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Top 10 of 2012  is hosted by Lisa from  A Life Bound By Books ,Jessica from  Confessions of a Bookaholic , Jaime from  Two Chicks on Books  and Mindy from  Magical Urban Fantasy Reads . It is a week of looking back from the year that has been and looking forward for the next year. Today's Top 10 is Top 10 Books I’m Looking Forward To in 2013. The Rules by Stacey Kade This book sounds soo good!! It looks like my kind of read especially with how the plot sounds:D  Altered by Jennifer Rush

  Review:  Things I Can't Forget (Hundred Oaks #3) by Miranda Kenneally Hooked (Hooked #1) by Liz Fichera Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard #1) by Christina Lauren Up In Flames by Nicole Williams *CURRENTLY READING* Anatomy of a Single Girl by Daria Snadowsky The S-Word by Chelsea Pitcher The Rules (Project Paper Doll #1) by Stacey Kade  Thank you Nicole Williams, Hyperion Teen, Sourcebooks Fire, Harlequin Teen, Random House US, and Simon & Schuster Bought:  Easy by Tammara Webber  Backstage Pass (Sinners On Tour #1) by Olivia Cunning Rock Hard (Sinners On Tour #2) by Olivia Cunning Double Time (Sinners On Tour #3) by Olivia Cunning Clash (Crash #2) by Nicole Williams Elixir (Covenant 3.5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Title: Altered Author: Jennifer Rush Pages: 336 Publisher: Little, Brown, & Co. Release Date: January 1, 2013 Summary: (Goodreads) When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe? Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There’s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who’s stolen Anna’s heart. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them. Anna is torn between following Sam or staying behind in the safety of her everyday life. But her father pushes her to flee, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. There’s just one problem. Sam and the boys don’t remember anything before living in the lab—not even their true identities. Now on the run, Anna soon discovers that she and Sam are...

For Review:  The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd , from Edelweiss ( Goodreads ) Just One Day by Gayle Forman, from Penguin Canada ( Goodreads ) Mind Games by Kiersten White, from Edelweiss ( Goodreads ) Nobody But Us by Kristin Halbrook, from Edelweiss ( Goodreads ) Requiem (Delirium #3) by Lauren Oliver, from Edelweiss ( Goodreads ) *READ* Revolution 19 by Gregg Rosenblum, from Edelweiss ( Goodreads ) Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi, from Edelweiss ( Goodreads ) Period 8 by Chris Crutcher from Edelweiss ( Goodreads )  Falling Kingdoms ( Falling Kingdoms #1) by Morgan Rhodes ( Goodreads ) from, Penguin Canada Infatuate (Gilded Wings #2) by Aimee Agresti from, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Book Group ( Goodreads )  Deep Betrayal (Lies Beneath #2) by Anne Greenwood Brown ( Goodreads )  Surprises from St. Martins Press: Christmas in Cornwall by Marcia Willet Ashes of Twilight (Ashes Trilogy #1) by Kassy Tayl...

Feminism in THE FRIDAY SOCIETY. It’s easy just to look at the cover of THE FRIDAY SOCIETY and assume “This is all about girl power.” And that would be a correct assumption.   But there is more to supporting girls and women in the story than just the obvious kick-buttery.   Wait.   Kick Buttery.   Mmm. . . butter . . . Let’s delve, shall we?   What were some of the elements I actively included in TFS to make it a real story about feminism and strong female characters? 1. A strong female character is a strong character.   What I mean is we have got to the place where, in an attempt to demonstrate that female characters are strong, we make them invincible.   There is absolutely nothing wrong with a girl/woman who can kick butt.   But to have her be the best without any flaws, any weaknesses, makes her less of a person.   Humans are flawed.   To create a female kick- butt character that always wins makes her as much of...

  Summary of Timeless ( Goodreads )  IT'S A RACE AGAINST TIME. In Remembrance , Lizzie and Drew changed the course of fate so they could be together. In Vengeance , Chelsea set fate back on its original, deadly path. Now, strange things keep happening to Lizzie. Things that are omens of darkness to come. A curse has doomed her to die an early death, just as she did in her past life. To make matters worse, even if she can figure out who cast the curse, it's irreversible. There's only one option left for her to save herself. It's crazier than anything she's heard yet, and to do it, she'll need Drew and Chelsea's help. Because to make things right, they must go back to when it all began … and Lizzie discovers that the final events in her past life were more sinister than she ever imagined. Timeless is the final part of the Transcend Time Saga. The Transcend Time Saga is a Clean Rom...