Author: Lee

First Lines Fridays: November 8, 2019

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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:

First off, I’ve never told this story to anyone. Not the entire thing anyway, and not entirely truthfully.

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You’re doing so good, I told myself. I’m so proud of you. You just have to get through this. You can go home in fifteen minutes.
I wondered how many women had given themselves the same lecture: the girl who’d held her head up at a dance where her date was paying attention to another classmate; the woman who’d been passed by for promotion at her job; the woman who had listened to a dire diagnosis and yet kept her face together.

– Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone, page 243 – 244

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Mass Market Paperback, Read of the Month, Walmart Edition, 310 pages
Published April 2010 by Ace

October 2019 Wrap-Up

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Non-Reading Stuff

Oh man October just flew by! I swear it feels like nothing at all happened this month… Things were a bit rough emotionally, just because of a tough anniversary, but I got past it as always and things are improving.

Reading Stuff

I finished 10 books this month! See my favorite and least favorite things here.
I didn’t do quite as well as I would have liked, reading-wise, but that’s just because I fell behind on my goal at the beginning of the year. Looking at this month on it’s own, I did pretty great.

Blogging Stuff

I’ve been blogging pretty consistently this month, hurray! I’ve been doing my usual smattering of ratings and book photography posts, along with First Lines Fridays and Words from Books. And in addition to all that, I made some progress on my liveblog of the House of Night series. Hopefully I can keep it up throughout November, especially since I’m planning to participate in a book photo challenge…

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…

My Posts About Betrayed

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

My Posts About Definitely Dead

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.

My Posts About All Together Dead

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…

My Posts About Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

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!?

My Posts About Hollow City

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.

My Posts About Chosen

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!

My Posts About Library of Souls

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.

My Posts About From Dead to Worse

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.

My Posts About A Touch of Dead

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!

My Posts About Dead and Gone

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