RAK: September

Random Acts of Kindness is an awesome monthly event hosted by Book Soulmates. This monthly event is truly a random act of kindness, participants who sign up take part in giving and receiving books based on the awesome things on your wish lists.To find out more information on the RAK event and read the rules, go here.

 Gosh, I can't believe it's already September! Next month is Halloween, and then the next month is Thanksgiving, and then Christmas the next! How has 2012 gone by so fast?! It's complete madness.

So you may have noticed. I've been in a bit of a rut lately with blogging and reading. I didn't even participate in RAK in August. But I'm trying to get back into the groove of things!

You can find my wish list here. And my outdated (Some probably have already been released....) ARC wish list. Please e-mail me at thevintagebookworm AT aol DOT com if you have any questions.

Top Five

on my Wish List

1. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, by Michelle Hodkin (I've read this and absolutely LOVED it, but I want my own copy so I can re-read it and stare at it's pretty cover.)
2. The Evolution of Mara Dyer, by Michelle Hodkin
3. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, by Sarah MacLean
4. Starling, by Lesley Livingston
5. Nevermore, by Kelly Creagh 

If you have any books off my wish list and would like to trade them for a custom blog design, please let me know! =D Good luck everyone! 

COMPLETE RULES RE-CAP:
Please read carefully & follow all rules!  Thank you!Please read carefully & follow all rules!  Thank you!

• Please sign-up each month that you can participate (and by participate, we mean give as well as receive).

• Show off your participation by grabbing our RAK button (code is in the right sidebar).

• Create a wish list (on Amazon, Goodreads, or your blog, etc) and post it in the Google Doc located in each R.A.K post for the month.

• If you choose to do a R.A.K for someone, check out their wish list and contact that blogger directly for their information.

• Once you receive a RAK, send us an our new email to [rakbybooksoulmates @ gmail . com] so that we can update the Google Doc. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND EMAILS TO THIS ADDRESS!

• E-book participation is limited to files being gifted directly to a person from the e-book store. Amazon's Kindle Store is set up to allow this, as well as the Kobo store and we believe Barnes & Noble with Nook as well.

• At the end of the month, SHOW US YOUR R.A.K by making a "RAK Wrap-Up" post.  This post should include who you SENT gifts to as well who you RECEIVED gifts from :)

OPEN TO EVERYONE including all our International brethren!Remember, there's always the Book Depository and they offer FREE shipping!

RAK: July

Random Acts of Kindness is an awesome monthly event hosted by Book Soulmates. This monthly event is truly a random act of kindness, participants who sign up take part in giving and receiving books based on the awesome things on your wish lists.To find out more information on the RAK event and read the rules, go here.

Hey guys! Can you believe it's July already? Only 6 more months of 2012 left! Anyway, I finally got a new wish list done. I'm still updating it with new books, but it has a lot of the books that are at the top of my wish list. =D I have so many I want! Too many books!

You can find my new wish list here. Also you can see my ARC wish list here. (That's a little outdated, some of it may be already released!) If you have any questions about my wish list or would like to ask me about it, please e-mail me at thevintagebookworm AT aol DOT com. =D

Top Five

on my Wish List

1. Shatter Me, by Tahereh Mafi
2. Just for Fins, by Tera Lynn Childs (Or any books in the series. I've read books one and two, but I would love my own copy as I don't own them.)
3. Divergent, by Veronica Roth
4. A Want So Wicked, by Suzanne Young (Or the first book in the series. I've read it, but I don't own it.)
5. Across the Universe, by Beth Revis

If you have any of these books or any off my wish lists and would like to trade them for a custom blog design, please let me know! 

• Please sign-up each month that you can participate (and by participate, we mean give as well as receive).

• Show off your participation by grabbing our RAK button (code is in the right sidebar).

• Create a wish list (on Amazon, Goodreads, or your blog, etc) and post it in the Google Doc located in each R.A.K post for the month.

• If you choose to do a R.A.K for someone, check out their wish list and contact that blogger directly for their information.

• Once you receive a RAK, send us an our new email to [rakbybooksoulmates @ gmail . com] so that we can update the Google Doc. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND EMAILS TO THIS ADDRESS!

• E-book participation is limited to files being gifted directly to a person from the e-book store. Amazon's Kindle Store is set up to allow this, as well as the Kobo store and we believe Barnes & Noble with Nook as well.

• At the end of the month, SHOW US YOUR R.A.K by making a "RAK Wrap-Up" post.  This post should include who you SENT gifts to as well who you RECEIVED gifts from :)

OPEN TO EVERYONE including all our International brethren!Remember, there's always the Book Depository and they offer FREE shipping!
Easy peezy!!
 Links you will need:Sign up for July 2012 [HERE] See who else is participating [HERE] If you have any questions regarding RAK, please contact us via the following: rakbybooksoulmates @ gmail . com

RAK: June 2012 Wrap-Up

Random Acts of Kindness is an awesome monthly event hosted by Book Soulmates. This monthly event is truly a random act of kindness, participants who sign up take part in giving and receiving books based on the awesome things on your wish lists.To find out more information on the RAK event and read the rules, go here. 

I received one eBook from Tynga of Tynga's Reviews in June. Thank you so much, Tynga!

Hourglass, by Myra McEntire
(Hourglass, #1)
Publisher: Egmont USA
Release Date: June 14, 2011

 One hour to rewrite the past . . . 
For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back. So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson's willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may change her past.
Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he's around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?

 I didn't get the chance to make any layouts for RAK gifts this month, sorry guys! But I will definitely try to find one to do in July! =D

RAK: June

Random Acts of Kindness is an awesome monthly event hosted by Book Soulmates. This monthly event is truly a random act of kindness, participants who sign up take part in giving and receiving books based on the awesome things on your wish lists.To find out more information on the RAK event and read the rules, gohere.

It's already June! That's crazy. My birthday is this month, yay! I already got my big present from my hubby, which was a Kindle Fire. <3 I'm loving it!

Also, I STILL (Yes, still.) don't have a new wishlist up. But here is my wishlist, and review title wishlist.

If you have any questions, please email me at thevintagebookworm AT aol DOT com.

Here are the top five books on my wishlist: 

1. Fever, by Lauren DeStefano (Preferably a HC to go with my Wither copy, but any is fine!)

2. The Golden Lily, by Richelle Mead (Preferably a HC to go with my Bloodlines copy, but any is fine!)

3. Timepiece, by Myra McEntire (Or the first book if you have it, read it, but don't have own copy.)

4. Just for Fins, by Tera Lynn Childs (Or the first book or second if you have it, I've read them, but don't have my own copy.)

5. Shatter Me, by Tahereh Mafi 

If you have any of these books, or any on my wish list, I'll happily create a custom blog design for you in exchange for them! 

Also, if you've seen my reviews of books that says I got them from the library and that I loved them, I'd love to have my own copies of any of those as well!

Rules from Book Soulmates

• Please sign-up each month that you can participate (and by participate, we mean give as well as receive).

• Show off your participation by grabbing our RAK button (code is in the right sidebar).

• Create a wish list (on Amazon, Goodreads, or your blog, etc) and post it in the Google Doc located in each R.A.K post for the month.

• If you choose to do a R.A.K for someone, check out their wish list and contact that blogger directly for their information.

• Once you receive a RAK, send us an our new email to [rakbybooksoulmates @ gmail . com] so that we can update the Google Doc. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND EMAILS TO THIS ADDRESS!

• E-book participation is limited to files being gifted directly to a person from the e-book store. Amazon's Kindle Store is set up to allow this, as well as the Kobo store and we believe Barnes & Noble with Nook as well.

• At the end of the month, SHOW US YOUR R.A.K by making a "RAK Wrap-Up" post.  This post should include who you SENT gifts to as well who you RECEIVED gifts from :)

OPEN TO EVERYONE including all our International brethren!Remember, there's always the Book Depository and they offer FREE shipping!
Easy peezy!!
 Links you will need:Sign up for June 2012 [HERE] See who else is participating [HERE] If you have any questions regarding RAK, please contact us via the following: rakbybooksoulmates @ gmail . com

RAK: May 2012 Wrap-Up

Random Acts of Kindness is an awesome monthly event hosted by Book Soulmates. This monthly event is truly a random act of kindness, participants who sign up take part in giving and receiving books based on the awesome things on your wish lists.To find out more information on the RAK event and read the rules, gohere. 

 I received one book this month from Melissa @ Must Read Faster. Thank you so much, Melissa!

Grave Mercy, by Robin LaFevers
(His Fair Assassin, #1)
Publisher: Houghtin Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date: April 3, 2012

Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.
Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?

I made one layout this month for RAK. It hasn't gone live yet, but it will soon. I made this layout for Louisa @ Words I Write Crazy. So go check out her blog and be sure to lookout for her new design sometime soon!

Random Acts of Kindness: May

Random Acts of Kindness is an awesome monthly event hosted by Book Soulmates. This monthly event is truly a random act of kindness, participants who sign up take part in giving and receiving books based on the awesome things on your wish lists.
To find out more information on the RAK event and read the rules, go here.

I can't believe it's already May!! Seems like it was just the end of January, so much has already happened since the beginning of the year. *le sigh* Anyway, I'm participating in this lovely event again this month and like the past couple of months that I've been doing it, I will be doing custom blog designs for RAK gifts.

I still haven't gotten around to making a new wish list and updating it and everything *kicks self* so I'll be posting the same links as I normally do. So if you're interested, here is my current wish list and my review title wish list.  If you have any questions at all, please e-mail me at thevintagebookworm AT aol DOT com.

Here are the current top five books on my wish list:

1. The Golden Lily, by Richelle Mead
2. Timepiece, by Myra McEntire (Or the first book if you have it, read it, but don't have own copy.)
3. Just For Fins, by Tera Lynn Childs (Or the first book or second if you have it, I've read them, but don't have my own copy.)
4. Shatter Me, by Tahereh Mafi
5. Divergent, by Veronica Roth

If you have any of these books, or any on my wish list, I'll happily create a custom blog design for you in exchange for them! 

Also, if you've seen my reviews of books that says I got them from the library and that I loved them, I'd love to have my own copies of any of those as well!

Rules from Book Soulmates

Please read carefully & follow all rules!  Thank you!

• Please sign-up each month that you can participate (give as well as receive).

• Show off your participation by grabbing our RAK button (code is in the right sidebar).

• Create a wish list (on Amazon, Goodreads, or your blog, etc) and post it in the Google Doc located in each R.A.K post for the month.

• If you choose to do a R.A.K for someone, check out their wish list and contact that blogger directly for their information.

• Once you receive a RAK, send us an our new email to [rakbybooksoulmates @ gmail . com] so that we can update the Google Doc. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND EMAILS TO THIS ADDRESS!

• E-book participation is limited to files being gifted directly to a person from the e-book store.

• At the end of the month, SHOW US YOUR R.A.K by making a "RAK Wrap-Up" post.  This post should include who you SENT gifts to as well who you RECEIVED gifts from :)

OPEN TO EVERYONE including all our International brethren!Remember, there's always the Book Depository and they offer FREE shipping!
Easy peezy!!
 Links you will need:Sign up for May 2012 [HERE]See who else is participating [HERE]If you have any questions regarding RAK, please contact us via the following:rakbybooksoulmates @ gmail . com

Random Acts of Kindness: April 2012 Wrap-Up

Random Acts of Kindness is an awesome monthly event hosted by Book Soulmates. This monthly event is truly a random act of kindness, participants who sign up take part in giving and receiving books based on the awesome things on your wish lists.
To find out more information on the RAK event and read the rules, go here. 

I received an awesome RAK gift this month! It came from Debdatta @ b00k r3vi3ws.  Thank you so much Debdatta!

Hallowed, by Cynthia Hand
(Unearthly, #2)
Publisher: Egmont Books
Release Date: January 2, 2012

For months part-angel Clara Gardner trained to face the raging forest fire from her visions and rescue the alluring and mysterious Christian Prescott from the blaze. But nothing could prepare her for the fateful decisions she would be forced to make that day, or the startling revelation that her purpose—the task she was put on earth to accomplish—is not as straightforward as she thought.
Now, torn between her increasingly complicated feelings for Christian and her love for her boyfriend, Tucker, Clara struggles to make sense of what she was supposed to do the day of the fire. And, as she is drawn further into the world of part angels and the growing conflict between White Wings and Black Wings, Clara learns of the terrifying new reality that she must face: Someone close to her will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning.

Debdatta ordered me a UK paperback of Hallowed from The Book Depo! I haven't read it yet, but I plan on doing it ASAP!

Sadly, I didn't make any layouts as RAK gifts in April. A lot has been going on, but I hope to make some this month! I love doing layouts for RAK. =)

Random Acts of Kindness: March 2012 Wrap-Up

Random Acts of Kindness is an awesome monthly event hosted by Book Soulmates. 
This monthly event is truly a random act of kindness, participants who sign up take part in giving and receiving books based on the awesome things that are on your wishlists. To find out more information on the RAK event and read the rules, click here.

I didn't receive anything in RAK this month, sadly, BUT I did make a layout for someone as a RAK gift. =) I created this layout for Melissa @ Must Read Faster . You should check out her blog! I was looking through the lists on RAK and saw her blog and thought she'd like a custom blog design.

Can't wait to sign up again! You'll be seeing my April RAK post soon!

Random Acts of Kindness: March

Random Acts of Kindness is an awesome monthly event hosted by Book Soulmates. 
This monthly event is truly a random act of kindness, participants who sign up take part in giving and receiving books based on the awesome things that are on your wishlists. To find out more information on the RAK event and read the rules, click here.

I haven't signed up for RAK since last year because I didn't want to join when I couldn't send anything out in return. I still can't afford to send out any books, but I've created a custom blog design blog to create custom blog designs for blogger who can't afford custom layouts that are basically $100. I make custom designs in exchange for books on my wish list. =) 

I can't do anything too fancy like those who have Photoshop and everything, but I can do a pretty good job and I keep working on it until you think it's perfect and ready to go live. So if you'd like a custom design, please e-mail me or fill out an order form here, and make sure to put RAK in the comments section! 

I'll be making a new wishlist somewhere soon, but for right now please look at my wishlist here, or look at my review title wishlist here. 

Rules from Booksoulmates!

Please read carefully & follow all rules! Thank you!

• Please sign-up each month that you can participate (and by participate, it means give as well as receive).

• Show off your participation by grabbing our RAK button (code is in the right sidebar of Book Soulmates.com).

• Create a wish list (on Amazon, Goodreads, or your blog, etc) and post it in the Google Doc located in each R.A.K post for the month.

• If you choose to do a R.A.K for someone, check out their wish list and contact that blogger directly for their information.

• Once you receive a RAK, send us an our new email to [rakbybooksoulmates @ gmail . com] so that we can update the Google Doc.IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND EMAILS TO THIS ADDRESS!

• E-book participation is limited to files being gifted directly to a person from the e-book store. Amazon's Kindle Store is set up to allow this, as well as the Kobo store and we believe Barnes & Noble with Nook as well.

• At the end of the month, SHOW US YOUR R.A.K by making a "RAK Wrap-Up" post. This post should include who you SENT gifts to as well who you RECEIVED gifts from :)

OPEN TO EVERYONE including all our International brethren!Links you will need:Sign up for March 2012 [HERE]See who else is participating [HERE]If you have any questions regarding RAK, please contact Book Soulmates via the following:rakbybooksoulmates @ gmail . com

Random Acts of Kindness: September

Random Acts of Kindness is an awesome monthly event hosted by Book Soulmates. This monthly event is truly a random act of kindness, participants who sign up take part in giving and receiving books based on the awesome things that are on your wishlists. To find out more information on the RAK event and read the rules, click here.
 Last month Joli of Actin' Up with Books was kind enough to send me a book from my wish list. I haven't had a chance to do an IMM lately, but she sent me When It Happens by Susane Colasanti.

I made a new wish list on Amazon, it is more up-to-date. I'm still transferring stuff over, though. But if you're interested, click here. 

Good luck everyone!