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Yes, we know that June is over, but we had so much AWESOME that we couldn't fit it into one month.  Plus, do we really want it to end? I couldn't let JIAM end without letting you know about this audiobook series.  I ADORE this series on audiobook!  The reader, Rebecca Lowman, was PERFECT for this narration.  It's one of my absolute favorites ever, and I hope you get a chance to listen to these books! Thanks to Random House Audio, we're giving one of you a chance to get one right now!  Winner's choice, either Nightshade, Wolfsbane, or Blood Rose (depending on where you are in the series). Make sure you check out the reader here ! a Rafflecopter giveaway

During the month of June, we're having lots of audiobook awesomeness.  One thing we're doing for JIAM (June is Audiobook Month) is interviewing some audiobook fanatics! Today we have Vania from VLC Productions with us!  If you haven't checked out her photography, you MUST do so immediately!  She also does phenomenal book trailers for some of the most popular YA books out there, including City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare and Wither by Lauren Destefano! What originally made you pick up an audiobook to try it? I had a school commute and had at least half an hour each way that I was wasting, so I started listening to book. I also had a blogger friend of mine who went through audiobooks faster then me due to her longer commute so I had her to recommend me books. Then we ended up talking about them as we would with the ARCs and books we were reading on a regular basis. I also really enjoyed the experience of an audiobook. If it has a good narrator it en...

For #JIAM (June is Audiobook Month), we're doing a series of giveaways of our FAVORITE audiobooks!  Today, thanks to the AMAZING Recorded Books,  I have a giveaway that is SO special to me.  I just can't explain to you how much love I have for this audiobook.  Next to the Harry Potter audiobooks, this is my VERY favorite series!  I'm really excited to be giving away a copy of The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima. Times are hard in the mountain city of Fellsmarch.  Reformed thief Han Alister will do almost anything to eke out a living for himself, his mother, and his sister Mari.  Ironically, the only thing of value he has is something he can’t sell.  For as long as Han can remember, he’s worn thick silver cuffs engraved with runes.  They’re clearly magicked—as he grows, they grow, and he’s never been able to get them off. Han’s life gets even harder after he takes a powerful amulet from the son of the High Wizard. T...

During the month of June, we're having lots of audiobook awesomeness.  One thing we're doing for JIAM (June is Audiobook Month) is interviewing some audiobook fanatics! Today we have Sabrina from YA Bliss !  Sab and I met at ALA, and we instantly hit it off!  One of the things we couldn't stop talking about was audiobooks.  I'm pretty sure if anyone rivals me for audiobook love, this is the girl.  Make sure you check out all her audiobook posts on her blog ! What originally made you pick up an audiobook to try it? My long commute. Where do you usually listen to audiobooks? While driving, exercising, flat-ironing my hair, walking to classroom, cleaning the house, cooking, I even started grocery shopping with my earplugs on (not music of course). How many audiobooks do you listen to a month? I've listened to seven audiobooks in May so far. Do you prefer full cast audios or one reader? I like both. I love books with two voices, but sometim...

DAY 5! You may have heard....June is audiobook month, and this week, we're celebrating Simon and Schuster audio!  All week long, thanks to Simon Audio, we are giving away AMAZING Simon Audio titles every day.  Each Giveaway will last only 24 hours , so I hope you've been able to enter them all! To see all of Simon and Schuster's audiobook titles, check out their website:  http://audio.simonandschuster.com/ Today's Simon Audio Giveaway is: Today, thanks to Simon & Schuster Audio, we have a  fantastic giveaway! I've been such a huge fan of The Mortal Instruments Audiobooks, especially since Molly Quinn became the main reader.  She does an amazing job! I just finished City of Lost Souls and it was fantastic on audio!  Listen to a sample here : Here's what Cassie has to say about audiobooks! Here's what Molly says about City of Lost Souls: Can't wait this long to get your copy? You can download this a...

DAY 4! You may have heard....June is audiobook month, and this week, we're celebrating Simon and Schuster audio!  All week long, thanks to Simon Audio, we are giving away AMAZING Simon Audio titles.  Each Giveaway will last only 24 hours , so make sure you check back every day to see what we have that day! To see all of Simon and Schuster's audiobook titles, check out their website:  http://audio.simonandschuster.com/ Today's Simon Audio Giveaway is: Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Aladdin (August 30, 2011) Audiobook Publisher:  Simon Audio Language: English Buy the Book: Amazon , Audible Every year in Quill, thirteen-year-olds are sorted into categories: the strong, intelligent Wanteds go to university, and the artistic Unwanteds are sent to their deaths. Thirteen-year-old Alex tries his hardest to be stoic when his fate is announced as Unwanted, even while leaving behind his twin, Aaron, a Wanted. Upon arrival at the destination where ...

Reading Level: Ages 14 and up Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (May 8, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1442416866 ISBN-13: 978-1442416864 Buy the book: Amazon shadowhunters.com Can the lost be reclaimed? What price is too high to pay for love? Who can be trusted when sin and salvation collide? Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series. The Mortal Instrument series is spaced enough apart, that the showdowhunter world doesn't get old, in my opinion. Of course, I do not have to say what an incredible writer and storyteller Cassandra Clare is. I love the shadowhunter world, it's always exciting and so epic. When  City of Lost Souls  was put neatley on the bookstore shelves, I snatched one up instantly. I was so excited to start this book. Hold on to your butts for I am about to tell you... I didn't like City of Lost Souls all that ...

During the month of June, we're having lots of audiobook awesomeness.  One thing we're doing for JIAM (June is Audiobook Month) is interviewing some audiobook fanatics! Today we have one of my closest blogging friends, Yara from Once Upon a Twilight .  Yara and I met last year at BEA (though we'd been Twitter buds before that) and became pretty inseparable.   I absolutely love her, and I'm so happy that I get to share this love of audiobooks with her as well! What originally made you pick up an audiobook to try it? This is a very easy answer. You did! I kept reading and seeing all the mentions and tweets about certain audio books you had listened to and loved and it caught my attention to try one out. YAY ME!! :P  Where do you usually listen to audiobooks? Probably in the car when I take longer drives or I try when I sit at my desk while working. Home though doing all sorts of things around the house.  How many audiobooks do you listen to...

DAY 3! You may have heard....June is audiobook month, and this week, we're celebrating Simon and Schuster audio!  All week long, thanks to Simon Audio, we are giving away AMAZING Simon Audio titles.  Each Giveaway will last only 24 hours , so make sure you check back every day to see what we have that day! To see all of Simon and Schuster's audiobook titles, check out their website:  http://audio.simonandschuster.com/ Today's Simon Audio Giveaway is: Reading level: Young Adult Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Simon Pulse; Reprint edition (August 10, 2010) Audio CD Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition (October 6, 2009) Buy the book: Hardcover | Paperback | Audio All the European powers are arming up for World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale a...

DAY 2! You may have heard....June is audiobook month, and this week, we're celebrating Simon and Schuster audio!  All week long, thanks to Simon Audio, we are giving away AMAZING Simon Audio titles.  Each Giveaway will last only 24 hours , so make sure you check back every day to see what we have that day! To see all of Simon and Schuster's audiobook titles, check out their website:  http://audio.simonandschuster.com/ Today's Simon Audio Giveaway is: Bestselling author Brandon Mull brings his newest blockbuster-ready fantasy series to Simon & Schuster Audio! Jason Walker lives a predictable life: going to school, playing baseball, volunteering at the local zoo—until one day he falls through a tunnel near the hippo tank and ends up in a new, utterly different world. In Lyrian, the people dress differently, behave differently, and all live in fear of their malicious Emperor, Surroth. But in Jason’s search for a way home, he learns of a magi...

You may have heard....June is audiobook month, and this week, we're celebrating Simon and Schuster audio!  All week long, thanks to Simon Audio, we are giving away AMAZING Simon Audio titles.  Each Giveaway will last only 24 hours , so make sure you check back every day to see what we have that day! To see all of Simon and Schuster's audiobook titles, check out their website:  http://audio.simonandschuster.com/ Today's Simon Audio Giveaway is: Audio CD Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition (December 6, 2011) Language: English Readers:  Ed Weswick and Heather Lind Series: The Infernal Devices book #2 Buy the book: Audible | Audio | Hardcover The situation at the London Institute has never been more precarious. With Mortmain and his clockwork army still threatening, the Council wants to strip Charlotte of her power and hand the running of the Enclave over to the unscrupulous and power-hungry Benedict Lightwood. In...

For #JIAM (June is Audiobook Month), we're doing a series of giveaways of our FAVORITE audiobooks!  Today, I have an AMAZING giveaway!  This is one of the MOST awesome series and two of my all-time favorite audiobooks, INSURGENT & DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth, read by Emma Galvin.  You can listen to a sample of her narration here . *NOTE: These audiobooks are on digital MP3 file.  They can either be emailed to you, or will be burned onto an MP3 CD for you by Harper Audio (winner's choice).  If you can't wait for this giveaway to end before listening, you can find it on Audible.com.  You can even sign up to get it, or any other audiobook, for free here ! Find all our Audiobook Giveaways, and all the other audiobook goodness we have going on here , and make sure you check back frequently because we have LOTS more giveaways coming up! Good Luck!!  a Rafflecopter giveaway

During the month of June, we're having lots of audiobook awesomeness.  One thing we're doing for JIAM (June is Audiobook Month) is interviewing some audiobook fanatics! Today we have Stephanie from Read in a Single Sitting with us! What originally made you pick up an audiobook to try it? I spend a lot of time walking, so rather than listening to music I listen to podcasts. I started off listening to things like the Radio National's Book Show and podcasts of magazines specialising in short stories. I started venturing into full-length audiobooks when I came across Scott Sigler's work, and when I stumbled across the site Librivox , which is sort of an audiobook Gutenburg Project, I became an avid fan. Where do you usually listen to audiobooks? Whenever I'm out walking or running. I walk to and from work, which is about a 50 minute commute each way, so I can get through a bit of material that way! I also like to take long walks on the...

Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition (May 1, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0316094625 ISBN-13: 978-0316094627 Buy the book: Amazon Buy the audio: Audible.com Visit the site:  catpatrick.com As a little girl, Daisy Appleby was killed in a school bus crash. Moments after the accident, she was brought back to life. A secret government agency has developed a drug called Revive that can bring people back from the dead, and Daisy Appleby, a test subject, has been Revived five times in fifteen years. Daisy takes extraordinary risks, knowing that she can beat death, but each new death also means a new name, a new city, and a new life. When she meets Matt McKean, Daisy begins to question the moral implications of Revive, and as she discovers the agency's true goals, she realizes she's at the center of something much larger -- and more sinister -- than she ever imagined. Let me see here, where to start... Well this book was jus...