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What Are You Reading Wednesdays: September 20, 2017

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What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate.

Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:

  1. What’s the name of your current read?
  2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
  3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

  1. The Runner (The Tillerman Cycle, book 4) by Cynthia Voigt
  2. Nobody ever ran cross-country more than one season, nobody except Bullet. It was just too hard.
  3. Honestly I’d live in any of the Tillerman Cycle books I think. And I quite like Bullet.

What Are You Reading Wednesdays: September 13, 2017

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What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate.

Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:

  1. What’s the name of your current read?
  2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
  3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

  1. Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, book 1) by Laini Taylor
  2. To her, the human form — plain as it was, and not spliced together with other species — was a missed opportunity.
  3. Ha! In theory, sure, but if I actually was in that world I know I would die.

WWW Wednesday: September 13, 2017

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Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at Should be Reading and revived on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three W’s!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading:  Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, book 1) by Laini Taylor
I had been wanting to reread this series for a while;, and now that I’m stuck waiting for the sequel to Strange the Dreamer, I think this is the perfect time.

I read this the first time with Mary at Books and Cookies, but that was years ago apparently!

Who knows, I may even try to review them this time around since I’m (hopefully) likely to be less overwhelmed by how much I like it with the second reading.

And, of course, I’ll be reading another chapter of Persuasion this week.

Recently Finished:  Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, book 1) by Sarah Rees Brennan
I’m still fiddling around to see if I can come up with a whole review for this book. I have some thoughts, but I’m not sure it adds up to much.

I had never even heard of anyone doing a Young Adult book in the style of a Gothic novel before I was recommended this book. I’m glad I gave it a chance.

But honestly, y’all, that ending? I just sat there in shock like…what? What kind of complete 180??? I don’t want to say too much and spoil things, but seriously what?

Reading Next:  Untold (The Lynburn Legacy, book 2) by Sarah Rees Brennan
I’m looking forward to continuing this series. I have to admit I don’t see how they can possibly go anywhere else from where the last book ended!

As always with a sequel, I’m wary of Second Book Syndrome, but we shall see. If the dialogue is as enjoyable as the first book I don’t think I’ll have too much trouble.

And, seriously, this book better explain that ending from Unspoken or I swear I will throw something…

I’m also waiting for the last four Tillerman Cycle books to come in from the public library, so cross your fingers for me that I get those this week because I want to finish rereading that series too. (Someone please motivate me to set up my home library so I can just read my own copies of my favorite books!)

WWW Wednesday: September 6, 2017

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Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at Should be Reading and revived on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three W’s!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading:  When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
I haven’t gotten very far in this one yet, I’ve been in a weird headspace, but what I have read so far I really like!

The writing is beautiful and the story is interesting. I am really excited to see what unfolds next. The imagery especially gets me. As I read I can see everything unfolding in my mind like some kind of painting and I love it.

I’m also really excited about all the representation in this book! It’s so refreshing!

Recently Finished:  Dicey’s Song (The Tillerman Cycle, book 2) by Cynthia Voigt
I did not mean to read this one so fast! (I started it an hour or so after I finished Hitchhiker’s Guide and just read straight through till 2am when I realized I was at the end!)

I definitely shed some tears there at the end, but it was cathartic and everything else was satisfying and left me feeling quite content.

I’ve been trying to read this series slowly this time around so I can make it last, because Cynthia Voigt is my all time favorite author.

Reading Next:  A Solitary Blue (The Tillerman Cycle, book 3) by Cynthia Voigt
This is the first book to diverge from following the four Tillerman children from Dicey’s POV. Instead, we follow Dicey’s new friend Jeff.

Under normal circumstances I might be annoyed at the POV shift, but Jeff is a sweetheart and his story is interesting. It gives insight into his character that I appreciate.

What Are You Reading Wednesdays: August 23, 2017

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What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate.

Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:

  1. What’s the name of your current read?
  2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
  3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

  1. Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, book 1) by Laini Taylor
  2. And so it was that the golden godson swore his oath on a blacksmith’s anvil instead of the angel’s emerald.
  3. Um… Maybe if I could live in Weep instead of Zosma because I don’t fancy living in a place that doesn’t let girls being librarians or scholars or pretty much anything else! The universe as a whole appeals to me, however.

What Are You Reading Wednesdays: August 16, 2017

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What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate.

Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:

  1. What’s the name of your current read?
  2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
  3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

  1. Crashed (Cold Awakening, book 2) by Robin Wasserman
  2. Org dreams are nothing but random neural firings, spurts of color and unprompted emotion. The story comes later, in that instant before waking, your muddled mind making sense of the chaos by stringing the randomness into a narrative.
  3. I mean, yeah, if I could get a voluntary download and then avoid Jude. In fact, I’d avoid everyone. I’d go off on my own and live like a mechanical recluse!