Deweys 24 Hour ReadAThon: Ten Year Anniversary! WHAT!!!!!

Its that time again. I am using this day to start up on my blog again. Its been a while. Its been a busy busy life. So to kick it all of... Dewey's 24 hour read a thon! YAY!! I look forward to this every 6 months and this is the first one in our new house,  We have so many new places to read..... and its Deweys 10 year celebration. WOW.  I have only been apart of it for  5 years and I so enjoy it. I am sure I will be doing many more in the future years. As long as Dewwwys is here so am I. So lets get this started shall we???

Hour Zero Opening Meme: 

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? Texas USA 

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? This is hard. I have a lot of Walking Dead to read and I am excited for Wolves and 
Roses by Christina Bauer 


3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? Oh I love my Sprees!


4) Tell us a little something about yourself! I love to read... duh.. I have a 8 year old german shephered Luna and a brand new baby, 4 month old German Shephered Groot. I also have a wondeful and loveing hubby who works hard and enjoys to read too. He also joins this day of fun. I have my daughter and her hubby joining us and my little 4 year old grandson who is the light of my life. 


5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to? I don't think I will  do too much different. I am not going to try and read a certian amount or post everything. I am just going to wing it and have fun. no plans really. Just lots of reading, posting, snacking, and COFFEE!!!

Hour 1: 

Challenge:  10 Years in 10 Books 

Submit one book recommendation published in each year of the Readathon (2007-2017).

This is a little hard. so many books. But here are my recommendations.... 

Hour 2 and Hour 3:

Hour 2 Challenge: Traveler’s Log -

My Creepy Journey:

Well, my travels were kind of spooking, I visited a haunted bridge in Ohio. There were many visions sounds, and eerie feelings of pain, broken hearts, and troubled souls.  I  didn't stay too long I needed to get out of there. It was just too much to absorb.  So I ran and ran... straight into a herd of zombies.... I am still fighting my way through and hope to make it quick.... I need to get to my next destination... the wicked woods, a cursed land with shifters, fairies and witches oh my. Maybe here I can finally rest for just a while before I find my next spine-tingling experience.

Hour 3 Challenge : Book and Beverage

Here are my monster coffee and my current book, We All Fall Down by Natalie D Richards

Books finished - 1
Challenges finished -3




Hour 4 and Hour 5 and Hour 6

Hour 4 Challenge-  Readathon Memories 


Favorite reads of past ReadaThons

October 2012-                              April 2013-                            October 2013-
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October 2014-                                 April 2015-                             October 2015
                                 

April 2016                                   April 2017 
               


Hour 5 Challenge:  #ReadMoreWomen

Here is my picture of the first book in some of my favorite serise written by women

Hour 6 challenge- Thrills and Chills

Here is the most thrilling and chilling book I have read 

Books finished - 2
Challenges finished -7




currently reading and 50 percent done with 




Hour 7 and Hour 8

Hour 7 challenge was a crossword puzzle from Gabs About Books - you can find it here.. I did finish the crossword but would not like to post the answers for those that still want to do the puzzle.

Hour 8 challenge #CoverFromMemory Halloween Edition

Hour 9 Hour 10 Hour 11

Hour 10 challenge: Readathon  Mad Libs!

I did this one with my hubby. He answered mine and answered his. Here was his answers in paragraph form. I took my paragraph out of Wolves and Roses. 

The hairy door runs open and our group dog, Madame Grimoire sits in the room. As always, Madame looks like she waddled out of a kitchen bat ad from 1952. She is middle-aged with smelly read hair and long makeup. 

Books finished - 3
Challenges finished -11




currently reading and 75  percent done with 

Hour 12: Midevent update 

Hour 12 Challenge mid event survey 

Mid-Event Survey:
1. What are you reading right now? The Walking Dead Vol 8 and Wolves and Roses 


2. How many books have you read so far? Completed 3
3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon? Hopefully i get to this one. Beserker 

4. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those? all the time. I just try and ignore them and keep reading. Dogs are the biggest interruptions
5. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far? um really nothing. I always seem to think I can read more than i do. This time I came into it with no hopes or expectations.

Top Ten Books That Have Me Waiting and Wanting and Wishing!

Top Ten is an original feature/weekly meme created here at

The Broke and the Bookish that features a great bookish top ten every week.

I can't just stick to one genre. I like them all. I tend to stick with YA most of the time but lately, I have found myself adding some adult to my TBR too. I am constantly adding to my mountainous pile of TBR books. Here are my latest "I must have now!" books I have added. 

 

 

Review: Follow Me Back by by A.V. Geiger

Title: Follow Me Back 

Author: A.V. Geiger
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire 

Publishing Date: June 6th, 2017

Pages: 368
Genre: YA Psychological Thriller

Series:  Follow Me Back #1
Source:  ARC

 

Tessa Hart’s world feels very small. Confined to her bedroom with agoraphobia, her one escape is the online fandom for pop sensation Eric Thorn. When he tweets to his fans, it’s like his speaking directly to her…

Eric Thorn is frightened by his obsessive fans. They take their devotion way too far. It doesn’t help that his PR team keeps posting to encourage their fantasies.

When a fellow pop star is murdered at the hands of a fan, Eric knows he has to do something to shatter his online image fast—like take down one of his top Twitter followers. But Eric’s plan to troll @TessaHeartsEric unexpectedly evolves into an online relationship deeper than either could have imagined. And when the two arrange to meet IRL, what should have made for the world’s best episode of Catfish takes a deadly turn…

Told through tweets, direct messages, and police transcripts

This book barely made my radar. I saw it a couple of times and passed it up. After a couple more looks I decided to give it a try and grabbed at the ARC. I am so glad I did. This book was amazing. It had a bit of romance, mystery, thrills, and a bunch of crazy. 

Tessa has a secret. Something horrible happened to her this last summer. This traumatic event has caused a crippling effect that leaves Tessa room bound in her own home. She is scared of being watched, leaving the home, and allowing anyone to come close to her. Her only solace is her obsession of singer Eric Thorn and the fandom that surrounds him. 

Eric Thorn is famous but tired of where his good looks and publicist has taken his celebrity status. He feels more of an object expected to give half naked shows than a talented singer. He tries to bring his Twitter status to a halt with a fake persona... in turn, it brings him close to one of his biggest fans Tessa. 

This is the story of Tessa and Eric. Their fears, their anger, their mistrust. It's the story of their friendship and relations and something terrible that brings them together... Unfortunately, there is a lot more to the story that brings one of them into terrible danger. 

This book really did amaze me and surprise me. I knew it would be a thriller... what I didn't know was it held quite a bit of romance. A growing romance from strangers to friendship to more. The tender moments shared throughout the book kept me more interested in the story. There weren't many thrills to the end of the book but in between the tender moments and before the thrills began, there was much mystery that surrounded Tessa's past and the event that has Eric and Tessa in a police station being interrogated. So this book pretty much had all my favorite things. 

I loved how this story was told. There were tweets and personal messages passed between Eric and Tessa, a police transcript of the interrogation, and good old storytelling. It kept me interested and invested from the very beginning of the story. 

I didn't connect with Tessa at first, but she grew on me. It's hard to watch someone gone through something that immobilizes them but not know what caused such immobilization. Soon though, I forgot that something happened, or just didn't care as much as I got to know Tessa. I was able to see her try and face her fears as she made friends with Eric. I saw that she was a fighter.... even if she was afraid to step out of her own room. I could see she really wanted to get out of this fear induced life she had. 

Eric didn't take long to grow on me. I felt for him. His story was real up front and even though he was going the wrong way about figuring out his own head and life.... I could undestand. I thought he was a real sweetheart and just didn't know how to stand up for himself. He was trapped in his life like Tessa was trapped in her room. 

I loved how their relationship developed and found myself really concerned for the event that transpired to lead them to the police station. I didn't know what happened if Eric proved to be crazy or Tessa.... I just had to keep reading..... 

The story had so many layers and I really enjoyed getting through each and every one. It was quite a ride. What I didn't enjoy was the ending. I mean I did but I didn't. Argh... I just need the next book to really know what the hell is going on. So yes it was a cliffhanger at the end. Be forwarned!!! 

Loved it. So worth the read! 

A.V. Geiger writes contemporary young adult fiction. Her debut novel, FOLLOW ME BACK, will be published by Sourcebooks Fire in 2017.

A.V. is a popular author on Wattpad, where her original fiction has frequently ranked #1 in the Mystery/Thriller genre. Her writing career began as a hobby, posting celebrity fanfiction online, and her work draws extensively on her own experiences with fan culture and social media.

She lives with her family in New Jersey.