TBR Thursday

TBR Thursday is as usual a meme I cannot figure out who's hosting, but I am still doing it, since I think it is interesting!

But if you want to join just see how many books there are on your TBR list and then go to random.org and get a random number. Then you see which book has that number and tell people about it! If you leave a link in the comments I will check it out!

This Thursday i got the number 22, and the book is:

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

Summary from Goodreads:
Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: We quit!

Beige is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown. Blue needs a break from coloring all that water, while Pink just wants to be used. Green has no complaints, but Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking to each other. 

What is Duncan to do? Debut author Drew Daywalt and New York Timesbestseller Oliver Jeffers create a colorful solution in this playful, imaginative story that will have children laughing and playing with their crayons in a whole new way.


I remember finding this book on book depository, but the price was a bit steep, so I didn't want to buy it. I love the synopsis of this book - and it is a childrens book, which also means that the book is 36 long, including illustrations. So it will be a very quick and hopefully fun read. 

Remember to leave your link in the comments!

TBR Thursday

TBR Thursday is as usual a meme I cannot figure out who's hosting, but I am still doing it, since I think it is interesting!

But if you want to join just see how many books there are on your TBR list and then go to random.org and get a random number. Then you see which book has that number and tell people about it! If you leave a link in the comments I will check it out!

This Thursday i got the number 166, and the book is:

Splintered by A.G. Howard

Summary from Goodreads

This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now.

When her mother’s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice’s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice’s mistakes and save her family. She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and secret crush, or the sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guide through Wonderland, who may have dark motives of his own.

This book sounds so intriguing, I love the world in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, so this will be perfect, I believe me and Jayd will read this in August - but I am sure that we will read it in 2014!

TBR Thursday

TBR Tuesday is a weekly meme which I cannot figure out who is hosting it, but I am doing it anyway!

This tuesday I got the number 28! And 28th book on my TBR shelf on Goodreads is;

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Summary from Goodreads:

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids 

as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. 

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

I am actually reading this with Anatea from Anateas Bookshelf in January so that will be exciting, check her blog sometime around January because there will be sign up posts so you can join us! 

Name a book you are looking forward to read!

TBR Thursday

I was thinking about doing a feature on a book that I have on my TBR every week - that is already released. Then I found Drea's post at Book Blather about this meme, she created it because she wanted something else than Waiting on Wednesday at Breaking the Spine - because that is about releases we cannot wait for.

Since her last TBR Thursday post was sometime in 2010, I think, I am wondering whether I should do a linky here or not. Since I thought it would be fun if people linked their post so I can discover more new books and put them on my ever-growing TBR. - But for now, if you make a TBR post, just put a link in the comments and I will check it out.

So how do I decide which book to feature? I go to random.org and get a random number, then I find the book with that number on my TBR on goodreads.

This tuesday, I got the number 20, and book number 20 is;

30 Days of Night (vol. 1) by Steve Niles - which is tecnically not a book but a graphic novel.

Summary from Goodreads:
In a sleepy, secluded Alaska town called Barrow, the sun sets and doesn't rise for over thirty consecutive days and nights. From the darkness, across the frozen wasteland, an evil will come that will bring the residents of Barrow to their knees. The only hope for the town is the Sheriff and Deputy, husband and wife who are torn between their own survival and saving the town they love.