Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Author: Lee
24 Hour Read-A-Thon Goals
Most importantly, I’m hoping to finish the book I’m currently reading: Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff. After that I plan to read Orfe by Cynthia Voigt, and it would be really cool if I could finish that too, but I won’t get my heart set on that since Paper Valentine has been slow going.
If I get stuck during PV or Orfe, I’ve also got a couple other books I’m currently working on, Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell and The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen, which I can read a bit on as a palette cleanser.
Wish me luck!
24 Hour Read-A-Thon
Words From Books
ensorcell
/enˈsôrsəl/
verb
- enchant; fascinate
They didn’t think about the fact that it was pretty much falling down, that it was three stories and drafty, shockingly expensive to heat in the winter and, with central air not yet invented when the house was built, almost impossible to cool in the summer. They were ensorcelled with the place.
– Morgan Matson, Since You’ve Been Gone, page 11
First Lines Fridays: September 21, 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:
Addie and I were born into the same body, our souls’ ghostly fingers entwined before we gasped our very first breath.
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Completed: Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
Progress: Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
Lee is on page 163 of 464
I have a real love-hate relationship with Emily’s playlist. By which I mean, I love the oldies and hate the rest…
Progress: Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
Lee is on page 114 of 464
Just spent a stupid amount of time putting together a playlist based on the mixes in the book; this better be worth it!
Here it is!
Words from Books
diaphanous
/dīˈafənəs/
adjective
- (especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent
She walks through the house like a ghost. Sometimes she thinks she would be better off without a body. Better off floating and diaphanous and thin.
– Katrina Leno, The Half Life of Molly Pierce, page 212
First Lines Fridays: September 14, 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:
Ahhh, the Greeks
dead longer than America has even existed
and still invading our lives with their myths.
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