Jenna Likes to Read

Description from Goodreads: When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents pay teen girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the most prized members of society. Girls sport fake baby bumps and the school cafeteria stocks folic-acid-infused food. Sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated [...]

Description from Goodreads: What if you knew exactly when you would die? Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb — males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep [...]

Description from Goodreads: In the beginning, there’s a boy standing in the trees . . . . Clara Gardner has recently learned that she’s part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it [...]

I didn’t get a lot of reading done this week because baseball season started back!  I went to three games this week (one of which included a post game concert by The Avett Brothers) and while it was awesome, I am wiped out! Bloodthirsty by Flynn Meaney – This was okay.  I didn’t hate it, [...]

The YA Challenge is over!  YAY!!!!!  It was great.  I read a lot of books I’ve had sitting on my shelf that had never bubbled up to the top of my reading choices.  But I have a bunch of books I have wanted to read, but they weren’t worth a lot of points and Competitive [...]

XVI by Julia Karr Nina Oberon’s life is pretty normal: she hangs out with her best friend, Sandy, and their crew, goes to school, plays with her little sister, Dee. But Nina is 15. And like all girls she’ll receive a Governing Council-ordered tattoo on her 16th birthday. XVI. Those three letters will be branded [...]

Okay, so getting behind on In My Mailbox is not that big of a deal because I can look back at Goodreads and PBS and figure out what I’ve mailed and received.  Getting behind on Weekly Recaps is bad though!  Now I have to remember what I liked or didn’t like about stuff I read [...]

Books read this week: Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta – Have I mentioned how I am in love with MM’s writing? :) Review here (Aussie Challenge, Melina Marchetta Challenge, Realistic Fiction) The Half-life of Planets by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin – I am kind of torn on this book.  On one hand, I really [...]

Across the Universe by Beth Revis Goodreads Description: A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen [...]

One week of 2011 down!  By this time next week, I’ll be 30 years old.  Ack!  How did that happen???  LOL  I’m not really that stressed about it… age is just a number, right? Anyway, I am making fantastic progress on my Reading Challenges already this year.  It’s easy now because everything I’ve read has [...]