Waiting on Wednesday – Week 96

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. It's to spotlight on upcoming reads which I'm DYING to get my hands on!
WOW. Okay, 4 more to go my lovely bookish friends! What will be number 100??

This week's WoW is:

The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings

An action-packed, blood-soaked, futuristic debut thriller set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birthrate. For fans of Moira Young’s Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.

Meadow Woodson, a fifteen-year-old girl who has been trained by her father to fight, to kill, and to survive in any situation, lives with her family on a houseboat in Florida. The state is controlled by The Murder Complex, an organization that tracks the population with precision.

The plot starts to thicken when Meadow meets Zephyr James, who is—although he doesn’t know it—one of the MC’s programmed assassins. Is their meeting a coincidence? Destiny? Or part of a terrifying strategy? And will Zephyr keep Meadow from discovering the haunting truth about her family?

Action-packed, blood-soaked, and chilling, this is a dark and compelling debut novel by Lindsay Cummings.

June 10, 2014 ● Goodreads

I seriously can't wait for this! And the cover is absolutely GORGEOUS– it was released recently and I still can't get over it's dark and thrilling undertones that make one heck of a cover. I've been following Lindsay's blog when she was "just" (we are never "just") a blogger, and I love that this is happening for her! Love her blog and am sure to love her book as well :D

What are you waiting on?

Social Media: Tumblr

Memes. Tom Hiddleston. GIFs. Benedict Cumberbatch.
These are a few of my favourite things (on tumblr).

I'm absolutely obsessed with this. I probably started having a tumblr a couple of years ago, probably just a few months after I created this blog, but never really used it until last year. I'm addicted now and it's extremely frustrating. Originally, I created a tumblr so that I could post my reviews on it. Turns out, now my Confessions of a Readaholic tumblr is for book related posts, particularly with movie adaptions and author tumblr posts.

But now... I HAVE THREE TUMBLRS.

Yeah, thank goodness for easy re-blogging, because otherwise I would be exhausted, frustrated, crying on the floor or staring wildly into space. Or all of the above. Who knows.

Anyway, I just wanted to introduce the tumblr-side to my life, because it's completely different to what I am on this blog.

Rabiah Sees the World – http://rabiahseestheworld.tumblr.com

**Yes, that is a Benedict Cumberbatch GIF while I screenshot the page.**

This is my personal tumblr. I use this for anything that's hilarious, anything delicious, any movie or tv show that I love, and so on. This is the NON-bookish side of me. The bookish side is at...

Confessions of a Readaholic – http://iliveforreading.tumblr.com

On this one, while I originally wanted to post up my reviews and link it back to this blog, I went against that. Instead, now I reblog book-related posts, author's thoughts, memes of books, GIFs of movies that are based on books, funny book related thoughts and so on.

My Wishlist – http://thingsrabiahwants.tumblr.com

**Picture is misleading. There's a bottle of lotion or soap or something just a small scroll down...**

This is the final blog I own, where I can be that materialistic hoarder that I secretly am (well, in my imagination). Jewellery  Makeup, Soaps and Lotions, Books, etc. anything I want to own, goes down here.

And there you have it ladies and gents, the Tumblr world that I live in for some of the time during the day. I must say though, it's very addicting. Sad to say, it's sometimes the reason I don't get too many posts up on here. *hehe*

Anyway, do you have a tumblr? Let me know in the comments– I'll follow you!

Waiting on Wednesday – Week 95

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. It's to spotlight on upcoming books that I'm DYING to get my hands on.
And the countdown continues! Only 5 more W0W posts until I hit the big 1-0-0!

This week's WoW is:

Frozen by Erin Bowman

**Contains spoilers from book 1, Taken**

The Heists were only the beginning.

Gray Weathersby escaped from the primitive town of Claysoot expecting to find answers, but what he discovered shook him to the core: A ruthless dictator with absolute power. An army of young soldiers blinded by lies. And a growing rebellion determined to fight back.

Now Gray has joined a team of rebels on a harsh, icy journey in search of allies who can help them set things right. But in a world built on lies, Gray must constantly question whether any ally—or enemy—is truly what they seem…

April 15, 2014 ● Goodreads

I loved Taken (read my review HERE), and I'm really looking forward to reading this one! I requested for a copy for review, so hopefully sometime early next year, I'll get the chance to read it before it comes out, but nonetheless I still hope to get a copy inevitably to read!

What are you waiting on?

Books for the IB

We're always going on and on and on about the books that we've been forced to read for school, so I thought it would be cool to do a post about the books that I've had to study for the IB, grade 11 and 12. For those who don't know, the IB (International Baccalaureate) is a school system, and I take Higher Level English Literature.

Books in Grade 11

Essays by George Orwell ● Goodreads
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie ● Goodreads
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ● Goodreads
Hamlet by William Shakespeare ● Goodreads

We also did some poems by Derek Walcott and John Donne. I must say, even though I might have resented them at first, I honestly LOVE the texts I did last year. They were amazing. I must say, my favorite would have to be Hamlet because I'm a higher level theatre student as well. I really got exposed to so many authors this year, particularly with a focus on the diversity of nationalities, and this really helped to understand contextual details as well, with the conflict in some of the countries represented, either within one or with others. Or, y'know, even just an uncle and a nephew that have it out for each other.

Books in Grade 12

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez ● Goodreads

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen ● Goodreads

Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong ● Goodreads

The Awakening by Kate Chopin ● Goodreads

(Upcoming)

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison ● Goodreads
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut ● Goodreads
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy ● Goodreads

It's only been two-ish/three-ish months into school, and we've ALREADY covered 4 novels! Pretty impressive huh? But yeah, I LOVE the range of novels we get to study this year– it's two units, we finished reading and studying the novels for the Works in Translation unit (the top three books) and now we're onto the Art of the Novel, staring with The Awakening. We have three more examination texts to go though, so it seems like a lot of work.
Some of these I initially didn't like, and I still can't really get into Paradise of the Blind, but my English teacher is absolutely AMAZING with convincing us into liking these novels. It's crazy. I swear, even though I'll say that I hated some of these before reading, I will warm up to them inevitably.

These texts are really different from what we studied in grade 9 and 10 – The Great Gatsby, Educating Rita, Animal Farm, and Julius Caesar – but it's been an interesting two years so far, and I'm excited to delve into the upcoming books!