So Many Books, So Little Time

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish . This week's topic:  Top Ten Characters I’d Like To Switch Places With For 24 Hours 1.) Rose Hathaway from Vampire Academy- Rose is such a bad ass.  I would love to hang out in her world for a while. 2.) Claire Randall Fraser from Outlander- It would be so awesome to be able to travel back in time! 3.) Makayla Lane from the Fever Series- I would love to fight Unseelie and hang out with Barrons. 4.) Sydney Stone from Bloodlines -Sydney is a smart, cool character.  Her job sounds awesome and she gets to spend time with the Vampire Academy crowd. 5.) Tris Prior from Divergent -I really want to see her world.  The way the society she lives in is split up is so fascinating. 6.) Diana Bishop from A Discovery of Witches- Diana has so much power and it would be neat to be able to know what that feels like. 7.) Doc Jane from Lover Unbound- I'm not going to lie, I only want to be her so ...

Found at http://www.littlewhitelion.com/8927/e-cards/now-that-is-hot/ July is almost over and I can't believe it!!  I am not ready for the school to start again but I am ready for the summer heat to be over.  It has been hotter than blazes here! I know the month isn't quite over but since we are moving onTuesday/Wednesday, I doubt I will finish the book I am reading. July was a decent reading month probably because it was too hot to do anything but stay inside.  I read 10 books and 2 of them were for my challenges.  I have read 77 books so far this year which is pretty good.  I only have 7 more challenge books to read!  Several of them are big books but I think I should be able to finish them before the year is out.  I also FINALLY got caught up on all of my NetGalley books and am going to try to stay away from that site for a while.  I kind of just want to read my challenge books and then any other book I feel...

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews . I picked up a few light reads from the library this week.  Work has been super draining lately and makes me just want to curl up with an easy read. From the Library: To Tame a Highland Warrior by Karen Marie Moning The Boleyn Wife by Brandy Purdy What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami Have you read any of these?  What books did you get this week?

From Goodreads:  In BROKEN HARBOUR, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad’s star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher’s personal life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news has sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and she’s resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when they were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting ...

From Goodreads:  Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and bet...

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews . I only picked up one book this week but that's fine because we are moving!  I am spending a lot of time trying to get stuff packed so that we can move at the end of the month. From the library:  The King's Daughter by Sandra Worth What books did you pick up this week?

From Goodreads:  Photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she'd escaped the house called Sanctuary long ago. She'd spent her lonliest years there, after the sudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother. Yet the sprawling resort off the Georgia coast continues to haunt her dreams. And now, even more haunting are the pictures someone is sending to her: strange close-ups and candids, culminating in the most shocking portrait of all--a photo of her mother...naked, beautiful, and dead. Now Jo must return to the island, and to her bitterly estranged family--and, with the help of one man, learn the truth about her tragic past. But Sanctuary may also be the most dangerous place of all... My Thoughts:  I don't read Nora Robert's books very often but I was looking for nice fluffy read so I picked this up. This was an easy read with a lot of romance and a major creepy factor.  I have been easily freaked out lately and I stayed up late reading this one night and wound up s...