April is NetGalley Month

I've been on NetGalley for a bit now, and if you don't know what NetGalley is, it's a place that lets publisher share ebook copies of books to bloggers, reviewers, librarians.  Let me tell you they have some awesome books! 

Emily over at Red House Books decided to make April

 NetGalley Month

with a challenge to read and review as many NetGalley books as you can.  This is the kick I need to get mine read, so I'm jumping in!!!!

Here's the books I plan to read:

Hereafter

Mercy

Angel Burn

The Cellar

Those That Wake

Okay for Now

I've requested a few others, so I might add to this.  My Nook is going to get a workout!!!

Rules to Enter according to Emily at Red House Books

Rules to enter:

*Make your own post declaring April NetGalley month linking back to this post

OR

*Tweet the following:
@NetGalley April as been declared! I'm joining @WilowRedHouse for a chance to win some awesome prizes-will you join us? http://bit.ly/fzxPRE

*If you don't have a blog or Twitter - post it to Facebook with a link

*If you don't blog, tweet or FB but still want to join in - send me an email  at Wilow[at]yahoo[dot]com

AND THEN go to THIS LINK and sign up!

If you want to participate check out THIS POST over at Red House Books for the info

(psssttt THERE ARE PRIZES!)

Waiting on Wednesday: Away by Teri Hall

This is inspired by a meme hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine. In this post I talk about books yet to be released that I'm excited about OR already published book's I've seen that I'm really wanting to read. I also like to try and find books other bloggers aren't sharing so that more books are shared.

This week I'm waiting on:

 

Away by Teri Hall

Release Date: September 15

 

I know this one is a looooooong ways off, but I really can't wait to find out what happens.  The first book book ends on such an open note and lately I've been thinking about what might happen next.  Plus one of my students read it and my daughter, and all three of us are just very anxious to see what happens next.  The Line (book 1) is pretty slow moving at first and just when you think the action is going to start - the book ends, so it's super frustrating but in a good way!

 

I read The Line in the middle of Christmas break, so I only wrote a mini review.  I'm going to try and convince the student who read it to write a fuller review because she's really excited about it and the sequel. 

 

Oh and isn't the cover pretty??? Love it :)

 

From Teri Hall's website

When Rachel crosses The Line she leaves behind everything she has ever known and enters a strange new world: Away. Life there is hard, and survival is never guaranteed. Bizarre, wild creatures roam the forests, and people—the same people she’s always been told are dangerous and untrustworthy—have gifts she’s never thought possible.

Rachel has to rely on Pathik, the boy she risked her own life for, to help her navigate the strange customs. He’s exasperating, but she thinks she can trust him, and she hopes he’ll lead her to answers about her father. As it turns out, he leads her to more than she bargained for, and Rachel finds herself on an adventure filled with life and death choices, dark conspiracies, and unthinkable sacrifice.

In a place with no technology, no electricity, no medicine, and very little hope, Rachel discovers that only one thing makes life worth living. If only it’s not too late.

Tween Tuesday: Moon Over Manifest

Tween Tuesday was started by GreenBeanTeenQueen and it highlights perfect for the tween set. 

Today I'm looking at:

Moon Over Manifest

by Clare Vanderpool

This is the 2011 Newberry winner, and I think it looks pretty good.  My daughter read it (age 11), and she liked it.  She said it was slow moving - a more thinking book, but in the end she liked it.  As with most Newberrys, this one isn't for all readers.  My daughter reads a ton - all kinds of books - so I knew she'd be ok with this one even it it was slow moving.  My more reluctant readers might have a harder time with it.

From Goodreads
Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live with an old friend for the summer while he works a railroad job. Armed only with a few possessions and her list of universals, Abilene jumps off the train in Manifest, Kansas, aiming to learn about the boy her father once was.

Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it’s just a dried-up, worn-out old town. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers a hidden cigar box full of mementos, including some old letters that mention a spy known as the Rattler. These mysterious letters send Abilene and her new friends, Lettie and Ruthanne, on an honest-to-goodness spy hunt, even though they are warned to “Leave Well Enough Alone.”

Abilene throws all caution aside when she heads down the mysterious Path to Perdition to pay a debt to the reclusive Miss Sadie, a diviner who only tells stories from the past. It seems that Manifest’s history is full of colorful and shadowy characters—and long-held secrets. The more Abilene hears, the more determined she is to learn just what role her father played in that history. And as Manifest’s secrets are laid bare one by one, Abilene begins to weave her own story into the fabric of the town.

Powerful in its simplicity and rich in historical detail, Clare Vanderpool’s debut is a gripping story of loss and redemption.

Cover Crush: Delirium

I love book covers.  I really really do.  Even my students know how much I love them.  I'll share a new book and go on and on about the cover.  Or I'll search out a few students in the morning to show it to them.  They laugh at me but they get it.  They also get that a "bad" cover is - well just bad!

Currently I'm crushing on:

Delirium

by Lauren Oliver

When I first saw this cover way back and bloggers started buzzing about,  I thought it was kind of boring.  But then I got a post card of it in with the ARC of Delirium I got (with a super bad cover).  All of a sudden I saw it - the face! How did I miss that before?  Did the early versions not have it??? Now I can't stop looking at it.  And the first time I saw it in person - WOW! It just holds my attention. If you ever see a woman in the bookstore just holding up this book and staring at it - that would be me! I have a copy of the ARC - without the cover - and I really really think I'm going to have to buy the book just to get this pretty pretty cover. 

Do you do that? Do you buy a book you already own just because you like the new cover better??

Oh and look at the French cover!

Cover Crush was inspired by the great bloggers of The Book Worms who started Cover Crazy.