Meme time: The TBR tag!

I was tagged by Rachel over at Confessions of a book geek to do the “TBR tag” and since I’ve found it hard to read/review as much with life going into high gear this year, I figured this is a good way to fill some space! 😀 It should be amusing to say the least.

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WWW Wednesday: 41!

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This last week has been chaos and I cannot quite believe it has already been a week since I last did this meme, and in between then and now, I only updated once! Oh man, sorry guys! Although to be fair, you’ve not missed much!

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading? • What did you recently finish reading? • What do you think you’ll read next?

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141. Love Hurts- Malorie Blackman and co.

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Title: Love Hurts

Authors: Malorie Blackman, Maureen Johnson, Catherine Johnson, Phillip Pullman, James Dawson, Jenny Downham, Patrick Ness, E. Lockhart, Lauren Myracle, Laura Dockrill,Gayle Forman, Markus Zusak, Susie Day, David Levithan,  and Lauren Kate

Rating:★★

On the Shelves: Young Adult Fiction> Anthologies/Romance

Publication Date: 29th January 2015

Malorie Blackman brings together the best teen writers of today in a stunningly romantic collection about love against the odds. Featuring short stories and extracts about modern star-crossed lovers from stars such as Gayle Forman, Markus Zusak and Patrick Ness, and with a brand-new story from Malorie Blackman herself, “Love Hurts” looks at every kind of relationship, from first kiss to final heartbreak (Goodreads 2015)

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140. Light Shining in the Forest- Paul Torday

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Title: Light Shining in the Forest

Author: Paul Torday

Rating: ★★★

On the Shelves: Fiction> Crime/Suspense

Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children’s Czar by the new government. He sells his flat and moves up north to take up the position. However before his first salary cheque has even hit his bank account, new priorities are set for the government department for which he works. The Children’s czar network is put on hold but it is too late to reverse the decision to employ Norman. So he is given a P.A. and a spacious office in a new business park on the banks of the Tyne. He settles down in his new leather chair behind his new desk, to wait for the green light to begin his mission. The green light never comes. What does happen is that two children go missing. As Children’s Czar, surely this case should fall within his remit, but Norman has built a career on doing nothing, on stamping pieces of paper with ‘send to the relevant department’. Now, faced with a campaigning journalist and a distraught mother, he is forced to become involved. The search will take him to dark places and will make him ask questions about the system he is supposed to uphold (Goodreads 2014)

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139. I was Here- Gayle Forman

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Title: I was Here

Author: Gayle Forman

Rating: ★★★

On the Shelves: YA Fiction> Contemporary

Publication Date: 29th January 2015

Cody and Meg were inseparable.
Two peas in a pod.
Until . . . they weren’t anymore.

When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, who broke Meg’s heart. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question.

I Was Here is Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss. (Goodreads 2014)

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Top Ten Tuesday 41: 2014 Releases I intended to read but still haven’t…

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The weekly meme hosted by the broke and the bookish.

Cue the sad music.

*Sigh* Most of this is due mainly to lack of funds to be able to buy new releases while they are new. I will probably always be a year or so behind on actually reading new releases.  Here are my top ten anticipated reads of 2014 which still haven’t made it onto my shelves.

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138. The Eyre Affair- Jasper Fforde

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Title: The Eyre Affair (#1)

Author: Jasper Fford

Rating: ★★★★

On the Shelves: Fiction> Mystery/Suspense

There is another 1985, where London’s criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of the new crime wave’s Mr Big.

Acheron Hades has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre is gone. Missing.

Thursday sets out to find a way into the book to repair the damage. But solving crimes against literature isn’t easy when you also have to find time to halt the Crimean War, persuade the man you love to marry you, and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays.

Perhaps today just isn’t going to be Thursday’s day. Join her on a truly breathtaking adventure, and find out for yourself. Fiction will never be the same again… (Goodreads 2014)

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