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2020 Dystopia Reading Challenge: January-June Link-Up

Welcome to the first half of the 2020 Dystopia Reading Challenge !! This will be the first of two bi-annual link-ups for your reviews! So this link-up will cover January, February, March, April, May & June! The link-up will always be easily accessible by hovering over Dystopia Reading Challenge tab and selecting Review Link-Up from the drop down menu. :) HELPFUL LINKS: Dystopian, (post-)apocalyptic and sci-fi YA of 2016 Best Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Best YA Dystopia Novels LINK-UP GUIDELINES: Link up your book reviews under "Review Link-up" as follows: Name of book @ Your blog name, Goodreads, Shelfari, Booklikes, etc. Make sure to use an email you check, because if you win the giveaway, I'll be using that email to contact you. Remember, each review you link up is an entry into the giveaway! :) Giveaway is open international as long as the Book Depository ships to you! :) Try and stop by some other reviews! Lets create a sense of community and get to t...
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The Secret

Wordless Wednesday - The Birds

My sister and I used to go to the zoo together all the time with my niece. Each and every time my sister loved feeding the birds. I wanted to so badly, but got scared every time. I couldn't do it. She tried every time to get me to feed the birds. She was very patient with me, but I just couldn't do it. Just recently my boyfriend, niece and I went to the zoo again and I DID IT!! For the first time ever I actually stuck out my hand and had a bird (or two) land on it and then eat the apple. HOLY COW IS IT NERVE WRACKING!! It is so scary to have a live animal perch on my arm and eat. What if they miss? What if they peck my eyes out? What if - what if--- Animals are so amazing to me. I cannot get enough, but the fact is, they are wild and can never predict what they will do. (not so) Wordless Wednesday
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Tuesday - Tune In & Teaser

An incredibly beautiful song played during the Oscars that falls in the background. My niece used to sing this when she was younger. I think they sang it in a class when she was in elementary school. I just remember her cute Minnie Mouse voice singing this. What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong Coop A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting by Michael Perry "We are going rural in hope that we might become more self sufficient in terms of firewood, an expanded garden and perhaps a pair of pigs. Whether through prescience or too much nervous reading, we have developed a low-key doomsday mind-set regarding the imminent future, and we believe the time has come to store up some potatoes and teach our young'uns how to forage."
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Review - Confessions of a Surgeon by Paul Ruggieri

Title: Confessions of a Surgeon The Good, The Bad and the Complicated Life Behind the O.R. Doors Author: Paul A. Ruggieri Publisher: Penguin Group Publish Date: Jan 3, 2012 Paperback, 272 pages GoodReads Barnes and Noble Amazon I absolutely love books that detail another part of life I wish I had time to experience. I have always dreamed of being a doctor. Who doesn't want to learn how to save people? Who doesn't want to live on the edge and experience anything and everything that can happen? Can you imagine holding someone's heart in your own hands? The possibilities are amazing. I really enjoyed this book. Dr Ruggieri gives a very detailed behind the scenes look at being a doctor. Definitely details the good, bad and ugly. I really enjoyed reading about how Ruggieri feels he has no real human emotions when being a surgeon. He cannot feel the loss because the family has more; he cannot feel the stress at complications that arise because he has to fix them immediately; he c...
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My eye went to Chile and came back with a disease

On Wednesday, we had inventory at work. This means a very long day of counting, recounting, scanning, verifying and other monotonous tasks. It should have been easy, but about halfway through the evening my eye started to throb. I couldn't see anything. I kept asking people, "Do you see anything?" The pain was just unreal. I have never been hit in the eye, but I am pretty sure this is what it would feel like. Around my eyeball itself felt like someone took a knife and sliced it open. Every time my eye moved there was stabbing pain. When I made an expression that involved my eyes, I would feel like I was kicked in the stomach. It was ridiculous. I was sure I hadn't hit it on anything. Yes, I am a klutz and it is very easy for me to have a few bruises consistently. And having a random pain is not uncommon, but my eye??? The only thing I could come up with was maybe my cat had kicked me in the middle of the night. Izabel tends to crawl up on my chest and lay on me like a...
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Wordless Wednesday - Hawk

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Tuesday - Tune In & Teaser

YO TUESDAY!! It's been a few weeks since I have participated. Last week I really wanted to post a Whitney Houston song, but alas, it has been INSANE. I have been working long 10+ hour work days due to inventory. I have driven to other cities to help them with their inventory. I have been whipping my store and my people into shape. Along with us hiring like six new people who I have been mercilessly training. Poor lasses! On continuous loop when I remember to push the play button! It Will Rain by Bruno Mars Reading a really fantastic book right now and so many more I want to check out from work, but with inventory I cannot. I am so excited for Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison and Fever by Lauren DeStefano and The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M Danforth . OMG the list goes on and on. The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston "Now roll it up and come and stand beside me close to the fire. First, I will say a prayer to speak to those who might linger between worlds. If...
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Review - Ashes by Isla Bick

Title: Ashes Ashes Trilogy #1 Author: Ilsa J. Bick Publisher: Egmontusa Publish Date: Sept 8, 2011 Hardcover, 480 pages GoodReads Barnes and Noble (nookbook $7) Amazon Starting with the obvious, this book is gore to the max. It has stories about flesh eating zombies. That said, I am so surprised I liked this book. I truly do not care for gore. Ew! It's gross. And the better the the author, the better the descriptions, the grosser it is. I don't want to read about a human turned zombie, kneeling down licking the fingers they just dragged through the oozing eye of a dead person. On the other hand, this book had a major amount of humanity. It talks about what would happen should we have a sort of apocalypse; some die, some live and (of course) some become flesh eating zombies. Main character: Alex, a woman set off on a journey to hike a mountain with her parent's ashes on her. Not only that she has a tumor in her head that is killing her and she has finally decided to forgo a...
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Using my feminine wiles

I rarely ever use my cuteness to gain things in my relationship. I am also not a crier. I don't do those things to gain my man's attention and get what I want. I usually just ask and then if it's a no, I do it myself. However. . . . I did use up one of my times yesterday for DQ. YUP a big, fat, full of fat BLIZZARD. We were sitting on the couch watching TV (sigh, I haven't figured out how to read while he is watching tv yet) and I realized I really wanted a dessert. In fact, I had been craving a blizzard and asked about four times that afternoon, but alas, still hadn't made our way over there. I had reached that phase where I really could live without it if, I had to go get it myself. So . . . insanity ensues. ME: Honey, will you go get me a blizzard? HIM: NO I sigh and lean back. Thinking about the blizzard my tummy would love to devour. I look at my boyfriend and say, PLEASE? HIM: NO ME: Puhlease?!?!? HIM: NOO. I don't want to go. I am comfortable. ME: Damn i...
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Review - All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin

Title: All These Things I've Done Author: Gabrielle Zevin Publisher: Farrar, Straus andGiroux Publish Date: Sept 6, 2011 Hardcover, 354 pages GoodReads Barnes and Noble Amazon Highly looking forward to this book. Deeply disappointed. Not what I thought it would be like at all. I really like Anya, the main character, but the rest of the book was kind of blah. Never a moment where I felt I couldn't walk away from the book and there was a lot going on. Bummer. It is getting pretty good reviews on goodreads - more than 3 stars. Summary - In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and...
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Wordless Wednesday - Prickly

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Review - Forgotten by Cat Patrick

Title: Forgotten Author: Cat Patrick Author's Blog Publisher: Little Brown Books Publish Date: June 7, 2011 Hardcover, 288 pages GoodReads Barnes and Noble Amazon I absolutely loved this book. The concept is awesome and the writing is enjoyable. There are more than a few books out there about people having amnesia and I have read and reviewed a few here, but this one was so fresh and unique. London's mind resets every morning. This means she doesn't remember anything from the previous day! She must write it all down in her personal journal if she wants to remember. CAN YOU IMAGINE? Your husband ticks you off and you write him out of your journal? You have a really bad day and you can forget it. You do something really horrible and you forget. Course, then again, can't remember the wonderful moments either. One of my favorite moments is when she meets a new person at school and doesn't think it's important enough to write it in her journal - next day she has no c...
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90% Raw

I have been working on going raw for over a week now. Seems minimal, but I feel pretty good. So far. I did experience a HUGE day of food withdrawal. Sadly it was at work. LOL My poor boss. I lost it before lunch knowing I was going to have to eat my healthy lunch and all I wanted was crap. It was horrible. I was literally nuts for 20 minutes. Him pushing me to eat crap is what helped me choose to eat my healthy lunch. Ironic, huh? About two hours later, I felt the relief of normal again . (well semi-normal) So far I have struggled the most with making my lunch for work. I have to start making it the night before because I keep hitting snooze til I am running late. Damn. I have to get to sleep earlier. I am trying to leave leftovers in an easy to sort out container that I can just grab and go. My favorite part is grocery shopping. lol And enjoying my meals once I sit down. I am realizing that I am eating much slower and really tasting my food. I still read while I eat, but I notice I am...
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Book Review: Unseen by Stephanie Erickson

Title: Unseen The Unseen Trilogy Book 1 Author: Stephanie Erickson Publisher: Pickles Press Publish Date: November 19, 2014 Goodreads Amazon It has been quite the ride this week with fantabulous book after fantabulous book!! Stephanie Erickson kept me in the book hangover with The Unseen. Mac has always been odd because when she was a little girl she realized she could read others thoughts. A doctor provided her with iLs. Mac wears this device on her ears. It plays music and drowns out the thoughts of others allowing her to concentrate. Ever since she was little, she has always wondered why she has this ability and if she is as alone as she feels. One day she sees a man watching her and from there, things change. She has hard choices to make and it will always change her. I am looking forward to the following books in this series to see if Stephanie Erickson develops the others in the Unseen that appeared occasionally while Mac was in training. I am so enamored with the back stories of...
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Book Review: Imitation by Heather Hildenbrand

Title: Imitation Clone Chronicles #1 Author: Heather Hildenbrand Publisher: Accendo Press Publish Date: March 12, 2013 ebook, 272 pages Goodreads Amazon It is funny how there are so many times during life that I feel like everyone is exaclty like me and I am like no one. We all struggle to fit in and then one day, we struggle to be unique. At what point does this change? Imagine being made to to the replacement of your true self, but when you are finally called forward, it will be your death. This is the life of Ven in Imitation. She is happy and content in her current life being the product of a real person. But she is called forth to do her duty. When this happens, her entire world falls apart. it is exactly like she never knew it would be. There is a tyrant controlling her every move with motives she may never know. She meets true friends and those friends who are really enemies. She begins to learn who she really is and can be, by becoming another person. Her imitation. Looking for...
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