Friday Finds is a weekly meme hosted my MIZ over at Should Be Reading
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What great books did you hear about or discover this past week? Share with us your FRIDAY FINDS!
The Perfect Rake - Anne Gracie
The Devil of Jedburgh - Claie Robyns
I have seen this kind of meme around a lot lately on the net and the concept of it is something different and refreshing to me. I am not sure of the direct source, but along with the Saturday and Sunday short story reading posts I thought Monday would be a lot better for me.
Ever since starting the reading challenges in 2010, I have this idea built into my head that reading a short story doesn’t count as reading anything at all and is not worth the review, but this my fellow readers is a load of cows patties because some of the funniest, sexiest, conformable and adventurous reads of mine have been short stories and now that is even easier to access these wonderful shorts via the internet, there is an abundance of wonderful literature out there waiting for you all to discover and delve into.
So 2012 is out with the old thinking and in with the new and while unless they specifically state something is a novella, short stories that I will be reading will be anywhere between 20-70 pages. Because for me once it hits the 70’s I do class it as a novella. [Just my way of thinking]
Please join me every Monday in this adventure of reading and feel free to leave a comment recommending any short stories you have read or plan to read and if you like join in with my meme and kick start a journey of your own. I would love to hear more about it.
Blair
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
“Fine.” He Smirks at me. “Nice to meet you carrots, he says looking directly at my hair. “Oh I mean Clara” – Page 59 –Unearthly –Cynthia Hand
I laughed out loud when I read this passage. It was hilarious and it made me keep reading. I am enjoying this book a lot.
Across the Universe – Beth Revis
Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone - one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship - tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now, Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.This book has been on my shelf for a very long time and despite my want to read it when I first got it it kepy being pushed down the pile. When organizing the books I was going to read for my TBR Shelf challenge I picked this one up because as I have it set out I am reading the books as their second or third are coming out. I also cannot wait to see what I have missed.
Catch Up Saturday:
This Saturday I am planning on getting back into reading Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani even if I only spend an hour or two on it. It’s not a bad book by any means, it’s actually really fantastic when I get into it, but it’s also really dense and it takes me longer to do both.
I will also be aiming to read a little bit more of Freedom from Toxic Relationships since that needs to go back to the library soon and even though I have a review on my blog my thoughts are pretty well set in stone about it. Check it out.
Finally my main aim for Saturday is to finish the book I am currently reading which is, The Statistical probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith. This book is a contemporary 2012 release and is part of the Contemporary challenge I am participating in.
Start Something Sunday:
It has been a long week, but a great week and if everything runs smoothly I plan on starting two books on Sunday. The first being Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and the second is Loving Richard Feynman by Penny Tangey, which is a library book that Is also due and will cover a great number of my challenges.
