While the second book in The Testing series wasn’t as good as the first one, I still enjoyed this book. We get a better sense of the world in which Cia lives and how she deals with the aftermath of the Testing.
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Month: September 2017
T5W: Books I’ve Read Because of #bookstagram
I’ve always been an avid reader, but I wasn’t much of a collector. That is, until I joined the lovely community of readers on Instagram (also commonly referred to as #bookstagram and #bookstagrammers). I joined over 2 years ago, and wow, it’s been a great way to connect with other readers and to see how seriously talented photographers fellow bibliophiles are!
Anyway, I thought this was a fun topic because there are so many books I’ve picked up since I’ve seen them on Instagram–definitely some I would have never bothered to read otherwise!
T5W is a Goodreads group. You can check out the topics or join here.
I Met Marie Lu and WOW!
You know, there’s just something different about going to a book festival or convention versus going to an author’s book signing/book tour. I feel like the book tour atmosphere is a lot of different–less rushing and hurrying, no time to converse. So while I met Marie Lu a year and a half ago, I felt like it was so rushed. So when she went on tour for the release of Warcross and came to a city near me, I knew I had to go. How could I not? Not only was Warcross one of my most anticipated releases for 2017, I also have all of Marie’s other books signed and Warcross completes my collection. 🙂 (That is, until she releases another book but you know… 😉 )
Review: “Warcross” by Marie Lu
Wow. Where do I even begin? Marie Lu solidified her place as one of my auto-buy authors when I finished Champion. (Yes, I read The Young Elites trilogy first.) So when I first heard about Warcross, I did a little happy dance–happiness for my favorite author releasing another book and that it would definitely make my gamer girl heart very happy.
It didn’t disappoint.
Review: “Walk on Earth a Stranger” by Rae Carson
This book was a pleasant surprise. While I like historical fiction, I stick mainly to historical fiction that takes place in Britain, so to dive into this (audio)book which takes place during the late 1840s Gold Rush America, I was a bit…hesitant to say the least. It has a bit of a western feel to it as well. But the characters surprised me, and when I finished, I was quite excited to start the next one (but I haven’t yet because I seriously have a TBR for fall–shocker!).
Maurene Goo’s “The Way You Make Me Feel” Cover Reveal!
Have you seen it yet? It’s beautiful! And there’s a PoC on the cover. Three cheers!
Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Books on My Fall TBR
If you know me at all, you know I’m horrible at TBRs. Mainly because I’m like, “Oh my god, look at all the fall releases. Must read them now!” and then proceed to request them all from my local library. 🤣 But the thing is, I have so many unread books on my shelves (but then again, what bookworm doesn’t?), and so a while back I made a TBR Jar, which is nothing more than a mason jar I filled with rolled slips of paper of all the unread books on my own shelves. Well, that’s been going semi-well.
Since I started it, I’ve actually managed to read books and get rid of the ones I don’t like (either by selling them or giving them away via my Twitter). That’s a miracle and of itself, I tell you, lol. 😛 So the books mentioned here aren’t necessarily ~fall~ themed but rather, just books I’m really need to read. Screw the TBR Jar, I suppose?!
Top Ten Tuesday a weekly blog meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. You can check out the topics here.
(Reread) Review: “Queen of Shadows” by Sarah J. Maas
Eeeek, am I glad that I reread this book! I mean, I knew I would love it going in, but there are certainly some things I missed. Goodness me, how could I forgot that all these characters were introduced? I read so many books each year that I suppose it’s easy to forget.
(Also, bonus fact: One year ago yesterday, I met Sarah J. Maas on the Empire of Storms book tour. You can check out that post here. 🙂 )
This review will contain spoilers. You can read my original review over on Goodreads.
Maggie Stiefvater’s book tour & Oklahoma’s FIRST teen book fest!
Two grand things to talk about in today’s post: Maggie Stiefvater (author of The Raven Boys) announced her book tour for All the Crooked Saints and there’s a connection between that and Oklahoma’s 1st teen book festival happening on October 28. Can you guess?
WWW Wednesday #2
WWW Wednesday is a weekly blog meme started by Should Be Reading. In this post, I will answer these three questions:
- What are you currently reading?
- What did you recently finish reading?
- What do you think you’ll read next?
