Showing posts with label E. Lockhart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label E. Lockhart. Show all posts

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Stacking the Shelves - 5.2.15

Stacking the Shelves
hosted by Tynga's Reviews (details)

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

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For Review:

Bear Witness
by Melissa Clark
-YA
courtesy of BookSparks
Thanks !
Amazon | Goodreads

Library:

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
by E. Lockhart
-YA
Amazon | Goodreads

Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14:
Debate Club.
Her father’s “bunny rabbit.”
A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school.

Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15:
A knockout figure.
A sharp tongue.
A chip on her shoulder.
And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston.

Frankie Laundau-Banks.
No longer the kind of girl to take “no” for an answer.
Especially when “no” means she’s excluded from her boyfriend’s all-male secret society.
Not when her ex boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places.
Not when she knows she’s smarter than any of them.
When she knows Matthew’s lying to her.
And when there are so many, many pranks to be done.

Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16:
Possibly a criminal mastermind.

This is the story of how she got that way.


=====> listening to the audio version, so far so good

Dreaming about getting soon:

Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor:
A Master Class on Mentoring, Motivating, and Making It Work!

by Tim Gunn
-Memoir
Amazon | Goodreads

While Gunn’s Golden Rules showcased Tim “as life coach,” imparting lessons based on his personal experiences, Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor will focus on Tim “as teacher.” Divided into sections on common themes—leadership, curiosity, diversity, understanding, empathy—this practical, timely book takes us on a journey through life lessons and uses Tim’s own personal experiences, from the classroom to the therapist’s office, to illustrate larger concepts. Each chapter will end with a “life assignment,” where Tim challenges you to apply the lessons you’ve learned in practical mentoring or teaching situations.




AND binge watching:

The Fast and The Furious
film series, 1-6
-action, crime, thriller
Amazon | wikipedia

Per imdb for first movie:
Los Angeles police officer Brian O'Connor must decide where his loyalties really lie when he becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy.

=====> wanted to catch up with this because Fast and Furious 7 was released and want to watch it on the big screen while it is still out

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* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently

* per usual, check out the sidebar for my current giveaways offers

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Stacking the Shelves - 6.14.14

Stacking the Shelves
hosted by Tynga's Reviews (details)

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

~*~

For Review:

How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are:
Love, Style, and Bad Habits

by Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline De Maigret, Sophie Mas
-France, how-to
courtesy of Edelweiss
Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads

I Become Shadow
by Joe Shine
-thriller, YA
courtesy of tour - SoHo Press
Thanks Meredith!
Amazon | Goodreads

The Witch of Belladonna Bay
by Suzanne Palmieri
-romance, witches
courtesy of BookSparks Summer Reading Challenge 2014
Thanks Janay!
Amazon | Goodreads

Library:

We Were Liars
by E. Lockhart
-mystery, YA
Amazon | Goodreads

A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.


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* some of these may be offered as giveaways within the next two months

* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently

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Sunday, May 10, 2009

The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart


The Boyfriend List
by E. Lockhart
Genre: Dating, Friendship
Published: 2005
Hardback: 229 pages
Rating: 4

Inspiration: the froggy on the cover

Description from the book:
A Seattle fifteen-year-old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance-artist mother and her father, and more.

My thoughts:
In-a-word: debacle
Interesting way to sort out your life in regards to relationships - a boyfriend list. Each chapter, boyfriend themed, presented different aspects of the character which finally helped solve some of the main character's problems. After reading this book, I created my own boyfriend list. I ended up with about 13. The 13th dude ended up as my hubby. Although breaking up is hard to do, from each relationship I learned what likes and dislikes I had for a partner. All the boyfriend crushes, dates and acquaintances sure make sense in the end.

Series:
The Boyfriend List
The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them


I like this cover version too!
 
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