Anyone Feel Like A Free Poster of the Best Series in the World?

If you haven't seen my tweet or my Facebook, then I feel obligated to tell you that Hot Topic is giving away free (rockin') posters of The Hunger Games! And for those of you who love this series, it should be super easy for you to get one! All you have to do is go to Hot Topic's Facebook page and on the left side there is an ad to win the poster, click on it and it will open up a new window. Now all you have to do is answer the four trivia questions correctly and you'll get a coupon for a free poster. Print it out, take it to the store, and you get your very own poster!!!

The Search For Mockingjay...

I am one of the nerds who has gone searching for Mockingjay at any place that may possibly have it, but I has turned up empty-handed...so far. I have called five different Krogers (and actually went to one), called three different Walmarts (went to one as well), called two drugstores, been to two different Publix's, been to three different drugstores, and I still can't find it! I am not giving up though because I do not want to wait until 6 o' clock tomorrow to get it. I mean, it's only two hours so it shouldn't be that hard...right?

I am bum-fuzzled by how many people who don't know what it is!

Edit: So I'm giving up my search because nobody around here has it out early. They must have decided it was "break Kelsey's heart" day.

Holy Motherf*cking....AWESOME!

Ok, I think this may be the happiest now then I ever will be for the rest of my life. I just looked at the list for YA authors attending the Decatur Book Festival this year and I'm freaking out. Seriously. Every two seconds I'm squealing and gasping and all around having a heart attack. I don't know if the list can get any better now. Here is a mashup of all the awesome authors coming!

Did anyone else have a mini-heart attack too? If you live anywhere near Georgia you should really plan on coming to this! You will not regret it, I swear.

CSN: Laptop Bag Review

For this review I decided to make a vlog because it was easier for me to show you guys the bag and because it gave me a chance to mess around with the cam on my new laptop. And the bag is 15.5 inches!





David King Laptop East West Messenger Bag ($79.99)

P.S. That Brandi Carlile in the background if you were wondering or interested!

Music That Reminds Me Of...A Season of Eden

This song by Muse screams to me of a passionate, forbidden romance (though I've recently been told what the song is really about and it kind of ruins it) and I've never read a book that has more of that than A Season of Eden by J.M. Warwick.

He's my teacher. I shouldn't be alone with him. But I can't help that he's irresistible.
I let the door silently close at my back. He stared at me, and a taut quiet stretched between us. "I like hearing you play," I said, moving toward him. He turned, in sync with my slow approach. He looked up at me but didn't say anything. I rested my clammy hand on the cold, slick body of the baby grand."May I?" The muscles in his throat shifted, then he swallowed. "Eden." My knees weakened, like a soft tickling kiss had just been blown against the backs of them. "Is it okay?" I asked. His gaze held mine like two hands joined. He understood what I was really asking. "Let me stay," I said. "Please."
"You're going to get me in trouble," he said.

Steamy, isn't it? And that's just a small part of the book!

And now for the song that I think embodies the forbidden romance in A Season of Eden!

Lusting Lovelies (2)

Soooo many good books are being released next year that it makes me want to be able to fast-foward time!

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb—males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out.

When sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery is taken by the Gatherers to become a bride, she enters a world of wealth and privilege. Despite her husband Linden's genuine love for her, and a tenuous trust among her sister wives, Rhine has one purpose: to escape—to find her twin brother and go home.

But Rhine has more to contend with than losing her freedom. Linden's eccentric father is bent on finding an antidote to the genetic virus that is getting closer to taking his son, even if it means collecting corpses in order to test his experiments. With the help of Gabriel, a servant she trusts, Rhine attempts to break free, in the limted time she has left.

This sounds so beyond amazing to me and that cover is one of the best that I have seen in a long time! (Photograph by Ali Smith)

The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong

Maya lives in a small medical-research town on Vancouver Island. How small? You can’t find it on the map. It has less than two-hundred people, and her school has only sixty-eight students—for every grade from kindergarten to twelve.

Now, strange things are happening in this claustrophobic town, and Maya's determined to get to the bottom of them. First, the captain of the swim team drowns mysteriously in the middle of a calm lake. A year later, mountain lions start appearing around Maya's home, and they won’t go away. Her best friend, Daniel, starts getting negative vibes from certain people and things. It doesn't help that the new bad boy in town, Rafe, has a dangerous secret—and he's interested in one special part of Maya's anatomy: Her paw-print birthmark.

I think we all know how obsessive I am about this series so no explanation is really needed.

Girl, Stolen by April Henry

Sixteen year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills her prescription at the pharmacy. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, their car is being stolen--with her inside! Griffin hadn’t meant to kidnap Cheyenne, all he needed to do was steal a car for the others. But once Griffin's dad finds out that Cheyenne’s father is the president of a powerful corporation, everything changes—now there’s a reason to keep her. What Griffin doesn’t know is that Cheyenne is not only sick with pneumonia, she is blind. How will Cheyenne survive this nightmare, and if she does, at what price?

Again, an awesome cover but I think the summary is more appealing because it's so unique! I am seriously dying to read this! This is a 2010 release and I am totally okay with that because I get to read it sooner than I thought!

CSN Preferred Blogger!

I had such an amazing time reviewing my last piece of furniture from CSN, so I was super excited when got another email from them telling me I was a preferred blogger! Exciting?! Yeah, I think so.

Again, the hard part is trying to figure out what to get because their stores are loaded awesome things. For a second I thought about one of their adorable bedroom furniture sets I found, but quickly realized my mom would kill after all the work we went through to get my dad's mom's set back together for me. So, yeah, that was a big, honkin' no right there.

Then it hit me! I am so in need of a laptop case that I can carry around school and not have my shoulders screaming in pain. Of course it has to be adorable too! And then I found it--the bestest laptop case ever. This thing is perfection for me since I am a lover of all things Fall, dead trees ( I hope that isn't weird!), and cute birds! Plus, it looks like it has a ton of friggin' storage, which I'll totally need when I'm carrying my laptop and books around.

Sorry Runt, I'm not going to be selfless again...even though you love those stairs.

Re-Create A Cover Contest: Losing Faith by Denise Jaden

I have always wanted to enter a contest like this but something always seems to get in the way from me entering. This time I'm going to do it! I am finally going to enter one of Princess Bookie's cover contests!

Here is the original cover:

And here is my cover!

I hope y'all like it! Oh, and I want to thank Gibbering from Deviantart for letting me use her gorgeous picture.

Review: Glimpse by Carol Lynch Williams

Title: Glimpse
Author: Carol Lynch Williams
Pub. Date: June 2010
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Pages: 496
Copy Received: Library

Just a year apart, the Chapman girls were as close as sisters could be. Hope could always count on Lizzie, and Lizzie could always count on Hope- always. But even sisters have secrets. Big secrets. And if Lizzie has her way, she'll take the biggest secret of all to her grave. With Lizzie in lockdown, can Hope discover the truth and save her sister, or is it already too late?

A cover can only go so far with a book until the actual story comes into play, and that is when you begin to see the plot in its most naked form. Glimpse had one of the most stunning covers that I have seen in the longest time, but it isn't the cover that I think of when the book comes to mind--it is the story. Glimpse was a triple threat, it had an amazing cover, true characters, and a story that latches onto the reader, who will have a hard time forgetting Hope's tale. Actually, it's a quadruple threat because the writing is to die for, and it's written in verse.

One thing that I've noticed with Williams’ characters is how naive they are; her characters are so innocent that you want to wrap them in your arms and cover their eyes so that they never have to experience the bad things of this world. Sadly, they are the ones who are forced to see the worst things; they have to grow up so quickly because of the environment that they live in. Though Hope had it way worse than Kyra, the main character in The Chosen One, in my opinion.

Ever since the death of her father, Hope's mom has had to earn money in the worst way possible--prostitution. Lizzie and Hope grow up too fast because of their mother's lifestyle and are forced to fend for themselves for days at a time because their mother is 'working.' Hope's whole life changes when she walks in on her sister, Lizzie, holding a gun to herself. When Lizzie is taken away to the hospital, Hope, and the doctors, begin to wonder what it was that made Lizzie suicidal. In this time Hope begins to see her mother for the woman she truly is-- terrible, cold-hearted. When she discovers what it is that made Lizzie want to kill herself she finds out how cruel people can be.

The one problem I had with Glimpse is how neither Hope or the doctors had no clue what was wrong with Lizzie. In my mind it seemed like it was the easiest conclusion to make, it was like the characters were sitting in the dark while I already made that conclusion and I just wanted to shake them because it was right in front of them the whole time! Though I think Hope had an inkling of what was going on but she buried it deep in her mind because she had a hard time believing that was reason for Lizzie's suicidal tendencies.

Glimpse was a simple book...and I mean that in the best way possible. It was like Lisa McMann's Wake trilogy in that way; the simpleness fit the story because of Hope and the situation she was in. Though it may have been simple it does not mean that the story was lacking by any means! The story was so full and luscious but left a lot of room for the reader to place themselves and their imaginations in it.

I am so glad that more and more writers these days are actually writing about the type of things that most others don't even think about. I'm glad that someone is stepping for the broken, the victims and telling their stories to rest of the world.

First Semester is Done!

Actually I finished on Thursday but I've been extra lazy, enjoying the small amount of time that I have off until next semester starts. I did finish a book during my break! I found a copy of Glimpse at my library, which caused me to squeal like a loser because I have been longing to read it for god knows how long! It was pretty much amazing and I want to get my review up for that later this week, so keep an eye out for that!

I've missed you guys like crazy and I'm so happy to be back! Hopefully next semster won't be as crazy and hectic so I can spend more time here.