2010 Reading List

1 Heart of Darkness - Gena Showalter, Maggie Shayne, Susan Krinard (completed 1/1/10)

2 A Little Bit Wicked - Kristin Chenoweth (completed 1/3/10)

3 A Matter of Class - Mary Balogh (completed 1/4/10)

4 Columbine - Dave Cullen (completed 1/6/10)

5 Lips Touch: Three Times - Laini Taylor (completed 1/12/10)

6 Breakfast in Bed - Robin Kaye (completed 1/09/10)

7 Getting Lucky - Carolyn Brown (completed 1/10/10)

8 Jacob - Jacquelyn Frank (completed 1/11/10)

9 Gideon - Jacquelyn Frank (completed 1/13/10)

10 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding (completed 1/14/10)

11 Lone Star Legend - Gwendolyn Zepeda (completed 1/15/10)

12 The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty - A.N. Roquelaure (completed 1/16/10)

13 A Black Tie Affair - Sherrill Bodine (completed 1/17/10)

14 Elijah - Jacquelyn Frank (completed 1/18/10)

15 Tainted - Brooke Morgan (completed 1/19/10)

16 Damien - Jacquelyn Frank (completed 1/20/10)

17 Fireworks Over Toccoa - Jeffrey Stepakoff (completed 1/22/10)

18 Noah - Jacquelyn Frank (completed 1/25/10)

19 Alice I Have Been - Melanie Benjamin (completed 1/28/10)

20 Just One Wish - Janette Rallison (completed 1/28/10)

21 The Warlord Wants Forever - Kresley Cole (completed 1/28/10)

22 The Mark - Jen Nadol (completed 1/29/10)

23 The Summer We Fell Apart - Robin Antalek (completed 1/30/10)

24 Ecstasy - Jacquelyn Frank (completed 1/31/10)

25 Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine (completed 2/02/10)

26 Dark Deeds on a Winters Night - Kresley Cole (completed 2/02/10)

27 Lessons in French - Laura Kinsale (completed 2/3/10)

28 Wench - Dolen Perkins-Valdes (completed 2/4/10)

29 Dark Needs at Night's Edge - Kresley Cole (completed 2/5/10)

30 Dark Desires After Dusk - Kresley Cole (completed 2/7/10)
31 Kiss of Demon King - Kresley Cole (completed 2/8/10)
32 Wake - Lisa McMann (completed 2/9/10)
33 One Amazing Thing - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (completed 2/11/10)
34 The Bride Collector - Ted Dekker (completed 2/14/10)
35 Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane (completed 2/15/10)
36 Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request - Mitch Albom (completed 2/16/10)

37 The Cougar Club - Susan McBride (completed 2/17/10)

38 Pleasure Unbound - Larissa Ione (completed 2/17/10)
39 Desire Unchained - Larissa Ione (completed 2/18/10)
40 Passion Unleashed - Larissa Ione (completed 2/20/10)

41 Waiting for You - Susane Colasanti (completed 2/21/10)
42 Nothing But Ghosts - Beth Kephart (completed 2/23/10)

43 Dream House - Valerie Laken (completed 2/24/10)

44 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (completed 2/25/10)

45 The Crazy School - Cornelia Read (completed 3/01/10)

46 The Strain - Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan (completed 3/04/10)

47 Raven Stole the Moon - Garth Stein (completed 3/06/10)

48 True Love: Three Novels - Lurlene McDaniel (completed 3/08/10)

49 Pleasure of a Dark Prince - Kresley Cole (completed 3/09/10)

50 Fade - Lisa McMann (completed 3/10/10)

51 Dark Lover - J.R. Ward (completed 3/11/10)

52 The Dead-Tossed Waves - Carrie Ryan (completed 3/13/10)

53 Prom Nights from Hell - Meg Cabot, Lauren Myracle, Kim Harrison, Michelle Jaffe, Stephanie Meyer (completed 3/15/10)

54 Lover Eternal - J.R. Ward (completed 3/16/10)

55 Lover Awakened - J.R. Ward (completed 3/17/10)

56 Lover Revealed - J.R. Ward (completed 3/18/10)

57 Lover Unbound - J.R. Ward (completed 3/19/10)

58 Lover Enshrined - J.R. Ward (completed 3/21/10)

59 Lover Avenged - J.R. Ward (completed 3/22/10)

60 The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E. Pearson (completed 3/23/10)

61 Love in Mid Air - Kim Wright (completed 3/23/10)

62 The Girl With Glass Feet - Ali Shaw (completed 3/25/10)

63 The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen (completed 3/27/10)

64 After - Amy Efaw (completed 3/30/10)

65 A Touch of Scandal - Jennifer Haymore (completed 3/31/10)

66 Into the Dark - Gena Showalter (completed 4/01/10)

67 Once Dead, Twice Shy - Kim Harrison (completed 4/02/10)

68 Hold Still - Nina LaCour (completed 4/04/10)

69 Mr. Darcy Broke my Heart - Beth Pattillo (completed 4/04/10)

70 Flirting with Forever - Gwyn Cready (completed 4/05/10)

71 Crazy Beautiful - Lauren Baratz-Logsted (completed 4/06/10)

72 Dark Slayer - Christine Feehan (completed 4/06/10)

73 The Body Finder - Kimberly Derting (completed 4/07/10)

74 How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff (completed 4/08/10)

75 The Darkest Passion - Gena Showalter (competed 4/09/10)

76 43 Old Cemetery Road: Over My Dead Body - Kate Klise & M. Sarah Klise (completed 4/10/10)

77 Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (completed 4/12/10)

78 Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver (completed 4/15/10)

79 The Dark Divine - Bree Despain (completed 4/18/10)

80 Gone - Lisa McMann (completed 4/19/10)

81 The Day I Shot Cupid - Jennifer Love Hewitt (completed 4/19/10)

82 Rapture - Jacquelyn Frank (completed 4/20/10)

83 Magic Under Glass - Jaclyn Dolamore (completed 4/22/10)

84 Pleasure - Jacquelyn Frank (completed 4/22/10)

85 Wicked Becomes You - Meredith Duran (completed 4/23/10)

86 Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake - Sarah MacLean (completed 4/25/10)

87 Shadow of the Sun - Laura Kreitzer (completed 4/25/10)

88 Jordan - Susan Kearney (completed 4/27/10)

89 The Weed that Strings the Handman's Bag - Alan Bradley (completed 4/29/10)

90 Wild Fire - Christine Feehan (completed 5/05/10)

91 Ecstasy Unveiled - Larissa Ione (completed 5/05/10)

92 The Night Fairy - Laura Amy Schlitz (completed 5/06/10)

93 The Season of Second Chances - Diane Meier (completed 5/09/10)

94 The Iron King - Julie Kagawa (completed 5/11/10)

95 Chasing Brooklyn - Lisa Schroeder (completed 5/12/10)

96 The Iron Daughter - Julie Kagawa (completed 5/13/10)

97 Undead and Unwed - MaryJanice Davidson (completed 5/15/10)

98 Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show - Frank Delaney (completed 5/16/10)

99 Spells - Aprilynne Pike (completed 5/23/10)

100 Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris (completed 5/24/10)

101 Heist Society - Ally Carter (completed 5/27/10)

102 The Mermaid's Mirror - L.K. Madigan (completed 5/28/10)

103 The Mysterious Howling - Mayrose Wood (completed 5/29/10)

104 Undead and Unemployed - MaryJanice Davidson (completed 5/30/10)

105 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith (completed 6/01/10)

106 Undead and Unappreciated - MaryJanice Davidson (completed 6/01/10)

107 Undead and Unreturnable - MaryJanice Davidson (completed 6/02/10)

108 Winter's Passage - Julie Kagawa (completed 6/03/10)

109 The One That I Want - Allison Winn Scotch (completed 6/03/10)

110 The Art of Devotion - Samantha Bruce-Benjamin (completed 6/06/10)

111 Still Missing - Chevy Stevens (completed 6/07/10)

112 Far From You - Lisa Schroeder (completed 6/08/10)

113 Mothers and Liars - Amy Bourret (completed 6/09/10)

114 The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - Stephanie Meyer (completed 6/11/10)

115 Undead and Unpopular - MaryJanice Davidson (completed 6/14/10)

116 Cum Laude - Cecily von Ziegesar (completed 6/15/10)

117 Undead and Uneasy - MaryJanice Davidson (completed 6/16/10)

118 Wildthorn - Sarah Eagland (completed 6/18/10)

119 Undead and Unworthy - MaryJanice Davidson (completed 6/18/10)

120 Undead and Unwelcome - MaryJanice Davidson (completed 6/21/10)

121 Intertwined - Gena Showalter (completed 6/23/10)

122 Numbers - Rachel Ward (completed 6/24/10)

123 The Poison Diaries - Maryrose Wood & the Duchess of Northumberland (completed 6/25/10)

124 Soulstice - Simon Holt (completed 6/27/10)

125 Looking for Alaska - John Green (completed 6/28/10)

126 Go Ask Alice - Anonymous (completed 6/29/10)

127 Seven Tears Into the Sea - Terri Farley (completed 7/01/10)

128 My Name is Memory - Ann Brashares (completed 7/02/10)

129 Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher (completed 7/04/10)

130 Dracula in Love - Karen Essex (completed 7/05/10)

131 The Darkest Lie - Gena Showalter (completed 7/05/10)

132 Hidden Wives - Claire Avery (completed 7/07/10)

133 Vision in White - Nora Roberts (completed 7/09/10)

134 Bed of Roses - Nora Roberts (completed 7/10/10)

135 Savor the Moment - Nora Roberts (completed 7/12/10)

136 The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han (completed 7/13/10)

137 Hex Hall - Rachel Hawkins (completed 7/15/10)

138 One Season of Sunshine - Julia London (completed 7/17/10)

139 The Lies We Told - Diane Chamberlain (completed 7/18/10)

140 Linger - Maggie Stiefvater (completed 7/19/10)

141 Billie Girl - Vickie Weaver (completed 7/20/10)

142 Forget You - Jennifer Echols (completed 7/20/10)

143 Infinite Days - Rebecca Maizel (completed 7/21/10)

144 The Crying Tree - Naseem Rakha (completed 7/22/10)

145 Monster High - Lisi Harrison (completed 7/23/10)

146 Incarceron - Catherine Fisher (completed 7/26/10)

147 And One Last Thing - Molly Harper (completed 7/29/10)

148 Sapphique - Catherine Fisher (completed 8/02/10)

149 Water Bound - Christine Feehan (completed 8/03/10)

150 Radiance - Alyson Noel (completed 8/06/10)

151 I Am Number Four - Pittacus Lore (completed 8/07/10)

152 Crank - Ellen Hopkins (completed 8/09/10)

153 Georgia's Kitchen - Jenny Nelson (completed 8/10/10)

154 Room - Emma Donoghue (completed 8/11/10)

155 Plain Kate - Erin Bow (completed 8/11/10)

156 For Keeps - Natasha Friend (completed 8/14/10)

157 Men and Dogs - Katie Crouch (completed 8/17/10)

158 Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love - Anthology (completed 8/18/10)

159 It's a Book - Lane Smith (completed 8/19/10)

160 The Dead Boys - Royce Buckingham (completed 8/20/10)

161 The Island - Elin Hilderbrand (completed 8/22/10)

162 Fixing Delilah - Sarah Ockler (completed 8/26/10)

163 Vanishing and Other Stories - Deborah Willis (completed 8/29/10)

164 She's Gone Country - Jane Porter (completed 8/30/10)

165 Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (completed 8/30/10)

166 The Secret Society of the Pink Crystal Ball - Risa Gree (completed 9/01/10)

167 The Frenzy - Francesca Lia Block (completed 9/08/10)

168 Shadow Hills - Anastasia Hopcus (completed 9/09/10)

169 43 Old Cemetery Road: Till Death Do Us Bark - Kate Klise & M.Sarah Klise (completed 9/10/10)

170 The Life You've Imagined - Kristina Riggle (completed 9/11/10)

171 Five Flavors of Dumb - Anthony John (completed 9/12/10)

172 Lulu and the Brontosaurus - Judith Viorst (completed 9/13/10)

173 The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette - Carolyn Meyer (completed 9/14/10)

174 The Unidentified - Rae Mariz (completed 9/15/10)

175 Another Pan by Daniel & Dina Nayeri (completed 9/16/10)

176 Matched - Ally Condie (completed 9/19/10)

177 The Bad Beginning- Lemony Snicket (completed 9/19/10)

178 The Twin's Daughter - Lauren Baratz-Logsted (completed 9/19/10)

179 The Marbury Lens - Andrew Smith (completed 9/21/10)

180 You - Charles Benoit (completed 9/22/10)

181 Dark Peril - Christine Feehan (completed 9/23/10)

182 The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicked (completed 9/23/10)

183 Glass - Ellen Hopkins (completed 9/25/10)

184 The Red Umbrella - Christina Diaz Gonzalez (completed 9/27/10)

185 The Diamond of Darkhold - Jeanne DuPrau (completed 10/01/10)

186 Ghost in the Machine - Patrick Carman (completed 10/05/10)

187 Three Quarters Dead - Richard Peck (completed 10/06/10)

188 Love, Inc. - Yvonne Collins & Sandy Rideout (completed 10/09/10)

189 Reckless - Cornelia Funke (completed 10/11/10)

190 Hunger - Jackie Morse Kessler (completed 10/13/10)

191 Rot & Ruin - Jonathan Maberry (completed 10/15/10)

192 Empty - Suzanne Weyn (completed 10/15/10)

193 Tell Me a Secret - Holly Cupola (completed 10/17/10)

194 Secondhand Charm - Julie Berry (completed 10/18/10)

195 Torment - Lauren Kate (completed 10/18/10)

196 Demon From the Dark - Kresley Cole (completed 10/19/10)

197 A Season of Seduction - Jennifer Haymore (completed 10/20/10)

198 Blood Trinity - Sherrilyn Kenyon & Dianna Love (completed 10/21/10)

199 Rise Again - Ben Tripp (completed 10/22/10)

200 The Next Queen of Heaven - Gregory Maguire (completed 10/23/10)

201 Undead and Unfinished - MaryJanice Davidson (completed 10/24/10)

202 The Ivy - Lauren Kunze & Rino Onur (completed 10/25/10)

203 Ecstasy in Darkness - Gena Showalter (completed 10/26/10)

204 Jane - April Lindner (completed 10/27/10)

205 Backstage Pass: Sinners on Tour - Olivia Cunning (completed 10/28/10)

206 A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (completed 10/28/10)

207 Mostly Good Girls - Leila Sales (completed 10/30/10)

208 Back When You Were Easier to Love - Emily Wing Smith (completed 10/31/10)

209 A Touch Mortal -  Leah Clifford (completed 11/01/10)

210 Enchanted Ivy - Sarah Beth Durst (completed 11/02/10)

211 Happy Ever After - Nora Roberts (completed 11/04/10)

212 The Debutante - Kathleen Tessaro (completed 11/07/10)

213 Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord - Sarah MacLean (completed 11/09/10)

214 Drink of Me - Jacquelyn Frank (completed 11/10/10)

215 Halfway to the Grave - Jeaniene Frost (completed 11/13/10)

216 When the Stars Go Blue - Caridad Ferrer (completed 11/14/10)

217 What I Thought I Knew - Alice Eve Cohen (completed 11/15/10)

218 One Foot in the Grave - Jeaniene Frost (completed 11/16/10)

219 Bright Young Things - Anna Godberson (completed 11/20/10)

220 At Grave's End -  Jeaniene Frost (completed 11/22/10)

221 Cryer's Cross - Lisa McMann (completed 11/22/10)

222 Destined for an Early Grave - Jeaniene Frost (completed 11/24/10)

223 Hexbound - Chloe Neill (completed 11/26/10)

224 Through Her Eyes - Jennifer Archer (completed 11/27/10)

225 Demonglass - Rachel Hawkins (completed 11/28/10)

226 All Just Glass - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (completed 11/29/10)

227 The Locket - Stacey Jay (completed 11/30/10)

228 Choker - Elizabeth Woods (completed 11/30/10)

229 Delirium - Lauren Oliver (completed 12/01/10)

230 Awakened by a Kiss - Lila DiPasqua (completed 12/04/10)

231 The Duke & I - Julia Quinn (completed 12/05/10)

232 First Drop of Crimson - Jeaniene Frost (completed 12/05/10)

233 The Viscount Who Loved Me - Julia Quinn (completed 12/06/10)

234 An Offer from a Gentleman - Julia Quinn (completed 12/07/10)

235 Wither - Lauren DeStefano (completed 12/08/10)

236 Father of Lies - Ann Turner (completed 12/11/10)

237 Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins (completed 12/12/10)

238 Dash & Lily's Book of Dares - Rachel Cohn & David Levithan (completed 12/13/10)

239 Darkness Becomes Her - Kelly Keaton (completed 12/15/10)

240 Awaken - Kate Kacvinsky (completed 12/16/10)

241 Unearthly - Cynthia Hand (completed 12/18/10)

242 The Iron Queen - Julie Kagawa (completed 12/18/10)

243 How to Marry a Duke - Vicky Dreiling (completed 12/20/10)

244 Swept Away by a Kiss - Katharine Ashe (completed 12/21/10)

245 Romancing Mister Bridgerton - Julia Quinn (completed 12/23/10)

246 To Sir Phillip, With Love - Julia Quinn (completed 12/25/10)

247 When He Was Wicked - Julia Quinn (completed 12/26/10)

248 It's In His Kiss - Julia Quinn (completed  12/27/10)

249 On the Way to the Wedding - Julia Quinn (completed 12/28/10)

250 Promise Me - Richard Paul Evans (completed 12/29/10)

251 The Snow Globe -  Sheila Roberts (completed 12/31/10)

Books read this year: 251

# of page read this year: 63,783

Promise Me by Richard Paul Evans

Title:  Promise Me

Author: Richard Paul Evans

Pages: 352

Genre: Fiction / Holiday

Source: Simon & Schuster

In Promise Me we meet Beth Cardall.  And although the story starts in the present time - Christmas Eve with Beth getting ready for dinner with her family and friends, you can't help but wonder why she sadly stares at two necklaces one reminding her of a promise broken and the other of a promise kept.  Beth has kept a secret for the past 18 years and this year (2008) she will finally come to terms with the past and get some answers.  

For Beth, 1989 was a year marked in tragedy.   Her young daughter Charlotte was suffering from an undiagnosed medical condition.  The doctors are stumped and no matter how many tests they can't come up with a concrete answer.  Her marriage to Marc, once brimming with love and trust - has unexpectedly turned into something full of betrayal and heartbreak.  Her job feels unstable and she just doesn't make enough money to pay her bills.... Just when everything seems to be at its worst, Beth meets Matthew.  Strikingly handsome, mysterious, yet knowing so much about her, Matthew.   Matthew, the man that single-handedly changes the course of her life.

I cannot fathom celebrating the holidays without reading one of Mr. Evans' Christmas tales.  It has become a tradition now - since I've read one for the past four or five years.  As always Mr. Evans' focus is on love, family, home and faith.  I also have to commend him for writing a story through a woman's POV (and in the first person) so perfectly.  His stories are heart-warming, tear inducing and probably the most-feel-good stories you'll find around the holidays.  The big secret was far-fetched and unbelievable... yes... but I still really liked the way the story played out.  I felt that I was invested in these characters, in their outcome and just couldn't help but find myself believing in it all.

This is a story full of hope and of miracles. What more could you ask for during the holiday season?

My Rating:

That's right!  These are the top books, movies, tv shows and music that made an impact on yours truly throughout the year 2010.  (Listed in no particular order.)

Below you'll find the books that I could not get out of my mind once I was done reading them.  I fell in love with the world building, character(s), writing... just everything about these stories worked for me.  They blew my mind and are (in my book) worthy of being called BEST.

Best Books
(click on picture to see review)

 

These are the books that I read one and I immediately had to go out and get the next in the series, and then the next, and then the next... and well, you know how that goes.

Favorite Book Series 

[started and read all books (available to date) this year]

 

 

Although I don't really watch as much tv as most, I do go out to the movies a lot for "Date Night" with my oh-so-yummy hubster.  These are the movies that I liked BEST that came out this year.  As you can tell, I'm very eclectic in my tastes.  There are a few others that I know might have made the list (i.e. Love & Other Drugs; Country Strong; The Fighter; The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Hereafter - maybe even Burlesque) but I just never got around to seeing them.

Best Movies

I definitely don't watch much on TV.  But I am a big fan of the few that I do follow.  I do watch a few other shows (i.e. The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, Grey's Anatomy) but that's mostly thru TiVo and I just don't follow them religiously - thus, they didn't make the BEST list.

Best TV Shows

Now aside from reading I would say Music is the next BEST thing. I have an iPod that is close to brimming  over with music.  And what I can't do with a book on hand, then I normally do it with music playing in the background.  These are the artists, songs and CD's that had the most play time on my iPod.

Best Music

And there you have it folks!  These were my BEST of 2010.  

What were yours?  

Share, please.

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

Title:    Wither

Author: Lauren DeStefano

Pages:  368

Genre: YA/ Dystopian

Source: Simon & Schuster

In a world where modern science has evolved human beings into genetic time bombs — where males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty.  It has become a hopeless world where most have to resort to prostitution, force and violence.  Where young girls are thrust into polygamous marriages in order to keep civilization alive.  

When Rhine is kidnapped by Gatherers and forced to be a Bride to Governor Linden - she is forced into a world of wealth and privilege.  A new world that although she might not have chosen, she can live comfortable enough.  It also helps that she resembles Governor Linden's first wife, Rose, and that she is not sore on the eyes.  But Rhine can dream of only one thing.... Freedom.  She dreams of returning home to her twin brother and living out the rest of her days (the remaining four years) there.  She has no wish to be any man's bride, nor live competing with sister brides, and especially not of bringing a child into a hopeless world.

She knows that she'll have to be smart in order to break free and hopefully with the help of the new friend she finds in her assistant, Gabriel, she just might be able to find hope and the means to break free.

This is my favorite type of dystopia.  Where it's not overly incredible - where science took a wrong turn and altered the way things were.  Nothing too drastic.  Nothing involving bombs or the devastation of the planet.  Just some slight tweaks that can make a whole new world of difference.  That is what you'll find in Wither.

There were various different dynamics in this story that I really liked.  For instance, I loved the camaraderie between Rhine and her sister wives, Jenna and Cecily.  Although they had one main thing in common, Linden, they also found some peace with one another.  Even though all three girls felt differently about their marriage and their living situation, they still cared for each other and formed bonds.  There was also the Linden situation - an unwanted husband.  Although Rhine (and you, as the reader) want to hate him you find that you can't.  He is naive and unaware of exactly how ruthless and cunning the world and his father can be.  Not to mention his feelings for Rhine and, her sister wives, are true.  Then there is the relationship between Rhine and Gabriel - that although it never felt like love to me (at least not yet) can eventually become something stronger.  I think Rhine is too focused in this first book in the trilogy in finding freedom than she is finding true love.  I commend her for that.  

Ms. DeStefano's Wither is a story that will captivate you.  It will hold you from its first pages and spit you out at then end with only one thought:  I need more!   Rhine is a very strong and brave young woman.  Her oppressive situation is one that will have you at the edge of your seat (whether it be in anger, indignation, or just because you can't sit still from the excitement of it all).  I cannot wait to see what happens next.

My Rating:

Bookcase of the Week - Starring... Savannah of Books With Bite

On this week's Bookcase of the Week it is with great pleasure that I bring you Savannah - from Books with Bite's bookcases. Savannah and I have a lot of the same reading tastes.  She's a big YA fan and she especially likes paranormal reads... like me!  HaHa.  So I obviously had to ask her to  show us her shelves. Here's what she sent us:

Here is my, what I call the Magic Library. I have these cool spiral stairs that lead up there.

Then you are greeted by this! Ta-da My library.

Since I don't have much room on my shelves anymore, or haven't bought any, I place all my books in tupperwares. It's the best way I can store them that keep them clean, safe, and it's cheap.

This tupperware contains just ARC's.

This tupperware contains books I bought that need to be read.

And this tupperware contains my already read books but I have no where to put them.

 

Here is where I write my reviews, do my vlogs, and package books for giveaways.

Most of my reading is done at work. I am a Dispatcher. (Long story, for the full story go here.)

So there you have it. My bookshelves. Thanks for having me!

Savannah, I feel you about your space issues.  I haven't had to resort to plastic bins yet, but eventually I guess I'll have to as well.  I find that I can't help but NEEDING another book every time I walk into a book store.  Thus my bookshelves are chaos.  Thanks again for playing along.  

For those of you who haven't passed on through to Savannah's yet, please visit her here (tell her I say HI!)