Friday 56 and Book Beginnings! No. 14

Hey everyone and welcome back (or to!!) my blog! I'm Genni, and today I'll be participating in Friday 56 and Book Beginnings. They are hosted by Freda's Voice and Rose City Reader, respectively!
The rules are simple for both. For the Friday 56, we turn to page 56 or 56% in our e-reader and highlight a passage of any book! Book Beginnings is where you feature the first sentence (or so) of a book and give your thoughts and impressions.



This week I'll be featuring Blood and Sand by C.V. Wyk. If you want to learn more about the YA Spartacus reimagining, check out the goodreads page here!  

Book Beginnings!

When I picked Blood and Sand up, this opening line made me continue reading! This line stands as its own paragraph, so I kept reading to figure out who this mysterious "them" are. The second paragraph delves further into these slaves, who are a group of women who are about to be sold, including our main character. 

Footnotes Link Up!

Hey everyone and welcome back (or to!) my blog! I'm Genni, and today I am participating in a new link up created by Ahsley G at [oddly novel title] and Emily at Ink, Inc. Basically every month they give out a different prompt and we share a quote fitting it! This is the first month it's starting, and I really like the idea of it! 

If you want to know more, you can go here for Ahsley's post and here for Emily's!  

So this month's prompt is: a quote from an author. 

Immediately I went to my goodread's quote page and see which ones I liked this best. I also discovered a new quote that I quite like, so yay! I have three quotes to share (sorry, I couldn't help myself) so let's get cracking! 

Okay, starting off with the first (and longest!) quote from We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han! 

I just...love this quote so much. Jenny Han's Summer trilogy is one of my favorites, and this quote really explains why. This quote is just so real. Jenny Han really encapsulates the feeling you get when you know something is over, and you don't want it to be. This series is very near and dear to my heart, and if you haven't read it, I implore you to do so! 

This is a quote from When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. I just love the book! It's so sweet and endearing, Rishi especially! I absolutely love this quote from When Dimple Met Rishi! Like We'll Always Have Summer, I urge you to read When Dimple Met Rishi. It's timely, diverse, and like a warm hug. 

And finally, this quote by Bernard M. Baruch! He's had several published works according to goodreads, but Bernarnd Baruch is more known for being an American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, according to Wikipedia. Whatever profession he had, I love this piece of advise. It's so hard to be yourself sometimes, and I think this quote is good to keep in mind!

So, that's it for this month's footnotes! I look forward to doing this again in September!

Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soon with another post!

Happy Reading!

Genni @ Ready, Set, Read!

The Friday 56 (#1)

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog! Today I'm going to be participating in the Friday 56, a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice! The rules for this meme is to grab any book and turn to either page 56 or 56% on your ereader and give a nippet of the page without spoiling it!

Today I'm going to be featuring my current read,
Dawn of the Dreamer by L.J. Higgins. I have been reading this as my e-reader. I'm already 50 percent of the way through, so I'll probably know what's up while you guys will be confused. ;)






















This is making me even more conflicted. There is a love triangle that is in play right now, but I'm pretty sure I know who she is going to be ending up with.



What teasers did you have this week? What are you currently reading?

Thanks guys for stopping by and I'll see you soon with another post! It's going to be about my experience meeting Marissa Meyer and getting all my books signed! *squee*

Genni @ Ready, Set, Read!

Top Ten Tuesday: Book Quotes I ADORE

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog! Today is another Top Ten Tuesday post, hosted by the girls over at Broke and Bookish. Be sure to check them out if you haven't already!

Today's topic features the recent quotes we've found over the years that we love. I decided to keep this to just books, or else the list could go forever! None of these are in any particular order. I couldn't whittle down all of them to just ten, so I have one extra!

11.) "Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh." Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

10.) "He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity." We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han

9.) "But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing." We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han

8.) "I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I'm tired of drowning." But I Love Him by Amanda Grace

7.) "I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones." The Book of Ivy by Amy Engel

6.) "I will show her that loving her is my greatest truth, and the most beautiful thing I have ever known." Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay

5.)  "Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you." If I Stay by Gayle Forman

4.) "Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for the other person, half mired in a well of self pity and pain." For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Petefreund

3.) "And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose." Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

2.) "We can't help who we love. Love isn't logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us." Something Like Fate by Susane Colasanti

1.) "Each piece of glass is another piece of myself I gave to him. It's too bad I didn't give any pieces to myself." But I Love Him by Amanda Grace

Hope you guys liked the quotes I picked out! If you want to see more of my quotes, there's a featured box at the bottom of my blog! You can also visit here at my quotes page from goodreads! Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soon with another post!