Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
By: Xiaolu Guo
Grade: A
Xiaolu Guo was on my My Author Goals List this year list and I’m so glad I picked this book up. Though it’s a bit of a strange one perhaps. Fenfang has left her small village to make her way in Beijing and we see, well, 20 fragments of that life.
Trainwreck
By: Sady Doyle
Grade: B
I admit I love Hollywood and I’m fascinated separately by the way the media portrays women period, not just famous women. Also by the way fandoms react to certain characters as opposed to male characters (relevant but the book only concerns real women.) So I really enjoyed Trainwreck.
Once upon a time wonderful blogger Kelly from Just Another Book in the Wall tagged me in the Cookie Book tag and I immediately thought… cookies and books! Yes! Then I was cursed with procrastination, forgetfulness and a general ability to lose my Blogging Notebook like everywhere and now eons later (at least months) I’m doing the tag!
I’m also a (cheap) cookie connoisseur so am including below the 5 greatest cookies of all time.
A friend of mine recently asked what books I’d recommend for her niece to get into science-fiction and I thought, “Hey there’s an idea! I read enough and I love the idea of telling people what to read!” 🙂
Some of these books were literally gazing at me from my shelf. So anyway below are the books I think would help people launch themselves into the sci-fi genre. While I don’t believe in age limits on what books people should read (no one is to old for YA for instance) I tried to pick a good spectrum of books.
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I Hate Fairyland Vol. 4 Sadly Never After
By: Skottie Young
Grade: A
I have enjoyed every previous visit to Fairyland with our little over-sugared adult trapped in a child’s body and snapped psychopath Gert. That this seems like the end makes me want to cry. Though it goes out strong and on-top and I really enjoyed it.
So at the end of September I will have had this blog for 4 years. I was looking back over old posts to see if my opinions had changed about anything. I reread a couple of books I’ve loved in the past. I rewatched a bunch of movies. Probably the big one this year I’ve tried the whole audio book thing again.
Continue reading “Contemplating Changing Opinions & Blogging Life”
goddess
By: Kelly Gardiner
Grade: B
You have to admire Julie d’Aubigny- when the family of the woman she falls in love with ships her off to a convent Julie just goes and signs up as well. Then she commits arson (while using the body of a dead nun) and takes off with her girlfriend.
Admire the passion and the life. Maybe not duplicate certain things.
I Do Not Trust You
By: Laura J. Burns & Melinda Metz
Published By: Wednesday Books
Available: September 11th (Today!)
Memphis “M” Engel is stubborn, graced with knowledge of lost languages and cultures, and a good opponent in a fight.
Ash Sood is holding onto a whole lot of secrets but he needs a map M inherited from her archeologist father that will lead him to a relic with the power to destroy the world. M needs to hold onto that map- or find the relic- whichever comes first to save what’s left of her family.
Red Sister
By: Mark Lawrence
Grade: B+
I was really excited to read Red Sister but I have to be honest for a little while I didn’t think I’d even finish it. This is mainly the story of Nona- trouble seems to find her and she winds up in the Convent of Sweet Mercy a school of girls being trained to become Nuns/ Sisters/ Super Assassins which sounded so bloody cool I jumped on it!
So in July I received my first Scribbler box which is a subscription box for writers by writers and while I wasn’t big on it I decided to keep the subscription going for August.
I thought August -which was all about “Creating Tension” -really upped the game. I also must say that one of the “perks” from this box is getting to participate in private chats with industry insiders. I was late for the July event but watched it after and I did take some interesting information so I’m looking forward to the next one.
