Something Wicked Returns: Giveaway Blog Hop

Something Wicked Returns hosted by Heidi @ Rainy Day Ramblings, Candace @ Candace's Book Blog, Maja @ The Nocturnal Library and Ali @ My Guilty Obsession. 

Yay for another giveaway! I decided to join the Something Wicked Returns Giveaway Blog Hop. My giveaway is going to be nice, simple and international! My prize is going to be your choice of any paranormal, supernatural, or Halloween themed e-book/s. Not only one, you get $20 worth which means that you can choose as many as you like. Plus, just for the fun of it, you can choose an album to listen to as well. Why not? After all, my blog is Music Plus Books. The album can be anything you'd like because it's my special addition. You can live anywhere in the world as long as I can e-mail you the prizes. It runs for all of October, from now, October 1st, all the way to October 31st. I'm ready for this. Are you? There are heaps of blogs participating and heaps of chances to win win win. Let's get excited for the lead up to Halloween!
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Stacking The Shelves #5: Prodigy by Marie Lu

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted on Tynga's Reviews. Basically you share what books you acquired that week whether it be physical or digital. Info here.

Sadly, this month, I only got one book! I know, I have such a sad life. It's okay though, I probably will never be able to get through the books I already have anyway. I'd get like 4 books in a week and then read at a 1 book per week pace. But anyway, this month, I got Prodigy by Marie Lu. Is it just me, or do you get mixed up with the d and the g too? Probably just me, I always think it's Progidy. *Face palm*.



Ebook/s
Prodigy by Marie Lu | Goodreads | Book Depository | Amazon

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Vamps vs Zombies Blog Hop: Giveaway

My Shelf Confessions is having a month long event celebrating all things Zombie and Vampire! All info here.

I had heaps of fun doing the Books, Brains ‘n Blood Read-a-Thon and now I will be participating in the Giveaway Hop. YAY for giveaways like usual. This is going to be heaps of fun because after you enter my giveaway, you can enter the next. Tens of bloggers have joined this blog hop with their own separate giveaway. So what I'm I giving away? I'm giving away FIFTY DOLLARS, or $50 worth of any e-books you like. As long as they're vampire or zombie themed. I might make a few exceptions but I'll see.

This giveaway is INTL as long as I can send you the prizes through email. I can most likely get your books in any format so that means it doesn't matter if you have an iPad, Kindle, Nook or any other generic e-reader, you can join! The giveaway runs from the 17th-30th. Drop a comment telling me what book/s you might want if you won. Also, if you've followed my blog, you can come back each day for more entries. Follow once, and get more and more entries each day. Good luck everyone! I hope yous have heaps of fun!
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Feature and Follow Friday #15: Tricks Learnt + Last Time

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Q: Share something you’ve learned about book blogging or just blogging in general in the last month.

I've learnt many many things in the process of blogging. In the past month, I've learnt how to do things such as the slider that features my latest posts. It was excruciatingly hard but it wasn't too bad. I know, paradox but it was only hard because I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my blog. My experience with blogging has been amazing because I've learnt how to do so many things with blog design. I'm Asian, which makes me really cheap, which means I still have yet to pay someone to do my blog design. I'm guess I'm glad I never did though because otherwise, I would've never learnt how to do things like my blockquote, slider and how to use Photoshop CS6. Just while I'm talking about blog design, just a reminder that I offer free blog designing for all the simple stuff. If there are any elements on my blog that you'd like to see on yours, feel free to contact me.

I know that weekly memes are meant to be forever. I feel really bad 'quitting' but at this point, I don't want to continue doing the Feature and Follow Friday posts. I still and always will follow back anyone who lets me know that they have a blog. Nowadays, I have so many posts that I have to do and this post takes up a day of what could be a different post. I don't like posting too much on one day. Once again, I will still follow back everyone because I love my followers, I've just decided that I don't want to do these posts again. Farewell guys. Especially to Jessica @ a GREAT read who manages to leave a comment on every single one of these posts.

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Stacking The Shelves #4: ARCs Galore

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted on Tynga's Reviews. Basically you share what books you acquired that week whether it be physical or digital. All info here.

This week, I received 3 unexpected lovelies in the mail. I will be reading and reviewing these as soon as possible. I normally try to get the reviews up on the day the book comes out in Australia but these may be coming a bit earlier since they are already out in most other places. Thank you to Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins. If you like any of these authors, let me know in the comments.

For Review
All The Truth That's In Me by Julie Berry | Goodreads | Book Depository | Amazon
It's Raining Men by Milly Johnson | Goodreads | Book Depository | Amazon
Killer Queens by Rebecca Chance | Goodreads | Book Depository | Amazon

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Feature and Follow Friday #14: Back To School

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Q: Back to School time! Create a reading list for the imaginary English Lit class you'll be teaching this semester.

After a lot of thinking, I thought I'd do an author study kind of thing. If I was teaching an imaginary English Lit class (which by the way, I have no idea about since I live in Australia), I would have to expose them to John Green! His not my all time favourite author but I don't think Nicholas Sparks books would be appropriate for school. Even though John Green explores a lot of scary themes, I still think that his writing is amazing. I still have yet to meet anyone who doesn't like his books. I've read all his books except for The Abundance of Katherines which I really do need to read one day.

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Stacking The Shelves #3: Books, Brains 'n Blood

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted on Tynga's Reviews. Basically you share what books you acquired that week whether it be physical or digital. All info here.

This week the only books I acquired are for the Books, Blood 'n Brains Read-A-Thon. I tried looking for all of them in the library but sadly, only found one. They had the second and third books in the Darkest Powers trilogy but of course, they didn't have the first. I wouldn't of been able to order the other books and get them shipped in time so instead I got the e-books.

Library
The Immortal Rules
by Julie Kagawa

E-books

The Summoning
by Kelley Armstrong

Feed
by Mira Grant 

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Feature and Follow Friday #13: Bad Books

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Q: How do you handle a book you don’t like? Do you DNF or do you power through?

I normally try my very hardest to power through the books. I think I've only ever marked 3 books as 'Did Not Finish'. Those books were Stolen, A Game of Thrones and The Time Traveler's Wife. Most of the time, I push through because I feel like I have a responsibility to finish them.

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Stacking The Shelves #2: Pivot Point + Thy Will Be Done

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted on Tynga's Reviews. Basically you share what books you acquired that week whether it be physical or digital. All info here.

Last week, I had a massive book haul to show but like I said, that means I probably wouldn't have much anymore. I haven't had time to go to the library this week so if I do, tomorrow or in the following days, I'll include those books in my next Stacking The Shelves. Honestly though, my reading list has grown extensively and I'll have way too much to read for a long time. So today, I have a very little haul for you guys. Just two books. One I received for review and one I got the e-book for because I couldn't find it on my library's catalog. The e-book I downloaded was Pivot Point and it's for the Book BFFs group. I'm super excited!

For Review
Thy Will Be Done
by Julie Fisher

E-book/s
Pivot Point 
by Kasie West

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Feature and Follow Friday #12: After Reading

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Q: What do you do with your books after you are done reading them?

Since I read books from the library, well after I read them, I return them. It's sad but true. I also read e-books and so I just leave them there on my device. Being the weird person I am, after I read books that I own, I put them in a drawer. I know what you're thinking but yeah, I have a book draw.

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Stacking The Shelves #1: Library + For Review + ARCs

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted on Tynga's Reviews. Basically you share what books you acquired that week whether it be physical or digital. All info here.

This is my very first Stacking The Shelves! YAY! I had a pretty good week of books this time round which is why I thought it'd be the perfect time. I got books from the library and books for review both in hard form and electronic form. Most weeks, I'd get a few e-books of my own too but this week I was pretty set. I probably won't need any more books for awhile. I'm super excited to read all of these books. I've already read a few. One book I got was Unearthly by Cynthia Hand and that's for the Unearthly Radical Read-Along that I'm a part of. You can win a copy here and join too. Continue to see what else I got.

Library
The Knife of Never Letting Go
byPatrick Ness
Unearthly
byCynthia Hand 
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
byJesse Andrews 
Shift
byEm Bailey 

For Review
Banish
byNicola Marsh 
Matt Monroe and The Secret Society
byEdward Torba
The Sweetest Hallelujah
byElaine Hussey    
The Inevitability Of Stars
byKathryn R. Lyster

Edelweiss
Heartbeat
byElizabeth Scott 

Netgalley
Star Attraction
byVanessa Stubbs  
Escaping Reality
byLisa Renee Jones 
The Truth About You and Me
byAmanda Grace 
 
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Feature and Follow Friday #11: Reading Spot

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Q: Where is the best destination reading spot for you? 

Other than at home I really don't read anywhere else. My perfect destination would be at a beach or a nice park. Really though, the only other place I read that's not at home is on the train and I wouldn't really consider that the best destination read spot. My comfy couch or bed is perfect enough for me.

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Feature and Follow Friday #10: Photobomb

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Q: PHOTOBOMB!!! Photobomb a picture with your favorite book. Share it of course.

My favourite book of all time is probably The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay. I was trying to think of an awesome way to photobomb a picture but in the end I just did a selfie because I'm uncreative. Oh well. Hope you enjoy! I don't have the hard copy so I cheated and used my tablet.

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Feature and Follow Friday #9: Independence Day

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Q: Share your favorite book with a war in it, or an overthrow of the government.

With all the Dystopian, there are heaps of books with an overthrow of the government. One off the top of my head has to be Matched by Ally Condie. There are definitely better books that have a corrupt government but the Matched series really displays a government completely overthrown.

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Feature and Follow Friday #8: Reading Format

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Q: Preferred reading format?

I'm planning to do a whole post on this very soon so make sure you follow so that you don't miss it. For now, I'll say that it really all depends. I love hardbacks, but they're expensive. I love paperbacks but like hardbacks, they're heavy. I like e-books but you don't get the full reading experience. I like audiobooks but again, no full reading with paper experience. So as you can see, it really all depends for me.

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Feature and Follow Friday #7: Fave Literary Quote

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Activity: Favourite Literary Quote

I don't think the question could've gotten any harder. How am I meant to answer this? This isn't my absolute favourite but it's one of my favourites. I looked through all the books I've read recently and chose one that I think would have lots of nice quotes. I was actually surprised by how many quotes I take note of in each book. After all, quotes are my thing.

Vain byFisher Amelie: [Dingane] "Fear, sadness. They're not weaknesses. They are overpowering, defining emotions. They make you human, Sophie."

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Feature and Follow Friday #6: Spine Poetry

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Activity: Spine Poetry. Create a line of poetry with your book spines.

Entwined with you,
I dare you to love me,
But it could be you,
Burned.

Entwined with you,
It could be you,
Burned.

I added four extra words for using four books in the first poem. I like that one better but if I wasn't allowed to put extra words, I'd use the second one. I had so much fun doing this activity! There definitely should be more of these.

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Feature and Follow Friday #5: Series Break Ups

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Q: Have you broken up with a series? If so which one and why?

I'm not proud of it but I will probably never finish the A Song of Ice and Fire series. I mean, it wasn't terrible or anything but the first book, A Game of Thrones, didn't hook me in enough to inspire me to read the rest. Each book is so extremely long and it probably take me half a year to read it all. Maybe one day.

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Feature and Follow Friday #4: Bloggers In Real Life

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Q: What blogger would you most like to meet in real life? Tell us about him or her.

I'd love to meet the The Lonesome Chapter. We've e-mailed back and forth and I'd love to meet her in real life one day even though we live in opposites sides of the world. She's really sweet and nice. Maybe one day, we'll get to meet. It'd be so fun!

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Feature and Follow Friday #3: 150 Weeks

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Q: The #FF is 150 weeks old! And we want to hear from you! What would you change about the hop? What do you like about it? Or just suggest a question to be used for next week!

This is only my third time but I definitely love everything about it. The only thing though, because it's growing bigger and bigger every single week, it would be nice if there were three or four featured bloggers instead of two. Maybe two can be random and another can be chosen? I know that'd waste a lot of time, but it'd be nice to see which blog/s Parajunkee and Alison Can Read actually like.

I'd love it if you could follow me in as many ways as you can. I have GFC (really hoping it won't go away), Bloglovin', RSS, Google + and I also just recently made a Twitter and Facebook page so they need extra love. You can also add me as a friend on Goodreads. Don't forget to drop your links in the comments so I can follow you as well. I love being able to share my thoughts but I love seeing other people's thoughts as well.
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