Adventure stories from around the world, the kitchen, and the written word.
Before we ventured to the Railroad Museum, Keltin and I took a rather long detour by the Galveston Bookshop where we were promptly greeted by the shop cat, Carson. He rules the place and loves some scratches. This bookstore had a wonderfully large fantasy and sci-fi section upstairs and I spent a ridiculous amount of
Title: First Lord’s FuryAuthor: Jim ButcherPublication Date: 2009Publishing House: Ace Books I finally finished the series! Sorry for the delay in posting this review. I joined the local library and I had to wait for my turn to listen to this audiobook. I don’t often actually go to the public library but I love using
Title: The Aeronaut’s Windlass Author: Jim ButcherPublication Date: 2015Publishing House: Ace Books I’m still on my audiobook binge. I’m reading stuff too but there are a lot of audiobooks available through the library and not nearly all of them end up on this blog. The only thing is sometimes there is a wait because typically
Title: The Kingdom of CopperAuthor: S.A. ChakrabortyPublication Date: 2019Publishing House: HarperCollins The Kingdom of Copper is the second book in The Daevabad Trilogy after The City of Brass. I first read The City of Brass last year as part of the Book of the Month club and I loved it. I’m pretty sure I devoured
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
Title: Captain’s FuryAuthor: Jim ButcherPublication Date: 2007Publishing House: Ace Books Captain’s Fury is book four of the Codex Alera series. I also listened to this book on digital audiobook from my local library. Don’t get me wrong I love owning my own books but it does save a good bit of money to get them
Title: Cursor’s FuryAuthor: Jim ButcherPublication Date: Publishing House: Ace Books Book three in the Codex Alera starts two years after the events of Academ’s Fury. Tavi is now finished at the academy and awaiting his time to start in the legions – a required service. While serving in an what is supposed to be an
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: Red QueenAuthor: Victoria AveyardPublication Date: 2015Publishing House: HarperTeen My youngest sister and I read similar things and she has been after me to read Red Queen for a while now. Her copy has been sitting on shelf for a while now. Well I finally took it off the shelf and its a pretty good
Title: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayAuthor: Michael ChabonPublication Date: 2000Publishing House: Picador Keltin has been after me to read this book for a while and now I know why. There are a lot of good books out there and this one is well… amazing. The story follows Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay from
