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Last year, my first year of blogging, I sat on the edges and watched Book Blogger Appreciation Week unfold. This year, I am jumping in head first.

This year, BBAW is September 13-17 and this year, you can nominate yourself! I have heard that there are many unhappy campers about nominating yourself. I personally don’t feel like it’s a pat on the back. To me, it’s more of a “I didn’t get a nomination last year and don’t want to miss out again this year.” I think that’s reasonable.

There are a number of categories this year. I am entering into two of them.

The first is Best Young Adult Book Blog. The posts I am entering are my reviews on:
Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
Invitation Only by Kate Brian
The Naughty List by Suzanne Young
Tangled by Carolyn Mackler
Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James

I am not going to lie, while adding those posts, in my head I was an announcer at an awards show. I need a life!

Before this year, I had an eclectic reading life. I would read Chick Lit, YA, Murder Mystery etc. This year, 23 of 43 books I have read have been YA. Because of that, I consider it to be a semi-YA book blog, and that’s the reason I entered it into the BBAW awards.

However, the very first book I ever reviewed and the book that sparked by love of reading back up was Jane Eyre. I guess that in itself makes my tastes eclectic, going from books that revolve around high school cheerleaders/spies to one of the most classic books in history.

Good thing there is also a Best Eclectic Book Blog section. I’ll let the judges determine what suits me best For this section, I am adding:
sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling
Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
Death by Sudoku by Kaye Morgan
Season of Water and Ice by Donald Lystra
Mania by Craig Larsen

The Eclectic selection was much tougher than the YA selection. I have read such a hodge-podge of books this year, I wanted to get a little of everything in. I think I did a clean sweep across the board.

Check out the link to the BBAW website, enter yourself, get involved! I have met so many awesome people through book blogging and can’t wait to see who is standing out this year.

Are you entering? Send me the link to your post! I only have one shelf of TBR books and definitely need to start stockpiling!

Hello blogging buddies! Sorry I am a little late at posting this. I actually got caught up finishing a book last night and forgot until I went to bed. Mahh Sorry

Marce wins Duty of Love hands down, no competitors

Lindsey wins Season of Water and Ice with no competitors, and thanks to Random.org, she also wins Rooms.

Thanks all that participated! I’ll be contacting the winners and sending out the books ASAP!

Books Read:
Confessions
Inner Circle
Legacy
Season of Water and Ice
Ambition
Envy
Rooms
To read reviews on the these books (except Rooms because I haven’t written it yet), click here.

Pages Read:
2004

Bookmarks Given:
1. 0 Bookmarks
2. 3 Bookmarks
3. 0 Bookmarks
4. 2 Bookmarks
5. 1 Bookmark
*I have not reviewed Rooms yet. It will be up within the next day or so.

Favorite Book:
Based on bookmarks, my favorite book was Confessions by Kate Brian. I actually got this book a few years ago, my husband thought I’d like it and didn’t realized it was part of a series. I don’t remember much of it from the first time I read it, but now, knowing what happened in the previous books in the series, I loved it and it is my favorite Private Series book so far.

Least Favorite Book:
My least favorite book that I read last month was Ambition by Kate Brian. It just didn’t have the juice that the rest of the series has.

Goals for May:
I am hoping to finish the Private Series this month and start the Jessica Darling Series.  I think these were the same goals I had last month, but I ended up winning quite a bit of books that got in my way.

How was your month?

It’s tough being a teen, no matter where you live or in what year. The year is 1957. The location, Ann Arbor, Michigan.  14-year-old Danny DeWitt has been living in Michigan got about a year. His dad is on a new business endeavor, his mom in Chicago, wanting more out of life, especially money.

Danny is a lonely boy, in a town where he really doesn’t know anybody. That is, until he stumbles upon Amber Dwyer, an older, pregnant teen. He and Amber become inseparable, even through the tough times with her on-again, off-again baby daddy.

This story takes us through teen angst in a time that most of us know nothing about. Teenage girls are pregnant every day in our lives, in 1957, not so much. I agreed to read this book, sent to me by Kelley and Hall company, because I always read about girls, never much about boys. I like to learn when I read, and if I ever end up having a little boy, the more I can learn through books, the better The Kelley and Hall company has done wonders for my reading. The books they send me are most likely ones I would never pick up at the book store, but ones I normally end up thoroughly enjoying.

There were times in this book that I was sucked in, there were other times I was left wondering, “Is anything going to happen?”. Compared to some of the other books I’ve read, this one wasn’t as dramatic, but it was much deeper. It was a nice change of pace.

The book was written well and although I have absolutely NO connection to any of the characters, I felt close to them.

I am not going to give away the ending, but it was one of those that you kept telling yourself, “Will it happen? Surely not? Well, maybe.”

I enjoyed this book and give it 4 bookmarks. I highly suggest it and  it will most likely be one I pick up again in a few years because I know I missed some things.

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

I haven’t participated in meme’s in quite a while and wanted to get back into them. I enjoy anything that gives me another chance to write. And I enjoy this one because I feel like I pay more attention to the writing to catch something that will entice other readers.

Season of Water and Ice by Donald Lystra pg 142

I thought about how much my life had changed since we’d left Grand Rapids. I lived in the woods outside a town that nobody had heard about, a place I hadn’t known existed one year ago, and my mother lived in Chicago. I had met a pregnant girl who was not married, and I had seen a man strike another man and take his money, and I had heard my father say he wanted to sleep with a woman who was not my mother.

Ok, so I know I am only supposed to choose 2 sentences, but it’s going to have to be 3 this week! Glad to be back