Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted for us book blogger types by the Broke and the Bookish. They provide a topic, and all of us participants post our answers on our blogs and we hop around checking out one another’s answers! This week’s topic is:
Category Archives: Veronica Roth
BEA Recap
1. Bloggers Conference
I learned a lot of really cool things on Wednesday at the Bloggers Conference, and I plan on incorporating some new ideas soon!
3. Grumpy Cat
She is just adorable. Sad they wouldn’t let us pet her, but totally understandable. She was just so grumpy to be there.
5. Julie Kagawa
I saw her after the first day of the expo on Thursday when she was trying to get a drink. I kind of yelled bc I wanted a picture with her 🙂
6. James Dashner is a “Southern Girl”
Mr. Dashner just happened to notice that I’m from NC when he was signing my copy of The Eye of Minds, and said “Oh, you are from the south!” So of course I said, “Yep, I’m a southern girl.” Mr. Dashner then said, “Me too! I’m from Georgia!” hehehe. Then he tried to take it back, but now I know….James Dashner is a southern girl.
8. Veronica Roth
Veronica is a sweetheart. While I’m SUPER jealous that she is two years younger than myself and already super successful, she is so down to Earth. She even signed an extra poster for my best friend who is moving to Chicago, all while telling me that I better visit Chicago because its the best city in the country.
Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted for us book blogger types by the Broke and the Bookish. They provide a topic, and all of us participants post our answers on our blogs and we hop around checking out one another’s answers! This week’s topic is a freebie, so I chose:
1. Chelsea Handler Photo-Op
Is it safe to say that I’m obssessed with Chelsea Handler? I love her show, all of her books, and I have this strong urge to bring her a bottle of vodka. 2. Grumpy Cat Photo-Op
I think this is pretty self explanatory, I just really want to cuddle that adorable kitty.
3. Veronica Roth Signing
Finally, a chance to meet the author of the Divergent books? Yes, please.
4. YA Author Breakfast
Octavia Spencer is hosting this star studded panel of Mary Pope Osborne, Rick Riordan, and Veronica Roth!
5. BEA Editor’s Buzz YA Books
Panel featuring upcoming authors and their books: Rainbow Rowell, Anna Jarzab, Cristin Terrill, Amy Rose Capetta, and Sara Farizan6. Why Fiction is Dangerous: Neil Gaiman
He has two novels coming out this year, AND he has written some excellent episodes of Doctor Who.
7. Book Bloggers Happy Hour
I’ve been a part of the blogging community for about a year and a half now, and I am so excited to get the chance to meet some of my fellow bloggers.
8. Realistic Fiction: The next hot genre in Young AdultDiscussion panel featuring Robyn Schneider, Katie Cotugno, Corey Ann Haydu, Suzanne Young, and Cat Patrick.
9. Sarah Dessen Signing
Not only is Dessen from my homestate, but she also teaches creative writing at UNC Chapel Hill. I’ve been a huge fan since….well, I can’t remember. Now I finally get to meet her! So excited.
10. New Adult Crossover: From YA to adult and back again
Discussion panel featuring Samantha Shannon and Sarah J. Maas about their crossover novels.
Top Ten Tuesday!
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted for us book blogger types by the Broke and the Bookish. They provide a topic, and all of us participants post our answers on our blogs and we hop around checking out one another’s answers! This week’s topic is:
1. Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
2. Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray3. City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
4. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
5. Divergent by Veronica Roth
6. Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris7. Fever series by Karen Marie Moning
8. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
9. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
10. Poison Study by Maria Snyder
There were so many more, but I couldn’t list them all!
Top Ten Tuesday
Each week The Broke and the Bookish (an excellent book blog, by the way) hosts a meme for bookish bloggers. Every week they provide us with an excellent topic to respond to, and this week’s topic is:
1. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
Release Date: March 19, 2013
If the only way to save the world was to destroy what you loved most, would you do it? The clock is ticking. Everyone must choose. Passion. Power. Secrets. Enchantment. Danger closes in around the Shadowhunters in the final installment of the bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy.
2. Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi
Release Date: January 8, 2013
It’s been months since Aria last saw Perry. Months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission. Now, finally, they are about to be reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don’t take kindly to Aria, a former Dweller. And with the worsening Aether storms threatening the tribe’s precarious existence, Aria begins to fear that leaving Perry behind might be the only way to save them both. Threatened by false friends, hidden enemies, and powerful temptations, Aria and Perry wonder, Can their love survive through the ever night?
3. Untitled Divergent #3 by Veronica Roth
Release Date: September 26, 2013
No synopsis yet…Veronica you are killing us!
After accidentally unleashing the gods from their captivity on Olympus, Helen must find a way to re-imprison them without starting a devastating war. But the gods are angry, and their thirst for blood already has a body count. To make matters worse, the Oracle reveals that a diabolical Tyrant is lurking among them, which drives a wedge between the once-solid group of friends. As the gods use the Scions against one another, Lucas’s life hangs in the balance. Still unsure whether she loves him or Orion, Helen is forced to make a terrifying decision, for war is coming to her shores.
5. Level 2 bye Lenore Appelhans
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Since her untimely death the day before her eighteenth birthday, Felicia Ward has been trapped in Level 2, a stark white afterlife located between our world and the next. Along with her fellow drones, Felicia passes the endless hours reliving memories of her time on Earth and mourning what she’s lost—family, friends, and Neil, the boy she loved. Then a girl in a neighboring chamber is found dead, and nobody but Felicia recalls that she existed in the first place. When Julian—a dangerously charming guy Felicia knew in life—comes to offer Felicia a way out, Felicia learns the truth: If she joins the rebellion to overthrow the Morati, the angel guardians of Level 2, she can be with Neil again. Suspended between Heaven and Earth, Felicia finds herself at the center of an age-old struggle between good and evil. As memories from her life come back to haunt her, and as the Morati hunt her down, Felicia will discover it’s not just her own redemption at stake… but the salvation of all mankind.
6. The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd
Release Date: January 29, 2013
8. Taken by Erin Bowman
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Release Date: Fall 2013
Retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen, about a girl on a journey to save her childhood friend after he’s captured and held hostage in the unforgiving north.
Top Ten Tuesday!
Every week The Broke and The Bookish hosts a meme for book bloggers to post about a specific topic chosen by the moderators. This week’s topic is:
Book Review: Insurgent by Veronica Roth
One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
Tris’s initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.
Top Ten Tuesdays!
Every week The Broke and the Bookish hosts a weekly meme called Top Ten Tuesday! Every Tuesday has a different Top Ten Topic (posted ahead of time for participants) and this week’s topic is:
Top Ten Tuesdays!
Every week over at The Broke and the Bookish, they host a meme called Top Ten Tuesday! This week the topic is Top Ten Genre Books of our choice. I chose to do Top Ten YA Series! Check out my selections:
1. The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
2. Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth
3. The Infernal Devices trilogy by Cassandra Clare
4. The Lumatere Chronicles by Melina Marchetta
5. The Fever series by Karen Marie Moning (yes, I know this is WAY mature and the protagonist is 22, but I read it as a teen!)
6. The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
7. The Caster Chronicles by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
8. Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
9. The Seven Kingdoms trilogy by Kristin Cashore
10. The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray
I realize that some of these series haven’t been completed yet, but based on my love of those that have been released I have decided to include them here.
What are some of your Top YA Series?
Poll: Favorite Book of 2011
Wow! As you may have noticed, Colleen Houck has pulled ahead by a LARGE number of votes for the top read of 2011!