"Waiting on" Wednesday {9} The Late Edition

I started work yesterday, and had a very packed and full day. So I decided a late post is better than no post. So here is this week's Waiting on Wednesday post. I also want to remind everyone that my post this Saturday will be a guest post with directions on how to enter to win a free Kindle. So don't miss out on that! Here's this weeks Waiting on Wednesday post.

The Beginning of After - Jennifer Castle

September 6th 2011

This book sounds really good. It seems tragic but at the same time like a good romance novel. The cover is also gorgeous. This is on the top of my list. 

Sixteen-year-old Laurel's world changes instantly when her parents and brother are killed in a terrible car accident. Behind the wheel is the father of her bad-boy neighbor, David Kaufman, whose mother is also killed. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Laurel navigates a new reality in which she and her best friend grow apart, boys may or may not be approaching her out of pity, overpowering memories lurk everywhere, and Mr. Kaufman is comatose but still very much alive. Through it all, there is David, who swoops in and out of Laurel's life and to whom she finds herself attracted against her better judgment. She will forever be connected to him by their mutual loss, a connection that will change them both in unexpected ways. 

In My Mailbox {11}

I cannot believe that this is my tenth In My Mailbox post! It seems like just yesterday I was starting my blog with my very first one. Sadly this week was kind of uneventful in the book receiving department. But hopefully soon I'll be able to start buying more. So here is the book I got this week.

RAK

I signed up at Book Soulmates for their Random Acts of Kindness which is where you post your wishlist and you may get lucky and someone decides to buy you a book off of it. Well the amazing Melissa at She Shines picked me to receive a book! I got it on Thursday, and hopefully she'll get hers sometime soon! I am so excited because I have been dying to read this book, and the bookstore 30 minutes from here doesn't carry it.

Need - Carrie Jones

What did you get in your mailbox?

In My Mailbox is an idea created by Kristi of The Story Siren and Alea of Pop Culture Junkie. 

Follow Friday {8}

So the week of no posts is over. I'm pretty disappointed in myself for not posting, and I'm so sorry to every single one of my followers. It will not happen again. I have a little bit of exciting news though. I got the job!! I'll be working as a tellemessenger, which means I'll be answering phones after hours for businesses. This means that I'll finally be able to buy books when I want, because my parents have me on a book ban, where they won't buy books for me since they say I have an addiction, which I totally do. So be expecting more books soon, because I start next Wednesday! So here is this week's Follow Friday question.

Q. Inspired by the inane twitter trend of #100FACTSABOUTME, GIVE US FIVE BOOK RELATED SILLY FACTS ABOUT YOU.

1.) I'm addicted to books, I can't go into a bookstore and not buy at least one.

2.) I can read a lot of books at one time, somehow I keep them all straight

3.) I have slight OCD, my bookcase is organized each shelf by height. I tried to do it alphabetically once and it bothered me so much that I changed it back the next day.

4.) I'm known for taking at least one book with me everywhere I go.

5.) I really need to buy a new bookcase. Mines kind of going to fall apart soon, and hopefully I can get a bigger one, because I have books on top of my bookcase too.

Hosted by Parajunkee, just so you can get to know me a little more.

Teaser Tuesday {6}

Hey everyone! So I have a job interview tomorrow! I'm pretty excited because hopefully I'll get this job, which then means having money, and being able to buy more books. That's always a good thing. Here's today's Teaser Tuesday Post!

Sweet 16 - Kate Brain

pg. 152

"The ghost took Teagan's hand, and in a rush of warm air, Emily was gone. The last thing Teagan saw was her former best friend tossing the tiny wrapped present on the couch. The card attached had one word scribble across the front. Teagan."

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read

• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

In My Mailbox {10}

So I was completely horrible. I've been dealing with some things the past couple of days and it's been hard for me to find time to even sleep. But that doesn't mean i should have dipped out on you guys. I'm back now and things have calmed down, especially because it's spring break. So here we go kicking it of with this weeks In My Mailbox.

Bought

Yet another week with hardly any book buying. It's a little depressing to be honest

Fallen - Lauren Kate

Book Tour

This book tour kicks off Monday! So everyone get excited.

The Trouble With Spells - Lacey Weatherford

What did you get in your mailbox?

"Waiting on Wednesday" {8}

Ok so this one is a little late, and technically thrusday, but I have been go go go all day. I applied to yet another business to get a job, and had two classes today. So here is today's WoW post, that I am making at a friends house, I hope everyone forgives me for being late.

Stay - Deb Caletti

This one I've been hearing about a lot lately, and it sounds really good. Also, the cover is really gorgeous. Plus I love Deb Caletti's stories. Here's the synopsis from Goodreads.

"Clara’s relationship with Christian is intense from the start, and like nothing she’s ever experienced before. But what starts as devotion quickly becomes obsession, and it’s almost too late before Clara realizes how far gone Christian is—and what he’s willing to do to make her stay.
Now Clara has left the city—and Christian—behind. No one back home has any idea where she is, but she still struggles to shake off her fear. She knows Christian won’t let her go that easily, and that no matter how far she runs, it may not be far enough...."

Teaser Tuesday {5}

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read

• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

The Rules for Hearts - Sara Ryan

pg. 100

""I wasn't---" I lie. "It's fine. At the moment I am an apparitions. But when you see me later, after I put myself back together, you will doubt the former evidence of your own eyes.""

I swear this isn't supposed to be about ghosts, this passage just makes it seem that way. So far this is a cute book, so we'll see how it goes.

In My Mailbox {9}

Hey Everyone! So there's been a lot of changes this past week. I've been trying my best to make them as fluidly as possible, but I think this last change is going to be the biggest. I have a poll going in the sidebar to see how you all would like to see the In My Mailbox posts. A few of you wanted to see it kept the same way as before, but more people wanted to see just the book and the title/author information. So this week, in the start of my third, yeah you read that right, third month blogging, I'm kicking it off with the new In My Mailbox, I hope you guys like it. The pictures and the titles link back to Goodreads.

Bought
I got this book for only two dollars at a little shop in town, and I couldn't pass it up, even though it's not young adult

Kindred In Death - J.D. Robb

For Review

I didn't do any shopping at all this week, but I got a TON of books to review.

Bumped - Megan McCafferty

The Last Little Blue Envelope - Maureen Johnson
Starcrossed - Josephine Angelini

Die For Me - Amy Plum

Hereafter - Tara Hudson

What did you get in your mailbox this week?

In My Mailbox is an idea created by Kristi of The Story Siren and Alea of Pop Culture Junkie. 

Review: This Girl Is Different by JJ Johnson

This Girl is Different - JJ Johnson
Release Date: April 1st  2011
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
Age Group: Young Adult
Pages: 320
Overall: 4/5

This girl is different… That’s what Evie has always told herself—and it’s true. Home-schooled by her counter culture mom, she’s decided to see what high school is like for the first time—for her senior year. And what a year it is. 
As it turns out, it’s not just Evie who’s Different. Lots of people are. Many of her assumptions about others are turned on their heads as she makes friends with kids her own age for the first time, discovers what’s good and what’s bad about high school, and learns lessons about power and its abuse—both by the administration and by Evie herself.

I have to say this book is quiet refreshing. It's so exciting to read something that is so up to date with teenagers. Especially to find a book that is so up to date it mentions things like Glee and Avatar. This book is one of the most up to date stories that I've read in awhile. The fact that it is so current makes this book likable and appealing to everyone in the younger generations.

I'd recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a good read, and a well developed story. You aren't thrown into this book with a bunch of details to have to catch up on. Evie is a soon to be high school senior who is making the change from homeschooling to real school. She's a bit socially awkward and new to all the ideas of institutionalized learning. Then she meets Jacinda and Rajas, who not only save her in a pinch in the beginning of the book, but become her first friends at her school. Once Evie is in school, she realizes there aren't that many good things about being publicly schooled.

We follow Evie through the ups and downs of standard teenager problems that she has yet to face. Making friends, having a boyfriend, and being a normal teen. Then we see her world spiral out of control and her fight to regain everything and to right what she has done. I believe it's a good story and something fresh that I haven't heard. It also has a very good moral behind it and a lesson to teach.

There weren't too many things I disliked about this book. I felt the plot was amazingly paced, giving plenty of time to form different situations in my head just to find out something completely different was happening. The one thing that kind of bothered me was how often This Girl Is Different was repeated throughout the story. I understand it's the title of the book and is a main key in the story, I just got tired of hearing it in the end. I'd like to give this book a full five stars, but something is telling me that four is where it fits. It's a good book, when it comes out I will most likely buy it to read again, but I'm not going to rush right out for it.

Follow Friday {7}

This week has been a very eventful week for the blog. So many new things are coming. A book blog tour, a possible new In My Mailbox. Everything that's happening makes me so excited. There is so much that I want to see come out of this blog, and I really hope that you all are enjoying it as well, and that the changes I'm making are making the blog more fun! So since I missed last week, I decided I had to really remember to do this week's Follow Friday question, so here it is.

Q. Just like Ashley said (love it) "Ashley the girl..." who are You the Boy/Girl, instead of You the Blogger?

I'm Chelsea, the girl haha. I'm 19 years old and a Sophomore in college. I'm majoring in Anthropology and Sociology, so I can continue on and get my doctorate to become a Forensic Anthropologist. I currently am back home, attending a community college because it's cheaper and better for me, it'll also take me a little longer to get my two year degree because the university I was at, I was in the Honors Program and unfortunately those classes do not transfer to my community college. I've been trying to find a job since Christmas Break, and hopefully the hunt is coming to a close. If I'm not blogging or reading or doing homework, I'm spending time with my family or friends, which all mean the world to me.

"Waiting On" Wednesday {7}

So this week is turning out to be a pretty good week. My math teacher keeps pushing my test back, and I might just have a job in my near future. I really need a job so I can have some money, that way I can buy more books that I've been wanting but just can't seem to afford. So here is this week's WoW book.

Fairy Bad Day - Amanda  Ashby
Publication Date: June 9th 2011

I'm just going to admit right now, that I am a coverist. If a book has a cute or gorgeous cover, it will automatically make me more interested in it. So the fact that this is such an adorable cover really drew me to it. Then it's about Fairys, which anything paranormal is good with me. Here's the synopsis from Goodreads.

My life seriously couldn’t get any worse. 
First, my rightful designation of dragon slayer is STOLEN right out from under me by Curtis Green. Sure, he’s really cute, but that doesn’t give him an excuse.  On top of that, I am assigned to slay fairies. I know what you’re thinking—how hard could it be, right? Wrong! These menacing beasts with their tiny hipster clothes and mocking sarcasm love taunting  me. And they won’t STOP!  But the thing that tops my list of stuff to ruin my day? That would be the GIANT KILLER FAIRY that I have to hunt down and slay because I am the only one who can see it. There is someone who can help me. Unfortunately…it’s Curtis. 

It’s going to be a fairy bad day

What's your "waiting on" book of the week?

"Waiting On" Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine!