Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

October 2019 Reading Wrap-Up

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Betrayed by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
(House of Night, book 2)
Rating:  ★★☆☆☆ – it was ok
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  September 28 – October 1
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  I’ve been enjoying my casual liveblog of the series.
Least Favorite Thing:  Every non-homosexual male she encounters instantly wants to bone her like…why? It better be some magical power because otherwise I refuse to accept it as remotely logical.

Guys I’m just… I’m so…

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Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
(Sookie Stackhouse, book 6)
Rating:  ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  October 1 – 3
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  SOOKIE FINALLY FOUND OUT THAT BILL IS TRASH GOD I HOPE THAT MEANS SHE’S DONE WITH HIM NOW
Least Favorite Thing:  Do these people have any control over their libidos??

I am really enjoying these books and I get more and more surprised by that every time I finish one lol

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All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
(Sookie Stackhouse, book 7)
Rating:  ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  October 3 – 6
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  lol Everything was so ridiculous I loved it so much.
Least Favorite Thing:  REALLY THERE’S A BOMB THREAT AND YOU DON’T FIND THE MYSTERIOUS SUITCASE EVEN REMOTELY SUSPICIOUS???

To be honest this book didn’t leave as much of an impression as the others, but I still enjoyed it.

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
(Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, book 1)
Rating:  ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  October 7 – 8
Read Count:  3
Favorite Thing:  Creepy Hollowgast descriptions.
Least Favorite Thing:  Stupid movie cover kept making me think about the stupid movie.

I really wish I had a different copy of this book…

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Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
(Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, book 2)
Rating:  ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  October 9 – 12
Read Count:  3
Favorite Thing:  They BONDED lol I can’t believe how cute I find that shit.
Least Favorite Thing:  The kids met a lot of annoying people/animals in this book.

I totally forgot about the twist at the end! How could I forget that!?

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Chosen by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
(House of Night, book 3)
Rating:  ★★☆☆☆ – it was ok
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  October 13 – 17
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  Aphrodite is my problematic fave.
Least Favorite Thing:  Three boyfriends. Hey, did you know Zoey has three boyfriends. Zoey has three boyfriends, by the way. THREE BOYFRIENDS.

Literally how many more times did they mention that she had three boyfriends and the publisher was like “please edit some of these out” because they mentioned that shit A LOT.

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Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs
(Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, book 3)
Rating:  ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  October 17 – 22
Read Count:  2
Favorite Thing:  STILL JACOBS HOLLOWS
Least Favorite Thing:  Jacob’s parents are rude. Like even if he was mentally ill, that is not how you should treat mentally ill people…

Now I can finally get around to reading Map of Days!

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From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
(Sookie Stackhouse, book 8)
Rating:  ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  October 23 – 24
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  ERIC REMEMBERS AND NOW HE’S CALLING HER “LOVER” AGAIN AND ALSO I AM TRASH
Least Favorite Thing:  I actually can’t think of anything I didn’t like this time around…

I’m enjoying this series more and more the further it gets from being anything like the tv series lol But seriously this junk food series is definitely one I recommend.

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A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris
(Sookie Stackhouse, Novellas)
Rating:  ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  October 20 – 24
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  The Christmas one had me dying laughing! What a gift!
Least Favorite Thing:  The joke of “Bubba” is getting a bit old…

I hadn’t even realized there were novellas with this series so I had to go back and get them from the library… Oops.

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Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
(Sookie Stackhouse, book 9)
Rating:  ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  October 24 – 31
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  lol Accidental marriage.
Least Favorite Thing:  Arlene, I think. That kind of hate just strikes me as worse than all the supernatural stuff that happened, especially given their friendship previously.

I’m like four books from the end of the series! Oh crap!

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In Progress

First Lines Fridays: February 16, 2018

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First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

  • Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
  • Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
  • Finally… reveal the book!

First Lines:

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

Interested? Scroll down for the cover and summary!

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
(Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, book 1)

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs.

A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.

A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

Top 5 Wednesday: February 22, 2017

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Books to Get You Out of a Reading Slump

Winter is a hard season for a lot of people and many of us are slumpy. Let’s talk about some books that are great for getting you out of a slump!
To participate in Top 5 Wednesday, just head over to their Goodreads Group and join the fun!

So normally, the key for me to get out a slump is to read a book I know I love, but not one that I’ve read so recently that everything is still fresh in my mind. So here I’m going to put some series/authors that can typically be counted on to pull me from a slump, regardless of which of the books from them I pick.

  1. The Tillerman Cycle // Cynthia Voigt
    She has several stand-alones that can be used if I’ve read this series too recently as well.
  2. Uglies series // Scott Westerfeld
  3. Robert Fulghum
    Any of his collected essays, such as It Was On Fire When I Lay Down on It, will do.
  4. Sarah Dessen
    Any and all of her books so far have the power to break a slump!
  5. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
    I had to put this one on this list since it’s actually the one that pulled me out of my most recent slump!

What books do you use when you are stuck in a slump? Comment or make your own T5W post!

January 2017 Wrap-Up

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
(Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, book 1)
Rating:  ★★★★★
Reading Dates:  January 9 – 12
Read Count:  2
Favorite Thing:  The books Jake finds when he explores the bombed shell of the home. He remarks the titles of ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘The Secret Garden’. I laughed so hard I lost my place!
Least Favorite Thing:  Jake does not think about things enough! He supposedly went over his grandfather’s last words constantly, but he doesn’t catch when people say things that might allude back to it? That freaking apple rots overnight into dust and his reaction is literally: “puzzled, I shrugged it off and went out”! What the hell, Jake!?

If you love adventure and amazing descriptive language in your novels, this is definitely a book (and series) you need to read. I genuinely had to pause several times just to absorb the imagery. (And once to scrub my brain of the mental image presented by the imagery…)
If you saw the movie and decided this book wasn’t worth reading, I urge you to reconsider.

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Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
(Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, book 2)
Rating:  ★★★★☆
Reading Dates:  January 12 – 14
Read Count:  2
Favorite Thing:  “Nowhere am I deadlier than in a field of wildflowers,” Hugh said, enjoying the attention.
(Also can we talk about how cute Fiona and Hugh are? She grew flowers for his bees so they could kiss! I’m dyingggg!)
Least Favorite Thing:  The menagerie… Something about the peculiar animals just… Bleh…

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Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs
(Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, book 3)
Rating:  ★★★★☆
Reading Dates:  January 14 – 23
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  Jacob’s Hollow!!!! Precious little killing machine!
Least Favorite Thing:  The defeated feeling it gave me around halfway through… I accept that adventure novels have to have a “progress, set back, progress, set back” sort of rhythm, but sometimes it gets to a point where it feels like more set backs than progress and it leaves me feeling hopeless. Luckily, it didn’t last too long in this book, so don’t let that be what keeps you from reading it.

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The Singer of All Songs by Kate Constable
(The Chanters of Tremaris, book 1)
Rating:  ★★★★☆
Reading Dates:  January 24 – 27
Read Count:  2
Favorite Thing:  Talk shit get…..all the saliva in your mouth frozen solid.
Least Favorite Thing:  Trout whines too damn much… (And Samis gloats too damn much…)

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Update: T5W, Nov-23-16

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I was looking in my old Top 5 Wednesday posts and saw this one for Books I Want to Re-Read and I just realized I can actually cross 2 of them off the list!

  1. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
  2. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
  3. The Singer of All Songs by Kate Constable
  4. Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt
  5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Hurray for me!

UPDATE January 27, 2017: 3 down, 2 to go!
UPDATE July 2017: 4 down, 1 to go!

Thursday Quotables: January 12, 2017

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This weekly feature is the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage discovered during your reading each week; whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, or just really beautifully written.

I was moved by this new idea of my grandfather, not as a paranoiac gun nut or a secretive philanderer or a man who wasn’t there for his family, but as a wandering knight who risked his life for others, living out of cars and cheap motels, stalking lethal shadows, coming home shy a few bullets and marked with bruises he could never quite explain and nightmares he couldn’t talk about. For his many sacrifices, he received only scorn and suspicion form those he loved.

Summary:

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs.

A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.

A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

Thank you Bookshelf Fantasies for this fun book meme!

Teaser Tuesday: January 10, 2017

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They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood.

– Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, page 17

Version:
Hardcover, First Edition, 352 pages
Published June 7th 2011 by Quirk

Welcome to Teaser Tuesday, hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker, the weekly Meme that wants you to add books to your TBR, or just share what you are currently reading. It is very easy to play along:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! Everyone loves Teaser Tuesday.

Book v. Film: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

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I absolutely love how the film portrays Jake in the beginning (the Florida introductory part).

And by “absolutely love” I mean totally hate.

Film!Jake is “nice guy still somehow friendless” which is a trope that can honestly fucking die.

And this totally sucks because in doing this film viewers completely miss out on “petulant teen” Book!Jake — who does have a friend, by the way, and is infinitely more entertaining.