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review: rooftops of tehran

book info: on sale: now copy from: public library pages: 348 review written: 21.12.17 originally published: 2009 edition read: Penguin NAL 2009 title: Rooftops of Tehran author: Mahbod Seraji In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice... my thoughts: This book was first published in 2009 and I remember adding it to my list around that time but never actually reading it since I preferred checking out library books to ...
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The Secret

The Secret

Love by Lacey Weatherford

Love by Lacey Weatherford Series:   Crush #3 Source:  bought Kindle Publisher:  Moonstruck Media Publication Date:  April 12, 2014 Age Genre: New Adult (not explicit) Challenges: Prequel-Sequel Challenges: Contemporary Challenges: TBR - Paid For Find on Leafmarks!  Living happily ever after has always been part of the plan for Cami and Dylan, but when strange things begin happening around the Wilcock household, Cami simply believes she’s becoming forgetful. However, when the incidents begin to escalate, both are left feeling vulnerable. Unable to figure out what’s going on, Dylan delves deeper into the mysterious happenings. But when the truth comes out, he finds himself faced with the biggest decision of his life—how far will he go to protect the one he loves? *To see spoilers, mark them with your mouse* Love is the final book in the Cami x Dylan chronicles. We've watched these two since high-school (sort of), battling maniac after maniac, surviving and bein...
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Who Wore it Better - Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Who Wore it Better is an original meme I brought with me from Drugs Called Books. In it, instead of discussing fashion or cloths, we discuss book covers from different countries, and who has the best cover. The meme is co-hosted with the lovely Amanda and Stacie from  Beautiful Bookish Butterflies  and will be featured on her blog every other week, so check her out as well!   This week we're taking a look at Uglies by Scott Westerfeld . I admit, this is one book I never considered reading because of the covers. And after looking at most of them, I realized this is one badly designed book! I'm going to do this in batches, because I kind of couldn't resist showing you most of them. I don't know, I guess I enjoy ranting to the point of being kind of sadistic about it. THE FACES SECTION English  |  Portuguese  | Indonesian  |  Italian  |   Romanian | Serbian | Korean So, it looks like most of the foreign covers decided to follow in the foo...
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The Art of Commenting

As a blogger and a frequent flier in the book community online, comments are a big part of my life . I wait for them - be them comment to my posts, or replies to things I commented on. They brighten my day significantly. Literally every comment I get - big or small, it doesn't matter - makes me happy and excited. However, when it comes to writing a comment... even though I know even two words have meaning, I find myself unable to write those kind of comments. I'm the type of commenter that loves writing long, meaningful (in m perspective), detailed comments . I will literally find myself stopping and closing a comment if I realize I only have two sentences to say about it, and one of them is along the lines of "great review!" It's all or nothing for me. Lately I realized I have a "system" . A little set of rules that goes into each comment to guarantee max meaningfulness, if you will. It goes like this:  A. I will always use the reviewer's name in th...
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Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles

Rules of Attraction   by Simone Elkeles Series:   Perfect Chemistry #2 Source:  gifted paperback Publisher:  Walker Publication Date:  April 19, 2010 Age Genre: Mature YA (includes sex) Challenges: TBR / Cleaning my Shelves Challenges: Prequel-Sequel Challenges: Contemporary Find on Leafmarks!  Carlos Fuentes felt betrayed when the big brother he idolized, Alex, chose to get jumped out of the Latino Blood for a chance at a future with his gringa girlfriend, Brittany. Even worse, Alex has forced Carlos to come back from Mexico to join him on the straight and narrow path. Trouble is, Carlos just wants to keep living on the edge. And ties to his Mexican gang aren't easy to break, even when Carlos is living with one of Alex's college professors in Colorado. Carlos feels completely out of place in the suburbs. He's even more thrown by his feelings for the professor's daughter, Kiara, who is nothing like the wild girls he's usually drawn to. But Carlos and Kiar...
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Thursday Oldie: Destiny Binds by Tammy Blackwell

YOU CAN FIND AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS REVIEW ON MY NEW BLOG, AFTERWORDS!  Destiny Binds   by  Tammy Blackwell Series: The Timber Wolves Trilgoy #1 Source: bought kindle boxset Publisher: Indie Age Genre: Young Adult Originally published:  Feb 4, 2013 Challenges: Re-Read Scout Donovan is a girl who believes in rules, logic, and her lifelong love of Charlie Hagan. Alex Cole believes in destiny, magic, and Scout. When Alex introduces Scout to the world of Shifters, men who change into wolves or coyotes during the full moon and Seers, women who can see your most private thoughts and emotions with a mere touch, the knowledge changes everything and everyone Scout thought she knew. . For this week's Oldie, I'm bringing back one of my favorite shifter series ever , after recently re-reading it. It's also one of the most underrated books and series out there. I mean, seriously. You don't need to read this review - go read the book instead. That's time better sp...
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Author Bios - Yay or Nay?

Okay, guys. Get ready. Some dirty secrets are about to be aired. Just don't hate me afterwards, okay? There's a subject that's been on my mind for a while now - author bios.  I admit, it never accord to me to put the author's bio on my review post of their book. I see it often enough on other blogs, and I do it in tour related posts, but never because I thought to put it there. Lately, I've been wondering about that - like, why don't I do that? I reached two conclusions on that: 1) I just don't care who the author is - I care for the book. A good book is a good book no matter who wrote it, and same for a bad book. When I read, I never once stop to think of the author. Before I became a book blogger, I often forgot author names. I could always recall a book based on it's plot, but aside for special few (like the Queen herself, J.K Rowling), I wouldn't know a book based on it's author. Okay, maybe this is a little dramatic, but... Now, things a...
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

YOU CAN FIND AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS REVIEW ON AFTERWORDS The Ocean at the End of the Lane   by  Neil Gaiman Source:  Bought paperback Publisher:  Harper Publication Date:  April 8th, 2014 Age Genre:  Young Adult Challenges: TBR-Challenge Challenges:   Cleaning my Shelves A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse where she once lived, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy. A groundbreaking work as delicate as a butterfly's wings and as menacing as a kinfe in the ...
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Who Wore it Better - Beautiful Creatures by by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Who Wore it Better is an original meme I brought with me from Drugs Called Books. In it, instead of discussing fashion or cloths, we discuss book covers from different countries, and who has the best cover. The meme is co-hosted with the lovely Amanda and Stacie from  Beautiful Bookish Butterflies  and will be featured on her blog every other week, so check her out as well!   This week, I brought you covers from some really cool places! English  –  I absolutely love this cover. There's just something about it, you know? The grey on black, and then the huge, bold letters in purple. It looks haunting and dangerous. It looks like it might just swallow you into the void at the end of the lane. It's what really got me to read the book (though, it hasn't managed to get me to read the second book, yet).  Dutch  –  I kind of like this one, I guess? At first glance, it looks blank. But then you realize the're actually a girl among the darkness-or maybe she...
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Relatively Famous by (The Lovely) Heather Leigh

Relatively Famous by Heather Leigh  Series:   Famous #1 Source:  Free Kindle Copy Publisher:  Shelbyville Publishing Publication Date:  June 7, 2014 Age Genre: Adult Relatively Famous on Leafmarks This is NOT your average Hollywood romance. There are no virgins falling in love with hot actors. There isn't a famous guy falling for the normal girl next door. What there IS in this book, is a fragile, damaged girl and the sexy alpha who rescues her. Sydney Allen is trying to be your average 24 year old New Yorker. It’s hard to be average though when your mother is Evangeline Allen, an Oscar winning actress known as “America’s Sweetheart” to moviegoers across the globe. It’s even harder to be average when your dad is Reid Tannen, Hollywood Bad Boy and one of the highest paid actors in the world. Their divorce when Sydney was 12 years old was set off by a series of haunting incidents that left Sydney scarred mentally and physically. Hollywood destroyed her parents’ m...
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Thursday Oldie: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

So as you guys know, I just moved here. And that means my old blog now lies abandoned... alongside all my old reviews. But because I feel like some of them don't deserve such an awful treatment, I'm going to slowly move my favorite reviews here,  especially  if my opinion differs than Megs. (though some editing may occur, as I'm a little OCD about my reviews, and the older they originally are, the more likely I am to have things I want to rephrase).  The Perks of Being a Wallflower   by  Stephen Chbosky Source:  bought paperback Publisher: Pocket Books Publication Date:  Feb 2, 2009 Age Genre:  Young Adult Originally published:  Feb 27, 2013 Find on Leafmarks! Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navi...
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Top Book Boyfriends of 2014

Hey guys!  I decided to do something lots of bloggers did, and share with you guys the swooniest (is that a word?...) , greatest book boyfriends of 2014! I have a book boyfriend in every book (yes, that's as sluttish as that sounds), but only a few of them stand out enough to be here. I'm speaking about the book boyfriends who stick around even after the book's over. The book boyfriends you actually remember, when the year is done. Unfortunately, they are all happily in a relationship with some woman who deserves them , or on one occasion, firmly on the way to being in one (and it better happen soon, because my shipper heart demands it), so they're off the market, but if you don't mind that, you should definitely give them a call!  EMILIO @ The Book of Broken Hearts Biker. Mechanic. Latino goodness. Sweet. Kind. Caring. Etc.   Goodreads | The Book Depository | Review CINDER @ Cinder & Ella Actor. Best friend. Reader. Prince. King of Big Gestures. Smitten....
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review: fragments of sappho

book info: on sale: now copy from: library pages: 402 review written: 5.1.15 originally published: 2002 title: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho author: Sappho/Anne Carson A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 B.C. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. All the rest are fragments. In If Not, Winter Carson presents all of Sappho's fragments in GReek and in English. Brackets and space give the reader a sense of what is absent as well as what is present on the papyrus. Carson's translation illuminates Sappho's reflections on love, desire, marriage, exile, cushions, bees, old age, shame, time, chickpeas and many other aspects of the human situation. summary from: book jacket My thoughts: Sappho in an...
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2015 Reading Challenges

I like reading challenges. I seldom follow through them, mostly due to laziness (I'm too lazy to post the reviews on the challenge itself, stupidly enough. It would make more sense if I actually, I don't know... was too lazy to do the challenge itself. But, I like to invent new levels of stupidness every day.) Anyways, in this post, I'm going to gather all the challenges I've decide to participate at in 2015. Some of those are legitimate stuff, and some are personal challenges. I've opened a personal challenge on LeafMarks for each one of those, where you can trace my progress! And yes, there is a ton. I'm counting on books fitting under more than one category. Don't call me a cheater, that's not nice! 1. Read Your Freebies! Reading Challenge The name is pretty self explanatory. As an avid freebie downloader, I have more free kindle books than I can possibly read - but I'm going to try my best to! I've decided to try my hand at super saver (50 ...
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