Hello and happy national tell a fairy tale day! Anyways, right now I’m back with my weekly reading update, WWW Wednesday. WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On a World of Words, and how it works is each week I answer three questions:
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Hello! I just started reading a book called Shabanu in school, and I don’t know if I’m going to like it or not, so here is my weekly reading update, WWW Wednesday. WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On a World of Words, and how it works is each week I answer three questions:
I am currently reading The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Volume 1, The Pox Party, by M. T. Anderson, which is taking a while to get through, but I am enjoying it more as I am getting through it. I am also currently rereading House Arrest, by K. A. Holt. In school, I started reading Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind, by Suzanne Fisher Staples. It will most likely take me a while to get through this book, as usually reading books in school goes painfully slowly, but it looks like a pretty good book, so I’ll see how that turns out! I am also listening to The School for Good and Evil, by Soman Chainani, and the woman who is the reader for this audiobooks is fantastic, so I’m enjoying that as well.
I recently finished reading Port Chicago 50, by Steve Sheinkin, and The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill.
Next, I think I’ll read The Blackthorn Key, by Kevin Sands, and Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo. I will be rereading The Blackthorn Key, so I know I’ll enjoy that one! I am very excited to read Six of Crows, because I have seen and heard amazing things about that book. I also want to reread The Teacher’s Funeral, by Richard Peck.
What’s your WWW Wednesday? Have you read any of the books in this post? Chat with me in the comments below!
Happy Reading!
Hey! I can’t believe it’s already December; the season of holidays and snow! (haha it doesn’t snow in Eugene in December) I am so excited for winter break, and fun fact: Hanukkah falls right over Christmas this year!
Anyways, November has been a crazy month, but I actually managed to read quite a few books, so here’s my hopefully mostly complete list of the books I read in the past month, and by TBR (to be read) for the next month.
Books I read:
My TBR:
In December, I’m going to continue to reread the OBOB (Oregon Battle of the Books) books, but I there are also some books I’ve been wanting to read for a long time. I actually either own or borrowed from the library all of the books on my TBR, so here’s a picture of them, and a list of the titles:
That TBR and rereading the OBOB books is a lot, but I am going to try!
Posts I want to Write:
This month, I want to write:
That’s 15 posts, which is a lot, but I really want to post more, especially book reviews, because even though they are the hardest posts to write, they are still really fun, and I enjoy it a lot!
So, that pretty much wraps up my month in books, so I hope you all have an amazing December!
Happy Reading!
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World of Words. How it works is I answer 3 questions:
What are you currently reading?
I am currently reading The Blackthorn Key, by Kevin Sands and The Teacher’s Funeral, by Richard Peck
What did you recently finish reading?
I recently finished reading Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, by Dusti Bowling.
What do you think you’ll read next?
Next, I want to reread Falling Over Sideways, by Jordan Sonnenblick
I have been so busy, and I’ve had to take a small, tiny, almost TWO WEEK BREAK from posting, but I am back!!!!
I didn’t really know what to call this post, so, this will have to work
My bat mitzvah was SATURDAY!!! and I have a lot of family visiting, so this has been the most busy (and amazing and awesome) weekend ever!!! I am extremely happy that it is over, and it was an amazing experience, but now I will have so much more time for blogging, which makes me very happy!!!
I am going to make this a very long post to catch up with every thing I’ve missed writing, and I will start with a review with my most recent favorite series: THE MOTHER DAUGHTER BOOK CLUB!
This series is about… a mother daughter book club. A book club doesn’t seem like a very interesting basis for an entire series, but it actually ended up being AMAZING!!!
The first book starts when the girls are in 6th grade. The moms start talking after yoga class, and decide to start the club. The book follows four very different girls: Cassidy, who has just moved to Concord after the death of her father is very different from her ex-supermodel mother, who doesn’t want her to play hockey, worried she’ll get hurt, while hockey is the only thing Cassidy wants to do. Jess and Emma are best friends. Emma loves to read and write, and was very close to Megan in elementary school, but now Megan is part of the ‘Fab Four’, a group that is not very nice to Emma or Jess. Jess’s family owns Half Moon farm, but her mother left to star on a soap opera, and isn’t around. Jess loves animals, but is teased about it, getting called Goat Girl.
The mother daughter book club starts as something that none of the girls are very excited about, but they end up having many amazing adventures. In a later book, *spoiler alert* they get to go visit their pen pals in WYOMING!!! They go on so many cool adventures and are so close, its so fun to read!
I was so sad when I finished the 7th book, but I already want to reread all of them!!! I totally suggest this series if you’re fans of The Penderwicks, which is also a super amazing series about four sisters, but I’m going to move on now…
I’m really behind right now, but this prompt seemed really fun, so I thought that even if it was only two books, I should still do it. Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. How it works is each week there’s a topic, and you make lists of books that fit that topic! This week’s topic a halloween freebie, so I decided to go with books that have looked so creepy I didn’t read them.
1 Frozen Charlotte, by Alex Bell
A bunch of my friends read this, but it looked super creepy, and because I don’t like creepy books, I decided not to read it.
2 Doll Bones, by Holly Black
This one looked really good, but again, it just seemed to creepy for me!
I decided not to do last weeks, but this next one looks fun…
So I decided that it is going to be too much work to list all of the books, so here are the covers. This is (I think) most of the books I read, but some might have been from September, and I’m probably leaving a few out…
I am really behind on reviews though, so my goal for November is that I’m going to try to write at least a paragraph on every book I read. I’ll see how that works…
Honestly, I wasn’t very excited about this book. I’m not exactly a fan of ‘fairy tale endings’. I mean come on… the princess is does something really dumb (ex. gives away her voice, takes a poison apple from a stranger) and a prince comes along and is like ‘oh that girl is pretty. I should kiss her. Oh! I saved her life. Let’s get married!’ Fairy tales don’t often stray much off that path. Even when there’s no prince, the girl is usually pretty stupid. (ex. ‘Oh look! It’s a wolf! I should talk to that wolf! I will do all the things my mother warned me not to do over and over! I can’t tell my grandma apart from a wolf!’ and so on…)
The School for Good and Evil surprised me. The book is about two girls, Sophie and Agatha. They are from the village Gavaldon. They know that every year, the nicest and the meanest children are kidnapped and taken away to star in fairy tales. Unlike most kids, they want to go. However, the school turned out to be very different than they’d imagined.
This book has so many amazing plot twists, and I definitely suggest it. The one thing the two girls show is that you don’t need any princes in a happily ever after. This is an OBOB book (my post on OBOB is coming later!) so I’m not reading the rest of the series YET, but I really want to, and I definitely will!
Happy Reading!
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. How it works is each week there’s a topic, and you make lists of books that fit that topic! This week’s topic is book titles I’d give different titles to, and the titles I’d use instead.
This one has been a little harder for me, because I generally think that the books I read have titles that fit perfectly with the book, so I’ll try to come up with as many as I can.
1 The Penderwicks at Last, by Jeanne Birdsall
The Penderwicks at Last is such a sad title. The Penderwicks is one of my favorite series, so that title was kind of sad. I know that it’s the last book in the series, but the Penderwick sisters still have the rest of their lives, right? I don’t know what other title I use though.
2 Paper Chains, by Elaine Vickers
This book is kind of about paper chains, but not enough to have that be the title. I’m not sure what other title I’d do, but probably not that.
3 The Blackthorn Key, by Kevin Sands
I really like this book, but I don’t think that the title fits very well. The book is about Christopher Rowe, Benedict Blackthorn, a great apothecary’s, apprentice, and his search for clues. It is not based around one specific key, so I would probably call it something like The Blackthorn clue, or The Blackthorn Cipher.
I can’t really think of any other books that I would change the title to. I looked through my bookshelf, and I think that most book titles fit pretty well with the plot, which makes sense because the author has most likely put a lot of thought into it. Happy reading!
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World of Words. How it works is I answer 3 questions:
1 What are you currently reading?
I am currently reading The Blackthorn Key, by Kevin Sands which is really good, and Pies and Prejudice, by Heather Vogel Frederick. I am currently listening to Nowhere to Run, by Jude Watson, which is part of Unstoppable, the third 39 clues series.
2 What did you recently finish reading?
I recently finished reading, The Shadow Cipher, by Laura Ruby, and Dear Pen Pal, by Heather Vogel Frederick, which is the 3rd book in the mother-daughter book club series.
3 What do you think you’ll read next?
Next, I think I’ll read Home for the Holidays, the next in the mother daughter book club book. I also want to read The First Rule of Punk, by Celia C. Pérez.
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