Dusty Cover Monday - #5

It's Monday! That means it is time for our featured meme here on Novel Goddess, Dusty Covers! Basically Dusty Covers is an opportunity to reconnect with a favorite book releases from 6 months ago or longer or a book you've started and put down and need to finish-up.


My family and I decided to get rid of our satellite TV service...we were looking for ways to cut costs. But we are keeping our streaming Netflix! It was over the weekend that I stumbled on the first (and only) season of "The Nine Lives of Chloe King" based on the book series by Liz Braswell.  Over the course of the weekend I watched all 10 episodes.  When I saw that the show was going be on the ABC Family channel I decided to read the "omnibus" book which had all 3 in 1.  I got through the first book and put it aside.  Since I enjoyed the series, which wasn't renewed, I figured I should read the other two books in the series.  So that's my goal for this Dusty Cover Monday!

Dusty Covers Monday #4

It's Monday! That means it is time for our featured meme here on Novel Goddess, Dusty Covers! Basically Dusty Covers is an opportunity to reconnect with a favorite book releases from 6 months ago or longer or a book you've started and put down and need to finish-up. In honor of the trailer release for Hunger Games the movie, my Dusty Cover for this week is Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I am probably one of two people who have not read this book yet (the other being my 4 year old). It is now the time to pick-up this book and get it read so I can understand all the commotion going on with its soon to be released movie. Plus, I have heard such wonderful things about the series as a whole from, none other than, Novel Goddess herself, Pam and many others. So, let the games begin!!

Dusty Cover Monday!

It's "Dusty Cover Monday" yet again!  Dusty Cover Monday is a meme/challenge started here at Novel Goddess by my partner in crime, Kristy Z. The challenge is to get you to pick up a book that has been sitting and collecting dust, that you've been meaning to read...or maybe pick up a book published a year or so ago and read it.  With all our excitement over new releases, it's easy to set a previous "new release" aside to pick up something that came out more recently. So grab a book and let's go.

My Dusty Cover is "Compound" by S. A. Bodeen

Goodreads Synopsis: Eli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone, and they've become accustomed to their new life. Accustomed, but not happy. 
For Eli, no amount of luxury can stifle the dull routine of living in the same place, with only his two sisters, his father and mother, doing the same thing day after day after day. 

As problems with their carefully planned existence threaten to destroy their sanctuary - and their sanity - Eli can't help but wonder if he's rather take his chances outside. 

Eli's father built the Compound to keep them safe. But are they safe - or sorry?

Dusty Covers Monday #3

Dusty Cover Monday is a meme started here at Novel Goddess by KristyZ (me), that is a gentle reminder for us to go back to a book published a year or so ago, dust off its cover and read it! Sometimes we get caught-up in the new releases and forget all those books we were excited about in much the same way, not so long ago.

Kristy's Dusty Cover for this week is: I Am Number Four by Pitticus Lore

Why did I choose this book? Well is does have about half an inch of dust on it, seriously. I was about 100 pages into the book when I set it down to read other books and just never got around to finishing it. Now it is time to dust off the cover, finish what I started and move on to the second book in the series.

I Am Number Four

In the beginning they were a group of nine. Nine aliens who left their home planet of Lorien when it fell under attack by the evil Mogadorian. Nine aliens who scattered on Earth. Nine aliens who look like ordinary teenagers living ordinary lives, but who have extraordinary, paranormal skills. Nine aliens who might be sitting next to you now.

The Nine had to separate and go into hiding. The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, and Number Three in Kenya. All of them were killed. John Smith, of Paradise, Ohio, is Number Four. He knows that he is next. (synopsis courtesy of Goodreads)

Dusty Cover Monday - #2

It's Dusty Cover Monday once again!

What is Dusty Cover Monday? Well it's a meme started here at Novel Goddess, by our own Kristy Zee, that reminds you to pick up one of those books you've been "meaning to read" that's been collecting dust and actually read it.  Or, in lieu, of anything dust covered, pick up a book that was published in a previous year, that you've been "meaning to read" and read it.

My Dusty Cover for this week is:  The Fallen Omnibus (Books 1 & 2) by Thomas Sniegoski

THE ULTIMATE QUEST FOR REDEMPTION

On his eighteenth birthday, Aaron begins to hear strange voices and is convinced he is going insane. But having moved from foster home to foster home, Aaron doesn't know whom he can trust. He wants to confide in the cute girl from class, but fears she'll confirm he's crazy.

Then a mysterious man begins following Aaron. He knows about Aaron's troubled past and his new powers. And he has a message for Aaron: As the son of a mortal and an angel, Aaron has been chosen to redeem the Fallen.

Aaron tries to dismiss the news and resists his supernatural abilities. But he must accept his newfound heritage — and quickly. For the dark powers are gaining strength, and are hell-bent on destroying him....

Dusty Cover Monday - #1

So my partner in crime, and occasional poster here on Novel Goddess, Kristy Zee had what I would call, "A Brilliant Idea".  With all the excitement out there for Newly Released books...Kristy thought we should start a Meme to remember those books we were once so excited about, but have yet to read.  You know, the ones sitting on your nightstand collecting dust. Or maybe you are a better housekeeper than I am and you don't have Dusty Covers, but still have a stack of books on the nightstand.

See, Kristy knows me so well! My stack of excitement isn't sitting on my nightstand, but on the floor next to the night stand and is taller than the nightstand.

So with this being the inaugural "Dusty Cover Monday" post...I am committing to reading a book out of my stack of "Dusty Covers". My choice for this week is....
Old Magic
by Marianne Curley

GoodReads Synopsis: Jarrod Thornton is mesmerizing, but Kate Warren doesn't know why. 

The moment the new guy walks into the room, Kate senses something strange and intense about him. Something supernatural. Her instincts are proven correct a few minutes later when, bullied by his classmates, Jarrod unknowingly conjures up a freak thunderstorm inside their classroom.

Jarrod doesn't believe in the paranormal. When Kate tries to convince him that he has extraordinary powers that need to be harnessed, he only puts up with her "hocus pocus" notions because he finds her captivating. However, the dangerous, uncontrolled strengthening of his gift finally convinces Jarrod that he must take Kate's theories seriously. Together, they embark on a remarkable journey—one which will unravel the mystery that has haunted Jarrod's family for generations and pit the teens against immense forces in a battle to undo the past and reshape the future.
I loved Marianne Curley's "Guardians of Time" Trilogy, so I knew this was another book for me when I saw it on the bookstore shelf.