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Sunday Post is a weekly feature hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Reviewer. It's main purpose is similar to that of a Sunday newspaper; recap of the week gone by, additions to your library and what is going on in the book blogging community.

Addition to my Library 

For Review

Blog Recap

Around The Blogosphere 

The Armchair BEA took place, it was for those of us unfortunate souls that couldn't participate in the real BEA at NYC. This was such a fantastic event, click here for my Introduction post. 

I signed up for the COYER Scavenger Hung which is taking place between June 20th through to September 4th. If you'd like to participate click on the button above, here's my participation post. 

Get ready for the Bloggiesta! I absolutely love this event and it's a pity that this one is only running for two days, June 13 - 14th. Bloggiesta's main purpose is to bring Bloggers together to do some housekeeping to their blogs. It's a fantastic event, so check it out by clicking on the link or button above. Stay tuned for my Bloggiesta participation post soon. 

Cover Reveal 

Library Jumpers

by Brenda Drake

Pre-Order: Barnes & Noble | Amazon

Gia Kearns would rather fight with boys than kiss them. That is, until Arik, a leather clad hottie in the Boston Athenaeum, suddenly disappears. While examining the book of world libraries he abandoned, Gia unwittingly speaks the key that sucks her and her friends into a photograph and transports them into a Paris library, where Arik and his Sentinels—magical knights charged with protecting humans from the creatures traveling across the gateway books—rescue them from a demonic hound.

Jumping into some of the world's most beautiful libraries would be a dream come true for Gia, if she weren’t busy resisting her heart or dodging an exiled wizard seeking revenge on both the Mystik and human worlds. Add a French flirt obsessed with Arik and a fling with a young wizard, and Gia must choose between her heart and her head, between Arik's world and her own, before both are destroyed.

About The Author

Brenda Drake

Forget Tomorrow

by Pintip Dunn

Buy It Now: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Imagine a world where your destiny has already been decided...by your future self. 

It's Callie’s seventeenth birthday and, like everyone else, she's eagerly awaiting her vision―a memory sent back in time to sculpt each citizen into the person they're meant to be. A world- class swimmer. A renowned scientist. 

Or in Callie's case, a criminal. 

In her vision, she sees herself murdering her gifted younger sister. Before she can process what it means, Callie is arrested and placed in Limbo―a hellish prison for those destined to break the law. With the help of her childhood crush, Logan, a boy she hasn’t spoken to in five years, she escapes the hellish prison.

But on the run from her future, as well as the government, Callie sets in motion a chain of events that she hopes will change her fate. If not, she must figure out how to protect her sister from the biggest threat of all—Callie, herself.

About The Author 

Pintip Dunn

Can you read in a room with noise or do you need total quiet? 

My Goals

• Participate in the Scavenger Hunt and knock out at least 10 categories
• Participate in 2 Read-a-thons
• Read 20 books average of 2 per week
• Be supportive - 20 blogs/comment/tweet per week
• Participate in one Twitter Chat
• Participate in one of the Social Media Fun per week

The first Read-a-thon for COYER is the "Red, White or Blue" to commemorate the 4th of July Independence Day for the United States. So pick books that have Red, White OR Blue in the cover and a short review to enter in the Rafflecopter giveaway. For all the official stuff including rules and how to get bonus round points click here or the event button above. 

Day 1 ABEA - Introductions

Tell us a bit about yourself: How long have you been blogging? Where are you from? How did you get into blogging?

I absolutely love series' but I think that if an Author captivates a reader and impacts ones life in one book, then you know that book must be amazing. The one book that I think EVERYONE should read at least once in their life is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

What book are you reading right now?

Please keep an eye out for my upcoming review and I will also be kicking off the blog tour for this fantastic book with an Author Interview. 

What is the top book in your TBR pile right now? 

Instagram Challenge

What reason would you have to stop reading a book? (E.g. too long, wrong genre, not what you expected etc.)

• You MUST follow BOTH hosts Rachel @ Parajunkee and Alison @ Alison Can Read
• You MUST follow BOTH Featured Blogs of the week (linked below)
• Do your own Feature & Follow Friday post answering the question of the week and link to it at the bottom of this post 
• Follow and comment on other participants Feature & Follow Friday posts! 

About The Book

Eleanor & Park

by Rainbow Rowell

Publisher: St Martin's Griffin

Buy It Now: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository

Synopsis 

Paperback Princess Review 

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell is unlike any other YA Contemporary Romance I've read in the past. I'm not a huge fan of YA Contemporary Romance, or romance for that matter so I didn't have very high expectations. It just wasn't my favourite genre, so I was pleasantly surprised when I absolutely LOVED, LOVED this book and I couldn't stop from turning the pages. I couldn't even explain to myself why I had loved it so much but I did...strange right? 

Eleanor is considered a strange red-headed teen. She's unpopular at school and she cops a bit of flack for being her and being an individual. She comes from a broken home and had just returned after reluctantly spending a year living with her Mother's friend. 

Park has lived in the same area since he was born, his Father lived there when he was young. He's a quiet Asian kid who's not popular but not disliked either. He's from a loving home with parents that are still in love. 

Their mother jabbed a long fingernail at his dad and covered the phone again. 'I'll send you to your room, too.'
'Honey, I wish you would,' their dad said, throwing a throw pillow at her.

Eleanor & Park are two very different people but attending the same school and living in the same housing development, what takes place in Eleanor & Park is the unlikely friendship/relationship that forms between the two. 

I think that my favourite part of Eleanor & Park were the characters, they were just so gorgeous and the interaction and the chemistry and the emotions with each character was so well written that you really see in depth into each character, which makes the readers heavily invested in their life and world. We have Eleanor that is just plain weird:-

Girls who don't want to be looked at don't tie curtain tassels in their hair. They don't wear men's golf shoes with the spikes still attached.

Then we have Park, who's just as normal as can be and when they meet they didn't meet in the love at first sight way, the gradual friendship that developed between them was so sweet and real. 

He always felt like he should say something to her, even if it was just 'hello' or 'excuse me.' But he'd gone too long without saying anything since the first time he'd cursed at her, and not was all just irrevocably weird. For an hour a day. Thirty minutes on the way to school, thirty minutes back. Park didn't say anything. He just held his comics open wider and turned the pages more slowly."

Love the way Rowell explained things:-

That would be a giant understatement anyway. She was the only person in class who'd read her poem like it wasn't an assignment. She recited it like it was a living thing. Like something she was letting out. You couldn't look away from her as long as she was talking. {Even more than Park's usual not being able to look away from her.} When she was done, a lot of people clapped and Mr Stressman hugged her. Which was totally against the Code of Conduct.

Eleanor lived a very hard life:-

But if she told Mrs Dunne about the toothbrush...maybe Mrs Dunne would just get her one. And then Eleanor could stop sneaking into the bathroom after lunch to rub her teeth with salt. (She'd seen that in a Western once. It probably didn't even work}.

Eleanor's dialogue is filled with so much emotions:-

I just want to break that song into pieces,' she said, 'and love them all to death.

humorous

She didn't want to run, period. It made her breasts feel like they were going to detach from her body. 'I'm going to tell Mrs Burt that my Mom doesn't want me to do anything that might rupture my hymen,' Eleanor said. "For religious reasons.

She tried to remember what kind of animals paralyzed their prey before they ate them...
Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her.
That would be awesome.
Jesus. Was it possible to rape somebody's hand? 

so sweet in their interaction:-

are you trying to give me a nickname?
No, I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.{because apparently everything made her want to kiss him. Park could tell her that he had lice and leprosy and parasitic worms living in his mouth, and she would still put on fresh Chapstik. God}

interaction between his parens and Park

"How long am I grounded?" Park asked his father.
"That's not up to me, that's up to your Mother.'
His dad was sitting on the couch, reading Soldier of Fortune.
"she says forever,' Park said.
"I guess it's forever then.'

love Park's family even Grandparents

"I thought you were grounded,' his Grandpa said.
"Hush, Harold, you can't be grounded from your own grandparents..."

I had so many quotes because there was absolutely no review I could have written that would have given this book the credit it deserved, by quoting I think it really gives those reading this review the idea on what type of book it is. It is definitely one of those books that stays in your mind for a long time.