Influenza? You mean THE FLU!!

OK so no not a book just a heads up I will be taking a few sick days, I think reading about the flue in historical novels (and my sister going to school and catching it) is really bringing me down, guess what the doc said.
You got the flu. antibiotics.
I WILL be reading and preparing for book reviews while i am bed bound. Just not blogging them till I am back on my feet I am so sorry.
I do on the other hand have a real treat for you a book called The Fifth Petal By  Brunonia Berry I have just received it in the mail and will be posting a review for it in a few days when i get back, it looks very promising.
Have a wonderful few Ozzy free days.
I WILL BE BACK, said he

The Diary of a Young Girl By Anne Frank

Summary By Goodreads:
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.

In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death.
In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.

If The Duke Demands by Anna Harrington

Summary by NetGalley:
Miranda Hodgkins has only ever wanted one thing: to marry Robert Carlisle. And she simply can't wait a moment longer. During the Carlisle family masquerade ball, Miranda boldly sneaks into his bedchamber with seduction on her mind. Soon she's swept into rock-hard arms for the most breathtaking kiss of her life. But when the masks come off, she's horrified to find herself face-to-face with Sebastian, the Duke of Trent-Robert's formidable older brother.

Shocked to find Miranda in his bed, Sebastian quickly offers her a deal to avoid scandal: He'll help her win his brother's heart if she'll find him the perfect wife. But what begins as a simple negotiation soon spirals out of control. For the longer this reformed rake tries to make a match for Miranda, the more he wants to keep her all to himself.

Romeo and Juliet A play By William Shakespeare

Summary By Goodreads:
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a world of violence and generational conflict in which two young people fall in love and die because of that love. The story is rather extraordinary in that the normal problems faced by young lovers are here so very large. It is not simply that the families of Romeo and Juliet disapprove of the lover's affection for each other; rather, the Montagues and the Capulets are on opposite sides in a blood feud and are trying to kill each other on the streets of Verona. Every time a member of one of the two families dies in the fight, his relatives demand the blood of his killer. Because of the feud, if Romeo is discovered with Juliet by her family, he will be killed. Once Romeo is banished, the only way that Juliet can avoid being married to someone else is to take a potion that apparently kills her, so that she is buried with the bodies of her slain relatives. In this violent, death-filled world, the movement of the story from love at first sight to the union of the lovers in death seems almost inevitable.

The Fearless Travelers' Guide to Wicked Places by Peter Begler

Summary By Netgalley:
Twelve-year-old Nell Perkins knows there is magic at work that she can’t yet understand. Her mother has been taken by witches and turned into a bird. Nell must journey to get her mother back, even if it takes her deep into the Wicked Places — the frightening realm where Nightmares resides. There she must break the spell and stop the witches from turning our world into a living nightmare.

A War With a Demon By Oz Monty Mikhail

So for Monday Share Day I share with you this poem.

A face cold as stone,

diamond eyes that look all alone

hair dark like a moonless night

hands that shake with fright.

Clothes maroon from blood 

boots covered in mud.

What could this man have done?

What ever it was he has yet to find he has not won

A war with a demon 

A war no one has won 

A war we hide 

A war we all must fight 

A face cold as stone 

Diamond eyes that look all alone 

hair dark like a moonless night 

hands that shake with fright

A plead escapes his lips 

deep and sweet 

a plead one cannot refuse to a man

who fought a war

A war with a demon

A war no one has won

A war we hide

A war we all must fight

A face cold as stone 

Diamond eyes that look all alone 

hair dark like as moonless night 

hands that shake with fright

Till deaths shadow hides his face 

his breathing changes its pace

from once steady 

to a labored breath that is heavy

A face that's no longer stone 

Diamond eyes that no longer look all alone

hair dark like a moonless night

hands that no longer shake in fright 

death's shadow has gone

and taken with him 

this poor mans soul.

Angel of Mercy By Lurlene McDaniel

Summary By Goodreads:
Heather Barlow has always been idealistic, and now that she has finished high school, she's ready to make a difference in the world. After graduation, she joins a mission group on a hospital mercy ship sailing to Africa. However, Heather is unprepared to face the disease, famine, and misery she encounters.

A Question

So today I am not going to bother with the review I had planned instead I have a question for you.

Why do you read?
I know why I read. I read to escape, to live, and to grow. This question is one that people, family, friends,strangers, ask me nearly every day one that I occasionally ask my self. From my perspective every book, every story, is a lesson to be learned. It may be one that you have already learned, or a new one but this is how we grow. Most of the the time people don't even realize that they have learned this lesson, this lesson can come from any genre of books, whether it a memoir or a horror. You don't have to tell me your answer, nor give me any explanation, instead giver your self one.
Why do you read? Why do you pick up that book? 
And just for the hell of it here is another question for you.
What make you want to read a book? Is it the cover? The author? The summary? Genre? Be brave and leave a comment below with your answer to this question.

Have a beautiful Saturday my friends.

Dark Lover By JR Ward

Summary By Goodreads:

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing more than Wrath, the leader of The Black Dagger Brotherhood.

The only purebred vampire left on earth, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents centuries ago. But, when one of his most trusted fighters is killed-leaving his half-breed daughter unaware of his existence or her fate-Wrath must usher her into the world of the undead-a world of sensuality beyond her wildest dreams.

The Giver By Lois Lowry

Summary By Goodreads:

This haunting story centers on Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he's given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.

If I Stay By Gayle Forman

Warning: This book can be considered a trigger

Don't hate me guys i accident
ally scheduled this for 19th last night so, better late then never right?


Summary By Goodreads:
Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?

Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.


Note: Not the whole summary, i think its a bit too revealing of the book.

Garden Of Angeles By Lurlene McDaniel

Summary:
It is 1974 and the country is still struggling to come to terms with the Vietnam War. In the small town of Conners, Georgia, Darcy has just started high school, her older sister Adel goes to weekend dances at the local Army base, and their mother tends her beautiful garden–the biggest and best in town. But Darcy’s world is soon changed forever when her mother goes to Atlanta for tests. The diagnosis is not good–breast cancer. There is so much Darcy wants to talk to her mother about: the war and what happened to the soldiers who were there; the feelings she is having for the new (and troubled) boy in school. But she can’t. So she finds solace in her mother’s garden. There she can help the flowers her mother planted bloom.

The Whisper By Oz Monty Mikhail

Note: Starting today Mondays will be reserved for sharing, I wrote this short story a few months ago and have been wondering since I started this blog whether I should share my short stories and poetry with you and I have come to a final decision that I will! More than happy to. I am not asking for feedback more than anything a spare few moments of your time to stop for a moment during your busy Monday morning and relax, breath and read, something short, not necessarily sweet, more than occasionally dreary but a story or poem I have written from the heart.

Please continue and read on.

IT By Stephen King

Summary By Goodreads:
To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live.

It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing . . .

The adults, knowing better, knew nothing.

Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of IT was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until they were called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality. 

The Elusive Miss. Ellison

Summary By NetGalley:

That's the firm opinion of not-so-meek minister's daughter Lavinia Ellison. So even though all the other villagers of St. Hampton Heath are swooning over the newly returned seventh Earl of Hawkesbury, she is not impressed. If a man won't take his responsibilities seriously and help those who are supposed to be able to depend on him, he deserves no respect from her. In Lavinia's pretty, gray eyes, Nicholas Stamford is just as arrogant and reckless as his brother--who stole the most important person in Livvie's world.

Nicholas is weighed down by his own guilt and responsibility, by the pain his careless brother caused, and by the legacy of war he's just left. This quick visit home to St. Hampton Heath will be just long enough to ease a small part of that burden. Asking him to bother with the lives of the villagers when there's already a bailiff on the job is simply too much to expect. That is, until the hoydenish, intelligent, and very opinionated Miss Ellison challenges him to see past his pain and pride. With her angelic voice in his head, he may even be beginning to care. But his isn't the only heart that needs to change.

These two lonely hearts may each have something the other needs. But with society's opposition, ancestral obligations, and a shocking family secret, there may be too many obstacles in their way.

Fans of Georgette Heyer, Lori Wick, and Julie Klassen will enjoy the spirited exchanges between the bluestocking minister's daughter and the bruised war hero as they move past pride and presumption to a humbled appreciation of God's grace and the true strength of love.

Darkroom By Mary Maddox

Summary By NetGalley:

Talented but unstable photographer Day Randall has been living rent-free in Kelly Durrell's Colorado condo for eight months. Day needs someone to keep an eye on her. Kelly needs someone to draw her out of her stable but unspectacular life. The arrangement works for both of them.

Then Kelly comes home one day to find Day gone. There's no note, no phone call. Day's car is parked out front, but her room is empty and spotless.

No one seems to care. The police certainly aren't interested in a missing bipolar artist, but Kelly knows Day wouldn't just leave.

Alone, Kelly traces Day's last steps through shadowy back rooms of Boulder nightclubs and to a remote mountain estate, where the wealthy protect themselves behind electric fences and armed guards. Along the way, she confronts powerful people who will do anything to protect the secrets hidden in Day's enigmatic photographs.

If she trusts the wrong person, Kelly will be the next to disappear.

The Irish Cottage By Juliet Gauvin

Summary By Goodreads:
A story about losing your way and finding your life. Book 1 of 3. 
Elizabeth Lara built a perfect life as San Francisco’s top divorce attorney, but when she loses her great-aunt Mags, the woman who raised her, she boards a plane and leaves it all behind.

The Irish shores welcome her as she learns a shocking truth, kept secret for thirty-five years. Devastated and now alone in the world, Beth tries to find peace in a beautiful cottage by Lough Rhiannon, but peace isn’t what fate had in mind. Almost as soon as she arrives, Beth’s solitary retreat into the magic wilds of Ireland is interrupted by Connor Bannon. A man with light brown hair, ice blue eyes and a secret of his own. He’s gorgeous, grieving, and completely unexpected.

With the help of Mags’ letters, the colorful townspeople of Dingle, and Connor, Elizabeth might just find a way back to the girl she lost long ago and become the woman she always wanted to be. 

Petite Confessions: A Humorous Memoirette By Vicki Lesage

Summary By Goodreads:
From champagne bottles to baby bottles, this memoirette offers a humorous look at an American mom's decade in Paris.

Party Girl Vicki moved to Paris hoping to drink her fill of wine and fall in love. She accomplished her goal, but encountered many bumps along the way: romantic encounters gone awry, absurd French bureaucracy threatening her sanity, and two adorable but impossibly energetic kids keeping her on her toes. This memoirette takes you on a journey of the ups and downs of Vicki's 10 years in the City of Light.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to open another bottle of wine.

His Indecent Training By Sky Corgan

Summary By Goodreads: 
There was an uneasy feeling in my chest as I stared down at the submissive questionnaire Damien Reed had given me. For the past few weeks, he had been teaching me about sexual nature and fantasy. This would be taking things a step further. Learning about BDSM would put our relationship on a completely different level—a level I had wanted so badly since first setting eyes on Damien Reed.

Remembrance By Michelle Madow

Summary By Goodreads:

Lizzie Davenport has been reincarnated from 1815, England ... but she doesn't realize it until she meets her soul mate from the past and he triggers her memories to gradually return.

When Drew Carmichael transfers into Lizzie's high school, she feels a connection to him, like she knows him. But he wants nothing to do with her. Reaching Drew is more difficult because she has a boyfriend, Jeremy, who has become full of himself after being elected co-captain of the varsity soccer team, and her flirtatious best friend Chelsea starts dating Drew soon after his arrival. So why can't she get him out of her mind?

Lizzie knows she should let go of her fascination with Drew, but fighting fate isn't easy, and she's determined to unravel the mysteries of the past.

The Fallen Gatekeeper By C.R. Fladmark

Summary by Author:

He went to the realm where no one with a pure heart should go. Yet he survived.

He dared to speak to the gods. And the gods spoke back.

His blood still carries the poison that should have killed him.

Sixteen-year-old Junya survived his battle with the Evil Ones, but his energy is weighed down by a powerful darkness. The Gatekeepers of Izumo Oyashiro are reluctant to let him back into their realm. His own mother watches him with a wary look.

Only Shoko – the deadly warrior who dresses like a Japanese schoolgirl – stands by him. And all Junya wants now is a way to introduce his ancient guardian of the gods to modern romance.

But the Evil Ones aren’t done with them yet. Someone in Junya’s world is murdering the shamans of the Earth’s ancient religions. Without their worship, the gods grow weak, and the Gatekeepers are in danger.

It will take a bold and unconventional plan to save Izumo.

The rules that have governed Gatekeepers for centuries are about to change.

But will it be worth the cost?

Note:
First and foremost I did not know this was a second book and i have recently discovered NetGalley. So do expect to hear about them often enough, This book is actually from NetGalley so i will also have my thoughts on their review page.

Careful What You Wish For By Michelle Escamilla

Summary By Goodreads:
One simple wish can change everything…
Harley Simpson has one wish—to find Prince Charming and settle down. She has a dream job and wonderful friends, but something is missing. With her thirtieth birthday looming, Harley is sure being with her hot, smooth-talking boss Ethan Prince would make her life complete. Having just landed a major client and learning she’ll be working even more closely with Ethan, Harley sets out to celebrate with her friends.
On her way to the bar, Harley chats with a mysterious cab driver. When the woman asks what she would wish for, Harley answers honestly—she wants Ethan. But during her night out, she meets a handsome, blue-eyed part-time bartender and full-time teacher named Matt Garner. No, he’s not a CEO, but he’s the sweetest guy Harley’s ever met.
Note: This is only part of the summary as i think that the last bit was too reveling.

Angel Fire (Dark Angel Series) By Hannah Peach

Genre: Young Adult, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance

Summary By the Author:
Forget everything you know about angels…   You’ll likely find Alyxandria slicing demons with her blades rather than plucking at harp strings. Whether it's with weapons, unarmed or with the “borrowed magics” of distilled angel-blood tattoos, she trains harder than any other Seraphim warrior to prove she is nothing like her parents who abandoned her to become Rogues.   After a series of confusing visions, Alyx saves Israel, a mysterious mortal who knows too much. She has been chosen as his Guardian. There’s just one problem. She is forbidden to even see him again.   An Elders’ dark plan, a keye to unlock Hell, and a prophecy that warns of the greatest war this Earth will ever know…   It begins in Angelfire.

Hush Hush By Becca Fitzpatrick

Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal
Summary by Goodreads:
Romance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment.

But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.

For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life.

Vampire Academy By Richelle Mead

Vampire Academy By Rachelle Mead Book Cover (Unoriginal)

Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Fiction, Romance

Summary By GOODREADS:
ONLY A TRUE BEST FRIEND CAN PROTECT YOU FROM YOUR IMMORTAL ENEMIES…

Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires—the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.

After two years of freedom, Rose and Lissa are caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir's Academy, a school for vampire royalty and their guardians-to-be, hidden in the deep forests of Montana. But inside the iron gates, life is even more fraught with danger…and the Strigoi are always close by.

Rose and Lissa must navigate their dangerous world, confront the temptations of forbidden love, and never once let their guard down, lest the evil undead make Lissa one of them forever…

Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher

Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher Book Cover

Warning:This book does talk about suicide and different forms of abuse if you are undergoing emotional problems (Bipolar, Post Traumatic Stress, ect.)Reading this book can trigger a relapse. (I speak from experience. The first time i read this book i went through a relapse from a heavy depression, so please do not read this book if you are going through a mental crisis or have had one within the last five years (which really is just a suggestion) Thank you.😊)

Summary:

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker--his classmate and crush--who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why.
Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and as he follows Hannah's recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.