Books from the Backlog

Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those neglected books sitting on your bookshelf unread. If you would like to join in, please feel free to enter your link @ Carole's Random Life In Books, then spend some time visiting some of the other posts.

This week's neglected book

Soul Screamers Volume One by Rachel Vincent

Series:(Soul Screamers 0.5, 1, 2)
Publication date: November 22nd,2011 Publisher: Harlequin
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It starts with a scream….
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent's compelling Soul Screamers series keeps getting better—here, for the first time, the original stories are compiled into one special volume….
My Soul to Lose
—The prequel: never before in print!—
Kaylee is just your average girl shopping at the mall with friends—until a terrified scream bursts from her that cannot be stopped. Taken to a hospital ward, will she be able to save her mind—and her life?
My Soul to Take

She's always felt different, but now Kaylee discovers why. The screams that cannot be denied mean that someone near her will die—and she can never save them. Because saving one life means taking another….
My Soul to Save

Going on dates with her boyfriend is still new to Kaylee. But when the singer of the band they're seeing dies onstage and Kaylee doesn't scream, she knows something crazy is going on. Soon she discovers souls can indeed be sold….

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Why did I add Soul Screamers to my bookshelf? 

I so dearly wanted to like this YA paranormal fantasy because it's Rachel Vincent. Except for the "screaming" quality of Kaylee the paranormal banshee. Besides the girl was getting on my nerve. I wasn't enjoying the story so I thought I would pick it up some other time but I haven't yet. Idk my soul wasn't screaming for it? *pun intended. I have three volumes which translate to a slew of novels.


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Books From the Backlog

Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those neglected books sitting on your bookshelf unread. If you would like to join in, please feel free to enter your link @ Carole's Random Life In Books, then spend some time visiting some of the other posts.

This week's neglected book

Come Sunday 

by Isla Morley 

Abbe is a restless young mother living on the outskirts of Honolulu with her husband, Greg, the pastor at a small church. Their lives are suddenly riven by tragedy when their three-year-old daughter, Cleo, is struck and killed by a car. As Greg turns to God and community for comfort, Abbe turns inward and reflects upon her own troubled past. Isla Morley brilliantly weaves the story of Abbe’s grief with a gripping tale of her tempestuous childhood in apartheid South Africa---and how Abbe’s father, a villainous drunk, held her family hostage for decades with his rage until they finally began to plot their escape from him. Come Sunday is a spellbinding drama about a woman breaking free of her grief and of her past, and what it takes to revive hope when all seems lost.

Why did I add Come Sunday to my bookshelf?

It was on sale at the Thrift store and I bought it without reading the synopsis which I often do, just because I had to read 250 books one year, I thought it looked like a great Christian story but Alas, there are more interesting books to read than this one IMO. Tragedy happens to even the good people. No one is exempt from trials and tribulation and it sounds like a woman is grieving over the loss of a child and growing up with an abusive alcoholic parent. Cry me a river. She lived in Africa as a child. So did I. But I have yet to experience Honolulu Hawaii. So there's that.

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Books From the Backlog

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This week's neglected book 

An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly #3) by Charlaine Harris 

Mass Market Paperback, 280 pages Published October 1st, 2008 by Berkley Books

The voices of the dead become inescapable clues for lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly in this "winning series" (Booklist) of murder--and beyond--from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris... Harper Connelly heads to Doraville, North Carolina to find a missing boy--one of several teenage boys who have disappeared over the last five years. And all of them are calling for Harper. She finds them, buried in the frozen ground. All she wants is to get out of town before she's caught in the media storm--until she herself is attacked and becomes part of the investigation. Soon Harper will learn more than she cared to about the dark mysteries and long-hidden secrets of Doraville--knowledge of the dead that makes her next in line to end up in an ice-cold grave...

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Why did I add An Ice Cold Grave to my bookshelf? 

Sometimes I like a good murder mystery thriller like Jo Nesbo, Robert Galbraith and Jeremy Bates, and I had read a few of Charlaine Harris' paranormal fantasy novels but I thought this one might be different but alas! It has been sitting on my shelf waiting for the right time, but now is not yet.

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Books from the Backlog

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 This week's neglected book 

Undead (Undead #1) by Kirsty McKay

Out of sight, out of their minds: It's a school-trip splatter fest and completely not cool when the other kids in her class go all braindead on new girl Bobby. The day of the ski trip, when the bus comes to a stop at a roadside restaurant, everyone gets off and heads in for lunch. Everyone, that is, except Bobby, the new girl, who stays behind with rebel-without-a-clue Smitty. Then hours pass. Snow piles up. Sun goes down. Bobby and Smitty start to flirt. Start to stress. Till finally they see the other kids stumbling back. But they've changed. And not in a good way. Straight up, they're zombies. So the wheels on the bus better go round and round freakin' fast, because that's the only thing keeping Bobby and Smitty from becoming their classmates' next meal. It's kill or be killed in these hunger games, heads are gonna roll, and homework is most definitely gonna be late. Combining the chill of THE SHINING, the thrill ride of SPEED, the humor of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, and the angst of THE BREAKFAST CLUB, Kirsty McKay's UNDEAD is a bloody mad mash-up, a school-trip splatter-fest, a funny, gory, frighteningly good debut!

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Why did I add Undead to my bookshelf?

A long time ago, zombies displeased me. I thought they were stupid and I didn't know what the fascination was all about. Thanks to shows like The Walking Dead, I no longer hate zombies! If anything they make good moving targets lol. punching bags? no? alrighty then. I bought this book because of the cover at a second-hand bookstore, mostly, and because it looked brand new and was cheap so heck yea. I snagged it. I never finished reading it and I so dearly want to but that means I have to read it from the beginning because I almost can't remember what the story was like. Admittedly it was a bit boring so idk.



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Books from the Backlog - Lolita

Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those neglected books sitting on your bookshelf unread. If you would like to join in, please feel free to enter your link @ Carole's Random Life In Books, then spend some time visiting some of the other posts.

This week's neglected book

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the ageing Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. 

Where to begin with this one. I first heard of Lolita on MySpace. The moderator of Choking on Sunflowers (a Facebook forum) voted for Lolita in a read-along but I never read it because it got shut down or something crazy stupid like that. It was a long time ago and for all intents and purposes, Lolita came recommended. I'm afraid I won't like it. I received my copy from Secret Santa in 2011.

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Books from the Backlog - Sacré Bleu

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This week's neglected book

Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art
by Christopher Moore
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In his latest novel, Moore takes on the Great French Masters. A magnificent “Comedy d’Art”, Sacre Bleu is part mystery, part history (sort of), part love story, and wholly hilarious as it follows a young baker-painter who joins the dapper Henri Toulouse-Lautrec on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the supposed suicide of Vincent van Gogh.

  Why did I add Sacré Bleu to my bookshelf?

It was mostly because of the title. Sacred Blue or Dammit. In French. Also, he mentions the Virgin Mary because she is depicted dressed in blue, hence the sacred aspect. I thought the title and the author were brilliant. I read Christopher Moores cute little vampire story called You Suck, and I liked it. I actually started Sacré Bleu but I didn't finish it and I abandoned it sadly. There was nothing wrong with it other than it was something I wasn't too interested in at the time. Idk. It's good though.

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