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I have finished reading spirit bound and now i am reading last sacrifice and uninvited
Finished: Lord Of The DanceWaiting on the sidelines: Beloved, Les Miserables
Currently reading: Southern Comfort, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Wow! only 4 books going!
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Audiobook performed by Dan Stevens – 5*****
When a wealthy American is found stabbed to death in his locked sleeping compartment, railroad officials ask fellow passenger Hercule Poirot to investigate. This is a traditional “locked room” mystery. Everyone in the first class coach is interviewed, and everyone has an airtight alibi. Christie is at the top of her game here. She populates the Orient Express with a wide variety of colorful characters. The train may be at a standstill, but the plot races forward. Dan Stevens does a fine job narrating the audio version. He has good pacing and is able to give the many characters distinct voices.
This Link to my full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I've been re-reading Something Shady and Shades Of Twilight. :) Love Pamela Morsi. My friend bought me Runabout for my 14th birthday because the author shared my name. :D Best birthday present ever. I didn't like Americana-themed stuff at the time, but Pamela Morsi changed my mind at the time.
Just bought The Lovesick Cure. It's been some years since I read a new Pamela Morsi book. I hope the magic's still there.
Waiting on the sidelines: Beloved (book), Les Miserables (ebook)Finished: The Hound of the Baskervilles (audio)
Started: The Bird Sisters (ebook)
Currently reading: Jellicoe Road (book)
Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff – 2.5**This is a YA paranormal / romance / mystery. The serial killer plot was pretty interesting. The teen romance was pretty interesting. The best friend ghost, not so much. I think Yovanoff couldn’t decide on a genre; is it a paranormal book? A romance? A mystery? I did like Hannah, and really loved her little sister Ariel. If I were my 13-year-old niece, I’d probably rate this higher, but for me it’s just a little below average.
Link to my full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity and starting The Dream Thieves
I have finally finished Last Sacrifice and loved it. I am glad to have finished it. the whole series took me about two months to finish. I might read the bloodlines series but i think i might take a break before i read it. I saw divergent today and when i go to the library tomorrow i plan on getting it so i can reread it. I am now reading Inhuman and it is pretty good so far. I am also reading Frankenstein for English. i don't really like it that much. it takes too long to read one flipping chapter.
Waiting on the sidelines: Les Miserables (ebook)Finished: Jellicoe Road, Hot Six
Currently reading: Beloved, The Bird Sisters (ebook)
Started: Farewell Summer, Miss Tonks Turns to Crime
About half way thru Bread and Butter by Michelle Wilden and can't wait to dive into my next one. Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer. I also just pre-ordered Stephen King's Joyland....Spring fever has me alittle scattered!
This was approved as "glbt" genre for task 10.6 ...
Chocolates for Breakfast by Pamela Moore – 3*** Pamela Moore was only eighteen when this debut novel was first published in 1956. At the time it was considered scandalous for the references to homosexuality, divorce and suicide. Apparently all the drinking, smoking and teenager/older man sex didn’t seem unusual. Major book reviews have called it “Permeated with sadness and existential longing” (Los Angeles Review of Books), or “A gem of adolescent disaffection featuring a Holden Caulfield-like heroine” (Vogue). In a sense I agree with these assessments, but I didn’t find it sensational, moving, or terribly interesting. I just found it sad, in the way that I feel sad when reading about any young person who is so very lost.
This Link to my full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished: Farewell SummerStarted Dead Reckoning
Reading: Breath, Beloved, The Bird Sisters (ebook), Of Mice and Men (audio)
Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles – Book on CD read by Kim Mae Guest – 4****This is a lovely Southern coming-of-age story that deals frankly but gently with the realities of death, in a manner that children can easily understand. I loved Comfort and how genuinely compassionate she was, even when exasperated beyond endurance by her eight-year-old cousin’s “ruining everything.” She’s imaginative and self-confident, but not immune to the hurts of childhood or feeling selfish. She’s a wonderful character. Have some tissues ready for the ending. Kim Mai Guest does a fine job performing the audiobook.
Link to my full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished "The Dream Thieves" and starting "Fire With Fire"
Finished: Dead ReckoningReading: Breath, Beloved, The Bird Sisters (ebook), Of Mice and Men (audio)
Still reading The Villa by Nora Roberts. It is taking me a little longer than expected since I've been so tired and haven't had that much eye energy (as I like to call it) to sit and read.
I have finally finished Virals and i didnt really like it that much. Now i am rereading divergent and it is right on the mark so far. I am also reading death sworn. I am reading frankenstein for english and i dont really like it that much
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gadwitz – 3*** What a wild – and disturbingly scary – ride! Gadwitz returns to the original Grimm tales, which were much darker and violent that what we commonly tell our children today, and makes them even scarier, darker, more violent, disturbing and nightmare-producing. As Hansel and Gretel make their way through the book they are tortured, starved (or fattened), cold, hungry, alone and frightened. There is no one they can trust, as adult after adult betrays them. It is a bleak world, indeed, this kingdom of Grimm. It’s also quite an adventure and the children are brave, steadfast, intelligent, and pure.
Link to my full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Shelters of Stone by Jean Auel – 2**Book 5 in the Earth’s Children series has Ayla and Jondalar being formally welcomed to his home community – the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii. The novel is incredibly repetitious; it is mostly just a long litany of what has occurred in the previous books. Additionally, Auel doesn’t trust her readers to figure out the undercurrents of emotion from context; after showing a confrontation she tells us the character is angry. There is some interesting information about the painted caves in this region of current-day France and about basic survival tools that these ancient humans used. Auel has clearly done a lot of research and I appreciate that. I just wish there was more plot and substance to this book.
Link to my full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Waiting on the sidelines: Les Miserables (ebook)Finished: Of Mice and Men (audio)
Currently reading: Beloved, The Bird Sisters (ebook) and Breath
Started: The Bat
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for english and i really don't like it that much .
The Black Ice by Michael Connelly - 3*** Connelly crafts a fast and furious suspense-filled thriller that takes Harry Bosch from Los Angeles to Mexicali as he investigates the supposed suicide of a missing narcotics officer. The pace is lightning quick, the plot twists come with no warning, and the reader isn’t any more sure than Harry whom to trust. I was in a delighted state of confusion trying to figure out the clues as fast as Harry.
Jimmy the Kid by Donald E Westlake – 3.5***I love Westlake’s writing, and particularly enjoy the comic capers of John Dortmunder and his gang of inept accomplices. In this third outing, the gang decides to follow the blueprint for a successful kidnapping they read about in a cheap novel. What could go wrong? For starts, they pick a kid who is smarter than all of them put together. Jimmy’s resourcefulness and superior intelligence serve him (and the gang) well.
Link to my full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Waiting on the sidelines: Les Miserables (ebook)Finished: The Secret Garden
Currently reading: Beloved, The Bird Sisters (ebook) and To Kill a Mockingbird
Started: Ninth Key and The Wind Done Gone.
Jimmy the Kid by Donald E Westlake – 3.5***I love Westlake’s writing, and particularly enjoy the comic capers of John Dortmunder and his gang of inept accomplices. In this third outing, the gang decides to follow the blueprint for a successful kidnapping they read about in a cheap novel. What could go wrong? For starters, they pick a kid who is smarter than all of them put together. Jimmy’s resourcefulness and superior intelligence serve him (and the gang) well.
Link to my full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just started Missing You, and I can tell that it is going to be one of those unputdownable sort of books!
Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy – 3.5*** Binchy excels at writing ensemble pieces that show ordinary people in some extraordinary circumstances. This novel covers a year in the lives of Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather and their new catering business, Scarlet Feather. They make mistakes, have emotional melt downs, overcome obstacles, find reserves of love and compassion, smile through adversity, and never stop working to achieve their dream. Each chapter covers a month in the year, but is divided into short vignettes jumping from character to character and scene to scene. The result is that the reader gets a more complete picture than any of the characters does.
Link to my full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I am currently reading Hopeless by Colleen Hoover. I am also reading belles by Jen Calonita and it is pretty good so far. I will then be reading winter white, throne of glass, and Inhuman by Kat falls.
I just started reading The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Audio book performed by William Defris)– 3***
Hank Morgan, a 19th century machinist, wakes up to find himself in King Arthur’s England, A.D. 528. This is the story of his adventures and misadventures in that bygone era. Satire is not my favorite genre, but I enjoyed parts of this satire immensely. It seems clear to me that Twain was commenting on the current political and social situations of late 19th century America. He has Hank campaign against poverty, the prevailing class system and slavery. And campaign for better wages and literacy for a broader populace. I can clearly see how this has stood the test of time.
Link to my full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
True Sisters by Sandra Dallas – 4****Based on a true episode in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Dallas’s novel focuses on four fictional women and their families as they make the arduous trip from Iowa City to Salt Lake City pushing two-wheeled handcarts. Dallas excels at painting the landscape of this journey across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. What I particularly liked about the novel, however, were the women themselves. Not just the main four characters, but several other women in the group showed themselves to be strong, intelligent, resourceful, skilled, compassionate, and good judges of character. A fast and compelling read.
Link to my full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Re-reading Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. Love this book so much. My first paperback is in tatters and I had to go get a new copy.
Waiting on the sidelines: Les Miserables (ebook)Finished: The Bird Sisters (ebook) and The Ghost Walker
Currently reading: Beloved, The Wind Done Gone, Article 5 and To Kill a Mockingbird
Started: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (audio), and Anthem.
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