robgirlbooks: Feature and Follow Friday

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Feature and Follow Friday

This is a weekly blog meme hosted by Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read. Here are the general rules to Follow Friday:
1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts and any one else you want to follow on the list
2. Follow our Featured Bloggers - This week's feature is: Sugar & Snark and Books are the Only True Magic
3. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.
4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can
6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
7. If you want to show the link list, just follow the link below the entries and copy and paste it within your post!

This week's question is: What is the last book that kept you up late into the night just to finish it?

Easy by Tammara Webber took over until I finished it. This is not your typical knight in shining armor story. Lucus wasn't the reluctant hero, he was the reluctant everything else. He stole the show, mostly because Jacqueline wasn't a stand out character, but she won me over in the early pages. The most winning aspect of Easy has to be how Webber addresses sex, female friendships, and rape, nothing generic there.

18 comments:

UnknownJanuary 25, 2013 at 1:40 AM
I own this but have yet to read this; hopefully I will soon! Great choice :)

New Follower!
http://www.fortheloveoffilmandnovels.com/2013/01/feature-follow-13.html
ReplyDelete
Replies
The ReaddictsJanuary 25, 2013 at 3:59 AM
Easy sure was amazing!
new follower :)
here's our FF

Janhvi @ The Readdicts
ReplyDelete
Replies
JezzebellJCJanuary 25, 2013 at 4:45 AM
I've seen this cover around. I'm very interested that there is a main character named Jacqueline - not spelled anything the same as mine - but still! I don't ever see my name in books :) You give a great description of it...it looks like a fantastic read. Here is my FF. Old follower :D Jaclyn @ JC's Book Haven
ReplyDelete
Replies
Janita @ Book, InterruptedJanuary 25, 2013 at 6:16 AM
I've seen this book on other blogs, but haven't read it. Sounds like a great read! Thanks for stopping by my blog :)
ReplyDelete
Replies
UnknownJanuary 25, 2013 at 7:24 AM
I loved Easy.. it is definitely a hard to put down!
Glad you liked it!
Here's my FF.
ReplyDelete
Replies
BookCupidJanuary 25, 2013 at 1:04 PM
Heard a lot about this book but haven't read it yet. It's a must!

New follower. Thanks for stopping by :)
ReplyDelete
Replies
UnknownJanuary 25, 2013 at 1:16 PM
I've heard really good things about Easy. I'm thinking about picking it up this weekend!

New follower via GFC. Thanks for following!
ReplyDelete
Replies
ShantalJanuary 25, 2013 at 3:44 PM
This was a great book I enjoyed reading it last year :) New follower via GFC

Here is my FF
ReplyDelete
Replies
Nikki SJanuary 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM
I remember staying up late to read this too! I LOVED Lucas!
Great pick!

Thanks for stopping by Take Me Away...
ReplyDelete
Replies
NatashaJanuary 25, 2013 at 6:50 PM
It sounds like a book I'd read. Thanks for the head's up!
I'm a new follower. :) Thanks for following my blog as well!

Here's my FF!

ReplyDelete
Replies
UnknownJanuary 25, 2013 at 7:40 PM
oh! I love this book! :)
Thanks for follwoing :) followed back :D
ReplyDelete
Replies
AnonymousJanuary 26, 2013 at 7:48 AM
Hopping thru from (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) "Feature & Follow"

"Literary Quill Promotions"

"BookShelves Of Dreams"
ReplyDelete
Replies
Isabel GomezJanuary 26, 2013 at 9:35 AM
My friend has been bugging me to read this for some time now but sadly it's not moving up my TBR pile yet. Someday, I guess!

Thanks for sharing and for stopping by my FF!
Isabel @ Sab The Book Eater
ReplyDelete
Replies
Jenni ElyseJanuary 26, 2013 at 11:45 AM
I've heard of Easy before, but I haven't read it yet. I didn't know what it was about either. sounds interesting.

Thanks for stopping by my blog!
ReplyDelete
Replies
stargirlreadsJanuary 26, 2013 at 5:13 PM
I really want to read Easy!

New follower :)

Ashley

Booksaremylove.blogspot.com
ReplyDelete
Replies
gregJanuary 26, 2013 at 7:19 PM
Thanks for the follow; I have followed you back. Your book definitely sounds like something that would hook you in. Too intense for me. As to your comment on mine...I still have special powers...I just know they are imaginary now!
ReplyDelete
Replies
UnknownJanuary 28, 2013 at 3:36 AM
Robyn thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment on my Feature & Follow post.

I've been looking forward to reading Easy, I'm just trying to read all my blog tour reviews first LOL

New Follower :D

Paperback Princess

ReplyDelete
Replies
UnknownJanuary 28, 2013 at 3:37 AM
Robyn I forgot to mention, I'm the organiser for YA Blogosphere, a directory listing for all YA-related blogs, so if your interested in listing your blog on YA Blogosphere, pls contact me on yablogosphere(AT)gmail(DOT)com
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Little bit about Robyn Jones

I laugh when people fall down. It's a glitch in my programming, but even my mom has suffered this quirk. I have a BA in Studio Art from the University of Puget Sound. My boys make me laugh every day. I steal pens; I try real hard not to. I collect those free bookmarks at the checkout counter at libraries. I've had more stitches than anyone I know. I love stories, writing them, reading them, watching them. You can email me at robgirlbooks@gmail.com or write a comment on a post or on my Goodreads page, just click my picture to go there.

Soul Walker, A Touched Girl Novel

Available Now on Kindle. When five-year-old Anna Pierce is offered a chance to have nightmare-free nights for the small price of her voice, she jumps at it. Silence has to be better than all-consuming dreams about blood and death and fangy monsters. The bargain she strikes comes with a secondary benefit, visions of a person’s future potential. The combination of visions and silence changes her very nature and soon she's diagnosed with autism. Twelve years of living in her head comes to a screeching halt the moment Peter Davis pulls her out of an icy river. Her new life has her twirling, tiptoeing, and crashing through unfamiliar territory, one filled with a cranky grandma, a knocked up cousin, an unpleasant cousin, a bunch of mostly good vampires, and the boy who rescued her. To top it all off, the deal she made at five is no more. Anna is expected to talk, to figure out her reemerging nightmares, and to control her ever-growing powers. And she'd better get it done soon because if the good vamps want a piece of a living, breathing Touched girl, the evil ones simply want. They'll take Anna for their very own.

Soul Bender, A Touched Girl Novel

Available Now! How much can a soul take before it breaks? Anna Pierce has a vampire boyfriend, a driver's license, real friends for the first time since she was five, and now she faces one of her biggest challenges, senior year at a mostly all girls Catholic high school. Sure, she's a member of the talking crowd now, but she'll never be like everyone else. How can she when the first of her kind has camped out in her dreams? Little dead girl Emily decides Anna's destiny can wait no longer. It's time for this generation's Touched Girl to hunt. Trained in a virtual dream landscape to destroy all in her path, Anna must choose between her destiny, the one beat into her on a nightly basis, and her legacy, the one instilled in her by her parents. Along the way, old enemies remain dutifully obsessed, new foes lurk in the shadows, and odd Little Duckie Anna Pierce sets out to be social.

Soul Twister, A Touched Girl Novel #3

Available now! “Peter and I are about to play a game. Don’t help him.” “Game?” crazy Shopgirl asked. “A hunting game,” Peter answered. His voice had a new quality to it. He caught me staring and instead of smiling, he held my eyes. “First one wins the bite. I’m going to win, Anna.” Months into recovering from the bloody events that took place in Soul Bender, Anna Pierce is ready to get back out there and fulfill her self-crafted destiny. Sadly, no one in her life feels the same way. The emergence of buried memories and out-of-the-blue powers send her straight into regular sessions with the school counselor. If only she could talk about her overly protective vampire boyfriend or the real threat posed by former friends turned enemies or her new guide who makes her former guide look like a bowl of sunshine. Anna has a lot going on, but at least she's too busy to think about her first Christmas at Ella's.

"Mom, you said shit." "I know, John." "You said shit, Mom." "Stop saying shit, John." "You stop saying shit."
"Mom, what do you want for Christmas?" "I want two happy boys." "You already have two happy boys." John 3/12/13
"Mama, I want to stay with you forever." John 3/2/13
I keep my perfume out of reach so the four year old won't mess with it. One day, he climbed the closet shelves, grabbed the bottle and sprayed away. After tagging everything from his hands to his penis (did I mention he was naked?) he shouted, "God dang it!" "John, little boys do not say God dang it. Try drat." "God drat!"
"Why did the chicken cross the road?" "Why?" "Because there was poop on the ground." 4yr old John (2/18/13)
"Mom, you're not a superhero. You're just a human." 10 yr old Will (2/11/13)
"When I'm at daddy's, sometimes I think about hugging you, mom." 4yr old John (2/8/13)
"We can do this the easy way, or the hard way. I'll do it the easy way, mom. You do it the hard way." 2/6/13 4yr old John
"I sleep, eat, and watch TV like Garfield." 4yr old John
John snatched his older brother's Lego Star Wars shorts out of the laundry and quickly put them on. "These are mine." "No, John." "But they look good on me."
"John, what was you favorite part of school today?" "When you came to visit me in class."
In an attempt to redirect the morning car-bickering routine, I transformed into one of those newly-minted teachers, you know, the enthusiastic cheerleader smiling kind. "Who knows the number one car rule?" I toss out there in a chipper voice. "I do. I do!" bounces around the car as excited hands wave back and forth. "Okay John, what's the number one car rule?" "No, pooping in the car."
Will's teacher asked him, "What do you want to do when you grow up?" "Help my mom."
Just to set up this next quote, I'm not the best interpreter of 4yr old speak. "Mom, Will's clothes disappeared." Since Will wasn't naked I looked back at John. "What does that mean?" "Disappeared means Will's clothes are gone!" he says with his hands making a vanishing act gesture.
"Mom, what rhymes with duck?" 4yr old John
Recently, John found a handful of Pez dispensers. Since he doesn't like the candy, he plays with them like action figures. "Mom, you play Woody, I'll play Garfield and Thor." I dutifully play Woody from Toy Story. "I'm Sheriff Woody. Reach for the sky." "I'm Garfield. I'm a talking cat. I'm Thor. I'm a superhero. Hey, let's look up." (because that is all a pez dispenser can do)
"Will, stop bossing John around." "I'm helping you boss John around." my 10 yr old
"Mom, I wanted weapons for Christmas. Santa is on the naughty list." my 4yr old
"Hot dogs are made of dead animals, Mom...I love dead animals!" my 4yr old
"When I say I don't like you, I love you." my 4yr old
"I've had a rough day." me "Like a Viking?" my 10 yr old
Seven days before Christmas it snows. "Merry Christmas, Mom," ten year old Will says with his arm around me.
"We have to take care of each other, Mom." my son Will
"The baddest guy in Mexico beat me." 4 year old John
"If you think my name is Cinderella, you just don't get it." my son John
"Mom, I love your Buddha belly." my son John

robgirlbooks

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Feature and Follow Friday

18 comments:

I can't wait

2013 Reading Challenge

quotes Robyn likes

The boys and me

Kids Quotes part 2