Halo Trailer

Halo by Alexandra Adornetto just came out yesterday! 

"Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she is the most human, and when she is romantically drawn to a mortal boy, the angels fear she will not be strong enough to save anyone—especially herself—from the Dark Forces.

Is love a great enough power against evil?"

Below is the trailer:

Awards, Rotten Tomatoes, and Prom!? Yes? No?

(picture used with permission from Tiger Press)

I was recently sent an email regarding the Tiger Press Young Writers Awards 2010. Here's what it's all about:

The Little Tiger Press Young Writer and Illustrator Awards are designed to encourage reading and creativity in children from an early age. It is an annual competition aimed at schools, charities and organizations in the UK.

It aims to promote a life-long love of books and to give children a sense of enjoyment and confidence in reading, writing and illustrating.

For more information, tips and tricks from the authors and illustrators at Little Tiger Press please visit: www.childrens-books-award.co.uk

With enough support this campaign can happen again next year! So spread the word :)

If you want the button I have on my sidebar use this code save the image and link it. The code is being very uncooperative with me right now, I apologize.

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And then several weeks ago I learned about YA Books Buzz. It's a website dedicated to YA Books, which one can infer from the title, but what makes this site great is because it selects reviews from the YA Book Blogging Community and calculates the "average" grade. Let's just say that I'm one of the few book reviews that seems to take the grades down a notch...or two (really I did not mean to do that!). In their release email they call themselves "the Rottentomatoes of Books. It allows the readers who hesitate to buy one book or another to make his/her choice. " They also have a "TOPS" section, which sorts books that has done the "best" according to the community and a "SOON" section in regards to about-to-release YA novels.

Overall I think it's a great website and possibly one that I'll be stopping by quite frequently. Now if only they have an RSS feed somewhere....

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Finally let's talk about my reviews or lack of therefore. I'm at the homestretch of school right now. Everyone, especially the teachers are in panic mode, and I'm juggling many things at once at this point. I will probably use the rest of May to catch up on reviews and June will be much more livelier on this blog--hopefully. Definitely expect at least 8 reviews from me during June all for tours (yikes I signed up for one too many)!

But I brought up school for a reason: would you care for some prom pictures on the blog? I brought up the idea of me attending prom to Ka-Yam and she asked for some pictures during the event so I thought 'why not post them on the blog as well?' The 'well' may be an issue because I wanted to maintain this strict 'be a professional' persona for my blog recently. But then I realize that I can't. Blogging has become an addiction for me and it is hard to constantly maintain that stoic attitude I had envisioned. Yet I'm still on the fence for this question: To post or not to post, that is the question.

I'll leave it up to you readers if you want to see "me" at prom because really. I have an actual face if anyone wants to know ;) Curious? You can comment at the end of the post for your answer, and I will also leave a poll on the right-hand sidebar for you to cast your vote.

PROMO: Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon's first YA novel is releasing I believe tomorrow! She's been on the NY Times Bestseller's list numerous times for her paranormal series.

Here's a trailer for the new series with the first titled INFINITY:

You can download the songs: here and read some excerpts of the novel here.

At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him"

In Celebration for

In light of the upcoming months I thought I would mention briefly of gifts for mothers as well as fathers. Just between you and me, I have something planned for Mother's Day, but Father's Day is always the worst for me.

What can you get for your father aside from that stupid tie and that awkward 'coupon for a free massage from yours truly!'? One thing I've been noticing is that dads tend to crash in front of the TV after work, at least mine does especially when ANTM or Gossip Girl of Glee comes on (grrr). So we decided to upgrade our television set to a flat-screen (because apparently it's much better for the eye so says the mother) and then after buying a new TV (because everyone 'claims' that I broke it--pfft) we need a new stand. So why not take dad's interest in consideration and get that corner TV stand with enough room for a stereo and DVDs.

And hey maybe you can get one for yourself when you move for college! You can always use for storage of other things like textbooks and keep the (small cramp ;)) room tidy. Just a little suggestion.

(I like the design of this one)

P.S. It's totally on sale!