Candace's Book Blog

Monday, September 27, 2010

Banned Book Week Giveaway! ENDED

As many of you know September 25- Oct 2nd is banned books week. I wanted to do a giveaway for it as I think it's important that we are all free to read what we want to read and I feel that it's wrong to keep any book from anyone.

These books on the banned books list all have some sort of message that so many are against for some reason.

The book I'm going to give away is Crank by Ellen Hopkins.

I picked this book because of my own past experiences and I think it's important for teens to know what repercussions their actions can have. And I feel it's important to show them the effects drugs can have on you and everyone in your life for the rest of your life.

I've had my own experiences, and if I had had a book like Crank to read as a teen I might have been more aware of the repercussions of my actions.

A twist to this giveaway is that I want you to
GIVEAWAY IS ENDED

head over to this weeks Saturday Situation post and scroll down to the linky with posts to Reviews and neglected posts.

Pick some reviews to visit,

visit them,

leave a comment on their post (a quality comment) and say that your visiting from Saturday Situation.

You can visit as many as you want and each one you visit gets you an entry into the contest.

You have to fill out the form, but if you come back later and visit more you can leave a comment saying that you already filled out the form but you visited more and leave the number on the linky's you visited. (Example: #2 Dragonart)

We'll be doing giveaways each week for a few weeks (at least) to get the word out there and to encourage people to visit those links.

Feel free to continue to add your own links, but commenting on your own post doesn't count.

You can visit mine and they count.

You can visit one blog more then once if they've posted multiple links.

Giveaways do not count (I'm aware that sometime people post in the wrong link and I still need to tell Lori so she can remove them since it's under her account).

Giveaway open until Friday night, October 1st, when the new Saturday Situation post goes up.

At that time Lori will have a giveaway for the new week.

Open to US only.

Must be 13 or older.

Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway

Details: Hardcover and paperback, 313 pgs.
Published: April 10, 2008 by Razorbill
isbn: 159514191X (ISBN13: 9781595141910)
Reading Level: Young Adult
Received from: Purchased

Description:

The description on goodreads is horrible and totally doesn't really say what's going on in this book. So here's my own description.
Audrey breaks up with her rocker boyfriend (who is just a high schooler with big dreams). He writes a song about the break up (she completely broke his heart) and becomes famous. Which puts major attention on Audrey, who is suddenly famous herself. Stalked by paparazzi, misquoted in newspapers and magazines, and completely made out to be someone she's not, Audrey has to figure out how to balance her life. But really all she wants is her old life back.
She still works at the Scooper Dooper where she starts to notice that the nerdy James may not be as nerdy as she first thought...

My Thoughts:

This book was so awesome that I'm sure it's on my favorites for this year. It was unique, refreshing, and had amazing characterization.

Lately I've been noticing characters personalities even more then usual. I notice that if I don't connect with the character then I don't love the book even if the story itself is great. Audrey had a HUGE personality! It was strong, sarcastic, and all around fun.

The side characters were great as well. I thought her parents were fantastic as they were there, they had rules, and she followed them. They were great in the sense that they worried about her a lot but yet they knew better then to be too strict, so she was able to have a life. It was a perfect medium ground and so different from so many YA books with absent parents.

I loved the whole relationship in the book. I thought the guys in Audrey's life were all unique and were all great in their own way. I don't want to give away who she ends up with, but I'll say you don't see it coming in the beginning of the book. It was PERFECT!

I have to mention her best friend Victoria as well, because like Audrey she was larger then life. She had a huge personality and you couldn't help but love her. Although you do want to smack her a few times later on in the book. And Victoria's relationship with her boyfriend Jonah, although not important to the story really, was awesome. I'm not sure why it stands out to me so much, but I guess cause they were such a perfect couple.

Audrey, Wait! was a fun, quick read with lots of laughs, but some serious moments as well. It makes you feel for the celebrities that really can't have a life with the entire world knowing everything they do. And how something that comes out of their mouth can be completely misconstrued.

I highly, I mean highly, recommend this book to older YA's and adults. There is quite a bit of cussing and a lot of the F-bomb. There was mention of sex but no sex scenes or anything more graphic then some serious kissing.

LOVED this book!

5/5 Moons

You can find Robin Benway on her website/Blog | Twitter

Disclosure: I purchased this book myself. The opinions expressed are my own and I wasn't influenced in any way.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

In My Mailbox (27)

In my Mailbox is hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren and is where we gather to share the books we got through the week.

I had a busy day so I'm going to cheat and not take pictures this week. These are just from Amazon. By clicking them it'll take you to the amazon description.

I had a decent week. A few books I've really wanted, so I'm happy!

I got Losing Faith by Denise Jordan on loan from my friend Angela.