Friday Round-Up {4}

Happy Friday, everyone! Here's what's been going on this week:

• Last weekend I participated in the Book Blogger Love-A-Thon, which was SO awesome. To catch up with all my posts from the event, just browse my loveathon 2014 tag.

• I reviewed Rosamund Hodge's retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty.

• I discussed the reasons why I love being a reader and book blogger in this week's TTT post.

• Over on tumblr I found this awesome graphic featuring some of the biggest YA series, posted by bookgeekconfessions. 

• Adam Silvera at Pub(lishing) Crawl talks about GIFs in book reviews. As you've seen, I like to use GIFs, especially when I'm trying to be funny, but this article does a good job of covering both the pros and cons of GIF-ing.

• Entertainment Weekly has a preview of the first two chapters of Dreams of Gods and Monsters! You can read it here.

This weekend I plan on finishing up Jamie McGuire's Beautiful Disaster and Stacey Jay's Of Beast and Beauty. What will you be reading over the weekend?

Friday Round-Up {3}

Happy Valentine's Day! Whether this day of love finds you single or in a relationship, or perhaps even in an "it's complicated" situation, I hope you're having a wonderful day! It's snowing here today and even though it's something like the millionth time it's snowed since January 1, watching the snow fall while I'm warm and cozy inside never fails to put me in a good mood. I plan on spending the rest of the day with some books, my cozy blanket, and, hopefully, some CHOCOLATE!

On to the bookish news!

The movie adaptation of Winter's Tale is out today and I plan on seeing it over the weekend. You guys do not understand how excited I am for this movie! It looks so lovely and fantastical and romantic and, ugh, I just can't wait!

Do you like YA books? (Of course you do! Why else would you be here?) Do you like to win things? (Who doesn't?) Then head over to the Pub(lishing) Crawl blog to enter a giveaway for Kat Zhang's What's Left of Me and Once We Were, and see an exclusive look at the Echoes of Us cover.

Starting tomorrow, I will be participating in the 2014 Book Blogger Love-A-Thon, hosted by Alexa of Alexa Loves Books and Katelyn of Kate's Tales of Books and Bands. There are lots of fun blogging activities planned, so go check out their blogs to see what it's all about! And check back here tomorrow for my Love-A-Thon posts! :)

Edit: UPDATE! I am an idiot and just now realized that I have three invite codes for anyone who would like to try out the new Literally website. It's similar to GoodReads, but let's you track your weekly reading progress, gives you deals on books based on the books you have on your virtual shelf, and has many other cool features! Invite codes will be given away on a first come first serve basis, so if you're interested let me know in the comments! :)

Friday Round-Up {2}

Kat Rosenfield, author of Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone, has revealed the cover of her new YA novel  Inland, which will be released in June. Very excited to read this one! :)

BookRiot posted a list of the best coming-of-age love stories of the 21st century (so far). There are so many interesting books on this list and my TBR list has definitely grown because of it!

I've added a master list of the reviews I've written so far to the tabs bar. The list includes reviews I've posted to tumblr and Examiner in addition this blog.

My article "Cozy up with a YA book this Valentine's Day" is a featured story on Examiner.com's Young Adult Fiction page! I've been writing for Examiner for several months now but this is the first time I've been featured and I was very excited to get the good news! :D

Totally not book related but THE OLYMPIC OPENING CEREMONY IS TONIGHT! I am so excited! And, if you follow me on Twitter, you know that what I'm most looking forward to is…

all the Hunger Games comparisons ;P

Over the weekend I plan on finishing Cruel Beauty and hope to have a review up by early next week, so keep an eye out for that! 

So, what are you reading this weekend? Are you going to watch the Olympics? Which sport are you most excited to watch?

Friday Round-Up {1}

Friday Round-Up is a new feature in which I round up all the 

exciting bookish happenings of the week and update you on what I'm currently reading.

1. The TFIOS trailer was released online this week and as a result the internet exploded! As of this afternoon, it has over 6.2 million views on YouTube! You can read my reaction post here.

2. Laini Taylor has revealed the UK cover of Dreams of Gods and Monsters, and it's gorgeous.

3. I read Esther Earl's This Star Won't Go Out, which was so funny and charming and heartbreaking and man, did I cry.

4. I finally got my hands on a copy of Cruel Beauty, one of my most anticipated 2014 reads!

5. In other Laini Taylor news, Daughter of Smoke and Bone has received a library challenge. Not cool. To bring back a quote I posted to tumblr during Banned Books Week:

"The rights and protections of the First Amendment extend to children and teens as well as adults. While parents have the right—and the responsibility—to guide their own children’s reading, that right does not extend to other people’s children. Similarly, each adult has the right to choose his or her own reading materials, along with the responsibility to acknowledge and respect the right of others to do the same." - Robert P. Doyle

6. I have been slowly but surely making my way through Mark Helprin's historical fantasy, Winter's Tale, the movie adaptation of which is coming out in two weeks, starring the handsome Colin Farrell and Jessica Brown Findley of Downton Abbey fame! Will I be able to make it through the remaining 600+ pages by then? We'll see!

What does your Friday Round-Up look like? Have any interesting book news to share? What did you read this week? Let me know in the comments!