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Keep It or Ditch It? | You Pick #3

Keep It or Ditch It? is a meme I do on the blog once a month, where I show some books that have been in my ''TBR Mountain''  for a while, and you guys decide if I should a) Keep It or b) Ditch It Variant by Robison Wells About: Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life. He was wrong. Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive. Where breaking the rules equals death. But when Benson stumbles upon the school’s real secret, he realizes that playing by the rules could spell a fate worse than death and that escape—his only real hope for survival—may be impossible.   This one I bought a paperback copy of when at a thrift store a few years back, and still have yet to actually read it, much less start it!   I picked it up beca...

Keep It or Ditch It? | You Pick #2

Keep It or Ditch It? is a meme I do on the blog once a month, where I show some books that have been in my ''TBR Mountain''  for a while, and you guys decide if I should a) Keep It or b) Ditch It Last time you guys decided I should DITCH The Wrong Girl , so we've already downsized my TBR by one book!! *cheers* Now for the books for this month- yes, I'm going to do two this time!! Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz [About: High atop Hathorne Hill, near Boston, sits Danvers State Hospital. Built in 1878 and closed in 1992, this abandoned mental institution is rumored to be the birthplace of the lobotomy. On the eve of the hospital’s demolition, six teens break in to spend the night and film a movie about their experiences. For Derik, it’s an opportunity to win a filmmaking contest and save himself from a future of flipping burgers at his parents’ diner. For the others, it’s a chance to be on TV, or a night with no parents. But what ...

Keep It or Ditch It? | You Pick #1

It's no secret that I'm drowning in books on my TBR, I'm sure you all are as well though. So I've decided to do something about it! My friend Amber @ Du Livre does blog posts where her readers get to pick one book she reads each month, and she lists the books they can pick between. Well... in this post I need you guys to help, but not to pick which one I will read. Here's how it works: 1. I show you one or two books that have been on my TBR for AWHILE 2. I tell you why it was originally put on there, and yes they will all be books that I'm not sure if I actually want to read or should read! 3. You guys tell me if I should keep it and read it, or if I should ditch it and get it off my TBR! What do you think? Care to help out a friend with her ever-growing intimidating TBR mountain? The Wrong Girl by C. J. Archer Book 1 of the 1st Freak House Trilogy Synopsis:   It's customary for Gothic romance novels to include a mysterio...