Tune in Tuesday (8)

Hello again...and it is time for TUNE IN TUESDAY!!! Tune in Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the awesome Ginger at GReads!  Tune in Tuesday allows you to showcase your love of music through your book blog.  I love this weekly meme because I love MUSIC!!  And my husband loves music just as much as I do...

So I have decided to let my husband do a Tune is Tuesday once a month.....well let him pick the song. :)

So this week he decided to pick a song that I even think is kind of amazing....

Ladies and Gents....

The Lonely Island!!!

Secretary: Guys, Michael Bolton is here

Oh Great, send him in.

Michael Bolton: Hey guys.

Hey, hi, thanks for coming

Michael Bolton: Sorry I'm late, I got caught up watching that Pirates of the Carribean marathon. Have you

seen those things?

Oh yeah, yeah, those are, those are great.

Michael Bolton: Well, I checked out the track and I loved it. And I wrote you this big sexy hook I think

you're really gonna dig.

Oh wow that's great, awesome. Should we just lay it down?

Michael Bolton: Boys, lets get to it.

Whisper: Here we go.

Ungh, Lonely Island, Michael Bolton

YEAAAHH!

The night starts now

Together on the track, the boys are back

The night starts now

Night starts now baby roll with us, chickens snapping at the neck when we rollin' up.

ROLLIN' UP

Blow through the doors ain't no holdin' up

YEAH

Black card at the bar like I gives a fuck.

COME ON

Ladies shifty eyed when we walk into the set, fuck the fellas looking jealous play the back and get wet

YEAH YEAH

Three pound in my waist, shank in my sock, you either get cut, get stuffed or get shot.

THIS IS THE TALE OF CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW, PIRATE SO BRAVE ON THE SEVEN SEAS

What?

A MYSTICAL QUEST TO THE ISLE OF TORTUGA, RAVEN LOCKS SWAY ON THE OCEAN'S

BREEZE.

Yeah that was kinda weird, but we're back in the club

Buying up the bar so the groupies show us love

KIERA KNIGHTLY

Motherfucking ice-man, I'm the top gunner

Heater on blast, I'm the number one stunner

JACK SPARROW

Watch it girl cause I ain't your "Mr. Nice Guy",

More like the "meet ya take you home and fuck you twice guy"

YEAH YEAH!

All dressed up with nowhere to run,

And now I make you feel crazy with the…

NOW BACK TO THE GOOD PART:

FROM THE DAY HE WAS BORN, HE YEARNED FOR ADVENTURE

Nooo

OLD CAPTAIN JACK GIVING THEM WHAT FOR.

HE'S THE PAUPER OF THE SURF

(yeah…uh huh)

THE JESTER OF TORTUGA

(oh God)

BUT IS DAVY JONES' LOCKER WHAT LIES IN STORE?

Yeah, we've seen the movie

Throw your hands in the air and say hell yeah, come on

http://www.elyricsworld.com/jack_sparrow_lyrics_the_lonely_island.html

CAPTAIN JACK

What?

JOHNNY DEPP

No

From the front to the back say we count stacks come on

DAVY JONES

Nope

GIANT SQUID

Wrong

Michael Bolton we're really gonna need you to focus up

ROGER THAT LET ME TRY IT WITH ANOTHER FILM

Wait--

LIFE IS A BOX OF CHOCOLATES AND MY NAME IS FORREST GUMP

(Not better)

THOUGH I'M NOT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED, I GIVE JENNY ALL OF MY LOVE

(Come on!)

OK THEN I'M A LEGAL AIDE, ERIN BROCKOVICH IS MY NAME

(Nooo, God)

THEN YOU CAN CALL ME SCARFACE, SNORTIN MOUNTAINS OF COCAINE

(close enough)

YOU COCKROACHES WANNA PLAY ROUGH? OKAY, I'M RELOADED

THIS IS THE TALE OF TONY MONTANYA

CUBANO FLAME, WITH THE MIAMI NUTS

(Take it home!)

GOT A BASEHEAD WIFE, BUT HER WOMB IS POLLUTED

THIS WHOLE TOWN'S A PUSSY, JUST WAITING TO GET FUCKED!

Ooookay, turns out Michael Bolton is a major cinephile

YOU COMPLETE ME!

Yup, yeah, ok….

http://www.elyricsworld.com/jack_sparrow_lyrics_the_lonely_island.html

:)

For you Sethy!!!

This week...book signing, award, and a 4 day weekend!!!

So this week is going to be a great week!!  I can feel it!  We are officially done with Monday, YAY!!!, and it is just bound to get better. First off on Thursday my best friend Lynn and I will be adventuring to Michigan to join many of our blogger friends to a book signing.  This is not just any book signing....it is DJ'S BOOK SIGNING!!  That is right ladies and gents our good friend DJ wrote a book and it comes out....well TOMORROW!!!  But lets talk more about the book signing....

The book signing will be held at Schuler Books & Music in Grand Rapids Michigan. It is from 7 pm- 10 pm. You should all come out and join us!!!

I seriously can not wait for the this signing and to get my hands on this book! (DJ watch out for my review of 

this book very shortly on the blog!)

Second because of this awesome book signing being on a Thursday night, 3 hours away...I had to talk a couple days off work!!! So I have a 4 DAY WEEKEND!!! This I am really excited for. It is going to be amazing to sit on my couch and try to get through the stack of books that still needs to be read. 

It probably won't happen...lol

But last but not least, today as I was writing a post and checking some comments I come across my review for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. And I am reading the comments on it and one said this:

I nominated you for a Liebster award! Check it out here: http://bit.ly/rdG9F9

I was like what....

So I go to the web address and apparently I was nominated for a Blogger award!! I think that this is so awesome.  So I would like to thank Lindsay from The Geeky Beach Babe!  She nominated me!  Thank you so much.  It means a lot to me that someone is actually looking at what I write.  So here it is....

The Liebster Blog Award spotlights up and coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. 

The rules of the award are:

1. Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you.

2. Reveal your top 5 picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.

3. Copy and past the award on your blog.

4. Have faith that your followers will spread the love to other bloggers.

5. And most of all- have bloggity-blog fun!

My nominations in random order are:

Laura @ The Reading Nook

Laci @ Blog-O-Rama

Ash @ Typing Tiara

Ivy @ Ivy Reads

Ishita @ The Reading Fish

So my nominations in random order are:

Lynn @ Bringing the Epic

Jessica @ Jessica's Bookshelf

Not while I'm Reading

Jessica @ Shut Up! I'm Reading

Tiffany @ Tiffany Reads

Check them out

:)

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

By: Ransom Riggs

Publisher: Quirk Books

Pages: 348

Source: Bought the book for review

Goodreads Synopsis:

A mysterious island.

An abandoned orphanage.

A strange collection of very curious photographs.

It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.

A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography,Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

My Thoughts:

I am not going to lie...when I first saw this book I was very scared to pick it up and start reading it because the cover looked very scary...:/  I really did not know what to expect with the book.  So I did one of the worse things in my book imaginable....I looked up the trailer.

So going into this story, not having read any reviews about it only have had watched the trailer, I was scared out of my mind....that night I even had nightmares.  Now I think it was totally ridiculous.  

This book was a very good book.  It was very different then anything that I have read in a really long time.  It really shows that everything is not what it seems.  The cover of the book is very creepy yet pretty.  I love the antique feel it has.  

Okay so on with the book.  When I first started to read the book I thought about not reading it because I didn't know exactly what was going to happen and that kind of scared me.  But I am so glad that I decided to stick with it.  Jacob is a 16 year old boy who just recently lost one of his best friends....his grandfather.  So in honor of his grandfather, and to cope with his death, Jacob and his father go to an island off the coast of Whales where his grandfather spent some time at.  There he decides that he is going to travel to a house.  See this house took place in a lot of stories that his grandfather told him as a child.  He always that they were fake stories but he is in for a rude awakening.  There Jacob lives a story that his grandfather lived many years before.  Jacob has to decide if he is going to live in this time or in the past.....

I really liked the book a lot.  It was a very strange yet amazing book all tied into one.  The pictures really give this book something.  I am not totally for sure what it gives it but I can tell you this...the pictures make the book about 100 times better.  I loved how every picture tied into the story and tied in with the characters.  I think that it really helped the story.

My Rating:

I am giving the book 4 out 5 stars.  The book was very well written.  It is defiantly a book that I am glad that I bought.  I think that book is amazing just the way it is.  It should not be changed!

:)  

The summer I turned pretty

The summer I turned pretty

By: Jenny Han

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pages: 276

Source: Bought the book for review

Goodreads Synopsis: 

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer--they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one terrible and wonderful summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

My Thoughts:

So again I am starting this about how my good friend Lynn told me about this "great book" and how I should stop what I am reading and read it now.  Oh yeah how I would tell I don't know maybe another time....Well this past weekend I took Lynn to her first Half Priced Books trip.  As we were looking at the shelves of books I noticed The summer I turned pretty.  I showed it to Lynn and her response was "Oh my God you have to buy that and read it!"  I looked at the price and was like okay!  I picked it up yesterday thinking that it will be a nice easy read and OH MY GOD it was amazing! 

I never excepted to love this story so much.  You meet Belly and honestly at first I thought I was going to hate her.  She was a whiny little brat, who tried to get her brother and the other boys in trouble because she wasn't getting her way.  I have sister's that are like this and I automatically thought of them when I was reading about Belly.  Belly, her mom, and her brother go to a beach house with her mom's best friends family.  They have done this for many years and they all have become a family.  Belly loves the beach house.  This is all she knows during the summer.  But will this summer be different or will it be the same as all the other summers?

I think that Belly has really grown throughout the years just by the little stories that you are told within the book.  She is really trying to become a great young women and to me she has really accomplished that.  You really feel for her and her friends Conrad and Jeremiah with the hardship they are dealt with during this summer.  You really feel how much pain they are going through.   

This book was one of the best books that I have read in a really long time.  I think that writing was amazing and the characters were amazing!  I really can not wait to read the second and third book of the series!!!  I have to find out what happens to Belly!!!!

My Rating:  

I gave this book 5 out 5 stars!  It is kind of hard for me to give a book 5 stars because I will always find something wrong with a book or a character.  When I first started the book and I thought Belly was going to ruin this book for me, but you know what....she was really a great part of the book.  I think that if you haven't read this book you really need to leave your computer and go to the store right now and get this book!!!  It is really worth it!!

:)

GLEE SONG OF THE WEEK!! (8)

Hello Gleeks!!!   It is that time of the week again where we discuss our love of the show Glee!!!  I went to Indy with Lynn this weekend to see one of the best concerts of our lives....Miss Taylor Swift!!!!  And on our drive out there and back home all we listen to is Glee and Taylor....

So I a lot time to think about what song I was going to use this week, and I think that I found the perfect song...this song is a very mellow...and very soft!!!  

I love this song....

Landslide....

 i took my love and i took it down

i climbed a mountain and i turned around
and i saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills
well, the landslide brought me down

oh, mirror in the sky, what is love
can the child within my heart rise above
can i sail through the changing ocean tides
can i handle the seasons of my life

uh uh… uh uh, uh uh….

well, i’ve been afraid of changin’
cause i’ve built my life around you
but time makes you bolder
children get older
and i’m getting older too
well

well, i’ve been afraid of changin’
cause i’ve built my life around you
but time makes you bolder
children get older
and i’m getting older too

well, i’m getting older too

so.. take this love and take it down
yeah, and if you climb a mountain and you turn around
and if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills
http://www.elyricsworld.com/landslide_lyrics_glee.html
well, the landslide brought it down

and if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills
well maybe…
well maybe…
well maybe…
the landslide’ll bring you down

http://www.elyricsworld.com/landslide_lyrics_glee.html

:)

Tune in Tuesday (7)

Tune in Tuesday is a weekly meme the focuses on the music that you currently in love with at this time.  It is hosted by Ginger at GReads!  This is one of my all time favorite memes to do because my Husband and I share a passion for music and we listen to a lot of music!!!

This week I want to show you another song from one of the greatest bands!!!

My first concert with my husband was this band and they are very near and dear to my heart because of the that reason.  

Ladies and Gents....

Coheed and Cambria!!!

Keep your secrets in the dark
Nothing matters anymore
Body's breaking, drive me crazy
This is not your place
No, this is not your playground it's my heart
We were stupid, we got caught
Nothing matters anymore
So what? Here we are Juggernaut

Courage broken lash the scars
Could this love be what I want?
Body's breaking, driving me crazy
It's too broke!

We were stupid we got caught
Nothing matters anymore
So what, here we are Juggernaut

Juggernaut

So let's hang up some anger
We'll bury our burdens in blood
So hang up some anger
We'll bury our burdens in blood
We grow stronger Juggernaut

Answer me
"Did we take this too far?"
You've given all I could need
"Did we take this too far?"
Oh but your kiss won't leave me
"Did we take this too far?"
Cause your teardrops won't stop, chewing out my heart!

We were stupid we got caught
Nothing matters anymore
So what? Here we are Juggernaut!
Here we are Juggernaut!
We are Juggernaut!

Why, why, why? 

http://www.lyricsreg.com/lyrics/coheed+and+cambria/Here+We+Are+Juggernaut/

Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel

Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel

By: Richelle Mead

Publisher: Razor Bill

Pages: 327

Source: I bought the book for review

Goodreads Synopsis: 

Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose…

It's winter break at St. Vladimir's, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy's crawling with Guardians—including Rose's hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway. And if hand-to-hand combat with her mom wasn't bad enough, Rose's tutor Dimitri has his eye on someone else, her friend Mason's got a huge crush on her, and Rose keeps getting stuck in Lissa's head while she's making out with her boyfriend, Christian! The Strigoi are closing in, and the Academy's not taking any risks… This year, St. Vlad's annual holiday ski trip is mandatory.

But the glittering winter landscape and the posh Idaho resort only create the illusion of safety. When three friends run away in an offensive move against the deadly Strigoi, Rose must join forces with Christian to rescue them. But heroism rarely comes without a price…

My Thoughts:

So when I first read Vampire Academy I was not sure if I would like or really hate it.  Boy was I wrong....I loved it!!!!  I love the story about Rose and Lisa and their bond together.  Rose meeting Dimitri, and you automatically needing to know if they get together or not.  And many other characters that Rose meets while she is at St. Vladimir's.  

This book is book 2 in the series and many things are happening to Rose this year.  All she wants to do is keep her grades up and graduate so she can become Lissa's guardian.  She has many challenges during this year including whether or not to date Dimitri....She and the class are approaching Christmas break and all the school wants is to be able to enjoy their vacation.  And that may not happen!   

Rose is a very strong willed girl and she knows what she wants and what she needs to be come a guardian. She knows there are many things that are in her way with both becoming a guardian and finding her true love.

This book was amazing!  You really feel for the Rose and all of her issues in her family.  You know that it is more than just beef with her mom.  You know that there is something happening in her family, but you just don't know what. 

My Rating:

I gave this book 4 out of 5 stars.  It is defiantly a book that you should read.  But you defiantly need to read the first book to go with the series.  There is some back story that you need to know that is in Vampire Academy that is not in Frostbite!

:)