Wednesday Memes (Book Related)

Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it’s entirely up to you), that we can’t wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.

So what do you need to do to join in?

  • Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
  • Please consider adding the blog hop button to your blog somewhere, so others can find it easily and join in too! Help spread the word! The code will be at the bottom of the post under the linky.
  • Pick a book from your wishlist that you are dying to get to put on your shelves.
  • Do a post telling your readers about the book and why it’s on your wishlist.
  • Add your blog to the linky at the bottom of this post.
  • Put a link back to Pen to Paper somewhere in your post.
  • Visit the other blogs and enjoy!

The Wisdom of Hair

Life can be beautiful, but it takes a little work…

“The problem with cutting your own hair is that once you start, you just keep cutting, trying to fix it, and the truth is, some things can never be fixed. The day of my daddy’s funeral, I cut my bangs until they were the length of those little paintbrushes that come with dime-store watercolor sets. I was nine years old. People asked me why I did it, but I was too young then to know I was changing my hair because I wanted to change my life.”

In 1983, on her nineteenth birthday, Zora Adams finally says goodbye to her alcoholic mother and their tiny town in the mountains of South Carolina. Living with a woman who dresses like Judy Garland and brings home a different man each night is not a pretty existence, and Zora is ready for life to be beautiful.

With the help of a beloved teacher, she moves to a coastal town and enrolls in the Davenport School of Beauty. Under the tutelage of Mrs. Cathcart, she learns the art of fixing hair, and becomes fast friends with the lively Sara Jane Farquhar, a natural hair stylist. She also falls hard for handsome young widower Winston Sawyer, who is drowning his grief in bourbon. She couldn’t save Mama, but maybe she can save him.

As Zora practices finger waves, updos, and spit curls, she also comes to learn that few things are permanent in this life—except real love, lasting friendship, and, ultimately… forgiveness.


This meme is hosted by MizB from Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently reading:

Beach Season

Recently finished:

Size 12 Is Not Fat (Heather Wells, #1)

Reading next:

Dead Peasants: A Thriller

Wednesday Memes (Book Related)

Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it’s entirely up to you), that we can’t wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.

So what do you need to do to join in?

  • Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
  • Please consider adding the blog hop button to your blog somewhere, so others can find it easily and join in too! Help spread the word! The code will be at the bottom of the post under the linky.
  • Pick a book from your wishlist that you are dying to get to put on your shelves.
  • Do a post telling your readers about the book and why it’s on your wishlist.
  • Add your blog to the linky at the bottom of this post.
  • Put a link back to pen to paper (http://vogue-pentopaper.blogspot.com) somewhere in your post.
  • Visit the other blogs and enjoy!

The Shepherd

Marcus Williams and Francis Ackerman Jr. both have a talent for hurting people. Marcus, a former New York City homicide detective, uses his abilities to protect others, while Ackerman uses his gifts to inflict pain and suffering. When both men become unwilling pawns in a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of our government, Marcus finds himself in a deadly game of cat and mouse trapped between a twisted psychopath and a vigilante with seemingly unlimited resources. Aided by a rogue FBI agent and the vigilante’s beautiful daughter–a woman with whom he’s quickly falling in love–Marcus must expose the deadly political conspiracy and confront his past while hunting down one of the most cunning and ruthless killers in the world.

I added this book to my TBR shelf after reading the sequel, The Prophet. It read well as a standalone but I was so enthralled with it that I have to go back and read the first.

This meme is hosted by MizB from Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently reading:

A Time to Kill

Recently finished:

The Cowboy's Lover (Harlequin Superromance No. 619)

Reading next:

Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles, #1)

Wednesday Memes (Book Related)

 

Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it’s entirely up to you), that we can’t wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.

So what do you need to do to join in?

  • Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
  • Please consider adding the blog hop button to your blog somewhere, so others can find it easily and join in too! Help spread the word! The code will be at the bottom of the post under the linky.
  • Pick a book from your wishlist that you are dying to get to put on your shelves.
  • Do a post telling your readers about the book and why it’s on your wishlist.
  • Add your blog to the linky at the bottom of this post.
  • Put a link back to pen to paper (http://vogue-pentopaper.blogspot.com) somewhere in your post.
  • Visit the other blogs and enjoy!

Easy

A girl who believes trust can be misplaced, promises are made to be broken, and loyalty is an illusion. A boy who believes truth is relative, lies can mask unbearable pain, and guilt is eternal. Will what they find in each other validate their conclusions, or disprove them all?

When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the last thing she expects is a breakup two months into sophomore year. After two weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she’s single, attending a state university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends, and failing a class for the first time in her life.

Leaving a party alone, Jacqueline is assaulted by her ex’s frat brother. Rescued by a stranger who seems to be in the right place at the right time, she wants nothing more than to forget the attack and that night–but her savior, Lucas, sits on the back row of her econ class, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. Her friends nominate him to be the perfect rebound.

When her attacker turns stalker, Jacqueline has a choice: crumple in defeat or learn to fight back. Lucas remains protective, but he’s hiding secrets of his own. Suddenly appearances are everything, and knowing who to trust is anything but easy.

This meme is hosted by MizB from Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently reading:

Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2)

Recently finished:

Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)

Reading next:

The Prophet: A Shepherd Thriller

 

Monday Memes (Book Related)

 

Musing Mondays is hosted by MizB at Should be Reading.

This week’s musing asks…

What distracts you when you really “should be reading”?

All sorts of things. Work, school, family, friends… Pretty much life in general. Also, sometimes I’m just too tired to read. I find myself having to reread the same page over and over and still don’t remember anything, so I just put my book down for a later time.

It’s Monday! What are you Reading? is a meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journeys. This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

What I’m reading:

Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2)

From Goodreads:

the longing.
Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. For Sam, this means a reckoning with his werewolf past. For Grace, it means facing a future that is less and less certain.

the loss.
Into their world comes a new wolf named Cole, whose past is full of hurt and danger. He is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of being human.

the linger.
For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life is a constant struggle between two forces — wolf and human — with love bearing its two sides as well. It is harrowing and euphoric, freeing and entrapping, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But will it be enough?

I love comments! Share your Musing Mondays and/or It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? post or answer in the comments section below.

 

Wednesday Memes

 

Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it’s entirely up to you), that we can’t wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.

So what do you need to do to join in?

  • Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
  • Please consider adding the blog hop button to your blog somewhere, so others can find it easily and join in too! Help spread the word! The code will be at the bottom of the post under the linky.
  • Pick a book from your wishlist that you are dying to get to put on your shelves.
  • Do a post telling your readers about the book and why it’s on your wishlist.
  • Add your blog to the linky at the bottom of this post.
  • Put a link back to pen to paper (http://vogue-pentopaper.blogspot.com) somewhere in your post.
  • Visit the other blogs and enjoy!

Heart-Shaped Box

Aging, self-absorbed rock star Judas Coyne has a thing for the macabre — his collection includes sketches from infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a trepanned skull from the 16th century, a used hangman’s noose, Aleister Crowley’s childhood chessboard, etc. — so when his assistant tells him about a ghost for sale on an online auction site, he immediately puts in a bid and purchases it. The black, heart-shaped box that Coyne receives in the mail not only contains the suit of a dead man but also his vengeance-obsessed spirit. The ghost, it turns out, is the stepfather of a young groupie who committed suicide after the 54-year-old Coyne callously used her up and threw her away. Now, determined to kill Coyne and anyone who aids him, the merciless ghost of Craddock McDermott begins his assault on the rocker’s sanity.

This meme is hosted by MizB from Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently reading:

Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)

Recently finished:

Dark and Dangerous

Reading next:

Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2)

 

Friday Finds – August 24

FRIDAY FINDS showcases the books you ‘found’ and added to your To Be Read (TBR) list… whether you found them online, or in a bookstore, or in the library — wherever! (they aren’t necessarily books you purchased). It is hosted by MizB from Should Be Reading.

Here’s a sneak peek at the books I added this week.

A Witch in Winter (Winter Trilogy, #1)   A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, #1)   Pretty When She Dies (Pretty When She Dies, #1)   It Takes a Witch (A Wishcraft Mystery, #1)   Chasing Perfect (Fool's Gold, #1)   Taste Me (Underbelly Chronicles #1)   Welcome to Last Chance (Last Chance, #1)   The Diva Runs Out of Thyme (A Domestic Diva Mystery, #1)   A Veiled Deception (A Vintage Magic Mystery, #1)   Pleating for Mercy (A Magical Dressmaking Mystery, #1)   Wicked Appetite (Lizzy & Diesel, #1)   Vamped (Vamped, #1)

What did you find this week? Leave a link to your post or leave them in a comment below if you don’t have a blog.

Summer, Big Sky & Lights

This meme is hosted by MizB from Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently reading:

Summer Breeze

Recently finished:

Big Sky Country

Reading next:

Southern Lights

Hollywood, Mistresses & More

This meme is hosted by MizB from Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently reading:

Big Sky Country

Recently finished:

Anne of Hollywood

Mistress, Inc.

Reading next:

Southern Lights

Sunday Summary – August 12

 

The Sunday Summary is a weekly event where we share with you a recap of all of our posts from the previous week, give you a glimpse at what you have to look forward to in the coming week, and show off the books we received through “Stacking the Shelves”.

It is inspired by Book Twirps. Mine will be a little bit different as I am not just a book blogger. I used to participate in Showcase Sunday but after finding Sunday Summary, I found I liked it better because I could combine my book finds with my weekly recap.

Week in Review:

Sunday Summary – Last week’s recap

New Printable Coupons – Week of 08/05

Monday’s Music Moves Me – I shared some of my favorite Bon Jovi songs

Musing Mondays – I shared what I find attractive about a blog

Monday Quiz About Me – I shared my Olympic skills and more

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – I shared my current read

WWW Wednesday – I shared my current read, what I just finished and what I hope to read next

Friday Finds – I shared what books I added to my TBR/Wishlist over the past week

Summer Wrap-Up Read-A-Thon – Update 1, Update 2, Update 3

Giveaways:

YumOrganics Candy

Coming up this week:

New Printable Coupons – Week of 08/12

Monday’s Music Moves Me

Musing Mondays

Monday Quiz About Me

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

Monday Mingle

Top Ten Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

Wishlist Wednesday

WWW Wednesday

Friday Finds

My mailbox:

Alone (Book 1 in the Serenity Series)

I Think I Love You (a humorous romantic mystery)The Paris Caper (full length romantic thriller)Kiss Me, Dancer (Dance 'n' Luv Series #1)Marry Me, MaddieDirty Little Secrets (Sexy Suspense)Blood and Snow 3: The Vampire Christopher

 

Friday Finds – August 10

 

FRIDAY FINDS showcases the books you ‘found’ and added to your To Be Read (TBR) list… whether you found them online, or in a bookstore, or in the library — wherever! (they aren’t necessarily books you purchased). It is hosted by MizB from Should Be Reading.

Here’s a sneak peek at the books I added this week.

12 Rounds   One Good Friend Deserves Another   The Vampire Hunter's Daughter:  Complete Collection   A Girl Like You   Time Between Us   Knee Deep   Eve and Adam   Ain't Misbehaving   The Other Woman   Bell, Book, and Sandals   Cowboys and Scumbags   Hiding His Witness   One Moment   Jeremy's Kiss   Blood Curse   Change Your Words, Change Your Life: Understanding the Power of Every Word You Speak   Going Vintage   Confessions of an Angry Girl (Confessions, #1)   The Dead Girls Detective Agency   Pleasure Island   Picture Perfect   Breaking Lauren   Daughter of Helaman

What did you find this week? Leave a link to your post or leave them in a comment below if you don’t have a blog.