Waiting on Wednesday #11

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme and is hosted by Jill @ breaking the spine.

Title: Rapture

Series:Fallen series

Author: Lauren Kate

Release: 06/13/11

Giveaway winner of The space between by Alexandra Sokoloff

We have a winner of the giveaway of 'The space Between' By Alexandra Sokoloff

And it is Jenna @ fans of fiction

Congratulations and happy reading!

Teaser Tuesday #12

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading.

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Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab your current read

Open to a random page

Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!

This week my teaser is from the book Oriana´s Eyes by Celeste Simone.

I don’t care anymore. I don’t care; they don’t
matter. Not even school
or tests. I know what I want. But I can’t even admit it to myself. In
the garden, I must go there … he’ll be there. I know it. Only he can
answer the questions burning inside me.

Tune in Tuesday 90´s edition!

Tune in Tuesday is hosted by Ginger @ Greads

 And for the next few weeks it´s 90´s edition! 

I love Sarah Brightman! I always has. I just think she has the most beautiful voice! I also went to a concert with her performing. It was awesome! I think it was for her album La Luna and it might have been the year 2000 or 2001 I can´t remember really.

Eden by Sarah Brightman from the album with the same name from1998

 
So many things by Sarah Brightman from the album Eden 1998

It is Monday... and you are reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? Is a meme hosted by Shelia over at Book Journey.

I just finished reading 

I never Fancied him Anyway
By Claudia Carrol


read review

The space between 
by Alexandra Soklof


read review and win the book

                                               

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I am currently reading

Oriana´s Eyes
By Celeste Simone

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I am going to read 

Beautifully Broken
by Sherry Soule

                                                                                                         

100 most popular YA books

So I found this list on a blog I follow (in swedish). It is suppose to be the 100 most popular YA books. I though that was fun (even if the list is not accurate, which I don´t know) and I think I am going to try to read them all. As long as they sounds good. Anyway I am going to highlight the books I´ve read in pink. Ain´t so many on this list that I´ve read yet but now I have a lot of wonderful reading to look forward too. So how many of these books have you read?


Why not copy this list and show us, and then ad your link at the end of this post  so we can check it out!

1. Alex Finn – Beastly
2. Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones
3. Ally Carter – Callagher Girls (1, 2, 3, 4)
4. Ally Condie – Matched
5. Alyson Noel – The Immortals  (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
6. Anastasia Hopcus – Shadow Hills
7. Angie Sage – Septimus Heap (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
8. Ann Brashares – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (1, 2, 3, 4)
9. Anna Godbersen – Luxe (1, 2, 3, 4)
10. Anthony Horowitz – Alex Rider (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
11. Aprilynne Pike – Wings (1, 2, 3)
12. Becca Fitzpatrick – Hush, Hush (1, 2)
13. Brandon Mull – Fablehaven (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
14. Brian Selznick – The Invention of Hugo Cabret
15. Cassandra Clare – The Mortal Instruments (1, 2, 3, 4)
16. Carrie Jones – Need (1, 2, 3)
17. Carrie Ryan – The Forest of Hands and Teeth (1, 2, 3, 4)
18. Christopher Paolini  - Inheritance (1, 2, 3, 4)
19. Cinda Williams Chima – The Heir Chronicles (1, 2, 3)
20. Colleen Houck – Tigers Saga (1, 2)
21. Cornelia Funke – Inkheart (1, 2, 3)
22. Ellen Hopkins – Impulse
23. Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
24. Faraaz Kazi – Truly, Madly, Deeply
25. Frank Beddor – The Looking Glass Wars (1, 2, 3)
26. Gabrielle Zevin – Elsewhere
27. Gail Carson Levine – Fairest
28. Holly Black – Tithe (1, 2, 3)
29. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
30. James Dashner – The Maze Runner (1, 2)
31. James Patterson – Maximum Ride (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
32. Jay Asher – Thirteen Reasons Why
33. Jeanne DuPrau – Books of Ember (1, 2, 3, 4)
34. Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
35. John Boyne – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
36. John Green – An Abundance of Katherines
37. John Green – Looking for Alaska
38. John Green – Papper Towns
39. Jonathan Stroud – Bartimaeus (1, 2, 3, 4)
40. Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl – Caster Chronicles (1, 2)
41. Kelley Armstrong – Darkest Powers (1, 2, 3)
42. Kristin Cashore – The Seven Kingdoms (1, 2)
43. Lauren Kate – Fallen (1, 2, 3)
44. Lemony Snicket -  Series of Unfortunate Events (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
45. Libba Bray – Gemma Doyle (1, 2, 3)
46. Lisa McMann – Dream Catcher (1, 2, 3)
47. Louise Rennison – Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
48. M.T. Anderson – Feed
49. Maggie Stiefvater – The Wolves of Mercy Falls (1, 2, 3)
50. Margaret Peterson Haddix – Shadow Children (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
51. Maria V. Snyder – Study (1, 2, 3)
52. Markus Zusak  - The Book Thief
53. Markus Zusak – I am the Messenger
54. Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
55. Mary Ting – Crossroads
56. Maureen Johnson – Little Blue Envelope (1, 2)
57. Meg Cabot – All-American Girl (1, 2)
58. Meg Cabot – The Mediator (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
59. Meg Cabot – The Princess Diaries (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
60. Meg Rosoff – How I live now
61. Megan McCafferty – Jessica Darling (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
62. Megan Whalen Turner – The Queen’s Thief (1, 2, 3, 4)
63. Melina Marchetta – On the Jellicoe Road
64. Melissa de la Cruz – Blue Bloods (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
65. Melissa Marr – Wicked Lovely (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
66. Michael Grant – Gone  (1, 2, 3, 4)
67. Nancy Farmer – The House of the Scorpion
68. Neal Shusterman – Unwind
69. Neil Gaiman – Coraline
70. Neil Gaiman – Stardust
71. Neil Gaiman – The Graveyard Book
72. P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast – House of Night (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 )
73. Philip Pullman – His Dark Materials (1, 2, 3)
74. Rachel Caine – The Morganville Vampires (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
75. Rachel Cohn & David Levithan – Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
76. Richelle Mead – Vampire Academy (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
77. Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
78. Rom LcO’Feer – Somewhere carnal over 40 winks
79. S.L. Naeole – Grace (1, 2, 3, 4)
80. Sabrina Bryan & Julia DeVillers – Princess of Gossip
81. Sarah Dessen – Along for the Ride
82. Sarah Dessen – Lock and Key
83. Sarah Dessen – The Truth about Forever
84. Sara Shepard – Pretty Little Liars (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
85. Scott Westerfeld  - Leviathan (1, 2)
86. Scott Westerfeld  - Uglies (1, 2, 3)
87. Shannon Hale – Books of a Thousand Days
88. Shannon Hale – Princess Academy
89. Shannon Hale – The Books of Bayern (1, 2, 3, 4)
90. Sherman Alexie & Ellen Forney – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
91. Simone Elkeles – Perfect Chemistry (1, 2, 3)
92. Stephanie Meyer – The Host
93. Stephanie Meyer – Twilight Saga (1, 2, 3, 4)
94. Sue Monk Kidd – The Secret Life of Bees
95. Susan Beth Pfeffer – Last Survivors (1, 2, 3)
96. Suzanne Collins – Hunger Games (1, 2, 3)
97. Suzanne Collins – Underland Chronicles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
98. Terry Pratchett – Tiffany Aching (1, 2, 3, 4)
99. Tonya Hurley – Ghost Girl (1, 2, 3)
100. Wendelin Van Draanen – Flipped

Top 5 Sunday #1

Hosted by Larissaslife.com

Most awaited Books 2nd Half 2011!

Beautifully Hunted by Sherry Soule is the sequel to Beautifully broken, an awesome book!

And the release date for this book Beautifully hunted is 11/31/11

I love, love, love Morganville vampire series and Last breath by Rachel Caine is book 11 in the series and its release date is 11/1/11

I´ve heard a lot of good things about Bunheads by Sophie Flack and I think it is an awesome read (at least I hope it is) This book will be released 10/10/11

Jessica rules the dark side is the sequel to Jessica´s guide to dating the dark side by Beth Fantaskey. The first book was really great so I am guessing this will be as well. The release date is December 2011. 

Every you, every me by David Levithan, just sounds like an awesome read and the release date is 9/13/11

Anyway that is all from me!

Saturday snapshot

Saturday Snapshot is hosted by Alyce @ AT Home With Books.

 

Today  I want to show you pictures of our lovely Swedish tradition to have a crayfish "party".

This is what we do in August in Sweden.

SSo this is my mom´s place and the table is all set with delicious crayfish, shrimps, salad and a tray with cheese. 

 

 

And a close up on the crayfish... Yummy

Cover Love #5

A brand new feature at iswimforoceans, where we highlight the awesome covers out there! Though She has not done this feauture in some time but that does not mean we can´t, right?

Title: Remembrance
Author: Michelle Madow

Why I love this cover: I  think it is so beautiful with that mask and somehow mysterious. And very fitting to the content of the book as well. If you want to read a review of this book you can do so here

Oh and if there is anyone else doing this meme, why not link up below?

Book review and GIVEAWAY: The space between by Alexandra Sokoloff

Author: Alexandra Sokoloff
Title: The space between
Genre: Young adult, paranormal thriller
Series: book 1 (the author is planning on a squeal)
Format: Kindle edition
Purchase: Amazon | Smashwords | barnes & noble

4/5 stars

On the cover:

Sixteen-year old Anna Sullivan is having terrible dreams of a massacre at her school. Anna’s father is a mentally unstable veteran, her mother vanished when Anna was five, and Anna might just chalk the dreams up to a reflection of her crazy waking life — except that Tyler Marsh, the most popular guy at the school and Anna’s secret crush, is having the exact same dream.

Despite the gulf between them in social status, Anna and Tyler connect, first in the dream and then in reality. As the dreams reveal more, with clues from the school social structure, quantum physics, probability, and Anna's own past, Anna becomes convinced that they are being shown the future so they can prevent the shooting… If they can survive the shooter — and the dream.

My thoughts:

This is a very dark book. It is also really good and it keeps you on your toes from the first to last page. This book is the first paranormal thriller that I´ve read and I loved it. you get sucked in the story and you just want to know more. There is also love or maybe it is rather attraction we a re talking about here, between Anna and Tyler. My only wish, is for the story to be longer, I did not want it to end so quickly. I really like Anna´s character. She is such a lovely girl. An outcast yes but with a very strong mind. And she does continue to be more and more sure about herself through out the book . She takes the step and stands up for herself and I love that. It was a really thrilling end so I am glad that the Author is planning on a squeal! If you want to read a thrilling story then this is the book for you, it really was great!

GIVEAWAY!

An e-book of this book to one of our followers, just fill out the form below.

Rules

• You DO NOT have to be a follower of this blog, but of course it is greatly appreciated
• International giveaway 
• Ends August 31 2011

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Friday hops!

And it is that day again, the last day of the work week (not that I do since I am on maternity leave) and I hope you will all have a great weekend. I know I will. I´m going to my mother tomorrow for a family dinner with crayfish on the menu! It is a great Swedish tradition this time of year! what are you doing this weekend?


Oh and we do have a giveaway if you are interested here

Well on to the hops!




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Blogger Hop is a weekly meme hosted by Crazy for Bookswhere you have an awesome opportunity to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read! 

This week's Book Blogger Hop question is:

“Non-book-related this week!! Do you have pets?”

My Answer:

NO I do not. I am not a pet person. It is just to much work and to much cleaning and I do not like to clean so why would I give myself even more to clean up? So no, no pets and if I may decide there will never be any pets in this house. I mean I like animals, I do, but not inside my home. I just think they belong elsewhere. My sister Sandra though, has a cat. She is really cute and her name is skrållan.

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TGIF is a weekly feature created and hosted byGReads! that re-caps the week’s posts and has different question each week. 




Book Associations: Which genre, authors, or particular books do you think people associate with your reading style?


Oh, I have no idea! But if I would guess I would probably say fantasy and romance as for genre and Authors? Stephanie Meyer and Nora Roberts probably.

Book review: I never fancied him anyway by Claudia Carroll

Author: Claudia Carroll
Title: I never fancied him anyway
Genre: Women´s fiction
Series: None
Format, my copy: paper back
Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Adlibris(Scandinavia)

My rating

On the cover:

Cassandra can see the future with 100% accuracy . . . for everybody except herself. 

Ever since Cassandra was a little girl, she's had a remarkable psychic gift. Now a successful columnist for a weekly magazine, she predicts the future with uncanny precision. And thanks to her stunning co-worker Charlene—and the latest love of Charlene's life, hot television producer Jack—Cassandra's moving up . . . to daytime TV! 

The trouble is, whenever Jack's around, the hapless seer's second sight goes dim—something that always seems to happen when a desirable single male is around. But despite a truly abysmal dating record, she believes Jack is the one for her . . . though Charlene might strongly disagree. Is true love or outrageous catastrophe right around the corner? Cassandra doesn't have a clue. But it seems even being able to foretell the future can't protect her from what destiny has in store . . . and sometimes fate won't allow you to look before you love.

My Thoughts

 I love this book, it is a wonderful book mostly about friendship and of course  some love for good measure.  The story is great, amusing and just plain funny. You´ll get a few laughs trust me. This book is written with a high dose of humor. And you just fall in love with the character Cassandra! She is adorable. She is funny, psychic  and extremely unorganized and it somehow work for her because it makes her adorable even though a bit annoying I am sure for the people around her. She leave everything to the last minute and always seems to find other and more important things to do than her job. Don´t get me wrong she loves her job she´s just a bit loopy. And to her defense she does get the job done even if it is the last minute possible. She is a really lovable character and you just can´t help but like her. She also has great support characters around her in the book. Over all, this is a great read and I am sure you will love it.