It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? Button
" data-orig-size="474,356" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" aperture="aperture" /> Hosted by Kathryn from Book Date, this is a weekly event to share what we’ve read in the past week and what we hope to read, plus whatever else comes to mind. Here is what I read the week ending 13 August 2018. To learn more about each book, just click on the book cover!I did some soul-searching this week and considered my priorities. Reading takes precedence over stupid games on my phone. So I deleted them. Now, whenever I have to wait an hour at the dance studio, my focus can be on reading again instead of wasting my time and energy. I feel much better too.
FINISHED SINCE THE LAST UPDATE:
Book Cover Image: My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
" data-orig-size="264,400" sizes="(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Last Seen Alive by Claire Douglas
" data-orig-size="265,400" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Remind Me Again What Happened by Joanna Luloff
" data-orig-size="266,400" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" aperture="aperture" />The spoof on Jane Eyre is hilarious! Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows do an incredible job of poking fun at and yet also paying tribute to one of my favorite books. A definite must-read for any Charlotte Bronte fan!
One thing that happens when I get behind on reading review copies is that I get very impatient with the books I read. I start nit-picking every little detail. Usually, this is when I have the most DNFs. I started doing this with Claire Douglas’ new novel. I found the heroine to be annoying. I thought certain elements of the story were redundant; in fact, I noticed the same sentence repeated almost once a chapter. I wanted to find out what happened though, so I did something I never do. I skipped to the end. A funny thing happened though as I started skipping entire chapters. The story got interesting. There were a few turns I did not expect that changed the entire trajectory of the story. I still ended up skimming the remainder of the story but what I thought was another humdrum suspense novel ended up having some bite to it. The moral of this story, I believe, is to never give up on a novel because you never really know when it will improve.
The Joanna Luloff novel is a quiet one that spends all of its time talking about identity and relationships. I cannot say that it is the type of novel that one enjoys, but there was something about it that prevented me from setting it to the side and moving on to the next book.
DID NOT FINISH:
So far, so good.
CURRENT READ:
Book Cover Image: The Dying of the Light by Robert Goolrick
" data-orig-size="268,400" sizes="(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck by Sarah Knight
" data-orig-size="283,400" sizes="(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: The World of All Souls by Deborah Harkness
" data-orig-size="309,400" sizes="(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px" aperture="aperture" />CURRENT LISTEN:
Book Cover Image: Changeless by Gail Carriger
" data-orig-size="267,400" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" aperture="aperture" />NEXT UP:
Here it is, folks. My shameful secret. I have a serious e-galley problem, especially because September and October are even worse.
July Review Copies:
Book Cover Image: The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
" data-orig-size="264,400" sizes="(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: The Last Cruise by Kate Christensen
" data-orig-size="265,400" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: The Romanov Empress by C. W. Gortner
" data-orig-size="263,400" sizes="(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Eden by Andrea Kleine
" data-orig-size="267,400" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: The Garden Party by Grace Dane Mazur
" data-orig-size="262,400" sizes="(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
" data-orig-size="265,400" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
" data-orig-size="263,400" sizes="(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Contagion by Erin Bowman
" data-orig-size="264,400" sizes="(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Grace and Fury by Tracy Banghart
" data-orig-size="265,400" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" aperture="aperture" />August Review Copies:
Book Cover Image: Rust & Stardust by T. Greenwood
" data-orig-size="263,400" sizes="(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Nine by Zach Hines
" data-orig-size="264,400" sizes="(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch
" data-orig-size="264,400" sizes="(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Bad Man by Dathan Auerbach
" data-orig-size="264,400" sizes="(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: #murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil
" data-orig-size="265,400" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Temper by Nicky Drayden
" data-orig-size="265,400" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: The Kill Jar by J. Reuben Appelman
" data-orig-size="264,400" sizes="(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Vox by Christina Dalcher
" data-orig-size="267,400" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Playing to the Gods by Peter Rader
" data-orig-size="265,400" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" aperture="aperture" />Book Cover Image: Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
" data-orig-size="263,400" sizes="(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px" aperture="aperture" />So, what are you reading?
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