Jenna Likes to Read

Books Read: Linger by Maggie Stiefvater – I wanted to like this more than I did.  I think I might have built it up too much in my head, because I love her writing.  I really liked Cole and Isabel, but Grace and Sam kind of grated on me and were too melodramatic.  Parts of [...]

I read a lot of books this year – the most I’ve ever read in a year – and these are some of my favorites.  I had a hard time whittling the list down to just a few, but I didn’t want to spend all day working on this, so I had to stop somewhere.  [...]

Waiting on Wednesday was started by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Usually I try to make my WoW posts about a book that is coming out in the next month or so that I am interested in.  But yesterday Maggie Stiefvater posted the cover and a teaser for Linger, the sequel to Shiver, and I [...]

Ballad: The Gathering of Faerie by Maggie Stiefvater In this mesmerizing sequel to Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception, music prodigy James Morgan and his best friend, Deirdre, join a private conservatory for musicians. James’ musical talent attracts Nuala, a soul-snatching faerie muse who fosters and feeds on the creative energies of exceptional humans until they [...]

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Share the title and author, too, so others [...]

Lament by Maggie Stiefvater Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a painfully shy but prodigiously gifted musician. She’s about to find out she’s also a cloverhand—one who can see faeries. When a mysterious boy enters her ordinary suburban life, seemingly out of nowhere, Deirdre finds herself infatuated. Trouble is, the enigmatic and conflicted Luke turns out to [...]

Waiting on Wednesday was started by Jill at Breaking the Spine. The book I am eagerly anticipating this week is Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater. In this mesmerizing sequel to Lament, music prodigy James Morgan and his best friend, Deirdre, join a private conservatory for musicians. James’ musical talent attracts Nuala, a soul-snatching faerie muse who [...]

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Share the title and author, too, so others [...]

This is a teaser from Maggie Stiefvater’s BALLAD, a novel involving homicidal faeries and kissing that’s coming out October 1st. He turned towards me. For a long moment, he stood facing me. I was held, anchored to the ground – not by his music, which still called and pushed against the music already in my [...]

It finally came!  This weekend was the Decatur Book Festival!  I volunteered to work the first half of the day at The Escape, the Teen Stage.  At the beginning of September, I decided to read a book from each of the authors I would be seeing.  So I read I’d Tell You I Love You, [...]