What are you currently reading?
Bradstreet Gate by Robin Kirman
For Study: The Ramayana by Ramesh Menon
What did you just finish reading? Click Title Below for Review!
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper (Review Tomorrow)
The Banished of Muirwood by Jeff Wheeler
People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
What do you think you’ll read next?
Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart
Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
The Middle of Somewhere by Sonja Yoerg
What are you currently reading?
Armada by Ernest Cline
For Study: The Ramayana by Ramesh Menon
What did you just finish reading?
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (Review Tomorrow)
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
What do you think you’ll read next?
A Room with a View by EM Forster
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
What are you currently reading?
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
For Study: The Ramayana by Ramesh Menon
What did you just finish reading?
The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
What do you think you’ll read next?
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare
Maggie by Stephen Crane
1066: The Year of Conquest by David Howarth
I’ve mentioned #adultbooklr on this blog before. There are no restrictions, other than you must be over 18, and you must love books. That’s it! We are just a giant book club, really, and there were way more adults on Tumblr than I realized! The idea isn’t to be exclusive–quite the opposite, actually. We have a constant chat on GroupMe, which is fantastic. There’s also a Goodreads group. Check out the Tumblr tag to learn more about it.
Every month we are going to have a club book to read. This was the first, and the choice was The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen. I had already read it, but it was back before I started the blog (or right at the beginning), so it didn’t get a review. Perfect opportunity to do another readalong!
Kelsea grows up isolated in the woods with a pair of surrogate parents in a house full of books and learning. But one day she is torn from that quiet life by a group of soldiers claiming she is the heir to the Tearling throne and they whisk her off to her new kingdom. Suddenly she is supposed to save a whole people from the tyranny of a witch queen!
QOTT is setting up for a series, and I think it does that very well. There is a lot of character development in this first book, so you get the expectation that there will be a lot of action in the upcoming additions. Kelsea is not the usual femme fatale that you see in these heroine roles–she describes herself as plain, short, and out of shape. But when it comes to doing what needs to be done to save her people, she has the guts and inner strength to go the distance. She makes a fantastic role model for young women, in my opinion–she’s an extremely relatable fantasy character.
I’m looking forward to The Invasion of the Tearling, which was just released last month. It’s on my library’s hold list, so as soon as they will give it to me, I’ll let you know what I think!
Phew! Another great Trees of Reverie Readathon has ended. This was a record one for me–I’ve never read this many pages during a readathon. All of the reviews should be posted for the finished books below.
Here’s my total pages: 2478!
Books finished:
Trust No One by Paul Cleave
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Green
Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz
The Guilty One by Sophie Littlefield
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Books in Progress:
A Treasury of Poems by Sarah Anne Stuart
The Ramayana by Ramesh Menon
The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
WHOOPS! Almost forgot about this today!
What are you currently reading?
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
For Study: The Ramayana by Ramesh Menon
What did you just finish reading?
The Guilty One by Sophie Littlefield (Review up tomorrow)
Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
What do you think you’ll read next?
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare
Maggie by Stephen Crane
If you could share and recommend only ONE book/series that you’ve read so far in 2015, what would it be?
This prompt is always a tough one for me, because, I mean, I never just have ONE favorite, I have 500. And yes, I’m quoting John Green on that. If there we weren’t passionate about our books, we wouldn’t do this booklr thing, would we?
But, the one book that is outstanding in my mind at this moment, is Five Night Stand by Richard Alley. I JUST received it in the mail a few minutes ago, thanks to the lovely Karielle over at Books ala Mode, and I am so excited to add it to my collection.
I read Five Night Stand back in May when it was an ARC, and it has been one of my favorites this year by far. Richard Alley writes music into fiction SO WELL. It’s just so beautiful. His characters, too, were amazing. You can read my write up here. Then go pick this one up. You need it in your life, I promise.
Create a music playlist for a book!
I totally lucked out on this prompt because I started making a playlist the other day specifically for when I listen to thrillers. I was reading Trust No One and really wanted some creepy music to go with it.
Therefore, this playlist is not for any specific book, and you don’t have to listen to it in any order. However, it will get your heart pumping for those mind twisting plots.
My playlists are always works in progress–I’m always adding songs to them, so don’t be surprised to find it changed whenever you pull it up!
Create some book spine poetry!
I know I say this every single time, but this just gets harder and harder. My book collection doesn’t change THAT much, so it’s tough not to use the same ones every time! For some reason my poems always come out very dark and militant. I’m not entirely sure what this one means, so interpret what you will.
The empty family
The cage
Four blind mice
Insurgent
Catching fire
Empire of sin
The demon haunted world
Create a TBR list and set some goals for the Read-A-Thon!
I completely forgot to put this month’s challenge on my calendar, and so forgot that it started today. OOOOOPS! Thankfully I saw people posting this challenge just in time for it to start.
Let’s get rolling, shall we?
This will work similar to the other challenges I’ve done in the past. I’ll go off my regularly scheduled TBR, and log the pages I’ve read. I’ll also be doing most, if not all, of the Daily Bookish Challenges Sarah posts. Should be a good week. I don’t have too many major things planned, so this could be a big challenge for me!
TBR, starting with what I am currently reading:
Trust No One by Paul Cleaves
Awake by Natasha Preston
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz
The Guilty One by Sophie Littlefield
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
I’m also reading daily The Queen of the Tearling, The Ramayana and The Treasury of Poems, so there will be pages included from that in my count as well.
Good luck next week everyone!
As I Lay Reading 