2013 Reading Challenges

This year I decided to sign up for some reading challenges. I am going to put all of the challenges I am officially signed up for on a page along with a link to the blog or site that is hosting it (see above). Every month I will give an Update post on my progress with all of the challenges. These are the challenges I am participating in this year:

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Each participant must come up with a list of at least 12 debut books to read and review in 2013.


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The goal: To read as many sequels as you can. You set your goal at whatever number works for you.

I am setting my goal at 10 books.

Favorite Books of 2012

So there is almost no way to pick one favorite book that I read this year. I read a ton of books and many of them were fantastic. I just went to my Goodreads shelf and picked all the books I rated 5 stars this year, which are the following:

~ Dash & Lily's Book of Dares -Rachel Cohn
~ Shatter Me -Tahereh Mafi
~ Divergent -Veronica Roth
~ Delirium -Lauren Oliver
~ Pandemonuim -Lauren Oliver
~ The Scorch Trials -James Dashner
~ Prince of Wolves -Quinn Loftis
~ City of Bones/Ashes/Glass -Cassandra Clare
~ The Body Finder -Kimberly Derting
~ Clockwork Angel/ Prince -Cassandra Clare
~ Legend -Marie Lu
~ Starcrossed -Josephine Angelini
~ Dreamless -Josephine Angelini
~ Die For Me -Amy Plum 
~ Until I Die -Amy Plum
~ The Fault in Our Stars -John Green

What are your favorite books you read this year?

Review: Blood Red Road

Blood Red Road
Moira Young
(Summary from Goodreads.com)

Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when a monster sandstorm arrives, along with four cloaked horsemen, Saba's world is shattered. Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on an epic quest to get him back.

Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the world outside of desolate Silverlake, Saba is lost without Lugh to guide her. So perhaps the most surprising thing of all is what Saba learns about herself: she's a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. And she has the power to take down a corrupt society from the inside. Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization.

Blood Red Road has a searing pace, a poetically minimal writing style, violent action, and an epic love story. Moira Young is one of the most promising and startling new voices in teen fiction.

Stacking the Shelves: Secret Assignments, Frostbite, and Silence

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews. It's a great way to show other people the books that you've bought or received for the past week!

Black Water

D. J. MacHale

Frostbite

Richelle Mead

Waiting On Wednesday: Unravel Me

Waiting on Wednesday's is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Unravel Me
Tahereh Mafi
Shatter Me #2
February 5, 2013
(Summary from Goodreads.com)

tick, tick, tick, tick, tick
it's almost
time for war.

Juliette has escaped to Omega Point. It is a place for people like her—people with gifts—and it is also the headquarters of the rebel resistance.

She's finally free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and free to love Adam. But Juliette will never be free from her lethal touch.

Or from Warner, who wants Juliette more than she ever thought possible.

In this exhilarating sequel to Shatter Me, Juliette has to make life-changing decisions between what she wants and what she thinks is right. Decisions that might involve choosing between her heart—and Adam's life.