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What Are You Reading Wednesday: August 29, 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. The Truth-Teller’s Tale (Safe-Keepers, book 2) by Sharon Shinn
  2. I believe strangers who were sent looking for us were also told to use this password, and I know our parents generally warned their overnight guests to ask us something of the sort before they began to pour out their hearts. So after a while we had fewer incidents of mistaken identity and interesting conversations at cross-purposes.
  3. Sure, living in this world would be kind of interesting. And it would be nice to always have someone to tell your secrets to and someone to ask about the truth.

Musing Monday: August 6, 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: Have you ever had an argument over a book?

I’m currently reading… So many books lol
I’m still occasionally reading chapters of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, but not as much as I ought to be. Then there’s The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen which I started as part of my Dessen Reread then realized I needed a break from YA Contemporary. With my friend Ono I am reading They Never Came Back (Caroline B. Cooney) so that one will take a little while since we are going a few chapters at a time. There’s a similar situation with Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, since my mother wanted to read it with me and stopped me at chapter 3. Mainly I’m reading Searching for Dragons, the second novel in Patricia C. Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles. I’m loving it almost as much as the first one so I’ll probably move on to the third one soon.

Have you ever had an argument over a book?
I can’t really think of one? I mean, I have had a few men try to “teach” me about the classics and such and those conversations certainly had the antagonistic feeling of arguments, but they weren’t really. I guess the readers I know are pretty laid back.

The closest I’ve come to a real argument, I guess, was convincing my mother to let me read Harry Potter in middle school. She was afraid it would make me turn to witchcraft or something because some church ladies told her inaccurate things about the series.

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.

 

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!

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!

Buddy Read!

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My pal Ono messaged me today about seeing my TBR Shame post and said they wanted to help me out on getting through my list by reading along with me! So exciting!!!

We decided to pick at random so I rolled on a random number generator and used that to pick a title from the list of 136 unread books.

The first book we will be reading together is: They Never Came Back by Caroline B. Cooney

Yay for buddy reads!!

Have you read ‘They Never Came Back’? What did you think?

2018 TBR Shame

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I finally have FULL access to my library of books and some books have been removed and others added, so I thought I’d do another TBR Shame on myself and then see if I can’t work my way through some of them. And considering I said in this post that one of my goals for 2018 is to read 15 books I own, but haven’t read yet, I would say this is a useful little list. (Ha, little, yeah right.)

Here I go!

  • Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, book 2) by Douglas Adams
  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, book 3) by Douglas Adams
  • Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, book 1) by Tomi Adeyemi
  • Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
  • Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen
  • Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie Read December 2018
  • The Juvenilia of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
  • Anything Goes by John Barrowman
  • Papa’s Wife by Thyra Ferre Bjorn
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
  • Thousand Words by Jennifer Brown
  • Evelina by Francis Burney
  • Thank Heaven: A Memoir by Leslie Caron
  • The Girl of Fire and Thorns Stories (Girl of Fire and Thorns Novella) by Rae Carson Read December 2018
  • Graceling (Graceling Realm, book 1) by Kristin Cashore
  • The Adventures of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers
  • All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark
  • The Second Time Around by Mary Higgins Clark
  • No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark
  • I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark
  • The Melody Lingers On by Mary Higgins Clark
  • The Cinderella Murder (Under Suspicion, book 2) by Mary Higgins Clark; Alafair Burke
  • All Dressed in White (Under Suspicion, book 3) by Mary Higgins Clark; Alafair Burke
  • The Sleeping Beauty Killer (Under Suspicion, book 4) by Mary Higgins Clark; Alafair Burke
  • Every Breath You Take (Under Suspicion, book 5) by Mary Higgins Clark; Alafair Burke
  • The Joker is Wild by Art Cohn
  • They Never Came Back by Caroline B. Cooney Read November 2018
  • And Furthermore by Judi Dench
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
  • Eva by Peter Dickinson
  • The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
  • The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
  • Seven Tears into the Sea by Terri Farley
  • The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, book 1) by Nancy Farmer
  • Bossypants by Tina Fey
  • Darkhenge by Catherine Fisher
  • Incarceron (Incarceron, book 1) by Catherine Fisher
  • Sapphique (Incarceron, book 2) by Catherine Fisher
  • Midnight Blue by Pauline Fisk
  • The Ruins of Gorlan (The Ranger’s Apprentice, book 1) by John Flanagan
  • The Burning Bridge (The Ranger’s Apprentice, book 2) by John Flanagan
  • The Icebound Land (The Ranger’s Apprentice, book 3) by John Flanagan
  • The Battle for Skandia (The Ranger’s Apprentice, book 4) by John Flanagan
  • The Unquiet by Jeannine Garsee
  • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
  • Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore, book 1) by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Making of the Wizard of Oz by Aljean Harmetz
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • My Life in Three Acts by Helen Hayes
  • North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
  • Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins
  • Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson
  • Touched by Corrine Jackson Read October 2018
  • The Opposite of Hallelujah by Anna Jarzab
  • Surrender by Elana Johnson
  • Need by Carrie Jones Read September 2018
  • The Exchange by Graham Joyce
  • At Home in Mitford (The Mitford Years, book 1) by Jan Karon Read October 2018
  • A Light in the Window (The Mitford Years, book 2) by Jan Karon
  • A New Song (The Mitford Years, book 5) by Jan Karon
  • A Common Life: The Wedding Story (The Mitford Years, book 6) by Jan Karon
  • In This Mountain (The Mitford Years, book 7) by Jan Karon
  • Shepherd’s Abiding (The Mitford Years, book 8) by Jan Karon
  • Light from Heaven (The Mitford Years, book 9) by Jan Karon
  • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Read August 2018
  • Ophelia by Lisa Klein
  • Wildefire by Karsten Knight
  • Dreamhunter (Dreamhunter Duet, book 1) by Elizabeth Knox
  • Dreamquake (Dreamhunter Duet, book 2) by Elizabeth Knox
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
  • Out of Control by Mark Lowry
  • The Games People Play by Eric Berne
  • A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, book 4) by Sarah J. Maas
  • Allan Pinkerton: The First Private Eye by James MacKay
  • Uninvited by Amanda Marrone
  • Stories I Couldn’t Tell While I Was a Pastor by Bruce McIver
  • Cryer’s Cross by Lisa McMann
  • Dead to You by Lisa McMann
  • Lovely, Dark and Deep by Amy McNamara
  • The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency by Philip H. Melanson
  • History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time by Brad Meltzer
  • Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage by Diane Middlebrook
  • George Washington is Cash Money by Cory O’Brien
  • Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes by Cory O’Brien
  • The Pact: A Love Story by Jodi Picoult
  • The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
  • The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
  • Starters (Starters, book 1) by Lissa Price
  • Siren (Siren, book 1) by Tricia Rayburn
  • On My Own: The Years Since the White House by Eleanor Roosevelt
  • How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
  • Four: A Divergent Collection (Divergent Novellas) by Veronica Roth
  • Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson by Jan Jarboe Russell
  • The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, book 2) by Carrie Ryan
  • Vesper (Deviants, book 1) by Jeff Sampson
  • Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott Read October 2018
  • Miracle by Elizabeth Scott
  • Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
  • King Lear by William Shakespeare
  • Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
  • Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Read November 2018
  • A Paradise Called Texas by Janice Shefelman
  • The Safe-Keeper’s Secret (Safe-Keepers, book 1) by Sharon Shinn Read August 2018
  • The Dream-Maker’s Magic (Safe-Keepers, book 3) by Sharon Shinn Read September 2018
  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  • Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
  • Undone by Brooke Taylor
  • Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
  • Exposed by Susan Vaught
  • A Little Friendly Advice by Siobhan Vivian
  • Orfe by Cynthia Voigt Read September 2018
  • Burnout by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
  • Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Taylor by Alexander Walker
  • Where the Truth Lies by Jessica Warman
  • The Secret Hour (Midnighters, book 1) by Scott Westerfeld
  • Touching Darkness (Midnighters, book 2) by Scott Westerfeld
  • Blue Noon (Midnighters, book 3) by Scott Westerfeld
  • Partials (Partials Sequence, book 1) by Scott Westerfeld
  • Fragments (Partials Sequence, book 2) by Scott Westerfeld
  • Peeps (Peeps, book 1) by Scott Westerfeld
  • The Last Days (Peeps, book 2) by Scott Westerfeld
  • A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
  • Sandpiper by Ellen Wittlinger
  • Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward
  • Long, Long Ago by Alexander Woollcott
  • All These Lives by Sarah Wylie
  • Blood Red Road (Dustlands, book 1) by Moira Young
  • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life by J. William T. Youngs

96 136 Unread / 442 Total Books

I feel the shame you guys. And I already think I know what I’ll read first. Wish me luck!

Musing Monday: July 16, 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 get teased or looked at oddly for reading?

I’m super excited to tell you about… I HAVE A LIBRARY IN THE NEW HOUSE!!! We moved Thursday and the first thing I did was unpack my books. The library is still kind of a mess because I don’t have all my notebooks and stuff unpacked so those boxes are in here, but I don’t care because my beautiful books are nice and neat on their shelves looking like joy in physical form.
(The only drawback is I officially have no room left on my fiction shelves so I’m going to have to find new bookshelves!)

Do you ever get teased or looked at oddly for reading?
I’ve had some odd looks before, but it’s not so much because of the reading as it is because books have made me laugh out loud or cry in public before. I get so into them I don’t realize my reactions are showing on my face until some random middle-aged lady is staring at me funny. But no one ever says anything they just do that face with their eyebrows raised and then move on.

Musing Monday: July 9, 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: How does reading making you feel?

I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)… I got some book merch recently for the new house and I’m so excited about it. It’s all Raven Cycle merch, but I got a print and some throw pillows off Redbubble.

I’m not at the new place right now, but tomorrow I’ll come back here and add pictures of the stuff.

I got:

How does reading making you feel?
Well, it’s a satisfying experience no matter what, but when the book is really good it’s way better. Like it empties my mind and my stress and fills it all back up with another world and a kind of ultra-contentment. There’s nothing at all like it. Which is probably why I consider access to reading material pretty much the most important thing in life.