August TBR I did it!!!! July was the first month where I read every book on my TBR pile! So of course I had to be overambitious for August. I think when I was picking books I was thinking that I had more free time. I forget how early I have to go back to work. Still, here… Read more »
I don’t remember exactly how I heard about Katherine Harbour’s Thorn Jack but I immediately added it to my TBR pile. It sounded right up my alley. Check it out: Combining the sorcery of The Night Circus with the malefic suspense of A Secret History, Thorn Jack is a spectacular, modern retelling of the ancient Scottish… Read more »
My Thoughts: A modern day retelling of Tam Lin? Fierce faeries? Mortals who won’t give up? Yes, yes, and, yes! I would take any one of those things on its own. Added all together they create a story that shot to the top of my TBR pile. I enjoyed how atmospheric Thorn Jack was. The descriptions and the… Read more »
My Thoughts: I adored My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick and so I was super excited for this one. I heard mixed things about it and let it slip through the TBR cracks. That was really unfortunate because I loved it! What I Thought Was True captivated my attention so much that I simply couldn’t imagine putting… Read more »
My Thoughts: Immediately upon finishing this book I ordered a copy for my school library and recommended it to the teachers I work with. It was so interesting! I can see so many of my students really enjoying The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club. I was so amazed by the young… Read more »
My Thoughts: It took me forever to read Obsidian, the first book in the Lux series. The whole alien aspect really threw me off. But once I started it, I was hooked. I’ve been taking my time to read the rest of the series. Jennifer Armentrout’s books are so addictive I just fly through them. I’m trying to… Read more »
I can’t believe we’re already on the second to last week of the Summer of Sarah Dessen! Seems fitting that we’re focusing on Sarah’s second book, Someone Like You! My Thoughts: Someone Like You was one of Sarah Dessen’s first books. It’s also one of the first Dessen books I read. Halley and Scarlett’s friendship has… Read more »
My Thoughts: I had so much love for the first book in this duet, Dissonance. It makes my reader heart feel so much joy when I love a follow-up book just as much as the first! That was certainly the case with Resonance. The end of Dissonance was full of revelations. Some questions were answered but many more… Read more »
My Thoughts: Lock and Key was the newest Sarah Dessen book released when I first started reading her books. I remember reading it and thinking, “Her books just get better and better!” Ruby’s story just pulled at my heartstrings. She doesn’t have an adult she can rely on at home and she felt abandon by… Read more »
I’m pleased to be the next stop on the blog tour for A School for Brides by Patrice Kindl. This is such a fun book and I highly recommend it to fans of Jane Austen or historical fiction with a humorous bent in general. Read on for more about the book and a delightful top ten… Read more »
