August: My Month in Review
I hope you all had a great August. I seem to have been very busy and my reviews again need a little catching up. There’s been a bit more travelling around, to the Emerald Isle this last weekend. Our first visit to Belfast and what a great city it is with fantastic people. Anyway, to the books and some very good ones. I was highly anticipating Nevernight and it didn’t disappoint me at all. Poison City is a great book and very dark. Dead House was my first introduction to Harry Bingham’s writing and it was brilliant. The biggest surprise though was The Hike – very unexpected:
Books read: (with links to reviews)
- Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
- Poison City – by Paul Krill
- Dead House by Harry Bingham
- Gods of Nabban – reading
- A Little Knowledge by Emma Newman
- Fix by Ferrett Steinmetz
- The Amber Isles by Ashley Capes
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J K Rowling
- The Hike by Drew Magary
Last month’s covers are here
Backlist books
None this month.
Unfinished series completed:
Fix by Ferrett Steinmetz.
Books Bought:
- Senile Ascends (The Books of Babel Book #1) by Josiah Bancroft
- One Salt Sea (Toby Daye #5) by Seanan McGuire
Review Books: (with links to Goodreads where possible)
- Twilight of the Dragons by Andy Remic
- Chasing Embers by James Bennett
- The Rise of Io by Wedley Chu
- The Family Plot by Cherie Priest
- Faithful by Alice Hoffman
- Deadlight Jacy by Mark Onspaugh
- The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
- The Baztan Trilogy (No 2), The Legacy of the Bones by Redondo Dolores
Top Ten Tuesday at The Broke and Bookish (every Tuesday)
Waiting on Wednesday is an event hosted by Breaking the Spine where every week we get to shine the spotlight on a book that we’re looking forward to.
The Friday Face off by Books by Proxy
Friday Firsts is a weekly event hosted by Lisa at Tenacious Reader. which is a great way to let everyone know the first sentence and first impressions for your current read.
Readalongs:
- Readalong for One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire details here
Classic Clubs read:
Unfortunately none this month.
Previous months in review:
The SPFBO 2: My posts so far:
- There can be only one #SPFBO 2016
- Cover Love: #SPFBO 2016
- #SPFBO Spotlight : the first five books..
- #SPFBO Spotlight : the first five books: update
- #SPFBO Spotlight : the second set of books..
- #SPFBO Review: Rebel’s Honor by Gwynn White
- #SPFBO Spotlight : the second set of five: update
- The Amber Isles by Ashley Capes
The above SPFBO to be updated shortly…
Waiting on Wednesday: Caraval by Stephanie Garber
31 August 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Breaking the Spine, Caraval, Stephanie Garber, Waiting on Wednesday
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine. Every Wednesday we get to highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. My book this week is : Caraval by Stephanie Garber which looks absolutely fantastic. Check out the description! Due out January 2017:
Two sisters bound by love and a father they fear escape their tiny, secluded island for the wondrous performance of Caraval, where the audience plays along in a mysterious and magical game of determining what’s real and what’s fantasy. And where only one sister might be brave enough to win the ultimate prize of ‘an impossible wish’…
Scarlett Dragna has never left the tiny isle of Trisda, pining from afar for the wonder of Caraval, a once-a-year week-long performance where the audience participates in the show.
Caraval is Magic. Mystery. Adventure. And for lonely Scarlett, it represents freedom, an escape from her abusive father and from her own dark past.
Still, Scarlett is too scared of her father to leave Trisda. Until she is kidnapped by her wild younger sister Donatella and a dangerous yet oh-so-seductive sailor named Julian and taken to the mystical Isla de los Suenos, the site of this year’s Caraval. When they arrive, her sister immediately disappears. Since protecting Tella is all she knows, Scarlett is forced to join forces with Julian and find her before the evil Master of Caraval does…
Harry Potter Month (30)
Today is day thirty of my challenge to post each day about Harry Potter – my little challenge is swiftly coming to an end! Quotes, books, films, discussions and silliness. Of course, I’ve already had a Harry Potter mention today in my school theme for Top Ten Tuesday so this is just something very silly:
My August Covers
Below is a quick round up of the books I’ve read during August displayed in covers. My August in review to follow tomorrow. This month has been busy with lots going on personally and a little less reading and still a couple of reviews to post. Anyway, here is August books portrayed in covers:
‘The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.’
30 August 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: The Broke and the Bookish, To books with School settings, Top Ten Tuesday
Every Tuesday over at the The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic. The topic this week is :
A Back To School Freebie
For this week’s theme I’ve opted for books with a school or learning environment:
- The Harry Potter series by JKRowling. As it’s HP Month I couldn’t resist. Hogwarts!
- 13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough – this is a story set in high school. When a young girl almost dies it becomes paramount that she finds out who her enemies are! This is such a good story.
- Nevernight by Jay Kristoff – a place of study for would-be assassins. A coveted number of places and a murderer amidst the students all lead to a fast paced and highly entertaining read.
- Black Heart by Holly Black – I really enjoyed this series about a family of curse workers. The majority of the story is set in a school environment.
- The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss – this is not a book with students as such but a very unusual female who lives in the tunnels beneath the university. A beautiful and quick read and a gorgeous little book.
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss – I couldn’t resist – a good portion of Kvothe’s tale is set in the university that he so desperately longed to attend.
- Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead- in which vampires and their would be ‘body guards’ go to school together.
- The Secret History by Donna Tart – I loved this story – revolves around a student who desperately wants to belong to part of a school clic. Beautifully dark.
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte – Two different settings here – when Jane is a student at Lowood Charity School and then later when she leaves to become governess at Thornfield Hall.
- Jane Steel by Lyndsay Faye – A story that has many similarities to Jane Eyre and in fact in which the protagonist’s life runs parallel to that of Jane Eyre for a portion of the story. This is a read that I thoroughly enjoyed.
Books and travelling with Lynn 