Magic Lamp Friday

So this is a meme hosted by Ya-Aholic. 
It's called If I had a Magic Lamp Friday or for short MLF. 
For MLF you will post that if you had a magic lamp what would you wish for?  It can be anything from meeting your favorite author, wishing you had a book way before it was released, or well anything! 

 

Wish 1: I wish I had a laptop!

Wish 2: I wish the next installment of Cold blood was out already!

Thoughtful Thursday

*Note: Thoughtful Thursday is for those books that we have yet to review and have been published more then a year ago.... No worries we will still review it but were just spotlighting it.*

My Life in Pink & Green by Lisa Greenwald

Pub date: March 1, 2009
Publisher: Amulet
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lucy Desberg is a natural problem solver. After the local homecoming queen shows up at her family’s struggling drugstore with a beauty disaster that Lucy helps to fix, Lucy has a long line of makeover customers for every school dance and bat mitzvah. But all the makeup tips in the world won’t help save the pharmacy. If only she could find a way to make the pharmacy the center of town again—a place where people want to spend time, like in the old days. Lucy dreams up a solution that could resuscitate the family business and help the environment, too. But will Lucy’s family stop fighting long enough to listen to a seventh-grader?
 
This book is a funny and sweet debut featuring an unforgettable narrator who knows what she wants, whether it’s great makeup, a killer business plan, or a better world.

Mrs. Hill from Mrs. Hill's Book Blog has said: This is a fun book that shows girls that they really can make a difference in their lives even at a young age. Lucy is a smart, capable character that I really admire! Lucy's best friend Suny is supportive and a great friend. Suny's brother Yamir is hysterical and quite the character!

Question of the week

What is your favorite Holiday Tradition?

 For me it's when we have German Pancakes on Christmas morning. Mom like's cherry's on her's. I like Apple's and my brothers like Blueberry's. My grandpa normally covers his in powder sugar. Oh and they are GIANT!
-Kati

My favorite Holiday Tradition takes place on Christmas Eve. Every year on December 24th, my family and I gather 'round the dinner table and have a huge feast of ham, potatoes, chicken, ribs, rice and beans, pie, and cake. After eating, we watch movies, talk, and dance until midnight, when it is officially Christmas. As soon as the clock strikes 12:00am, we start to open our Christmas gifts. I love this particular Holiday Tradition because not only is it a great night for family bonding, but it is also a great night to feel the joy of giving gifts and the happiness of receiving them. :D
-Moujnir

Waiting On Wednesday (4)

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted here, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Title & Author: Everneath by Brodi Ashton

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Publication Date:  January 24, 2012

Summary: Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life, her family, her boyfriend—before she’s banished back to the underworld . . . this time forever. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists. Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance—and the one person she loves more than anything. But there’s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen. As Nikki’s time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole’s queen.

Everneath is a captivating story of love, loss, and immortality from debut author Brodi Ashton.

What books are you waiting for?

Teaser Tuesday

Darker Angels by M.L.N Hanover
Publishing date: September 29, 2009
Teaser: "The wolves start dying out, and the hunting cats come in"


Summary: 

When Jayné Heller's uncle Eric died, she inherited a fortune beyond all her expectations -- and a dangerous mission in a world she never knew existed. Reining in demons and supernatural foes is a formidable task, but thankfully Jayné has vast resources and loyal allies to rely on. She'll need both to tackle a bodyswitching serial killer who's taken up residence in New Orleans, a city rich in voodoo lore and dark magic.

Working alongside Karen Black, a highly confident and enigmatic ex-FBI agent, Jayné races to track down the demon's next intended host. But the closer she gets, the more convinced she becomes that nothing in this beautiful, wounded city is exactly as it seems. When shocking secrets come to light, and jealousy and betrayal turn trusted friends into adversaries, Jayné will soon come face-to-face with an enemy that knows her all too well, and won't rest until it has destroyed everything she loves most....

Review: Vicious Grace by M.L.N Hanover

Title: Vicious Grace

Author: M.L.N. Hanover

Publisher: Pocket Books

Release Date: November 30, 2010

Received: For Review

Rate: 5

Summary: 
For the first time in forever, Jayné Heller’s life is making sense. Even if she routinely risks her life to destroy demonic parasites that prey on mortals, she now has friends, colleagues, a trusted lover, and newfound confidence in the mission she inherited from her wealthy, mysterious uncle. Her next job might just rob her of all of them. At Grace Memorial Hospital in Chicago, something is stirring. Patients are going AWOL and research subjects share the same sinister dreams. Half a century ago, something was buried under Grace in a terrible ritual, and it’s straining to be free. Jayné is primed to take on whatever’s about to be let loose. Yet the greatest danger now may not be the huge, unseen force lurking below, but the evil that has been hiding in plain sight all along—taking her ever closer to losing her body, her mind, and her soul. . . .


Review:
I hate clifhangers... But this book had the best clifhanger of all times. The action definatly picked up in this book and I feel a little closer to jayne. Although yes I still call her jane. I am beginning to like her more then I did in the second book. Shes not as new as she was in the first one and she doesn't whine as much as she did in the second one. She's better, she's beginning to become her own person but she's also realizing she doesn't have to fight on her own she has friends that can help. Must read.

In my Mailbox

Borrowed:

Explosive eighteen by Janet Evanovich

Reallionaire by Farrah Gray

For Review:

Kevin's Point of View by Del Shannon

Blood by K.J. Wignall

The MacGuffin by Michael Craft

The Fearsome Beasties by Giles Paley-Phillips

Eternal Engagement by Mary B. Morrison

Sorry I couldn't do a video! Still sick! and I have been crazy busy! Thanks for understanding have an amazing week!
-Kati