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Tackling My Netgalley TBR – February 2018 Update

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I’ve been dreading doing an update on my Netgalley TBR… I didn’t do so well in February and got myself even more behind. I just could not resist! Anyway, let’s get started on this update. I’ve crossed out the books I’ve read.

  1. The Booke of Whispers by Kimberley Starr
  2. Odd and True by Cat Winters
  3. Rosemarked by Livia Blackburne
  4. Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
  5. Love Songs and Other Lies by Jessica Pennington
  6. Booke of Hidden by Jeri Westerson
  7. All the Wrong Chords by Christine Hurley Deriso
  8. Gray Wolf Island Tracey Neithercott
  9. The Canary Club by Sherry D. Ficklin
  10. Berseker by Emmy Laybourne
  11. Nemesis by Anna Banks
  12. The Breathless by Tara Goedjen
  13. A Poison Dark and Drowning by Jessica Cluess
  14. 36 Questions that Changed My Mind About You by Vicki Grant
  15. Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
  16. Just Friends by Dyan Sheldon
  17. The Midnight Dance by Nikki Katz
  18. Playing by Heart by Carmela Martino
  19. All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry
  20. A Taxonomy of Love by Rachael Allen
  21. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
  22. My New Crush Gave to Me by Shani Petroff
  23. Plague Land by Alex Scarrow
  24. Stronger by Janey Nissenson
  25. Pumpkin Spice Secrets by Hillary Homzie
  26. Kiss Me in New York by Catherine Rider
  27. Fraternize by Rachel Van Dylen
  28. Run Away With Me by Mila Gray
  29. Always Red by Isabelle Ronin
  30. Flight Season by Marie Marquardt
  31. The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody
  32. Breaking the Ice by Julie Cross
  33. What the Valley Knows by Heather Christie (approved Jan 8)
  34. Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian (approved Jan 8)
  35. That Secret You Keep by Brenda Benny (approved Jan 8)
  36. Cold Hard Truth by Anne Greenwood Brown (approved Jan 8)
  37. How You Ruined My Life by Jeff Strand (approved Jan 8)
  38. Love Between Enemies by Molly E. Lee (blog tour)
  39. Pretty Dead Girls by Monica Murphy (blog tour)
  40. The Dating Debate by Chris Cannon (blog tour)
  41. A Kiss in the Dark by Gina Ciocca (approved Jan 30)  Finished early this morning
  42. Bad Business by Nicole Edwards
  43. This Heart of Mine by C.C. Hunter
  44. On The Line by Liz Lincoln
  45. Thirsty by Mia Hopkins
  46. Blood Type by K.A. Linde
  47. Rumor Has It by Jessica Lemmon
  48. Bookish Boyfriends by Tiffany Schmidt
  49. Blood Veil by Megan Erickson
  50. Out of Left Field by Kris Hui Lee
  51. Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
  52. Phoenix Fire by S.D. Grimm
  53. Our Dark Stars by Audrey Grey and Krystal Wade
  54. Furyborn (The Empirium Trilogy) by Claire Legrand – YAAAASSS

You guys… I tried really hard not to request anything, but there were some really good books I couldn’t resist. I thought I wouldn’t get approved since my feedback ratio is still under 50%, but to my surprise, I actually did! I’m super excited for Furyborn and Bookish Boyfriends!!! I didn’t think I would get those two, but I’m so happy I did.

Definitely not doing that great at tacking my Netgalley TBR. Oh, but I’m really fantastic at drowning in it. My feedback ratio went from 49% to 45%. Could be worse I guess… but, I need to do better this month!! Wish me luck!

sincerelykarenjo2

Top Ten Tuesday – Favorite Book Quotes

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Hello my fellow book lovers and welcome to another segment of Top Ten Tuesday! I hope you’re all having a wonderful day.

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and has been moved to That Artsy Reader Girl since January 16, 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday is Favorite Book Quotes. If you’ve been following me for a while, then you may have seen my Favorite Quotes Fridays posts where I share some of my favorite book quotes from a book I’ve read and loved. They can be inspirational, funny, heartwarming, adorable or swoony. For today’s post, I’ll be sharing book quotes that made me swoon and aww, so be prepared to have some epic FEELS!

unravelme“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. 

I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”  

“I want so many things,” he whispers. “I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.” His fingers graze the hem of my top and he says “I want this up.” He tugs on the waist of my pants and says “I want these down.” He touches the tips of his fingers to the sides of my body and says, “I want to feel your skin on fire. I want to feel your heart racing next to mine and I want to know it’s racing because of me, because you want me. Because you never,” he says, he breathes, “never want me to stop. I want every second. Every inch of you. I want all of it.”

theone“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”

“I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.” 

 

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“You drive me insane June. You’re the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can’t catch my breath because I’m trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don’t you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.” 

 

thenotebook“So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday.” 

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. ”

deanholderAnd I’m not ready to tell you I’m in love with you, because I’m not. Not yet. But whatever this I’m feeling – it’s so much more than like…And for the past few weeks I’ve been trying to figure it out. I’ve been trying to figure out why there isn’t some word to describe it. I want to tell you exactly how I feel but there isn’t a single goddamned word in the entire dictionary that can describe this point between liking you and loving you, but I need that word…”
“Living,”she finally whispers.
“I live you, Sky…I live you so much.”

“I’m pretty sure it’s too soon to love her, but shit. She’s got to stop doing and saying these unexpected things that make me want to fast-forward whatever’s going on between us. Because I want to kiss her and make love to her and marry her and make her have my babies and I want it all to happen tonight” 

igniteme“His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, “I think,” he says, “my heart is going to explode,” and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. 

Because this.

This is everything.” 

Bonus (because I love this series so much and Restore Me comes out today!!!)

“It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.” 

Hope you enjoyed these quotes as much as I do! What are some of your favorite book quotes?!? Leave your comments and links down below so I can check out your posts!

Have a great day!

sincerelykarenjo2