On My Wishlist - Week 6

"On My Wishlist" is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City. The book can be old, new or upcoming. It's just to show one book that I really want to read from my crazy long wishlist.

One Book on my Wishlist:


The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
by Aimee Bender


(from Goodreads)

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse.

On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother—her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother—tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose.

The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden—her mother’s life outside the home, her father’s detachment, her brother’s clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.

The Cover looked really delicious, so I should definitely try to find this one sometime :) What's on your wishlist? Leave a link/comment!

Friday Finds - Week 9

"Friday Finds" is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading. Here's this week's finds!

Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins (Amazon❘Goodreads)

Still Waters by Emma Carlson Berne (Amazon❘Goodreads)

Audition by Stasia Ward Kehoe (Amazon❘Goodreads)

Dead Rules by Randy Russell (Amazon❘Goodreads)

The Twin's Daughter by  Lauren Baratz-Logsted (Amazon❘Goodreads)

The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta (Amazon❘Goodreads)

Shattered Souls by Mary Lindsey (Amazon❘Goodreads)

The Pledge by Kimberly Derting (Amazon❘Goodreads)

Mercy Lily by Lisa Albert (Amazon❘Goodreads)

The Mephisto Covenant by Trinity Faegen (Amazon❘Goodreads)

Well, those were my Friday Finds! What books did you discover this week? Leave a link/comment!

Book Breakups - Week 5

"Book Breakups" is a weekly meme hosted by Pure Imagination. Have you ever stopped reading a book because it was so boring, you couldn't finish it or for whatever reason just stopped? This is what this meme's about.


One Book I've broken up with:


Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen


I broke up with this book, because, well...


I guess I was kinda too "young" at that time (I think I was 12 :S) to really understand this book. I had seen the movie (the one with Kiera Knightly!) and really loved it, and so I decided to read it. I managed to get through halfway, but then I stopped. I would really love to continue it though, now that I would understand it more and have "matured" in book reading. I just have to find time...






but anyway, here's a blurb (along with praise :P):


"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the "most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author's works," and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as "irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be."

"The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste."
--Virginia Woolf


Well, that's one more breakup! Which book have you stood up?? Leave a link/comment!

WWW Wednesdays - Week 9

"WWW Wednesdays" is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading. Just do the following:

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

My Answers:

What are your currently reading?

I'm currently reading This Girl is Different by JJ Johnson (ARC) and Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta. Loving both of them!

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished reading In Front of God and Everybody by KD McCrite (ARC). Hilariously funny! Review coming up soon.

What do you think you'll read next?

I think I'm either going to read Choker by Elizabeth Woods, Wither by Lauren Destefano, Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs or Memento Nora by Angie Smibert (ARC). WOW. Well, I have loads to pick from as you can see! Hmm...which one do you think I should read first?

Well those were my answers! What are you currently reading? Leave a link/comment!