My short disappearance...

Hello guys I am back after mystically disappearing for over two week hopefully someone noticed.... anybody???  woohooo.... 

*cricket chirps*

I guess I am not as popular as I thought yet.

So now that I am back I thought that I should at least explain a bit about my absence. The reason I haven't been blogging is that I was out saving the world from ultimate & untimely DOOM you know the usual one where everything and everyone goes BOOM. 

And then I had to go to the all species conference they were having at Mars to discuss with the aliens the potential benefits of not invading Earth and then wiping out all of humanity, I think I convinced the Martians , the Jupetirere and the Mercurians but the Plutonions, them I don't know they are really pissed at us because we don't consider Pluto a planet any more. So there could be an invasion of tiny cold blue people any time soon therefore, I'll have to disappear again to save the planet. Buy warm clothes cause there touch could give you a brain freeze.

After the conference I had to practice a few spells and hexes cause you never no when an evil sorcerer my act on his plan to take over the world. Had to keep the skills sharp.

Fun times yes...

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Ok so here's what really happened though I doubt you would want to read this ...

My midterm exams came so being the nerd I am I had to study, like a lot and blogging is really fun so I had to get it completely out of my mind  in order to concentrate on my studies therefore I went poof.

Boring I know right well what can a person do really.

What wasn't boring though was the awesome slumber party that I had with my friends on the day of my last exam we watched movies, had pillow fights, played charades and did all kinds of crazy stuff, and yes 18 year old's can have fluffy girly slumber parties hell I say 90 year old can have them too I plan on having one when I turn 90 if I survive that long I live a pretty uneventful life but my clumsiness reaches extreme levels so there is sort of a 50-50 chance.

Feature and Follow #2

The Feature & Follow is hosted by Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. This meme helps bloggers gain new followers and friends. The hosts of this meme feature one blogger every week. 
This week's activity is:

Recommend some of your favourite back-list books

1.Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1) by Kristin Cashore 

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight - she's a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king's thug.

If you like kick ass heroines that take crap from no one.
Genre: YA fantasy


2. Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7) by Jim Butcher

When a killer vampire threatens to destroy head of Special Investigations Karrin Murphy's reputation unless Harry delivers the powerful Word of Kemmler to her, he has no choice. Now Harry is in a race against time to find the Word before Chicago experiences a Halloween night to wake the dead.

If you like Urban Fantasy and a protagonist that get's put down (beat up) alot before actually succeeding.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
3.  Poison Study (Study, #1)  by Maria V. Snyder 

About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.

Swoony assassin and stubborn a heroine what more do you need?
Genre: YA fantasy

Liebster Blog Award (2nd Nomination)

I got nominated for the second time for Liebster award *eeeeep* given to me by
Bibliobrat Jackie of Bibliobrat.
1st nominations was by:
Witless Fool of Obsessive Compulsive Reader

Thank you so much for this I am honoured :)

 I just started blogging on 15 January of this year and it's been so much fun already.

What is a Liebster Award:

"Liebster Award" is an award given to bloggers by bloggers aiming to spotlight amazing new blogs with less than 200 followers. There are so many great blogs out there and Liebster Award post is a great way to get to know about them.

Here are the rules:

List 11 facts about yourself.
Answer the 11 questions asked by whoever nominated you.
Ask 11 new questions to 9 bloggers with less than 200 followers (You cannot re-nominate the blog that nominated you).
Go to their blog and tell them that they have been nominated and leave a link to your post.

11 Facts about me:

1. I am an introvert if there ever was one, I am a book person not a people person.
2. I am a nerd and I am proud as much as I am proud of being a bookworm I don't really need to tell you how huge a bookworm I am do I :)
3. I very self conscious, shy and emotional. I get embarrassed very very easily even when there is nothing to be embarrassed about.
4. I am a night person. You really don't want to be near me in the morning.
5. I am a realist but I am very imaginative, creative and tend to think outside the box.
6. Other than reading I love baking, gaming, walking underneath the starry sky, studying, talking about books,watching movies and TV, travelling, and shopping.
7. The few things that I hate with extremely violent passion are bullies, spoilers, racists and sexists.
8. I believe knowledge can solve all the problems of our lives no matter what they may be but imagination is the greatest power yielded by man.
9. I am very awkward and a bit uptight sometimes, the first impression that people usually have of me is the innocent and quite one and then the innocent and weird one but my close friends know how mischievous and naughty I can be if I want to ;)
10. I treat people the way they treat me.
11. 99.9% of  people don't understand me. I am usually misunderstood by people even those who are very close to me but, I guess that's the story of everyone :)

11 Questions from Bibliobrat Jackie of Bibliobrat:

1.  What is the first book you can remember reading for leisure?

I love this question because it brings back so many good memories and I spent quite a while thinking about it as far as I can remember the first book that I read for leisure was Lady and the Tramp I bought it at the airport book store when I was a kid and I don't remember exactly how old I was I do remember loving it tough :)

2.  What is your least favourite genre?

I don't really think I have a least favourite genre, I haven't really read many genres but I read non-fiction the least so I guess you could call it my least favourite.
3.  What book do you most relate to?

Ok this may sound oblique and lame but I haven't really read a book yet that I could relate to at a great level there are several books with which I can relate to a few parts a few character in some ways and considering the books I read (sci-fi, high fantasy, dystopian, urban etc) you can't really relate to there stories you can relate to the characters or there action so ya :)

4.  If you could be best friends with a book (or movie) character of your choice, who would you pick?

Harry Black Stone Copperfield Dresden hell yes or Karrin Murphy both are from The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher I absolutely ADORE these character and wish to kick monstrous ass (since it's an Urban Fantasy) with them.

5.  What is your favorite book to movie adaptation?

Catching Fire! loved it <3
6.  What is your LEAST favorite book to movie adaptation?

Ahh there so many but I guess Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick they completely ruined it they changed the whole story they changed the villain for crying out loud!
7.  What is your favorite book (or movie) franchise? (Harry Potter, Twilight, et al)
Hunger Games! yo
8..  What is your LEAST favorite book (or movie) franchise?
 Percy Jackson
9.  How long have you been blogging?
I started on January 15 of this year so about a bit more than 1 and a half month :)
10.  How many books are on your to-read shelf?
In my GR shelfs there are about 140 and haven't really counted the amount of ebooks currently I have that are un-read.
11.  Who is your favorite author?
Jim Butcher ! LOVE The Dresden Files It's a series and it hasn't been completed yet there are about 14 books released and the series is supposed to be 22-25 books long.  I don't wait as eagerly for any other books as I do for his books.

11 Questions from Witless Fool of Obsessive Compulsive Reader:

1. Favourite place(s) to read.

My favourite place to read is my bed at night with the lights off (I read ebooks) snuggled up in my blanket because that's the only place I can read comfortably without any distraction when I read I immerse myself completely in the story and become oblivious to surroundings, I make all the weird faces of emotion, I silent scream and giggle like crazy.

2. Bookshops vs library: which do you visit more often? Do you prefer buying or borrowing books?

Bookshops I just love owning a book but, I love libraries I absolutely love them even tough I don't borrow books very often.

3. Do you donate your books or keep them clean and pristine?

I mostly have eBooks but I have a few books and I have donated study material but never fiction.

4. Who's your favourite artist?

I don't have a favourite artist yet I prefer practical art, art that has a purpose a cause. Any notable, professional artist hasn't caught my eye yet.

5. Do you know a second language? If so, which one? If not, which one would you want to learn?

English is actually my second language I am a Pakistani my mother tongue is Urdu I can also read Arabic aloud but I cannot understand it, I would like to learn Persian and Latin just for fun but I don't think I am going to because learning languages is an extremely hard task.

6. Who's your celebrity crush?

Nathan Fillion, Liam Hemsworth and Stephen Amell.

7.  Besides reading and blogging, what else do you like to do in your spare time? 

I don't really have much spare time nowadays due to college but other thant reading and blogging I love baking, gaming, walking underneath the starry sky, studying, talking about books,watching movies and TV, and shopping.

8. Do you also write? If so, which genre?

I don't write although I plan to in the near future I have had a few ideas about fantasy books.

9. Are you a coffee or tea person?

Coffee Coffee COFFEE! I love coffee, I don't really like tea although in my city people drink tea more than they breath.

10. When you are having a bad day, what do you do to de-stress?

I read simple as that because reading makes me forget my world and pulls me in it's own. Therefore I forget all my worries and sorrows.

11. If you suddenly received a monetary windfall (say $1,000), what would you do with it?

Half of the money I will save, with 200$ I'll buy books and with the remaining I'll buy a new phone and some clothes.

11 Questions from Me: 

1. Why do you love to read and blog?
2. What are your hobbies?
3. What kind of person you are describe in three words.
4. Fictional Crush?
5. Name three things you hate?
6. Favourite Book(s)/Series.
7. If you could live in a fictional world ( Narnia, Hogwarts, Middle Earth etc) where would you live?
8. What have are you studying/ have you studied ?
9. Any Blogging advice?
10. Favourite Movie(s)/TV show(s).
11. Your role model(s) or inspirational person(s).

*All the nominated bloggers please leave a link to your Liebster post below Thank you*

Nominated Blogs:
And the award goes too *drum roll*

• Confessions of an Avid Reader
• Books Tea Cupcakes
• Mo Books
• Geeky Chequitas
• Isabelle Adrid
• YA Book Queens
• Pretty Little Pages
• Tash the Brillliant Book Blog
• Wonderous Reviews

All of the blogs listed here are amazing and please check them out and share some love :)

Waiting on Wednesday #2: This Shattered World (Starbound #2) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine. In this we write about books we are desperately waiting to get our hands on.

My pick is:

Book Title: This Shattered World (Starbound #2)
Author: Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner 
Type: Trilogy
Genre: Young Adult,  Fantasy, Sci Fi.
Expected Publication: 11 November, 2014

The second installment in our epic Starbound trilogy introduces a new pair of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a bloody war.
Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met.
Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents.
Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting colonists to make the inhospitable planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion.
Desperate for any advantage in a bloody and unrelentingly war, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross paths: he returns to base with her as prisoner. But as his fellow rebels prepare to execute this tough-talking girl with nerves of steel, Flynn makes another choice that will change him forever. He and Lee escape the rebel base together, caught between two sides of a senseless war.
The stunning second novel in the Starbound trilogy is an unforgettable story of love and forgiveness in a world torn apart by war.

These Broken Stars was absolutely thrilling and amazing I really can't wait to read it's sequel.
My Review of These Broken Stars

Top Ten Tuesday #3:Top Ten Popular Authors I've Never Read.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish.

This week's prompt: 

Top Ten Popular Authors I've Never Read.

Oscar Wilde

Jane Austen

George Orwell

Harper Lee

J.R.R. Tolkien

Charles Dickens

Aldous Huxley

Terry Pratchett

Arthur Conan Doyle

Neil Gaiman

Want to tell me how much awesomeness I am missing out by note reading books by these amazing authors? or about the authors you haven't read. Just leave a comment below :)

Audio Book Review: These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner.

Book Title: These Broken Stars (Starbound #1)
Author: Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Recommended for: Sci-fi fans, titanic fans.
Theme: survival, alone on a planet, rich girl.
Type: Trilogy
Genre:  YA, Sci-Fi Fantasy.

It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. 
Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they’re worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help. 
Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other’s arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder—would they be better off staying here forever?
Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won’t be the same people who landed on it.

My Rating:

“For a moment the image before us is frozen: our world, our lives, reduced to a handful broken stars half lost in uncharted space. Then it's gone, the view swallowed by the hyperspace winds streaming past, blue-green auroras wiping the after-images away.Until all that's left is us” ― Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars

Ramblings (Review):
Judge this book by it's cover! Yes sir it is as amazing from the outside as it is from the inside. I didn't read this book I listened to the audio book and it was my very first audio book which turned out to be a pleasant surprise I never expected an audio book to be so much fun I truly didn't It was amazing because the book was amazing a total page turner except metaphorically speaking. This book is a dual POV and I love dual POV's if they are done right and this one was done amazingly! the conflict between the characters was intriguing and the book was fairly fast paced and gripping. These Broken Stars keep the reader or listener constantly thinking as to what would happen next and many times I personally failed to interpret what would happen next correctly. There was an air of suspense and I love suspense. The world building was great and the characters especially the main ones weren't hollow and boring.

I don't know why people call it insta love it's not, there is a chemistry between the main characters Tarver Merendsen (a young war hero) and Lilac LaRoux (daughter of the richest man in the universe) from the beginning of the book but as the story progresses the primal attraction that they had towards each other get snuffed out and then afterwards as they are stranded on a planet alone and lost and with no one else to rely on there feelings began to redevelop for each other feelings of love and trust. But before they actually do that a number of conflicts occur a bunch of fights and disagreements a very well played out damsel in distress moment. 

Liebster Blog Award

My very first blog award *eeeeep* given to me by
Witless Fool of Obsessive Compulsive Reader

Thank you so much for this I am honoured :)

 I just started blogging on 15 January of this year and it's been so much fun already.

What is a Liebster Award:

"Liebster Award" is an award given to bloggers by bloggers aiming to spotlight amazing new blogs with less than 200 followers. There are so many great blogs out there and Liebster Award post is a great way to get to know about them.

Here are the rules:

List 11 facts about yourself.
Answer the 11 questions asked by whoever nominated you.
Ask 11 new questions to 9 bloggers with less than 200 followers (You cannot re-nominate the blog that nominated you).
Go to their blog and tell them that they have been nominated and leave a link to your post.

11 Facts about me:

1. I am an introvert if there ever was one, I am a book person not a people person.
2. I am a nerd and I am proud as much as I am proud of being a bookworm I don't really need to tell you how huge a bookworm I am do I :)
3. I very self conscious, shy and emotional. I get embarrassed very very easily even when there is nothing to be embarrassed about.
4. I am a night person. You really don't want to be near me in the morning.
5. I am a realist but I am very imaginative, creative and tend to think outside the box.
6. Other than reading I love baking, gaming, walking underneath the starry sky, studying, talking about books,watching movies and TV, travelling, and shopping.
7. The few things that I hate with extremely violent passion are bullies, spoilers, racists and sexists.
8. I believe knowledge can solve all the problems of our lives no matter what they may be but imagination is the greatest power yielded by man.
9. I am very awkward and a bit uptight sometimes, the first impression that people usually have of me is the innocent and quite one and then the innocent and weird one but my close friends know how mischievous and naughty I can be if I want to ;)
10. I treat people the way they treat me.
11. 99.9% of  people don't understand me. I am usually misunderstood by people even those who are very close to me but, I guess that's the story of everyone :)