The New Year Cat

Happy New Year from me an my Cat! Who left my hand full of scratches! and my jean! and destroyed My Hello-Killy Slippers! and chewed my pencil! and I'm gonna bake him for New Year :DD!

IMM #23 Holiday Edition!

The Next Video is a Lie. 

I made the video BEFORE I went and bought 6 MORE BOOKS O_O. Hehe...

THE REAL DEAL

What I Bought:

 What I Borrowed:

 From Netgalley:

I Know I know! I'm Sorry! Ugh! there's no space in my shelf and no money left for me! but at least they're all really pretty and I Love Them :D! [Some of us fools just never learn]

Wrapping Up 2011 Readathon [Update 3]

The Readathon is almost Over! This is what I've read so far:

*Incarnate

*dancergirl
*The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

I know it must not seem like a helluva of a lot but, compared to my reading pace this is AWESOME!

Me Feels Proud :D!

What I'm gonna TRY to Finish:
*Impulse
*Graffiti Moon.

Wish Me Luck :D!

Mini-Challenge

as part of the Wrapping Up 2011 Readathon YA Bookmark is hosting a challenge [Thank you so much for Hosting!], and it is to make a sentence using books.

Here are mine! I made two because I used a little bit of extra help to create one of them and I'm not sure it that cheating....  they are both cheesy but, Oh well, here they are!

If I stay, take me there between here and forever.

If I stay, don't stop now. Take me there between here and forever, before I fall for someone like you.

and I also made one with a Courtney Summer and Tabitha Suzuma, it said: Some Girls Are Forbidden but it seemed a bit lame so I just stayed with the cheesy ones x) but hey, at least I tried. [It was not an easy task]

The Dusty Bookshelf Challenge 2012!

I know, I know, I KNOW, I've signed up to a thousand challenges already! but meh, I probably won't finish half of them, so I'll at least have fun signing up.

The idea of this challenge is to basically be able to say [in Jessica's words] "look at my bookshelf and say unequivocally and without exception, “I’ve read all those books.”"

The Fist thing to do is see how many books we have in our Bookshelf that we have to read *Goes to count*

Holly Mother of God. 95 Books. 95 BOOKS. 95 DUCKING BOOKS. O_O 

Yeah, that's my face.
 

I Quit. I quit and I haven't even started this challenge.

Look at them. 95 Books:

and This Is You after you see that I have not read Divergent, The Hunger Games and Delirium [Among Others]

You are all plotting my death. and you haven't even seen the e-books.



Guess I'm level Grungy – Read 20+ books

as for the book that has more time there, it would be a year and a half.
Wow, in a year and a half I managed to NOT read 95 Books.
O_O

Pick Your a Thon Mini-Challenges

Pick Your a Thon Mini-Challenge #1 
Goals, Goals, Goals

  




What book are you starting with?
Ok so, I've been reading a lot lately [at least compared to my usual pace] so I want to focus on reading until January 1st and then start reviewing like crazy :D!

I hope to read / review:
Read: 4
Review: 5

Books I hope to read / review or at least will try to get to:
I hope to finish: Impulse & The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by New Year. and then Graffiti Moon.
I want to review by January 3rd: Incarnate, dancergirl, A series of unfortunate events, Impulse & The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.

Pick Your Thon Mini-Challenge #2
12 Most Anticipated Books of 2012

1.- Incarnate by Jody Meadows
2.- Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
3.- Life Is But a Dream by Brian James
4.- Slide by Jill Hathaway
5.- Halfling by Heather Burch
6.- Everneath by Brodi Ashton
7.- My Life in Black and White by Natasha Friend
8.- The Thing About the Truth by Lauren Barnholdt
9.- This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
10.- Before You Go by James Preller
11.- Storm by Brigid Kemmerer
12.- Smashed by Lisa Luedeke

Pick Your a Thon Mini-Challenge #3
Organizing Upcoming Reviews

 My camera hates me at the moment and it is refusing to cooperate and I can't show you my planner :(
The idea of this challenge is to be organized. I personally don't like using google docs or stuff online because I always, always forget to check them. I also tried with the calendar in my ipod and alarms and such and I still forget. so I go old school and use a planner and post-its :3

since I have no camera I will describe: on the back of my door I have like a thousand post-its with all the books I must read/review. they are in different colors depending on the need and such.

Blue: must buy
Yellow: must review [Netgalley]
Pink: must review
Green: simply must read asap.

and there's my planner, which has marked all the day in which my galleys disappear and blogtours and everything :3

Pick Your a Thon Mini-Challenge #4
Read... Read... Read / Review... Review... Review

I'm Reviewing!

I just made my review for The Statistical Probability of First Sight and now I'm working on:
*Incarnate
*dancergirl
*Impulse

I'm alsmost done with these so I'll go and continue reading Graffiti Moon - which I'm Loving by the way.


Well, today is the last day of 2011. I honestly hope everyone is tucked safe and warm in their beautiful houses with a lovely book in hand. Happy New Year ;)

Happy New Year 2012 Giveaway Hop

 

Hope everyone enjoyed the Holidays and are getting ready for a great New Year :D! 

To celebrate I have Two Giveaways, One US Only and The Other International

US Giveaway:

Two Paperback copies, one of Firelgitht by Sophie Jordan and one of Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers

International:

2 PDF copies, one of Fury by Elizabeth Miles and Starstruck by Cyn Balong

This Giveaway Is Over!
and the Winners are:

US Giveaway:
Emily R.
Em_****@hotmail.com

INT Giveaway:
Sarika R.
sarikap********@gmail.com

Congratulations!
and Thanks to everyone who entered :D!


Giveaway Policy!
* You must be a Blog Follower to Enter.
* You must be at least 13 years old to enter.
* One Entry per Member
* Only One US Winner
* Only One International Winner.
* I am not responsible for prize loss or mail damage.
* Any Personal Information will remain private and will not be saved.
* Winner will be chosen at Random.org.
* Winner will be notified by e-mail. The winner will have 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen.

Top 10 Book Book Boyfriends of 2011

"Top 10 Book Book Boyfriends of 2011"

I hated most of these guys half of the time but, *Sigh* I someohow totally fell for them <#

1
Noah
Sometimes it Happens by Lauren Barnholdt

 

2

Sam Incarnate by Jody Meadows

 3

BeckettThere You'll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones

4

Jacy
dancergirl by Carol M. Tanzman

5

John
Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols

6

Alex
Always Been Mine by Elizabeth Reyes

7

Lochan
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma

8

Max
The Pledge by Kimberly Derting

9

Entienne
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

10

Elder
 Across The Universe by Beth Revis

Blogger Lift #34

Blogger Lift:

Blogger Lift Is Hosted Here. and in Goodreads on YABC. Blogger Lift is a feature in which I'll promote blogs I follow and that I recommenced you.

Blogger Lift is Filled until next year! Thank you to all the Blogger who have participated and those who Signed Up!

More Info on Blogger Lift:
Requirements Of Blogger Lift

Featured this week

Book Briefs

I am a 2L at Florida State Law School. I spend most of my time reading and studying law. In law school I have to write case briefs for all the cases I read. Here, I get to write book briefs. A much better (and more fun) use of my time.

The Interview :D!

1.-In Between Writing and Reading what do you like to do?
I love to hang out with my two Dachshunds, Harry and Ron, and when I am away at school I like to play trivia and hang out with my best friend and sister.

2. Convince me to join your blog twitter style. 140 Characters or less. GO!
YA book reviews, blog tours, and giveaways- oh my! Plus some ramblings from yours truly. What is not to love?


3.- A TV Show. A Movie. A Song.
Storage wars. Inception. Say anything by Kate Voegele

4.-What question would you like to be asked in an interview?
ooh good question!!

Q. What is something that people would be surprised to learn about you?
A. I LOVE quotes! I used to keep word documents full of my favorite quotes and whenever I would come across a new quote that I liked I would add it. I also used to follow quote "blogs" (although they were more like tumblr) and I would spend A LOT of time just scrolling through and reading quotes.

5.- If a certain someone came out from under a rock and asked you for the Best Book Recommendation you could give, what would you recommend?
Oh man, It is a toss up between The Hunger Games and Harry Potter. I think I will have to go with Harry Potter. (how long have they been under this rock??)

6.- Now the Holiday Question: if you could create a Book Related Holiday, what would you call it and what would we do?
National Share a Story Day. I would have people either donate books or go to their local library and give book recommendations to kids that didn't think reading was for them (or kids/teens that just wanted some new books to read)

7.- and now a detailed description of your Blog :)
My blog is called Book Briefs, named after the case briefs I make for my law school classes. I review (mostly) YA books, and host as many giveaways as I can. I love to meet new book lovers so come on by and say hi. I always try to respond to comments and follow back if you leave a link. :)

You can find me here:

blog: http://bookbriefs.blogspot.com

facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Book-Briefs/284807404880026

twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/BookBriefs

goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4253940-michelle

formspring: http://www.formspring.me/chelle2006

email: Michelle.bookbriefs@gmail.com

Thanks For Being part of Blogger Lift Michelle! :))

Top 10 Book Covers of 2011

"Top 10 Book Covers of 2011 "

I have seen this books in Hardcover, and to be honest, the pictures look plain, but the real thing is GORGEOUS. I Love Cover Art :D!

1
Starstruck by Cyn Balong

2

Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma

 3

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

4

Perfect by Ellen Hopkins

5

Fury by Elizabeth Miles

6

Entwined by Heather Dixon

7

Hereafter by Tara Hudson

8

Die For Me by Amy Plum

9

Hourglass by Myra McEntire

10

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern