It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

March 2019 Reading Wrap-Up

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Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Rating:  ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  January 4 – March 6
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  Witty-funny.
Least Favorite Thing:  Just dragged a little bit.

This book was strange for me. I would go from loving it and completely engrossed to bored out of my mind and back again. I can’t quite put my finger on the issue I had, but there definitely was one. I was supposed to read it along with the discord server Books & Tea in the month of January, but it wound up taking me until March to get through it!

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Girl, Stolen by April Henry
Rating:  ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  March 8 – 13
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  I found the depiction of her blindness and the way she did things despite it to be fascinating.
Least Favorite Thing:  I can’t actually think of something I didn’t like…

I loved the way this book wrapped up. There was just enough closure and just enough left to wonder about.

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It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It by Robert Fulghum
Rating:  ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  March 24 – 28
Read Count:  3
Favorite Thing:  He’s so weird and introspective.
Least Favorite Thing:  There were a few things that didn’t age super well…

I first read Fulghum’s books back in middle school and I figured it was high time I reread them, so I’ve been working my way through a little at a time.

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April Acrostic

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I saw a version of this on another blog and thought it looked like fun so I adapted it just a little. They didn’t know who had come up with it originally, so I obviously don’t either. But I thought it was neat so here it is, to celebrate the end of the month:  April Acrostic!

To play, just spell the word “April” with some of your favorite titles! (Be sure to link me to your post if you do it!)

For my April Acrostic I chose:

Top 5 Wednesday: August 23, 2017

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Books from Before You Joined ________

These are some of your favorite books from before you joined the online book community, whether that be booktube, goodreads, blogs, bookstagram, twitter, tumblr, etc.
To participate in Top 5 Wednesday, just head over to their Goodreads Group and join the fun!

  1. Tree by Leaf by Cynthia Voigt
  2. Homecoming (The Tillerman Cycle, book 1) by Cynthia Voigt
  3. Elske (Tales of the Kingdom, book 4) by Cynthia Voigt
  4. It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It by Robert Fulghum
  5. The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, book 1) by Shannon Hale

Gee… I guess I sort of like Cynthia Voigt, huh?

What were your favorite books from before you joined the online reader community? Comment here or make your own post and leave me a link so I can check the books out!

Teaser Tuesday: November 15, 2016

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In that moment of educational ennui, a freshman girl says, “I can bring a human brain to school if you want–my father has lots of them.“ (Talk about a full-scale class alert: “She’s going to do WHAT?!”)

– Robert Fulghum, It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It, page 38

Version:
Paperback, 224 pages
Published March 2nd 1991 by Ivy Books

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books And A Beat.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

  • 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!