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Jun 04, 2018 02:05AM
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan.
Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress. Jasper takes him to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery.
With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion as he locks horns with his tempestuous mother; falls nervously in love and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend, Jeffrey Lu.
And in vainly attempting to restore the parts that have been shaken loose, Charlie learns to discern the truth from the myth, and why white lies creep like a curse.
In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.
Jun 04, 2018 01:59AM
Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman
Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times . . . but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days.
Only two people know of Carol’s eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and—when she lapses into another coma—plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her . . . alive. The other is her lost love, the infamous outlaw James Moxie. When word of Carol’s dreadful fate reaches him, Moxie rides the Trail again to save his beloved from an early, unnatural grave.
And all the while, awake and aware, Carol fights to free herself from the crippling darkness that binds her—summoning her own fierce will to survive. As the players in this drama of life and death fight to decide her fate, Carol must in the end battle to save herself
Completion Post
Book: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Read: 3 June
Pages: 272
C - Author
D - Author
S - Title
I’m hoping to get some quality reading in this week, in fact I might go run a bath and do some reading right now :)
May 26, 2018 02:57PM
I have had this book on my eReader for several years now and have yet to attempt it. Seems like this buddy Read is good motivation to give it a try.
Completion Post
Never Never
Author: Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher
Read: 17 May
Pages: 159
Never Never: Part Two
Read: 21 May
Pages: 158
C - Charlie Wynwood
J - Janette
L - Landon
N - Nash, Silas
S - Silas Nash
W - Charlie Wynwood
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Read: 26 May
Pages: 450
Y - Yuval Noah Harari
H - Harari, Yuval Noah
Assassin's Apprentice
Read: 26 May
Pages: 392
Classes
Care of Magical Creatures: Stag Antlers
Hello everyone!I’m so excited to start playing TT with team Newt as I missed the cut off for signups by 1 day (serves me right for not checking my messages often enough!).
I am utterly confused by all the spells and classes so my next stop will be to go read all the rules. It looks like all the books us newcomers have read since the challenge start date will count, so that’s good news. I’ll post them to the completed books thread shortly.
So, I think I might be the only one in Australia, so my timings might be a bit off compared to everyone else, but that usually means I get to wake up to lots of new messages. I read most things except cosy mysteries and whodunnits and I’m not a big fan of chick lit and romance anymore.
Snowtulip wrote: "Emma (M) wrote: "TTIII was my first too, I was in team Jubilant Chickadees, so much fun!"I still miss teaming with you and the other chickadees :)"
I know, me too! That was my first ever team challenge and it was just so much fun.
TTIII was my first too, I was in team Jubilant Chickadees, so much fun!
Goodreads Choice Awards 2017Duration: 1/1/18- 12/31/18
Books I read in 2017:
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Level: A little bit of everything
Moderate: 1/10
Level: Read a combination that suits you best
Moderate: 1/20
Fiction
- 3/24/18
Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "Oh, crap, where have I been??? Didnt even know this was over..."Lol, oops :)
Over before I knew it! See you all next time!
July 29th I believe
Totally!!
Good haul Tori!
Ooh Tori, what books did you get?
