Andye Reads

So I know most of you are crazy busy, especially with school starting back up, or jobs or whatever, and you only have time for a few books each month (unless you're a power reader), so I thought I share with you some books that are releasing this month that you shouldn't miss! (P.S. If you don't like reading lengthy posts, just read the highlighted words! :) Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2) Ok, this one is kind of cheating, because it's an August release, but it's the end of the month, so I'm going with it.  Also, it's a sequel, which I wasn't planning on doing, BUT, I just had to add it because I love it so much more than the first book .  I know a lot of people loved Throne of Glass , but for me it was just ok.  But all the things that bothered me in book one have been totally improved in Crown of Midnight.  There's so much action , and Celaena is seriously fierce !  Gone is the "telling but not showing" that has been complai...

Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Three Rivers Press (May 3, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0307464385 ISBN-13: 978-0307464385 Buy the book: Amazon Visit the site: http://www.kimwrites.com/ Follow Kim on Twitter Kim Brittingham struggled for years with her weight and body image before she learned how to love herself unconditionally, find her confidence, and fully enjoy her life. In her unflinching, humorous, and uplifting memoir, she openly explores her complex relationships with food and dieting, sex and dating, and exercise and health, ultimately inspiring every woman to live life to the absolute fullest, no matter what your jeans size. READ MY HIPS: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting and Live Large (May 2011, Three Rivers Press) is Brittingham’s first published memoir. In it, she shares many body-image focused anecdotes from her life, including: – Creating a fake book titled, FAT IS CONTAGIOUS: How Sitting Next to a Fat Person Can Make YOU Fat, and then carrying it op...

Reading level: Young Adult Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Speak; Reprint edition (February 23, 2010) Author's Website:   http://madwomanintheforest.com/ Buy the Book:   Amazon “Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies. But now Cassie is dead. Lia's mother is busy saving other people's lives. Her father is away on business. Her step-mother is clueless. And the voice inside Lia's head keeps telling her to remain in control, stay strong, lose more, weigh less. If she keeps on going this way—thin, thinner, thinnest—maybe she'll disappear altogether. In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the National Book Award finalist Speak, best-selling author Laurie Halse ...

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