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Title: Princeps’ FuryAuthor: Jim ButcherPublication Date: 2008Publishing House: Ace Books So I’m not sure why but I have seriously been binging the audiobooks lately. This book has 14 parts and is probably around 20 hours and I finished it in less than a week. I don’t even remember the last time I listened to the
I saw this tag on Sereadipity and as a lover of Greek Mythology and books I had to do it. Zeus: Favorite book This is difficult so I’m going to list a couple in my top five: The Hobbit and Jurassic Park. Poseidon: A book that drowned you in feels Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller actually
Title: Academ’s FuryAuthor: Jim ButcherPublication Date: 2005Publishing House: Ace Books I am listening to the whole of the Codex Alera series on audiobook through my local library. It is wonderful because it doesn’t cost me anything but the library only has one digital audiobook copy and there is often a wait. So no promises on
Title: Furies of CalderonAuthor: Jim ButcherPublication Date: 2004Publishing House: Ace Books As you can possibly tell from this post, I enjoy reading books by Jim Butcher. Besides the Dresden Files he has written The Codex Alera and started another sort of steampunkish with ships series but we will discuss that one in another post. The
I don’t do tags very often but I came across this one from Bookwormmuse and I had to participate because Tolkien, no other reason is needed. HOW DID YOUR MIDDLE EARTH JOURNEY BEGIN? My wonderful step-mom actually started reading The Hobbit to my sister and I when we were little. I remember loving the story then,
Title: The Far FieldAuthor: Madhuri VijayPublication Date: 2019Publishing House: Grove Press The Far Field is my December 2018 book from Book of the Month. I know, I’m a bit behind on my reading. This book took me a while to get through, that’s not because it is a bad book though, its actually a very well written book but
I believe that I have discussed the it before on this blog but I love Recycled Books in Denton, Texas. Three stories and a maze of shelves. Perfect for the reader that likes to get lost among the books. Once a year Recycled has their pre-inventory sales. Everything is 20% off; I don’t normally make
Title: This Savage SongAuthor: Victoria SchwabPublication Date: 2016Publishing House: Greenwillow Books I first heard of the author V.E. Schwab as I was wondering through Barns and Noble one day and came across her book A Darker Shade of Magic. I have since read all three books in the Shades of Magic trilogy and loved them. Schwab writes some interesting characters. Nothing in her
Title: The Boneless MerciesAuthor: April Genevieve TucholkePublication Date: 2018Publishing House: Farrar Straus Giroux This book was described to me as a gender-flipped version of Beowulf. I happen to love that epic. That description of this book though is not sufficient because this story is so much more. If you do go into this story looking for Beowulf
Title: The Darkest Part of the ForestAuthor: Holly BlackPublication Date: 2015Publishing House: Hachette Book Group I have a good friend that is a librarian and during one of her visits over the summer we ended up at a used book store – not an uncommon occurrence for us. One of the books that she suggested and was The Darkest Part of the Forest. This Holly
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