Avid Reader and Geek Girl's bookshelf: dnf en-US Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:03:45 -0700 60 Avid Reader and Geek Girl's bookshelf: dnf 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[My Funny Demon Valentine (Hell Bent, #1)]]> 224353382 The sizzling chemistry of Brynne Weaver and laugh-out-loud humor of Kimberly Lemming meet Jenna Levine and Jeneane O'Riley's fresh spin on paranormal tropes in this wickedly funny, warm-hearted demon romance with just the right amount of spice from the bestselling author of SANCTUARY OF THE SHADOW .



Asmodeus, Prince of Hell, just wants to make music. Jazz, specifically. Unfortunately, he's a demon. And he's supposed to be evil.



Clearly, for Ash, a career as a musician isn't exactly an option. Plus, he's cursed. Sick of playing by the rules, Ash and his three brothers escape Hell in search of freedom on Earth. But it's harder than they thought to keep their enemies off their tail �



The four rogues quickly become the Underworld's Most Wanted, and if they're caught, the consequences will be dire. Yet everything changes for Ash when he meets a beautiful violinist who can see through his curse. It must be too good to be true, but, no matter the risk, he has to have her.



Evangeline Gregory is just your average human. She works at a jazz bar, plays gigs on weekends � and, apparently, hallucinates demons.



At least that's what Eva tells herself when, moments after she meets the man of her dreams, she sees him shift into a 7-foot-tall monster. Not believing her own eyes, Eva decides to investigate and soon finds herself caught in the middle of a supernatural clusterf**k of epic proportions. But Ash isn't the only one keeping secrets, and the search for answers reveals a shocking truth that will change the course of her life forever. Or maybe just doom it. Eva and Ash will learn the path to love can be complete Hell.]]>
Aurora Ascher Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 3.76 2021 My Funny Demon Valentine (Hell Bent, #1)
author: Aurora Ascher
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/24
shelves: jan-2025, meet-and-greet-for-later, scribd-now-everand, next-up-series, dnf, series-i-gave-up-on
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<![CDATA[Killer Content (A Brooklyn Murder Mystery, #1)]]> 56968963
Bayou transplant Odessa Dean has a lot to learn about life in Brooklyn. So far she's scored a rent free apartment in one of the nicest neighborhoods around by cat-sitting, and has a new job working at Untapped Books & Café. Hand-selling books and craft beers is easy for Odessa, but making new friends and learning how to ride the subway? Well, that might take her a little extra time.

But things turn more sour than an IPA when the death of a fellow waitress goes viral, caught on camera in the background of a couple's flash-mob proposal video. Nothing about Bethany's death feels right to Odessa--neither her sudden departure mid-shift nor the clues that only Odessa seems to catch. As an up-and-coming YouTube star, Bethany had more than one viewer waiting for her to fall from grace.

Determined to prove there's a killer on the loose, Odessa takes matters into her own hands. But can she pin down Bethany's killer before they take Odessa offline for good?]]>
8 Olivia Blacke Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 3.12 2021 Killer Content (A Brooklyn Murder Mystery, #1)
author: Olivia Blacke
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.12
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/23
shelves: look-for-at-library, series-i-gave-up-on, dnf
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<![CDATA[Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places]]> 197536826 386 Claire Kann 0593336658 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 3.27 2024 Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places
author: Claire Kann
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: may-2024, audio-book, mng-picks-aug-sept-2024, mng-picks-oct-nov-2024, dnf
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<![CDATA[Hitler's War (The War That Came Early, #1)]]> 6310817 Now, in this thrilling, provocative, and fascinating alternate history by Harry Turtledove, another scenario is played out: What if Chamberlain had not signed the accord? What if Hitler had acted rashly, before his army was ready-would such impatience have helped him or doomed him faster? Here is an action-packed, blow-by-blow chronicle of the war that might have been-and the repercussions that might have echoed through history-had Hitler reached too far, too soon, and too fast.

Turtledove uses dozens of points of view to tell this story: from American marines serving in Japanese-occupied China to members of a Jewish German family with a proud history of war service to their nation, from ragtag volunteers fighting in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in Spain to an American woman desperately trying to escape Nazi-occupied territory-and witnessing the war from within the belly of the beast.

A novel that reveals the human face of war while simultaneously riding the twists and turns that make up the great acts of history, Hitler's War is the beginning of an exciting new alternate history saga. Here is a tale of powerful leaders and ordinary people, of spies, soldiers, and traitors, of the shifting alliances that draw some together while tearing others apart. At once authoritative, brilliantly imaginative, and hugely entertaining, Hitler's War captures the beginning of a very different World War II-with a very different fate for our world today.

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496 Harry Turtledove 0345491823 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 3.52 2009 Hitler's War (The War That Came Early, #1)
author: Harry Turtledove
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.52
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/09
shelves: series-for-after-other-series, look-for-at-library, dnf
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<![CDATA[Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation]]> 56890525 Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.]]> 12 Robert W. Fieseler 1684413095 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 scribd-now-everand, dnf 4.31 2018 Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
author: Robert W. Fieseler
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/08
shelves: scribd-now-everand, dnf
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<![CDATA[Sense & Second-Degree Murder (Jane Austen Murder Mystery, #2)]]> 59638186 In this second book of the Jane Austen Murder Mystery series, Tirzah Price takes readers for another fun, murderous romp through one of Austen’s beloved novels. Perfect for fans of The Lady Janies and Stalking Jack the Ripper.

When eighteen-year-old aspiring scientist Elinor Dashwood discovers her beloved father slumped over the desk of his office study, she knows his death means dire straits for the Dashwood women. To make matters worse, an outdated will entails his estate—including Norland & Company, the private investigation firm where her younger sister Marianne worked as her father’s partner and protégé—to their half-brother and his haughty wife, who waste no time in forcing the Dashwoods out of their home and into a cramped apartment on London’s Barton Street.

But before they go, the Dashwood sisters make a startling discovery: a suspicious substance in their father’s teacup—one that can only be described as poison. And poison, as Marianne’s father taught her, always points to murder.

It could be dangerous; it could ruin their reputations; and most importantly, it won’t bring back their father. But if the Dashwood sisters can combine their talents and bring their father’s murderer to justice, it may bring them all some comfort—and it might even lead to love.

�Pride and Premeditation is a romantic and entertaining page-turner, sure to delight readers of any genre.� —Kerri Maniscalco, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series]]>
0 Tirzah Price Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 3.94 2022 Sense & Second-Degree Murder (Jane Austen Murder Mystery, #2)
author: Tirzah Price
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/10/31
shelves: audible, audio-book, owned, dnf
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Cult of the Great Eleven 23570904
Cult of the Great ElevenĚýis a true account of one of the twentieth century’s weirdest and most mysterious cults.Ěý Human and animal sacrifices, vanishings, the preserved corpse of a teenage cult princess, angelic encounters, a woman cooked in an oven, a mother chained to her bed for two months, resurrection experiments, refrigeration warehouses for the dead, abductions, nocturnal rituals, orgies, a breathing universe, an esoteric tome known as The Great Sixth Seal, hints of Hecate worship, and a post-apocalyptic world ruled by eleven queens from a hill in Hollywoodâ€�

The United States witnessed an explosion of cult activity in the 1920s that today is almost inconceivable. California, in particular, was a haven for an estimated 200,000 cultists, with over 400 active cults in southern California alone. These ranged from “love cultsâ€� that conducted ritual orgies to “devil worshippingâ€� cults that branded their members with hot irons and beheaded their enemies.Ěý

Among all these, the Simi Valley's “Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Elevenâ€� was considered by many to be the most extraordinary. A death cult, the Great Eleven was founded by Storm Lake, Iowa's May Otis Blackburn, filmmaking pioneer, and Ruth Wieland, her luscious femme fatale daughter.Ěý The cult was so bizarre that accounts of its activities “elicited expressions of amazementâ€� from justices on the California Supreme Court in 1931, who admitted, “they have never heard anything so weird.”Ě�

Not until the nephew of oil magnate J.B. Dabney admitted he had been a member of the cult would the world at large learn of the existence the “divine order.� Not until detectives opened a trap door in the floor of a cult couple’s Venice cottage would the world be exposed to its darkest secrets.]]>
408 Samuel Fort Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.46 2014 Cult of the Great Eleven
author: Samuel Fort
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/18
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It Had to Be You 201102402 Two contract killers, each with a hit out on the other, must fight their growing attraction as they face off in an epic game ofĚýlustĚýand murder across Western Europe.When Eva and Jonathan hook up on the sleeper train from Florence to Paris, they think they’ll never see each other again. Which is too bad, because neither has ever felt a spark like this for another person. But love isn’t on the agenda in their line of work.ĚýSix months later, they run into each other in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. This meeting is not by chance, because Eva has been hired to kill Jonathan. She’s a contract killer, but what she doesn’t know is that he is too.Their meeting kicks off a high-stakes cross-continent adventure across Western Europe. There will be tourism.ĚýThere will be bodies.Ěý Eva and Jonathan might even fallĚýfor each other.As the two get closer to completing their assignments, it becomes clear that they are also being hunted—by something even more dangerous thanĚýlove. . .]]> 384 Eliza Jane Brazier 0593438922 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 july-2024, dnf 3.56 2024 It Had to Be You
author: Eliza Jane Brazier
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/23
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<![CDATA[Unwind Unboxed: Unwind / UnStrung / UnWholly (Unwind, #1-2, 1.5)]]> 17877649 Get caught up in the world of Unwind with this eBook collection of Unwind; its sequel, UnWholly; and a bonus companion story.In the world of Unwind, to be a teenager is to risk being unwound—having your body dismantled and all the parts distributed for transplant. This eBook collection includes Unwind; an Unwind story; and UnWholly. In Unwind, follow the breathtaking adventures of three teens on the Connor, a rebel whose parents have ordered his unwinding; Risa, a ward of the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cutting; and Lev, his parents� tenth child, whose unwinding has been planned since birth as a religious tithing. Between the end of Unwind and the beginning of its sequel, UnWholly, there is UnStrung—an exclusive short story that provides an unprecedented look at how Lev becomes someone willing to do the unthinkable. And in UnWholly, Connor, Lev, and Risa meet Cam—a futuristic Frankenstein made entirely out of the parts of other Unwinds—and question humanity itself in the process.]]> 0 Neal Shusterman 1442483148 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 3 dnf 4.42 2012 Unwind Unboxed: Unwind / UnStrung / UnWholly (Unwind, #1-2, 1.5)
author: Neal Shusterman
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2024/09/20
shelves: dnf
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<![CDATA[My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me]]> 157628591 The #1 bestselling author ofĚýThe Alienist,Ěý°ä˛ą±ô±đ˛úĚýCarr, tells the extraordinary storyĚýof Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackledĚýCaleb like a linebacker—and bonded with him as tightly as any catĚýand human possibly can.

Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate New York did he enter into the most extraordinary of all of his cat pairings: Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten, and was languishing in a shelter when Caleb met her. She had hissed and fought off all previous carers and potential adopters, but somehow, she chose Caleb as her savior.
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For the seventeen years that followed, Caleb and Masha were inseparable. Masha ruled the house and the extensive, dangerous surrounding fields and forests. When she was hurt, only Caleb could help her. When he suffered long-standing physical ailments, Masha knew what to do. Caleb’s life-long study of the literature of cat behavior, and his years of experience with previous cats, helped him decode much of Masha’s inner life. But their bond went far beyond academic studies and experience. The story of Caleb and Masha is an inspiring and life-affirming relationship for readers of all backgrounds and interests—a love story like no other.
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14 Caleb Carr 1668636921 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 april-2024, dnf 4.33 2024 My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
author: Caleb Carr
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/08/26
shelves: april-2024, dnf
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<![CDATA[Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2)]]> 6432620
Listeners looking for a fresh twist on vampire tales need look no further than the erotically charged Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Mary Luce is dissatisfied with her life and her job. But when she is unwittingly thrust into the vampire dominion, everything changes. Falling under the protection of the Brotherhood's strongest member, Rhage, she soon finds herself drawn to his animalistic urges.]]>
15 J.R. Ward 1440729441 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 4.13 2006 Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2)
author: J.R. Ward
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/04
shelves: dnf, series-to-come-back-to, meet-and-greet-for-later
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Try (Temptation, #1) 35702834
Try � verb: to make an attempt or effort to do something or in this case…someone.

Sex. Logan Mitchell loves it, and ever since he realized his raw sexual appeal at a young age, he has had no problem using it to his advantage. Men and women alike fall into his bed—after all, Logan is not one to discriminate. He lives by one motto—if something interests you, why not just take a chance and try?

And he wants to try Tate Morrison.

Just coming out of a four-year marriage with an ex-wife from hell, a relationship is the last thing on Tate’s mind. He’s starting fresh and trying to get back on his feet with a new job at an upscale bar in downtown Chicago.

The only problem is, Tate has caught the unwavering and unwelcome attention of Mr. Logan Mitchell � a regular at the bar and a man who always gets what he wants.

Night after night Tate fends off the persistent advances of the undeniably charismatic man, but after an explosive moment in the bar, all bets are off as he finds his body stirring with a different desire than his mind.

As arrogance, stubbornness and sexual tension sizzles between the two, it threatens to change the very course of their lives.

Logan doesn’t do relationships. Tate doesn’t do men. But what would happen if they both just gave in and…tried?

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14 Ella Frank Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 3.63 2013 Try (Temptation, #1)
author: Ella Frank
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2013
rating: 1
read at: 2017/07/27
date added: 2024/06/10
shelves: m-m-romance, high-rating-by-others, series-for-after-other-series, m-m-romance-members-choice, owned, dnf, audible, audio-book
review:
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<![CDATA[Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals]]> 194803842
Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals' suffering had rarely been discussed; horses pulling carriages and carts were routinely beaten in public view, and dogs were pitted against each other for entertainment and gambling. But in 1866, a group of activists began a dramatic campaign to change the nation’s laws and norms, and by the century’s end, most Americans had adopted a very different way of thinking and feeling about the animals in their midst.

In Our Kindred Creatures, Bill Wasik, editorial director of The New York Times Magazine , and veterinarian Monica Murphy offer a fascinating history of this crusade and the battles it sparked in American life. On the side of reform were such leaders as George Angell, the inspirational head of Massachusetts’s animal-welfare society and the American publisher of the novel Black Beauty ; Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Caroline White of Philadelphia, who fought against medical experiments that used live animals; and many more, including some of the nation’s earliest veterinarians and conservationists. Caught in the movement’s crosshairs were transformational figures in their own animal impresarios such as P. T. Barnum, industrial meat barons such as Philip D. Armour, and the nation’s rising medical establishment, all of whom put forward their own, very different sets of modern norms about how animals should be treated.

In recounting this remarkable period of moral transition—which, by the turn of the twentieth century, would give birth to the attitudes we hold toward animals today—Wasik and Murphy challenge us to consider the obligations we still have to all our kindred creatures.]]>
464 Bill Wasik 0525659064 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 april-2024, dnf 3.88 Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
author: Bill Wasik
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.88
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/05/26
shelves: april-2024, dnf
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Bad Like Us 60643010
Partying with popular classmates they barely know is not what Eva and her BFFs had in mind for their spring break. But things have been off ever since Miles' academic career took a turn for the worse (they don't talk about it), so a trip to a private beach lodge might be exactly what they need. And Eva won’t admit it, but the chance to reconnect with Colton is worth putting up with Piper’s constant livestreams to her thousands of “besties.�

At first, it’s all sand and waves, but tensions run high when an anonymous letter shakes up an already-flailing love triangle.

When someone turns up dead, Eva can’t even trust her closest friends—but she thinks she can trust Colton. As they get closer to the truth, they uncover secrets that upend everything they thought they knew about their fellow spring breakers.]]>
336 Gabriella Lepore 1335453873 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 3.31 2024 Bad Like Us
author: Gabriella Lepore
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.31
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/04/29
shelves: march-2024, mng-picks-april-may-24, dnf
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I Only Read Murder: A Novel 200341982
A once-famous TV sleuth
An amateur theater production
An onstage murder
A town full of suspects�

Miranda Abbott, once known for the crime-solving, karate-chopping church pastor she played on network television, has hit hard times. She’s facing ruin when a mysterious postcard arrives, summoning her to Happy Rock, a small town in the Pacific Northwest. But when she gets there, nothing is what she expected.

In dire straits, she signs up for an amateur production at the Happy Rock Little Theater. On opening night, one of the actors is murdered, live, in front of the audience. But no one actually saw what happened. Now everyone is under a cloud of suspicion, including the town doctor, the high school drama teacher, an oil-stained car mechanic, an elderly gentleman who may have been in the CIA—and Miranda herself.

Clearly, the only way to solve this mystery is for Miranda to summon her skills as television’s Pastor Fran. Because the show must go on!]]>
Will Ferguson Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 3.20 2023 I Only Read Murder: A Novel
author: Will Ferguson
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.20
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/04/06
shelves: feb-2024, mng-picks-april-may-24, dnf
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<![CDATA[A Novel Disguise (A Lady Librarian Mystery, #1)]]> 195421934
Her plan is going by the book, until the rector proposes marriage and she starts to develop feelings for Mr. Lathrop. But when her childhood friend, Tess, comes to visit, Tiffany quickly realizes her secret isn’t the only one hidden within these walls. The body of a servant is found, along with a collection of stolen items, and someone else grows mysteriously ill. Can Tiffany solve these mysteries without her own disguise being discovered? If not, she’ll lose her cottage and possibly her life.
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Samantha Larsen Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 may-2023, hoopla, dnf 3.68 2023 A Novel Disguise (A Lady Librarian Mystery, #1)
author: Samantha Larsen
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/06
shelves: may-2023, hoopla, dnf
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The Long Game (Green Oak, #1) 67952097
A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children’s team in this smalltown love story in the vein of Ted Lasso and It Happened One Summer —from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception.

Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at dawn, drive to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a mark, go home, and repeat.

But her routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with the team’s mascot goes viral. Rather than fire her, the team’s owner—who happens to be her father—sends Adalyn to middle-of-nowhere North Carolina, where she’s tasked with turning around the struggling local soccer team, the Green Warriors, as a way to redeem herself. Her plans crumble upon discovering that the players wear tutus to practice (impractical), keep pet goats (messy), and are terrified of Adalyn (counterproductive), and are nine-year-old kids.

To make things worse, also in town is Cameron Caldani, goalkeeping prodigy whose presence is somewhat of a mystery. Cam is the perfect candidate to help Adalyn, but after one very unfortunate first encounter involving a rooster, Cam’s leg, and Adalyn’s bumper, he’s also set on running her out of town. But banishment is not an option for Adalyn. Not again. Helping this ragtag children’s team is her road to redemption, and she is playing the long game. With or without Cam’s help.]]>
Elena Armas 1398522236 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 sept-2023, dnf 3.69 2023 The Long Game (Green Oak, #1)
author: Elena Armas
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/10/05
shelves: sept-2023, dnf
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For Butter or Worse 60875899 Erin La Rosa Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.21 2022 For Butter or Worse
author: Erin La Rosa
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.21
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/09/25
shelves: dnf
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Text Appeal 64414653
When a friend suggests text message-based sex work as a stopgap between jobs, Lark is dubious. She's all about sex positivity, but carrying out sexual fantasies—even digitally and anonymously—with complete strangers is daunting. How will she explain how she’s earning a living—especially to Toby, her good friend and longtime hopeless crush?

Still, she needs the money, and after a few (embarrassing and hilarious) she actually starts to like sexting—especially with one particularly charming and nerdy client who keeps popping up in her DMs. But as Lark and Toby grow closer, she finds herself with a decision to make: tell Toby she’s a sex worker—and try to forget the anonymous client who has her struggling to separate work from real feelings—or keep the secrets that are piling up in her inbox.

Sure to appeal to readers of Helen Hoang and Jen DeLuca, Amber Roberts’s Text Appeal celebrates women in STEM, friends becoming lovers, and finding lasting love in the digital age.]]>
336 Amber Roberts 163910495X Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 aug-2023, dnf This book was a mix of annoying and hilarious. Also, it was highly predictable, hence the DNF. The narrator was good though. ]]> 3.01 2023 Text Appeal
author: Amber Roberts
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.01
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/09/01
shelves: aug-2023, dnf
review:
Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.
This book was a mix of annoying and hilarious. Also, it was highly predictable, hence the DNF. The narrator was good though.
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At the Speed of Lies 58303779
Quinn Calvet was supposed to be having an epic year. She had all kinds of plans with her best friend, Ximena, and sister, Ava, and to grow her following as an influencer on The Whine. Instead, Quinn finds herself third wheel to Ximena and her new boyfriend or getting ditched by Ava who has turned into an overachiever, obsessed with studying and joining every school club. It brings up Quinn’s old feelings that her disability has her left behind. She tries to talk to Ava about it, but she’s too busy with the newest club at school, Defend Kids, which is working frantically to help find two kids who were recently kidnapped from a nearby town.

Suddenly, Defend Kids is all anyone is talking about, and whenever Quinn posts about them on The Whine, she gains tons of new followers and her posts go viral. As the club works to get the message out, more kids in the surrounding area go missing, but it seems like the police and the media aren’t doing much about it. When two of Quinn’s classmates are kidnapped, the dangers that Defend Kids are trying to fight become all too real.

As Quinn and her friends search for the missing kids, tensions escalate at school, there’s an uptick in bullying, and conspiracy theories abound. Before she knows it, Quinn and The Whine are at the center of it all, trying to find out what’s really happening. Only the truth might be more deadly than anyone knows...]]>
352 Cindy L. Otis 1338806777 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 4.00 2023 At the Speed of Lies
author: Cindy L. Otis
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/14
shelves: june-2023, owned, physical-book, books-i-won, dnf
review:

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Talk Santa to Me 60320547
Francie was born in a stable. Really. Granted, it was the deluxe model with the light-up star on the roof, one of the many Christmas items for sale at her family’s Hollydale Holiday Shop. Their holiday gift empire also includes the Santa School, which was founded by Francie’s beloved grandpa, who recently passed away.

Francie’s always loved working in the shop, but lately Aunt Carole has been changing everything with her ideas for too-slick, Hollywood-inspired Santas and horrible holiday-themed employee uniforms. Aunt Carole’s vision will ruin all the charm and nostalgia Francie loves about her family’s business…unless she does something about it.

But this winter is about more than preserving the magic of Christmas. Francie is saving up for a car and angling to kiss the cute boy who works at the tree lot next door—hopefully it will be good enough to wipe her fiasco of a first kiss from her memory.

As the weather outside gets more and more frightful, can Francie pull off the holiday of her dreams?]]>
288 Linda Urban 1534478841 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf, scribd-now-everand 3.28 2022 Talk Santa to Me
author: Linda Urban
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.28
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/05
shelves: dnf, scribd-now-everand
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<![CDATA[The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)]]> 36511768
This Barnes & Noble exclusive edition features a special jacket and bonus story starring fan-favorites Kaye and Roiben of the bestselling Tithe series, allowing readers to witness the pivotal coronation scene from an alternate point of view.

Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.


Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and face the consequences.

In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.]]>
390 Holly Black 0316480207 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 3 fantasy, dnf 4.19 2018 The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
author: Holly Black
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2023/06/17
shelves: fantasy, dnf
review:
This book SHOULD have a trigger warning on it. I DNF'd due to a scene of physical abuse by a relative depicted in the book. Also, the book, in general, was quite violent, and it almost felt as if she used uncommon words to make ugly things sound pretty. It was okay plot-wise and bit dragging in the beginning.
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Imogen, Obviously 102790845 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexuality, identity, and friendship.

Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but she’s got the World’s Greatest Ally title locked down.

She's never missed a Pride Alliance meeting. She knows more about queer media discourse than her very queer little sister. She even has two queer best friends. There's Gretchen, a fellow high school senior, who helps keep Imogen's biases in check. And then there's Lili—newly out and newly thriving with a cool new squad of queer college friends.

Imogen's thrilled for Lili. Any ally would be. And now that she's finally visiting Lili on campus, she's bringing her ally A game. Any support Lili needs, Imogen's all in.

Even if that means bending the truth, just a little.

Like when Lili drops a tiny queer bombshell: she's told all her college friends that Imogen and Lili used to date. And none of them know that Imogen is a raging hetero—not even Lili’s best friend, Tessa.

Of course, the more time Imogen spends with chaotic, freckle-faced Tessa, the more she starts to wonder if her truth was ever all that straight to begin with. . .]]>
Becky Albertalli 0063045907 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 may-2023, dnf 4.11 2023 Imogen, Obviously
author: Becky Albertalli
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/05/16
shelves: may-2023, dnf
review:

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The Pledge 59251274 Scream meets Clown in a Cornfield in this young adult horror novel by national bestselling author Cale Dietrich featuring a masked killer who targets frat boys.

Freshman Sam believes that joining a fraternity is the best way to form a friend group as he begins his college journey � and his best chance of moving on from his past. He is the survivor of a horrific, and world-famous, murder spree known as the Lake Priest Massacre � where a masked killer hunted down Sam and his friends.

Sam had to do the unthinkable to survive that night, and it completely derailed his life. He sees college, and his new identity as a pledge of a historic fraternity, as his best shot at living a life not defined by the killings. He starts to flirt with one of the brothers, cute journalism student Oren Fisher, who Sam finds is surprisingly accepting of Sam’s past, and begins to think a fresh start truly is possible.

And then... one of his new frat brothers is found dead. A new masked-murderer, one clearly inspired by the original, emerges, and starts stalking, and slaying, the frat boys of Munroe University. Now Sam will have to race against the clock to figure out who the new killer is - and why they are killing - before Sam loses his second chance or the lives of any more of his friends.

Elements of horror, mystery, and a gay romance make this a story readers won't want to miss.]]>
304 Cale Dietrich 1250186986 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.45 2023 The Pledge
author: Cale Dietrich
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/05/01
shelves: dnf
review:

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She Is a Haunting 60784841 Mexican Gothic.

When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She’s always lied to fit in, so if she’s straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised.

But the house has other plans. Night after night, Jade wakes up paralyzed. The walls exude a thrumming sound, while bugs leave their legs and feelers in places they don’t belong. She finds curious traces of her ancestors in the gardens they once tended. And at night Jade can’t ignore the ghost of the beautiful bride who leaves her cryptic warnings: Don’t eat.

Neither Ba nor her sweet sister Lily believe that there is anything strange happening. With help from a delinquent girl, Jade will prove this house—the home her family has always wanted—will not rest until it destroys them. Maybe, this time, she can keep her family together. As she roots out the house’s rot, she must also face the truth of who she is and who she must become to save them all.]]>
352 Trang Thanh Tran 1547610816 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.36 2023 She Is a Haunting
author: Trang Thanh Tran
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/04/17
shelves: dnf
review:

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Must Love Books 60435053
With her life spiraling and the Parsons staff sinking, Nora gets hit with even worse news. Parsons is cutting her already unlivable salary. Unable to afford her rent and without even the novels she once loved as a comfort, Nora decides to moonlight for a rival publisher to make ends meet...and maybe poach some Parsons authors along the way.

But when Andrew Santos, a bestselling Parsons author no one can afford to lose is thrown into the mix, Nora has to decide where her loyalties lie. Her new Dream Job, ever-optimistic Andrew, or...herself and her future.]]>
Shauna Robinson 1667068148 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.23 2022 Must Love Books
author: Shauna Robinson
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.23
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/11/08
shelves: dnf
review:

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Frightmares 58094076
Dave is spending his final summer before college working at Frightmares House of Horrors, a struggling haunted house attraction held together by malfunctioning killer clown mannequins, a cheap replica Annabelle doll, and a lot of improvising.

After a particularly disastrous shift ends in an employee walkout, Dave reluctantly takes over a role for his friend, however, he makes a horrifying discovery—a real dead body, hidden on set. But when Dave returns with help, the body is gone.

Though the killer covered their tracks, Dave realizes they must know what he saw. Could he be their next target?]]>
288 Eva V. Gibson 0593486870 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.15 2022 Frightmares
author: Eva V. Gibson
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.15
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/10/25
shelves: dnf
review:

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I'm the Girl 60127710
A spiritual successor to the breakout hit Sadie, I’m the Girl is a brutal and illuminating account of how one young woman feels in her body as she struggles to navigate a deadly and predatory power structure while asking readers one if this is the way the world is, do you accept it?]]>
352 Courtney Summers 1250808375 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf
I loved Sadie! But this book was just terrible. The MC was highly unlikeable. I think you were supposed to feel sorry for her, but honestly, I didn't really. She just seemed like an entitled poor person. who thought she deserved better because she was attractive, WTF. As someone without a lot of money, I'd never assume, "well, if I were more attractive... I'd be rich!". Just because you're attractive does not translate into an entitlement to be rich. NO ONE has the entitlement to have money. Some people are lucky enough to be born with money or have an easy or harder path to wealth, but most people will still be around where they were born.

I did like Nora and Tyler. But they couldn't make up for Georgia.

Also, Georgia's entitlement overruled any thought of the "thriller" element, which was mostly ignored for Georgia's attempts at social climbing.]]>
3.29 2022 I'm the Girl
author: Courtney Summers
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.29
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/08/22
shelves: dnf
review:
This book honestly creeped me out and not in a good thriller way. [spoilers removed] What I read of it just left me feeling gross.

I loved Sadie! But this book was just terrible. The MC was highly unlikeable. I think you were supposed to feel sorry for her, but honestly, I didn't really. She just seemed like an entitled poor person. who thought she deserved better because she was attractive, WTF. As someone without a lot of money, I'd never assume, "well, if I were more attractive... I'd be rich!". Just because you're attractive does not translate into an entitlement to be rich. NO ONE has the entitlement to have money. Some people are lucky enough to be born with money or have an easy or harder path to wealth, but most people will still be around where they were born.

I did like Nora and Tyler. But they couldn't make up for Georgia.

Also, Georgia's entitlement overruled any thought of the "thriller" element, which was mostly ignored for Georgia's attempts at social climbing.
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Crumbs: A Graphic Novel 58839343
In a very special town, there’s an even more unusual bakery with a selection of baked treats hand-crafted to help your dreams come true. For Ray, a quiet young woman with special powers of her own, the order is always the same: a hot tea with a delicious side of romance.

When Ray meets Laurie, the kind barista who aspires to be a professional musician, she gets a real taste of love for the first time. But even with a spark of magic, romance isn’t so simple. Both Ray and Laurie are chasing their own dreams and even when Ray starts to see the future, she can’t predict her fate with Laurie.

Based on the beloved webcomic from WEBTOON, this sweet coming-of-age story of friendship and first love comes to life in graphic novel format with gorgeous illustrations and exclusive content.]]>
384 Danie Stirling 0358467799 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.92 2022 Crumbs: A Graphic Novel
author: Danie Stirling
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/08/14
shelves: dnf
review:

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These Deadly Games 61118597
You have 24 hours to win. If you break my rules, she dies. If you call the police, she dies. If you tell your parents or anyone else, she dies.

Are you ready?

When Crystal Donavan gets a message on a mysterious app with a video of her little sister gagged and bound, she agrees to play the kidnapper’s game. At first, they make her complete bizarre tasks: steal a test and stuff it in a locker, bake brownies, make a prank call.

But then Crystal realizes each task is meant to hurt—and kill—her friends, one by one. But if she refuses to play, the kidnapper will kill her sister. Is someone trying to take her team out of the running for a gaming tournament? Or have they uncovered a secret from their past, and wants them to pay for what they did�

As Crystal makes the impossible choices between her friends and her sister, she must uncover the truth and find a way to outplay the kidnapper� before it’s too late.

Author of All Your Twisted Secrets, Diana Urban’s explosive sophomore novel, These Deadly Games, will keep you riveted until the final twist is revealed.]]>
Diana Urban 1250840724 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.64 2022 These Deadly Games
author: Diana Urban
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/07/08
shelves: dnf
review:

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<![CDATA[Truly Madly Guilty: Library Edition]]> 30453429 0 Liane Moriarty 1427282005 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 2.83 2016 Truly Madly Guilty: Library Edition
author: Liane Moriarty
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 2.83
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/04/26
shelves: owned, kindle-book, dnf, e-book
review:

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Ender's Game 12272632
The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Enter Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the result of decades of genetic experimentation.

Is Ender the general Earth so desperately needs? The only way to find out is to throw him into ever-harsher training at Battle School, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when his training begins. He will grow up fast.

But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. His two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Among the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

This Special 20th Anniversary Edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic is now digitally remastered with a full cast production. It also contains an exclusive bonus: an original postscript written and recorded by the author himself, Orson Scott Card!]]>
12 Orson Scott Card Avid Reader and Geek Girl 2 4.23 1985 Ender's Game
author: Orson Scott Card
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1985
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 2022/04/26
shelves: owned, audio-book, dnf, audible
review:

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Dirty (Dive Bar, #1) 26721373 Love—on the rocks�.

The last thing Vaughan Hewson expects to find when he returns to his childhood home is a broken hearted bride in his shower, let alone the drama and chaos that come with her.

Lydia Green doesn't know whether to scream or cry in a corner. Discovering the love of your life is having an affair on your wedding day is bad enough. Finding out it's with his best man is another thing all together.

Just when this runaway bride has nowhere left to turn, a handsome stranger offers her a broad, muscular shoulder to cry on. Vaughan is the exact opposite of the picture perfect, respected businessmen she's normally drawn to. This former musician-turned-bartender is rough around the edges and is facing his own crossroads. But Lydia's already tried Mr. Right and discovered he's all wrong--maybe it's time to give Mr. Right Now a chance.

After all, what's wrong with getting dirty?

Dirty is the first book in the Dive Bar series from bestselling author Kylie Scott.

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290 Kylie Scott 1250083273 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 2 4.07 2016 Dirty (Dive Bar, #1)
author: Kylie Scott
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2016
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 2022/04/26
shelves: owned, kindle-book, dnf, e-book
review:

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<![CDATA[Grey (Fifty Shades as Told by Christian, #1)]]> 25643846 See the world of Fifty Shades of Grey anew through the eyes of Christian Grey.

In Christian's own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the world.


Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty—until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair.ĚýHe tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist.ĚýUnlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him—past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christian’s cold,Ěýwounded heart.ĚýĚý

Will being with Ana dispel the horrors of his childhood that haunt Christian every night? Or will his dark sexual desires, his compulsion to control, and the self-loathing that fills his soul drive this girl away and destroy the fragile hope she offers him?


This book is intended for mature audiences.


From the Trade Paperback edition.]]>
576 E.L. James 1101946350 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 2 4.13 2015 Grey (Fifty Shades as Told by Christian, #1)
author: E.L. James
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2015
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 2022/04/11
shelves: kindle-book, owned, dnf, e-book
review:

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<![CDATA[Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies]]> 22314970 Jared Diamond Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 3.76 1997 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
author: Jared Diamond
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1997
rating: 1
read at:
date added: 2022/04/11
shelves: audio-book, owned, dnf, audible
review:

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<![CDATA[A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)]]> 12158272 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0001DBI1Q

Now the acclaimed HBO series Game of Thrones - the masterpiece that became a cultural phenomenon

Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert's name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse - unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances. Now Robert is riding north to Winterfell, bringing his queen, the lovely but cold Cersei, his son, the cruel, vainglorious Prince Joffrey, and the queen's brothers Jaime and Tyrion of the powerful and wealthy House Lannister - the first a swordsman without equal, the second a dwarf whose stunted stature belies a brilliant mind.

All are heading for Winterfell and a fateful encounter that will change the course of kingdoms. Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, Prince Viserys, heir of the fallen House Targaryen, which once ruled all of Westeros, schemes to reclaim the throne with an army of barbarian Dothraki - whose loyalty he will purchase in the only coin left to him: his beautiful yet innocent sister, Daenerys.

©1996 George R.R. Martin, (P)2003 Books On Tape, Inc., published in arrangement with Random House Audio Group,a division of Random House, Inc.]]>
George R.R. Martin Avid Reader and Geek Girl 3 4.19 1996 A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
author: George R.R. Martin
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1996
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2022/04/11
shelves: audio-book, kindle-book, dnf, e-book
review:

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11/22/63 12530184 On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force.

Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment—a real life moment—when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history.

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life � a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.

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866 Stephen King Avid Reader and Geek Girl 5 4.41 2011 11/22/63
author: Stephen King
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2022/04/11
shelves: kindle-book, owned, dnf, e-book
review:

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Ready Player One 13507226
It's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.

Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.

And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.

For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday's riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday's icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes's oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.

And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.

Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.

A world at stake.

A quest for the ultimate prize.

Are you ready?

LENGTH:
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16 Ernest Cline 0307913163 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 2 audio-book, dnf 4.18 2011 Ready Player One
author: Ernest Cline
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2011
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 2022/04/11
shelves: audio-book, dnf
review:
Started out strong but crashed.
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Extasia 58212203
All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain--an evil which has already killed nine of her village's men.

She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove.

Today she will be a saint of Haven. She will rid her family of her mother's shame at last and save her people from destruction. She is not afraid. Are you?]]>
496 Claire Legrand 0062696637 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 scribd-now-everand, dnf 3.51 2022 Extasia
author: Claire Legrand
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/04/10
shelves: scribd-now-everand, dnf
review:

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<![CDATA[The Gathering (Darkness Rising, #1)]]> 7896345
Until now.

Strange things have been happening in this claustrophobic town - from the mountain lions that have been approaching Maya to her best friend's hidden talent for "feeling" out people and situations, to the sexy new bad boy who makes Maya feel...different. Combine that with a few unexplained deaths and a mystery involving Maya's biological parents and it's easy to suspect that this town might have more than its share of skeletons in its closet.]]>
359 Kelley Armstrong 0061797022 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 2 4.02 2011 The Gathering (Darkness Rising, #1)
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2011
rating: 2
read at: 2015/01/01
date added: 2022/04/07
shelves: owned, kindle-book, dnf, e-book
review:

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Mr Wonderful 26217437 Dear Author,
Please help me, I am not sure what happened last night. My friends and I went out to celebrate, and I must have overdone it because my memories are a little fuzzy. I know I met a guy, and evidence indicates we had a really good time.
Why am I in bed with this friendly dog, and why did my friend just text me asking how Mr. Wonderful is this morning?
I want this to be the start of something wonderful, after all that I have gone through and all I have achieved; I would really like a man to share it all with.

Photo Description:
A tattooed and pierced young man with a shaven head is asleep in a floral bed, cuddling a white bull terrier.

This story was written as a part of the M/M Romance Group's "Love is an Open Road" event. Group members were asked to write a story prompt inspired by a photo of their choice. Authors of the group selected a photo and prompt that spoke to them and wrote a short story.

This story may contain sexually explicit content and is intended for adult readers. It may contain content that is disagreeable or distressing to some readers. The M/M Romance Group strongly recommends that each reader review the General Information section before each story for story tags as well as for content warnings.]]>
96 Willow Scarlett Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 Just not my thing. 3.62 2015 Mr Wonderful
author: Willow Scarlett
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2015
rating: 1
read at: 2015/11/17
date added: 2022/04/07
shelves: kindle-book, owned, dnf, m-m-romance, e-book
review:
Just not my thing.
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The New Girl 51260761 368 Jesse Q. Sutanto 1728215196 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.42 2022 The New Girl
author: Jesse Q. Sutanto
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/03/10
shelves: dnf
review:

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<![CDATA[I'm Dreaming of a Wyatt Christmas: A Novel]]> 56969526 Ballet and babysitting bring two teens together in this very merry holiday rom-com from the author of the acclaimed Bookish Boyfriends series

Noelle Partridge is known for three things: being the best ballet dancer, babysitter, and person with the most Christmas spirit in her small town. But lately she’s bored by the lessons at her dance school, and her friends and father areĚýmoreĚýbah humbugĚýthanĚýHallmark movie marathon. So when her favorite babysitting clients ask her to accompany them on a ski trip over winter break, she packs her bags for the slopes. It helps that they’re offering double her rate—she’ll need the money for Beacon, an elite ballet academy that’s granted her an audition.Ěý

Noelle is ready to “Deck the Hallsâ€� and have fa la la la fun, until Wyatt, the older half-brother of her babysitting charges, decides to surprise his family for the holiday. He’s one of the best dancers at Beacon, and makes Noelle’s head spin faster than pirouettes.ĚýUnfortunately, she also manages to step on his toes—spoiling his surprise and complicating his secret plans. After a few missteps, Noelle and Wyatt begin to thaw toward each other and bond over the big decisions looming in each of their lives. With enough Christmas magic, Noelle might just start the New Year with lots of babysitting cash in her pocket and a chance with theĚýpas de deuxĚýpartner of her dreams.]]>
330 Tiffany Schmidt 1419754017 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.67 2021 I'm Dreaming of a Wyatt Christmas: A Novel
author: Tiffany Schmidt
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/12/09
shelves: dnf
review:

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<![CDATA[Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)]]> 43448 Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror! It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father. So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic. Just for a little while. But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed.... 'Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive....']]> 389 V.C. Andrews 0743496310 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 4 3.84 1979 Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
author: V.C. Andrews
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1979
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2021/10/11
shelves: re-read, look-for-at-library, dnf
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Beach Read 52867387 A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.

They’re polar opposites.

In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.

Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no-one will fall in love. Really.]]>
371 Emily Henry 1984806734 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.99 2020 Beach Read
author: Emily Henry
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/09/25
shelves: dnf
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The Final Girl Support Group 55939506
Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. Ěý But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.]]>
352 Grady Hendrix 0593201256 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.64 2021 The Final Girl Support Group
author: Grady Hendrix
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/08/05
shelves: dnf
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The Mailman 25582203 390 Bentley Little Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 4.04 1991 The Mailman
author: Bentley Little
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1991
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/07/13
shelves: dnf
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Malibu Rising 55847689
Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever.

Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva.

The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth.

Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there.

And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.

By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come bubbling to the surface.

Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.]]>
11 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1984845349 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.88 2021 Malibu Rising
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/07/05
shelves: dnf
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The Mother-in-Law 46251368
From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and properly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. But who could fault Diana? She was a pillar of the community, an advocate for social justice who helped female refugees assimilate to their new country. Diana was happily married to Tom, and lived in wedded bliss for decades. Lucy wanted so much to please her new mother-in-law.

That was five years ago.

Now, Diana has been found dead, a suicide note near her body. Diana claims that she no longer wanted to live because of a battle with cancer.

But the autopsy finds no cancer.
The autopsy does find traces of poison and suffocation.
Who could possibly want Diana dead?
Why was her will changed at the eleventh hour to disinherit both of her adult children and their spouses?

With Lucy's secrets getting deeper and her relationship with her mother-in-law growing more complex as the pages turn, this new novel from Sally Hepworth is sure to add to her growing legion of fans.]]>
347 Sally Hepworth Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.94 2019 The Mother-in-Law
author: Sally Hepworth
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/05/19
shelves: dnf
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Hidden Pieces 36671146
Embry thinks she’ll have to take the secret to her grave, until she receives an anonymous note—someone else knows the truth. Next comes a series of threatening messages, asking Embry to make impossible choices, forcing her to put her loved ones at risk. Someone is playing a high stakes game where no one in Embry’s life is safe. And their last move...is murder.]]>
448 Paula Stokes 0062673629 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 owned, physical-book, dnf 3.68 2018 Hidden Pieces
author: Paula Stokes
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/01/13
shelves: owned, physical-book, dnf
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In a Holidaze 50892287 Alternate cover edition can be found here

One Christmas wish, two brothers, and a lifetime of hope are on the line for hapless Maelyn Jones in In a Holidaze, the quintessential holiday romantic novel by Christina Lauren, the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners..

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.

But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in the world—the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. Mentally melting down as she drives away from the cabin for the final time, Mae throws out what she thinks is a simple plea to the universe: Please. Show me what will make me happy.

The next thing she knows, tires screech and metal collides, everything goes black. But when Mae gasps awake…she’s on an airplane bound for Utah, where she begins the same holiday all over again. With one hilarious disaster after another sending her back to the plane, Mae must figure out how to break free of the strange time loop—and finally get her true love under the mistletoe.

Jam-packed with yuletide cheer, an unforgettable cast of characters, and Christina Lauren’s trademark hijinks, this swoon-worthy romantic read will make you believe in the power of wishes and the magic of the holidays.
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307 Christina Lauren 198212394X Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.65 2020 In a Holidaze
author: Christina Lauren
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/12/17
shelves: dnf
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<![CDATA[Shopaholic and Sister (Shopaholic, #4)]]> 9417
The trouble started on honeymoon, when she told Luke the tiniest little fib, about the teeniest little purchase. Now she's on a strict budget, she doesn't have a job - and worst of all her beloved Suze has a new best friend. Then she receives some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister!

Becky has never been more excited. Finally, a real sister! They'll have so much in common! They can go shopping together... choose shoes together... have manicures together...

Until she meets her - and gets the shock of her life. It can't be true. Surely Becky Bloomwood's long-lost sister can't... hate shopping?]]>
388 Sophie Kinsella 044024191X Avid Reader and Geek Girl 4 3.68 2004 Shopaholic and Sister (Shopaholic, #4)
author: Sophie Kinsella
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2020/12/06
shelves: deweys-october-2017, humor, dnf
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The Sun Down Motel 46136180 Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.

Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnĘĽt right at the motel, something haunting and scary.

Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt.]]>
340 Simone St. James 0440000181 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 4.11 2020 The Sun Down Motel
author: Simone St. James
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/10/30
shelves: dnf
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<![CDATA[Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die, #1)]]> 3678651
Alexis wants to think that it's all in her head, but soon, what she liked to think of as silly parlor tricks are becoming life-threatening--to her, her family, and to her budding relationship with the class president. Alexis knows she's the only person who can stop Kasey -- but what if that green-eyed girl isn't even Kasey anymore?]]>
346 Katie Alender 1423108760 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 4.03 2009 Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die, #1)
author: Katie Alender
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2020/10/25
shelves: dnf
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Ship It 36204669 Demon Heart. FOREST is an actor on Demon Heart who dreams of bigger roles. When the two meet at a local Comic-Con panel, it's a dream come true for Claire. Until the Q&A, that is, when Forest laughs off Claire's assertion that his character is gay.

Claire is devastated. After all, every last word of her super-popular fanfic revolves around the romance between Forest's character and his male frenemy. She can't believe her hero turned out to be a closed-minded jerk. Forest is mostly confused that anyone would think his character is gay. Because he's not. Definitely not.

Unfortunately for Demon Heart, when the video of the disastrous Q&A goes viral, the producers have a PR nightmare on their hands. In order to help bolster their image within the LGBTQ+ community-as well as with their fans-they hire Claire to join the cast for the rest of their publicity tour. What ensues is a series of colorful Comic-Con clashes between the fans and the show that lead Forest to question his assumptions about sexuality and help Claire come out of her shell. But how far will Claire go to make her ship canon? To what lengths will Forest go to stop her and protect his career? And will Claire ever get the guts to make a move on Tess, the very cute, extremely cool fanartist she keeps running into? Ship It is a funny, tender, and honest look at all the feels that come with being a fan.
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384 Britta Lundin 1368003133 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.15 2018 Ship It
author: Britta Lundin
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.15
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/06/19
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Watching You 38355282
As the headmaster credited with turning around the local school, Tom Fitzwilliam is beloved by one and all—including Joey Mullen, his new neighbor, who quickly develops an intense infatuation with this thoroughly charming yet unavailable man. Joey thinks her crush is a secret, but Tom’s teenaged son Freddie—a prodigy with aspirations of becoming a spy for MI5—excels in observing people and has witnessed Joey behaving strangely around his father.

One of Tom’s students, Jenna Tripp, also lives on the same street, and she’s not convinced her teacher is as squeaky clean as he seems. For one thing, he has taken a particular liking to her best friend and fellow classmate, and Jenna’s mother—whose mental health has admittedly been deteriorating in recent years—is convinced that Mr. Fitzwilliam is stalking her.

Meanwhile, twenty years earlier, a schoolgirl writes in her diary, charting her doomed obsession with a handsome young English teacher named Mr. Fitzwilliam…]]>
320 Lisa Jewell 1501190075 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.83 2018 Watching You
author: Lisa Jewell
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2020/05/16
shelves: dnf
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The Last Mrs. Parrish 36693686
Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more—a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted.

To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne—a socialite and philanthropist—and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple straight out of a fairy tale.

Amber’s envy could eat her alive . . . if she didn't have a plan. Amber uses Daphne’s compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family’s life—the first step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her. Before long, Amber is Daphne’s closest confidante, traveling to Europe with the Parrishes and their lovely young daughters, and growing closer to Jackson. But a skeleton from her past may undermine everything that Amber has worked towards, and if it is discovered, her well-laid plan may fall to pieces.

With shocking turns and dark secrets that will keep you guessing until the very end, The Last Mrs. Parrish is a fresh, juicy, and utterly addictive thriller from a diabolically imaginative talent.]]>
400 Liv Constantine Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 4.07 2017 The Last Mrs. Parrish
author: Liv Constantine
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2020/05/08
shelves: dnf
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<![CDATA[The Last Mrs. Parrish (Mrs. Parrish, #1)]]> 34043643
To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne—a socialite and philanthropist—and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple straight out of a fairy tale.

Amber’s envy could eat her alive . . . if she didn't have a plan. Amber uses Daphne’s compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family’s life—the first step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her. Before long, Amber is Daphne’s closest confidante, traveling to Europe with the Parrishes and their lovely young daughters, and growing closer to Jackson. But a skeleton from her past may undermine everything that Amber has worked towards, and if it is discovered, her well-laid plan may fall to pieces.

With shocking turns and dark secrets that will keep you guessing until the very end, The Last Mrs. Parrish is a fresh, juicy, and utterly addictive thriller from a diabolically imaginative talent.]]>
560 Liv Constantine 0062688162 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.93 2017 The Last Mrs. Parrish (Mrs. Parrish, #1)
author: Liv Constantine
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2020/05/07
shelves: dnf
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The Outsider 36374449
As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.]]>
19 Stephen King Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.91 2018 The Outsider
author: Stephen King
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/05/07
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The Death of Mrs. Westaway 36373481
Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the centre of it.]]>
368 Ruth Ware 1501156217 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.79 2018 The Death of Mrs. Westaway
author: Ruth Ware
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2020/04/04
shelves: dnf
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Seven Lies 52233086 The mesmerizing and unsettling debut thriller everyone will be talking about this year.
A BBC and Daily Mail 'Books of 2020' pick.

It all started with one little lie . . .

Jane and Marnie have been inseparable since they were eleven years old. They have a lot in common. In their early twenties they both fell in love and married handsome young men.

But Jane never liked Marnie's husband. He was always so loud and obnoxious, so much larger than life. Which is rather ironic now, of course.

Because if Jane had been honest - if she hadn't lied - then perhaps her best friend's husband might still be alive . . .

This is Jane's opportunity to tell the truth, the question is:
Do you believe her?

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384 Elizabeth Kay 0751578118 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.67 2020 Seven Lies
author: Elizabeth Kay
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/03/27
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<![CDATA[Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Back Pain: Important Facts, Inspiring Stories]]> 26033556
The best inspiration meets the best information�

� Diagnostic Tools
â€� Working with Your DoctorĚý
â€� Setting Treatment GoalsĚý
â€� Avoiding Therapy QuacksĚý
â€� Preventing OsteoporosisĚý
â€� Developing an Exercise PlanĚý
â€� Acupuncture and Alternative TherapiesĚý
� Beating Back Pain]]>
95 Jack Canfield Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 dnf 1.00 2006 Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Back Pain: Important Facts, Inspiring Stories
author: Jack Canfield
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 1.00
book published: 2006
rating: 1
read at: 2015/01/01
date added: 2020/02/14
shelves: dnf
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<![CDATA[Legend: The Graphic Novel (Legend: The Graphic Novel, #1)]]> 22571758 160 Leigh Dragoon 0399171894 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 physical-book, dnf 3.87 2015 Legend: The Graphic Novel (Legend: The Graphic Novel, #1)
author: Leigh Dragoon
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2019/12/06
shelves: physical-book, dnf
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Little Darlings 41806986 “Mother knows best� takes on a sinister new meaning in this unsettling thriller perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Grimms� Fairy Tales.

Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they’re right; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own…creatures. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she’s imagining things.

A month passes. And one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren’s side in a park. But when they’re found, something is different about them. The infants look like Morgan and Riley―to everyone else. But to Lauren, something is off. As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, These are not my babies.

Determined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. But if she’s wrong about what she saw…she’ll be making the biggest mistake of her life.

Compulsive, creepy, and inspired by some our darkest fairy tales, Little Darlings will have you checking―and rechecking―your own little ones. Just to be sure. Just to be safe.]]>
312 Melanie Golding 1683319974 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.62 2019 Little Darlings
author: Melanie Golding
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2019/12/05
shelves: dnf
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The Best Lies 40525361
She was happy once. Remy had her boyfriend Jack, and Elise, her best friend—her soulmate—who understood her better than anyone else in the world.

But now Jack is dead, shot through the chest�

And it was Elise who pulled the trigger.

Was it self-defense? Or something deeper, darker than anything Remy could have imagined? As the police investigate, Remy does the same, sifting through her own memories, looking for a scrap of truth that could save the friendship that means everything to her.

Told in alternating timelines, Thelma and Louise meets Gone Girl in this twisted psychological thriller about the dark side of obsessive friendship.]]>
352 Sarah Lyu 1481498835 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 to-buy, dnf 3.61 2019 The Best Lies
author: Sarah Lyu
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2019/11/06
shelves: to-buy, dnf
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And the Trees Crept in 30261961 10 Dawn Kurtagich 1478942177 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.27 2016 And the Trees Crept in
author: Dawn Kurtagich
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2019/10/21
shelves: dnf
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<![CDATA[Mary: The Summoning (Bloody Mary, #1)]]> 17661402
Jess had done the research. Success requires precision: a dark room, a mirror, a candle, salt, and four teenage girls. Each of them--Jess, Shauna, Kitty, and Anna--must link hands, follow the rules . . . and never let go.

A thrilling fear spins around the room the first time Jess calls her name: "Bloody Mary. Bloody Mary. BLOODY MARY." A ripple of terror follows when a shadowy silhouette emerges through the fog, a specter trapped behind the mirror.

Once is not enough, though--at least not for Jess. Mary is called again. And again. But when their summoning circle is broken, Bloody Mary slips through the glass with a taste for revenge on her lips. As the girls struggle to escape Mary's wrath, loyalties are questioned, friendships are torn apart, and lives are forever altered.

A haunting trail of clues leads Shauna on a desperate search to uncover the legacy of Mary Worth. What she finds will change everything, but will it be enough to stop Mary--and Jess--before it's too late?]]>
250 Hillary Monahan 1423185196 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.73 2014 Mary: The Summoning (Bloody Mary, #1)
author: Hillary Monahan
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2019/10/11
shelves: dnf
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<![CDATA[Spectacle Vol. 1 (Spectacle #1)]]> 36580694
Pragmatic engineer Anna works as a psychic in the Samson Brothers Circus, but she doesn't believe in anything supernatural—until her twin sister Kat is murdered and comes back as a very demanding ghost. Sharing a room with her sister was hard, but now they're sharing a body while trying to identify the killer. With few leads, a troupe full of secretive folk, and strange paranormal occurrences popping up around the circus, solving the case seems near impossible. But the murderer in their midst may be the least of their problems...

"Humorous and heartfelt, creepy and captivating; readers will eagerly hope for another volume." - Kirkus]]>
136 Megan Rose Gedris 162010492X Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.69 2018 Spectacle Vol. 1 (Spectacle #1)
author: Megan Rose Gedris
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2019/05/20
shelves: dnf
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<![CDATA[Cracked Kingdom (The Royals, #5)]]> 34705684 These Royals will ruin you.

Ever since Hartley Wright met Easton Royal, her life hasn’t been the same. There are enemies behind every corner and dangers beyond each door. When tragedy strikes and steals her memories, she can’t trust anyone, not even the blue-eyed boy who promises her that everything will be all right.

Because while Hartley’s memory is full of gaps, her instincts tell her Easton is dangerous. She doesn’t know if he’s the snake in the garden or her chance at salvation. The chaos he brings wherever he goes is too much to handle, the intense feelings he evokes are too confusing to unravel.

Easton wants her to remember. Hartley thinks it’s better to forget.

She might be right.

Tragedy. Treachery. Trust. Hartley has to face the facts—in this world, you can’t escape the Royals.

Either you live by their rules or you die by them.]]>
305 Erin Watt Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 dnf
After giving this series multiple chances, just because of cliffhangers, this was the last straw. The cliche head injury amnesia, and it was just utter drivel. Mean girl confuses girl with amnesia, she doesn't remember the boy she was sorta kinda dating, blah, blah, blah. These last few books honestly feel like money grabs, and I can't stand Easton.

I do like that strong female characters in these books but other than that, I have nothing nice to say that comes to mind! ]]>
3.78 2018 Cracked Kingdom (The Royals, #5)
author: Erin Watt
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2018
rating: 1
read at:
date added: 2019/05/03
shelves: dnf
review:
DNF

After giving this series multiple chances, just because of cliffhangers, this was the last straw. The cliche head injury amnesia, and it was just utter drivel. Mean girl confuses girl with amnesia, she doesn't remember the boy she was sorta kinda dating, blah, blah, blah. These last few books honestly feel like money grabs, and I can't stand Easton.

I do like that strong female characters in these books but other than that, I have nothing nice to say that comes to mind!
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<![CDATA[Groupie (Rock-Hard Beautiful, #1)]]> 34023624 Don't read it unless you like to ugly cry...and also unless you like threesomes, foursomes...and moresomes.


“Can one of these five rockstars fill the hole in my heart? Or will I stay broken forever?�


Young, dumb, and broke.


That's what started everything. With five dollars in her pocket, and everything she owns stuffed in the back of her car, Lilith Goode's life is over. Done. Destroyed.


Ten words. One text. That's what it took to change the whole world.


A crumpled concert ticket. A chance encounter. That's what it takes to start all over again.


Five rockstars. One girl. Six dark hearts, six withered souls.
But can one broken person really put another back together again?
And is a cross-country tour the place to do it?


Groupie, Book #1 in the Rock-Hard Beautiful Trilogy
a New Adult Erotic Rocker Romance from International Bestselling Author C.M. Stunich


***GROUPIE is a 130,000 word novel about heartache, love, grief, and the beauty of sex. It contains rockstars, concerts, young love, deep hurt, broken pasts, group sex, one beautiful girl who falls in love with five guys and five guys who fall in love with one beautiful girl. This is a MMMFMM book with a STRONG focus on the woman (although the men aren't scared of each other's bodies). It has a happy ending, NO cliff-hanger, and is the first book in a trilogy.]]>
396 C.M. Stunich 193862338X Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 4.06 2017 Groupie (Rock-Hard Beautiful, #1)
author: C.M. Stunich
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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Freedom on My Mind, Volume II 24473912 544 Deborah Gray White 1457637626 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 4.40 2012 Freedom on My Mind, Volume II
author: Deborah Gray White
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/01/30
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<![CDATA[White as Silence, Red as Song: A Novel]]> 36911793
Leo is an ordinary sixteen-year-old: he loves hanging out with his friends, playing soccer, and zipping around on his motorbike. The time he has to spend at school is a drag, and his teachers are "a protected species that you hope will become extinct," so when a new history and philosophy teacher arrives, Leo greets him with his usual antipathy. But this young man turns out to be different. His eyes sparkle when he talks, and he encourages his students to live passionately, and follow their dreams.

Leo now feels like a lion, as his name suggests, but there is still one thing that terrifies him: the color white. White is absence; everything related to deprivation and loss in his life is white. Red, on the other hand, is the color of love, passion and blood; red is the color of Beatrice's hair. Leo's dream is a girl named Beatrice, the prettiest in school. Beatrice is irresistible - one look from her is enough to make Leo forget about everything else.

There is, however, a female presence much closer to Leo, which he finds harder to see because she's right under his nose: the ever-dependable and serene Silvia. When he discovers that Beatrice has leukemia and that her disease is related to the white that scares him so much, Leo is forced to search within himself, to bleed and to be reborn. In the process, he comes to understand that dreams must never die, and he finds the strength to believe in something bigger than himself.

White as Milk, Red as Blood is not only a coming-of-age story and the narrative of a school year, but it is also a bold novel that, through Leo's monologue - at times easy-going and full of verve, at times more intimate and anguished - depicts what happens when suffering and shock burst into the world of a teenager, and the world of adults is rendered speechless.]]>
273 Alessandro D'Avenia 078521707X Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf
I DNF'd this book. I'm not sure if it was the horrendous formatting of the eARC, the translation or the book itself. It read very choppily and the formatting had the title and author name spread in the middle of the text. I got to 25% of the book and just gave up on trying to read it.

The concept is great, but Leo is pretty unlikable, and Beatrice hasn't really appeared as a true character yet, she's seen once or twice by Leo and never says anything, she's also talked about a bit, but other than that, I can't really say. Leo is pretty negative, and just seems like a bit of jerk to me, he doesn't see that Silvia is in love with him (or that's my guess) and he just uses her to make himself feel better, he says he cares about her but it doesn't really seem like it. Leo also seems self-centered even for a teenager!

At 25% of the book, none of the characters were truly developed. The Dreamer sounds like a cool guy, but other than that we don't know much about him besides his appearance. We have Leo but even with just his thoughts and a few observations by him, he doesn't really seem like a 3-Dimensional character. ]]>
3.39 2010 White as Silence, Red as Song: A Novel
author: Alessandro D'Avenia
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2010
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/10/29
shelves: dnf
review:
FTC DISCLAIMER: I received a complimentary copy of this book from Thomas Nelson through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

I DNF'd this book. I'm not sure if it was the horrendous formatting of the eARC, the translation or the book itself. It read very choppily and the formatting had the title and author name spread in the middle of the text. I got to 25% of the book and just gave up on trying to read it.

The concept is great, but Leo is pretty unlikable, and Beatrice hasn't really appeared as a true character yet, she's seen once or twice by Leo and never says anything, she's also talked about a bit, but other than that, I can't really say. Leo is pretty negative, and just seems like a bit of jerk to me, he doesn't see that Silvia is in love with him (or that's my guess) and he just uses her to make himself feel better, he says he cares about her but it doesn't really seem like it. Leo also seems self-centered even for a teenager!

At 25% of the book, none of the characters were truly developed. The Dreamer sounds like a cool guy, but other than that we don't know much about him besides his appearance. We have Leo but even with just his thoughts and a few observations by him, he doesn't really seem like a 3-Dimensional character.
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<![CDATA[Ash Princess (Ash Princess Trilogy, #1)]]> 32505753
For ten years Theo has been a captive in her own palace. She's endured the relentless abuse and ridicule of the Kaiser and his court. She is powerless, surviving in her new world only by burying the girl she was deep inside.

Then, one night, the Kaiser forces her to do the unthinkable. With blood on her hands and all hope of reclaiming her throne lost, she realizes that surviving is no longer enough. But she does have a weapon: her mind is sharper than any sword. And power isn't always won on the battlefield.

For ten years, the Ash Princess has seen her land pillaged and her people enslaved. That all ends here.]]>
448 Laura Sebastian 1524767069 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 audible, fantasy, dnf 3.85 2018 Ash Princess (Ash Princess Trilogy, #1)
author: Laura Sebastian
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/10/28
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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1) 10429045 I have a curse
I have a gift

I am a monster
I'm more than human

My touch is lethal
My touch is power

I am their weapon
I will fight back

Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war—and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.]]>
338 Tahereh Mafi 0062085484 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 physical-book, dnf 3.86 2011 Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
author: Tahereh Mafi
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2011
rating: 1
read at: 2014/05/20
date added: 2018/07/27
shelves: physical-book, dnf
review:
Could not finish. Felt like the author did not know how to write YA and dumbed it down or that the author can not write above a 10 yr old's level.
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<![CDATA[And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)]]> 27190613
Ever since she and her brother were abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman sultan’s courts, Lada has known that ruthlessness is the key to survival. For the lineage that makes her and her brother special also makes them targets.

Lada hones her skills as a warrior as she nurtures plans to wreak revenge on the empire that holds her captive. Then she and Radu meet the sultan’s son, Mehmed, and everything changes. Now Mehmed unwittingly stands between Lada and Radu as they transform from siblings to rivals, and the ties of love and loyalty that bind them together are stretched to breaking point.

The first of an epic new trilogy starring the ultimate anti-princess who does not have a gentle heart. Lada knows how to wield a sword, and she'll stop at nothing to keep herself and her brother alive.]]>
475 Kiersten White 0553522310 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.81 2016 And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)
author: Kiersten White
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/07/07
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Disco Sour 39726074

In the aftermath of a continental civil-war, nation-states have collapsed, the European Union� holds on, preventing anarchy.

Bastian Balthazar Bux is a leading member of The Federation®, the European network of civil society and local governments. Bastian has just been unexpectedly dumped through an app, the BreakupShop� service. Heavy hearted, he just wants to drink, get on with work and forget his romantic woes.

However, he discovers that Nathan Ziggy Zukowsky is planning to sell Plebiscitum®, a dating-style app that is meant to replace elections with a simple swipe, at the same conference he is invited to attend in Chile. Haunted by the ghosts of his recent relationship, he finds himself without his all-important Morph® phone, just a few hours before embarking on his trip to try to save democracy.

Will he make it to his conference on the other side of the world? Will he stop Zukowsky from selling his app? And will he ever find a way to deal with his breakup?

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DISCO SOUR has been awarded the second prize “Altiero Spinelli Prize for Outreach: Spreading Knowledge about Europe� from the European Union.]]>
150 Giuseppe Porcaro 1912618125 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 arc, dnf 3.58 Disco Sour
author: Giuseppe Porcaro
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.58
book published:
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything]]> 25355193
You'll find the secrets of these and other methods in 24 accessible lectures that immerse you in the elements of successful writing. With engaging literary and everyday examples, inspirational prompts, and unforgettable insights, this course is the perfect reference guide for both professional and casual writers.

Survey the ways five major literary genres-fiction, essay, poetry, drama, and autobiography-can show you the path to stronger persuasive and critical writing. Writing prompts and practice examples will help you better understand how to apply the insights you'll uncover by studying each genre. See how the art of rhetoric can help you adapt your writing to different situations. The increased awareness of classical rhetoric you gain will go a long way toward making you a stronger writer by calling your attention to the basics of compelling analytical writing. Take a step-by-step look at the four major stages of the writing process-researching, writing a first draft, editing, and rewriting.

Chock full of useful strategies and real-world examples, this course is an invaluable tool for developing your effective writing skills so you can better express yourself to others.

Listening Length: 12 hours and 7 minutes]]>
13 Dorsey Armstrong Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 dnf 3.82 2011 Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything
author: Dorsey Armstrong
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2011
rating: 1
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Folded Notes from High School 34671577 A status-obsessed senior unexpectedly falls for a freshman because of his Danny Zuko audition in their high school's production ofĚýGreaseĚýin this outrageously funny epistolary novel set in 1991."Matt Boren brilliantly captures the voices of students way back in 1992 with humor and wit and a unique ability to shift from freshman to senior, boy to girl, cheerleader to theater geek. In this hilarious novel, Boren adeptly proves that the more things change, the more things stay the same."--Kelly RipaThe folded notes collected for this book represent correspondence surrounding one Tara Maureen Murphy, senior at South High c. 1991-1992.ĚýIt's 1991, and Tara Maureen Murphy is finally on top. A frightening cross between Regina George and Tracy Flick, Tara Maureen Murphy is any high school's worst nightmare, bringing single-minded ambition, narcissism, manipulation, and jealousy to new extremes in this outrageous, satirical twist on the coming-of-age novel. She's got a hot jock boyfriend in Christopher Patrick Caparelli, her best friend Stef Campbell by her side, and she's a SENIOR, poised to star as Sandy in South High's production ofĚýGrease. Clinching the role is just one teensy step in Tara's plot to get out of her hometown and become the Broadway starlet she was born to be. She's grasping distance from the finish line--graduation and college are right around the corner--but she has to remain vigilant.Ěý"This dumb town, as we know, can be a very tricky place." --Tara Maureen MurphyIt gets trickier with the arrival of freshman Matthew Bloom, whose dazzling audition for the role of Danny Zuko turns Tara's world upside down. Freshmen belong in the chorus, not the spotlight! But Tara's outrage is tinged with an unfamiliar emotion, at least to adoration. And what starts as a conniving ploy to "mentor" young Matt quickly turns into a romantic obsession that threatens to topple Tara's hard-won status at South High....]]> 400 Matt Boren 0451478223 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 2.90 2018 Folded Notes from High School
author: Matt Boren
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 2.90
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/06/12
shelves: dnf
review:
I bailed because I couldn't stand Tara! She's so self-centered and kind of a b!tch
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<![CDATA[Dark Wild Night (Wild Seasons, #3)]]> 21942340 Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
But what didn't happen in Vegas seems to follow them everywhere.


Lola and Oliver like to congratulate themselves on having the good sense to not consummate their drunken Las Vegas wedding. If they’d doubled-down on that mistake, their Just Friends situation might not be half as great as it is now.

... Or so goes the official line.

In reality, Lola’s wanted Oliver since day one—and over time has only fallen harder for his sexy Aussie accent and easygoing ability to take her as she comes. More at home in her studio than in baring herself to people, Lola’s instinctive comfort around Oliver nearly seems too good to be true. So why ruin a good thing?

Even as geek girls fawn over him, Oliver can’t get his mind off what he didn’t do with Lola when he had the chance. He knows what he wants with her now ... and it’s far outside the friend zone. When Lola’s graphic novel starts getting national acclaim—and is then fast-tracked for a major motion picture—Oliver steps up to be there for her whenever she needs him. After all, she’s not the kind of girl who likes all that attention, but maybe she’s the kind who’ll eventually like him.

Sometimes seeing what’s right in front of us takes a great leap of faith. And sometimes a dark wild night in Vegas isn’t just the end of a day, but the beginning of a bright new life...]]>
358 Christina Lauren 1476777942 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 2 dnf 3.89 2015 Dark Wild Night (Wild Seasons, #3)
author: Christina Lauren
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2015
rating: 2
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<![CDATA[Reign of the Fallen (Reign of the Fallen, #1)]]> 29906017
A dramatic uptick in Shade attacks raises suspicions and fears among Odessa's necromancer community. Soon a crushing loss of one of their own reveals a disturbing conspiracy: someone is intentionally creating Shades by tearing shrouds from the Dead--and training them to attack. Odessa is faced with a terrifying question: What if her necromancer's magic is the weapon that brings Karthia to its knees?]]>
384 Sarah Glenn Marsh 0448494396 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.39 2018 Reign of the Fallen (Reign of the Fallen, #1)
author: Sarah Glenn Marsh
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/02/23
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<![CDATA[Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)]]> 23164983
But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. And before Jacob can deliver the peculiar children to safety, he must make an important decision about his love for Emma Bloom.]]>
412 Ransom Riggs 1594747350 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 fantasy, dnf 4.07 2014 Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)
author: Ransom Riggs
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2014
rating: 1
read at: 2017/10/28
date added: 2018/02/19
shelves: fantasy, dnf
review:
I just don't understand all the hype for this trilogy they aren't that good of books. Maybe because of all the hype I was expecting more? Anyway, just not that interesting.
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Perfect Little World 30107561
So when Dr. Grind offers her a space in The Infinite Family Project, she accepts. Housed in a spacious compound in Tennessee, she joins nine other couples, all with children the same age as her newborn son, to raise their children as one extended family. Grind's theory is that the more parental love a child receives, the better off they are.

This attempt at a utopian ideal-funded by an eccentric billionaire-starts off promising: Izzy enjoys the kids, reading to them and teaching them to cook. She even forms a bond with her son more meaningful than she ever expected. But soon the gentle equilibrium among the families is upset and it all starts to disintegrate: unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester; the project's funding becomes tenuous; and Izzy's feelings for Dr. Grind, who is looking to expunge his own painful childhood, make her question her participation in this strange experiment in the first place.

Written with the same compassionate voice, disarming sense of humor, and quirky charm that madeĚýThe Family FangĚýsuch a success, Perfect Little World is a poignant look at how the best families are the ones we make for ourselves.]]>
336 Kevin Wilson 0062450328 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 physical-book, botm, dnf 3.65 2017 Perfect Little World
author: Kevin Wilson
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
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On Immunity An Inoculation 27225056 In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss researches what they mean for her own child, her immediate community, America, and the world, both historically and in the present moment. She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire's Candide, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Susan Sontag's AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is a moving account of how we are all interconnected-our bodies and our fates.]]> 34 Eula Biss Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 audio-book, dnf 5.00 2014 On Immunity An Inoculation
author: Eula Biss
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/11/23
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Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1) 26194269
She knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. What she isn't quite so sure about is why nobody at school seems to like her very much. So when she's spotted by a top model agent, Harriet grabs the chance to reinvent herself. Even if it means stealing her Best Friend's dream, incurring the wrath of her arch enemy Alexa, and repeatedly humiliating herself in front of the impossibly handsome supermodel Nick. Even if it means lying to the people she loves.

As Harriet veers from one couture disaster to the next with the help of her overly enthusiastic father and her uber-geeky stalker, Toby, she begins to realise that the world of fashion doesn't seem to like her any more than the real world did.

And as her old life starts to fall apart, the question is: will Harriet be able to transform herself before she ruins everything?


"Smart, sassy, and very funny." - The Bookseller.

"There’s laughter and tears in this hilarious roller-coaster story." - Julia Eccleshare, The Guardian Children's Editor]]>
0 Holly Smale Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 3.55 2013 Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
author: Holly Smale
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: audio-book, hoopla, reccommended-to-me, dnf
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<![CDATA[There's Someone Inside Your House]]> 15797848
Makani Young thought she'd left her dark past behind her in Hawaii, settling in with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska. She's found new friends and has even started to fall for mysterious outsider Ollie Larsson. But her past isn't far behind.

Then, one by one, the students of Osborne Hugh begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasingly grotesque flair. As the terror grows closer and her feelings for Ollie intensify, Makani is forced to confront her own dark secrets.]]>
287 Stephanie Perkins 0525426019 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.39 2017 There's Someone Inside Your House
author: Stephanie Perkins
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
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<![CDATA[Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)]]> 20878022 "This was Vere, voluptuous and decadent, country of honeyed poison"

Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the truthful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.

Beautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master Prince Laurent epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.

For Damen, there is just one never, ever reveal his true identity. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else...]]>
209 C.S. Pacat 0698155084 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 3.90 2013 Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
author: C.S. Pacat
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: high-rating-by-others, m-m-romance-members-choice, to-borrow, dnf
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<![CDATA[An Unseen Attraction (Sins of the Cities, #1)]]> 30517107 A slow-burning romance and a chilling mystery bind two singular men in the suspenseful first book of a new Victorian series from K. J. Charles.

Lodging-house keeper Clem Talleyfer prefers a quiet life. He’s happy with his hobbies, his work—and especially with his lodger Rowley Green, who becomes a friend over their long fireside evenings together. If only neat, precise, irresistible Mr. Green were interested in more than friendship...

Rowley just wants to be left alone—at least until he meets Clem, with his odd, charming ways and his glorious eyes. Two quiet men, lodging in the same house, coming to an understanding... it could be perfect. Then the brutally murdered corpse of another lodger is dumped on their doorstep and their peaceful life is shattered.

Now Clem and Rowley find themselves caught up in a mystery, threatened on all sides by violent men, with a deadly London fog closing in on them. If they’re to see their way through, the pair must learn to share their secrets—and their hearts.]]>
223 K.J. Charles 0399593969 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 dnf 3.90 2017 An Unseen Attraction (Sins of the Cities, #1)
author: K.J. Charles
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2017
rating: 1
read at:
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: dnf
review:
Way too much talk of the gay sex club and stuffing dead animals, especially pets eww!
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Wolfsong (Green Creek, #1) 29233804 here.

Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left.

Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road, the boy who talked and talked and talked. Ox found out later the boy hadn’t spoken in almost two years before that day, and that the boy belonged to a family who had moved into the house at the end of the lane.

Ox was seventeen when he found out the boy’s secret, and it painted the world around him in colors of red and orange and violet, of Alpha and Beta and Omega.

Ox was twenty-three when murder came to town and tore a hole in his head and heart. The boy chased after the monster with revenge in his bloodred eyes, leaving Ox behind to pick up the pieces.

It’s been three years since that fateful day—and the boy is back. Except now he’s a man, and Ox can no longer ignore the song that howls between them.]]>
494 T.J. Klune Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 4.25 2016 Wolfsong (Green Creek, #1)
author: T.J. Klune
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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Awaken (Abandon, #3) 13061500 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, the dark reimagining of the Persephone myth comes to a thrilling conclusion.

Death has her in his clutches. She doesn't want him to let her go. Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera knew by accepting the love of John Hayden, she'd be forced to live forever in the one place she's always dreaded most: the Underworld. The sacrifice seemed worth it, though, because it meant she could be with the boy she loves.

But now her happiness—and safety—are threatened, all because of the Furies have discovered that John has broken one of their strictest rules: Never revive a human soul.

If the balance between life and death isn't fixed, both the Underworld and Pierce's home back on earth will be wiped away. But there's only one way to restore order. Someone has to die.]]>
343 Meg Cabot 0545284120 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 3.92 2013 Awaken (Abandon, #3)
author: Meg Cabot
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: audio-book, deweys-october-2017, bookish-bingo, dnf
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<![CDATA[Crazy Is The New Normal (This Modern World)]]> 30027063
Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) is the creator of This Modern World, a weekly cartoon of political and social satire which is featured on sites such as The Nation, Daily Kos, and Medium, and which has been a mainstay of the alternative press for more than two decades. His work has also appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Spin, Mother Jones, US News and World Report, the Economist, and many others. He is a two-time recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the 2013 recipient of the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, and a 2015 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of ten cartoon compilations and one book for children, and in 2009 created the artwork for the Pearl Jam album Backspacer.]]>
128 Tom Tomorrow 1631407007 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 2 graphic-novels, dnf 3.91 2016 Crazy Is The New Normal (This Modern World)
author: Tom Tomorrow
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2016
rating: 2
read at: 2016/09/17
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: graphic-novels, dnf
review:
Very, very political and not for the faint of heart. It was even a bit extreme for me and I'm extreme. I'd tone this book down a lot.
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Searching for John Hughes 29100258
In Searching for John Hughes , Jason tells how a Jewish kid from a broken home in a Chicago suburb—sometimes homeless, always restless—found comfort and connection in the likewise broken lives in the suburban Chicago of John Hughes� oeuvre. He moved to New York to become a writer. He started to write a book he had no business writing. In the meantime, he brewed coffee and guarded cupcake cafes. All the while, he watched John Hughes movies religiously.

Though his original biography of Hughes has long since been abandoned, Jason has discovered he is a writer through and through. And the adversity of going for broke has now been transformed into wisdom. Or, at least, a really, really good story.

In other words, this is a memoir of growing up. One part big dream, one part big failure, one part John Hughes movies, one part Chicago, and one part New York. It’s a story of what comes after the “Go for it!â€� part of the command to young creatives to pursue their dreams—no matter how absurd they might seem at first. Ěý]]>
285 Jason Diamond 0062424831 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.25 2016 Searching for John Hughes
author: Jason Diamond
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.25
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction]]> 847357 208 Rachel P. Maines 0801859417 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 dnf 3.69 1998 The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
author: Rachel P. Maines
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1998
rating: 0
read at:
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shelves: dnf
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<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2]]> 29069989 The eighth story, nineteen years later �

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on July 30, 2016.

It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.]]>
327 John Tiffany 1338099132 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 physical-book, dnf 3.63 2016 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2
author: John Tiffany
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2016
rating: 1
read at: 2016/08/18
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: physical-book, dnf
review:
Harry's an asshole and the play format doesn't work.
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A Reason To Believe 15847019
Haunted by the lingering spirit of the little girl, Kiernan is compelled to aid in the search for her killer. The chance to get closer to the enigmatic Matt is an unexpected bonus. Although Kiernan's been betrayed by people who turned out to be more interested in his fame than in himself, with Matt he's willing to risk his heart. As the two men grow closer, Kiernan helps Matt rediscover that life offers no guarantees—but love offers a reason to believe...]]>
217 Diana Copland 1426894538 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 3.99 2012 A Reason To Believe
author: Diana Copland
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: audio-book, good-narrator, reccommended-to-me, m-m-romance, owned, dnf
review:

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<![CDATA[Something Like Summer (Something Like, #1)]]> 10213367
The hot Texas nights were lonely for Ben before his heart began beating to the rhythm of two words; Tim Wyman. By all appearances, Tim had the perfect body and ideal life, but when a not-so-accidental collision brings them together, Ben discovers that the truth is rarely so simple. If winning Tim’s heart was an impossible quest, keeping it would prove even harder as family, society, and emotion threaten to tear them apart.

Something Like Summer is a love story spanning a decade and beyond as two boys discover what it means to be friends, lovers, and sometimes even enemies.]]>
293 Jay Bell 1458015327 Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 4.01 2011 Something Like Summer (Something Like, #1)
author: Jay Bell
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2011
rating: 1
read at: 2016/10/04
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: reccommended-to-me, m-m-romance, dnf
review:
Something Like Hey I've read this before! Outcast in this case gay kids ends up having to take care of his crush after he crashes into him and puts his leg out of commission, you see where I'm going..
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<![CDATA[Her Web Master (Web Master, #1)]]> 31177699 Masked by anonymity.
No cameras. No pictures.
Curiosity ignited to intrigue.

I thought I knew what I was getting into, but had no idea how far we would go...

My intention was to test the waters, dip my toe in the wading pool. Instead I surrendered to the world of seduction and submission as he submerged me--body, mind, and soul--into an ocean of eroticism.

Emails, texts, and hidden identities, were one thing. But now, coming face-to-face with the mystery man, the star of my fantasies, both terrifies and completely thrills me. If all goes according to plan, he will intensify the exquisite bond we share by transporting me to that glorious intersection between agony and ecstasy. If not, everything we've built will come crashing down around us, destroying my dreams in the process.

Either way, there is no going back. Because I want more. Much more.
He always says, "For every ounce of pleasure, a price must be paid."

And I am going to pay...

Warning: If you’re not a fan of dirty talk or dominant alpha males, “Her Web Master� may not be for you, but if you're looking for a filthy online boyfriend who will make your toes curl, meet Sophie’s mysterious Dom.]]>
Normandie Alleman Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 arc, dnf 3.00 2015 Her Web Master (Web Master, #1)
author: Normandie Alleman
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2015
rating: 1
read at:
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: arc, dnf
review:

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<![CDATA[Everything to Me, Book 1 (Everything to Me #1)]]> 27796598
Dana: I've always been the smart girl, the careful one.

Not anymore. I feel reckless, desperate. I love him, and it's senior year, my last chance with him before I leave for college, so I'm going to take it.

What could go wrong? Oh, my God, I had no idea.

Peter: I've spent years trying to hide how I feel about her. It gets harder every day.

For so long, she was my best friend, the first person who truly believed in me, sometimes the only one.

Do I love her? Of course, I do. Can I let her get even deeper into the hellacious mess my life is?

No way. You don't do that to someone you love.

**Everything To Me (Book 2) on sale Dec. 1.
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170 Teresa Hill Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 dnf, arc I absolutely could not get into this book I tried and tried I got to 25% and gave up. Too much happens in the heads of the main characters and barely anything happens in the actual world of the book. It might as well be two journals, two books of thoughts. It started out promising but after the initial 5 pages, it just went downhill and fast.]]> 3.79 2015 Everything to Me, Book 1 (Everything to Me #1)
author: Teresa Hill
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2015
rating: 1
read at: 2016/09/15
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: dnf, arc
review:
I was given a free copy for an honest review.
I absolutely could not get into this book I tried and tried I got to 25% and gave up. Too much happens in the heads of the main characters and barely anything happens in the actual world of the book. It might as well be two journals, two books of thoughts. It started out promising but after the initial 5 pages, it just went downhill and fast.
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<![CDATA[A Fashionable Indulgence (Society of Gentlemen, #1)]]> 26141623 8 hrs 47 mins

In the first novel of an explosive new series from K. J. Charles, a young gentleman and his elegant mentor fight for love in a world of wealth, power, and manipulation. When he learns that he could be the heir to an unexpected fortune, Harry Vane rejects his past as a radical fighting for government reform and sets about wooing his lovely cousin. But his heart is captured instead by the most beautiful, chic man he's ever the dandy tasked with instructing him in the manners and style of the ton. Harry's new station demands conformity - yet the one thing he desires is a taste of the wrong pair of lips. After witnessing firsthand the horrors of Waterloo, Julius Norreys sought refuge behind the luxurious facade of the upper crust. Now he concerns himself exclusively with the cut of his coat and the quality of his boots. And yet his protégé is so unblemished by cynicism that he inspires the first flare of genuine desire Julius has felt in years. He cannot protect Harry from the worst excesses of society. But together they can withstand the high price of passion.]]>
9 K.J. Charles Avid Reader and Geek Girl 0 audio-book, dnf 4.06 2015 A Fashionable Indulgence (Society of Gentlemen, #1)
author: K.J. Charles
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: audio-book, dnf
review:

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<![CDATA[Fight with Me (With Me in Seattle, #2)]]> 31244331
Nate McKenna could give a shit about the no fraternizing policy. He wants Jules and he'll have her. The rules could bend around them, or be damned. He's not a man to be taken lightly, and Jules Montgomery is about to find out just how he responds to being pushed aside after the best night of sex he's ever had. She can fight all she wants, but he'll have her in his bed in the end.

FIGHT WITH ME is the second novel in the With Me In Seattle Series.]]>
9 Kristen Proby Avid Reader and Geek Girl 1 audio-book, dnf 3.56 2012 Fight with Me (With Me in Seattle, #2)
author: Kristen Proby
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2012
rating: 1
read at: 2016/08/25
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: audio-book, dnf
review:
same book as the first just details changed slightly.
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<![CDATA[Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves (True Stories)]]> 19315388 Dear Teen Me includes advice from over 70 YA authors (including Lauren Oliver, Ellen Hopkins, and Nancy Holder, to name a few) to their teenage selves. The letters cover a wide range of topics, including physical abuse, body issues, bullying, friendship, love, and enough insecurities to fill an auditorium. So pick a page, and find out which of your favorite authors had a really bad first kiss? Who found true love at 18? Who wishes he’d had more fun in high school instead of studying so hard? Some authors write diary entries, some write letters, and a few graphic novelists turn their stories into visual art. And whether you hang out with the theater kids, the band geeks, the bad boys, the loners, the class presidents, the delinquents, the jocks, or the nerds, you’ll find friends--and a lot of familiar faces--in the course of Dear Teen Me.]]> 192 Miranda Kenneally Avid Reader and Geek Girl 2 kindle-book, dnf 3.06 2012 Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves (True Stories)
author: Miranda Kenneally
name: Avid Reader and Geek Girl
average rating: 3.06
book published: 2012
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 2017/11/12
shelves: kindle-book, dnf
review:

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