A week break from blogging...

Hi everyone,

I'll be taking the next week off from blogging just to take a little break.
I'll still be on twitter and goodreads, but I'm going to take a break from the blog for a week.
I'm sort of still grieving for the death of my dog that died on the night of my birthday. I think the hardest part is that he died on my birthday. I feel like I've lost a family member or a friend and it still hurts every time I think about it. I've had him since I was 16 and I'm now 23 so he was very much apart of my family.

So I just want to take this week to further clear my mind and relax since I'm on break from school as well. But I will surely be back and all comments will be returned if my blog has been visited during the week or the past few days.

Away for the weekend

Hey everyone,

I hope everyone is having a great weekend :) Saturday, October 5, is my birthday and I will really busy and will be going out of town Friday with a few friends. I will be back blogging Monday and will definitely have a birthday haul next Saturday!

And this 8week semesters is now over but I will be back at my classes in 2 weeks. But yeah, just wanted to let everyone know :)  I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

Pandemonium
(Delirium, #2)
by Lauren Oliver
Released |February 28th 2012 by HarperTeen |
Edition |Audio|
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I’m pushing aside
the memory of my nightmare,
pushing aside thoughts of Alex,
pushing aside thoughts of Hana
and my old school,
push,
push,
push,
like Raven taught me to do.
The old life is dead.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence,
behind a wall of smoke and flame.

I've kind of been on the fence about what to rate this. I enjoyed it, but it took me awhile to fully get into the story. I've been really wanting to read it and have had the paperback on my shelf for awhile, but new I wouldn't be able to read it anytime soon, so I decided to get the audio from my library. I really like the world that Lauren Oliver has created for us with the whole idea of love being a disease. It makes things so intriguing, but I did have quite a few problems with the book that kept me from enjoying them.

Wishlist Wednesday (54): Expiration Day

Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it's entirely up to you), that we can't wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.
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Expiration Day 
by William Campbell Powell
Releases |April 22nd 2014 by Tor Teen|
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What happens when you turn eighteen and there are no more tomorrows?
It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction….
Tania Deeley has always been told that she’s a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. When a decline in global fertility ensued, it was the creation of these near-perfect human copies called teknoids that helped to prevent the utter collapse of society.
Though she has always been aware of the existence of teknoids, it is not until her first day at The Lady Maud High School for Girls that Tania realizes that her best friend, Siân, may be one. Returning home from the summer holiday, she is shocked by how much Siân has changed. Is it possible that these changes were engineered by Oxted? And if Siân could be a teknoid, how many others in Tania’s life are not real?
Driven by the need to understand what sets teknoids apart from their human counterparts, Tania begins to seek answers. But time is running out. For everyone knows that on their eighteenth “birthdays,” teknoids must be returned to Oxted—never to be heard from again.