Musing Mondays (20) &It's Monday! (16)

 Hosted by Should Be Reading.

 This week’s musing is…

What devices -if any- do you read books on?
After swearing I would never ever change printed books for ebooks, I got a Kindle. I have to say its one of the best things I've ever done. And I did it because I was running out of space! Sure I'm saving a lot of space, but I still buy the occasional paperback or hardcover. There's nothing like the smell of a new book. lol. If I read a really great book on the Kindle, I'll sometimes even buy it again just to get that gorgeous cover to sit on my bookshelf (I know..I'm a book shopaholic). 
Also I recently got an iPad, but I haven't had much reading time on it. I have to say, I do like the huge screen to read. 

Hosted by Book Journey

Just Finished Reading:

 Scarlet by A. C. Gaughen

Currently Reading:

  Destiny's Fire by Trisha Wolfe

Planning To Read:

Brightest Kind of Darkness by P.T. Michelle

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Early Review: Above World by Jenn Reese

Above World

Author: Jenn Reese

Publisher: Candlewick Press, 2012

Genre: YA Fantasy Dystopia

Pre-Order: Amazon ♥ B&N ♥ TBD

Overview

          Thirteen-year-old Aluna has lived her entire life under the ocean with the Coral Kampii in the City of Shifting Tides. But after centuries spent hidden from the Above World, her colony’s survival is in doubt. The Kampii’s breathing necklaces are failing, but the elders are unwilling to venture above water to seek answers. Only headstrong Aluna and her friend Hoku are stubborn and bold enough to face the terrors of land to search for way to save their people. 

          But can Aluna’s warrior spirit and Hoku’s tech-savvy keep them safe? Set in a world where overcrowding has led humans to adapt—growing tails to live under the ocean or wings to live on mountains—here is a ride through a future where greed and cruelty have gone unchecked, but the loyalty of friends remains true.

On My Wishlist (27)

Hosted by Book Chick City every Saturday. List the books you desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming.

The Night Circus

Author: Erin Morgenstern

Publisher: Doubleday

Released: September 13 2011

Genre: YA Paranormal

Summary:

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus per­formers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.