pickHow do you stage a mutiny when you‘re only awake a few days in a century, when your tiny handful of co-conspirators get reshuffled every time they‘re called on deck? How do you plot against an enemy that never sleeps, that has all those empty ages to grind its brute-force way down every avenue, stumble across every careless clue you might have left behind?
What a great concept! I enjoyed every second of this hard-sci fi novella.
1. Tagged
2. Crunchy
3. Sunrise
4. Depending where I am: I can spend all of that on clothes by going to a few shops that are right next to each other, I could visit Love Sac which I've always wanted to try but don't have the money for, or I could do it from home by booking a trip to Hawaii or abroad. Easy peasy!!!! 😁
5. Kindergarten, I was a big fan of recess and nap time.
#FriyayIntro @howjessreads
pick“Mauro‘s work is a reminder that, contrary to what many believe, the most gifted and innovative chef is not necessarily the one who transforms the ingredients, but perhaps the one who most intensely restores their flavors.”
This book was an absolute delight from start to finish. At only 100 pages, it tells the story of how a young man becomes a chef through the eyes of someone that knows him.
#gastronomy
pickI read The Poet X earlier this year, so when I saw this book at the library, I just knew I had to read it. I found the book on #Libby and the author reads the book just like she did with the first one. This book didn't disappoint! It's a great story with a diverse cast of characters. It reminded me of my school days, except my cooking course wasn't as exciting. I look forward to Acevedo's next book
#YA
pickA creepy tale about family dynamics from Scottish crime novelist Denise Mina. This is the first work I've read from Mina, and I really enjoyed it. I'll definitely pick up Hellblazer, and it was a great introduction to the graphic mystery genre.
so-so“There were still a few veils of mist drifting over the ground, but wherever they parted she glimpsed streaks of gold, which must have been water but looked like pure light.”
Alright, let me explain why I think this book is only so-so. It‘s beautifully written and the imagery is wonderful, but I have an issue with the main character. Continued in comments....
I just wanted to check-in with my fellow #LMPBCnC -ers and make sure we all got our next book.
@Elma @TheLibrarian @monalyisha
#LMPBC
1. I don't typically remember my dreams, but when I do they really stay with me so I never feel the need to write them down.
2. Black cat named Salem
3. Jane Eyre
4. Wonderland
5. I'll definitely spread the love, but as I don't know any children at the moment it would be very creepy to encourage them to tell me a story.
#HelloThursday @wanderinglynn
It's time to start my second book for #LMPBC !!!
Thanks @monalyisha for the tasty treats, the Sour Patch bunnies are so yummy.
@Elma I hope my book arrived today and that the chocolates survived the trip. Let me know, and I'll have to think of another method of getting them to you.
#LMPBCnC @TheLibrarian
Here are my choices. Trying to stay under 300 pages was harder than I thought. If you're not big on poetry or twisted fairy tales, I can definitely tweak my list. There's so many books on my to read list.
#LMPBC #LMPBCnC #GroupF
@Elma @monalyisha @TheLibrarian
pick“Gmorning.
Allow for the possibility that the best of you is still inside you, waiting to emerge.
Prepare the way, bit by bit.”
This is a wonderful way to start every week. I might have to buy the book or audio just so that I can have the pep talk whenever I may need it. Definitely a must read!!!!
#CollectionofPoetryPublishedSince2014 #ReadHarder #ReadHarder2019
pick“The only cure for so much misfortune is love. It‘s not the force of gravity that keeps the universe in balance, but the binding power of love.”
This is my first Allende novel, and I honestly don‘t know what has taken me so long to read her work. This is what I love about reading challenges! I love stories like this one when strangers/acquaintances bond over a shared event.
#HistoricalRomancebyAOC #ReadHarder #ReadHarder2019
1. Tagged book and Sorcery & Cecilia
2. My last five star read was my reread of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban before that was The Yellow Wallpaper
3. “I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” - Alice in Wonderland
@rachelsbrittain #WeekendReads
pick“My people cultivated pain. In a way that god cultivated his garden with the foresight that he could not contain or protect the life within it. Humanity was born out of pain.”
Very powerful, and depressing read. I wish this memoir was read by the author because I don‘t think the narrator did the writing justice.
#2018ReadingWomenShortlist #ReadingWomen #ReadingWomenChallenge #ReadingWomen2019 @thereadingwomen
7 degrees Fahrenheit
Above 60 degrees
Warm enough to read outside
The Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia series
#HelloThursday @wanderinglynn
pick
“The more I studied Wicca, the more I realized that witches woved symbolism into just about everything: plants, numbers, days of the week, colors, times of the year, even fabrics, food, and flowers. Everything has a meaning.”
This was an enjoyable quick listen. There are more books in the series and they are all about the same length, so I'm taking a slight detour to finish the series. Tiernan is from #Louisiana and I'll be here for a while.
📚 A piece of cake
🎥 Marie Antoinette (not an accurate quote, but it's permanently stuck in my memory)
🎶Cake By the Ocean by DNCE
#ManicMonday #🍰 @JoScho
pick“You see, this magic that had fallen on me was black magic -and I had wished white.
It didn‘t work at all, and, what was worse, it stopped all the other things that were working so nicely. Oh, if I had only thought to wish permanence for those lovely punishments! If only I had done more while I could do it, had half appreciated my privileges when I was a witch!”
Great collection of stories ranging from hilarious to eerie. #Connecticut
Films: Ever After and Ella Enchanted. I have not read the book, Ella Enchanted but I plan on reading it at some point.
Books: Crimson Bound and Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge, Uprooted by Naomi Novik, Kissing the Witch by Emma Dongohue, Circe by Madeline Miller, and The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman
#SundayFunday @sebrittain
pick“No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected.
"Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!”
I‘ve had this book on my tbr list for a really long time, and I can‘t believe it‘s taken me this long to read it because I loved it and I need to read the rest of the series.
pick“Remember when they call you girl, they're trying to tell you something. They're trying to tell you that they're more than you, that the body you're in makes you less. But you know, and I know, that you're exactly what you need to be.”
This is the second pirate book that I read this month. Both had strong female characters running a ship of their own. I really enjoyed the book, but I could have done without the unnecessary m/f romance.
1. Hated the book, but it's a great song.
2. Buy or pack, I'd never go back to work if I ate at home.
3. I guess any time I'm talking to myself and someone else is around.
4. Lavender or vanilla
5. Black Cardinal
#FriyayIntro @howjessreads
1. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
2. No bills
3. Taking out the trash
4. My barbies
5. Tagged
#HelloThursday @wanderinglynn
pick“The tide of her exhilaration drained from her, leaving her exhausted and heartsick. She would have bound the entire city, made them all into her golems, to satisfy her own need to be useful.”
I used this book for the animal or inanimate object is a pov character. It sort of works since neither Golem or Jinni are truly human. I really enjoyed listening to this book and liked that Wecker expanded the story to include details on minor characters.
📚 Starstruck by Lauren Conrad (Yup, from Laguna Beach and The Hills)
🎥Starstruck- Disney Original movie
🎶 Starstruck by Sterling Knight for the Disney movie
#ManicMonday #🤩 @JoScho
pick“In some ways, I think that part of what of what I'm trying to accomplish, whether Amá really understands it or not, is to live for her Apá, and Olga. It's not that I'm living life for them, exactly, but I have so many choices they've never had. And I feel like I can do so much with what I've been given. What a waste their journey would be if I just settled for a dull mediocre life.”
Great listen! It didn't immediately grab my attention, though.
Listening to the tagged book and later a Harry Potter movie marathon.
#SundayFunday @sebrittain
#Frideas @Hufflepuff16
1. Currently my favorite TV show is Schitts Creek
2. A wealthy family suddenly find themselves completely broke with only one remaining asset, a small town called Schitt's Creek, bought as a joke. The Rose family is forced to face their newfound poverty head-on and come together as a family to survive. -- provided by Google
3. Alice in wonderland
4. Narnia
5. Magical world where I can live a full life then come back.
pickI am pleasantly surprised by how much I loved listening to this book. Once I started it, I did not want to put it down. I have read Shiver by this author and I was not impressed. The characters and the plot were both very interesting and I love that she sets all her books in #Virginia
#ReadingUSA2019 @Hooked_on_books @LapReader @Pamwurtzler @kaye @Librarybelle @Laughterhp @BarbaraBB @jessinikkip @squirrelbrain @NatalieR @Addison_Reads
1. Fantasy
2. Heights
3. Teacher, then writer, then doctor. I didn't settle on chemist until highschool.
4. 35 degrees Fahrenheit with a Winter Storm warning
5. Hey #Littens
#FriyayIntro @howjessreads
1. 🇺🇸
2. 🇺🇸 - The Raven Boys set in Virginia for #ReadingUSA
3. 🇬🇧 - Neil Gaiman
4. 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇩🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴 & 🇸🇪 - I'd like to do a European tour and get these countries done in one trip.
@wanderinglynn #HelloThursday
2. I haven't bought any books yet
3. 17 states
4. Nope
5. Not this year, I'm saving for a European trip next year.
#HumpDayPost @MinDea
pick“For as long as I could remember, I had been apologizing for existing, for trying to be who I was, to live the life I was meant to lead.”
Very enjoyable listen! I really appreciated the author‘s note. When certain topics are written about or portrayed in the media, people like to criticize it‘s realism. This is a work of fiction and I loved what the author was trying to say with this story.
#ReadHarderChallenge #ReadHarder2019 @bookriot
pick“Oh great, you too. So now I wear this label 'Queer' emblazoned across my chest. Or I could always carve a scarlet 'L' on my forehead. Why does everyone have to put you in a box and nail the lid on it? I don't know what I am—polymorphous and perverse. Shit. I don't even know if I'm white. I'm me. That's all I am and all I want to be. Do I have to be something?”
A fantastic read that deserves its place in the 💯 must read book by queer authors!
pick“This practice of arranging the marriage of a dead person was uncommon, usually held in order to placate a spirit. A deceased concubine who had produced a son might be officially married to elevate her status to a wife. Or two lovers who died tragically might be united after death. That much I knew. But to marry the living to the dead was a rare and, indeed, dreadful occurrence.”
#SouthAsianAuthor #ReadingWomenChallenge2019 @thereadingwomen
Zenith (On my TBR)
Markus Zusak
Zenon: Girl of the 21st century
Zucchini bread
#LetterZ #ManicMonday @JoScho
pick"Mrs. Katou still didn‘t move. ‘I believe it was her way of saying she loves you, and she forgives you,‘ I continued. ‘That‘s why you need to forgive yourself. For your sake, and hers.‘ I let go of her hands, picked up the book and left the room. After closing the door, I heard faint, muffled sobs. In that moment, I knew she wouldn‘t need me or anyone else to read to her any longer."
#MysterybyWOC #ReadingWomenChallenge2019 @thereadingwomen
pick“The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?”
This was a fantastic read, and is now the frontrunner for my favorite book of 2019. If St John Mandel‘s other works are anything like this one, then I think I have just found my new favorite author. I cannot gush enough about it and I'll recommend it to anyone.
Prompt 38: NYT Bestseller #SFFTBRChallenge @DuckOfDoom
pick“With her heart hammering in her throat, Ash asked, ‘Will you do me the honor of dancing with me?‘ She looked up at Kaisa, and the huntress‘ look of bewilderment was changing, slowly, to a small, tentative smile. It steadied Ash, and she extended her hand across the distance. Kaisa came down the steps, took her hand, and said, ‘Yes.”
Wonderful retelling of Cinderella!
Prompt 14: LGBTQ+ Relationship #SFFTBRChallenge @DuckOfDoom
pick“We embrace those things that make us unique or odd. For only in these things can we locate and then develop our most individual abilities.”
This was a really quick, fun read! I really liked all the characters and the setting. Sunny finds out that she‘s a Leopard person (a person capable of magic) thanks to a friend who believes she must be magic because of her albinism.
Prompt 11: Includes African Mythology #SFFTBRChallenge @DuckOfDoom
pick“We all are born with burdens. Some of us more than others.”
I debated whether I should make this a Pick or not, but I decided that the good outweighed the bad. Onye is Ewu, a child of rape, and instead of being treated with compassion, everyone around her hates that she exists. A child born from violence, can only be violent being their theory. I loved the worldbuilding and the stories from the Great Book. However, her "friends" weren't great.
#FriyayIntro @howjessreads
1. Teleport
2. Tagged. I'm currently listening to it.
3. No meat in 2019. Exercise more (which I'm failing miserably at).
4. My last Netflix binge was Kim's Convenience
5. Will do!
1. New Year, so they're new challenges/resolutions
2. Paying off my student loans
3. I don't have one yet.
4. Hey 👋 @KatieCarpenter @UnidragonFrag @HOTPock3tt @LazyDays
#HelloThursday @wanderinglynn
pick“I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want.”
This was a very enjoyable audiobook. Alosha is a great character that is kickass most of the time but has some vulnerability. I‘ll definitely read the sequel.
#LitsyAtoZ2019 #LetterD @BookishMarginalia
1. O-H-I-O
2. Nota recent discovery but I've been reading a lot of Nnedi Okorafor's work.
3. 334 books as of today
4. When it's warm, the garden outside my library.
5. Tagged.
#LittenIntro @tessavi
1. My goal is to read 120 books this year, but what I really want to do is read 50% of my tbr list which is a challenge since I'm constantly adding to it.
2. Not really.
3. Spiderman
4. May
5. ✋ January birthdays!!!
#FriyayIntro @howjessreads
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