Author: Lee

First Lines Fridays: July 27, 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:

The buzzing flies and screaming survivors had long since replaced the beating war-drums.
The killing field was now a tangled sprawl of corpses, human and faerie alike, interrupted only by broken wings jutting toward the gray sky or the occasional bulk of a felled horse.

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What Are You Reading Wednesdays: July 25, 2018

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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. Locked in Time by Lois Duncan
  2. Lying in bed, I could see out through both of the screened French doors, each of which framed a great sheet of empty sky. This sky, as seen through the north door, was pale blue and hazy; to the east, it was aglow with the flames of sunrise. I lay still for a time, watching, mesmerized, as the two spatial areas went through minute-by-minute alterations. The north sky grew brighter and clearer; the east sky softened to pink, and then, as shade melted into shade in fluid transition, became the same clear blue as its sister next door.
  3. Oh, suuuure, sign me up for the evil step-mom, toootally.

 

Progress: Locked in Time by Lois Duncan

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Lee is on page 35 of 210

I have already sussed out the fact that the step-family are immortal. Only have to figure out if it’s vampires or magic at this point. Yet the main character whose eyes I see everything through has yet to make a connection. This is why people should read fiction. How else is one to realize when their new step-family are immortal possible-monsters?

Which book should I creep myself out with today?

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I was talking to my husband about the two books I am considering reading next and suddenly realized they are both really similar despite being not at all similar…?

Like my options are Locked in Time by Lois Duncan or Coraline by Neil Gaiman.

So basically: girl moves into a new house and weird, creepy shit happens OR girl moves into a new house and weird, creepy shit happens…

Also they both feature maternal figures as villains.

DID I MENTION I JUST MOVED INTO A NEW HOUSE WHICH I OFTEN STAY IN COMPLETELY ALONE OVERNIGHT???/

Musing Monday: July 23, 2018

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Musing Mondays is a weekly meme, hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker, that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ____, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week…

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: Do you ever make a reading playlist?

Up next I think I’ll read… Literally anything other than what I’m reading right now? Basically I’m getting a little contemporary’d out and I’ve decided that even though I’m in the middle (okay, the beginning) of a book right now, I’m going to hit pause on the Sarah Dessen Reread and read something else. Probably something fantasy because that’s my preferred genre and I MISS IT and no one can stop me. So I guess the list of “currently reading” books on my Goodreads is just going to keep growing…

Do you ever make a reading playlist?
God I dream of being that organised about things. Honestly, I do. I wish I could be one of those book bloggers who constantly makes character themed soundtracks and playlists, that would be so cool. The most I ever do is, if a book specifically mentions an artist or song or whatever, I will go look it up and play it for a bit as I read. But feel free to send me your book playlists; I’d love them!

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But here in the present, my mother and I had no choice but to move ahead. We worked hard, me at school, her at outselling all the other builders. We parted our hair cleanly and stood up straight, greeting company — and the world — with the smiles we practiced in the quiet of our now-too-big dream house full of mirrors that showed the smiles back. But under it all, our grief remained. Sometimes she took more of it, sometimes I did. But always, it was there.

– Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever, page 21

New Ko-fi Donation Page

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Alright so things are really tight now that my mom is living with us. I won’t go into detail, but she’s pretty sick and needs a lot of help. Neither she nor I can work so my husband has to support all three of us and that’s a huge strain on him. I’m working towards being able to work outside the home again, but for now this is something I can do to help.

If you like my original content, be it here on tumblr, on wordpress, or instagram, please consider helping my family by donating a few dollars to my ko-fi. The link can be found at anytime on the right-hand side of the navigation bar.

Thanks guys!