Update and The Maze Runner Twitter Party

UPDATE

Firstly, I'm FINALLY back from my blogging break! I had a crazy first semester of grad school, and it's nice to have some relaxation time. Plus, that crazy 1-hour oral exam for my graduate program (where I had to read 154 works and take the exam without notes)? I passed! So happy that is over, because that took over all of my free time. It will be so nice to finally be able to read for fun, instead of for school.

I'll be slowly easing back into blogging over the next couple weeks and catching up on commenting this weekend. 

THE MAZE RUNNER TWITTER PARTY

Friday, December 19th 
5PM PT | 6PM MT | 8PM ET

#MazeRunnerFriday
@JamesDashner

I saw this in theaters, and trust me, the film is just as thrilling and exciting as the book. There are some book-to-film changes, but I liked the ones that were made. I'm not sure if I'll be at the twitter party, since it will be difficult to get my hands on the movie before Friday, but I'll try! It's bound to be fun!

Hope everyone is doing well! Happy holidays!

- Lea

The Majestic Collection (1)

Sometimes I'm emailed about interesting bookish things or stumble across cool posts, but I have nowhere to share them. So, I've decided to make a digital cork board of sorts in order to effectively share links and news!

Discussions / Blog Posts

Pirate Penguin's Reads discusses how your reading taste changes over time (strangely, I had the same experience with the same novel).

Aylee from Recovering Potter Addict features the top ten unique and beautiful uses of typography on covers - and I basically want to own posters of all of them. 

Giveaways You Shouldn't Miss!

RT + follow to #WIN an INSANE #Giveaway! 2 winners, 2 books each! #BEA14 - US/Canada only. Ends 7/2 at midnight. pic.twitter.com/eaBlQ54B7A
— Jenna Does Books (@jennadoesbooks) June 28, 2014

Ashley Poston (author of The Sound of Us) is celebrating the Spark imprint with an epic giveaway for a Kindle Paperwhite loaded with twelve Bloomsbury Spark titles! Hurry and enter, it ends soon!

Film and TV News

The 5th Wave film has some new casting announcements!

The search is over -- Nick Robinson is Ben Parish aka "Zombie" in #5thWaveMovie! Follow @5thWave for more movie info. pic.twitter.com/YAdqGa8EcU
— The 5th Wave (@5thWave) June 27, 2014

It's official! Alex Roe has been cast as Evan Walker in #5thWaveMovie! Follow @5thWave for more movie info. pic.twitter.com/0KxDEWLM4W
— The 5th Wave (@5thWave) June 27, 2014

Also, the pilot for Delirium  aired on Hulu (watch while you can, I'm not sure how long it will be available). I had some mixed thoughts about it.

For more movie news, check out Bloggers Heart Books From Page to Screen feature!

Other Bookish Links

The movie tie-in covers for both The Maze Runner and Inside the Maze Runner: The Guide to the Glade were released (loving the novel cover)! Check out the movie trailer on YouTube.

 

Marissa Meyer has a new book coming out in the Lunar Chronicles series - Fairest, which tells Queen Levana's story! Fierce Reads hosted a Fairest Q&A with Marissa Meyer to let readers learn more about it. Fairest releases January 27th, 2015 - so close, yet so far!

Jodi Lynn Anderson's Tiger Lily is $1.99 for Kindle - grab it while you can, it's a fabulous book!

In My Mailbox 29

IMM is hosted by The Story Siren

For Review: 

Molly Fyde and the Blood of Billions (book 3) by Hugh Howey (signed) (OMG,OMG!! Ah, I wish I could start it now but I need to get through a few other review books first!!)

Won from Elana Johnson: 

- Girl Scout Cookies (Um, awesome!)

- Notebook (custom made by Elana, it's so cute!)

- $5 to Barnes and Nobles

- Bookmark matching The Maze Runner made by Elana

- From the Query to the Call by Elana Johnson 

- $40 to use at Tags-n-Stones (I chose this lovely necklace!)

- Signed copy of The Maze Runner by James Dashner (and he sent a sneak preview of The Scorch Trials too!)

Won from Kieran Scott:

Yeah, I was pretty much really ecstatic to win this. Kieran (aka: Kate Brian and also as Emma Harrison) is one of my favorite writers, and has been for about seven years now.

From Library:

She's So Dead To Us by Kieran Scott 

(not pictured, because I already returned it awhile ago---it was awesome)

And I believe that was it, but really, who knows. I've been too busy to even remember what day it is. :)

And you guys might notice a new header! I'll hopefully be able to make up a post to tell you all about that sometime this week!

Lea