Tales From My Reading Nook
And, just like that, it’s Sunday again. November is almost over and I can’t wrap my mind around that. I feel like it was just October! Let’s take a look back at this past week.
Title: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Author: Jon Krakauer
Genre: Non-fiction
Source: Purchased (Book of the Month Club)
Rating: ★★★
Jon Krakauer writes about his trip to the top of Mount Everest that ended in tragedy.
“This forms the nub of a dilemma that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you’re too driven you’re likely to die.”
Continue reading “Book Review: Into Thin Air”The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Crazy-For-Books and is currently being hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Every Friday, a new question is posted for book bloggers to answer in the coming week. The purpose of the hop is connection and community. You can discover new blogs to follow, new books to read, and you may end up with some new followers, as well!
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Title: Gods of Jade and Shadow
Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Genre: Fantasy/Historical Fiction
Source: Purchased (Book of the Month Club)
Rating: ★★★
Casiopea Tun, a young girl growing up in 1920’s Mexico, opens the wrong trunk and has to go a-questing with the Mayan god of death.
“Words are seeds, Casiopea. With words you embroider narratives, and the narratives breed myths, and there’s power in the myth. Yes, the things you name have power.”
Read moreWe have hit the middle of the week, y’all! That means it’s time for another WWW Wednesday. This is a bookish meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words where bloggers answer the 3 Ws:
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
I just started this one yesterday and I’m already almost done. So… yeah. Pretty good so far!
The Bone Ships by RJ Baker
Still working my way through this one. I started over (since I didn’t get very far when I first tried to read it) and it’s definitely interesting! I don’t know what’s stopping me from really getting into this.
Honorable mention to The Count of Monte Cristo which I promise to finish… one day…
Warrior of the Altaii by Robert Jordan
Finished up this manly man’s man book of manliness. Seriously, this book was dripping with testosterone and it was… a bit much. Still, a pretty solid story, especially considering it’s the first one he ever wrote.
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
This was incredibly creepy and twisted and I loved it. There were some bits that were a little overboard, imo, but I still think it was a great sequel.
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
I both reaaaaaally want to pick this up and am dreading picking it up. This is my most anticipated read for 2019! I want to savor it. And what if I hate it?! I’m skurred…
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
One of my Netgalley backlog books. Also, Daveed Diggs is involved and I am intrigued!
Fireborne by Rosaria Munda
Another of my Netgalley backlogs! I saw dragons and I needed it. I’ve heard good things about it, so I’m excited to finally get to it.
Have you read any of these? Any thoughts on which of my three upcoming books I should pick up first? Let me know in the comments!
And, as always, happy reading!
Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish back in June 2010. It is currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and, as is stated on the blog, it was “born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.”
There’s something you should know about me: I love a good list. Some would say that’s the Virgo in me. So a bookish tag that is all about lists is completely up my alley! The theme for this Top Ten Tuesday is all about changes in your reading habits. I had to think about this for awhile. I’m not very good at recognizing my habits, tbh, but I finally came up with a few.
Turn and face the strange, ch-ch-changes!I ran across this over at Sara @ The Bibliophagist’s blog and it looked like fun! So here are my answers for the I Dare You Book Tag.
My fourth grade teacher gave me a copy of All Creatures Great and Small when I was in her class and it’s been one of my favorites ever since. The copy I currently have is a different one as I read the first one so much it fell apart. Still, it’s definitely the book I’ve owned the longest. I should re-read these books sometime soon…
It’s Sunday! And, as it happens, almost my first full week of blogging! So far, I’m enjoying this new adventure in my life. I love talking about books, but I have a much easier time expressing my feelings with writing rather than talking. Mostly because I am an awkward turtle and terrible at articulating myself well. That being said, you would think I would have gravitated to blogging sooner! As it is, I’ve still got a LOT to learn, but I’m enjoying the ride, so far.
But books are only a part of my life, though quite a large part. I thought I could use Sundays to not only recap the week, but talk about things other than books. With that in mind, let’s take a look at this past week!
Continue reading “In Other Words…”As a new book blogger, I’m constantly looking for other bloggers to follow so that I can learn a little more about this blogging world. That’s why when I stumbled across the Book Blogger Hop, I knew I had to participate!
The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Crazy-For-Books and is currently being hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Every Friday, a new question is posted for book bloggers to answer in the coming week. The purpose of the hop is connection and community. You can discover new blogs to follow, new books to read, and you may end up with some new followers, as well! Can you see why I figured it was right up my alley?
Title: The Merciful Crow
Author: Margaret Owen
Genre: YA Fantasy
Source: Library (borrowed)
Rating: ★★★★
Fie, a future chieftain, is saddled with a runaway prince and his bodyguard as they try to escape the queen’s plot to murder them.
“It wasn’t that [Fie] wanted to burn the world down, no. She just wanted the world to know that she could.”
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