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Saturday, December 17, 2011

2011 Mundie Moms Favorites: Hot Boys with Steles/Swords


It's day 1 of our 2011 Mundie Moms Favorites and I'm really looking forward to sharing our favorites with you guys this year. Sophie and I had to make this series of posts fun, so we'll not only be posting our favorite books, but some of our favorite elements, characters and so forth. Of course we're kicking off our series with our favorite Hot Boys With Steles/Swords. I swear this line has become normal here on Mundie Moms, thank you to Sophie.

Here's our top 10 favorite boys with steles & swords from some our favorite 2011 reads. The first on our list will not surprise anyone, after all they are in our favorite series,
  1. Jem & Will- The Clockwork Prince from the Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare
  2. Jace- The City of Fallen Angels from the The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare
  3. Ash- The Iron Queen & The Iron Knight from The Iron Fey Series by Julie Kagawa
  4. Akiva- Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
  5. Bennett- Surrender from the Haunting Emma series by Lee Nichols
  6. Archer- DemonGlass from the Hex Hall series by Rachel Hawkins
  7. Marcello, Luca & Lord Greco- The River of Time Series by Lisa T Bergren
  8. Dimitri- Circle of Fire from the Prophecy of the Sisters series by Michelle Zink
  9. Nick & Alan- Demon's Surrender from The Demon's Lexicon series by Sarah Rees Brennan
  10. Cash- Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Black
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To help us kick off our feature both Nick & Alan from Sarah Rees Brennan's Demon's Surrender have stopped by to visit with us today!

Nick:

What do you admire most about your brother?

Well, he's quite good with a gun. I also enjoy his cooking: some of us are growing boys, here. Being perfectly honest, which I always am, I got all the good looks in the family and I'm good with a sword. He lies too much and thinks too much and feels stuff too much and reads too much and watches costume dramas. Basically he's pretty useless.

Do you have one thing you can't live with out? If so, what is it?

If by 'live' you mean 'keep breathing in this world' I suppose I need oxygen, and several of my internal organs.

If you're talking in a weird roundabout way about feelings, which everybody else always does, and if you are asking me what I could lose, that I would prefer not to exist without, then I suppose my useless brother.

For Mundie Moms who haven't yet read the series, what would you say to them to get them to pick it up?

I usually have no shirt, no morals and no regrets. It works on most girls. Some boys. And all their mothers.

I'm pretty certain there's going to be a few MM's who will be running to pick the book up now.

Alan:

We love that your a book fan. Who's your favorite author?

I'm very glad to be among ladies who understand about books. As for favourite authors, oh, I don't know if I could pick a favourite! Anyone who really loves books knows that it would be like trying to pick a favourite family member. (Well, I've got a favourite family member, but I understand it's difficult for other people.) I have a different favourite author for every mood, and sometimes two or three. But I do really love Anthony Trollope. And Machiavelli has a lot of very interesting ideas.

If you could insert yourself into any book, what book would that be?

Being in a book would be very, very upsetting. Books are about bad things happening to people. Honestly a lot of bad things happen to me anyway--torture, fights, emotional torture, romantic rejection, self-sabotage, sometimes Nick cooks--I don't think I could take any more stress. I think I'll put in for Picnic Fun Sticker Activity.

Have you ever really been in love?

As of Demon's Lexicon... no. As of the end of Demon's Surrender, I would say yes. The issue was really finding someone who would know when I was lying about that. And about everything else.

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Thank you Nick & Alan for stopping by and to Sarah Rees Brennan for sharing her boys with us!

We'd love to know who some of your favorite 2011 HBWS are.

2012 Debut Author Challenge



It's the 2012 Debut Author Challenge post! YAY! This is my (Katie's) 3rd year taking part in this fabulous challenge, which is hosted by The Story Siren. I love this challenge. It's such a great opportunity for us to help promote debut authors. You can see our 2010 challenge (we read 38), and our 2011 challenge (to date we've read 86), which is combination of both YA and MG authors. Debut authors are either first time published authors, or established authors who's first YA/MG book was published this year. 

Here's the list of debs I'm looking forward to reading in 2012: *Here's my list of debs we read this year: 75 total

January:
February
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November:
December:
*Misc/ 2011 Debs:
  1. Destiny's Fire by Trisha Wolfe
  2. Stormdancer by Kay Kristoff
  3. False Memory by Dan Krokos
  4. Velveteen
  5. The Gathering Storm by Robin Bridges
  6. The Catastrophic History of You & Me by Jess Rothenberg
  7. After the Snow by S.D. Crockett
  8. Illuminate by Aimee Agresti
  9. Slide by Jill Hathaway
  10. Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf
  11. The Wicked and the Just by J. Anderson Coats
  12. The Selection by Kiera Cass
  13. Above by Leah Bobet
  14. When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle
  15. Struck by Jennifer Bosworth

#BIR2011 Day 7: Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter & BIR Wrap Up



It's the last day of this year's Best I've Read Series. I've really enjoyed being apart of this event again this year. Thank you to Cindy at Books Complete Me for putting this event together. I hope you guys have enjoyed this week's feature. Just in case you missed our schedule, I've included the links below. Be sure to enter our #BIR GIVEAWAYS! They all end today!

Hourglass by Myra McEntire
Lola & the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Die For Me by Amy Plum
The River of Time series by Lisa T Bergren

Some of my other favorites were featured on the BIR Blog:

Divergent by Veronica Roth
Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer
Vanish by Sophie Jordan
Hereafter by Tara Hudson
Delirium by Lauren Oliver



Today we're wrapping up our series with a mention of one of our favorites series, Ally Carter's Heist Society Series. Last year we fell in love with Kat & Hale in The Heist Society and this year this we adored them even more in Uncommon Criminals.

Published by Disney Hyperion
Released on June 21st, 2011

Katarina Bishop has worn a lot of labels in her short life: Friend. Niece. Daughter. Thief. But for the last two months she’s simply been known as the girl who ran the crew that robbed the greatest museum in the world. That’s why Kat isn’t surprised when she’s asked to steal the infamous Cleopatra Emerald so it can be returned to its rightful owners.

There are only three problems. First, the gem hasn’t been seen in public in thirty years. Second, since the fall of the Egyptian empire and the suicide of Cleopatra, no one who holds the emerald keeps it for long — and in Kat’s world, history almost always repeats itself. But it’s the third problem that makes Kat’s crew the most nervous, and that is . . . the emerald is cursed.


Kat might be in way over her head, but she’s not going down without a fight. After all, she has her best friend — the gorgeous Hale — and the rest of her crew with her as they chase the Cleopatra around the globe, dodging curses and realizing that the same tricks and cons her family has used for centuries are useless this time.


Which means, this time, Katarina Bishop is making up her own rules.

Oh Hale! This series has some of the best character chemistry we have read, or maybe it's the way Ally writes those moments where Hale and Kat are close together, but not yet touching that makes us want to shove them together and tell them to kiss already. These two have an explosive chemistry that we're addicted to. It's not just Hale and Kat that make this series one of our favorites, but the entire cast of characters, the exciting plot and the beautiful settings. Kat, Hale and their entire team of young con artists are hard not to fall in love with. We love the way Ally blends together classic art, history and steaming chemistry. Ally's writing completely mesmerizes us, and we can never get enough of it. This is one series we highly recommend picking up!!

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Purchase from: Amazon or Barnes & Noble

You can read Sophie's 5 star review for The Heist Society here

You can read my 5 star review for Uncommon Criminals here.

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Be sure to check out the Best I've Read blog for the feature of another favorite book, Michelle Hodkin's The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer.

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