportunity to discuss my novel, THE DARK AGE!
During the twentieth century and the first decade of the
twenty-first century, apocalyptic stories became increasingly popular,
particularly at the box office. Movies like Armageddon, Deep Impact, and 2012,
just to name a few, have captured and held our imagination.
Have you watched, as I have, the many post-apocalyptic
movies that have come out of Hollywood
over the past several decades? During the twentieth century and the first
decade of the twenty-first century, apocalyptic stories became increasingly
popular, particularly at the box office. Movies like Mad Max, The Day After,
Independence Day, Armageddon, Deep Impact, and 2012, just to name a few, have captured
and held our imagination. I know that I've always been fascinated by
apocalyptic thrillers, and I suppose many other people have as well.
Apocalyptic stories in which the world is threatened and the unlikely hero
finds himself in the right place at the right time to make a difference, and
post-apocalyptic thrillers in which the protagonist is in a position to change
the world for the better, have always inspired me, and helped me to realize how
so very small many of my everyday concerns in life really are.
There have been a number of programs on television over the
last few years, which examine possible outcomes should a specific global, catastrophic
event occur, and how humanity might recover. There have also been experiments
where people attempt to live as prehistoric man did, without the benefit of
modern conveniences. While it certainly would be difficult to thrive or even
survive under such conditions, one of the experiments I saw offered hope that
humanity would be able to survive.
I didn't necessarily set out to write a post-apocalyptic thriller when I started writing The Dark Age, but it soon turned into one. As I did research for my first novel, The Great Collapse, and my second novel, The Dark Age, I was astonished to learn how vulnerable our national infrastructure and our civilization itself are to powerful electromagnetic pulses and solar flares. In 2008 a report requested by Congress and was completed by the EMP Commission. It confirmed that the threat of a single nuclear warhead detonated high in the atmosphere somewhere around Kansas was real, and that it could potentially take out the United States' national power grid.
I didn't necessarily set out to write a post-apocalyptic thriller when I started writing The Dark Age, but it soon turned into one. As I did research for my first novel, The Great Collapse, and my second novel, The Dark Age, I was astonished to learn how vulnerable our national infrastructure and our civilization itself are to powerful electromagnetic pulses and solar flares. In 2008 a report requested by Congress and was completed by the EMP Commission. It confirmed that the threat of a single nuclear warhead detonated high in the atmosphere somewhere around Kansas was real, and that it could potentially take out the United States' national power grid.
In The Great Collapse, it is an EMP attack and a solar flare
knock out power worldwide, causing civilization to collapse within months. Unlike
an EMP generated by a nuclear detonation, however, the EMP attack and the solar
flare renders it impossible for anyone anywhere on the planet to rebuild the technology
so vital to our society. With most of humanity no longer possessing the
know-how to safely live off of the land, it is a struggle just to survive. Now fast forward five-hundred years and you'll
find yourself in The Dark Age, which is set in a world where humanity survives
by the sword, the bow, and the arrow, while secretly hoping that a legend about
the Great Oracle is true and that civilization will one day return to the
Earth. The Dark Age is a story about self-discovery, perseverance, and
self-sacrifice, all in an effort to save the world from a fate worse than
death.
Hopefully, you will find as I did that The Dark Age paints a
stark, yet intriguing and hopeful vision of the future, where heroes must work
together in order to offer mankind a brighter tomorrow.
Find Jeff Horton on the internet:
Website at http://www.hortonlibrary.com.
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/Author.Jeff.Horton,
Twitter, http://twitter.com/#!/Jeff_Horton
Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4478744.Jeff_W_Horton!
Buy his books at amazon.com:
The Dark Age (Survivors of the Pulse)
Find Jeff Horton on the internet:
Website at http://www.hortonlibrary.com.
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/Author.Jeff.Horton,
Twitter, http://twitter.com/#!/Jeff_Horton
Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4478744.Jeff_W_Horton!
Buy his books at amazon.com:
The Dark Age (Survivors of the Pulse)
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