My Birthday Review

The Department of Lost & Found By Allison Winn Scotch. This book put me in a place I wasnt sure I wanted to revisit. It touched places near and also a place that was shut out in me. I cried in a few parts of this book along with laughter. I would read this book a hundred times over again. I may just have to do that.
With Natalie only being 30 years old diagnosis breast cancer and stuck in her career and her ever failing relationships I never thought she would get the picture. Honestly the way she says over and over again I have cancer makes you feel as if cancer is her other half. To know some of the things a cancer patient  goes threw to see the details of the things that just make Natalies life hell and takes away her spark. Only to see that her old boyfriend Jake bring it back. You hold out and hope that she will find herself  find her footing amoungst all of the crap she is going threw. I have never been so tempted to want to jump in a book and just smack a person. I know the honesty that has to be carried out with a cancer patient, the fact is you cant let it control you the way she does. I never really got  to see what my Aunt went thew to know the side effects from her chemo she had but after reading this it opened up those doors. My Aunt has been gone for 5 years now and it has taken me this long to even listen to anything that had to do with cancer. I think for most people they are faced with knowing someone who has it or they have it themselves. This book puts you in the moment from the steps she takes with each one of her relationships to the choices she makes in her health care. She is a strong willed women on the verge of falling apart. While she is falling a part she looks for the answers to why her relationships never worked. Not to realize the one good thing she needs is right in front of her the whole time. I think if your ready for a full on feelings fest this is a great book. She drags you threw the emotions of the treatments to the hell Natalie has in her relationships weather it be with her parents, friends, coworkers, or former boyfriends. Allison weaves you a story that you can envision stepping into for more then just the moment. Descriptive and honest just the way I like my writers. I felt the pain that battles inside of Natalie when she talks relationships along with the way she feels about her relationships with men.

This book was a complete surprise to me. I was not sure if I was ready to read this to come to terms with what not only my Aunt had but the fact that my Grandfather passed from cancer along with sitting next to a living breathing survivor everyday. I think this book will make you respect those who you know have gone threw and battled this  and won. Allison puts a good spin on the ending but hey I will leave that to you to read.

AMAZING BOOK IS THE BEST WAY TO SUM THIS ONE UP!!!!!

Follow Me Friday!

Sorry I dont have much of a Follow me friday post but here goes nothing..



Q; Lets step away from the books for a moment and get personalWhat T-Shirt Slogan best describes you?

Mine says Hey Zak I hear a disembodied Voice! Secretly I want to go on a ghost hunt with Zak Bagans and be locked up in a dark place with him. However I would love to jump out and scare the shit out of him just to watch him react! 

Waiting on Wednesday

hosted by Jill@Breaking the Spine

Ok so I just have to say this now. I had to use Badtz Maru I just did he is so cute, that and this is how I feel on Wednesday!  Now with that out of the way I know this is on pretty much everyone's TBR list but I was not sure of it until I looked at upcoming raves on this book. I have seen may book bloggers comment on this book and such so I am going with it to. In waiting for the arrival of the day that this book comes out or I can find a way to win a copy of this book I will just kick back read all my other books until then.

SO for my Waiting on Wednesday pick......

Dearly, Departed

I have to say the cover in its self drew me in.
Then as I read more about it how can you pass it up pretty girl and a ZOMBIE lover! Amazing. Ok so I have a feeling that everyone will be reviewing this after it comes out which is fan freaking tastic cause it just shows that this book is going to be HOT HOT HOT!! I am so excited for this I can hardly keep myself contained. Ok so here is the run down on this book from amazon.com. ENJOY!

Love can never die.

Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie? 

The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria—a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible—until she’s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses. 

But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead—and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit, luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there’s no turning back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win, separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then, beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.

In Dearly, Departed, romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love






OK hope you all enjoy today because for me at work its hump day means only two days till the weekend and two days until my birthday!!!!!!

In My Mailbox.

So I thought I would post one of these "In My Mailbox" even though I read most of my stuff on my Kindle. Hey what the heck I bought three books on Friday due to the Big Sale on amazon.com.


So here we go...
The first book I bought was Forgotten April By Robyn Bradley

For April Sullivan-LaMonica, the last ten years have been hell: her husband and young son were killed in a car accident, and soon after, her mom descended into the darkness of Alzheimer's. So when broadcast journalist Maggie Prescott shows up claiming to be April's half sister and tries to capture their reunion on film, April outwardly regards Maggie with much suspicion. In reality, she's simply afraid to grow close to someone again, only to have that person leave--or worse. Maggie, meanwhile, is battling her own demons: figuring out why her biological mother gave her up, facing a secret she's kept from the one man she's loved all her life, and giving herself permission to follow the dream she's had since she was a child. Separated by nearly two decades and radically different life paths, April and Maggie must decide if pursuing their sisterhood is worth it…or even possible. A story of loss, love, survival, and redemption, Forgotten April will speak to anyone who's experienced the pains--and riches--of an unexpected friendship that emerges from family ties.








Next Is the Department of the Lost & Found by Allison Winn Scott

In this hopeful, humorous, and astonishingly deft debut, Allison Winn Scotch explores what happens when a young woman thinks she's lost everything that matters—and ends up discovering what's truly important. This is a novel that will leave you taking stock of what's important in your own life . . . and never letting it go. It didn't start out as the worst day of Natalie Miller's life. At thirty, she is moving up the political ladder, driven by raw ambition and ruthless determination. As the top aide to New York's powerful female senator, she works hard, stays late, and enjoys every bit of it, even if the bills she's pushing through do little to improve the lives of the senator's constituents. And if her boyfriend isn't the sexiest guy alive, at least he's a warm body to come home to. Then he announces he's leaving. But that news is barely a blip compared to what Natalie's doctor tells her: She has breast cancer. And she can't cure it by merely being headstrong. Now the life Natalie must change is her own. All her energy, what little of it she has left, must go into saving herself from a merciless disease. So when she's not lying on the sofa recovering from her treatments and indulging in a curious addiction to The Price Is Right , she realizes it's time to take a hard look at her choices. She begins by tracking down the five loves-of-her-life to assess what went wrong. Along the way, she questions her relationships with her friends, her parents, her colleagues, the one who got away, and, most important, with herself: Why is she so busy moving through life that she never stops to embrace it? As Natalie sleuths out the answers to these questions, her journey of self-discovery takes her down new paths and to unexplored places. And she learns that sometimes when life is at its most unexpected, it's not what you lose that makes you who you are . . . it's what you find.




And last but not least is Unlovable by Sherry Gammon 

Seventeen year-old Maggie Brown is truly the poster child for Heroin Chic, complete with her jutting bones and her dark-ringed eyes. She’s struggling with her growing feelings for the new guy at school, Seth Prescott, and fears he is just another person who will let her down, like everyone in her life has done thus far. Seth Prescott is an undercover cop assigned to Port Fare High, and despite his job, he’s developed strong feelings for Maggie. Seth’s working tirelessly to flush out the sadistic heroin peddlers that have invaded the small town of Port Fare, New York, while Maggie fights to stay alive as the search turns deadly. Seth and Maggie’s romantic journey is one of humor, heartbreak and self-discovery as their world is about to change forever.


Again these are Ebooks. I do believe you can get them in regular book format also.  I have to take a serious break from the paranormal and urban fantsay stuff. Its starting to work its way into my sleep an some nights I am not sleeping so well.. I am hoping that I will be able to get some giveaway books or that some publishers will start sending some books for me to review. All a girl can do is hope. 
I hope I didn't do to bad for my first IMM! Enjoy!

Great Give AWAY

I not only signed up for this give away but I wanted to get this out for everyone because I absolutely love this page
Check out LC's Adventures in Library Land. Her 500 follower give away with some amazing books and authors... I entered will you!!!

http://lcsadventuresinlibraryland.blogspot.com/2011/07/lcs-500-follower-giveaway.html

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Fallen Star

Just Finished today! The Fallen Star By Jessica Sorensen!

For eighteen year-old Gemma, life has never been normal. Up until recently, she has been incapable of feeling emotion. And when she’s around Alex, the gorgeous new guy at school, she can feel electricity that makes her skin buzz. Not to mention the monsters that haunt her nightmares have crossed over into real-life. But with Alex seeming to hate her and secrets popping up everywhere, Gemma’s life is turning into a chaotic mess. Things that shouldn’t be real suddenly seem to exist. And as her world falls apart, figuring out the secrets of her past becomes a matter of life and death.

I fell in love with this book just by looking at the cover. I was enticed by the girl with the purple eyes.  I was not impressed to start out with. However the book grew on me as we went on. I loved the sparks that happen between Gemma and Alex the way you can feel how she feels when he brushes the back of her neck.  I don't think I cared for her visions and how she jumped in and out of them at first but it did help with the telling of the story. I had a feeling of where the book was going as I read on. I was not really surprised by the charters in the book or the way the story played out. The teenaged angst and anguish was enough to kill me at some points. I really felt for Gemma as she watched herself in some of her visions. I honstly had a hard time getting threw this book but I think its because it didn't have enough action at first there is so many times you can read about the Death Walkers in the forest coming to get her. 

I have a few excerpts from the book to share with you..

Don't get me wrong; I could still walk, talk, breathe, and function, I just couldn't feel any emotions. Ever.

I had felt the strangest thing I had ever felt-- this overwhelming sadness building up inside me. Seconds later, I was crying, real tears and everything. It was weird.

My legs were way too long, My skin far to pale, and my eyes.... they were violet. yes weird, I know.  But it fit right in with everything else that had to do with me. 

Now I know eavesdroppin is very bad. And I did feel a little bit bad for doing it but who on earth would be talking about me; me  Gemma Lucas the invisible-barley- known girl that hardly spoke to anyone.

" For the same reason you didn't know what ;your were. People are excellent at keeping secrets."  "Yes they are." I agreed

I quickly turned my head away, feeling stupid. Could it be true? Could I be sittin in the desert next to a vampire, all while harboring the energy of a fallen star inside me?

and lastly the final one

What if I was allowed to have those kinds of feelings for him? the ones that I was feeling right now, but knew I wasn't supposed to be feeling.  Would things have been different between us? 

The Second book for the Fallen Star Series

The Underworld to be Released the day after my Birthday JULY 31st! Which is exciting!!!

Oh It time for a new book post

Ok so I seen this book on a friends good read list and started looking at it and wow does it look good... so I am going to post this for a book to watch for! Something new!

I do know that the Lovely Ashley over at http://bookish-brunette.blogspot.com/ Did post this on her blog and well I am going to follow along because this seems like a very very good book. I am excited to read this...

I will however have to wait until Feb. of 2012 for this to come out but its on my list!

Here is what the have listed on good reads for it enjoy:

Cate Cahill and her sisters are considered eccentric bluestockings—a little odd, a little unfashionable, and far too educated for their own good. The truth is more complicated; they’re witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it could mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave. Before their mother died, she entrusted Cate with keeping them safe and keeping everyone, including their father, in the dark about their powers. When her father employs a governess and Cate begins to receive notes from her missing, presumed-mad godmother, her task becomes much more difficult. As Cate searches for answers in banned books and rebellious new friends, she must juggle unwanted proposals, tea parties, and an illicit attraction to the new gardener. Cate will do anything to protect her sisters, but at what cost to herself?

KZ