2015

Death Marked

2015, Books in Bed, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

I decided to go ahead and read Death Marked (the sequel to Death Sworn) since it’s a two book series and I could just read it quickly and be done with it. Heh.

I actually kind of liked this one LESS than the first one. The whole “he’ll kill you if I tell him to” thing really bugged me. Ileana should not have been THAT type of character. It just felt wrong and stupid and it just didn’t seem right at all.

Whatevs. It was fine. Not great, not horrible. There were moments when I really liked the story (and the characters.)

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Reading In August

2015, Books in Bed, Reading /

Not bad, considering it was birthday month and a really weird work month. I made a lot of Cybils progress and even read one from my stacks. Yay.

22 Total

1 from my stacks
13 were from the Cybils shortlist
3 were audio
4 were non-fiction

I need another 20+ book month to take me into October (when it will be #readathon month!)

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The Swallow

2015, Books in Bed, Cybil Challenge, Favorites, Fiction, Young Adult /

The Swallow was an awesome ghost story and I admit that I didn’t see that ending coming. Not at all. I knew something had to happen but I couldn’t figure out what because obviously the ghost girl wasn’t a ghost… that would have been too, well, obvious.

Side note: When I went to amazon to grab the url for the book, only the kindle edition is available. I wonder why. I got my copy at the library… print, not ebook. Oh, maybe because it’s a Canadian press? Still… very unusual.

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Two from the Cybils

1 Comment / 2015, Books in Bed, Children's Literature, Cybil Challenge, Favorites, Fiction, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

Death Sworn was… not bad. Not my favorite, but not bad. I liked Ileni and I am kind of looking forward to the next book (which is on my library cart now.)

I loved, loved, loved, loved, loved Death By Toilet Paper and didn’t expect to. That darn kid broke my heart over and over again. You don’t realize just how good your toilet paper was until your family can’t afford to buy it any more. *sniff* Also, professional sweepstakes folks, haha. I love those people.

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Now, Voyager

2015, Books in Bed, Favorites, Feminism, Fiction, From the Stacks Challenge, Women /

Oh dear, I’m way behind on tracking my books here. I’d be even further behind if I’d actually been reading as much as I normally do. Silver linings?

The library cart was mostly empty so I turned to my shelves … and had trouble figuring out what to read because when we Kondoed our books, my little shelf of mixed TBR was integrated into the full library. Oops. Blue was easy to get to so I started there and decided a little pulp fiction was in order.

Now, Voyager was awesome, as most old pulp fiction is. I’m glad I read it. I also kind of want to watch the movie again. It’s been a zillion years since I’ve seen it.

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Things That Keep Me Up At Night

1 Comment / 2015, Books in Bed, Favorites, Non-Fiction /

We’re moving next year. In May or June. We don’t really know where, exactly. We have to buy a house and then we have to get ourselves, our stuff, TW’s mom and sister and their stuff, three dogs and three prairie dogs to the house that we buy.

The thing that keeps me up at night as the actual MOVING of the ANIMALS to wherever it is we end up buying a house.

I can’t figure it out. It’s just… how the heck are we going to do this.

In comes Dogtripping and I still don’t know how we’re going to manage this but I’m pretty sure it will be easier for us than it was for these folks who had to move themselves and 25 old rescue dogs from southern California to Maine.

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Arabella

2015, Audiobooks, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Women /

Sassymonkey mentioned some guy who I can’t remember was the reader of some of the Georgette Heyer books and I was interested in this. So, when we needed a new audiobook, I pulled up Heyer’s books in Hoopla and realized I couldn’t remember which titles she’d mentioned or even the dude’s name who read them so I shrugged and just borrowed the first one I saw that I didn’t think I’d read before… and that’s how I got Arabella.

TW says she had read it before but she still seemed to enjoy it on audio. It was amusing, as most Georgette Heyer novels are. I think we should just listen to them all on audio because it was so amusing to listen to this one.

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