Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, which asks you to grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences. This week, my teaser comes from Dualed by Elsie Chapman. The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. Everyone has a genetic...
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Top Ten Sequels I’m Dying To Read
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly event held by The Broke and the Bookish. Today we were given a choice of topic, so I picked Top Ten Sequels I’m Dying To Read. 1. The Winds of Winter by George R.R. Martin A Dance With Dragons ended on such a cliffhanger and I reaaaally want to know if my...
ARC Review: Follow the White Rabbit by Kellie Sheridan
For centuries, Wonderland thrived as the domain of beautiful bedlam and unapologetic madness. It was a place like no other. All it took was one girl slipping in through the cracks of the universe to start chaos spiraling toward order. In the 150 years since Alice’s visit, the realm has become tainted—almost normal. Rabbits in waistcoats and playing...
Book Review: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
An immigrant tale that combines elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, The Golem and the Jinni tells the story of two supernatural creatures who arrive separately in New York in 1899. One is a golem, created out of clay to be her master’s wife—but he dies at sea, leaving her disoriented and overwhelmed as their ship arrives...
Friday Finds (May 24)
I finally made it to the bookstore and the library, just in time for Should Be Reading‘s Friday Finds, a weekly event where you talk about books that you’ve discovered throughout the week – whether online, in stores, etc. Books I bought: – The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern – Dubliners by James Joyce – Will Grayson, Will...
Book Review: Every Day by David Levithan
Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl. There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere. It’s all fine...
Book Review: Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
Once there was a Postman who fell in love with a Raven. So begins the tale of a postman who encounters a fledgling raven while on the edge of his route and decides to bring her home. The unlikely couple falls in love and conceives a child — an extraordinary raven girl trapped in a human body....