Author: Lee
Completed: The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster
Completed: Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book was full of such an appreciation of the small beauty in the world around us, in this case the worlds we make ourselves, and I am so grateful to Nina Lacour for writing all that love and beauty for us to read.
Summer Reading Challenge Book Haul
May 2018 Reading Wrap-Up
The Martian by Andy Weir
Rating: ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: May 1 – 5
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: Sarcastic!
Least Favorite Thing: “The lunatics at NASA have me doing all kinds of rape to the MAV. . .” Rape? Really? Jackass.
Well the internet was right, the book was funny, I’m glad I read it. Aside from that one sentence, it was a really good book. I would have quoted it a lot more, but I’m fairly certain if you added up all the ‘Martian’ quotes on Goodreads you could reprint full half of this novel (at least).
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ – it was ok
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: May 11 – 13
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: I just can’t think of anything I liked enough to say was my favorite thing.
Least Favorite Thing: So many…
I just… This wasn’t a bad book by any means. But I just expected to love it and I barely even liked it… I actually preferred the film, which is something I never say.
My Posts About Practical Magic
Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ – did not like it
Review: Yes
Format: Print
Reading Dates: May 7 – 15
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: I literally didn’t like any part of it.
Least Favorite Thing: Been a long time since I read a book with so many racist comments. I wasn’t missing it.
I read this because I had seen the movie version and found it tolerable enough that when I saw it was based on a book I decided to try the novel. This was a poor choice on my part.
My Posts About Undiscovered Gyrl
In Progress
First Lines Fridays: June 8, 2018
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:
He knew from the first that this man would know how to hurt him. He had to keep the fear secret, and he couldn’t cry no matter how much he wanted to.
Interested? Scroll down for the cover and summary!
The Wings of a Falcon by Cynthia Voigt
(Tales of the Kingdom, book 3)
The prospect of freedom is weighted with danger in this tale of high adventure, the third book in the Tales of the Kingdom series from Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt.
Oriel has always stood out as someone who would not bend. No matter how much he has had to endure, the Damall’s cruelty cannot corrupt him. Griff, a boy who has watched and admired Oriel, is the opposite. He has learned to keep out of sight, to bow in the face of force. Yet the two became friends, and together they escaped from the terrors of the island and take with them the Damall’s most prized relic—the beryl, a green gemstone engraved with a falcon, its wings unfolding. But as they seek a new life, it’s not as easy as they’d hoped, for ahead lie raiding Wolfers, rival armies, and unspeakable dangers…
Teaser Tuesday: June 5, 2018
As soon as I open the door I wish we’d had just a few more minutes, because Ava is standing in the doorway looking movie-star pretty, looking Clyde Jones pretty, and I am facing her in a shirt with a red tomato-sauce smear on the chest, my hair in a messy ponytail, realizing that in spite of all our planning I have no idea how to deliver the news we summoned her to hear.
– Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You, page 76
Version:
Hardcover, 312 pages
Published May 15th 2014 by Dutton Books for Young Readers
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.
First Lines Fridays: June 1, 2018
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:
What she saw first was a moving shadow. In the trees that bordered the meadow, among their dark trunks, something moved.
Interested? Scroll down for the cover and summary!
On Fortunes Wheel by Cynthia Voigt
(Tales of the Kingdom, book 2)
There are some who say that the Lady Fortune has a wheel, and all men are fixed upon it. The wheel turns, and the men rise, or fall, with the turning of the wheel.
Birle has agreed to be wed to the huntsman Muir as an escape from the drudgery of life at her father’s inn — but the moment she looks into the bellflower blue eyes of the man she comes upon stealing one of her father’s boats, Birle knows she cannot marry Muir. Even after she discovers the mysterious stranger is Orien, a Lord and as unreachable to an innkeeper’s daughter as a star, Birle is determined to travel with him as far as he will allow.
Their travels take Birle to a world far from home, a world where Lords may become slaves, where Princes rule by fear, and where Fortune’s Wheel turns more swiftly and dangerously than Birle could have imagined.
Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt’s second novel of the Kingdom, set two generations later than Jackaroo, is a memorable combination of thrilling adventure and heart-stopping romance.
First Lines Fridays: May 25, 2018
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:
Gwyn stood crowded in among the women. She held the hood of her cloak close around her head, covering her hair, shadowing her face.
Interested? Scroll down for the cover and summary!
Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt
(Tales of the Kingdom, book 1)
In a fantastical kingdom ravaged by famine and poverty, the prospect of hope lies with a mythical masked hero in this, the first book in the Tales of the Kingdom series from Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt.
In a distant time, a kingdom is starving. With winter upon them, there is little hope, except for the legend of Jackaroo: a masked outlaw who comes at night to aid the destitute and helpless. But Gwyn, the innkeeper’s daughter, is too practical for false hopes. She believes Jackaroo is nothing more than a fairy tale told to keep children hopeful till the next sunrise.
Then Gwyn is forced to seek refuge in an abandoned house, and while scavenging for supplies, she comes across…a mask? A sword? A cloak? Could these belong to the fabled Jackaroo? As Gwyn searches for answers, she discovers that the heart of a hero goes far beyond a mask.
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