Adventure stories from around the world, the kitchen, and the written word.
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
Title: The OutsidersAuthor: S.E. HintonPublication Date: 1967Publishing House: Speak I don’t know about other readers out there but sometimes I just feel like reading books that I’ve read before; I feel like meeting those old friends between the pages. Whenever I do this it tends to really mess with my reading list. So instead of
Good morning! With Thanksgiving getting closer I have not had time to finish my book this week. So I thought that I wold talk about some of my favorite books. Here are my rules: If the book is part of a series I can only pick one I’m not going to put these in a
Title: Tempests and Slaughter Author: Tamora Pierce Publication Date: 2018 Publishing House: Random House Reading this book brought back my childhood. I started reading Pierce’s books as a little 6th grader with The Immortals quartet and have read all of her books since them. If you are familiar with the worlds of Tamora Pierce this book
