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To start the game, one team joined hands and stretched out in a line across the macadam playground.
– Cynthia Voigt, Orfe, page 11
The Dream-Maker’s Magic by Sharon Shinn
(Safe-Keepers, book 3)
Rating: ★★★★★ – loved it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: September 3 – 6
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: Kellen’s time at the Parmer Arms.
Least Favorite Thing: Frederick can choke.
Man I’m so glad I decided to go through this series because this book was so worth it. I will definitely be reading this book again!
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I Don’t Know What You Know Me From by Judy Greer
Rating: N/A
Review: Yes
Format: Print
Reading Dates: September 8 – 9
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: That one quote I pulled?
Least Favorite Thing: So boring!
I really wish I could have liked this book, but I just couldn’t find it interesting…
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The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: Yes
Format: Print
Reading Dates: September 8 – 9
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: The bizarre-ness of the case.
Least Favorite Thing: There wasn’t really anything I didn’t like.
I feel like this was a strange book to like, but I really did like it.
The Half Life of Molly Pierce by Katrina Leno
Rating: ★★★★★ – loved it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: September 10 – 11
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: The writing style.
Least Favorite Thing: I did not like Lyle even when I was meant to.
Read this book! Read this book! Read it! It is so good I’m going to buy it first chance I get.
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Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: September 14 – 19
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: Living Room Theater
Least Favorite Thing: Skeevy Sam gave me the creeps…
It took about half the book before the pace picked up and I could really get into it, but I think that might just be that I don’t read contemporary as often. I did enjoy it once I got into it though.
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Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff
Rating: ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: September 20 – 22
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: Hannah’s extreme thirst for Finny Boone lol No, I’m kidding, it’s the homemade Ouija board.
Least Favorite Thing: Hannah’s friends all suck.
This is not even a little bit the sort of book I usually read. It’s a mystery, a murder one at that, and a little bit spooky which for me is a lot spooky because I’m paranoid as hell…. So I was surprised at how much I liked this story. The beginning seemed a little slow, but it picked up soon and then I couldn’t put it down. I definitely recommend this book.
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Orfe by Cynthia Voigt
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: September 23
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: The descriptions of how Enny felt listening to the music.
Least Favorite Thing: All the boyfriends were garbagio.
I read this book for bibliophilicwitch‘s 24 Hour Read-A-Thon.
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Audiobook & Print
Reading Dates: September 23
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: Carrie’s poems.
Least Favorite Thing: I can’t think of anything…
I read along and listened to this book for bibliophilicwitch‘s 24 Hour Read-A-Thon. And I loved her journal entries, I wish I was that eloquent at 18!
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The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: Yes
Format: Print
Reading Dates: July 18 – September 25
Read Count: 2
Favorite Thing: The chaos of the Wish catering gigs.
Least Favorite Thing: My fear of being too old to relate to these books, and therefore not enjoying them quite as much, has officially been realized.
It took me forever to finish this, my goodness! But I finally did it and even mini-review’d it.
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Need by Carrie Jones
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ – did not like it
Review: Yes
Format: Print
Reading Dates: September 26
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: I too would like to leave a trail of glitter wherever I go.
Least Favorite Thing: The entire premise.
Welp, looks like I’ll be donating this book… But at least I can cross one more off my TBR Shame List.
What is the same about them is their voices, the way they start speaking the cruelty and have to power to stop themselves. Cruelty urges or calls them onward, and they dive more deeply into it, as if they could get drunk on cruelty, addicted to violence, swallowed up and besotted as if they heard their own voices speaking the words and fell in love with the sounds of violence in their own voices.
– Cynthia Voigt, Orfe, page 4-5
Version:
Paperback, 128 pages
Published August 1st 1994 by Scholastic
Welp, I’m cutting out a little early because I have to keep to a schedule or I get all out of wack.
I’m pretty satisfied with how I did today because I’ve been reading more slowly lately. As some of you know I wasn’t able to do Paper Valentine for this Read-A-Thon because I went and finished the whole thing yesterday by accident… But I managed to read 2 books cover-to-cover and got some pages in on two of the books I’ve been reading for like MONTHS.
Book one was a novella, Orfe by Cynthia Voigt, that I have been meaning to read for years. It’s pretty much the only Voigt novel I hadn’t gotten to yet. It was strange, I could hear Voigt’s voice in there but it was different from all the others in a way I can’t quite put my finger on. I’m glad I read it though.
Book two was The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher. I actually listened to the audiobook that Carrie read herself, while following along occasionally with the print version. I think my new favorite way to enjoy memoirs is when the author reads it to me. I can’t believe I hadn’t tried this before this year.
I didn’t get a lot of pages on the books I’ve been stuck on (Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell & The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen), just 3-5 each, but it’s better than nothing. And I’m hopeful I’ll be able to keep up on The Truth About Forever. As for Wives and Daughters, I think I’m going to have to do that thing where I make myself read a chapter a week. If that doesn’t help I’m going to DNF it, as much as I hate to.
I’m so glad I did this Read-A-Thon, it was a great motivator! Thanks BibliophilicWitch!
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!
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Alrighty, I’m going to do this in the order that I read them, not in the order that I liked them (because that would be way too hard).
This was my first Gillian Flynn novel and I was honestly nervous to read it. I liked the movie and was worried that the book wouldn’t be as good. But a fellow blogger assured me Flynn was an excellent writer and Gone Girl did not disappoint. In fact it kind of blew me away how much I loved it. I went online and bought it before I had even finished reading it. I look forward to reading it again sometime.
Oh come on, you knew this series had to be on the list somewhere, right? I reread them earlier in the year and loved them just as much as always, maybe even more. As always, this is a loosely-connected, non-magical, fantasy series, set in a medieval-esque world.
This is one of the best autobiographies I’ve read ever, and definitely the best this year. Anna is funny and pithy and pleasantly verbose. What made it even better was listening to the audiobook version where Anna reads you the book herself.
This book was recommended to me from another reader because I said I wanted to branch out of my genre comfort zone and I have to admit I didn’t expect to like it. But the prose was engaging and beautiful and I found myself falling into the mind of the protagonist quickly and easily. I definitely want to read more by Janet Fitch in future.
I had one main issue with this book (mentioned in this post), but everything else about it was excellent. It was funny and the format was interesting. If you liked the movie you will most likely like the book as it is extremely similar. I found it really hard to put down.
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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?
First Lines:
The Volkking struggled, but his sickness attacked him both day and night, a war band giving the enemy no respite of sleep. From the longest day until harvesttime, the Volkking sickened, and as it was with the King, so was it with his land.
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?
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.
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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…
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?
First Lines:
What she saw first was a moving shadow. In the trees that bordered the meadow, among their dark trunks, something moved.
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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.
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