Shatter Me

February 2019 Reading Wrap-Up

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The Haunting by Shirley Jackson
Rating:  ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  January 29 – February 2; February 10 – 14
Read Count:  2
Favorite Thing:  Entrancing prose.
Least Favorite Thing:  Why is everyone so bitchy to Eleanor?

I read this as part of a travelling book project with the Books & Tea discord server. Everyone trades books and annotates them. The annotating is why I read it twice. The first time through I didn’t make hardly any notes because I was just absorbed in reading, so I read through it a second time just to make my notes.

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Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
(Shatter Me, book 1)
Rating:  ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Audiobook
Reading Dates:  January 4 – February 13
Read Count:  3
Favorite Thing:  The little scratch-out sound effect when she writes something she doesn’t like. It was just a nice touch.
Least Favorite Thing:  The love-sick monologues.

I read this along with a different book club discord server. I had read the book twice before so when it came time for us all to read Shatter Me together I figured I’d give the audiobook a try instead. I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as I did reading the physical copies, but it was still good.

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First Lines Fridays: November 30, 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’ve been locked up for 264 days.
I have nothing but a small notebook and a broken pen and the numbers in my head to keep me company.

Did the quote pique your interest? View this book on Goodreads!