Friday Finds #18 & Kindle E-books.

Posted on June 12, 2015 by ashley @ socially awkward bookworm

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). Hosted by A Daily Rhythm.

Happy Friday! 🙂

Once again I added a bunch of books to my TBR this week, but I’ll share just ten of those with you all! I also got some e-books to share with you as well. I’ll just get right to it…

TBR FINDS:

The Day We Disappeared by Lucy Robinson
When We Collided by Emery Lord
Nearly Almost Somebody by Caroline Batten
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Bruiser by Neal Shusterman

Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas
This Raging Light by Estelle Laure
Beastly by Alex Flinn
Denton Little’s Deathdate by Lance Rubin
The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler

I actually just received an ARC that I won of Because You’ll Never Meet Me and I was so excited to see that I received that book! I also won some other ARCs too and I’ll share those at another time. Lots of awesome books this week though and I am really excited about all of them. I can’t wait to get to reading these books. I really wish there was more time in the day and I had a bigger bank account! Sigh.

What are some of the books that you added to your TBR this week? Link me to your posts or leave a comment below!

KINDLE ADDS:

The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Edgewood by Karen McQuestion
The Water Travelers by Daniel Waltz
Dissonance by Mariella Hunt

The Orphan Queen and Clockwork Angel were both on sale ($1.99-2.99) this week, so I had to jump on that! I’m not sure when I’ll read Clockwork Angel, since I ended up not liking TMI so much toward the end of the series, but I couldn’t pass up $2.99 and it’s still $2.99 right now if you’re interested! Sadly, The Orphan Queen is no longer on sale. Edgewood is currently free right now.

The Water Travelers is currently free on Kindle until tonight, so you should totally go get it! I’ve had it on my TBR since February and I was asked recently if I would review it by Daniel Waltz (check out his blog here), so I am definitely excited to read it and do a review!

One of my other blogger friends just self-published her book Dissonance and it sounds like such a good read! I definitely plan to also do a review on her book once I read it. You can check out her blog here. Also, it’s currently only $2.99 on Amazon right now!

Any awesome e-book deals I should know about? Let me know!

In case you missed them, you can check out some of my recent posts from this week linked below!

I hope everyone has a great Friday! Bye! ❤

Friday Finds #14.

Posted on May 15, 2015 by ashley @ socially awkward bookworm

Hi 🙂 Happy Friday!

Below are the books that I added to my TBR this week:

Anyone? by Angela Scott
The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi
Balloon Animals by Jonathan Dunne
The Wrath & the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen

The Potion Diaries by Amy Alward
The Perfectionists by Sara Shepard
Orphan Number Eight by Kim van Alkemade
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan

I am VERY excited about The Wrath & the Dawn and I need to get a copy ASAP! These others sound like they will be very good too. I think that Orphan Number Eight and Balloon Animals especially sound like they will be really great reads. I am in love with the covers for all of these books! I really need to win the lottery like NOW! I want all of these books and all the other 365 books on my TBR! Blehhh….there are just so many books! I need more time and more money. Sigh.

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider

I bought these two books on Kindle for $1.99 each and I am really excited about them. They both sound like they will be good reads, so I can’t wait to read them. They are still $1.99 on Kindle right now. 🙂

Let me know what books you added to your TBR list this week in the comments or link me to your post!

You can check out some of my other posts from this week all linked below! 🙂

Penryn & the End of Days – My thoughts about this series a.k.a. fangirling about this series.
WWW Wednesdays #8 – Books I am currently reading, recently finished, and reading next.
Top Ten Tuesday – Ten authors I really want to meet.
First May Book Haul & Other Stuff – Books that I bought last week and pictures I took.
Friday Finds #13 – Books I added to my TBR last week and a mini book haul.

It’s about time for me to leave for work, so I hope you have a great Friday! Bye! ❤

Friday Finds #13 & Mini Book Haul.

Posted on May 8, 2015 by ashley @ socially awkward bookworm

Hey! 🙂 I am so glad that it is Friday, because I am beyond exhausted this week! I’ve been staying up late and then having to get up early for work. It hasn’t been very fun. Below are some of the books that I added to my TBR this week and I will also be sharing some other books I got this week too (physical & e-books). All linked to Goodreads down below. Shall we get started?

The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin
The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver
Flawed by Kate Avelynn
Starters by Lissa Price

Departure by A.G. Riddle
Lock In by John Scalzi
In Her Shadow by Louise Douglas
Absent by Katie Williams

So those are the ones that I added to my TBR this week and they all sound like they’ll be good reads. Below are the two that I got for Kindle and they were free and still free as of right now. Free is always awesome!

Blood Faerie by India Drummond
The Purgatorium by Eva Pohler

On Wednesday night, the boyfriend and I decided to take a random walk to the Goodwill that is right down the street from our house. I found these books and got them all for $6, which was pretty good. I didn’t find as many books as I thought I would, but I am happy these that I did find.

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

I read Miss Peregrine, but I only have the e-book version, so when I seen it I had to get it. I also read Alice, but I had to have it! What are some of the books that you found this week? Or link me to your post! 🙂

Lately, I’ve been doing tons of tags, memes, and book hauls (which I love doing) but hopefully soonish I can start doing more reviews. I’ve been kind of slow at reading the last couple months. Also, the majority of the books that I do finish, I haven’t been doing reviews on. I’ve read (and listened) to tons of awesome books so far this year and I should have shared my thoughts more on those besides the few sentences I usually do for end of the month recap posts. I’ve read (and listened) to 49 books so far this year and I’ve only done maybe 12-15 reviews. I think I’ll be changing that up a bit and do more reviews on more books that I finish. Expect more reviews coming soon!

Anyway, that’s all I have for this post! I hope everyone has a great weekend and if you want you can check out some of my other posts from this week linked below.

WWW Wednesdays # 7.
The Beautiful Blogger Award.
Sisterhood of the World Blogger Award.
A book with a color in the title. – Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Bye! ❤

Friday Finds #12.

Posted on May 1, 2015 by ashley @ socially awkward bookworm

Hi! 🙂 Happy Friday!

I hope you all had a good week! I am so glad the work week is almost over! I am super excited about tomorrow, because the boyfriend actually has a full Saturday off with me! That’s pretty rare and we are going to take Dax to the dog park and maybe go to the Museum of Discovery and Science!

“Spend a day of discovery exploring two floors of fascinating interactive exhibits at the Museum of Discovery and Science!” —- YES PLEASE! 🙂 Hopefully that works out and we get to go. I always go to concerts at a venue that is right next to this museum and I’ve been dying to go. It’s only about 20 minutes from our house, so it’s super close.

Anyway, ready for some books? They will all be linked to Goodreads.

Night Chill by Jeff Gunhus
Dead Boys by Gabriel Squailia
Windchaser by Krissi Dallas
The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things by Ann Aguirre
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

The Iron Trial by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare
Wings by Aprilynne Pike
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury

As always, I am excited about all of these. They all sound really interesting and like really good books. I really hope they are! I really hope I actually get to them one day, haha. My current TBR on Goodreads is at 351 and that’s not counting the books I haven’t added to the list that I own. YIKES! I need to start reading faster, lol. Below are books that I got for my Kindle and also a book I got from Netgalley (which this month I have a couple that I need to read).

That Risen Snow by Rob E. Boley
Flypaper by C.K. Vile
The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
’89 Walls by Katie Pierson

That Risen Snow I got for free for Kindle; Snow White plus zombies…YES PLEASE! Flypaper I also got for free for Kindle. The Hangman’s Daughter I got for $2 for Kindle. ’89 Walls I got on Netgalley to review. I am really looking forward to all of these books!

As always I added a ton of books, because I can’t control myself as you can see. I have no control when it comes to books. Example: I found out the book for the book club for May, so I decided I would order it on Amazon. The paperback was about $6…PERFECT! Then creeps in my no control and I ended up adding three more books to my cart and my $6 turned into a little less than $50…so there’s that. No control, SEE?! You really don’t even want to know how much I spent on books as a whole JUST in April…like you really don’t even want to know. Collectively I bought 34 books (physical and e-book) in April. It could be more, but from what I can remember it’s about 34 books and I got like over 20 for free with Kindle this month. 50+ books in April, lol! Anyway…let’s not talk about how crazy I am. Hah.

What are some of the books you added to your TBR list? Link me to your post or leave a comment! 🙂

I hope you all have a great Friday and if you are interested, here are some other posts I’ve done this week.

April reads recap probably Sunday, so be on the look out for that! I am off to work now, bye! ❤

Friday Finds #11.

Posted on April 24, 2015 by ashley @ socially awkward bookworm

Hey! 🙂 Happy Friday!

Can I just have a million dollars, so I can buy all of the books on my TBR? There are so many books that I want to read and probably thousands and thousands that I want to read that I haven’t come across yet! Below are ten of the books that I found this week and they are all linked to their Goodreads descriptions.

A Whole New World by Liz Braswell
Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway
Still Waters by Ash Parsons
A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall
It’s a Wonderful Death by Sarah J. Schmitt

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows
None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun Hutchinson
Girl Underwater by Claire Kells

I think I say this every Friday, but covers, the COVERS! I also think I say this every time that I am a sucker for a pretty book cover. All of these books having such a amazing book covers is not doing bank account any good. Let’s talk about A Whole New World though (this is not the final cover), but….Aladdin is pretty much my number one favorite Disney movie and this is a reimaging of that movie. The entire series is going to be reimagines of classic Disney stories. I am very excited about this book! All the other books sound just as great too, of course!

I actually did not get any free Kindle e-books this week, kind of shocking! I actually didn’t even attempt to look at BookBub this week, because I would have been on there for hours. I did buy three books for my Kindle though.

Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Duff by Kody Keplinger
Alienated by Melissa Landers

I’ve been wanting to read Looking for Alaska for years now, so I seen that it was only $2.99 for Kindle, so I decided to get it. I seen a lot of people reading The Duff and they really liked it, so I decided to give it a chance since it was only $2.99 and Alienated sounded good and it was only $0.99. Good deals and potentially good books.

What are some of the books you added to your TBR list? Link me to your post or leave a comment! 🙂

Here are just some random pictures from the last week or so. I haven’t really been posting too many of those lately! They can also be seen on my Instagram too.

I found a tiny dandelion puff! I was going to blow the seeds off, but accidentally held it in front of the air conditioner vent in the car. I’m sure you can imagine how sad that was for me. Yesterday was World Book Day, so I took this picture. I tried to get more of Throne of Glass read. I am sadly not enjoying the book as much as I thought I would and I am halfway through it. It sucks that it took me almost an entire month to read half of it. I could have read so many more books in the time that it took me to get halfway through this one. I am determined to finish it this weekend. I am also crossing my fingers that maybe it won’t be so bad toward the end. I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it either.

My furbabies! I love these two so much! They are so cute and perfect! I’m sure all furbaby owners say this about their pets though, lol.

And here is my bookcase that is pretty much out of space, but I bought a new one and just need to put it together and actually find a place to put it, lol. I have no space in my tiny apartment, so this will be a mission. I also need to buy more wallpaper, so I can wallpaper the shelves like I did this one. Oh! And I have a kitty on my bookshelf. 🙂

Here are some of my other recent posts in case you missed them and want to check them out!

I have to get off here and get to work. I am totally going to be running late if I don’t. Bye! ❤

Friday Finds #10 & Kindle E-books.

Posted on April 17, 2015 by ashley @ socially awkward bookworm

Hey! 🙂 Happy Friday!

I hope everyone had a good week! The week seemed to drag for me, but it was good nonetheless. Here are some of the books that I found this week that I added to my TBR. They’ll all be linked to Goodreads, so you can check them out.

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Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider
Hold Me Like a Breath by Tiffany Schmidt
Anything Could Happen by Will Walton
Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
The Novice by Taran Matharu

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
Made You Up by Francesca Zappia
In the After by Demitria Lunetta
Black City by Elizabeth Richards
After the End by Amy Plum

Below are some of the free books that I added to my Kindle, thanks to BookBub; WARNING: addicting and dangerous. I added about 17 free books to my Kindle this week!! YIKES! Here are three of the books that I added to my Kindle and as of right now, they are still free!

Everflame by Dylan Peters
Dying for a Living by Kory M. Schrum
Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

What are some of the books you added to your TBR list? Link me to your post or leave a comment! 🙂

This weekend I am really going to try my hardest to finish Throne of Glass or at least most of it. I do like the story so far, but I am only a little over 100 pages in. I am kind of having trouble getting myself to read it though. I do like it, but I guess I am not in the mood for this type of book. It’s for the book club, so I am going to try to read half of it at least, so I can participate in the group chat. Maybe finishing Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda will get me to get more into Throne of Glass; they are two completely different books, so WHO KNOWS!? I guess we’ll see how things go! I am totally in love with Simon vs. though and I’m not even that far into the book yet! You all should definitely add it to your TBR if you haven’t already!

That’s all for this post, I have to get to work! You can check out some of my other posts from the week below:

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock – A book by an author I’ve never read before.
Teaser Tuesdays #1 & Stuff – A small glimpse of Throne of Glass and some pictures.
Friday Finds #9 & Kindle E-books – The books I added to my TBR last week.

See you guys later! ❤

Friday Finds #8 & Kindle E-Books.

Posted on April 3, 2015 by ashley @ socially awkward bookworm

Hey! 🙂 Happy Friday!

I was debating on if I was going to do this post or not, since the Top Ten Tuesday was about books that I recently added to my TBR list. I haven’t added too many since that post, but I figured I would share some of the ones that I have since that post. There will be a link to that TTT post at the end of this one, so you can see more if you like. Also, all books are linked to Goodreads.

Immaculate by Katelyn Detweiler
The Unquiet by Mikaela Everett
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas
The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey
Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid

All of these books sound like they could potentially be really amazing reads and I am excited about all of them. I also love all the covers of the books. My Goodreads TBR list is currently at 277, but that doesn’t count the probably 100+ that I haven’t even added to Goodreads! Kind of insane right now, yes? It’s forever growing and I am pretty sure that will always be the case.

I say this a lot, but….so many books, so little time.

One of my favorite bloggers on here did a post about books she got on Kindle and about a website called BookBub. It’s been awhile since I’ve browsed the free books on Kindle, so I decided to look at some of the ones that BookBub showed were free this week and I found seven books that I liked. I probably could have looked for hours and got a bunch more had I not been at work. I took a short break to check out the website. Anyway, here are 3 of the 7 that I got.

Andromeda by Amy Bartelloni
The Arch of Avooblis by Charles Streams
Rippler by Cidney Swanson

Once again, amazing book covers! I remember when I first started to use Kindle, I would spend hours looking for free books and also buying so many books. You can’t beat cheap books! I also found some of my favorite books through Kindle by getting a free copy. Most series will offer the first book in the series for free and the next books in the series are usually $0.99 to $2.99. HELLO?! That’s pretty awesome!

Just in case you missed them, here are a few recent posts I’ve done:

March Reads Recap: All the books I read and listened to in March.
Top Ten Tuesday: Books that I recently added to my TBR list.
Friday Finds from last week.

Off to work for me; it’s going to be pretty busy today. Tomorrow is the Taking Back Sunday concert though and I can’t wait! They are playing with The Menzingers and letlive. I’m so excited! I hope everyone has a great Friday and a great weekend! I wish I had a picture to share (since I usually post some at the end of my posts), but I think I posted all the ones I’ve taken this week. You can add me on Instagram if you like though: heyyitsashley.

What are some of the books you added to your TBR list? Link me to your post or leave a comment! 🙂