Annoucing The Last Reads of 2012 Readathon Intro Post!

Welcome to the Last Reads of 2012 Readathon!

 

 

Are you a little short on that 2012 Goodreads reading goal? Maybe there's a few last books that you really meant to read this year but never got around to it? Want to meet some new friends who love to read?
I say yes, yes, and yes!

Jen @ YA Romantics, Eileen @ Singing and Reading in the Rain and I are hosting a LAST READS OF 2012 READATHON!

We hope this event will inspire you to achieve any and all last reading goals of the year. Maybe there's just one book you want to finish or maybe you've got a whole stack. How much you read and what you read is completely up to you. You can join us for as many days as you want and you don't have to be a blogger to participate.

Keep the group posted on your progress through Goodreads updates and/or Twitter -- we will be tweeting with hashtag #LR2012.

Here's how you can join us:

Sign up to participate in the readathon. You can do that in the linky below. Please link to your blog if you have one, or to your Twitter account or Goodreads profile if you aren't a blogger. You can sign up on any of our blogs -- the linky will automatically update on all three.

To sign up for the readathon, please fill out the linky


If you want to write up a post with your goals, or just decorate your sidebar, you can also grab our pretty button (designed by Eileen!) here:

   

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On Monday December 17 we'll post a list of challenges that readathon participants can join. You can do as many or as few challenges as you want. I'm hosting "Battle of The Teams Challenge! and I'll ask you to face off with your favorite teams. Team Dimitri Vs. Team Adrien, etc, it's up to you!

We are also looking for LR 2012 Challenge Hosts. Eileen has come up with some great challenges you can host -- or come up your own.

If you'd like to sign up to host a challenge, please fill out the Google Doc below and Eileen will get back to you. If you have questions about hosting, please put them in the Google Doc. Challenge hosts should also sign up for the readathon in the linky above!

 



Follower Friday (#11) - Saddest Book You Last Read

 

Follower Friday is Hosted @ Parajunkee

Today's Question: What is the last book that made you cry? Tell us about the scene…

 

My Answer: Probably the last book that made me cry was Insurgent by Veronica Roth! It was such a whirlwind of emotions and feeling plus heartbreak I was cluthing the book so  much! Tris and Four were killing me in that book! I couldn't remember the scene but morstly the whole book was an emotional rollercoaster!

Now what's Your Follow Friday?
 

Zombie Lore: Dearly Departed - Lia Habel

Dearly Departed by Lia Habel

Date Released: October 18th, 2011

Publisher:Del Rey  

Pages: 470 pages

Format: Paperback

Source: Barnes and Noble

Rating: Really Liked

Series: Gone With The Respiration #1

Goodreads Synopsis:  Love can never die.

Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie? The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria—a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible—until she’s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses.

But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead—and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit, luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there’s no turning back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win, separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then, beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.

In Dearly, Departed, romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love.

From Goodreads

My Review

 

Tagline: "Filled with zombies and hints of romance, Dearly Departed is a good zombie novel. There's laughs, death, and zombie romance!"

 

Dearly Departed was that type of book that sticks out to you on the way to the bookstore. I mean it's ZOMBIES? Who wouldn't want to pick it up? Plus romance with a human, hell yeah, right? Well Dearly Departed was like that and it was a great read but it needed more spark and action.

Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead or rather, the undead?

Dearly Departed sucks you into the world of Victorian London, but now it's the 2195's, the future and it's filled with growing technology. You have Nora Dearly who this great heronine that had loads of potential for this amazing character, but through the book she got way better and she shows lots of skill. She goes through a lot but overall she was kinda undecided at time with the choices she made. I was really crossing my fingers that she would get better along the way but it didn't come out the way I wanted it too. Plus, Bram was surprisingly a great character! I didn't really imagine him as someone who was a zombie but someone raw and emotional, Lia Habel really crafted him well and the romance was good.

Throughout reading, Dearly Departed, I was always thinking, where is my zombie action? Who doesn't want some kick butt action between humans and zombies? Well, there was only one scene in the beginning and the end was...it's hard to say..but it was good, not bad or amazing but just good. *SPOLIER ALERT* I mean it took Bram and Nora the whole book to find Pamela, Nora's best friend. It was like that was the whole point?? If so, it should have been done done quicker and the ending should have been more surprising and layered.  But Pamela, was also one of my favorite characters in this book. Nora know how to write so well with descriptive details and she really captures the essence of the Victorian Era.

Overall, if your looking for a zombie read this book is one you should keep in your mind. It's neither good or bad, but if you want to know you read a zombie book this year pick this one up. Dearly Departed has hints of zombie romance, laughs, and death, pick Dearly Departed up soon!

 

 

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Waiting on Wednesday (#14) - The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson

Waiting on Wednesday is Hosted by Jill @ Breaking The Spine

After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Devereaux has been living in Bristol under the close watch of her parents. So when her therapist suddenly suggests she return to Wexford, Rory jumps at the chance. But Rory's brush with the Ripper touched her more than she thought possible: she's become a human terminus, with the power to eliminate ghosts on contact. She soon finds out that the Shades— the city's secret ghost-fighting police—are responsible for her return. The Ripper may be gone, but now there is a string of new inexplicable deaths threatening London. Rory has evidence that the deaths are no coincidence. Something much more sinister is going on, and now she must convince the squad to listen to her before it's too late.

In this follow-up to the Edgar Award-nominated The Name of the Star, Maureen Johnson adds another layer of spectacularly gruesome details to the streets of London that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.
 

 Why I'm Waiting For It: I completely love the first book and stayed up all night reading it because it was so good! I'm hoping that this one has all the suspense, edge, and action like the first book! I so cannot wait to grab this in 2013!

The Madness Underneath will be released on February 26th 2013 by Putnam Juvenile

Now what are you waiting for this Wednesday?