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Selection PostShelf: Goodreads Choice Nominee
Book: The Oracle Year by Charles Soule
Pages: 402 pages
Qualifies: Nominated and won Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction in 2018
I'm still deciding from 3 choices for the Goodreads Choice category this week - A Gentleman in Moscow (historical fiction in 2016), The Dry (mystery in 2017) or Little Fires Everywhere (fiction 2017) so I'll post once I actually pick
I'm still up in the air on what I'd like to read as well 😕
Completion Post: Shelf: Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee
Book: The Oracle Year
Pages: 402
Qualification: Nominated and won goodreads choice awards science fiction category in 2018
Read: 7/17-7/18
Rating: 4 stars
Review: One day a guy in nyc wakes up with knowledge of the future. What ensues is a shitstorm of things he never could’ve seen coming. Good read with a fun premise that actually touches on real
World events (under different names). Not a deep or incredible book but very fun and definitely worth reading.
Selection PostShelf: Goodreads Choice Nominee
Book: Small Spaces
Pages: 218 pages
Qualifies: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Middle Grade & Children's (2018)
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Completion Post Shelf: Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee
Book: Small Spaces
Read: 7/19/19
Rated: 4 stars
Review: Ollie and a few classmates run into a corn field and weird things start to happen. Even though the story reminded me of a retelling which I just can't remember it was a good story of being strong and dealing with the sad things that happen in our lives that we can't change even though we would do anything in your power to change. Ollie had that choice but realized that things aren't what they seem. She's a smart girl and out-smarted the smiling man. Good for her ☺
Selection Post Week 7Shelf: Goodreads Choice Awards
Book: The Dry by Jane Harper
Pages: 352 / GR
Qualification: Nominated in Best Mystery in 2017
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COMPLETION Post Week 7Shelf: Goodreads Choice Awards
Book: The Dry by Jane Harper
Pages: 352 / gr
Qualification: Nominated in Best Mystery in 2017
Finished: 7/22/2019
Rating: 4 stars
This is a very well done mystery, the atmosphere is stifling hot and the small town is claustrophobic. There were a lot of characters (so a lot of suspects) and it kept me guessing until near the end. Aaron Falk, is a Melbourne based investigator who has returned to the home town he fled as a teen because of harassment after a girl is found dead. His childhood best friend, Luke, is dead and it seems like he murdered his own family before turning the gun on himself. Luke's parents ask Aaron to do some investigating because they can't believe that's really what happened. I liked the rapport between Falk & Raco and I appreciated procedural mystery. My one issue is with the story of Ellie, it was a bit cliche, but maybe that was the point. I also didn't like the use of italicized paragraphs to show what happened in the past, it didn't quite match with the narrative. But an enjoyable mystery in all.
[*book:The Dry|27824826]
Selection PostShelf: Goodreads choice awards
Book:
Pages 399
Qualification:Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction and for Goodreads Author
Changing my selection Book:
Page: 272
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Humor (2015)
Shelf #8: “Dual/Multiple Authors”
SELECTION POST Shelf #8: "Dual/Multiple Authors"
Book: Texas Ranger by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle
Pages: 368 pages
Qualification: Two authors
Selection PostShelf: Goodreads Choice Nominee
Book: Brave
Pages: 272 pages
Qualifies: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Memoir & Autobiography (2018)
Selection PostShelf: Dual/Multiple Authors
Book: Amber House
Pages: 368 pages
Qualifies: Has three authors
SELECTION POST Shelf: Dual Authors
Book: The Long Earth
by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Pages: 336 pages
Qualification: Two authors
Selection Post Week 8Shelf: Dual Authors
Book: Permanent Ink by Avon Gale & Piper Vaughn
Pages: 256 / GR
Qualification: 2 authors
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COMPLETION POST: Shelf: Dual Authors
Book: The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Pages: 336 pages
Read: 7/33-7/25
Rating: 4 stars
Review: This was surprising fun. One day someone releases instructions on the internet about how to make something called a “stepper”. Soon everyone, mostly younger kids at first, are showing up in The Long Earth, exploring each different world as things on the original earth grow unstable. When what appears to be an AI but claims to be a human in the form of a vending machine asks Joshua to join him in striking out to see what lays out behind the first few thousand Earths, Joshua knows that things have changed since that first Step Day all those years ago. What happens next is a fun adventure that’s is well written.
Completion PostShelf: Humor/Satire
Book: 29 Dates by Melissa de la Cruz
Pages: 395
Qualifies: tagged humor 1 time page 3 of tags
Read: July 27
Rating: 4 stars
Review: First of all, this book made me so hungry at times. Second it was cute and light. It's not going to be a classic but it was entertaining. And I am interested and invested in Jisu's life and I want to know what happens next. For her and her friends both in Seoul and SF.
What's going on in the Murry family?
Will Austin ever grow up?
And Dave.
What's next?
Selection Post:Shelf: Dual Authors
Book:
Pages: 473
2 authors
Completion PostShelf: GR Nomination
Book:
Page: 272
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Humor (2015)
Read: July 30th
Rating: 5 stars
Review: Thank you Felicia Day for writing this book, thank you for being you and so very real. Also you made me cry....just thought I'd toss that out there.
We would have been friends, I had that sticker collection, I was the (and still am) one of the misfit kids. As Anne with an E would say, we would have been "bosom buddies"
At times reading this, I would stop and 'go this is me, this is MY life'...you know minus the homeschooling/Violin (I played trombone) Math brain and well success..harhar. But the rest, the land of geekom and World of Warcraft. Times spent in Azeroth some of my must enjoyable memories, me and my gnome mage questing and raiding. To the anxiety an panic attacks, the fear.
I adore this women whole heartily.
You are an inspiration.
Keep on being apologetically you.
Also online relationships are real friendships. Sometimes it's hard to find your people in reality. The worlds a big place. The Internet can be mean and scary, I take that back people using it can be mean and scary but it/they can also be the most wonderful people you will ever be lucky enough to know.
COMPLETION Post Week 8Shelf: Dual Authors
Book: Permanent Ink by Avon Gale & Piper Vaughn
Pages: 256 / GR
Qualification: 2 authors
Finished: 7/31/2019
Rating: 3 stars
A big meh is how I'd rate this. Absolutely nothing grabbed me which I'm surprised about given how compelling the blurb is but... Jericho isn't that alpha and Poe is kind of whiny and then perfect and the side plot with Blue was irritating and seemed more like a plot device than anything real. And I'm sorry but when a person is raised by his father and that's a big piece of the book, the daddy kink thing just sort of feels a bit out of place... It just seemed a bit of a mishmash here trying to have big ideas about art and giving people chances but nothing really stuck for me.
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Selection Post Week 9Shelf: Book to TV/Movie
Book: Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel
Pages: 144 / GR
Qualification: Memoir was turned into major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy & Richard Grant
[*book:Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger|38748608]
Selection post week 9 Shelf: book to tv/movie
Book: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Pages: 579 pages
Qualification: made into a tv series
Tuesday July 30th, 2019 SHELF #9:
NEWSELECTION POST
Shelf: Animal/Pet
Book: Lost Wolf
Pages: 258 pages
Qualification: tagged werewolves 10x
Selection Post Shelf #9: Book to TV/Movie
Book: Dead to the World
Pages: 291
Qualification: made into a tv show - True Blood
I've requested our Humor stamp and these are our outstanding calls including our current call. Shelf 5: Animal/Pet
Carmen | Lost Wolf
Carrie | Cry Wolf
Shelf #7: GR Nomination
Jenn | Brave
Shelf #8: “Dual/Multiple Authors”
Carmen | Texas Ranger
Carrie | Aurora Rising
Jenn | Amber House
Selection Post Week 9Shelf: Book to TV/Movie
Book: Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Pages: 169pages
Qualification: made into a movie
Nearing the half way point in my Dual/Multiple Authors book.
Let’s cross our fingers that Crime/Mystery is next!
COMPLETION POST: Shelf: Book to TV/Movie
Book:
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah HarknessPages: 579 pages
Read: 8/1-8/4
Rating: 4 stars
Review: I started this book a year or two ago and couldn’t get into it at first but with the surging popularity of it and the tv show coming out I thought I would give it another try. I’m glad I did! I definitely found some pieces of it to be cliched and/or falling into harmful tropes but, according to my very liberal mother, these pieces comes together to make sense among the whole. So, I am looking forward to reading the next two books. It’s an interesting premise and seems to be as complex in scope as some High Fantasy novels and enough romance to keep the fans of that satisfied and giddy. I did the audiobook, and I will say that the narrator is the same as the first two A Court of Thorn and Roses books and that was distracting to me in some ways and had me comparing to the female lead characters in ways that were not favorable necessarily. I’m interested to see where this series goes since the Sarah J. Maas books I can barely get through the third book without rolling my eyes every time someone says the word “mate” - though I love the world building of that series as well. Stay tuned.
Zoë wrote: "Let’s cross our fingers that Crime/Mystery is next!"I hope but we have to have all our completion done
COMPLETION POST: Shelf 5: Animal/Pet
Read: 8/3/19
Rated : 3.5 stars
Review : This was a good book but the constant back and forth between the three characters was a bit annoying and how someone can die and return was as confussing as well. I may continue with the series but in no rush.
COMPLETION Post Week 9Shelf: Book to TV/Movie
Book: Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel
Pages: 144 / GR
Qualification: Memoir was turned into a movie
Finished: 8/4/2019
Rating: 3 stars
I was curious about how much of the movie was true (I'm always curious about that). There wasn't all that much to this book, much of it is Lee Israel talking about the inspiration around each of the letters that she created in the initial phase of the deception. As for the movie it seems like it's fairly true to the story, the Jack Hawk stuff is a little different and made more dramatic for the film but that seems forgivable in light of the fact that it was a movie. The book itself is not that dramatic.
[*book:Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger|38748608]
Completion Post:Shelf: Dual Authors
Book:
by Jay Kristoff & Amie KaufmanPages: 473
Qualification: 2 authors
Read: Aug 5
Rating: 4 stars
Review: I was rather impressed at how much this held my attention. There was a few moments of "typical" teen/YA actions/thoughts/things said "bee-bro" for example. As well as some repetitiveness, see previous example.
But over all it was a good book, with a very interesting story. And I am very much so looking forward to see what happens next.
COMPLETION POST: Shelf: Goodreads Nominee
Book: Brave by Rose McGowan
Pages: 272 pages
Read: 7/31
Rating: 4 Stars
Review: Rose McGowan has definitely lived an interesting life. Listening to some of the stories about growing up in the Children of God Cult was very interesting and a little shocking. Rose also spent some time on the streets, homeless to get away from her abusive family. Rose has been abused a lot in her life. She goes into pretty graphic detail on her sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein. I thought it was very well written. There is definitely some rage, but seeing as what she's been through, it's to be expected.
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COMPLETION POST: Shelf: More than one author
Book: Amber House by Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, Larkin Reed
Pages: 368 pages
Read: 8/6
Rating: 4 Stars
Review: This book was an interesting concept as to the paranormal situations. Sarah and her family go back to Amber House, her families ancestral home, for her grandmother's funeral. Her mother never talks about the house and they have never been there before til now. Sarah starts having visions of the past that she gets sucked into, seeing her ancestors and things they experienced. It takes a little while to build up and get to the really interesting parts, but I enjoyed it. My favorite character is Sarah's autistic 5 year old brother. He is an adorable kid, and I enjoyed reading about him. Parts of the book kind of gave off a labyrinth vibe - but not quite and part of it had a Coraline kind of vibe. I am interested in reading the second book, though I'm disappointed that it looks like there was supposed to be a third book that didn't happen. I had being left not knowing what happens in a series.
Selection Post Week 9Shelf: Book to TV/Movie
Book: The Mothman Prophecies
Pages: 300
Qualification: book turned into a movie starring Richard Geer
Tuesday August 6th, 2019 SHELF #10:
CompletionPost Shelf: Dual Authors
Read: 8/7/19
Rated : 4 stars
Review: It has been awhile since I've read a dual book with James Patterson and I have to say I'm hooked. This was an interesting book and with rangers as well. The mystery in this story was definitely a close to home and with all the secrets that came about was pretty interesting. I will definitely continue to the next book but I think I may have to do a re-read by the time its out. Lol
Selection Post Shelf: Pregnancy/Child
Book: Night's Child
Pages: 320
Qualification: Last book in a 13 book series - the previous books were about Morgan, in this book Morgan has grown, given birth to a daughter, who has become a teenager and the book is about her. Approved by the mods in the question section.
COMPLETION POST: Shelf: Pregnancy/Child
Book: Night's Child
Pages: 300 pages
Read: 8/6/19
Rating: 4 Stars
Review: In this last book in the Sweep Series, Morgan has grown up. In the beginning of the book, she loses Hunter, and time passes, she is raising her teenage daughter. They are living in Ireland and life seems pretty normal, until strange things start happening and her daughter Moira is dating Ian, the son of a dark witch. It freaks Morgan out because of the parallels to her first relationship. It becomes clear that someone has it out for Morgan and Moira. The two have to work together to once again bring down dark forces.
Selection Post Week 10Shelf: Pregnancy/Child
Book: The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
Pages: 228 / GR
Qualification: From the blurb, When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children.
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SELECTION POST Shelf: Pregnancy/Child
Book: The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
Pages: 561 pages
Qualification: Someone is pregnant and then births children.
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Shelf: Suspense & Thriller
391 pages
tagged suspense 62 times (pages 3 of tags)
Rating: 5 stars
Read: July 17
Review: Enchanting
Magical
Wonderful
Welcome to the Night Circus where nothing is what it seems and it all that you that can ever imagine wanting.
A test
A challenge
A love story.
Two people pitied against the other in a game, a challenge endure.
Lives forever changed.
Within and outside of black and white tents of the Le Cirque de Rêves